Highlights of History from The Whitehorse Star

Explorer's Guides to Yukon Communities

1910

January

• January 7, 1910: Battling for nearly a month, and so reduced in resource that he had to live for days on his moccasins and muck lucks and the fibre of his snow shoes is the remarkuble experience of Bishop I. O. Stringer of the Church of England, who arrived here from Fort MacPherson yesterday. With him during the trying trip and suffering the same privation was Charles F. Johnson, a missionary of the Mackenzie valley.
• January 7, 1910: Richard Crawford is in St. Mary's hospital suffering from a bad attack of typhoid fever. He took his drinking water from the Yukon River at a location where the water is known to be impure. Dr. Thompson warns people to go well out into the stream there to get pure water.
• January 7, 1910: While somewhat intoxicated, Miss Osie Hopkins, member of the Skagway demi-monde, drank the contents of a small bottle of carbolic acid last Saturday night. Only prompt medical attention saved her life.

• January 14, 1910: "Swiftwater Bill" turns up in the Andes mountains in Peru where he is examining a placer mine.
• January 14, 1910: George Black and Frank McDougal of Dawson are admitted to the bar in Vancouver, B.C. on December 16. They both plan to return to Dawson.
• January 14, 1910: John C. Ross, old time Dawson man, has been throwing money away in Victoria, by the thousands of dollars daily, and is now being held for insanity.

• January 21, 1910: From present indications, there will be renewed activity in quartz mining in the Wheaton District, and more particularly on the Porter group of claims or what is generally known as Carbon Hill.
• January 21, 1910: Lost for sixteen days in the Koyukuk valley, with the temperature 54 to 60 degrees below zero, without food, matches, ax or knife, Vernon Brewster, an old-time prospector and miner, was forced to kill three of his dogs to eat in order to escape destruction in the frozen wilderness.
• January 21, 1910: Mrs B. A. Rockefeller of San Francisco died in Fairbanks today as the result of exposure while coming in from Valdez on the stage. The bodies of Joe King and Frank Giebel, lost on the Valdez trail in the recent blizzard, were found today, frozen stiff. Signal corps men are searching for others who are missing.

• January 28, 1910: English and American capitalists are at present perfecting plans to build a railway from Winnipeg to the Yukon.
• January 28, 1910: There are a great many placer miners, prospectors and others who are planning on going to the newly discovered Iditarod country early in the spring, and for those who contemplate such a trip, the carefully prepared information we are giving below will prove beneficial in many ways. Read the entire article here.
• January 28, 1910: In Victoria on January 7th, for the first time in the history of Canada, Chief Justice Hunter granted an order in application for leave to presume death in the case of Angus McKinnon, timber cruiser, who disappeared in the Skeena river country two years ago.

February

• February 4, 1910: At a well-attended meeting last Saturday, Eli Hume was elected Fire Chief. He received 52 votes, while the other candidate, Denny O'Connor, received 25.
• February 4, 1910: The greatest battle between a man and the ferocious beasts which inhabit the wilds of interior Yukon, took place on the headwaters of Stewart river October 26th last. James M. Christie, a passenger arriving on Tuesday's stage, survived to relate his thrilling experience with a bear.
• February 4, 1910: Just to let the people of Whitehorse koow that he has not gone out of business, the dog poisoner added two more victims to his already long list. Teddy, the fox terrier belonging to Mrs R. Kelsey, and an unknown dog were handed the knockout drops this time.

  

• February 11, 1910: Thomas Kendrick, an old section man employed at the summit of the White Pass, met his death last Saturday morning by being run down by the rotary snow plow when he was unable to climb out from the high snow banks lining the track. Read the entire article here.
• February 11, 1910: Sometime during last Saturday night or Sunday a big slide occurred on the line of the White Pass at a point on Lake Bennett about three miles north of Bennett station. Thousands of tons of snow, ice and rock crashed down the steep mountain side and slid half way across the lake on the ice. For a distance of one thousand feet the railroad track is buried beneath several feet of rock and ice.
• February 11, 1910: The dog poisoner came very near adding to his list a human life. On Tuesday night a dog belonging to some Indians picked up a piece of poisoned meat and carried it to the Indian camp north of town. The dog after devouring the meat commenced frothing at the mouth, and an Indian baby playing around the floor of the shack into which the dog had made its way in some manner got some of the saliva from the dog's mouth on its hands and in turn was also poisoned. The child was taken to the Police Barracks and through the efforts of Dr. Pare its life was saved.

• February 18, 1910: C. E. Burch the ice automobile inventer who is now at Carcross is busy getting his crate together and expects to make some fast runs on the lake and through the country in the near future. This is Mr. Burch's third winter at Carcross on the same enterprise, and during the past year be has made numerous alterations and improvements in his machine.
• February 18, 1910: Forty two head of horses arrived on Saturday's train for the stage service at the White Pass & Yukon Route and will be distributed to the different posts along the line between here and Dawson. These horses were purchased in Alberta by Dr. Coots. Heretofore the W. P. & Y. R. has always bought its horses in Oregon and Washington, and this shipment of forty two head is the first to come from the Northwest Territories. On the next trip of the SS Jefferson twenty head more will arrive.
• February 18, 1910: The work of installing the new steam power plant at the Venus mine is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily. The plant when completed will be utilized for compressing air to run the machines at the Venus mine in the winter time, or at such times when there is not sufficient water power available to perform this work.

• February 25, 1910: The Ice Carnival held in Whitehorse on February 18th was a big success.
• February 25, 1910: Harry Waugh the well known Klondike miner and his partner Oscar Nuhn arrived in Whitehorse on last Thursday's stage and left for the outside Saturday morning. They have just completed a long overland trip, having come from the MacKenzie river country in the vicinity of Herschel Island, Fort McPherson and the head of the Porcupine river.
• February 25, 1910: H. W. Vance, general manager of the Conrad Mines, was a visitor in town last Friday and Saturday. Mr. Vance stated that the force of men at the Big Thing mine would be increased just as soon as the weather conditions permitted, and that the probabilities are that the Big Thing mine within the next few months would be shipping considerable ore. Two teams are now hauling ore to Carcross.

March

• March 4, 1910: Word comes from Ottawa that J. T. Lithgow, Comptroller at Dawson, will in all probability not return to the Yukon. The Government has proffered Mr. Lithgow a splendid position, that of organizing the accounting system for the proposed navy.
• March 4, 1910: Dr. R. B. Coutts, veterinary for the White Pass company, accompanied by Mrs. Coutts, arrived on Saturday's train. Dr Coutts brought north a shipment of eighteen head of horses purchased for the company in Eastern Washington to be used on the stage line between here and Dawson. After spending a few days in Whitehorse Dr. and Mrs. Coutts will proceed to their home at Dawson.
• March 4, 1910: Robert Jones was suddenly aroused from his morning sleep on Monday to find his cabin on fire. The flames had already caught his bedclothes, and the knob of the door was so hot that when he grasped it he burned his hand severely. The cabin and contents were consumed in a few minutes.

• March 11, 1910: On March 3, an explosion at the 1,100-foot level of the Mexican mine on Douglas Island killed 39 miners and injured about a dozen others, some severely. Read the entire article here.
• March 11, 1910: A report from Circle City, Alaska, dated Feb. 26, states that Frank White, formerly of Dawson, shot and killed Mrs. Stade and then shot himself. Both died instantly. Mrs. Stade was the wife of H. A. Stade, proprietor of the Jump Off roadhouse, 22 miles from Circle. Stade and his wife separated last fall, when she came to Circle and bought a laundry. White frequently called on the woman, but the cause of the murder is unknown. White is said to have been sober at the time he committed the rash act.
• March 11, 1910: Several teams were busy Tuesday and Wednesday of this week moving a cottage purchased by Mr. H G. Macpherson to the lot just west of the Shadwell residence. When completed it will make cosy little home for someone.

• March 18, 1910: The warm winds since Sunday has rapidly melted the snow. The streets around town and the roads leading out of town are one mass of slush and great pools of water here and there, as the ground has not thawed sufficiently to allow the water to seep through. In a great many places on this end of the Dawson trail there is absolutely no snow and if the present warm spell continues it will be a question of but a few days until the entire trail will be rendered impassible for sleighs and wheels will take the place of runners.
• March 18, 1910: Effective Tuesday March 15th the passenger fare via stage from Whitehorse to Dawson was advanced from $80.00 to $100.00.
• March 18, 1910: Work has been resumed on the Government wagon bridge at Carcross. This bridge when completed will prove a valuable asset to the town.

• March 25, 1910: The White Pass & Yukon railroad will complete the spur track to the Pueblo mine by building four miles of new road this summer at a cost of not less than $200,000. The work on the new track will begin on April 1st when a steam whovel, two work trains, about twenty teams of horses and over a hundred men will commence its construction. The number of men will be doubled a little later in the season.
• March 25, 1910: The blowing of the whistle on Monday morning announced to the people of Whitehorse that another season's activity at the B. Y. N. shipyards had begun. Fifty three men are now employed in fitting and preparing the steamers and barges for their summer's work.
• March 25, 1910: Tom Lloyd and his party reached a point 12,000 feet up the side of Mt. McKinley and established a camp there on February 18. Conditions are so favourable they intend to make a dash for the summit, and hope to reach the "top of the continent" by about March 20.

April

• April 1, 1910: After preparatory work, active building operations on the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad spur into the Whitehorse copper belt began today. About 30 labourers from Skagway got off the train at Ear Lake and took two W. P. & Y. sleighs to the new Grafter Camp near the Grafter Mine.
• April 1, 1910: Chas. Pugsley left yesterday morning to commence work on the Valerie mine for M. Palmer. He will have several men in his employ. The Valerie is one of the most promising mines of the copper belt. It lies near the spur, a good deal of money has been spent on the development work, and a considerable quantity of ore is blocked out for shipment.
• April 1, 1910: Colonel John Howard Conrad was married to Miss Nellie Elizabeth Robertson at Muscatine, Iowa on the 15th of March.

• April 8, 1910: A. Gusfield has built an ice boat for the double purpose of giving his friends a spin through space at a breath-taking-away velocity, and to prove to all those who are from Missouri on the question that an ice boat will outstrip the wind in its tremendous speed.
• April 8, 1910: The installation of a quartz mill on the Lone Star group late last summer marked an epoch in the Klondike - the passing from placer to quartz that has taken place in other rich mining camps. Generally it follows the exhaustion of the placer gold, but the Klondike auriferous gravels will not be exhausted in another twenty years, with all the dredges and great hydraulic works that can be employed.
• April 8, 1910: Mr J. Stewart has been engaged in moving a building from Bennett to Carcross, where he proposes to start in the storekeeping business.

• April 15, 1910: Work on the mammoth power undertaking backed by A. N. C. Treadgold is well under way for the season. The first work is to be near the mouth of the North Fork of the Klondike river, which is to be tapped with a ditch six to eight miles long. The water is to be conveyed along an old channel, and given a long fall into the main Klondike. The power will be used to pump water to placer hills on various creeks, to include Hunker, Last Chance and others.
• April 15, 1910: Unquestionably the biggest mining investment made by Spokane people for years is the purchase of the entire holdings of the Yukon-Pueblo Mining company at Whitehorse, for $500,000 cash, by the Atlas Mining company, a close corporation organized under the laws of West Virginia for that purpose. As the vendors of the property are Byron N. White and his associates, the bulk of the purchase money will remain in Spokane.
• April 15, 1910: Sergeant Joy and Constable McVicker of the N.W.M.P. left for New Westminster, having in custody Sam Volovich, the Slav, who stabbed a woman of the underworld at Dawson about four months ago, and who has been sentenced to serve eleven years in the penitentiary for his dastardly crime.

• April 22, 1910: That Whitehorse has lived almost wholly on Faith for the past several years is well known to all and especially has it been painfully apparent to the people of Whitehorse themselves. But that the faith that was in them was justified is now being proven by current events. For years the vast mineral wealth of this community has lain as Nature left it - in undisturbed repose. But now it is to be mined and to that end steps are now being rapidly taken.
• April 22, 1910: The year 1909 will be marked in the calendar as a red letter year in the history of the crusade against consumption. Never since the organization of the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has there been such activity displayed in Canada in this fight for life.
• April 22, 1910: Mrs. O'Connor was assaulted at her home last Saturday morning by Mrs. Salvatore in a rather vicious manner. The same day the latter was hauled before Magistrate Taylor on the charge of assault with the intent to do bodily harm. She was given the alternative of paying a fine of $100 or going to jail for six months. As the woman is the mother of four little children, it was not thought right by the citizens of the town that she should be incarcerated and the result was that, as she had no money, a public subscription was taken up and the fine paid.

• April 29, 1910: While Supt. Hahn is sparing nothing which will serve to hasten the completion of the railroad spur to the Pueblo mine, the continued cold weather is very materially holding back the work as in many places it is still necessary to shovel snow from the right of way before the ground can thaw sufficiently to permit of the work of grading being carried on. But little rock work remains to be done, all the heavy excavations being on that portion of the road which was constructed two years ago. Something over 100 men are now employed and all comers will be taken on as soon as the frost is out of the ground. A large number of ore cars for use on mine sidings were received early this week. Indications are that the road will be completed to the Pueblo mine early in July.
• April 29, 1910: Jack M. Stewart of Carcross last week moved from Bennett the Vendome hotel which, in the palmy days of the latter town, was its best lodging hostelery, to Carcross via Lake Bennett, a distance of 30 miles. The building was loaded on bobs, one under each corner, and six horses "yanked" it down the ice the same as though it had been a sleighing party. Mr. Stewart will use the building for a store at Carcross.
• April 29, 1910: James Richards (Buzzsaw Jimmy), with that spirit of enterprise which has ever characterized him, has secured a new sawmill and has the same ready for operation oo the vacant lot in the rear of Lowe's blacksmith shop.

May

• May 6, 1910: On Wednesday Dan Gillis made a trip in his gasoline boat down the river in quest of ducks until he reached the Big Bend five miles below town where he found a mighty ice jam. It is said to have broken since and by the first of the week it is believed the head of Lake Lebarge can be reached in small boats. While considerable open water is reported between here and Dawson, the ice is still solid at many places but it is believed it will break all along within very few hours, three days at the outside.
• May 6, 1910: Samuel May who for several years past has been working his claim, 98 on Burwash creek, arrived in town Tuesday. He reports spring as being very backward in that country this year and when he left Burwash not a drop of water had started in any of the creeks of that district. He says the Jacquots are taking out a big dump and will be in line for a good cleanup as soon as water begins to run. Henry Arp and associates on Burwash also have out a goodsized dump and will keep adding to it until there is water sufficient for sluicing. Mr. May and B. J. MeGee are partners in several claims on Burwash.
• May 6, 1910: E. H. Thurston, principal stockholder and manager of the Northern Light and Power Company, has 2125 tons here and at Skagway for a mammoth power plant at Coal Creek. The machinery is for a ten thousand horsepower generator, the biggest thing of the kind ever shipped to the northland. The light and power plant now located at Dawson will be moved to Coal Creek, the new owners being of the opinion that they can transmit light and power cheaper than they can transport coal from their mines to Dawson.
• May 6, 1910: A very sad occurence took place on the Cottage City last Friday evening when little Carolyn Cochran died after an illness of less than one day. Read that article and much more about the family here.

  

• May 13, 1910: Last Friday night, May 6th at shortly after 9 o'clock, London time (2:18 p. m., local time) Edward the VII, King of Great Britain, passed to his reward at the royal palace, London. The immediate cause of his death was heart trouble caused by an attack of pneumonia which produced choking. His condition was not considered alarming until a few hours before his death. His oldest living son, George, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and York, took the oath of office on Saturday, the 7th, and is now King of Great Britain.
• May 13, 1910: The American Boundary Survey party, 88 men and 25 horses, arrived here on Saturday's train, the party being under the guidance of Thos. Riggs, Jr., of Washington, D. C. From Champagne Landing the party will secure 50 additional horses which have been wintered at that place by "Shorty" Chambers. Mr. Craig, in charge of the Canadian Boundary Survey, arrived on Tuesday's train with a number of men, other men with 35 horses having come on ahead of him.
• May 13, 1910: John Mocine, manager of the Atlas Mining Company, arrived from Spokane Tuesday accompanied by 11 mechanics who are now at work putting up buildings at the Pueblo mine preparatory to inaugurating the actual work of mining in about two weeks by which time a number of hardrock miners will have been engaged.

• May 20, 1910: Although freighting over Lake Lebarge was carried on for several days after it became what the teamsters considered highly dangerous, there was several tons of freight left at the head of the lake when work in that line was suspended. It will be picked up and carried to its destination when the lake opens. The steamer Casca got away from Hootalinqua last Saturday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
• May 20, 1910: Six placer mining claims have been recorded here, which are located on the right limit of the right fork of the Nestling river which is a tributary of the Donjek which, in turn, empties into the White. The location of the new find is about 50 miles west of Tantalus which is on the Yukon river about half way between Whitehorse and Dawson, being about 25 miles this side of Yukon Crossing.
• May 20, 1910: The working force on the railroad spur, while of a very migratory class, is being fairly well kept up and the work is progressing satisfactorily. While many of the laborers have quit lately to go down the river, newcomers arrive almost daily and the positions are kept well filled. No better weather for railroad construction could be desired than that of the present time.

• May 27, 1910: The committee in charge of the mosquito question have been enabled to raise money enough to purchase a good supply of heavy crude oil which will be properly distributed over the surface of all the stagnant ponds within a radius of a mile of Whitehorse and it is believed that this will keep down the annual heavy crop of mosquitoes.
• May 27, 1910: Richard Lewis and E. J. Edwards have purchased the Commercial Cafe business from Greig Neilson and are continuing at the old stand. Mr. Lewis is an experienced buyer and caterer and Mr. Edwards is reputed to be one of the very best cooks in the territory, having been employed in that capacity at the barracks for a long time.
• May 27, 1910: Several members of the local police force have decided to become private citizens and are buying their discharges. Constable Stewart severed his connection two weeks ago and Constables Garlick, Blackburn and Palfrey will follow suit in the next few days.

June

• June 3, 1910: Henry Phillips, for a long time employed in the Star office but for the past two years totempole editor of the Skagway Alaskan, was among the distinguished guests of Whitehorse Saturday, with his new bride. Henry is the only native printer in the north and what he knows about the business would fill a World's almanac.
• June 3, 1910: At present there are not to exceed 50 people here awaiting the opening of navigation but there are several hundred at Skagway and all the steamers due from below for the next three or four weeks are fully sold and it is expected that several thousand people will pass through here enroute down river within the next few weeks.
• June 3, 1910: Charles Watson who has resided in Southern Yukon for the past ten years, nearly the past five of which were spent at Conrad where owned and conducted the Windy Arm hotel, locked up that hostelery last Friday, came to Whitehorse and attended the celebration and left that evening for Skagway where he took the steamer for Prince Rupert where he will stop a few days before joining his family in Vancouver.

• June 10, 1910: Even as a Phoenix rising from the ashes, so the little town of Carcross assumes once more an urban appearance. The new depot of the White Pass Company has been placed somewhat nearer to the wharf and freight sheds, and is consequently in closer proximity to the landing stage of the lake steamer, the Gleaner. Read the entire article here.
• June 10, 1910: J. R. Alguire has closed his store in Whitehorse and moved his stock of tobacco, cigars, fruit, candy and confectionery to the Pueblo mine where he has reopened business and will cater to the trade of that locality,
• June 10, 1910: Iditarod-Bound Pilgrims Hold Fast to Their Dough. Never in the history of Whitehorse has such a well-behaved bunch of people passed through here for the interior, as is going in this spring. With the exception of a few who quit work on the spur some weeks ago and celebrated before leaving for down river in small boats, there has not been a drunken stranger seen in town for a month.

• June 17, 1910: Navigation for the season of 1910 is fully open and all the river and lake boats of the Yukon are now in active commission. The first boat, the White Horse, got away Wednesday of last week with 220 passengers. The Dawson followed Friday with 180 and the Selkirk 24 hours later with an equal number.
• June 17, 1910: A party of nine strangers bound for the Iditarod sailed down from Bennett the latter part of last week, reaching the head of the canyon Sunday morning. Six of them walked around the raging waters and the remaining three came through the canyon and rapids in the boat, making the trip, despite the very low water, without mishap.
• June 17, 1910: Geological Surveyor D. D. Cairnes arrived from Ottawa Tuesday evening and left Wednesday for the Atlin country where he will be engaged in geological work during the season. In former years Mr. Cairnes has had but two professional assistants but this season he has four and the result will be that more will be accomplished this year than ever before. With flagmen and cooks, he will have eight or ten men in his party.

• June 24, 1910: The Casca bumped into a rock and sank in seven feet of water in the Thirty-mile river on June 22. Foreman Al. Henderson has had a crew of six men at work, and on Wednesday they succeeded in raising her stern out of the water.
• June 24, 1910: Robby, the eldest son of John Ryan, became ill on Tuesday and Dr. Clark diagnosed the cause of the illness as being scarlet fever. The boy is being carefully nursed by his aunt, Miss Kate Ryan, but the seriousness of the attack cannot be determined yet for several days. The school has been disinfected and was closed for a day.
• June 24, 1910: Messrs. W. G. Blackwell and C. C. Brett, two promising appearing young men who arrived the latter part of last week from Ontario in response to a call issued by Bishop L O. Stringer of the Yukon diocese, Church of England, for young men to engage in mission work in the North, will be ordained in the ministry as deacons by Bishop Stringer at Christ Church at 11 o'clock Sunday morning.

July

• July 1, 1910: The steamer Casca which struck a rock in the Thirtymile river when on the way to Dawson from this place on the morning of June 15th, was safely landed at this place early Wednesday morning and has since been hauled out on the ways at the shipyards. The Casca is very badly damaged and it is not yet known just what will be done toward repairing her. It is said that it will cost almost as much to repair the damage to her hull as it will to build a new one.
• July 1, 1910: W. J. Graves has leased the Breese property in the north part of town and converted it into a skating pavilion and shooting gallery. He has just received 60 pairs of the latest in roller skates, and is out with a most generous offer to the public in that all who so desire can skate from 9 to 11 o'clock each forenoon free of charge by way of practice. The floor is in firstclass condition and good, vigorous and health-giving sport may be anticipated.
• July 1, 1910: There was a big land and rock slide on the railroad between Bennett and Pennington sometime Tuesday night which delayed traffic until yesterday. The slide brought down from the mountainside earth and rocks which covered the track for a distance of about 80 feet and to a depth of from five to twenty feet. Forty laborers were taken from the spur to the scene of the slide Wednesday morning to assist in clearing the track, which required about 18 hours steady work.

• July 8, 1910: A party of millionaires and their servants arrived at Skagway by chartered steamer, then continued on to Whitehorse by chartered train on Wednesday. Locals were deeply offended that they brought their own food, cooks and waiters, and the galley crew of the steamer White Horse threatened to walk off. The servants were left here and the steamer left for Dawson with its standard crew.
• July 8, 1910: The excursion train to Skagway last Saturday, the occasion of that town's annual Fourth of July celebration, carried about 135 people. Except in supplying a fair part of the crowd, Whitehorse had but little hand in the celebration as she had no bowling teams and no baseball team.
• July 8, 1910: Mrs. Percy Reid of Carcross and two little sons returned Saturday from California to which place they went several months ago for Mrs. Reid's health, She returned greatly improved.

• July 15, 1910: Charles Ward, one of the pioneer prospectors of this place, sold his interest, which was one third, in the Anaconda quartz claim Friday of last week to E. A. Dixon, one of the other owners of the property, for $4000 cash.
• July 15, 1910: At the recent session of the Yukon council an appropriation of $1000 was made for the purpose of building an addition to the General hospital of this place, the annex to be 18 by 24 and to used as an office and labratory. The hospital board has given a contract for the work to Eli Hume and he would have already been started on the structure were it not for the typhoid patient, Henry Meyers, in the hospital.
• July 15, 1910: The Atlas Mining people moved into their new home at the Pueblo Wednesday of this week and they now occupy what is probably the finest miners quarters in the Dominion. The building has accomodations for 66 men and is provided with all modern conveniences. A music machine which cost $350 was taken out from town Wednesday.

• July 22, 1910: On Monday, train Engineer "Billy" Williams and Fireman "Bob" Foster, were injured when their locomotive, the tender and three gravel cars jumped the tracks on the spur. The men are in the hospital, Mr. Williams with a broken hip and Mr. Foster badly bruised shoulder and hip.
• July 22, 1910: The largest gold-saving dredge in the world is now being shipped into the Yukon from Marion, Ohio, where it was manufactured, by Joseph W. Boyle, owner of what is probably the richest dredging concession on the face of the earth, one dredge being already in operation on the property and yielding phenominally rich returns.
• July 22, 1910: Last Sunday, Charley Johnston of the Regina, and E. G. Morley of the bank, cut down a tree with an eagle's nest and captured the only occupant of the nest, a fine young eagle of either the Bald or Golden variety. The bird closed on the hand of "Chawles" and that member is now worn in a sling. The eagle is on exhibition at the Regina. The owners are thinking of securing a tent and going on the road.

• July 29, 1910: Never before in the history of this portion of the country has such havoc been worked by the elements as that wrought by the recent heavy rains- veritable cloudbursts in many places. Dry gulches and ravines became raging torrents which swept road grades before them and left desolation in their wakes. Damage will amount to not less than $25,000.
• July 29, 1910: Theodore Sweet who is employed on the Big Thing mine in the Conrad district, one of the properties which is principaliy owned by Colonel John H. Conrad, was in town a couple of days lately and stated that ore taken from the seven hundred foot level of the Big Thing mine assays as high as $800 to the ton. General Manager Vance is working a crew of 15 men on the Big Thing and the proverty is developing into what is probably the greatest silver and gold mine in the North.
• July 29, 1910: After being on the ways for four weeks, during which time she was practically rebuilt, the steamer Casca was launched at the shipyards Sunday evening and dispatched Monday night for down river points. The Casca replaces the Bonanza King which was badly damaged on her last trip down the river by coming in contact with one of the rocks in Five Fingers.

August

• August 5, 1910: Captain Tom Smith, owner and master of the launch Frontiersman, arrived from Teslin Monday and left again for that place Wednesday evening, taking a cargo of merchandise for a trading post which he is opening at that place.
• August 5, 1910: R. K. Neill of Spokane, Wash., president of the Atlas Mining company which lately invested upward of $500,000 in the Pueblo mine which is located near this place, arrived here Thursday evening of last week and was met at the depot by W. D. Greenough, general manager for the company, himself being a heavy stockholder. Mr. Neill was greatly disappointed on reaching here to be informed that the Canadian government is charging 2½% per cent royalty on the gross output of copper. He says that royalty makes mining prohibitive.
• August 5, 1910: The families of Judge Taylor and T. L. McRae spent several days lately at Ear Lake where a tent town is springing up. Sunday was visitors day at the lake and upward of 30 people were there. Owing to the recent heavy rains the lake is fully ten feet higher than ever before known.

• August 12, 1910: The annual union Sunday school excursion and picnic was held Tuesday when everybody who could get away joined the throng and spent the day on classic Lake Lebarge. The flag ship White Horse was secured for the outing and at 10 o'clock it pulled out for down river with upward of 150 people on board.
• August 12, 1910: Fred Pare, one of the best known and most popular young men of Whitehorse, died in Montreal Monday morning after a manly struggle with that dread disease, tuberculosis. For several years he had been employed by the White Pass Railway Company, first as express messenger and baggageman, and later as telegraph operator.
• August 12, 1910: A party of young ladies and gentlemen chaperoned by Mrs. H. E. Porter went to the mouth of the Tahkini river last Saturday afternoon in the B. Y. N. launch Pelican. A picnic supper was enjoyed on the river bank and the party returned home at 10:30 at night.

• August 19, 1910: The White Pass has decided to build a new passenger steamer to operate between this place and Dawson. While the new craft will be 169 feet in length, six feet shorter than the White Horse, present flagship of the fleet, it will be four feet wider than the last mentioned boat, which extra width will enable her to have a full third deck of staterooms, giving her about one third more carrying capacity than the White Horse. The Star is offering a cash prize of $25 to the person proposing the most suitable name for the new steamer.
• August 19, 1910: Never before in the history of the territory have so many hunters of big game been here in one season as at present, no less than five parties having arrived here, outfitted and struck out into the "uncut" within the past few days.
• August 19, 1910: News of a copper strike of phenomenal richness on the Peel river is brought by the officers of the steamer Pauline, which arrived this morning from Mayo. A. E. McKay, the discoverer, brought the news to Mayo, and told the story to Hill Barrington and others of the Pauline.

• August 26, 1910: Beginning last Saturday when thirteen cars containing 245 tons of ore from the Pueblo mine were shipped to Skagway by the Atlas Mining company, daily shipments have since been made and will be continued indefinitely.
• August 26, 1910: Colonel J. H. Conrad, managing owner of the various mining properties on Little Windy Arm, arrived from the outside about ten days ago, visited his hydraulic interests in the Porcupine and came on to Yukon the latter part of last week, visiting his Yukon home in Carcross and his property on Windy Arm.
• August 26, 1910: Number 1, volume 1 of the Iditarod Pioneer has reached our exchange table. The new publication is owned and "perpetrated" by George M. Arbuckle who first became known to fame as the "Hired Man" of the Bennett News eleven years ago. The Pioneer is a healthy appearing, seven column, four page paper and is replete in news and live ads of the new camp.

September

• September 2, 1910: Taylor & Drury is building a new steamer, named Kluahne. Although the Kluahne will do a general steamboat business in the way of carrying both freight and passengers, she was constructed by her owners primarily for their own use in carrying supplies to their outlying trading posts, one at Teslin, another at Little Salmon and still another 250 miles up from the Yukon on the Pelly river. The Kluahne is 55 feet long with a breadth of beam of 13 feet.
• September 2, 1910: Skagway is to lose one of its pioneer institutions, the branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce which has operated at that place for between 11 and 12 years and which has ever been popular and obliging. The remaining accounts of the bank will be transferred to the branch of the same institution at this place immediately after the date of its closing, September 30th.
• September 2, 1910: Over one hundred cases of whooping cough are reported at Dawson. We know how to sympathize as we had ours last winter. The only consolation we can offer Dawson is that, barring backsets, those afflicted will recover - in about four months.

• September 9, 1910: A shipment of cattle comprising 221 head arrived by Tuesday's train on the way to Fairbanks. This was the last cattle shipment of the season for lower Alaska but there are about 400 head to pass through here for Dawson within the next few days. The cattle which arrived Tuesday night were from Montana ranges and will be worth, when delivered in Fairbanks, from $500 to $600 per head.
• September 9, 1910: W. O. Oppenhoff, president of the Tutshi Lake Mining company which is operated about five miles east of Bennett station, was here last Friday on his way to Bennett from Dawson where he has been for several years and where he is still interested in mining property. Several men have been at work on the company property near Bennett for the past several months and the showings made are such as warrant the purchase and installation of machinery at once. The ore carries both gold and silver.
• September 9, 1910: Last Sunday, the six or seven year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Horsfall was killed at Selkirk. The child was playing with matches in the rear of the house when his clothes became ignited and before help could arrive he was so badly burned that death resulted within a few minutes.

  

• September 16, 1910: Gold to the value of $75,000 mysteriously disappears while in transit from Fairbanks to Seattle - express and mail both robbed, $57,500 from former and $27,500 from latter. The express box was emptied of gold and filled with lead.
• September 16, 1910: The Canadian Railroad Commission, which has been in session at Vancouver since Sept. 5, has ordered the White Pass and Yukon Route to lower its freight rate on ore, and to immediately file with the commission a new schedule of freight rates covering general commodities.
• September 16, 1910: A group of copper claims in the Rainy Hollow country has just been bonded for $490,000, the money to be paid by the first of January. The property lies inland from Haines, Alaska, and is a big proposition.

• September 23, 1910: William R. Hulbert, the aged gardener for the B. Y. N. company, was stricken with paralysis Tuesday evening about 5 o'clock and died that night at 11:30 without regaining consciousness. Read the entire article here.
• September 23, 1910: Hallock C. Bundy, newspaper man and writer of San Francisco, arrived here from Dawson on the White Horse last Friday on his way out to Vancouver where he will open a publicity office on behalf of Yukon, the object being to advertise the territory with the view of inducing tourists to come here next summer and during succeeding years. Residents of Dawson raised $1500 to further his proposition, but residents of Whitehorse declined, as tourists are invariably rushed from train to steamer with no time here.
• September 23, 1910: Foreman William Donnenworth and the men with him from this place returned Monday from Livingstone to which place they repaired and constructed considerable new road leading in frorn Mason's Landing. The miners of that district now have the best road they have ever had. About $5,000 in labor was expended on it by the government.

• September 30, 1910: Through the representation of Bishop Stringer, the Dominion government devotes $30,000 to the erection of a territorial mission school for Indians at Carcross.
• September 30, 1910: Owing to the fact that Skagway has no bank as of October 1, the White Pass & Yukon Route make arrangements to establish their own accommodation bank.
• September 30, 1910: The first fatality of the season occurred on the river at about 2 o'clock last Saturday morning when Ernest Blythe, second mate of the steamer Selkirk, lost his life at a point in the Thirtymile about six miles above Hootalinqua. Read the entire article here.

October

• October 7, 1910: Dan G. Snure, miner, merchant and hotelman of Livingstone, arrived in town on one of his semi-annual visits with news of the discovery of rich pay on the hillside of the property owned by the Livingstone Creek Syndicate of which Jack Blick is general manager. In one week $780, clear of all expense, was washed out by five men. The pay is located only four feet from the surface.
• October 7, 1910: On a late trip of the steamer Susie up the lower river to Dawson and while an attempt was being made to pull the steamer offa bar a steel cable being operated on a capstan parted and the recoil struck Chas. H. Arends, breaking his leg. Blood poison set in and, while all was done for the unfortunate man possible by his fellow passengers, death resulted within three days.
• October 7, 1910: Rev. Edwin H. Burgess arrived last Friday evening from the outside, having been sent here by the Presbyterian mission board to fill the pulpit of that church here, taking the place of Rev. Arthur Ross who accepted a call to Dawson.

• October 14, 1910: Word has been received here of the death at San Francisco Tuesday morning at 7:30 o'clock of Michael J. Heney, the well known builder of railroads in the North. Mr. Heney's first work in the North was started on the morning of the 24th of May, 1898, when the first shovelful of dirt was thrown on the White Pass & Yukon railroad at Skagway.
• October 14, 1910: The Canadian and Dawson have completed their last trips and are laid up for the winter. The others, White Horse, Casca and Selkirk, all due before Sunday, will be put on the ways immediately after their arrival. The independent steamer Lafrance will make another trip to Dawson and will winter at the foot of the lake where her sister, the Pauline, is already in winter quarters. All the steamers arriving within the past week have carried full loads of passengers.
• October 14, 1910: Sergeant Darling of the R. N. W. M. P., with two constables, arrived in Atlin on Wednesday with a dozen horses. They made the trip from Edmonton, and as they have been on the journey since about the beginning of May, over a pretty hard trail, they were uncommonly glad to get back once more to the comforts of civilization. They are en route for Whitehorse.

• October 21, 1910: The Lafrance is the last steamer of the season, leaving from Dawson October 20 and arriving in Whitehorse October 25.
• October 21, 1910: Another robbery of gold was added to the already long list of similar operation of the present season. When the mail sacks from the steamer Selkirk were trucked over from the boat to the baggage room, it was discovered that one of eight sacks, each containing $15,000 in gold bricks, had been ripped open and three bricks, valued at $1,000 each, extracted.
• October 21, 1910: From the White Pass company on October 15th: "The untimely death of our late friend Michael J. Heney, is a matter of profound regret to all who knew him. As an evidence of our esteem for the man whose genius was so largely responsible for making possible the White Pass & Yukon Route, a silent tribute will be paid his memory by a complete suspension of all operations while he is being laid to rest. The funeral will take place in Seattle at 10 a. m., Tuesday, the 18th."

• October 28, 1910: Last Friday night marked a red letter page in the history of the town of Carcross, that being the occasion of the first railroad excursion ever run to that point and the cause was the dedication of the new Caribou hotel, lately completed and furnished by E. W. Gideon at a cost of about $14,000.
• October 28, 1910: Supt. Wheeler, of the mail department of the W. P. & Y. R., has received a new automobile, a Winton No. 6, which he will test on the Whitehorse-Dawson trail as a means of transporting mail, express and passengers between the two points.
• October 28, 1910: Rev. Father Rivet, who has been in charge of the Catholic church of this place since early the present year, left Wednesday of this week for Prince Rupert, his future field of usefulness.

November

• November 4, 1910: W. A. McKeown, the pioneer druggist of Whitehorse, has disposed of business interests to his partner, Herbert G. Macpherson, and will leave the 10th for Victoria to which his wife and two little sons went some weeks ago. Mr. McKeown first started in business here in June of 1900 when the town was almost wholly constructed of tents.
• November 4, 1910: The Star's steamer naming contest is coming on finely, nearly two dozen names for the craft now under construction at the shipyards in this place having been submitted.
• November 4, 1910: Arthur Sibbit, "Missouri" to those who know him best, came down from Carcross last Thursday evening for the purpose of outfitting in the way of bob-sleds for his winter's work, that of hauling ore from the Big Thing mine to the station at Carcross, for which he has a contract from the mining company.

• November 10, 1910: Last Friday morning when Alfred Dickson of Carcross was using the pontoon ferry to take his team across the narrow neck of water which connects Bennett and Nares lake at Carcross, one of the horses, in leaning forward to drink from the lake, tumbled off the ferry, dragging the other overboard with him. Both were drowned.
• November 10, 1910: Fully 100 men will reach here on foot from Dawson between now and the middle of December. One pedestrian who arrived Saturday was only 11 days from Dawson. He looked a "Mama's Darling" who was anxious to be home in time to hang up his socks for Christmas.
• November 10, 1910: Wednesday was an unlucky day on the railroad spur. At 3 a.m. Wednesday an engine pulling the private car in which were Supt. Hahn and E. J. Doherty struck a glacier near the 8-mile post a glacier and the locomotive took to the woods. There was nothing to do but remain there until the locomotive of No. 1 from Skagway could arrive in the evening to haul the derilict back onto the track. Then at the Pueblo mine Brakeman "Tad" Hillery was badly squeezed while making a coupling and may have serious internal injuries.

• November 18, 1910: The government wagon bridge across Caribou arm at Carcross was completed and the first team crossed it on November 14th.
• November 18, 1910: The Atlas Mining Company which early last spring purchased from Byron N. White of Spokane, the Pueblo mine located six miles from this place, which property has since been continuously worked, has suspended all operations, let all the men go, packed and stored everything movable about the mine, nailed up the buildings and left the property without even a watchman. Supt. Mocine left on yesterday's train for Skagway, enroute to his home and the company's headquarters at Spokane. No explanation has been given for the closure.
• November 18, 1910: William Chantler, the well known local mechanic, has a force of men at work installing a sawmill near the Tenmile roadhouse on the Dawson trail. The mill is the one shipped into this country some years ago by the W. L. Breese outfit and has never been used. A year ago it was brought in from Bullion creek in the Kluane district where it was taken by Breese.

• November 25, 1910: H. Brenner, the expert dredge man from Marion, Ohio, where the big Boyle dredge was manufactured and who installed the same when it was shipped to Dawson last summer, arrived on the stage on the way out Tuesday. He reports the big machine as still working and it will be operated so long as the weather will permit. The Boyle dredge is the biggest gold-saving machine of the kind in the world.
• November 25, 1910: Heavy out-bound travel has set in and the coming stages for the next several trips will all be crowded. The stage which arrived Tuesday brought ten passengers, another is due today with nine passengers, one Monday with ten and one Tuesday, a special, is bringing the mining magnate, A. N. C. Treadgold and party.
• November 25, 1910: Present indications are that the conditions could not be more favorable for the carnival at the skating rink tonight, the first event of the kind of the season. The ice could not be better and the weather is all that can be desired. The affair will be joint celebration of American Thanksgiving and St. Andrews day.

December

• December 2, 1910: After much pulsating, throbbing and other evidence of unrest, the bosom of old Yukon is at rest and will remain so for several months to come. Ice jams caused another flood a few days ago, however.
• December 2, 1910: The masquerade skating carnival at the Club rink Friday night, the first of the season, was largely attended, no less than sixty skaters being in costume. The ice was in splendid condition and the weather was just right for skating but rather chilly for the members of the band, playing in the open in winter in Yukon being fraught with more difficulty than is apparent to the un-"toot"-ered.
• December 2, 1910: H. E. Porter is ready to leave with an outfit to establish a trading post in the Ibex country but is detained by the poor condition of the trails, there being too much snow for wheels and not enough for runners. The Ibex is a great fur-producing country and Porter's intentions are to trade with Indians.

• December 9, 1910: That large Winton 6 automobile that is to revolutionize travel "betwixt" this place and Dawson, left here last Sunday with a cargo of mail for the purpose of going through to Dawson for the first time. All went swimmingly until Little River was reached when something went wrong with the dasherdictus which is located just between the bubellicus and the dickerdasher, being abaft of the mollydunk and on the haw side of the tiddlewhacker. The mail was recovered Tuesday morning by a reliable stage and four.
• December 9, 1910: The announcement in this paper that McRae & Lucier, haberdashers, clothiers and tailors, are to quit Whitehorse will come us a surprise to everybody. The senior partner has been in business here ever since the town had a place on the map and Mr. Lucier has been here five years, the present firm being in existence over three years.
• December 9, 1910: Mr. and Mrs. John Scott left Carcrosss for the outside early the present year. On November 24th, Winifred, their three year old daughter, died at the hospital in Kamloops. She and her twin brother were taken ill from ptomaine poisoning from eating canned peas, and while her brother recovered she died trom the effects.

• December 16, 1910: This part of the country has certainly seen all kinds of weather in the past few days. On Monday morning it was 47 below but yesterday morning it was 35 above zero and a few drops of rain fell, a most unusual thing for December.
• December 16, 1910: The annual report that Dr. P. F. Scharschmidt will not return as superintendent of the White Pass fleet of steamers is now current and it is said that this time the report is true - that "Doc" has a better and more lucrative position that will keep him where he can go to moving picture shows instead of in this country where vexation of spirit is rampant. "Doc" was one of the first residents of Whitehorse, and was the original owner of this great family paper.
• December 16, 1910: Indications now point to the busiest spring in the matter of freighting to the foot of Lake Lebarge ever known here. Three lower river steamers are tied up at the foot of the lake, the Evelyn, Tana and White Seal and are intending to get away with the opening of navigation below the lake for the lower Yukon country, Fairbanks and the Iditarod, with general cargoes, all of which will be freighted over the ice from this place to the foot of the lake.

• December 23, 1910: For some time past Whitehorse has been receiving an average of but one mail a week from the outside world on account of the fact that only three mail steamers are now plying between lower coast points and Skagway, and the result is that, when a mail does come, it is heavy and especially so at this season of the year when Christmas packages constitute a large part of the mail.
• December 23, 1910: The mail company's automobile which left here the 12th for Dawson, paused at Carmacks, six posts out, where it is awaiting repairs to arrive from the outside, something having given way in its appendix ensiformis. The mail was transferred to a stage and went on to Dawson on schedule time.
• December 23, 1910: H. E. Porter, the well known mining man and prospector, left last Friday for Ashihik Lake, one of the sources of the White river, with over three tons of provisions which he will use in barter and trade wlth the Indians of whom there is a large settlement at the point of his destination. Mr. Porter will be absent several months.

• December 30, 1910: A huge meteor or meteorite was seen to fall just south of the railroad shops and not far from the W. P. & Y. round house on Wednesday. It came down with a rush, creating a blinding light that almost prostrated, by the shock, those who were nearby. Striking the frozen earth with a shriek it buried itself so deeply that those who had witnessed its descent were unable to find it.
• December 30, 1910: T. M. McDermott, a wealthy Alaskan, has, with Falcon Joslyn and T. J. Nester, been investigating an aeroplane system for the carrying of mails in the interior, and will probably introduce the same between Valdez and Fairbanks.
• December 30, 1910: Christmas, coming as it did on Sunday, was necessarily a rather quiet day but it has been going on ever since, the last event taking place last night when, as this paper went to press, the Sunday school of the Presbyterian church was being entertained by a sleighride to be followed later in the evening by a supper and the distribution of presents in the church.

1911

January

• January 6, 1911: Attorney R. L. Ashbaugh, dean of the Dawson bar and member of the Yukon council for the Bonanza district, died at home on January 3rd of a heart disease.
• January 6, 1911: A leter from David Cochrane says that, from a town of 500 tents when he arrived last July, Iditarod had changed to town of as many substantial buildings, many of them two stories. Any man that could saw a board or drive a nail commanded $15 per day and common laborers were paid $1 per hour or $6 per day and board.
• January 6, 1911: A bizarre story from a newspaper in Iowa was reprinted. It reports a sheet of solid gold being found north of Whitehorse, the information coming from a letter written by a dying man and then tied around the neck of a young goose.

• January 13, 1911: The Princess Adelaide is the name of a new steamer lately received at Vancouver by the C. P. R. company for use in western waters. She will likely be placed on the Skagway run for a few trips each fall to catch those returning from the North. The Adelaide is said to be the finest and fastest steamer now on the coast.
• January 13, 1911: The weather turned cold last Sunday and by Monday morning it registered 55 below zero at this place. By Tuesday it had warmed up to from 25 to 30 below where it hovered until yesterday morning when it dropped to 58 below here and several degrees colder at points down the river.
• January 13, 1911: Albert Dart returned to Carmacks on January 3 from Nansen creek, he having taken out seven tons of machinery and provisions for Messrs. Back, Bee & Co. the owners of Discovery claim. He made the trip from Carmacks to Nansen creek and return, a distance of fifty miles, in four days, this being the first four horse team to ever go into the Nisling country.

• January 20, 1911: An agreement is reached between Canada and the U.S. to create an international railroad commission to control the border railways, including the White Pass & Yukon.
• January 20, 1911: A lengthy front-page article promoted three new books, two by former Whitehorse residents and one by an uncle of Star editor E. J. White. They were "The Frontiersman" by Rev. Hiram A. Cody, "The Trail of Ninety-Eight" by Robert W. Service, and "The New Theology" by Hamilton White.
• January 20, 1911: A ray of sunshine is reflected this way from the Kluane district in the fact that gold in paying quantity and a large area of it has been discovered on Gladstone creek, which empties into Kluane lake about two thirds of the way down the lake and on its right limit. The discovery was made by Messrs. Swanson and Murray.

• January 27, 1911: The section of the country has experienced during the past week, in fact, the past three weeks, the kind of weather oldtimers talk about - the kind that freezes Perry Davis' Pain Killer. Read the entire colourful article here.
• January 27, 1911: One hundred and one thousand dollars, consigned to a bank in Seattle by the Washington-Alaska Bank of Fairbanks, which closed last week, was seized at Cordova on January 11 by a deputy United States marshal. The money will be sent back to Fairbanks and turned over to the receiver of the bank.
• January 27, 1911: Reports from Prince of Wales Island say that the wolves there, having killed off all the deer, are now killing and eating people.

February

• February 3, 1911: Wednesday, February 1st, 1911, will long be remembered as the worst day ever experienced in this part of the country. Tuesday night had been very cold, the temperature at this place being at 55 below. By 7:30 o'clock Wednesday morning the temperature had risen to 35 below but the wind got active and fierce wind connected with the low temperature made it the most disagreeable day ever known here.
• February 3, 1911: T. Dufferin Patullo, one-time Dawson alderman and once member of the gold force, is increasing his sphere of influence in Prince Rupert at a rapid pace. Duff went there as a real estate man. He has become a member of the city council, and has launched into several heavy enterprises, with the promise of becoming a millionaire.
• February 3, 1911: Countess Carbonneau, the former Miss Belinda Mulroney of Dawson, has been charged with horsewhipping a man who had commenced a suit against her as a former official of her Fairbanks bank. Read the entire article here.

• February 10, 1911: Ever since last fall it has been reported that Willam Taylor, for four years past White Pass agent at Dawson, was to succeed Dr. P. F. Scharschmidt, resigned, as superintendent of company's river and lake fleets of steamers with headquarters at this place. The report is at last verified, from the company's head office at Vancouver.
• February 10, 1911: Major Snyder and Charles Macdonald who left here for Dawson in the formers private rig a week ago Wednesday morning, have been having a tough time of it owing to the bad condition of the trail, according to stage drivers who met them. Among other experiences, they walked twelve miles to reach Montague, leaving the driver to follow with the exnausted team. Never before in the history of the trail has it been so bad as during the present winter.
• February 10, 1911: J. E. Peters who arrived with the Livingstone mail Tuesday evening, reports great damage being done to the mining interests of Livingstone by glaciers which practically fill the valley, entirely covering the dumps in many places.

• February 17, 1911: The Canadian Northern Railway has been given power in a bill to construct a railway from Edmonton through the Peace River to the Yukon territory. The construction starts next year. Bonds are on sale at present in London. The railway will open twenty million acres to homesteaders.
• February 17, 1911: The gasoline traction caterpillar ordered by Supt. H. Wheeler of the mail service, arrived from the factory at Stockton, California, last Friday and is now being put together by the expert who accompanied it, I. L. Seavers, a young man who has had much experience in running the machines.
• February 17, 1911: The masquerade ball given Tuesday night, Valentine Day, by the Whitehorse band was the best of the kind ever known here. The weather was auspicious and everything worked to the end that it was a grand success in every detail

• February 24, 1911: Never has a winter been more replete in surprises or the weather more variable than during the present one. All of January and some of February was intensely cold. Then, instead of striking a happy medium, the temperature went up and up until for the past several days, it has reached as high as 40 and 42 above zero with the result that the snow has materially melted and settled down to about one half its former depth.
• February 24, 1911: Frank Asam has housed his traction at this place until the opening of navigation. He had the honor of moving the first load of freight in Yukon by a caterpillar traction, his machine having taken eight tons of cement to the top of the hill two miles north of town.
• February 24, 1911: The Empire drill purchased last year by the Yukon government, has been placed at the disposal of a group working in Livingstone. It was taken with their outfit by mail carrier and freighter J. E. Peters Wednesday.

March

• March 3, 1911: Packets of Yukon gold and registered letters to the amount of $38,000 mysteriously disappeared from the mail on the last trip of the Princess Beatrice from the north ro Vancouver. There is no clue to the robbers.
• March 3, 1911: Frank Asam, manager of the Yukon Transportation Company, Ltd., left Monday morning for Detroit, Mich., where his wife and baby are spending the winter. He will visit Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where the caterpillar traction engine his company shipped to this place for Dawson recently was constructed, to purchase three wagons of 20 tons capacity each to use with the engine for summer freighting.
• March 3, 1911: W. J. Weeks, a telegraph operator at the second cabin about fifty miles north of Hazelton, accidentally shot himself below the heart while on the trail on February 25th. He communicated with Hazelton himself, and said he was very weak and thought it was all off with him, but he would try to reach an Indian camp about a quarter of a mile distant. A doctor reached him just in time.

• March 10, 1911: The police patrol from Fort Macpherson is more than a month overdue at Dawson where considerable apprehension is felt. A relief expedition from Dawson was started ten days ago but even that has not been heard from.
• March 10, 1911: Fire broke out Wednesday afternoon under the roof and above the ceiling of the Presbyterian church, also used as a free reading room, and before it could be extinguished damage to the extent of $500 at least was sustained by the building. The fire department was on the scene within two minutes after the alarm was given.
• March 10, 1911: From Livingstone creek comes news which confirms the wisdom of the action of the Yukon council in providing drills for the free use of mining prospectors in testing their grounds, which tests, by the use of the drills, can be made at less than one-tenth the cost involved by the old fashioned process of sinking on the ground.

• March 17, 1911: Captain Syd C. Barrington, who is manager of the Side Streams Navigation company, will operate two steamers this season, the Lafrance and a new and larger boat which he and a crew of of 23 men will construct at the foot of the lake, the York Barrington, named for his little son. The new boat will have practically new boilers which were in the steamer Vidette when she was purchased last fall but her engines are brand new and of the latest model.
• March 17, 1911: Eli Hume, local contractor and builder, received a telegram on Tuesday from Ottawa informing him that his tender for building the Indian school building near Carcross had been accepted and that the contract had been awarded to him.
• March 17, 1911: Captain W. F. Hoelscher, superintendent of the Merchants-Yukon Transportation company, and Admiral W. J. Dobler of the same company, accompanied by 16 others, mostly ship carpenters, arrived Monday evening. Captain Dobler and the men left Wednesday morning for the foot of the lake where the company's steamer Evelyn has been tied up for the winter and where a large barge will be built.

• March 24, 1911: Harry "Snowslide" Esquigge, who obtained his cognomen from sliding down a mountain side in an avalanche of several thousand tons of snow and lived to relate the experience of the trip, and Alex. Fisher, who has been mining on Sheep Creek for the past several years, reached town Monday. Esquigge has been mining on Fourth of July for several years.
• March 24, 1911: Mr. Robert W. Service, whose latest book "The Trail of Ninety-eight" has met with much favour, is taking a well-earned rest at his mother's ranch some sixty miles out of Edmonton, Alberta. It is his purpose to remain there for several months and, as he says, enjoy the simple life.
• March 24, 1911: Dr. L. Sugden started yesterday for his home on Kluane Lake with a stock provisions sufficient to last him some time in the line of operating his mining property on Bullion. Sugden has almost a mile of Bullion creek and will engage extensively in hydraulic mining the coming season.

• March 31, 1911: Captain Sproule, owner of the steamer White Seal, arrived Tuesday with a party of barge builders, nine head of horses and 90 tons of freight. He will use his horses in freighting to the foot of the lake for which place his ship carpenters left yesterday. The crew of the White Seal will arrive in a few days.
• March 31, 1911: Hank Summers and J. A. McAuslon have suspended their prospecting with an Empire diamond drill in the Livingstone country owing to trouble with the drill. It seems that the steel into which the drill connects is of too brittle nature and when it comes in contact with the flinty boulders which abound there, it breaks and chips off, rendering the operating of the drill impossible.
• March 31, 1911: Nearly forty men, mostly employes of the Guggenheims at Dawson, arrived on Monday's train and have since gone in over the trail by the White Pass stages. The working forces of the Guggenheims are coming early this year as it is the intention of the company to start its dredges earlier than in former years.

April

• April 7, 1911: The White Pass caterpillar traction engine was started to the lake yesterday morning on a trailbreaking mission and incidentally she hauled sixteen tons freight, barge lumber, behind her, plowing her way through snow two feet deep in some places with apparent ease, a plow having been rigged up that crowds to the sides the snow, no matter how hard the latter is crusted.
• April 7, 1911: James Richards received a carload of saw logs on Tuesdays train from Robinson for his mill at this place. The logs are quite large and practically free from knots, something unusual in Yukon timber.
• April 7, 1911: Chief Isaac of Moosehide blew in today to announce that there will be doings in society in Moosehide next month. Last winter Commissioner Henderson gave the chief a great deal of food last Christmas, and he is now going to host a potlatch to give away blankets and food and much more.

• April 14, 1911: D. Detherage, the young man who served six months in jail here for robbery committed last September, has now been charged with an assault on George Withrow at Fort Selkirk, with an axe. He seems to be a moral degenerate for whom there is little or no hope.
• April 14, 1911: The city of Iditarod, Alaska, was destroyed by fire on April 4th. The loss is estimated at one hundred thousand dollars, and would have been larger except for the fact that the fire proceeded slowly, and the merchants were enabled to save most of their stocks.
• April 14, 1911: On Monday's train from Skagway there were between sixty and seventy persons bound for Atlin, many of them mine operators who had spent the winter on the outside. Principal among the returning operators was J. M. Ruffner who was accompanied by his wife and between thirty and forty employes, twenty eight of the latter being Japanese.

  

• April 21, 1911: The bodies of four members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police which composed the winter patrol party which was to come to Dawson from Fort Macpherson, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, have been found. On December 22, Inspector Fitzgerald, in charge of the party, Constables Carter, Taylor and Kinuey with an Indian guide left Fort Macpherson for Dawson, a distance of approximately 550 miles. They had three teams of five dogs each and expected to reach Dawson about the middle of January, having with them provisions sufficient to last from 28 to 25 days, the length of time it was supposed would be consumed in making the journey.
• April 21, 1911: Five members of the Royal N. W. M. P. left Whitehorse Wednesday morning on the way to London, England, where they will represent that military organization for this territory in the coronation exercises of King George. The party was composed of Corporal Scott and Constables Lean and Walters of Dawson, and Constables Haigh and Mansfield of the Whitehorse division.
• April 21, 1911: An American consular report dated March 17 mentions that Carl W. Faulk of Carcross captured a litter of black fox puppies, and decided to raise them for breeding purposes. Offers as high as $1500 have been made for the pelt of one of the black males, and he has sold pelts of silver foxes as high as $1200 each.

• April 28, 1911: Arnold L. Berdoe, general manager of the White Pass & Yukon Route leaves the company after 5 years on the job. On May 12th, vice president Dickeson was appointed the new general manager.
• April 28, 1911: Crews and passengers of all boats leaving Seattle for Alaska must now either show that they have been vaccinated or submit to that ordeal. The steamboat people and Alaskans are up in arms over the rule and steps are being taken to have it waived, otherwise, the tourist travel northward this season will be very light as people will prefer to stay away rather than submit to forced vaccination.
• April 28, 1911: John Owen "Jack" Williams, employed at the B. Y. N. shipyards, died at the General hospital Tuesday morning at 3:30 o'clock after being unconscious from about 2 p. m. of Sunday. The cause was determined to be tuberculosis of the brain. He was about 42 years of age. Read the entire article here.

May

• May 5, 1911: Frederick Sargent, aged 93 years, died at Kodiak, Alaska, on March 15. He is survived by a wife and seven children. Mr. Sargent was undoubtedly the oldest white man in Alaska at the time of his death. We have reproduced this and several other articles from this issue - see them here.
• May 5, 1911: Last Friday there arrived in Whitehorse a man and woman who, except for a distance of 20 miles, from the Summit to Bennett where the mountain zephyrs toy with the snow until it drifts to a depth (or height, rather) of several feet, walked the railroad from Skagway to this place.
• May 5, 1911: The question of Female Suffrage was debated in the Presbyterian church of this place Tuesday night when opinion as to the merits of the discussion was so evenly divided as to result in a tie when a vote was taken, the chairman, Fred Maclennan, gallantly deciding in favour of the advocates of equal suffrage. Strange to say, the majority of the votes for the negative were cast by the ladies.

• May 12, 1911: One of the biggest mining deals in the history of the Yukon has closed whereby Daniel Guggenheim takes over the entire holdings of the National Trust Company of Toronto in the Yukon Territory. These include the richest portion of Gold Creek and a concession on Dominion.
• May 12, 1911: A distressing accident occured on Taku Arm about fifty miles out from Carcross last Saturday evening when a loaded stage drawn by four horses in charge of McDonald and Dixon broke through the ice, the entire outfit, owned by Louis Schultz of Atlin, sinking beneath the icy water.
• May 12, 1911: The ice went out of the river in front of Whitehorse at 8:05 o'clock Sunday morning, May 7th. At Dawson the ice went out a few hours later of the same day, the first time in history when this place was not from a week to twelve days ahead of Dawson in the matter of shipping her ice down river.

• May 19, 1911: The launch Christine, a 15 horse power gasoline craft with five tons of provisions, mostly vegetables and fruit, was wrecked in the Thirtymile river on Thursday the 11th, the two men who owned and manned her, J. J. Hovd and Fred F. Hess, both of Tacoma, Wash., barely escaping with their lives.
• May 19, 1911: The home of Roland Ryder, his daughter Miss Daisy, and son George, was almost entirely destroyed by fire last Sunday evening about 8 o'clock. As none of the family was at home, it being the church hour, the contents of the house were practically destroyed before the fire was seen from the exterior. There was no insurance and the loss will total from $500 to $700.
• May 19, 1911: While hunting ducks on the Klondike river a short distance below the North fork last Saturday, Joseph Shipman, chief mechanic on the big Bear creek dredge, was mistaken for a bear and shot and killed by Gustave Lendall, a prospector. Realizing what he had done, Lendall turned the gun on himself and put a bullet through his own brain, death being instantaneous.

• May 26, 1911: Two Seattle aviators, Fred Weisman and Charles L. Young, are anxious to come to Whitehorse and give a flying exhibition. Read the entire article here.
• May 26, 1911: River Disasters Very Numerous. The Steamer Lafrance, owned by Captain Syd Barrington, burned to the waterline after striking a rock in the Thirtymile, two barges were wrecked below Hootalinqua, and the steamer Pauline had a slight accident.
• May 26, 1911: Prospectors Louis Belney and "Ernie" Johnson lately made a trip into the Aishihik lake country and, in a conversation with the latter, the Star was given to believe that there is a great future to that district as a placer mining field.

June

• June 2, 1911: Due to continued cold weather, the water in the river at Whitehorse is still 6 inches too low to allow for any steamers to leave. The White Horse, Dawson, and Selkirk will be the first to go.
• June 2, 1911: Territorial Secretary David R. Macfarlane has hired foremen for road-building projects: Simon Feindel for the road leading from Carcross to the Big Thing Mine; William McAdam for the Robinson-Watson-Wheaton road; William Donnenwerth and "Web" Webster for the Whitehorse-Yukon Crossing road. They will hire their own men and start work next week.
• June 2, 1911: A cabin about a mile south of Ear Lake was recently robbed of about $30 worth of clothes, bedding and eatables, the property of E. J. Hamacher who had a wood camp there last winter.

• June 9, 1911: Oldtimers assert that the celebration held here last Saturday, the birthday of King George V, was the best in local history. Aside from fitful susts of wind, the day was perfect, neither warm or cold. The town was in holiday dress with flags and streamers flying from all the business houses, many residences and suspended over the streets while all the sidewalks were lined with evergreens.
• June 9, 1911: Dr. S. Hall Young, the pioneer Protestant minister of Alaska, arrived in Whitehorse the latter part of last week on his way to Iditarod for the purpose of organizing a Presbyterian church. He first came to Alaska in 1878 and a year later organized a Presbyterian church at Wrangel, that being the first Protestant church in Alaska.
• June 9, 1911: In Mr. Arthur Wilson, Yukon will have a commissioner who will not require a single day in which to post up as to her conditions and needs. He has been here since 1898 and is fully conversant with the duties of the office. More than that, he has occupied the position temporarily in the past and the work will not be new to him. The powers that be at Ottawa are to be congratulated on their good judgement in naming Mr. Wilson for the position.

• June 16, 1911: Civil engineer H. L. Robbins arrived at Haines on the Dolphin to set up an office for the Alaska Midland Railroad project. A great deal of development and construction work will soon be done.
• June 16, 1911: The usual crop of greyling is being harvested from the river, the vicinity of the Rapids presenting the best fishing. Catches of from forty to fifty fine big fellows are not infrequent.
• June 16, 1911: An experiment in the Star office proves that mosquitos originate in the swamps in this locality and it also shows that oil freely used would do a great deal toward abating the nuisance as Archie Smith observed hundreds of dead mosquitoes in spots on the swamps where oil was placed last year and where it is yet plainly seen.

• June 23, 1911: Seldom has Whitehorse been so shocked as on last Saturday evening when, shortly after 5 o'clock, the news hastily spread over town that Mrs. Roberts, wife of Captain James Roberts of the lake steamer Gleaner, had been found dead in her bed at her home on Second street. Read the entire lengthy article here.
• June 23, 1911: One of the saddest tragedies in the history of Southern Yukon occurred about 5 o'clock Saturday evening, June 17, when William Keely Fitzgerald fell into the raging waters of Miles Canyon and was bourne rapidly away in the rushing torrent. The body has not been recovered.
• June 23, 1911: Byron N. White, owner of the Pueblo mine near this place, accompanied by Mrs. White, arrived from Spokane Thursday evening of last week and has since made almost daily visits to the Pueblo which is located about five miles northeast of town.

• June 30, 1911: There are 20 cases of smallpox at Dawson. Whitehorse has been unsuccessful in getting a quarantine established, and 25 refugees from Dawson were allowed to land on June 28th.
• June 30, 1911: Mr. and Mrs. Byron N. White, who arrived two weeks ago from their home in Spokane, left on Wednesday morning's train for Skagway where they will spend some days pending the outcome of the present smallpox scare, they not deeming it advisable to remain here and take the chances of Yukon being quarantined against by Alaska.
• June 30, 1911: Mr. Fred T. Congdon, member of parliament for Yukon, arrived Friday evening, having stopped off a day at Carcross on his way over from Skagway to visit the Indian school now in process of construction for the Government. He remained here until Sunday, taking the Canadian for Dawson where he will remain a short time before returning to Ottawa to resume his legislative work after the short summer vacation.

July

• July 7, 1911: Arthur Wilson, Acting Governor, will attempt to wipe out smallpox. Vaccination will be mandatory as soon as the vaccine arrives, and the Mounted Police will enforce the order. There are 13 cases in Dawson, and those bound for Skagway must prove at the Summit station that they have been vaccinated.
• July 7, 1911: Road Foreman William McAdam's crew has been forced by high water on the Wheaton river to suspend their work. They will return in a few weeks to construct a bridge across that stream to continue their work.
• July 7, 1911: Webster Brown has been drowned in Taku river about seven miles from the mouth of the stream. The river was high and the water very swift. The canoe upset. Brown clung to the upset boat but before help could arrive he was washed off and went down. The body has not been recovered.

• July 14, 1911: Last Friday, July 7, the body of census enumerator William K. Fitzgerald was recovered from the river in front of town. He fell into Miles Canyon on June 17th, but the coroners jury concluded that although he was mentally unbalanced at the time of his death, it was not clear whether his death was premeditated or accidental.
• July 14, 1911: H. W. Vance has returned from Seattle, where he purchased additional machinery to be used in operating the Conrad mining properties, principally the Big Thing group, on which a tunnel lately driven on the 1400 foot level has revealed a vast body of ore, proving it to beyond all conjecture, the largest body of medium grade ore ever revealed in the North. Colonel Conrad says the force of men will be increased to 150.
• July 14, 1911: Mr. Eggert of Atlin, and old-time jeweller of the city, will soon be ready to launch his cruiser yacht upon the waters of Atlin Lake. Mr. Eggert has spent two years in building the vessel and perhaps he will have gained as much pleasure from the construction of his ship as he will from its operation. The vessel is forty-one feet long, screw propeller, and has a forty horse-power gasoline engine.

• July 21, 1911: A magnificent reception and supper, followed by a dance, was tendered to Frederick T. Congdon, member of Parliament for Yukon, at the N. S. A. A. hall in this place last Friday evening on the occasion of his arrival here from Dawson on his way to Ottawa, to resume his geat in the Dominion house. The banquet was largely attended, many ot the seats being occupied by ladies, a most happy departure from the custom on similar occasions.
• July 21, 1911: A fire in the forest near the tracks about seven miles from Skagway was reported last Saturday. It would have been but a small job to extinguish at that time, but it was left. It is now drawing steadily nearer to Skagway, and the forest supervisor has offered to send an army of fire fighters if necessary.
• July 21, 1911: There have been no new cases of smallpox reported at Dawson for more than three weeks and the situation is now favorable to conjecture that the disease will be entirely wiped out with the full recovery of those now convalescing. Dr. Foster, of the U. S. health department, has raised the quarantine on small boats at Eagle, provided the passengers can show that they have been vaccinated within a year.

• July 28, 1911: It is expected that when Parliament reconvenes on Tuesday, the Minister of Justice will recommend that a resolution be adopted to the effect that two of the three present Yukon judges be at liberty to take indefinite leave of absence, the option of acceptance to be given to the judges in order of seniority. This would save the $5,000 living allowance given to each of the judges.
• July 28, 1911: Pioneer Bob Henderson, the man who first discovered gold on Hunker creek and who was later defrauded of his location by ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, may be about to come into his own after many years. The government has apparently passed special legislation granting to him the privilege of staking a mile of any unstaked property he desired.
• July 28, 1911: Theo. Sweet, who left here two weeks or more ago for Vancouver, was assaulted in his room on the steamer Princess May the first night out from Skagway by an Australian flunky who had concealed himself in Sweet's room. Although Mr. Sweet required 6 stitches to close a wound on his head, the other fellow was put in irons and turned over to police.

August

• August 4, 1911: Major A. E. Snyder, for the past twelve months commander of the Yukon division of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, previous to which time he was located at this place in command of H Division since March 1901, left Wednesday of this week for Vancouver from which place he will report at the police headquarters in Regina, Sask., for further orders. While eligible to retire on majors pension, he has not fully made up his mind to quit the service.
• August 4, 1911: J. D. Craig, director of the Canadian Boundary Survey, wired Commissioner Wilson last night that smallpox had broken out at Rampart house and the telegram requested that members of the Royal N. W. M. P. be sent to establish a quarantine, as there were fully 100 Indians in that vicinity. A doctor with the American survey party has been placed in charge of the situation, but vaccine points were requested from this place, also a trained nurse.
• August 4, 1911: Lumber for the construction of new sidewalk has been delivered around town within the past few days and many improvements will be made in consequence. Among other sections to be put down, a walk will be laid from the one now on Front street down as far as the barns of the B. Y. N. company. Jack French is in charge of the work.

• August 11, 1911: The new steamer Casca under construction at the B.Y.N. shipyards since fall 1910, was launched August 5. The Casca is entirely new from stern to stern with the exception of her boilers which were used for a short time in the old Casca.
• August 11, 1911: Joe Lamb, prospector, hunter and trapper, lost his life on Friday, July 28th, by drowning in the icy water of Lake Kluane near Silver City. His body was recovered and buried on the hill overlooking Silver City. Read the entire article here.
• August 11, 1911: If the White Pass railroad carries out its announced intention of raising the rate on ore from Carcross to Skagway from $1.75 to $2.75 per ton on September 1st, Colonel J. H. Conrad, principal owner of the Big Thing mine which has been shipping ore regularly for the past several months, says that mine will close down all operations at the end of the present month. Read the entire article here.

• August 18, 1911: An excursion train arrived from Skagway Sunday afternoon, carrying twenty-four passengers, all but two of whom returned on the same train as far as Carcross where the majority of them them took the steamer Gleaner for Atlin. Among the visitors on Sunday were several men who are well known in the financial world, among them R. E. Olds of Milwaukee, Wis., manufacturer of the famous Oldsmobile.
• August 18, 1911: General Scott of Rosedale, Mississippi, who has made a vast fortune in the great staple product of the South, cotton, Sah, arrived last Saturday with four men and sixteen horses on an extensive hunting trip along the boundary which separates Alaska from Yukon in the vicinity of the head of the White river.
• August 18, 1911: Rev. W. G. Blackwell returned on the steamer Dawson last Sunday morning. With Archdeacon Canham of Carcross and Rev. Brett of Champagne Landing, he went to Dawson two weeks previous for the purpose of attending a session of the Anglican Synod of Yukon, presided over by the Rt. Rev. Bishop I. O. Stringer.

• August 25, 1911: For the first time in the history of Whitehorse music was furnished in one of her churches, the church of England, last Sunday morning by a fully vested choir of young boys. Rev. Blackwell has organized a good choir and is justifiably proud of the results.
• August 25, 1911: Having taken retirement discharge from the service of the Royal N. W. M. P., Dr. L. A. Pare, after a residence of twelve years in the territory, all but one of which was spent in Whitehorse, left Wednesday morning for Fort McLeod, Alberta, where he will visit relatives for a few weeks, after which he will make an extended visit to Paris and other European points of interest. Read the entire article here.
• August 25, 1911: The Midland Railroad. The party which left Haines, Alaska, a month ago for the purpose of meandering the route of the railroad it is proposed to build from salt water at Haines to Fairbanks by way of the Porcupine, the Kluane, the head of the White river and down the Tanana, completed the trip to the head of the Tanana last week. Read the entire article here.

September

• September 1, 1911: Thomas Vaughan who came from Atlin to enter the hospital three weeks ago, has a very complicated injury in that his shoulder had been out of place for seven weeks before he came and all that time he had been doctoring for a sprained arm. Dr. Clarke has had all the strong men in town pulling on the shoulder to replace the bone in the socket, but it steadfastly refuses to move, and the doctor fears that Vaughan is too old a man to withstand the surgical operation which will be necessary if the arm is ever of use.
• September 1, 1911: In view of the fact that strenuous efforts are now being made by patrons of the White Pass & Yukon Route to secure a reduction in freight shipments over that line, an example is given. A shipment of paper and related products weighing 805 pounds cost $4.40 to ship from Seattle to Skagway. Wharfage at Seattle was 25 cents, at Skagway another 35 cents. Shipment on the train from Skagway to Whitehorse cost $24.10.
• September 1, 1911: Sam, the five year-old son of Canyon Johnny, died here Tuesday and was buried on the Hill opposite town Wednesday afternoon.

• September 8, 1911: The two road gangs which have been at work for ninety days previous to this week on the Whitehorse-Dawson Government road between Carmacks and this place, arrived in town Wednesday, having completed their labors and, incidentally, used up the appropriation voted by the Yukon council for that highway.
• September 8, 1911: The new steamer Casca was given a trial trip last Saturday, and proved to be all that Master Builder A. H. Henderson claimed she would be, the fastest steamer on the river, She came from the head of the lake to Whitehorse in two hours and thirty-three minutes, while the best time made by any of the other steamers over the same run was two hours and forty-five minutes.
• September 8, 1911: James Richards, "Buzzsaw Jimmy," while operating his wood-saw Tuesday, sawed a large slab of flesh off his a arm between the elbow and the shoulder. Dr. Clarke treated the wound and "Buzz" spent one day at the hospital. But as he could live under water as easily as in confinement, he is out and around, but will be unable to work for some time.

• September 15, 1911: The steamer Ramona, owned by the P. C. S. S. Company, was wrecked near Point Decision last Sunday night when she collided with an is!and during a dense fog while southbound from Skagway. No lives were lost, but all the baggage, freight and mail went down. The steamer is said to have sank within fifteen minutes after striking.
• September 15, 1911: On Friday of last week E. J. Hamacher launched the fine gasoline launch on whieh he had been at work for several weeks and which is the prettiest thing of its kind that ever breasted the waters of the Yukon.
• September 15, 1911: The fall rush of freight is now on and from the present until the close of navigation, all the available river steamers of the White Pass company will be in commission. There remains now only four weeks more of the season for operating boats on the upper Yukon and not to exceed three weeks for the lower river.

• September 22, 1911: The Laurier government and reciprocity were overwhelmingly defeated at the elections of yesterday, the Conservative party securing the largest victory known in the history of the Dominion. The returns so far show the Conservatives to have 132 and Liberals 81. Robert Laird Borden will become the new Prime Minister.
• September 22, 1911: When the steamer Canadian, after a two months rest, left for Dawson Tuesday she carried a "bar reducer" suspended from her bow - a machine that appears to be a cross between a clam-digger and a curry-comb for the purpose of dredging and deepening the river in places where the bottom has a tendency to approach to near the surface of Yukon's placid bosom.
• September 22, 1911: Several men are still prospecting in the country east of Marsh Lake and in the vicinity where there was some excitement over an alleged discovery. As yet nothing has been revealed to warrant any staking, but the country is said to look promising and, anyway, gold is where it is found.

• September 29, 1911: Frederick Tennyson Congdon, Liberal, and Dr. Alfred Thompson, Conservative, are nominated for the Yukon Council. Dr. Alfred Thompson won the October 23rd election.
• September 29, 1911: C. L. Andrews, for many years in the United States custom service, located at Eagle, Alaska, and always a hearty booster for the north, was here last Friday night in the interests of an exhibit from Yukon to be placed in Madison Square Gardens in New York during the great New York exhibition beginning November 3rd.
• September 29, 1911: Positive reports from several big game hunting parties were published on the front page.

October

• October 6, 1911: The steamer Kluahne, owned by Taylor & Drury and operated by them in connection with their various trading posts, recently completed a successful voyage up the Pelly river and return and is now at Teslin, for which point she took on a cargo at Hootalinqua a few days ago.
• October 6, 1911: Dr. Charles G. Percival of New York City, a magazine writer of considerable renown, Geo. D. Brown and J. J. Chambers, the latter of Skagway, arrived Monday evening in the former's Abbott-Detroit automobile, the "Bull Dog" - having followed the railroad track from Skagway to Carcross and the government road from Carcross to this place. The trip the over railroad with an auto was the first of the kind ever attempted in this part of the country.
• October 6, 1911: James Powell had a narrow escape from being burned to death recently while employed at the Big Thing mine near Carcross. He was at work in the mine and was overcome by powder gas, falling in such a way that the candle which was lighting him at his work, badly burned both his legs while he was un- conscious and before he was found by fellow workmen. He was in rather bad shape when he arrived here, but is improving under Dr. Clarke's treatment at the hospital.

• October 13, 1911: All the steamers now leaving Dawson for Whitehorse are crowded with passengers to the guards, the usual fall exodus being now on. The steamer Vidette has cut rates - $40 and $25 for first and second class passengers and the White Pass boats have met the eut for second class only, the original fare, $50, still being charged for first-class.
• October 13, 1911: The Dr. Percival auto party, including Mail Superintendent Herb. Wheeler, which left here Wednesday of last week over the winter mail trail for Dawson, returned next day, having been forced to turn back near Braeburn on account of the mud, into which the Detroit-Abbott machine sank beneath its hubs.
• October 13, 1911: Merchant W. A. Puckett, Banker Donald Ross and Archie Smith left yesterday in a small gasoline launch by way of the Tahkini river for Lake Arkell in quest of big game. If they succeed in reaching the lake in their launch, it will be the first craft of its kind to navigate its waters.

• October 20, 1911: A_ splendid meeting was held in Dawson the night of October 16 in the interests of Candidate Congdon. A. B. hall was crowded to its utmost capacity and unbounded enthusiasm prevailed. In the outset Mr. Congdon launched the White Pass rate question and gave its history from 1906 up to the present, showing his connection with the same on behalf of the people.
• October 20, 1911: Seymour Rowlinson and family were here this week on the way from their long-time home at Carmacks to Victoria where they will make their future home. In addition to conducting the roadhouse at Carmacks, Mr. Rowlinson also engaged in merchandising, fur buying and in other ways conducted a general trading post at which, by honest dealing and strict attention to business, he made a neat sum which will enable him to go in business on the outside.
• October 20, 1911: The little steamer Pauline got away this morning for Circle City with three barges, carrying the machinery of the old Lewes River dredge, from Bonanza, and lumber just in from the outside for a new hull for the dredge. The material will be freighted from Circle to Independence Creek as soon as snow flies, and the dredge will be assembled in the spring on ground there owned by Moss and Rudy Kalenborn.

• October 27, 1911: The Yukon Gold company's two new gold dredges, 7½ cubic foot machines built by Bucyrus, have been working for a few days at the former site of Grand Forks and on No. 7 Eldorado.
• October 27, 1911: The steamer Kluahne, owned by Taylor & Drury and operated by them in connection with their various outlying trading posts, finished the season last week and has been pulled out on the ways below town for the winter.
• October 27, 1911: The rate war recently reported from Dawson proved a boon to travelers the past week. The rate on the independent steamer Vidette, owned and operated by Captain Syd Barrington, from Dawson to this place was $20 first and $10 second class, while the Prospector which left about the same time carried travelers at $10 first and $5 second class.

November

• November 3, 1911: Contractor Eli Hume returned from Carcross Monday evening, having completed the Indian school building he has been engaged on since early in the summer.
• November 3, 1911: The fellow-employes and friends of the late John Owen Williams, who died suddenly here five months ago, have shown their respect for his memory by arranging for an imposing monument which will be erected at his grave in the Whitehorse cemetery early next spring. See the monument here.
• November 3, 1911: Dr. Alfred Thompson, member-elect of Parliament for Yukon, left Dawson by fast stage yesterday and should arrive here on Wednesday of next week, being on his way to take his seat in the house of commons.

• November 10, 1911: Dr. Alfred Thompson, member-elect of parliament, arrived here Tuesday night on the way from Dawson to Ottawa. Accompanied by his able lieutenant Mr. George Black, he came in a stage as far as Tahkini, at which point they were met by the W. P. & Y. R. automobile for therun to this place. They arriving here at 11:30 p.m.
• November 10, 1911: The passengers with the mail arriving from Dawson Wednesday tell of a rather narrow escape had by them on the way out, when, between Wounded Moose and Stewart roadhouses, the stage upset on a steep hillside and all eight passengers, together with their baggage end other stuff in the stage, were spilled out and down a precipitous hill, the stage turning entirely over. In the stage was a box filled with gold and weighing 260 pounds. Luckily, it did not strike any one when it spilled out.
• November 10, 1911: Matthew Watson, who lately purchased the mercantile business of Frank McPhee at Carcross, says he proposes to continue his business here, that of tinner and sheet metal worker, as soon as he gets things properly shaped up at Carcross.

• November 17, 1911: News of the death of President Samuel H. Graves of the W. P. & Y. R., which occurred Sunday night in a hotel at Ottawa from heart disease, cast a mantle of gloom over the company's offices at this place and at all points on the company's lines, as the deceased, while not much of a "mixer," was very popular with all in his employ.
• November 17, 1911: Denny O'Connor who has recently returned from Silver on Lake Kluane, brought news of the disappearance of Dick Fullerton, one of the pioneer miners of the Kluane district. The missing man is believed to have been drowned in Kluane lake some time in the latter part of October.
• November 17, 1911: The Yukon river is frozen over at every point between Dawson and this place except at Yukon Crossing, the only stage crossing on it and where it is needed to be frozen more than at any other point. The running ice jammed at this place early Tuesday morning, backing up water, until, in the neighborhood of the steam laundry it was was several feet deep.

• November 24, 1911: Headline: "Would Travel Razor Route. Ole Christenson, Old-time Employe at the B.Y.N. Shipyards, Makes Attempt to End His Life After Drunken Debauch - Cuts Deep Gashes in Both Sides of Neck, Also Nearly Severs Wrists - Taken to Hospital and May Recover."
• November 24, 1911: Jack Stewart, one of the pioneer quartz prospectors of Southern Yukon, but of late years engaged in merchandising at Careross, has sold his store and stock to a Mr. Brown, formerly of Atlin, and will leave in a few days to join his family in Vietoria, to which place they preceded him several months ago. Jack Stewart and his partner, Jack Pooley, were the original locators of the Venus claim.
• November 24, 1911: A new uplift tunnel has been driven at the Big Thing mine. Although in but forty feet, a large body of high grade ore has already been penetrated and the showing is sufficient to warrant the belief that a veritable mountain of ore is being entered.

December

• December 1, 1911: Bishop Stringer is endeavoring to interest the authorities at Ottawa in experimenting with reindeer in Yukon.
• December 1, 1911: The Star is but voicing the wish of the leaders of the party in power in Yukon, as well as every oldtimer in the territory, when it says the next commissioner of Yukon should be a Yukoner and not a stranger from some other part of the Dominion. Yukon has already had too many "carpetbag" commissioners for her own good.
• December 1, 1911: Henry T. Kamayama, the Japanese boy who for a long time was cook at the Government telegraph messhouse and later cook at the bank mess, returned last Friday from a trip to Victoria and other points on the outside. He brought back with him a dainty bride, a new arrival from the land of the Mikado.

• December 8, 1911: The most largely attended mass meeting held at Whitehorse for a year convened at the Club Monday night to register a protest regarding the treatment being accorded to Whitehorse and all Yukon in the way of mail service by the railroad since the train schedule has been reduced from daily to semi-weekly.
• December 8, 1911: The case of the high rates charged by the W. P. & Y. R. came to a sudden ending in Ottawa yesterday, vhen the hearing was postponed until January 22nd. The company was prepared to proceed with the hearing but the Dawson board of trade asked for an adjournment. The railway has introduced a great deal of evidence showing the poor state of the company's finances and bad outlook for the future.
• December 8, 1911: H. E. Porter arrived on the train Monday evening with the carcasses of five mountain sheep of nineteen which he killed about twenty-five miles back from Robinson. One of the sheep brought in is as large as any ever killed in this part of the country. It had a magnificent pair of horns. Porter will ship the other fourteen to town soon.

• December 15, 1911: N. J. Caron, the oldest man in the Dawson postoffice in point of service, has obtained a three month's leave of absence, and will leave within a few days for the outside. He may not return to Dawson. It is understood he has bonded his extensive mining holdings on Dominion creek to A. N. C. Treadgold. The Caron interests on that creek extend a mile or more up and down stream near Paris.
• December 15, 1911: James Hume and J. R. Agluire are now engaged in the wood business, having 240 cords cut and piled about three miles northwest of town. The latter went this week to Carcross and will be home today with a team of horses and sled, purchased by them from Arthur Sibbitt, with which they will begin the work of hauling their wood to town.
• December 15, 1911: There will be one of those $5 excursions from this place to Skagway on Monday, the occasion being the first international bowling game of the season. It is expected that quite a crowd will accompany the bowlers. The party will return Wednesday.

• December 22, 1911: The U.S. Attorney General has filed charges against the White Pass railway for using Canadian section workers to unload a coal ship at Skagway, with 30-40 stevedores at Skagway out of work.
• December 22, 1911: Falcon Joslyn, former Klondiker, who has had charge of the Alaskan exhibit at the great land show in New York, and who displayed there some of the pyrographic work done on moose skin by Miss Dorothy Ogburn of Dawson, writes enthusiastically telling of the great interest shown in the Northland.
• December 22, 1911: Extensive fishing operations are carried on in Yukon during the dead of winter. Many thousands of dollars worth of fish are caught in the rivers and lakes, with whitefish being the most commercially valuable.

• December 29, 1911: Among the passengers arriving on the stage from Dawson Tuesday evening were Joseph W. Boyle who, accompanied by his wife and grown daughter, are on the way to their old home, Woodstock, Ontario, for a visit after a most successful season in Yukon. Mr. Boyle is head man and general manager of the Canadian-Klondike Mining company which operates the largest gold dredge in the world as well as a gigantic power plant.
• December 29, 1911: Two oldtime Yukoners, William A. Anderson and Ludger Roy, both died recently, the former at Victoria and the latter at Prince Rupert. "Bill" Anderson was a Dawson pioneer where for years he engaged in mining while his wife conducted a hotel, the Vancouver house, on Second avenue. Ludger Roy who died from consumption, mined and operated steamers on the river in early days and is said to have made and lost several fortunes.
• December 29, 1911: The recent discovery of placer gold in paying quantities on a tributary to the Sixtymile river has caused the biggest stampede known in the Dawson country for many years. It is said that fifty cent pans have been washed out, and as many as 100 men have gone, some very poorly equipped.

1912

January

• January 5, 1912: "Mrs. Idelle Cochran, wife of Howard Cochran, who, with his partner, Theo. Becker, is operating the Whirlwind mine in the Wheaton district, died on Wednesday, December 27th, four hours after giving birth to a girl baby." Although she was buried in Whitehorse, there is no record of her. See more about Howard & Idelle Cochran and daughters.
• January 5, 1912: Newspapers in Vancouver and Victoria are reporting that the scheme for the annexation of the Yukon Territory, which was taken up by British Columbia Conservatives, will meet with determined opposition on the part of all Yukoners.
• January 5, 1912: The Star office was lately in receipt of a Christmas remembrance from the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. of a unique nature. It is in the form of a ticket good from "Any Old Place" to "Any Old Place" and bearing, among other advertising, the statement that the P. C. S. S. line is free from dust, dirt, grades and tunnels. Attached to the ticket is a small vial of water from the Pacific ocean and labeled "Sample of our Roadbed."

• January 12, 1912: A story has come from Skagway to the effect that the White Pass company is to be called upon to show its title to the old Brackett road and right-of-way, which title may have never legally acquired. The company could be required to restore the road to the condition in which it was when taken control of in 1898, making it passible for vehicles and general traffic as it was then.
• January 12, 1912: Joseph Burke of the Yukon sawmill at Dawson, died recently in California from a stroke of paralysis. "Joe" Burke was among the best known of all Yukon pioneers. He leaves a wife and several children. He was in Whitehorse on his way to the outside in October.
• January 12, 1912: D. A. Grant, newly chosen principal of the Whitehorse public school, accompanied by Mrs. Grant, arrived from Vancouver last Friday and began his duties the following Monday. Mr. Grant is to be congratulated on the fact that he is the first married man ever in charge of the Whitehorse school.

• January 19, 1912: The stampede to the Sixtymile country continues and many prospectors who have secured locations are busy at work sinking holes. The weather reached 60 below lately and the cold was a great help to the miners as it froze to bedrock, doing away with trouble from water. Several boilers have been taken to the diggings and roadhouses have been opened every few miles along the trail. A full-fledged store with a fair stock of supplies is open and doing business at the new burg of Ledge City.
• January 19, 1912: The Royal N. W. M. P. expedition for Fort Macpherson left Dawson this morning. Sergeant Dempster is in charge and will lead the little party up the Twelvemile river, through Seely Pass, down Wind river along the Peel and down the Mackenzie proper to the historic post of Macpherson. This is the route Dempster and party followed last year when they made their famous relief trip, finding the bodies of Captain Fitzgerald and party, who were lost.
• January 19, 1912: Denny O'Connor had a close call when his team of four horses and a sled with a load of three and a half cords of wood went through the ice on the river last Saturday. O'Connor jumped into the water to his neck (it was 47 below zero) and cut the traces, allowing the horses to get out. By the time he got the horses to the stable he was encased in a coating of solid ice, but was none the worse for his experience.

• January 26, 1912: George Armstrong is mourning the loss of one of his domesticated foxes, the black one, which escaped from its environment nearly two weeks ago by gnawing a hole in the wire netting which formed the enclosure. As it was the black fox of the pair, the loss to Mr. Armstrong is quite heavy as the skin would have brought him a very fancy price - anywhere from $400 to $750. Read that article and much more in The History of Fox Farming in the Yukon Territory.
• January 26, 1912: The case of the Dawson Board of Trade against the White Pass Railway company, charging excessive freight rates, came up for hearing before the Railway Commission in Ottawa on January 22, and, after hearing considerable evidence, President Dickeson of the railway being the principal witness examined, adjournment of the case was taken until March 1st, when it will come up for final hearing.
• January 26, 1912: J. E. Peters, pioneer of pioneers of Livingstone creek, arrived in town for supplies last week. He says the usual winter operations are being carried on in the old camp, the most extensive workings being those of Dan Snure and the Ameraux Bros., both properties employing several men with showing results. The usual number of properties will be worked the coming spring, Livingstone being, in the main, a summer proposition.

February

• February 2, 1912: Although the news has not been confirmed, it appears that George Black has been appointed Commissioner of the Yukon, beating out contenders Goodeve of the Kootenays and Jim McKinnon from Atlin.
• February 2, 1912: The big Caterpillar traction engine being used to haul wood across Lake Bennett to the power plant of the Big Thing Mining company at the mouth of McDonald Creek went through the ice near the mouth of the Watson River. The machine, which was owned by Frank Asam, weighed 16 tons and cost $15,000. It is in over 80 feet of water, and it is not believed that the machine can be recovered.
• February 2, 1912: Skagway has become aroused to the fact that, to fortify her claim to be the gateway to the interior, a wagon road from that place to the Summit to connect with a Canadian trunk line extending northward as far as Dawson, is the one thing needful.

• February 9, 1912: A human skeleton wrapped in canvas, found on the shore of Wolf Lake, about 70 miles east of Teslin Post, is thought to be that of J. M. Danielson. Neither he nor his brother have been seen since the Fall of 1910.
• February 9, 1912: E. L. Thoms, keeper of a roadhouse at Indian river, complained to the police several days ago that he had been robbed of about $280. He stated that he left the money in his trousers pocket on going to bed, and, on getting up and dressing the next morning, found the money missing. K. Q. Ayer and T. W. P. Smith, who left here last week for Matson creek to erect quarters for a roadhouse, have been arrested.
• February 9, 1912: Archie and Cam Smith, both renowned for their creative genius, are experimenting on a machine for use on the ice that may revolutionize winter freighting in the North. A motor-engine-propelled air wheel operates the conveyance. A demonstration on the glare ice on the river, last Sunday developed a speed of eight miles per hour. The boys have proven to their own satisfaction that their invention will move heavy loads down hill, provided the hill is sufficiciently steep.

• February 16, 1912: The winter freight and mail division of the W. P .& Y. R. received 44 horses on the train which arrived in Whitehorse on February 14th.
• February 16, 1912: T. D. Macfarlane, government mining inspector, has just returned from a tour of the new creeks in the Sixtymile district. During the several days he was absent one hundred men filed their applications for claims on the various creeks. Mr. Macfarlane reports many still staking on the tributaries of Matson, and says that seventy-five stalwart miners are right in the district, building cabins and preparing to do genuine prospecting.
• February 16, 1912: Jacob T. Snyder arrived from Dawson on a bicycle Wednesday evening, having pedaled in from Nordenskiold, a distance of 74 miles that day. He kept pace all day with the stage which arrived the same evening and did not appear to be particularly fatigued after his strenuous day's work.

• February 23, 1912: Mrs. Kelsey who has just returned from a visit to the outside, has resumed the work of cleaning and repairing and is ready for all orders in that line. She is in her former quarters, the Raymond house. Mrs. Kelsey has taken a lease on the Dominion hotel which she has re-opened as a lodging house and which she will conduct as a home for the homeless.
• February 23, 1912: Sixty persons availed themselves of the opportunity for visiting the neighboring town of Carcross last Friday night, the occasion being an excursion over the White Pass road, and the purpose two-fold - inspecting the Indian school in the new government building, and attending a dance at the Caribou hotel.
• February 23, 1912: English Relatives Seek Man Lost in Yukon. Robert Ferguson Bryson, a remittance man whose home was in Liverpool, England, has by all appearances been swallowed up by the land of snow. Bryson was wealthy and didn't need the money, but the lure was too strong for him. On Christmas day, 1909, he hit the trail with three companions and since then nothing has been heard of him.

March

• March 1, 1912: It is charged in a grand jury indictment at Juneau that the North Pacific Wharves & Trading company, the Pacific & Arctic Railway & Navigation company, the Pacific Coast Coal company, the Pacific Coast Steamship company, the Alaska Steamship company and the Canadian Pacific Railway company formed a combination in restraint of trade and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law to monopolize the transportation facilities at Skagway.
• March 1, 1912: David J. Cochran was burned to death in his cabin at Iditarod City December 24. He was about 58 or 60 years of age and had been in the North for ten or twelve years, locating first at Atlin. The spring of '06 he removed to Conrad where he resided two years, coming from there to this place and leaving here for Iditarod two years ago. He leaves a wife and several grown children in New Brunswick.
• March 1, 1912: Tuesday forenoon Dr. H. C. Davis, assisted by Dr. F. W. Cane, amputated most of the fingers from the right hand of Howard McMillan, the young telegraph operator who narrowly escaped freezing to death on the Whitehorse-Dawson trail early in January while taking a spin with a fast dog team, he being thrown from the sled and rendered unconscious and badly frozen before being picked up by a freighter named Brown.

• March 8, 1912: C. E. S. Burch, inventor and builder of the Burch Auto sleigh, took a party out for a trial spin at Carcross a few days ago when the machine proved to be a great success.
• March 8, 1912: There is enough activity by various miners in the Whitehorse copper belt that The Tyee Copper Company smelter at Ladysmith, BC, is running a display ad noting that they "Pay the Best Price for Copper, Gold and Silver Ores."
• March 8, 1912: The 11-acre Holland ranch, at Sunnydale near Dawson, has been sold by the public administrator to John Whiteside and Mr. Harrod of Sunnydale, for an average of $400 an acre. The price shows that Yukon has land that is highly valuable for farming purposes. Few lands devoted to such purposes bring better values anywhere.

• March 15, 1912: The October decision against the White Pass railroad by the Railroad Commission has been rescinded by Chairman Mabee, who stated that the company would be threatened with bankruptcy if such a Wholesale cut was made and, therefore, no alteraticn in the present rates would be ordered in view of the fact that the company had volunteered to make certain reductions.
• March 15, 1912: K. Q. Ayers of Dawson, who was recently arrested on the charge of stealing $210 from a roadhouse man named Thoms while they were on their way to Sixtymile, was convicted last week and sentenced by Judge Macaulay to three years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
• March 15, 1912: The White Pass has ordered a motor truck to try on the overland mail service. Already the company has an automobile and two caterpillar engines, none of which have given entire satisfaction. The auto has made several good runs over parts of the trail, but has never been taken through to Dawson.

• March 22, 1912: Commissioner George Black is on his first official visit to the Yukon from Ottawa. Accompanied by Mrs. Black and two sons, Donald and Lyman, he arrived Thursday of last week in the private railroad car "200."
• March 22, 1912: W. J. Fleming of Chicago, owner of the Porter group of mineral claims on Carbon Hill, has instructed his agent, A. Wood and foreman, W. S. Whitman, to resume operations at that place, work having been suspended in January after being carried on for nearly a year.
• March 22, 1912: J. E. Peters, the well-known Livingstone creek mining operator, arrived in town by horse Tuesday and is now relaying a freight shipment on the way back. He is taking in about three tons of a spring and summer outfit, mostly provisions. He says everybody is busy in the Livingstone country, but that there is no particular news to report.

• March 29, 1912: Monday was a great day at Carcross and, for that matter, all over Southern Yukon, the cause for rejoicing being that the ore ledge in the Big Thing mine, which has been persistently sought for many months, was struck Sunday night after driving upward of twenty-three hundred feet of tunnels.
• March 29, 1912: The magazine section of the Chicago Sunday Tribune of March 3rd contains a most interesting account of the sudden rise to eminence and affluence of a young man who began at the bottom round of the ladder of fame - President O L. Dickeson, of the White Pass & Yukon railway, the youngest railroad president in the world.
• March 29, 1912: Never in the history of the country did the spring break-up come so suddenly as this season. Up to last Saturday the skating and curling rinks were both in fine condition for use. By Monday they had evoluted from solid ice to reservoirs filled with water.

April

• April 5, 1912: Last Sunday evening at 7 o'clock it was discovered that the whole interior of Ed Marcotte's barber shop on Front street was a mass of flames. The shop and its contents were totally destroyed but the fire was kept from adjoining buildings.
• April 5, 1912: Lowe's teams have moved ninety tons of freight from this point to the foot of Lake Lebarge this week and Wednesday morning White Pass teams left with sixty tons. The condition of the river and lake is so good that one team of two small horses can readily take twelve tons of freight.
• April 5, 1912: Alexander Watson, who had followed shipbuilding in Victoria since 1863, died very suddenly at that place recently. In the early rush to Yukon Mr. Watson superintended the construction of the steamer Yukoner at St. Michael and later came up the river, stopping at Bennett where he built the Zealandian, both of which steamers now lie in the "boneyard" at this place.

• April 12, 1912: E. C. Hawkins, the first general manager of the White Pass & Yukon Route, died in New York on April 9th following an operation. He was 52 years of age.
• April 12, 1912: Major Snyder has quit the Royal N.W.M.P. after 27 years service, the last ten of which were in the Yukon. He is building a residence at East Vancouver Heights.
• April 12, 1912: On April 8 a number of the leading copper properties at Whitehorse heid under option by Robert Lowe, including War Eagle, Leroy, Grafter, Valerie, also the Pueblo and Best Chance, were transferred to the New Atlas Mining Company of Chicago, financed by Close Brothers, W. D. Greenough and London capital. Forty-five miners, with diamond drills and other equipment, will leave Vancouver for Whitehorse on April 17.

  

• April 19, 1912: The greatest disaster in marine history occurred Monday morning at 3 o'clock off the Banks of New Foundland when the White Star liner Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank within three hours, carrying with her to the bottom thirteen hundred and fifty people.
• April 19, 1912: Three candidates, William Drury, Captain P. Martin and Willard Leroy Phelps have been nominated for the Yukon Council election, Whitehorse district.
• April 19, 1912: A sixty-five hundred pound piece of machinery which was taken by teams from this place for the Joe Boyle dredge outfit at Dawson has arrived safely. The trip from Yukon Crossing to Dawson was made on the river ice. Twenty-two days were required to make the trip.

• April 26, 1912: Civilized World Mourns Disaster. Loss of Life on Steamer Titanic Greater Than First Reported - Total Number Drowned 1577 - Of 2340 Aboard When Steamer Left England 1448 Were Passengers and 892 Crew Number of Survivors 763 - When Survivers Landed at New York 70.000 People Gathered at Dock Silently Wept.
• April 26, 1912: The steamer Evelyn under steam churned the waters of Thirtymile river on April 21. The steamers Delta and Evelyn with their barges are afloat and have most of their freight on board ready for their initial voyage down the Yukon river. The crews are now busy painting and fitting up the boats.
• April 26, 1912: The Arctic Brotherhood of Dawson has planned for a monster exposition to be held August 14th and 17th inclusive to terminate with a grand Discovery Day Celebration, the 17th being the 16th anniversary of that day. The celebration of Discovery Day will be under the auspices of the Order of Yukon Pioneers.

May

• May 3, 1912: It was but four days after work was resumed at the Pueblo mine by the Atlas Mining Company that the first train load of ore was sent over the railroad to Skagway enroute to the Tacoma Smelting company at Tacoma, Wash. General Manager Greenough says he will make an effort to bring his daily shipments up to one thousand tons at an early date.
• May 3, 1912: While the ice will go out of the river as early or probably a few days earlier than usual this year, there will be very little water unless the weather turns much warmer than at present. Reports from Lower Lebarge are that there is not much water in the Thirtymile and that there must be quite a raise before it will be navigable for other than small boats.
• May 3, 1912: Miss Daisy Mason, daughter of Skookum Jim Mason of Carcross, is in town, having come on a visit to her father after nearly four years residence in Victoria, where she owns a fine home. Miss Daisy will spend the summer at Carcross.

• May 10, 1912: The work of establishing the international boundary line between Alaska and Yukon will be completed this year in time to permit of the survey parties getting out by the latter part of September.
• May 10, 1912: In the election for 2 members to represent Whitehorse district on the board of the Yukon council, Captain P. Martin receives 153 votes, W. L. Phelps 112 votes and W. Drury 99 votes.
• May 10, 1912: With the Yukon River open from Lower Lebarge to Dawson, when small boats from Whitehorse reached the frozen lake, "forty to fifty Indians with dog teams were waiting on the edge of the lake ice to transport the passengers and freight across the lake. Several amusing stories are told of how contracts were made and broken by the Indians."

• May 17, 1912: "Yukon's Greatest Need Is An Overland Trail", starting with a "Passable Automobile Road from Whitehorse to Carmacks"
• May 17, 1912: An epidemic of measles at Dawson is a great threat to Indians in particular, as they are particularly susceptible to the disease.
• May 17, 1912: The U.S. House Merchant Marine Committee has indicated favorable recommendation of a bill intended to stop foreign vessels from carrying on coastwise trade between Seattle and Alaska. The bill provides that no passengers shall be carried by water to or from any port in the United States or Alaska, either directly or by a foreign port, except in a vessel of the United States. Foreign vessels now take passengers to Vancouver, where they can stop, take another foreign vessel and proceed to Alaska.

• May 24, 1912: The citizens of Whitehorse will give a ball at the N. S. A. A. hall Friday night, May 31, which promises to be the greatest society event for many months. A five-piece orchestra has been engaged to come from Skagway to furnish music for the occasion.
• May 24, 1912: Some years ago a garbage wharf and road to same were constructed for use by the residents of Whitehorse, and we had supposed they were being used as they were intended to be. However, among the trees which border the residence lots northwest of the Catholic church now exists such a collection of garbage as was never before seen on the edge of a civilized community.
• May 24, 1912: That there are so many Yukoners now resident in Prince Rupert is proving a surprise to the Yukoners themselves. Seventy-nine registered with J. H. Rogers to be present at a banquet to be given to Dr. Alfred Thompson, member of parliament for Yukon.

• May 31, 1912: The recent attempt to saddle on Chief Jim Boss, hyas poobah of the Lebarge Indians, scion of a long line of noble warriors, prophet, seer and wise man, the stigma of horse stealing failed to materialize. Subsequently, however, the chief was convicted of having had liquor in his possession and passing it on to others. For this the scion of native nobility was fined $50 and costs. In having liquor in his possession the chief but demonstrated that he is in line with modern progress.
• May 31, 1912: Superintendent Harry Gilchen of the Dominion telegraphis having trouble on account of the destruction being worked to the line by forest fires. Two weeks ago the entire country between Selkirk and Stewart river was on fire and at one point, near Selwyn, Lineman Morrison who was out on the line fighting fire, was forced to take to the river to avoid being burned after being entirely hemmed in by fire. Early this week fire broke out between Lower Lebarge and Hootalinqua and did considerable damage to the line.
• May 31, 1912: Mrs. E. Porter, proprietor of the White Pass Cafe, has taken over the management of the Pueblo Chop House and is operating both places with great success. The Pueblo was lately enlarged and nicely fitted up and is a very neat and attractive eating house.

June

• June 7, 1912: Scores of Alaskans have been duped in Florida land purchases that turned out to be worthless land in the Everglades.
• June 7, 1912: Harry Esquigge, Oscar Burbank and G. W. McIntosh arrived Wednesday from Fourth of July creek, where, up to a few days ago, they all owned placer mining claims, but all of them have sold their holdings to the Samson Hydraulic company and have received the money. The Samson outfit now owns practically all the best property on the creek.
• June 7, 1912: Ed Benson returned to town the latter part of last week from a three months trip into the country adjacent to the head of White river, where he has numerous quartz holdings. Just before starting for Whitehorse Mr. Benson narrowly escaped drowning in the White river while crossing it on decayed ice which gave way beneath him. As he returned to town nearly fifty pounds lighter than when he left, it was probably well that he did not strike the weak ice before losing so much flesh.

• June 14, 1912: Reports are being received of the violent eruption of the Katmai volcano, leading to fears for the inhabitants to the westward. The steamship Dora arrived at Seward, and her decks were covered with one and one-half feet of volcanic ash. Ash is falling in parts of the Yukon.
• June 14, 1912: Work is being carried on at the Best Chance, Grafter, Valerie, and Pueblo copper mines, and every train to Skagway is carrying all the ore it can handle.
• June 14, 1912: Reports have been received of possible drownings at both Lake Lebarge and Five Finger rapids, but neither has been confirmed.

• June 21, 1912: Taylor & Drury, the well-known firm of merchants and general traders, have taken over the Carmacks trading post, including the merchandise and roadhouse business, which concerns have been run since last fall by W. H. Shaw and C. B. Rowlinson and previous to that time by Seymour Rowlinson, who is now engaged in the stationery business in Victoria.
• June 21, 1912: John B. Black, one of the pioneer attorneys of Dawson, arrived here last Thursday evening and left next night for Dawson, where he will likely relocate. Mrs. Black accompanied her husband, this being her initial appearance in Yukon. She is an accomplished musician and will be a great acquisition to Dawson society. Mr. Black is an uncle of Commissioner George Black.
• June 21, 1912: For the past week trainloads of heavy dredge timber has been arriving daily, the first of a 4,000 ton shipment for the Joe Boyle interests near Dawson. The dredge machinery for two monster machines will be along in a few days.

• June 28, 1912: Last Saturday night sixteen of the most "high" minded citizens of the town, led by excellent guides, deserted their cheerful firesides to scale the altitudinous heights of the range of grey mountains which pierce the zenith some eight miles southeast of town. The mountaineers reached the summit about midnight and were back at the ferry about 3:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
• June 28, 1912: The steamer White Horse, which limped into port last Friday, having blown out one of her cylinder heads while near Yukon Crossing on the way up from Dawson, was soon repaired, one of the engines from the Bonanza King being installed in the place of the one bust.
• June 28, 1912: A road gang with Archie McLennan as foreman will leave today to work on the Kluane and Fourth of July creek roads. Other gangs for other roads will be sent out in the near future, it being the intention to get the work completed while the weather is good.

July

• July 5, 1912: John Vaglio, proprietor of the Central hotel, his wife and two daughters, Christini aged 17 and Rosie aged 9, were shot to death at Dawson yesterday morning by the former's brother, Eugene Vaglio, who afterwards cut his own throat and then shot himself. The tragedy was the result of an old quarrel between the brothers which was renewed during a drinking bout Wednesday night.
• July 5, 1912: Mr. and Mrs. H., Richter, said to be a German count and countess, arrived here the latter part of last week, having walked over the railroad from Skagway They carried their own bedding, a pair of blankets and an oilcloth to turn the rain, their own cooking utensils and provisions and were a week on the way, traveling or remaining in camp as the spirit moved them.
• July 5, 1912: Nearly all the population of Kluane arrived in town Sunday and Monday, among the visitors being Louis and Eugene Jacquot, Walter A. Lamb, Joe Beauchamp, Jimmy Morrison the octogenarian miner, Jack Hayden and Ernest Petrel. The latter is a partner with the Jacquots and their property is the best in the entire district. From their claim they brought to town about 125 ounces of gold dust. All the parties were here for supplies.

• July 12, 1912: Since Ed Marcotte has repaired his barbershop building, which was practically ruined by fire the latter part of March, it is in better condition than ever before. The shop is lined and ceiled with beaver board and will be much warmer than formerly. In fact, the only time the old shop was really warm was when it was burned.
• July 12, 1912: Nearly two hundred Yukoners were in Skagway last Saturday, the occasion of her annual Fourth of July celebration. About twenty-five went over on Friday, and had a wait of five hours at Bennett on account of a wreck on the road four miles south of that point.
• July 12, 1912: Jimmy Morrison, the eighty year-old miner, fell on the street in front of Puckett's store last Friday and for a time it was thought the old man was dead. He was carried to the hospital where he soon regained consciousness and is now able to walk around. His eyes are in very bad shape and the result is he is nearly blind.

• July 19, 1912: The pound at the barracks has been placed in commission and stock owners should govern themselves accordingly. Really it is difficult to see what damage a few mild-mannered work horses can do by quietly browsing around town. It would appear that the town is more valuable as a range than for agricultural purposes. Anyway, there are some mighty nice old horses in town that greatly enjoy a few mouthfuls of green grass semi-occasionally.
• July 19, 1912: The Indian boy known as "Five Cent Johnny," although grown to two-bit size, is in a deplorable condition, his appearance indicating that he is dying of tuberculosis. He should be given regular attention and by all means, he should be kept away from other people of both races.
• July 19, 1912: Isaac Lusk, superintendent of territorial roads, arrived from Dawson on the steamer Casca Monday morning and is now engaged in looking over the highways of Southern Yukon with the view of starting several gangs to work on their improvement. The next morning he left for the Wheaton country, for which $4,000 has been appropriated.

• July 26, 1912: On July 21, a barge being pushed by the steamer Dawson hit the bank of the Thirtymile River. Two wagons carrying parts for a Caterpillar to be used in building the Scroggie Creek road were thrown into the river and lost.
• July 26, 1912: Warren Eugene Coman, 13 years of age, drowned while swimming in a small lake just north of town. Read the lengthy article here.
• July 26, 1912: The busiest place in Southern Yukon and the scene of the most extensive quartz operations north of Treadwell is the Pueblo mine where the Atlas Mining Company is now employing from ninety to one hundred men - some mining, some mucking, others constructing ore bins and chutes - all steadily at work, either taking out ore or preparing the way whereby more ore will be taken out in the future.

August

• August 2, 1912: Captain John Irving, one of the principal owners of the Arctic Chief mine, one of the best copper properties in the local belt, is perfecting arrangements whereby work will be started on the mine in the near future. There has been nothing done on the Arctic Chief since late in 1907, but for several months before that period a large crew was employed there and several hundred tons of ore was shipped, being hauled from the mine to the depot in Whitehorse in wagons.
• August 2, 1912: The steamer Kluahne, Taylor & Drury's post tender, came in last week after a successful trip to their post on the Pelly river. She remained in port until yesterday, when she left for the company's Teslin post. Taylor & Drury now have a pack train of three horses carrying supplies from their Carmacks store to Nansen creek, where from twenty to thirty miners are now engaged at work.
• August 2, 1912: Jack Dalton, the well-known Alaska and Yukon pioneer, arrived Saturday evening and left Tuesday with Morley Bones for Kluane, enroute to the country contiguous to the head of White river where he owns numerous promising quartz showings. Mr. Dalton has had considerable work done on his White river claims in past years.

• August 9, 1912: The Ingersoll-Rand Company has had Mr. Joseph B. Mossman of its Seattle branch here for several days installing machinery for the Atlas Mining Company, at four properties. The greater portion of the machinery installed has gone to the Pueblo, from which 300 to 400 tons of ore are now being shipped daily to the Tacoma Smelting Company.
• August 9, 1912: The editor of the Skagway Daily Alaskan suggests tha there is a significance in the large amount of purchases made there by the White Pass railway at the recent sale of town lots. The projects of the White Pass for the future can only be surmised, but it seems very probable that this ground has been secured for the purpose of constructing facilities for the handling of ore and taking care of the constantly increasing trade between that point and the interior.
• August 9, 1912: The launch Pelican, Captain Wheeler and Chief Cash, visited the horse pasture Sunday where between seventy and eighty horses are summering, taking a party of a dozen guests who greatly enjoyed the trip. Messrs. Wheeler and Cash report the horses as doing remarkably well, the absence of flies this summer being greatly in their favor.
• August 9, 1912: Major John D. Moody, accompanied by his wife, arrived Friday on the way from Regina, headquarters of the Royal N. W. M. P., to Dawson, where he will relieve Major Fitz J. Horrigan as chief officer of the force in Yukon. Major Moody was in Yukon in 1898, coming in via the Edmonton route for the purpose of demonstrating the "All Canadian route" which failed to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the average argonaut. On turning over the office to Maj. Moody, Maj. Horrigan will leave for the outside after twelve years residence in Yukon.

• August 16, 1912: After almost twelve years continuous residence in Yukon as officer of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Major Fitz J. Horrigan left yesterday for police headquarters, Regina, Saskatchewan, at which place he was ordered by Commissioner Perry to report on the first day of September. Read the entire article here.
• August 16, 1912: One morning at the depot recently while a search for gold dust was being conducted by the police a concealed weapon in the shape of a thirty-eight calibre revolver was found on the person of Joseph Tiano, an Italian who had only arrived from Dawson on the way outside. The fellow was taken into custody and later brought before Police Magistrate Taylor, where he was given an option of paying a stiff fine or going to jail for thirty days. He 'came across' with the money and went his way, the weapon being confiscated to the crown.
• August 16, 1912: Charles Nassack, better known as John Nassack, was drowned at the Chilcoot cannery yesterday noon. Three natives were in the canoe when it capsized, but Nassack was too old and feeble to make shore with the other occupants.

• August 23, 1912: The Carcross Exploration Company has been formed in Carcross for the purpose of systematically prospecting the Nesutlin river country for a period of several years, for both placer and quartz. The company is composed of local capitalists and working representatives, among them being Nick O'Brien, Fred McGlashen, John Bonanza, Ernie Butterfield and H. Rudolph.
• August 23, 1912: Big Salmon Pete, locally known as "Aft," died in the tent across the river where he and Rat River Joseph had been quartered since brought from Big Salmon to this place more than a month ago. Pete was buried Friday, Rev. W. G. Blackwell conducting the ceremony. Death was due to the infirmities of old age.
• August 23, 1912: There are now three Indian patients at the general hospital, all of them having tuberculosis, One is a man, Captain Joe, from Liard river; Benjamin, a Moosehide boy who has been at at the Chooutla school at Carcross, while the third is the son of the late Dawson Charley, also of Carcross.

• August 30, 1912: A history of the Copper Belt was published. Read the entire article here.
• August 30, 1912: The first of a number of parlor cars for the White Pass railroad has been completed and came over the road on its initial trip Monday, when it was the rear coach on the regular train. The cars are being constructed in the company's shops at Skagway.
• August 30, 1912: E. J. Hamacher launched his new motor boat, the Canadiana, Tuesday evening. The new craft is a beauty. Hamacher now has two of the best motor boats on the river.

September

• September 6, 1912: Jacob Damonasky Puska, discoverer of gold on the Moosehide benches, has been working like a beaver since he planted his stakes, and is reported getting pans running five and ten cents. Although a number of others are reported to have staked, Puska is the only one to appear at the gold office to record. The ground staked is on the left limit of Moosehide.
• September 6, 1912: Nine Indian children, boys and girls, arrived on the White Horse Sunday evening and were forwarded to Carcross Monday to the Chooutla Indian school. They are from the neighborhood of Rampart House on the lower Yukon. Several of the children clearly show the results of their forbears having associated with "po' white trash."
• September 6, 1912: This has been a busy week with the new mercantile concern of Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & Co. On Monday they opened for business in the Whitney & Pedlar stores and have been busy ever since moving goods from the former Taylor and Drury stores. The latter grocery will be continued during this month, possibly longer, at the old stand.

• September 13, 1912: When the Conservative Association was formed in Whitehorse one year ago last month but five of the faithful responded to the advertised call for a meeting. Monday night of this week when the annual meeting of the association for the election of officers was held in the N. S. A. A. Hall, seventy-four voters signed the roll of membership.
• September 13, 1912: The famous Yukon river steamer Tyrrell is being dismantled at the West Dawson shipyards. The machinery will be used by the White Pass in equipping its new steamer now under construction at Whitehorse for the upper Yukon.
• September 13, 1912: Mr. Miller of the public works department of Northern British Columbia and Yukon, arrived from Dawson Wednesday and left yesterday with Supt. Wheeler to investigate for the Dominion government the feasibility of constructing an automobile road between this place and Carmacks, the sum of $50,000 already being appropriated.

• September 20, 1912: Rarely has a departing oldtimer from Whitehorse been so generously and generally remembered as was Dr. Fred W. Cane, who held the position of postmaster at this place for twelve years and who left for his old home in Newmarket, Ontario, yesterday morning.
• September 20, 1912: Lack of steamers to carry ore from the bunkers at Skagway to the smelters at Tacoma, Wash., has greatly retarded ore shipments during the past two weeks, the bunkers and all the ore cars being full and awaiting the emptying of the former before the work of loading cars at the mine can be resumed.
• September 20, 1912: Jack Clair, a young man fromm Douglas, attempted to reach the interior tom seek his fortune recently. He and a partner walked the 110 miles from Skagway to Whitehorse, where they had been told money would be waiting to fund their further travel. No money was there, and Clair started to walk back. He was badly attacked by rheumatism in his feet and had to be carried on to the ship to get him home.

• September 27, 1912: After nine years of silence the mystery of the disappearance of the steamer Discovery of Everett in the ice fields of Alaska, has today been cleared by the accidental discovery of a man who not only asserts that he was the sole survivor of the vessel, but backs it up with proof.
• September 27, 1912: Grouse are so plentiful in this locality that dozens of them are being killed right on the edge of town and dozens are frequently bagged in a few hours hunting. Rabbits are also more numerous than for many years,
• September 27, 1912: There is box of ferrets at the depot at present which are being shipped from Vancouver to Dawson by the White Pass company for the hopes of ridding their warehouses at the latter place of rats.

October

• October 4, 1912: A number af arrivals in Dawson from the head of White river report a ruthless slaughter of game in that district on the American side. The Copper River & Northwestern railway and some of the coast steamers had issued special illustrated pamphlets telling of the abundance of sheep, caribou, moose, bears, grouse and ptarmigan in the district.
• October 4, 1912: George Ryder, who has been out with the repair gang on the Dominion telegraph line since early in the summer, is back home, the work having been completed. H. O. Lokken of Yukon Crossing was the foreman and the right of way is now freer from obstructions than it has ever been.
• October 4, 1912: The Star has been favored with a sample of the printing done at the Chooutla Indian school by one of the pupils, Jimmie Woods, a full-blood Indian boy from Moosehide. The little fellow displays considerable taste and mechanical skill in his work when it is considered that he practically picked up all he knows of the trade with less than one weeks instruction.

• October 11, 1912: The new steamer which is being constructed by the White Pass company for special use on the Yukon river and larger tributaries was launched Tuesday afternoon. The new steamer will have the same name as a former popular light draught steamer, the Prospector. Read the entire article here.
• October 11, 1912: J. A. Maclean, mining and consulting engineer sent to Yukon by the Dominion Government, passed through Whitehorse after spending three months examining all the quartz showings in the northern part of the territory. He has now gone to the Wheaton country, then will inspect the local copper belt, making a thorough examination of it, and will go to the Carcross district on his way outside.
• October 11, 1912: When the ice goes out of Liard river next spring a large party of prospectors, whose practical knowledge of mineralogy was gained in the foremost gold camps of the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and South America, will start from Edmonton to penetrate the northern wilderness more than 500 miles west of the confluence of the Liard and Haabnni rivers.

• October 18, 1912: With the arrival of the Taylor, Drury & Pedlar Co. steamer three and a half days from Teslin Wednesday evening, the mystery surrounding the loss of the Danielson brothers, J. M. and Nels, nearly two years ago was explained away, the body of the second brother, Nels, having been found by Clem. Lewis of Teslin, late in September.
• October 18, 1912: James M. Miller arrived from Dawson on the steamer Dawson Monday, bringing with him a first class moving picture outfit which he proposes installing and operating in this place, having secured the North Star Athletic hall for the winter. His company is already operating in Dawson, where they are showing to crowded houses.
• October 18, 1912: Albert McKay, a pioneer prospector and hunter, aged 66 years, was shot and killed by Harry McWharter at Gordon's Landing on Stewart river last week. McKay was approaching McWharter's cabin in the dark, returning from a hunting trip. McWharter's dogs set up a howl and he thinking wolves were approaching, they having been around the previous night, fired into the darkness. The second shot struck McKay in the groin and he died two hours later while being taken to Mayo.

• October 25, 1912: In an article that begins by talking about the guillotine and the basket for severed heads, "Of late, the lord high executioner has been abroad in Whitehorse and the basket, while not yet filled, at least has the bottom covered. The latest to be called to the block are Mining Recorder James A. Wallace and Government Assayer Robert Smart. No reasons were assigned for the dismissal of either official, but as neither is of the party in power, the reasons are apparent."
• October 25, 1912: The U.S. Revenue cutter, Gen. J. W. Jacobs, Captain Dewar, arrived last Friday morning from Eagle, Alaska, and will be laid up here for the winter. The Gen. Jacobs brought a barge with her which struck a rock and sank just below this place, but has since been beached.
• October 25, 1912: A complimentary Hallowe'en dance to the people of Whitehorse and the strangers within our gates will be given by the single ladies of the town on the night of Friday, November 1st, that night being selected on account of the fact that many of the single ladies of Whitehorse are "school children."

November

• November 1, 1912: Hartley Williams, the well known promoter and mining man, arrived from New York last Friday night, bringing with him the glad tidings of mining activities to be inaugurated on Big Salmon where he owns three dredge concessions, an aggregate of thirty miles. He stopped at Marion, Ohio, and arranged for the manufacture of a dredge, which will be shipped in time to be installed and operated next season.
• November 1, 1912: The steamers Vidette, Pauline and launch Falcon, all enroute to Dawson with heavy dredge machinery for the Canadian Klondike company, have had strenuous voyages, especially the steamers. The last of the White Pass fleet of river steamers was laid up for the winter on Tuesday of this week.
• November 1, 1912: An arrival from Scroggie creek says that platinum was found with the gold on the ground where LeBoeuf made the bench discovery. It is stated the platinum ran as high as 25 per cent. of the total pannings from the gravel. It is estimated that 300 men will prospect on Scroggie und its tributaries this winter.

• November 8, 1912: Monday of this week the Carcross railroad depot was closed for the winter, the windows nailed up, the doors doubly locked and Agent Barteau and his family moved to Whitehorse for the season. But Atlinites and the residents of Carcross deeply resented the closing and complained to the Railway Commission at Ottawa. The next day an order came that the depot must be reopened at once.
• November 8, 1912: The Vidette is frozen in, presumably for the winter, at Indian river, the river being jammed between that place and Dawson. Dr. Thompson was on board the Vidette and will be compelled to "mush" back to Dawson.
• November 8, 1912: Four members of the Royal N. W. M. P., all constables, arrived here Thursday of last week from Regina. Captain Acland had made a requisition for more men and can use the new arrivals to good advantage.

• November 15, 1912: The Granville Power Co., through Manager Joseph W. Boyle, has filed an application to erect poles and string wires there on through the city of Dawson for the purpose of supplying electric lights and energy. A contract with the Dawson Light & Power Company and City Water Company for water and light has recently expired.
• November 15, 1912: The curlers of the town have completed their organization for the winter and are now getting the rink in shape for the games which will do much toward making an otherwise dull winter pleasant and exciting.
• November 15, 1912: Robert Lowe has lost the last of his four work horses to death from an unknown disease. A peculiarity of the disease is that the animals do not appear to be very sick, but eat as well as usual, practically up to the hour of death. Only horses which are turned out on pasture are contract the disease - of the eighty horses of the mail service, eleven died.

• November 22, 1912: Sorrow will pervade the heart of every old Yukoner who learns of the death of William Ogilvie, which lately occurred at Winnipeg. As explorer and surveyor Mr. Ogilvie was in Yukon many years before the discovery of gold in the Klondike, and it was his knowledge of the country that caused the Government to make him its first commissibner, and it was in the capacity of commissioner that he made a most enviable reputation for honor, uprightness and equality.
• November 22, 1912: Two wagon loads of visitors went to the Pueblo mine last Sunday where the boys have an excellent hockey rink. Two teams were framed up, the players being selected from the miners and town boys indiscriminately. The team captained by F. E. Harbottle was victorious.
• November 22, 1912: Explorer Ed Benson, the Stanley of Southern Yukon, arrived in town last week from somewhere beyond Kluane country, where he spent much of the last seven months. Part of his work was correcting maps for a transportation company which meant he could not divulge much information.

• November 29, 1912: Next Wednesday will witness a big exodus from Whitehorse, the last general "outgoing" of the season. While there are some who will not return, the majority of those going out will be back in the gay and gladsome spring.
• November 29, 1912: A new industry, the outcome of which will be watched with no small degree of interest, is being exploited by Jacquot Brothers & Petrel on the Duke river flats, which is about six miles this side of Burwash creek, where the same firm is carrying on extensive placer mining operations. The industry referred to is that of horse raising, the firm having now on their range twenty-five brood mares lately received from the outside and of good stock.
• November 29, 1912: The rotary snowplow was out on the railroad Wednesday of this week for the first time this year, a fourteen inch snow which drifted badly in the neighborhood of the Summit having fallen the previous night.

December

• December 6, 1912: The Carcross depot of the White Pass railroad was closed again on Monday of this week, this time with the sanction of the Railroad Commission at Ottawa.
• December 6, 1912: The Whitehorse General Hospital has posted tenders for groceries, water, laundry services, and 50 cords of firewood. The Public School has also posted a tender, for 20 cords of 4-foot firewood.
• December 6, 1912: Bob Henderson, discoverer of the Klondike, who spent the summer prospecting on Cassie creek, a tributary of Macmillan, the large branch of the Pelly, brought a bottle of gold to the Dawson News office today and showed what can be found in that district. He has several ounces of rich coarse gold, some pieces as large as pump kin seeds.

• December 13, 1912: Director of Dominion Surveys F. H. Kitto said in Dawson this week that he will be urging the completion of the overland trail between Dawson and Whitehorse, the opening of a blazed trail to connect Dawson with Fort McPherson, and the building of a suitable road to connect the Yukon with the Canadian copper fields at the head of the White river, which he think a very promising field.
• December 13, 1912: K. Watanabe, the popular Japanese barber, has closed his shop for the winter and will be leaving Monday for Japan on a three-month visit to his former home. He will be accompanied by the Japanese boy who for the past several months has been employed at the bank mess.
• December 13, 1912: Cam Smith has had his wood sawmill taken to the Pueblo mine, where from forty to fifty cords of wood are now being reduced every day. As the contract embraces 8,000 cords, several months will be required to complete the contact. Will Larose, Jack Parker and Joe Knapp are supplying the muscle for the work.

• December 20, 1912: Arrangements are completed for an excursion from this place to Skagway on Saturday of next week, December 28th. It is expected that from forty to sixty persons from Whitehorse and the mines, including bowing and basketball teams, will avail themselves of the opportunity for taking a little holiday outing. The fare for the round trip will be $5.
• December 20, 1912: Wm. C. Pedlar, once a partner in the large Yukon mercantile firm of Taylor, Drury & Pedlar Co., passed by Juneau on the last trip of the Princess May enroute to the outside. To friends here he announced that he was leaving the North for good - that he was going where he could recline in the shade of a fig tree and enjoy the perfume of orange blossoms during his remaining days of mortal life.
• December 20, 1912: Charles P. Pugsley, one of the well known sourdoughs of the Yukon, is in Skagway on his way to the outside for the purpose of raising capital for some mining property he holds. Mr. Pugsley is the owner of a ranch and roadhouse at Champagne Landing, about forty miles below Whitehorse, where he raises some fine stock and does considerable gardening.

• December 27, 1912: The attempt being made by Joseph W. Boyle to make the first overland trip from Dawson to Whitehorse with an automobile is of extraordinary interest to Yukon. If he succeeds on the run it will mean the demonstration of the feasibility of motor car operation in Yukon the year round, and will be the means of announcing far and wide that Yukon is permanently annexed to the outside world.
• December 27, 1912: Ata late meeting in Vancouver of the Grand Camp of the Arctic Brotherhood, it was decided tu permit of camps of the order being instituted in Puget Sound and B.C. cities, thus taking away from the order its distinction of being wholly a Northern institution, it having previously existed only in Alaska and Yukon.
• December 27, 1912: A recent issue of the Seattle Times reported: "“With the immense freight trade between Dawson and the outside world as the immediate prize, next summer is to witness a keen fight between the Northern Navigation company with its river fleet of thirty-five steam ships and barges and th® White Pass & Yukon railway, with its heavy road equipment between Skagway and Whitehorse, and more than a score of vessels operating from Lake Lebarge."

1913

January

• January 3, 1913: The trail of a huge sulphur-smelling serpent monster was followed for several miles by a party of trappers and hunters east of Marsh Lake. The trail of a similar beast was followed in that area 3 years before, and Indian legends tell of one at Miles Canyon that destroyed a village and ate many people 300 years ago. Read the entire article here.
• January 3, 1913: The skating rink is in excellent condition, and now that the holidays are past, appreciation of Proprietor Bellmaine's efforts should be shown and all who skate should patronize the rink. It is no easy task to keepa skating rink in condition in this country.
• January 3, 1913: Jennie McKenzie, the native daughter who spent Christmas in the "skookum house" for having cultivated a red plush jag, was dismissed when arraigned in police court Friday, but "Shorty" Gardner, the man who provided her with the "plush," was fined $50 and costs.

• January 10, 1913: $5,250,000 is the output in 1912 of the gold-bearing creeks around Dawson. This is an increase of almost one million dollars compared to 1911.
• January 10, 1913: Robert W. Service, Yukon's noted writer, who left here last summer for the outside, and got away from New York in October for the scene of the Balkan-Turko war, went via Naples.
• January 10, 1913: Dr. L. S. Sugden and S. Tanner arrived from Dawson Wednesday afternoon, fourteen days on the trail, having left the metropolis the day after Christmas. They came by dog team, six strong animals, the best team seen here for many winters. Their sled is of the style used on the lower Yukon by mail carriers, being of basket make, fully a foot high and ten feet long.

• January 17, 1913: Commissioner Black returned to Dawson New Year's eve from an automobile trip to Whitehorse with C. A. Thomas, resident manager of the Yukon Gold company. The journey was made to determine and demonstrate the feasibility of winter travel by motor in Yukon, especially on the overland trail between Whitehorse and Dawson.
• January 17, 1913: Corporal Hill, who left here on the White Pass stage, goes to bring to Dawson Peter Allen, who is being returned to the Yukon Territory from Alaska under extradition proceedings. Allen disappeared last summer with a poke of gold taken from the cleanup on a Glacier creek claim where he was working.
• January 17, 1913: Miss Lilly Taylor, the young colored woman who has been in the hospital since early in the fall with rheumatism, is now at her cabin. Her case is a particularly sad one. She has no relatives in Lhis country.

• January 24, 1913: William Dibble, one of the pioneer residents of Whitehorse, died at the General hospital here Monday morning [January 20] at 6:30 o'clock after being ill less than a week. Read the entire article here.
• January 24, 1913: Although the temperature has dropped below fifty below zero several times during the past week, as yet there has been no blue snow. Ice worms have been known to incubate at 58 below, but it must be from 64 to 70 below before they do well or attain any considerable size. At from70 to 75 they grow rapidly and are as succulent and juicy as stall-fed oysters.
• January 24, 1913: Gus Sandberg, a trapper in the country between Atlin and Teslin, was frozen to death one day last week while endeavoring to reach Silver creek, southeast of Teslin lake, where a discovery of gold was recently made. Sandberg was accompanied by his partner, Joe Redmond, who will probably lose one of his feet as a result of the freezing.

  

• January 31, 1913: "Three Persons Found Cold in Death at Black Hills Stage Post on Whitehorse-Dawson Road." Read two articles about the double murder and suicide here.
• January 31, 1913: The semi-seldom winter train service is certainly a hummer. Wednesday's train left Skagway at 9:30. The Princess May arrived thirty minutes later. We may get her mail this evening and we may not get it before Saturday morning. It all depends on what sort of time the train makes today. Speaking of goats.
• January 31, 1913: A party of eight miners arrived on Monday's train from the outside and all have been put to work by the Atlas Mining Company at the Pueblo. The force will be further increased as rapidly as good men can be obtained.

February

• February 7, 1913: H. G. and T. A. Dickson, Dominion land surveyors, with their party returned Sunday from the Ibex country forty miles west of Whitehorse where they have been working for the Territorial Government since the latter part of December. Notwithstanding the fact that much of the weather during January was 50 degrees and more below zero, not a day of the month was lost.
• February 7, 1913: United States Marshal Henry K. Love arrived in Skagway from Fairbanks on the Jefferson with Petrie Allen, who disappeared last summer with a poke of gold taken from the cleanup on a Glacier creek claim where he was working. He will be taken to Dawson for trial.
• February 7, 1913: The opening of the New Store, Greime & Smith proprietors, took place according to schedule last Saturday when a lively trade was enjoyed much to the encouragement of the enterprising young owners. This despite the non-arrival of twenty cases of goods and a number of fixtures.

• February 14, 1913: The White Pass & Yukon Route has announced they will build two new steamers for use on the lower Yukon river (Dawson - Fairbanks).
• February 14, 1913: The most important real estate transfer that has been made in Whitehorse for some time was completed Monday of this week when the big mercantile firm of Taylor, Drury & Pedlar Co., Ltd,, purchased for $2,500 in cash the vacant lot adjoining their Front street property and formerly owned by Mrs. Pennyfather, wife of Captain Pennyfather of the Royal N. W. M. P., now residing in Saskatchewan.
• February 14, 1913: The federal authorities are taking up the matter of improved mail service for Yukon in real earnest. The upper Yukon has been very badly off in this respect for a number of years.

• February 21, 1913: King's Cafe was crowded from 5 until 9 o'clock last Sunday evening and night, the occasion of its doors first being opened to the public. By 5:30 every seat in the house, fifty-four in number, was occupied. The enterprising proprietor is Mrs. Orloff King.
• February 21, 1913: Bishop I. O. Stringer came to this place from Carcross last Friday and has since visited Champagne, leaving here Saturday morning as the guest of Captain Acland in a police sleigh and returning Tuesday forenoon after a most pleasant trip, the weather being all that could be desired for an outing.
• February 21, 1913: A tale of the slow death by starvation of W. Anderson, a sourdough miner of the Stikine district, and his daughter aged eighteen years, at Hot Springs several weeks ago, was brought to Wrangell on February 6th. They had refused rescue in Novemberafter their large gas boat had become stranded onn the Stikine by rapidly falling water.

• February 28, 1913: Syd Bellmaine has been the busiest man in town for the past week preparing for the masquerade skating carnival and dance which will take place on the skating rink and in thg N. S. A. hall tonight.
• February 28, 1913: Victor Ekengren, a wood dealer and mining man who lived in a cabin one hundred miles below Fort Yukon, died on January 19th as a result of wounds inflicted by a band of drunken Indians, according to Archdeacon Stuck, who had found the body. Stuck says the murderous Indians had taken a load of moose meat to Rampart, where they had purchased whiskey. A drunken orgie followed.
• February 28, 1913: The Guggenheim dredge on Bonanza creek near Dawson was blown up with dynamite Saturday night. The explosion tore a hole in the hull and the dredge sank. The damage will exceed $25,000. It is supposed the act wes committed by some one who had a grudge against the company.

March

• March 7, 1913: Work for the season started at the B. Y. N. shipyards Monday morning, March 8rd, earlier than for many years. While the crew at work is not large at present, it will be greatly increased by the middle of next week and from that time on, perhaps until fall, the yards will be the busiest place in Southern Yukon, with two new steamers being built for the lower Yukon run.
• March 7, 1913: Adam Dickson, lineman for the Dominion Telegraph at Tagish, arrived on Sunday's train and went at once to the hospital where parts of two toes were amputated by Dr. Clarke. Dickson had his toes frozen while out on the line during the severe weather of January and had been doctoring them himself until he realized that they were beyond saving. He will be out in about three weeks.
• March 7, 1913: Peter Schedard and Adolph Lund are two Norsemen who arrived here last Saturday evening on skis after eighteen hours actual traveling from Skagway- -By-the-Sea.They left Skagway at noon Friday and reached Dan McDonald's wayside hostelry at Bennett the same evening, spending the night there. They reached Carcross within two and a half hours the next morning, then got here about dark.

• March 14, 1913: Bill Drury reports that the stampede to Silver Creek, 30 miles back from the east end of Teslin Lake, is not justified - he neither saw nor heard any valid reports of any gold being found.
• March 14, 1913: Foreman Al. Henderson of the B. Y. N. shipyards, accompanied by thirty mechanics, arrived on the train Wednesday night and thirty more men who will reach Skagway on the steamer Jefferson today, will be here tomorrow.
• March 14, 1913: Within the past week seven sleds, laden with eggs and other perishables, principally the former, have left this place for Dawson and the residents of that isolated burg will soon be revelling in the pleasures of fresh hen fruit - at least they will think it is fresh, provided they believe what they are told.

• March 21, 1913: Despite Bill Drury's report last week, the headline today is "Teslin Stampede Is Of Big Proportions".
• March 21, 1913: The United States law pertaining to private drinking cups in railway trains is now in force on the White Pass road and those germ-laden distributors of disease are cached away when the train crosses the line from Canada into the domain of Uncle Sam. There is no law, however, against raising a car window and grabbing a handful of snow to allay the craving of a parched tongue following a night of revelry.
• March 21, 1913: The Order of Arctic Brotherhood is in disarray following a meeting in Vancouver last fall where motions were set in play that greatly angered many Northerners. A meeting held in Douglas last week has shorn the Vancouver camp of its authority.

• March 28, 1913: Wm. A. Puckett, local merchant, received a telegram Tuesday of this week from Smith & Geddes who have been in the Silver creek country for the past several weeks. The message was pertaining to a shipment of supplies, but closed with the statement that, up to that date, there was absolutely nothing in that portion of the country to warrant a stampede to it.
• March 28, 1913: Captain J. O. Williams and crew of three men returned home Sunday from Hellswate where they have been for the past month engaged in making it possible for steamers to pass that place after navigation opens. Four years ago Captain Williams superintended the construction of a long wingdam at the lower end of Hellsgate but ice had torn it out. Now sixty-five feet of new wingdam has been constructed, to keep the water in the desired channel.
• March 28, 1913: For the next two trips the elegant steamer Princess Sophia of the C. P. fleet, will take the place of the Princess May on the Skagway run. The Sophia will be due at Skagway next Wednesday, April 2nd.

April

• April 4, 1913: Paul Meyers, who was aboard the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic on her first and last voyage, when she went to the botiom of the Atlantic ocean just a year ago this month when something like sixteen hundred persons found watery graves, arrived in Whitehorse Monday of this week and has accepted a position at his calling, that of cook, at King's Cafe.
• April 4, 1913: Camp Dawson No. 4 of the Arctic Brotherhood, last evening by unanimous vote decided to stand by the old charter, supporting Grand Arctic Chief Barry Landahl and the officers of the grand camp in North Vancouver, and to refuse to join the insurgent Arctic brotherhood, organized at Juneau last week.
• April 4, 1913: Evidences have been found that Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt, of Dawson, perished somewhere on Russell glacier, at the head of White river. The old couple left here three winters ago. The last seen of them was when they left the camp of copper prospectors at the North Fork island, on the head of the White. Read the entire article here.

• April 11, 1913: The Canadian-Klondyke company's mammoth dredge No. 2, the largest gold digging machine in the world, started operations for the year 1918 at 8:30 on the night of March 30, at a point near the mouth of Bear Creek, where it was quartered for the winter. This is the earliest date on record on which a dredge has started running in the Yukon valley.
• April 11, 1913: A new 45-horsepower Knox automobile was reveived here this week by the White Pass company. The new machine is a fine, five-passenger affair and is up-to-date in every detail. A trip to Jim Boss' roadhouse on the lake was made Wednesday evening when the work of the auto was all that is claimed for it.
• April 11, 1913: Ole Eikeland, former section boss on the spur, who left last fall for Seattle to engage in chicken culture, writes us to change the address of his paper from Seattle to Juneau, where he has located. When Ole left here he did not expect to return North. But the spell was on him and five months below was all he could endure.

• April 18, 1913: The steamship Princess Sophia went ashore on Sentinel Island about two o'clock on the morning of April 13th, where she remained fast for two hours, floating again at high tide and making port at Juneau that morning at 8 o'clock. This is the same island upon which the Princess May went ashore about three years ago.
• April 18, 1913: The work on the construction of the two new steamers, Alaska and Yukon, at the shipyards is going ahead very rapidly, one of them being almost enclosed. It is expected to have both ready for launching shortly after the ice goes out of the river.
• April 18, 1913: The Alaska Steamship company which operates the steamers Jefferson and Dolphin on the Puget Sound-Skagway route, is greatly increasing the service by having its large ocean-going steamers, the Northwestern, Alameda and Mariposa which ply on the Western Alaska run, call at Skagway on the way to the westward, and after May 18 these same steamers will call at Skagway both to and from the westward.

• April 25, 1913: Headline: "Development Reveals Immense Ore Bodies. Magnitude of Mineral Deposits in Pueblo Mine Becomes Apparent_as Shaft, Tunnels and Crosscuts are Extended - Vein Forty Feet Wide Known to Extend Over Three Hundred Feet on 200-foot Level - Hundreds of Thousands Tons of Ore."
• April 25, 1913: Sixty-five tons were taken across Lake Lebarge in one train by the company caterpillar the latter part of last week. Practically all the freight for the foot of the lake has been delivered.
• April 25, 1913: Present indications are that the ice will go out of the river in front of Whitehorse within a few days. If you have not registered your guess, do so and be in line for winning one of the prizes, a year's subscription to the Weekly Star (worth $10, although only $5 is charged) and the best pair of gloves in the store of Greime & Smith.

May

• May 2, 1913: Over 200 men are at work at the B.Y.N. shipyards, many of them building 2 new steamers, the Alaska and the Yukon.
• May 2, 1913: Flamboyant former Yukoner Charles Eugene "Count" Carbonneau has again been arrested for fraud, this time in Paris.
• May 2, 1913: G. P. Colwell, of St. Johns, New Brunswick, representing the Fundy Fox Farming Co., after spending several weeks in Skagway and Southern Yukon, has decided to locate here where a fox farm will be arranged for and conducted. Read that article and much more in The History of Fox Farming in the Yukon Territory.

• May 9, 1913: Captain Sid Barrington of the Side Streams Navigation company states that his company has bought the steamer Evelyn, now at the mouth of the Tanana river, and will run her on the Dawson-Whitehorse route this season. He says: 'We will cut the freight and passenger rates 50 per cent. This will apply to all business between Whitehorse and Dawson and all way business. We mean to put the rates down from the beginning and to keep them down.'
• May 9, 1913: Rev. W. G. Ray, who delivered a series of illustrated lectures on South America in the Presbyterian church here last summer, is in disgrace, being the wife pirate and home-wrecker referred to in an article which appeared in the Victoria Colonist of April 24. Rev. Ray is stated to have a wife and two children living in Toronto.
• May 9, 1913: G. P. Colwell, representing the Fundy Fox Farming Company, is making fine progress on his fox ranch across the river from town. He already has five corrals completed and is working on the others. Ditches are dug and wire is laid in the ground a depth of four feet. He is preparing quarters for a large number of foxes and will experiment with marten and mink as well.

• May 16, 1913: One of the toughest experiences of the year on the trail near Dawson was that of a party comprising S. A Sniffen, Hec. McDonald, Frank McNeil, John McLagan and Billy McDonald, which got in lately from Glacier creek, along the summer trail, and traveled sixty-four miles with the bright sun shining on deep, soft and melting snow. Every mother's son of the party was practically snow blind when they staggered into town.
• May 16, 1913: Miss Maxine, a piano player on Shady street, started a week ago to cultivate a red plush jag. She kept adding to it each day until Tuesday of this week when it became so lurid the police interposed, since which time Maxine has been gradually returning to sanity and sobriety at the skookum house at the barracks.
• May 16, 1913: K. Watanabe, the Japanese barber who left here late last fall on a visit to his old home in Japan, returned on Sunday's train and has reopened his shop at the old stand in the White Pass hotel, where he is ready to care for his former customers as well as new ones.

• May 23, 1913: The Dominion hotel and annex were destroyed by fire last Saturday evening a few minutes after 5 o'clock when Mrs. Ruth Kelsey, lessee of the property, almost lost her life. As it was, she is now lying on a bed in the General hospital with both arms, her left shoulder and side badly burned. Mrs. Kelsey was cleaning clothes with gasoline Saturday when some of the oil splashed onto the kitchen stove.
• May 23, 1913: - Thursday afternoon of last week Druggist H. G. Macpherson experienced a buzzing sensation and an hour later was on the way down the river in a small boat enroute to Meander creek, east of the Hootalinqua river, on which gold was discovered and of which mention was made in last week's paper. Mac got the bug and that is all there is to it.
• May 23, 1913: Bob Goode, one of the three Goode brothers who make Carcross their headquarters for hunting and trapping operations, narrowly escaped death from accidental shooting last Sunday. At present he is lying at the hospital in this place with a badly lacerated leg, arm and face. The shot came from a twelve year old Indian boy who was hunting with him.

• May 30, 1913: Whitehorse druggist H.G. Macpherson was among the people who staked claims on Meander Creek, east of the Hootalinqua River, as the result of a gold discovery.
• May 30, 1913: Carl Faulk, pioneer fox farmer in the Yukon, having begun about 5 years ago, has returned from the Canyon area on the Kluane trail with 16 fox puppies for his operation at Carcross.
• May 30, 1913: Mrs. Ruth Kelsey died on May 28 as the result of burns sustained when a bottle of gasoline exploded at her Dominion Hotel on May 17. The hotel was destroyed in the fire. Read several articles here.

June

• June 6, 1913: Main headline: "Annual Celebration Glorious Success. Hundreds of Visitors Join With Whitehorse in Observing Birthday of King George V - Inspiring Music Furnished by Band From Fort William H. Seward - Visitors Win Majority of Sporting Events, Taking Our Money Home - Weather Threatening, But Generally Braved - Excellent Entertainment Both Day and Night."
• June 6, 1913: F. T. Hamshaw, the old-time Atlin mining operator, arrived Thursday of last week from a hurried business trip to Seattle. He freighted about thirty tons of supplies to the head of the White river early in the spring and is now on the way to that place to engage in active mining operations during the summer.
• June 6, 1913: The novelty of the theatrical season is in store for theater goers June 12, when the Juvenile Bostonian Opera Co. appears for one night at the N. S. A. A. hall. This attraction, a musical organization, is unique for the double reason that it is comprised of artists all in their early teens and every single one of their clever number is a girl, Not a man or boy in the company.

• June 13, 1913: Word comes from Dawson that the new steames Norcom which will be operated between that place and Whitehorse this season by the Side-Streams Navigation company, will be one of the most comfortable as well as the swiftest steamers on the upper river. She has accommodations for eighty-five first-class passengers.
• June 13, 1913: The Seattle Times of June 1 contains an elaborate write-up and picture of an elegant new hotel just completed at Atlin by the White Pass Railway company. Surrounding the commodious structure, which cost $30,000, are 120 acres of park, forty acres of which have been converted into golf links.
• June 13, 1913: Cam Smith has ordered a new automobile which he expects to arrive today. It is a 20-horsepower Ford with capacity for five passengers. The Ford is claimed to be the best machine for climbing hills and Cam evidently knew the country when he placed his order. He expects to use it as a general runabout and may establish a regular stage line between town and the Pueblo mine.

• June 20, 1913: Operations at the Pueblo copper mine, which is being run and financed by the W. P. & Y. R., have passed the experimental stage, and seventy-five additional experienced miners are being hired outside.
• June 20, 1913: Thos. Riggs, Jr., head of the U.S. boundary survey, and J. D. Craig, head of the Canadian force of the same, the former accompanied by his bride of less than a month, arrived Wednesday and will get away on the Casca for the scene of summer operations which will be along the line between the lower Yukon river and the head of the White river. Mrs. Riggs will spend the summer with her husband in the semi-Arctic wilds.
• June 20, 1913: Cam Smith made five round trips in his new Ford automobile between town and the Pueblo mine on Wednesday. The average time for covering the fourteen miles is fifty minutes. He has a top for the machine in wet or hot weather.

• June 27, 1913: The steamer Vidette of the Side-Streams Navigation Company is doing a heavy business on the upper Yukon, going out from this place for Dawson every trip loaded to the guards with passengers and freight. She had upward of eighty passengers when she sailed last Friday evening. Fair to Dawson $12.50 and $7.50.
• June 27, 1913: If the people of Skagway are still the true sports they have always shown themselves in the past, a new feature will be introduced at her annual celebration this year and it will be a game of baseball between teams composed of young girls of which Whitehorse will furnish one of the teams.
• June 27, 1913: A lengthy front-page article describes a complex court case in Juneau, involving baby Mildred Drewitt, who was being cared for by Mrs. Orloff King of Whitehorse. The outcome was that Mrs. King was forced to give the baby up, and she was adopted by a childless Juneau couple.

July

• July 4, 1913: It was 11:15 o'clock Monday night when a special train carrying one hundred and fifteen visitors, excursionists sent on a tour of Alaska, Yukon and the Siberian coast by the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, arrived in Whitehorse.Read the entire article here.
• July 4, 1913: A big crowd will leave here for Skagway today for the July 4th celebrations, as excursion tickets are good on the regular train today as well as on the excursion train tomorrow. The excursion tickets are also good for returning on the regular train Monday as well on the special train out from Skagway Saturday night and the excursion train Sunday afternoon.
• July 4, 1913: Dr. L. S. Sugden who, with his partner, Selwood Tanner, is engaged in securing novelties in the way of moving pictures, accompanied by E. A. Dixon, the oldtime canyon and rapids pilot, braved the rushing waters of those torrents on Monday of this week in a small launch while E. J. Hamacher operated the "movie" machine on the banks, first of the camyon and later of the rapids.

• July 11, 1913: Main headline: "Skagway Celebration Was Glorious Success. Two Hundred People from Whitehorse and Southern Yukon Avail Themselves of Excursion Privileges and Assist American Cousins to Jollify - Fine Weather Experienced and Good Sport Enjoyed - Whitehorse Girls Win Admiration and Money by Superior Ball Playing."
• July 11, 1913: Wednesday evening's train brought twenty one carloads of American cattle, passing through in bond for Fairbanks. From Dawson they will go on by the new White Pass steamer Alaska.
• July 11, 1913: Foreman H. O. Lokken of the telegraph repair crew, with his five men arrived here Sunday and were here until Wednesday morning when they continued on down the line. They followed the line from the starting point, Carcross, to this place and will continue northward as far as Selkirk.

• July 18, 1913: J. R. Alguire who is operating a store near the Pueblo mine, is in luck these days. Recently he grub-staked a couple of young men to hunt for young foxes and they were fortunate enough to secure a pure black female cub which Mr. Alguire now has at his place. The young fox is worth upward of $2,000.
• July 18, 1913: Yukon being the home of more real moose than any other section of the American continent, it is but fitting that the order of Moose should exist and flourish here. For the purpose of organizing a lodge of that order Mr. James Meeker is now here and is circulating among the eligibles of the town.
• July 18, 1913: J. R. Alguire received a new 20-horsepower Ford auto last Saturday evening and before it had been unloaded fifteen minutes, he was spinning it up and down front street like an old chaffeur. He took the machine to his home hear the Pueblo that night and Sunday returned in totown for the purpose of treating some of his friends to a ride.

• July 25, 1913: Ernest Burwash, one of the pioneer drivers for the B. Y. N. Mail Service, and generally supposed to be "Cupid proof," is the latest victim of the little god's dart, for Wednesday of last week, July 16, he and Miss Mary Duchane were married at Skagway, Judge Martin Conway throwing the diamond hitch.
• July 25, 1913: George W. Carmack who first discovered gold on Bonanza creek near Dawson on the 17th of August, 1896, accompanied by his wife and the latter's brother, J. G. Saftig, arrived here Saturday morning on the steamer Casca, which steamer they took at Hootalinqua after floating down from Lake Teslin in a small boat. They left for their home in Seattle Tuesday morning.
• July 25, 1913: Last Sunday, being one of the most perfect days of the summer for outings on the river, was taken advantage, of almost to the full motor boat capacity of the town. C. W. Cash had about twenty older persons down to the horse pasture near the head of the lake in the big 60-horse power craft Sibilla, which is probably the swiftest launch in the North.

August

• August 1, 1913: The richest discovery of placer in the North in the last years has been reported recently, on creeks tributary to the Tanana River, called Sushana, Bonanza, Eldorado and Flat, the three latter being tributary to the former.
• August 1, 1913: Frank Wilson went to Carcross yesterday for the purpose of superintending the construction of a draw in the Government bridge which crosses the lake just above the railroad bridge. The draw will lift rather than swing around. Mr. Wilson expects most of the coming two months will be required to complete the work.
• August 1, 1913: W. S. "Fred" Whitman, the well-known mining man, was brought fromSelkirk on the steamer Dawson last Friday morning and, on arriving here, was taken at once to the hospital where he is at present, suffering from both physical and mental ailments, the latter being the result of the former.

• August 8, 1913: There was a good meeting of the business men of Whitehorse and Kluane held at the hall last Saturday night for the purpose of discussing ways and means of diverting travel between outside points and the Shushana country by Whitehorse and either the Kluane or Coffee creek routes.
• August 8, 1913: H. H. Draper, Skagway photographer and a pioneer resident of that town, died Tuesday of this week after a prolonged illness, although it was thought until shortly before his death that he would recover. He had closed out his business and expected to leave with his wife for Idaho in a few days. The immediate cause of death was heart disease.
• August 8, 1913: H. E. Sargent arrived Tuesday evening from Chicago on his way to and beyond the Kluane country in quest of big game. He was met here by Chas. Baxter and "Gene" Jacquot who will have charge of him while on the trip. The same guides expect another party of hunters to arrive here next week. Sargent's outfit will start for Kluane today.

• August 15, 1913: Most of the front page consists of articles about the new Shushana (Chisana) gold fields.
• August 15, 1913: Bishop I. O. Stringer, accompanied by Mrs. Stringer and their five children, one daughter and four sons, arrived from Dawson last Friday and, after remaining here until Tuesday, left for Kincardine, Ontario, where they will visit a short time with friends, the bishop and Mrs. Stringer going from there to England where the former has important church work which will keep him busy most of the winter.
• August 15, 1913: The big store buildings of the T. D. P. Co. have lately been treated to a new coat of white paint which adds greatly to their appearance. New signs have also been painted on the buildings.

• August 22, 1913: K. "Henry" Kojimoto, the pioneer Japanese resident of Whitehorse and proprietor of the Golden Eagle hotel, died last Friday afternoon after a brief illness. Read the entire article here.
• August 22, 1913: J. R. Alguire is erecting a fine new store building at his place near the Pueblo mine, his mercantile business there having expanded until such outlay became necessary, C. A. Gain is now in charge of Mr. Alguire's business at the mine, the latter being busy around his hotel in town.
• August 22, 1913: Captain Acland went to Skagway last week where he met eight new members of the Royal N. W. M. P. who were sent out from headquarters, Regina, for the purpose of augmenting the force in Yukon. Some of the new men will remain here and others will go on to Dawson. In the event of the Shushana turning out as expected, police stations will be established on the various trails leading to the border and a number of additional men will be required.

• August 29, 1913: C. W. S. Barwell, who passed through where Whitehorse now stands in June of 1897 on the way to Dawson, came to town from Carmacks Tuesday with Herb. Wheeler and Al Henderson, he being employed with the road building forces in establishing grades and running lines where changes are necessary.
• August 29, 1913: Thursday of last week Miss Mary Curtis of this place received from Governor Strong of Alaska, a telegram offering her a position as teacher in the school at Council, thirty or forty miles out from Nome, the salary being $1,500 for a term of nine months. Being a true daughter of the North, Miss Mary wired her acceptance of the offer and will leave today for Nome by way of Dawson and St. Michael.
• August 29, 1913: Cam Smith's automobile is resting these days pending repairs after attempting to climb a tree near the Nine-mile roadhouse on Monday. The machine was towed to town by a team of the those ever-reliable horses.

September

• September 5, 1913: The White river route to the Chisana has claimed its first victim, Constable M. J. Fitzgerald, Royal N. W. M. P., having been struck by a sweep and knocked from the barge Melozi which was being shoved up the river by the steamer Vidette. Although only in the water five minutes, and still alive when rescued, Fitzgerald did not regain consciousness and died in a few minutes. He was buried in the Mounted Police Cemetery at Dawson City.
• September 5, 1913: Supt. Wheeler has decided to construct a set of steamer ways at Hootalinqua rather than Carmacks as previously announced, on account of the better bank grade offered at the latter place. The ways will be on an island about a mile below Hootalinqua post.
• September 5, 1913: Captain Acland, commanding officer of the Royal N. W. M. P. at this place, accompanied by Mrs. Acland and Constable Butler, lately stationed at Carcross, left yesterday for Kluane where the old police post will be reopened and Constable Butler left in charge, the travel to Chisana via the Kluane making the reopening of the post necessary. They took a four horse load of provisions with them, sufficient to supply the post for several months.

• September 12, 1913: That reports from the Chisana country are weekly becoming more encouraging is apparent here since a number of local people have returned after visiting the scene of operations.
• September 12, 1913: There will be an excursion given by the White Pass railway today to Skagway, the occasion being the Second Annual Horticultural Fair of the city by the sea. Tickets will be sold for $5, good returning on Monday.
• September 12, 1913: A rousing meeting was held Wednesday night by the new Whitehorse Lodge No. 1380 Loyal Order of Moose, and the ninetieth application for membership was received. The Staff will go out to the mine tonight and hold initiation for the benefit of about 15 applicants working there.

• September 19, 1913: The police are confident that they now have in the local jail the party who robbed the store of Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & Co, at Carmacks of something like three hundred dollars in gold dust early in July. The name of the suspect is Walter Fuerst, originally from Switzerland.
• September 19, 1913: Miss Flora Boyle, the charming daughter of J. W. Boyle, the dredge king of the Yukon, arrived from Dawson Wednesday on the White Horse and left yesterday for Vancouver, where she will join Miss Burkholder, matron of the Good Samaritan hospital at Dawson who went outside a week ago, for a trip around the world, sailing from Vancouver to Japan. Miss Boyle expects to reach London in time to join her father there in January or February.
• September 19, 1913: Messrs. Hull and Miller of the department of public works, have been on the river between here and Dawson for the past ten days or more for the purpose of sizeing up the situation which they will report to their superior officers, the object being to provide for deepening and improving the river channel where needed and to otherwise improve navigation on the river.

• September 26, 1913: Guide Morley Bones arrived in town Monday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bumstead and son of Chicago, a hunting party which he met at McCarthy, the interior terminus of the Cordova and Northwestern railroad, on the first day of August and which he has since had in charge, guiding them to the big game haunts which he knows so well. The hunters had splendid luck, securing seven fine sheep and three caribou; also, a monster bear.
• September 26, 1913: We were informed today by President O. L. Dickeson of the W. P. & Y. Route that he had authorized the expenditure of $22,000 for additidnal horses on the Chisana trail. It is also his intention to. make a good permanent trail with first class road houses from the mouth of the Donjek river to Chisana.
• September 26, 1913: "Kid" Harrison, a young colored man of this place, is now defending himself in police court against the charge of living from the avails of prostitution.

October

• October 3, 1913: "Masked Highwaymen Hold Up, Bind and Gag Two Men in Charge of Guggenheim Hydraulic Plant on Lovett Gulch at Midnight Sunday." Read the article plus the RNWMP report here.
• October 3, 1913: Under such headings as "Mad Rush for Gold," "Death-Strewn Trails" etc., weird stories are being published in the outside press cencerning the new gold strike in the Chisana.
• October 3, 1913: A new town is developing at the mouth of the White River. A telegraph office has been opened and at least 2 warehouses are being built. The steamer Nasutlin leaves here today with the first heavy consignment for that place.

• October 10, 1913: Issue not online.

  

• October 17, 1913: New placer discovery near Wolf Creek - staked to the base of Golden Horn Mountain. Read the entire article here.
• October 17, 1913: Louis Schultz of Atlin arrived Wednesday evening from Vancouver with 36 head of new horses for the White Pass stage lines - Whitehorse and Dawson and Whitehorse and Chisana. Instead of keeping a regular horse buyer as formerly, the company is now awarding contracts for horses, which system is found to be more satisfactory than the old one.
• October 17, 1913: Last Boats of Season Plowing Through Yukon Ice. The White Pass steamer Casca left Dawson Wednesday with a full load of passengers for this place and the two steamers of the Side-streams line, Norcom and Vidette, left the same day, both loaded to their full capacity.

• October 24, 1913: In a letter to the editor of the Star James E. Geary of Livingstone creek writes that conditions there are more promising than for several years. Nothing is doing on the creek between Livingstone and the Hootalinqua river which was stampeded last spring and which the veteran Hank Summers said would be a second Klondike.
• October 24, 1913: The body of James A. Lindberg, aged thirty years, a member of the Eagles at Dillon, Montana, was found below the Canyon on White river a few days ago. Lindberg was enroute to the Chisana in August and was drowned while attempting to ford the river with horses.
• October 24, 1913: Percy Reid, the last of the large staff of mining inspectors employed in the the territory in its earlier history, is soon to leave Yukon for Ottawa where he will accept a position in the immigration department, being transferred from his present position of mining recorder at Carcross to an equally remunerative one at the Dominion capital. Mr. Reid came to Yukon fifteen years ago last March to seek his fortune as did many others.

• October 31, 1913: Consternation prevailed here last Saturday evening and Sunday forenoon when indications were that 11 men had all been lost by the wrecking of the big launch Sibilla on Lake Lebarge. They were all found safe, however. Read the entire article here.
• October 31, 1913: A new order relative to operating the railroad states that there will be but two trains each way a week until spring, Tuesdays and Fridays being chosen as the days to be thus honored. All this means that when a steamer with mail arrives at Skagway after the train leaves Friday morning, the mail will not arrive in Whitehorse until the following Tuesday evening and answers to such mail cannot be dispatched until the following Friday.
• October 31, 1913: Wolf creek, ten miles south of Whitehorse, on which in the neighborhood of one hundred placer claims were recently staked, is prospecting in a manner which is very encouraging to the various stakers. On claim No. 6 below discovery a number of the early stakers already have a hole down to a depth of eighteen feet. From the surface colors were obtained in every pan washed, but as depth is attained, the colors are much more numerous and coarser.

November

• November 7, 1913: John Burke, member of the Yukon Order of Pioneers and veteran of Fortymile, Circle, Dawson and other camps in the Yukon valley, died near Vancouver, B, C., September 28. Mr. Burke left Dawson this summer in poor health. In fact, his health became quite poor months before he went outside.
• November 7, 1913: On October 31st, Senator John Walter Smith of Maryland introduced a resolution in the United States Senate, in which the president is requested to open negotiations with Great Britain and the Dominion of Canada for the exchange of Southeastern Alaska for a cash consideration or a piece of British territory of like area.
• November 7, 1913: During the winter there will only be two regular passenger trains per week each way between Whitehorse and Skagway. If you want to go anywhere you will have to get up early as the mode of conveyance between this place and the sea-port town leaves at 8:15 a.m.

• November 14, 1913: The Jacquot Brothefs and Ed Benson who left last Wednesday for Lake Kluane got as far as the Ninemile roadhouse, but found that they could not proceed with wagons as there was too much snow on the trail; consequently they returned to town and got sleighs rigged up for the trip, and started out on Saturday.
• November 14, 1913: The Dawson police have been unable to obtain any trace of Mike Kovich and Nick Zakovich, who were reported to have started down the White river the last of August. It is now believed they have drowned.
• November 14, 1913: George Searle, who was employed at the Commercial hotel as bartender, quietly took his departure on Saturday, November 1st. He has left a number of unpaid bills behind him. It is pretty hard to get an honest man these days.

• November 21, 1913: Dr. Leonard Sugden and Mr. Selwood Tanner have arrived in town after an absence of nearly four months. Their journey to Kluane and Chisana was plagued by a loss of supples and equipment due to a flood, and very poor weather, but they took many pictures. Read the entire article here.
• November 21, 1913: A miner by the name of Matson was in from Wolf creek for supplies on Wednesday. He and his partner have got down 22 feet on their claim and the indications are good, but they are not yet down to bed-rock.
• November 21, 1913: The steamer Gleaner which plies between Carcross and the portage near Atlin was laid up for the winter at the former place two weeks ago, but on Sunday night of this week a fierce gale was blowing, and dragged the steamer from her moorings, and blew her across to Indian town. She wont likely drift from her present position for quite a while as she is now fast in the grip of the ice king.

• November 28, 1913: The Canadian Klondyke Mining Company started this season's operations with one large dredge and since the beginning of the season the old Bear Creek small dredge which was moved to Hunker creek, and the two additional large dredges erected last year have come into production. The week ending June 21 saw 3,847 ounces of gold produced.
• November 28, 1913: The stage left Whitehorse enroute to Dawson on Friday morning with a large consignment of second class mail. There were 73 sacks in all, and weighed 5,000 pounds. Roderick Thomas was the driver.
• November 28, 1913: A large audience attended the moving picture show which was held in the hall last Friday evening. The films shown were of a high order, and the reel which showed the various current events which have taken place throughout the world gave us some idea of the various doings on the outside. A short dance took place at the conclusion of the show, the music being supplied by the local orchestra.

December

• December 5, 1913: Two full columns on the front page promote the Whitehorse route to the Chisana goldfields, as described by Dr. Sugden.
• December 5, 1913: The Pueblo now boasts two first class skating rinks, one being in the flat below the boarding house and the other on the tennis court near the manager's residence, A curling rink will probably be built in the near future and curling and hockey games between the Whitehorse team and the mine team may be played.
• December 5, 1913: The Royal Northwest Mounted Police post at Herschell Island may this winter have to be abandoned and the detachment of four men and five dogs may be compelled to drop back to Fort McPherson. The Belvidere, which sailed from Nome last July with provisions for the post never reached its destination and her fate is not known.

• December 12, 1913: Last Saturday evening, Dec. 6, about 6 o'clock, Hank Summers, an oldtimer in Alaska and the Yukon and one of the well known prospectors and miners of the north, passed away at the General hospital. His death being due to a severe attack of pneumonia. Read the entire article here.
• December 12, 1913: Major Moodie states that a number of reports of dogs having been stolen have been filed with the police this fall, but that, with police posts and telegraphic communication in all directions now, including new posts along the White River, it is expected to land every dog thief behind bars.
• December 12, 1913: An unfortunate accident occurred at O'Donnell creek in the Atlin district last week. A man by the name of Bill Kennedy struck a stray piece of dynamite with his pick and it exploded, the full charge striking him in the face. It is feared that he will lose the sight of both eyes. He was working fur Ruffner at the time.

• December 19, 1913: Much of the front page consists of news of the new Chisana placer area.
• December 19, 1913: A stage left here on Sunday morning for Dawson with 2300 pounds of mail. Ernie Burwash was the driver. Bill Donnenwerth got away with the stage on Tuesday morning. He carried 990 pounds of mail for Dawson. A stage leaves today for Dawson with 2400 pounds of mail.
• December 19, 1913: Reports received in Ottawa from the mounted police patrol on the Arctic coast give out the information that Stefansson has been deserted by huis associates. The only cause assigned to their action was that they were dissatisfied with the food furnished on board the Karluk, one of the ships of the expedition.

• December 26, 1913: One of the most delightful and pleasant dinners ever held in the Yukon took place in the B. Y. N. Company's mess house last Thursday evening under the auspices of the Whitehorse Curling club. About sixty gentlemen all told sat down to the splendid repast.
• December 26, 1913: An old prospector by the name of George Lough who has been around town for a short period had not been feeling well for some time and on Friday he went to the hospital and thirty minutes from the time he entered he had breathed his last. Read the entire article here.
• December 26, 1913: Jack Tremblay, the sourdough miner, left yesterday for the Sixtymile, where he has several claims in the group where the pay was located several months ago, below the mouth of Glacier.

1914

January

• January 2, 1914: The N. S. A. A. hall was the scene of a brilliant function on New Year's Eve, when practically all the adult population of Whitehorse attended the Grand Ball which was given by the lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose.
• January 2, 1914: Simmie Feindel got back to town who on Sunday Dec. 28th from Horsfelt in the Chisana country. There is only a few inches snow on the trail which makes it ideal for sleighing. He came in all the way from Horsfelt in nine days with a two horse team and cutter. He took in about 20 tons of freight consisting of general merchandise and horse feed.
• January 2, 1914: The several hundred men prospecting in the White river valley this winter are doing a great service to the country. This is the first winter any considerable number have gone there to work. They are diggers, and by spring will have a pretty good idea of the mineral character of the region.

• January 9, 1914: Henry Bratnober, Maj. S. A. Huntington, George C. Wilson and D. C. Sargent form a very interesting party aboard the Alameda enroute to the Chisana gold diggings. They have horses at McCarthy and lots of provisions, including boilers and machinery aboard the Alameda which are to be taken in over the McCarthy trail.
• January 9, 1914: Mr. J. Bowen of Denver, who has recently been appointed superintendent of the mechanical department of the Atlas Mining Company arrived in town on Tuesday evening, having come up from Seattle on board the Alameda. He is accompanied by J. H. Fleener and W. J. Thompson of Juneau, engineers who are to take charge of the air compressors at the Pueblo mine.
• January 9, 1914: The skating rink which is being run this season by Norman Ryder and is situated on the river near to L. B. Davis' laundry will be open un the evenings of Tuesdays and Thursday, and in the afternoon and evening of Saturdays.

• January 16, 1914: The Canadian Klondyke company of Dawson, which shut down its No. 2 dredge December 26, smashed all records with that machine for the length of operating season in Yukon with a dredge. The boat operated 271 days, or 33 days longer than the next best record in Yukon dredging, which was held by the same boat.
• January 16, 1914: Archie Smith has been busy these past weeks making and perfecting a splendid type of an ice-o-plane. It is to be used on Lake Lebarge during the present season, and will make the trip across the Lake every two hours carrying twelve passengers. It has a six horse power marine engine.
• January 16, 1914: On Wednesday evening of this week a party of eighteen young people went for an enjoyable sleigh ride as far as the Fivemile meadow. They were accommodated in a large sleigh drawn by a four horse team. The evening was just ideal for an outing of that kind.

• January 23, 1914: The Ives party which arrived in town last Thursday afternoon by special train with a large outfit for the Chisana, left here yesterday via the Kluane trail for the new camp. Their outfit consisted of five horses, and a large stock of supplies, there was also a boiler in the outfit which will be used in the mining operations of the party.
• January 23, 1914: The ice on Atlin Lake is in very poor shape for teaming as yet. A team and two tons of grub belonging to J. M. Ruffner the mine owner and operator in that locality went through the ice and were Jost. Charles Vansomers lost a load of wood by going through the ice on Lake Bennett a few days ago, he managed to save his team. The ice is about 7 inches in thickness.
• January 23, 1914: One chronic disability in this territory is the lack of telegraphic communication. The old Dominion wire has been down such a heavy percentage of the time the last two months that most of the telegraphic advices are coining over the several lines through American territory.

• January 30, 1914: The steamship Princess Sophia has run ashore again, this time at Alert Bay. Passengers were all transferred to the steamship Alki.
• January 30, 1914: The U.S. Senate has passed the Alaska railroad bill. The new bill contains a number of amendments, among others concerning the lease of the railroad and injured employees
• January 30, 1914: Sir Richard McBride, premier of the province of British Columbia, said in Vancouver on January 22 that he was very much in favor of the province taking over and including as a part of the province, the whole of the Yukon territory.

February

• February 6, 1914: At a White Pass & Yukon shareholders meeting in England, chairman C. Colin Macrae stated that cash reserves needed to be kept high as the rate war with the Northern Navigation Company could get costly.
• February 6, 1914: Placer tin has been found with the placer gold in the gravels of Sullivan creek in the Rampart district, Alaska. The tin is in smoothly rounded pebbles of cessitrite, or oxide of tin, and the area in which tin is found is less than a mile long. In the richest spots as much as half a pound of tin to the pan is reported, giving the ground a value of $18 to $2) per yard.
• February 6, 1914: Thomas "Tommy" Burns, who has been at the W. P. hospital for the past few weeks, died yesterday morning at 3:30 o'clock of heart disease. Mr. Burns came here in 1897, and since that time has been employed at the wharf as longshoreman. On being questioned regarding relatives, he refused to state anything that would lead to learning of their whereabouts.

• February 13, 1914: The rate war which was waged on the river last season by the Sidestreams Navigation company and Northern Navigation company on one side and the British Yukon Navigation and Alaska Yukon Navigation companies on the other, will be resumed this season with the opening of navigation according to Captain Sid Barrington, manager of the Sidestreams company.
• February 13, 1914: A rich strike has been made on O'Donnell creek which is about twenty five miles from Atlin. According to Prof. L.C. Read, some portions of O'Donnell creek are as rich as the best claims ever worked in the Dawson neighborhood.
• February 13, 1914: E.J. White, editor of The Star, spent some time in Victoria with his family in November, and a long list of former Yukoners now living there is printed. Read the entire article here.

• February 20, 1914: The contract for repairs to the C. P. R. steamer Princess Sophia has been awarded to the Victoria Machinery Depot, and the damaged coaster is now hauled out at the Inner Harbor yards. From fifteen to eighteen plates have to be replaced on the starboard side forward, and a similar number of frames have to be straightened.
• February 20, 1914: The Southern Yukon Conservative Association which was first organized in this place something like a year ago, now boasts a membership of eighty one and is adding new names to its roll continuously. It is the largest club of the kind in the history of Whitehorse and Southern Yukon.
• February 20, 1914: Rev. John Hawksley, rector of St. Paul's church at Dawson, is to be appointed Indian superintendent for Yukon Territory effective March 1. He will have full charge of all Indian affairs in the territory.

• February 27, 1914: In a tidal wave of morality, all the redlight districts of Juneau and Douglas have been closed by order of the district attorney and their former residents have sought pastures new.
• February 27, 1914: Mr. and Mrs. Borgland, their son and three horses were buried under an avalanche of snow at the north end of Keystone canyon at Valdez yesterday afternoon. Lieut. Dougherty, of the signal corps, led a relief expedition that started immediately for the scene of the accident. Fifty men equipped with shovels and lanterns and a surgeon accompany him.
• February 27, 1914: A large gray lynx has been seen in town and several meat caches have been molested. Lynx are said by hunters and trappers to be very numerous this winter as they always are when there is a heavy crop of rabbits, as is the current situation.

March

• March 6, 1914: The real estate building on Front Street known as the Captain H.F. Siewerd property, was purchased a few days ago by E. J. Hamacher who will occupy the building as a photograph gallery and art studio.
• March 6, 1914: Frank Williams and Emil Hebert, veteran trappers of the North, arrived in Dawson today from Fort McPherson, accompanied by Joseph Jacquot. Williams and Hebert left Mayo two years ago for the purpose of trapping foxes. Their journey from Fort McPherson to Dawson took seventeen days on a good trail.
• March 6, 1914: Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Johnson, in charge of the Chooutla Indian school at Carcross, entertained with a much enjoyed skating party on Shrove Tuesday, the 24th of February. All Carcross was in attendance.

• March 13, 1914: Dr. Alfred Thompson, member of parliament for Yukon, has succeeded in securing a grant of $50,000 again this year to finish the overland trail and to put cable ferries on the Yukon, the Pelly and the Stewart rivers over the overland trail. When this is done this summer it will make travel from Whitehorse to Dawson via this road possible at all seasons.
• March 13, 1914: The C. P. R. Steamship Lines has announced that the regular Thursday sailings from Skagway will be resumed on June 1st, and the steamers Princess Sophia and Princess May will be augmented by the magnificent new 19-knot steamship, Princess Alice at peak periods.
• March 13, 1914: According to the Manitoba Free Press Major Fitz Horrigan of the Royal N. W. M. P., will shortly resign his commission for the purpose of engaging in private business. Major Horrigan had been in Yukon for ten years previous to leaving in August 1912. For some time past he has been stationed at Maple Creek in the Northwest.

• March 20, 1914: Various are the opinions expressed as to the cause of the epidemic of stomach trouble now prevalent in Whitehorse - the water, milk, meat, canned goods and the south wind all having been mentioned as a probable reason of the complaint.
• March 20, 1914: The St. Patrick entertainment given in the N. S. A. Hall Tuesday night for the benefit of Sacred Heart Church was largely attended and was a success in every detail, as is everything to which Rev. Father Rivet gives his personal supervision.
• March 20, 1914: Mining engineers from the Yukon District Gold Mining Co. will be on the ground early in May for a thorough exumination of the properties in the Windy Arm district. The company owns the Venus, Montana, Vault, M. & M., Uranus and Joe Petty mines. The Venus is in advanced stage of development and lies on the same ledge as the Dail & Fleming properties on which a wonderful showing was uncovered last fall. The Montana is another property that has a splendid showing.

• March 27, 1914: What is believed to be the largest transportation deal ever made in Alaska is now under negotiation in San Francisco whereby the White Pass & Yukon Route company acquires the entire holdings of the Northern Navigation company, for a reported $2,000,000.
• March 27, 1914: The reliable steamer City of Seattle of the Pacific Coast Company, which has furrowed the waters of the Sound-Alaska run for seventeen years without an accident, will return to the Skagway run on April 4th. The Seattle has lately been on the ways and has been practically made into a new ship. She had oil burners installed, her sides built up with steel, a new observation room built forward on the upper deck, making her one of the finest as well as fastest steamers on the Alaska run.
• March 27, 1914: For the past several days the town has been full of Indians, old and young, bucks and squaws, boys and girls, clad and unclad but all apparently care-free and happy. As a whole, these Indians look fairly prosperous, considering that this is the latter end of a very snowy winter.

April

• April 3, 1914: The rich silver ore now being gotten out near Mayo will be hauled thirty miles by team to Stewart river, down the Stewart and up the Yukon by steamer, over the White Pass by rail, down the coast by ship 1000 miles, then inland to Trail by rail. Fortunately the ore is high grade, running $800 to the ton.
• April 3, 1914: The recent sitting of Yukon council has sent a request to Ottawa to investigate the establishment of herds of reindeer inn the Yukon, it having been successful in Alaska. It would be of great benefit to the natives, and would be a profitable undertaking.
• April 3, 1914: Miss Laura Chapman, of Brockville, Ontario, married Rev. John A. Davies of Dawson City, in Brockville a few days ago. Rev. Davies is to succeed Rev. John Hawksley as rector of St. Paul's church, Rev. Hawksley having been appointed superintendent of Indians of the Yukon.

• April 10, 1914: Three articles on the front page of this issue report on the importance of the construction of a road between Skagway and Whitehorse. Read all three here.
• April 10, 1914: Constable Pearkes of the R. N. W. M. P. has been transferred to the Summit. Mr. Pearkes was very popular in Carcross and his many friends were sorry to hear of his transfer. He has been succeeded by Constable Perry. Carcross seems to be a very attractive place for the police, once there they take it as a personal injury if they are transferred.
• April 10, 1914: The store of J. R. Alguire which is located near the Pueblo mine, was forcibly entered Monday night of this week when about $200 in gold and bills were taken. A similar amount in cash and checks to the value of $125 were overlooked. There is said to be a fairly good clue to the identity of the thief.

• April 17, 1914: Dawson has all the laborers and mechanics who can possibly find employment this season. Many "mushers" have lately arrived and the labor market is badly overstocked. No working men should come here who are not able to finance themselves for prospecting.
• April 17, 1914: The town is still full of Indians with their hungry, snarling dogs, the former, on the whole, looking better dressed and better fed than for several springs past. The spirit seance in which departed souls were to appear and speechify, has not yet materialized, having been discouraged by missionary influence.
• April 17, 1914: Staking continues to occupy the attention of the stampeders in the Sixtymile country. Ten to twelve miles are staked above the portion described as a river, and river claims are staked along a good portion of the ground below the creek limit.

• April 24, 1914: Whitehorse, from present indications, gives promise of becoming the center of one of the biggest industries of the present age, that of fox breeding and raising. Already one company has been formed, backed by a number of the most prominent men in the territory, and arrangements are under way for the formation of another which will likely be followed by others in the future. Read that article and much more in The History of Fox Farming in the Yukon Territory.
• April 24, 1914: I. H. Davis who started for Dawson in an auto with six passengers, returned from Little river, having abandoned the attempt to make the trip. Owing to the fact that the auto is fourteen inches wider than the stages now used on the trail, the going was very difficult. Mr. Davis will scow his machine to the head of the lake, run it over the ice and ship it from the foot of the lake on the opening of navigation to Dawson.
• April 24, 1914: We have been requested to warn those who persist in riding bicycles on the sidewalks that trouble awaits them if they do not desist. There is an ordinance against it which provides a heavy fine for its violation.

May

• May 1, 1914: Announcement of the sale by the Northern Navigation Company of all its 30 steamers, 40 barges and terminal facilities on the Yukon river in Alaska and the Yukon territory, to the American Yukon Navigation Company was made yesterday in this city by Leon Sloss, president of the selling corporation.
• May 1, 1914: F. F. W. Lowle, general agent for the C. P. R. at Skagway, says his company is now catering to excursion travel more than ever before and will later have the elegant steamer Princess Charlotte, one of the finest on the Pacific coast, plying between lower points and Skagway.
• May 1, 1914: The immigration officer at the Summit has lately turned back several females who were heading this way over the railroad. Of those who were refused entrance to Yukon, three claimed to be barbers. The immigration officer, however, did not deem it necessary to test them as to their professed trade to convince himself that they were shamming.

• May 8, 1914: That the Spell of the North, once it enthralls a person, holds with the tenacity of a porus plaster is being verified these days by the announcement that several oldtimers who have been outside for a number of years, will return this spring to accept positions with the W. P. & Y. R. or the Alaska-Yukon Navigation Company.
• May 8, 1914: William Larose who, with his wife, has been in charge of the mail station roadhouse at Braeburn since last fall, had a narrow escape from bleeding to death on the trail between that place and Nordenskiold Tuesday evening of this week.
• May 8, 1914: While sawing wood with his gas fuel reducer last Friday "Buzzsaw" James Richards had nearly all the skin torn from the outside of his left leg by a log of wood rolling from the rack. While no bones were broken, it will be several days before he is again in commission.

• May 15, 1914: Shooting Carnival - Dawson and vicinity have had an epidemic of accidents. The worst took the life of Marjorie Irving, aged 6, who was shot accidentally and killed instantly by her sister, Dorothy, aged 8. Their mother had been hunting ducks and had left the gun in a corner of the kitchen.
• May 15, 1914: The last mail to go over the ice left for Atlin sometimelast Friday night. Along with the mail carrier was Mr. Clay, an old-timer, and his two boys. Mr. Clay arrived in Carcross too late for the last stage, but managed to borrow a couple of dogs for the trip.
• May 15, 1914: Beginning several days ago the Atlas Mining Company resumed ore shipments from the Pueblo mine to the Tacoma Smelter, full cargoes now going to the bunkers at Skagway by every train. This is the first shipment of ore since the end of last November.

• May 22, 1914: The first steamers from the foot of Lake Laberge have reached Dawson. The steamer Vidette, Captain Sid C. Barrington, left the lake at an early hour last Saturday morning and made the run to Dawson by 9:45 Sunday evening, having no diffi- culty from either ice, or low water. The White Pass steamer Nasutlin also left the foot of the lake on Saturday.
• May 22, 1914: Ore is now being shipped regularly six days in the week by the Atlas Mining Company from the Pueblo mine to the Tacoma smelter, the daily shipments being in the neighborhood of 240 tons. Some of the ore is from the 200 and some from the 400 foot levels.
• May 22, 1914: Michael F. Hays, Englishman, aged 34 years, was drowned near the left shore of the upper end of Lake Lebarge Thursday May 14, when he and his sled dog team went through the ice. His body and the bodies of the 4 of his 5 dogs that also went into the water, has not been recovered.

• May 29, 1914: Most of the business section of Atlin was destroyed by a fire on May 24.
• May 29, 1914: Herbert Wheeler, superintendent of the steamship department of the White Pass & Yukon Route Company, returned Wednesday evening from the outside where he has been for the past six months. Most of his time was spent in Seattle although he was in San Francisco with President Dickeson for several weeks when the White Pass took over the Northern Navigation Company.
• May 29, 1914: The fifty Russians who are here getting in readiness for a prospecting trip up the White river, are introducing something new in the line of boats and barges. They have constructed three different boats, one large and two small ones.

June

• June 5, 1914: The fifty Russians who had been here for two weeks previous to Monday preparing for a prospecting trip up the White river, got away in their three wonderfully designed and constructed boats Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock when the son of Manager Mischenko who had the misfortune to fire a bullet through his right foot a week previous, was sufficiently recovered to accompany them.
• June 5, 1914: The worst marine disaster since wreck of the Titanic two years ago occurred last Friday morning in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, when the C. P. R. steamer Empress of Ireland was rammed amidships by the Danish collier Storstadt during a dense fog. The Empress sank in fourteen minutes after the collision and according to latest report, nine hundred and sixty nine lives were lost.
• June 5, 1914: Navigation and the fox season are both open, the former scoring one day in advance of the latter. The B.Y.N. steamer Canadian passed through the lake the evening and night of May 31, arriving at Whitehorse at 2:30 a. m. of the 1st June, the earliest, except the year 1902, a steamer has ever crossed Lake Lebarge.

• June 12, 1914: Captain M. B. Raymond is back and brought with him from Vancouver four ship carpenters and material for a steamer which will be 100 feet in length and of twenty feet breadth of beam. Work has been already started on the new craft, which will be called the Chisana.
• June 12, 1914: Two sourdough Dawsonites who require chaperones have passed through town on the way Outside. They are Edward "Gasoline Kid" Fahey, who has a weakness for automobiles, and "Teddy" Carpenter, the master designer and decorator of the Yukon.
• June 12, 1914: Six Ford autos passed through here this week for Dawson at which place Yukon Councillor Dr. A. J. Gillis has the Ford agency.

  

• June 19, 1914: The body of a man was found afloat in the river at this place Thursday of last week, such a thing not being unusual in this country where so many people travel by small boat. This man, however, was the victim of a brutal murder. Read the lengthy story here.
• June 19, 1914: Govt. Road Superintendent Isaac Lusk returned yesterday from a trip to Kluane, making the fine time for the round trip of seven days. He found the road in good condition after leaving Tahkini. Mr. Lusk will probably select the site for the new assay building today.
• June 19, 1914: Louis Jacquot who arrived in town from Burwash creek last Sunday evening, brings news of the success he and his brother Eugene are having in their horse-raising experiments. He says they are learning from experience and expect to meet with increased success with each succeeding year.

• June 26, 1914: Accompanied by Captain P. Martin, J. R. Alguire made the trip from here to Champagne last Saturday in his Ford car, the first ever seen in that part of the country. Owing to the deep cuts in the road in many places, it was necessary to do considerable filling to prevent the body of the car dragging.
• June 26, 1914: It is said that the two prisoners, Caesari and Ganley, arrested at Dawson a week ago in connection with the murder of Dominico Melis at this place early in February, are on the steamer Casca, due today from Dawson.
• June 26, 1914: Selwood Tanner left Saturday for Kluane lake where he and Morley Bones have purchased what remains of the Bullion Hydraulic plant, a lot of machinery taken there several years ago by William Lawrence Breese. It will be used to work property which they own on Bullion and which gives promise of being rich in placer gold.

July

• July 3, 1914: More than 100 persons, besides all the children in town, helped to make the Sunday School picnic to Lake Lebarge on Wednesday one of the most successful ever held, practically all business in town being suspended for the occasion. The steamer Canadian was chartered for the day.
• July 3, 1914: C. A. Arthur, who arrived lately from Vancouver on a tour of the Yukon, has with him a collection of the most beautiful and expensive moving picture films ever brought to the north, and is presenting several shows. On Tuesday night, Miss Marie Shepard will favor the audience with a number of songs, and a dance will follow.
• July 3, 1914: Young foxes are very numerous this season, thirty seven having been brought in on one steamer a week ago. Nineteen arrived on the Nasutlin Monday night and several other bunches of from four to six and eight have also been brought in during the past few days.

• July 10, 1914: A terrible tragedy took place early last Saturday morning, July 4th, when a gasoline launch, the Superb, capsized three miles below Skagway, throwing all her passengers into the icy waters from which only eight escaped, the other twelve all being drowned. Read the entire article here.
• July 10, 1914: Mrs. Nellie Piper Rosenberg, 20 years old, died at her home on July 8th, her trouble being diabetes. Read the entire article here.
• July 10, 1914: Albert, the eldest child of Captain and Mrs. George McMaster, died at Dawson, presumably Tuesday night or Wednesday. Captain McMaster is master of the steamer Selkirk. Albert was between twelve and fourteen years of age and was a fine, manly lad. The home of the family is at Wenatchee, Wash., but they always come north during the season of navigation when the captain is employed on the river.

• July 17, 1914: Engineer L. T. Merry, who was detailed by the Alaska Road Commission to survey the proposed government wagon road from Skagway to the summit of the White Pass, has just returned to Juneau after completing the work and is now preparing the maps and data which are to be submitted to the board. Read the entire article here.
• July 17, 1914: On her last trip down the river to Dawson the steamer White Horse had her house on the port side badly damaged by striking while passing through Five Fingers during remarkably high water. While about thirty feet of the house was smashed, no damage was done the body of the vessel.
• July 17, 1914: Daily shipments from the Pueblo mine to the bunkers at Skagway are now averaging upward of two hundred and fifty tons, having steadily increased during the past three weeks. The price of copper has been less than fourteen cents for the past month and was as low as 13½ cents one day recently.

• July 24, 1914: Jasper Joeffrey who, with George Geddes and Jim Thompson, arrived here from the Teslin country on July 5th, died suddenly last week on his way up the Hootalingua river as he was returning to his home. He was between forty five and fifty years of age and was a fine physical specimen of manhood. He was buried at what is known as Tenmile Point.
• July 24, 1914: Norman Macaulay, who left yesterday afternoon on the launch Chisana, is taking up a lot of wire and other material for a fox farm which he will establish at Snag. He has advices that his men already had captured sixty foxes, some of great value.
• July 24, 1914: The overturned boat of Ronald Morrison has been found near King City, below Chisana. A search was made for Morrison, but no trace of him could be found, and it is generally believed that he met witha mishap on the way out and was drowned. He was one of the successful miners of the Dawson district in the early days when he extracted a fortune from the ground on Sulphur Creek.

• July 31, 1914: The preliminary hearing in the case of Romillio Caesari, charged with the murder of Dominico Melis, began Wednesday morning, Police Magistrate Taylor presiding. Joseph Salvatore and Urbano Chilbani are official interpreters, the prisoner being an Italian and understanding English imperfectly.
• July 31, 1914: George H. McMaster was before Judge Macaulay in the police court today on the charge of failing to provide medical attendance and assistance for his 12-year-old son, Albert, who died here of typhoid several days ago. Ellen Park, a Christian Science healer, attended the boy.
• July 31, 1914: Kenneth McIver left Tuesday for Marsh Lake where he will engage in the fishing business, having taken a number of nets with him. He expects to market his fish at this place. He is securing a motor boat which he will operate on the lake and on the river as far down as old Canyon City.

August

• August 7, 1914: What we now know as World War I officially began on July 28, 1914, and this issue had a great deal of war news on its four pages. We have reproduced all of those articles on this page.
• August 7, 1914: A party of Shriners from Victoria and Vancouver were here the latter part of last week enroute to Dawson where a large class of "novitiates," among them Governor George Black, would ride the mystic goat which was taken in specially groomed for the occasion.
• August 7, 1914: The first northern lights of the season were visible Sunday night shortly after midnight. Although not as gorgeously colored as on some occasions, the aurora borealis was extremely active.

• August 14, 1914: Five hundred ex-members of Mounted Police will be re-engaged for one years service under following conditions: Age not exceeding forty five, pass medical examination, any discharge not involving moral turpitude will be accepted, those holding "Fair" discharge or better to be accepted at once, present police pay and standard as far as possible. Men re-engaging will be given rank held on discharge.
• August 14, 1914: Miss Zella Goodman, the pretty and talented singer who was here accompanied by her mother a few weeks ago and who has since given entertainments at Fairbanks and Dawson, was married at the latter place a few days ago to Tip Oneel, an actor who is operating the Auditorium theater at Dawson. The marriage was somewhat sudden and Mrs. Goodman wrote to cancel a Whitehorse concert as a result.
• August 14, 1914: E. W. Davies of Pipestone, Minnesota, one of the executors of the estate of the late A. G. Preston who at one time owned a large part of the townsite of Whitehorse and who owned a number of lots here at the time of his death, arrived on the train Tuesday evening and has since gone on to Carmacks where the Preston estate has holdings in the Five Fingers Coal Co.

• August 21, 1914: Dr. Alfred Thompson, Yukon MP, leaves Dawson to go to war. He will serve as physician and surgeon in the British army.
• August 21, 1914: A Letter to the Editor by Ed Benson suggests creation of a park in the Kluane district. Read the entire letter here.
• August 21, 1914: Tuesday and Wednesday of this week were field days in the local police court and all on account of belligerancy due, possibly, to the war spirit with which the very air seems to be permeated, but more probably to too frequent libations of that which has made both Scotland and Kentucky famous - stark naked booze.

• August 28, 1914: John H. Hull of the Public Works department of the Dominion Government, was here this week measuring the current and volume of the river at this place with the view, it is said, oF reporting to the government which is contemplating the construction of a dam either at the head of Miles Canyon or at the head of the Thirtymile river (the lower end of Lake Lebarge) for the purpose of aiding navigation in the early and late portions of the season when more water is needed at the head of Lake Lebarge.
• August 28, 1914: The steamship Admiral Sampson of the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company, was run down and sunk by the steamer Princess Victoria of the Canadian Pacific Ry. Company, near Seattle at 6 o'clock this morning, the former going down within five minutes. Eleven lives were lost, including Mrs. Ruby Banbury, wife of the agent of the Admiral Line at Skagway. She was on the way up to join her husband who was sent to Skagway only three weeks ago.
• August 28, 1914: As a precaution against fall sickness, Dr. W. B. Clarke, medical health officer for Whitehorse, advises that water used for drinking purposes be first boiled. At the present season of the year there are more or less impure substances in the river from whence the local water supply is obtained.

September

• September 4, 1914: While the editor of the Star was at Carcross Monday of this week Mrs. J. Williams, dressed in a British flag, and Miss Gladys Simmons in the costume of a Red Cross nurse, were engaged in taking a collection for the army hospital fund. Considering the size of the town, from ten to fifteen dollars would have been a most generous contribution, but they raised $85.
• September 4, 1914: Although the recent unfortunate disaster to the Admiral Sampson of the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company's fleet was a great loss to that corporation, to say nothing of the attendant loss of life, the company has filled the vacancy thereby created by taking from the San Francisco-Seattle route its fine steamer Admiral Watson and placing it on the Seattle-Alaska route.
• September 4, 1914: "Charley" Johnston of the Regina hotel is now sporting a finely bred Airedale dog which was recently shipped to him from Edmonton. Some of his friends say the matter of having a dog shipped so far is but an- other evidence that "Charley" is in his dotage.

• September 11, 1914: Donald Ross, head of the Legion of Frontiersmen at this place, has been notified from Dawson that fifty members of the legion from Yukon will be accepted to go to the front. It is expected that from seven to ten of the Whitehorse contingent will be included in the number.
• September 11, 1914: J. Bradner and Herb. Roper who arrived in Whitehorse from Vancouver last October on the way to Chisana, came back to town Wednesday, not having been nearer Chisana than Burwash creek where they have been since iast fall and where they have been working practically all the time since with rather indifferent results, having brought with them but $600 worth of gold.
• September 11, 1914: Captain E. Telford, Royal N. W. M. P., accompanied by Mrs. Telford, arrived on the steamer Casca from Dawson last Sunday to take charge locally during the sickness of Captain Acland who is confined in the hospital with typhoid fever but who, thanks to the careful attention of Dr. Clarke, is getting along splendidly.

• September 18, 1914: John Nala was instantly killed at the Pueblo mine last Saturday and Fred Runda was so seriously injured that he died in the hospital in this place Monday night. Read the entire article here.
• September 18, 1914: Skagway's Third Annual Horticultural Fair was held last Saturday and was the unqualified success it has always been since the first in 1912. The display of garden products was a marvel in detail, every department being filled with as fine, fresh and well-developed vegetables as are grown any place on earth.
• September 18, 1914: Barney McGee has disposed of his interest in the Commercial hotel to Frank X. Dumontier who has taken possession and is now steadily on the job.

• September 25, 1914: Matthew Watson, owner of the store in Carcross, married Miss Hazel Mary McLaren at her parents' home in Dawson in Dawson on September 14th. Last fall Miss McLaren went to Carcross to take charge of the school there for the winter.
• September 25, 1914: Hans Hjalmer Rutzebeck, a Dane who escaped from the Skagway jail on September 3rd by making a sudden dash while the jailer was serving him with his breakfast, and slamming a door fastening the jailer within, was arrested by police inn Whitehorse last Friday.
• September 25, 1914: Small game is quite scarce in this locality although E. J. Hamacher who spent three days in the vicinity of Lake Lebarge, managed to secure about three dozen ducks, nearly all mallards. Other duck hunters have not had much success. Grouse are also very scarce and it is not unusual for a hunter to spend the entire day in the woods without seeing a bird. Chief Jim Boss has brought a number of moose, to town since the season opened.

October

• October 2, 1914: The trial of Romolo Caesari on the charge of murder, his victim being Dominico Melis, a fellow countryman and former room mate, both being Italians, began on the 24th of last month and was completed at a late hour Wednesday night, the 30th, when the verdict "Guilty" was announced.
• October 2, 1914: Harry A. Auer and Oliver Wolcott, two of the hunters of big game who left here six weeks ago enroute to the hunting grounds out from Lake Kluane with guide Thomas A. Dickson, have left for their respective homes, Cleveland and Boston, curtailing their hunt by fully two weeks owing to conditions superinduced by the European war.
• October 2, 1914: Dr. D. D. Cairnes of the Dominion Geological Survey arrived on the steamer Canadian Monday morning and left yesterday for Ottawa, having completed a busy season in his work, that of tracing and mapping mineral fields in Yukon. Dr. Cairnes was a cripple while here, having sprained one of his ankles several days before.

• October 9, 1914: While there is no noticable depreciation in the number of readers of those daily war bulletins, there is a noticeable depreciation in the number of those who "come across." The financiers of the daily bulletin are looking for something to hock in order that they may continue the service.
• October 9, 1914: George J. Milton, general manager of the Five Fingers Coal Company at Tantalus, reports a very successful season, with new machinery installed and the quality of coal increasing with depth.
• October 9, 1914: A lodge of the Yukon Order of Pioneers was formed at Whitehorse on October 2. The officers elected were: President, W. A. Puckett; Vice President, E. J. White; Secretary, W. W. Dickenson; Treasurer, W. C. Sime; Warden, C. H. Johnston; Chaplain, Isaac Taylor; Guard, Captain P. Martin.

• October 16, 1914: The steamer Lightning, with the Boyle Yukon contingent on board, is due here from Dawson tomorrow night. The company has not yet been mobilized nor will it be until the men reach Victoria. There are forty of them on the steamer.
• October 16, 1914: The usual winter schedule on the White Pass railroad which connects Whitehorse with Skagway-By-The-Sea will be inaugurated on October 26, after which day only two trains each way will pass over the road per week. It is with a feeling akin to sadness that the people of Whitehorse contemplate the semi-seldom winter service on the railroad.
• October 16, 1914: A London, England, paper tells of the untimely death in that city on September 14 of P. A. C. Walker, known in Whitehorse where he formerly resided as Jack Walker. A member of the Derbyshire Yoemanry, he was riding a motorcycle when he collided with an automobile, being almost instantly killed. He had come to Whitehorse four years ago, and had acquired a large tract of land in the interior of British Columbia.

• October 23, 1914: The members of Boyle's Yukon Field Force owned the town while here as our guests, the keys being handed to them, figuratively speaking, on their arrival at an early hour last Friday morning.
• October 23, 1914: Captain John Grant was here a week on his way to the outside after fourteen years continuous residence in Yukon, his home having been at Dawson all of that time. He founded the Victoria Times more than thirty years ago; was a member of the British Columbia provincial legislature and later served the city of Victoria as mayor.
• October 23, 1914: The people of Ruby, Alaska, a promising mining camp on the lower Yukon, decided they needed a keystone diamond drill for use in prospecting their district. They found just what they wanted at Nome, for sale at a bargain, so bought it. They received notice from the White Pass Company that said drill had arrived and was ready to be turned over when the freight bill of $808.75 from Nome to Ruby was paid. The development company decided to pay the "robber barons," as the drill must be had.

• October 30, 1914: The last delegation of Pueblo mine employes left yesterday for various points on the outside and quiet reigns at the mine where but a short time ago nearly 200 men were active in various departments of that industry.
• October 30, 1914: Commissioner Black and Chester Thomas, general manager for the Guggenheims at Dawson, arrived in Whitehorse Tuesday night, having left Dawson Friday in an automobile belonging to Mr. Thomas. The steering gear of the auto broke six miles north of the Braeburn roadhouse, from which place the travelers came on to Tahkini by White Pass stage and on to Whitehorse in the company automobile which C. W. Cash dispatched to meet them.
• October 30, 1914: Shrill whistling and cat calls in the way of applause from those who do not know any better still go in Whitehorse on the occasion of public performances, but in most other places such disturbers are ejected. It is up to the managers of entertainments to see that such coarse practices are discontinued here.

November

• November 6, 1914: O. L. Dickeson, president of the White Pass & Yukon Railway, announced today that he has resigned, to take effect the first of the year. He stated that he was resigning for the purpose of entering into other business, but did not state what kind of business.
• November 6, 1914: Louis Belney, who, with W. A. Lamb, left three weeks ago for the scene of the late placer discovery on Big Horn creek west from Burwash creek, returned yesterday and Lamb was due last night. Both men staked claims and will later return to prospect them.
• November 6, 1914: A Primary Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I. O. D. E.) has lately been organized here. The object of the order is to promote the best interests of the Empire and especially during the present turbulent period. Hon. Regent is Mrs. Geo. Black and Regent is Mrs. W. L. Phelps.

• November 13, 1914: Harold Newton, for several years employed in the T. D. P. & Co. stores, who left in August determined to go to the front to fight for his country, he being an Englishman, tells of his experience after reaching Vancouver in a letter received by Isaac Taylor.
• November 13, 1914: Tom Oka, the Japanese who recently attempted hari-kari with a long, keen-edged knife, having recovered from the injury inflicted on himself, was arraigned before Police Magistrate Taylor Tuesday charged with attempting self-destruction. He was given suspended sentence and permitted to leave the country.
• November 13, 1914: The European war has destroyed the fur market, since the great fur markets of the world are London, Paris and Berlin. The recent big annual fur sale held in San Francisco early this month resulted in absolute failure. No bids were received for the furs offered and the dealers were obliged to pack them and return the furs to cold storage, where they must be carried indefinitely, or sold at heavy sacrifice.

• November 20, 1914: Thousands of caribou are now on the Glacier trail 30 miles west of Dawson. Governor Black and all the other Nimrods are out with guns and hundreds of the animals are being killed.
• November 20, 1914: After taking the matter up with the authorities at Ottawa, Dr. A. P. Hawes, V.S., had the ban which had been placed on American poultry, eggs and milk removed and such products will continue to come from Skagway without molestation
• November 20, 1914: The main line of the Alaska railroad will run from a point on tidewater either at Seward or Portage Bay, up the Susitna Valley, with branch lines running through the Matanuska coal fields and connecting with the Copper River & Northwestern railroad, which runs from Cordova, north to Kennecott, where the Bonanza copper mine is located, and to Chitina.

• November 27, 1914: On Friday, November 20th, Alfred Spreadbury, cold in death, was found leaning against a tree in the woods about a mile north of town and west of the old steamer Monarch. He had committed suicide with a shotgun. Read the entire article here.
• November 27, 1914: The potlatch which was being conducted by Big Salmon Jim in the village above Whitehorse was terminated Friday night and the majority of those in attendance have since departed with their various pappooses, divers dogs and sundry aromas for the seperate homes.
• November 27, 1914: Channels through Weynton passage and Blackey passage have been found equally as good as Broughton Straits for the use of Alaska steamers. Hereafter all of the steamers running to Alaska which desire to keep on the inside passage can take one or the other of the channels. This precludes the necessity of any of the larger steamers taking the outside passage.

December

• December 4, 1914: Herbert F. Wheeler of Whitehorse has been appointed general manager of the White Pass & Yukon Route. His selection was received here with considerable elation and it is confidently hoped he can inaugurate something which will go far toward pulling the railroad and associate companies out of the hole in which it was precipitated by the preceding mismanagement and that he can also reestablish the companies in the estimation and respect of their patrons.
• December 4, 1914: Captain Acland was called to Carcross last week to investigate charges preterred against Nick O'Brien, who was not satisfied with getting full himself, but must needs furnish untutored sons and daughters of the forest with the wherewith to cultivate red ones. The package handed himin court was labelled "$50 and costs."
• December 4, 1914: E. S. Cooper, the wellknown and popular builder of small boats at this place, left on Tuesday for a visit to his home near Amity, Oregon, for the first time in eight years. Although 72 years of age, Mr. Cooper built 106 boats this year, bringing his total to 1,040, most of which have been sold to people down the river.

• December 11, 1914: The weddings of the Misses Larson to Messrs. Victor Carlson and Swan Anderson took place on the first of December. in Atlin. There being no resident clergyman in Atlin at present, the first double wedding ever celebrated in the community took place in the Government office, before Mr. W. G. Paxton, Registrar.
• December 11, 1914: George Scott, the link that connects Lower Lebarge, Hootalinqua, Livingstone and Big Salmon wth the outside world during the period of closed navigation, their mail cu rier, messenger, Santa Claus and source of general verbal information, arrived in town on his first winter trip Sunday with letters and general news from his clients.
• December 11, 1914: Eddie Maxwell was released Saturday after serving a month in jail for his second charge for drunkenness and supplying whisky to Indians. Monday morning he was detected in the act of stealing a bottle of whisky at a local paint store and was kicked out of the place. He left later that day for Skagway on foot. He is an undesirable acquisition to any town on which he fosters himself.

• December 18, 1914: The most disastrous fire in Skagway since the town was founded in 1897 occurred on December 12th. Moore's Wharf and several buildings were burned to the ground. Read the entire article here.
• December 18, 1914: D W. Ballentine left Dawson a few days ago in a Ford auto with two passengers, one for Yukon Crossing and one for Whitehorse. He hoped to reach Whitehorse in forty-eight hours, and to make the round trip within five days. However, he experienced the usual luck which attends efforts to make the trip. With two wheels on a good road and two wheels in snow from ten to fifteen inches deep, autoing is fraught with more or less difficulty.
• December 18, 1914: The police skating rink at the barracks is said by all who have tried it to be in fine condition. Practically the entire population of the town has been formally invited and presented with season tickets to the rink and it is being liberally patronized.

• December 25, 1914: Five companies are running display ads for their Skagway steamship service: the independent steamship Humboldt; the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., operating the S.S. City of Seattle; the Alaska Steamship Co., operating the S.S. Jefferson; Canadian Pacific Railway, operating the S.S. Princess May; and the Pacific Alaska Navigation Co., operating the Admiral Evans and Admiral Watson. See all the ads here.
• December 25, 1914: The Commercial hotel, Frank Dumontier manager, and the Regina hotel, Dixon & Johnson proprietors, are making more changes, both removing partitions to make much larger and more open offices.
• December 25, 1914: Two former Yukoners have been mentioned in recent military dispatches. Seymour Rowlinson, who until fours years ago ran the mail stage roadhouse and a general store at Carmacks, is now lieutenant in charge of the Victoria unit of the Legion of Frontiersmen. Selwood Tanner, who was in the Kluane district until the war broke out, is now second lieutenant in a British cavalry unit.

1915

January

• January 1, 1915: Whitehorse-Kluane Stage Line. The Royal Mail Stage leaves Whitehorse the fourth of every month for Kluane and way points and also on the seventeenth of every month for Champagne. Passengers & Freight Solicited. H. Chambers, Prop.
• January 1, 1915: If the decree of the court is carried out, and there is yet nothing to indicate that it will not be, Romilo Caesari, now a prisoner at the jail here, will be hanged five weeks from today, February 5. Sheriff George Brimstone will come here from Dawson to perform his duty.
• January 1, 1915: Indications are that there will be considerable activity in the White River quartz district the coming summer. H. E. Morgan who has valuable holdings there, is now at Dawson, not having gone out in the fall. He will return to the head of the White in a few weeks.

• January 8, 1915: A new placer strike is reported on Central creek, a tributary of Lake, in the upper White River district. Lake creek is in Canadian territory, on the right limit of the White river, and joins the White about sixteen miles below Canyon City and about forty-five above Donjek.
• January 8, 1915: William Stewart for whom the Stewart river was named, he having rocked out gold from it in 1885, died recently at the Pioneer's Home at Sitka. He spent practically his whole life in the north, and had no relatives so fat as known. A cabin he built in Juneau nearly forty years ago still stands.
• January 8, 1915: Chas. S. Eisenhauer, John Zarnowsky and Max Russ have organized the Whitehorse Silver Black Fox Company and will engage in fox farming at this place. They already have seven pairs of silver and cross foxes and expect to increase their stock considerably during the coming season. Their ranch is just north ot town.

• January 15, 1915: The launch Superb, on which thirteen people died July 3, is gone. Last Saturday it left Haines towing a raft of piles for the new White Pass dock. About 8 eight miles from Skagway, the interior of the boat burst into flames. Captain Larsen and Gus Hansen were able to escape onto the raft but the Superb burned and sank. The men drifted to shore and walked to Skagway.
• January 15, 1915: Two engineers from the Department of Public Works at Prince Rupert are in town for a few days to measure the volume and speed of the water in the river. Two laborers are employed by the engineers, their work consisting principally in cutting holes in the ice, which owing to the mildness of the winter, is less than two feet thick. It is thought the government is contemplating aids to navigation, possibly the construction of a dam on the river south of Whitehorse.
• January 15, 1915: J. E. Peters arrived from Livingstone creek last week, having made the trip over an unbroken trail with dogs in four days. He says there are but nineteen men in the Livingstone district this winter but that everyone is hard at work and that more gold will be produced from there next spring, per capita, than in any previous season in the dozen years which have elapsed since the district was first worked.

• January 22, 1915: An attempt was made last Sunday night to burn the Skagway railway depot. Oil-soaked rags had been placed within the building and ignited; had the fire not been discovered in the early stage, the loss of buildings and contents would have been very heavy. There is no reason to believe that the fire which destroyed the wharf and warehouses of the company may not have been due to an accident.
• January 22, 1915: George Wright arrived Tuesday from Kluane with a load of mountain sheep meat which he sold to the Burns market. He reports game as quite plentiful in that region.
• January 22, 1915: Thomas Cross, a teamster, was killed on Eldorado creek near Dawson the morning of the 12th. He was crushed to death beneath a load of wood he was hauling and which overturned.

• January 29, 1915: the first series of curling contests is completed. The rink of which Chas. H. Johnston was skip won the Puckett and Hudson's Bay trophies without losing a game, their success being little short of phenomenal.
• January 29, 1915: Major Zachary Taylor Wood, assistant commissioner of the Royal N. W. M. P. with headquarters at Regina, died in Ashville, North Carolina on the 15th.
• January 29, 1915: Guilty or not guilty we do not believe there is a person in Whitehorse who would not be pleased to hear that the death sentence of the poor, unfortunate man now held in the jail at this place, had been commuted to imprisonment. Somehow it does not seem just right to have an execution in Whitehorse.

February

• February 5, 1915: The masquerade ball given Monday night by the Whitehorse orchestra was one of the most generally enjoyed social events in the history of the town. More than eighty people were in costume and while none went to elaborate expense, all were appropriate and many neat, some were ludicrous, a few ridiculous and all decent.
• February 5, 1915: Paul Chaudy who resides with his wife and two children here and who, for two years past has been employed as cook at the barracks mess, received a letter from his old home in France informing him that fourteen of his cousins and nephews are now at the front fighting for the flag of their country.
• February 5, 1915: There is now little doubt but that Marion "Tennessee" Davis, the young man mentioned in last week's paper as having disappeared from where he was engaged at wood cutting twelve miles down the Thirtymile river, was accidentally drowned when he went to the river for water and fell in.

• February 12, 1915: S. O. Breedman, pioneer packer and merchant of the Chisana, says there are now 250 people in the camp, all that is needed for the work in sight. The camp produced $275,000 last season under adverse conditions and the output this season will be doubie that. It is still developing, possibly into a big camp after some time and money has been expended.
• February 12, 1915: Five reels will be shown as part of a very interesting program which will be given at the hall tonight when all profits will be turned over to the local chapter, Daughters of the Empire, to be used in aiding war victims.
• February 12, 1915: Mrs. W. L. Phelps, accompanied by her little daughter Dorothy, left Tuesday on a visit to her old home in Ontario. Mrs. Phelps made up her mind rather suddenly, having received a letter by Friday's mail informing her that three of her brothers had enlisted and would leave shortly for the front.

• February 19, 1915: Romilo Caesar is dead, shot by police while trying to escape. He was taken to the hospital where he died twenty-eight hours later. His sentence of execution for murder had recently been commuted to life imprisonment. Read the entire lengthy story here.
• February 19, 1915: The Director of Surveys at Ottawa has commissioned T. A. Dickson to gather and compile all useful information on the south end of the Territory, preparatory to publishing a new map of the whole Territory. It is the aim to have this map as replete with information as possible, including new creeks, trails, location of homesteads, &c., as well as the Post Offices, Police posts, Road houses, Fox and Mink ranches, and all present wagon roads and trails.
• February 19, 1915: The moving picture show and entertainment given for the benefit of the war funds in charge of the Daughters of the Empire last Friday night, was a most successful affair in every detail. The pictures were highly interesting and the singing was very enjoyable. The neat sum of $66 was turned over to the chapter after all expenses had been paid.

• February 26, 1915: It was George Black who eliminated Livingstone and Kluane from the list of polling places in the Whitehorse Electoral District. He states that at the last council only twenty seven votes were polled at those two places combined and at a cost of $13 per ballot. There are fewer electors there now, not enough at either of the points to warrant establishing polls.
• February 26, 1915: G. R. Pearkes whose time with the Royal N. W. M. P. expired Friday of last week, took honorable discharge and left Tuesday for England where he hopes to be accepted to fight for his flag and country. The Whitehorse orchestra gave a dance Monday night as a farewell to Mr. Pearkes which was largely attended.
• February 26, 1915: Messrs. Farr and Burden of Seattle are due today with a small sawmill and a hydraulic plant which they contracted Fred Langholtz to haul out to Cottoneva creek in the Livingstone district. It is the intention to operate the sawmill not only in providing lumber for their own use, but for other operators as well.

March

• March 5, 1915: At 3 o'clock today the last of the twenty Kluanite mushers arrived here. They have all made a very creditable showing in their record breaking trek to Whitehorse which was made for the purpose of exercising their franchise at the next Yukon council election to be held at Whitehorse on March 4th, 1915. Read the entire article here.
• March 5, 1915: In the election held yesterday in the Southern Yukon for selecting two members of the Yukon Council, Edward A. Dixon received 184 votes and Willard L. Phelps received 174. Patrick Martin was a distant third, with 75 votes.
• March 5, 1915: Capt. James Alexander, owner of the famous Engineer mine in the Atlin country, declared yesterday that the development of the Engineer was steadily being pushed. The main tunnel has been driven a distance of 200 feet during the past year, making it now 350 feet long. In one pocket $6,000 in free milling gold was recovered.

• March 12, 1915: The Southern Yukon Mining and Industrial Association was formed on March 5th at a meeting held at the North Star Hall, with thirty miners and trappers from Livingstone and Kluane districts in attendance.
• March 12, 1915: New Councillor-elect Edward A. Dixon is a pioneer resident of the Yukon, having arrived with the North West Mounted Police in 1897. Read the entire article here.
• March 12, 1915: Seventeen years ago, Cariste Racine opened the White Horse Inn here [Note: it was actually the Windsor Hotel he built, in 1900], and soon accumulated a fortune, which now is represented not only by the inn but also by sawmills, lumber yards and various paying mining claims. Now 60 years of age, he recently married 21-year-old Miss Freda Weertz, at Whittier.

• March 19, 1915: Yukon has a Princess Patricia of its own. A little daughter was brought by the stork to the Indian ward at the Good Samaritan hospital to bless the royal home of Chief Isaac and his trail mate of life [Eliza].
• March 19, 1915: Contrary to what has been stated ever since the election, the status of the newly elected council will not be equally divided and, instead has six Conservatives (W. G. Radford, Geo. Williams, J. Turner, A. N. Martin, John McCrimmon, Edward A. Dixon) and four Liberals (W. J. O'Brien, J. P. Guite, N. A. Watt, W. L. Phelps).
• March 19, 1915: Four or five "mushers" arrived over the railroad from Skagway Monday of this week but not to exceed eight or ten have come thus far. It is said that quite a number have been turned back at the Summit by Emmigration Officer McAllister whom they were not able to convince that they would not become public charges if permitted to enter the country.

• March 26, 1915: A placer strike has been made on Johnson creek near Mayo, and a stampede has followed. The whole creek and its tributaries are staked. O. P. Thompson, the discoverer, sank a shaft eighteen feet to bedrock, drifted forty feet towards the center of creek bed, then ran two cross-cuts, all in pay.
• March 26, 1915: Messrs. W. L. Phelps and E. A. Dixon, members of the Yukon council for the Whitehorse district, left on a White Pass stage Tuesday afternoon. They will arrive in Dawson Monday. Although Councillor Dixon has been in the territory nearly 18 years, he will see Dawson for the first time on this trip.
• March 26, 1915: Never before at this season of the year have there been so many flies in Whitehorse houses as at present - house flies and flies of the bluebottle variety. Formerly this country has not been particularly troubled with flies of any kind, aside from mosquitos and black flies.

April

• April 2, 1915: William L. Breese, former secretary to Ambassador Page in London, was killed Sunday in the fighting on the French front. Mr. Breese was an officer in the Royal Horse Guards. He was well-known in the Yukon. Some years ago he purchased a number of placer claims on Boulder Creek in the Whitehorse district and spent in vain endeavor to hydraulic it, some $200,000.
• April 2, 1915: Stanley Gibson, the Dawson druggist who left here two weeks ago on a bicycle with a motor attached, expecting to make stage time over the trail to Dawson, did so after reaching Nordenshiold. In fact, at the latter point he loaded his machine on a stage and, getting aboard himself, accompanied it the remainder of the route.
• April 2, 1915: Three White Pass stage horses were drowned on the river near Yukon Crossing Monday morning of this week when a stage containing Driver Keeler and nine passengers broke through the ice. Three of the six horses were saved. All the passengers as well as the driver escaped.

• April 9, 1915: A new page has been written in Yukon history. The river at this place opened during the forenoon of Tuesday the 6th, twelve days earlier than since the spring of 1900 when it is said to have cleared on the 8th.
• April 9, 1915: Three White Pass sleighs laden with eggs and being hauled down the river en route to the foot of Lake Lebarge, broke through the ice last Friday near the mouth of the Tahkini river. Read the entire article here.
• April 9, 1915: Vinginzo Salvatore, pioneer merchant of Whitehorse, died of pneumonia at the General hospital last Friday evening at after an illness of one week although he had been in poor health nearly all winter. He was nearly 71 years of age. Read the entire article here.

• April 16, 1915: The new budget has been passed by Yukon Council. Whitehorse gets an additional grant of $18,000 for the new hospital as well as an addition $4,000 for maintenance. The Whitehorse school got $6,625.
• April 16, 1915: Whitehorse man J. H. Sherman completes his invention of a new block system for railroads. The present system of "blocking" trains has one small light to signal danger ahead. By the Sherman invention from three to six distinct electric bell signals, in addition to the light, are given.
• April 16, 1915: Jimmy Lloyd, the veteran hardrock man, is in town with some of the most promising quartz displayed here in many days. Specks of gold are visible to the naked eye all over the sampies, and an assay shows that the rock carries $180 to the ton in gold. The property is off Gold Run creek.

• April 23, 1915: The main headline reads: "Princess Patricias Almost Wiped Out. But 125 of What Was Canada's Pride and Empire's Choicest Regiment Left of 1,100." Another article reports that former Whitehorse resident Lieutenant Howard B. Scharschmidt of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, has been wounded in France.
• April 23, 1915: Traffic between this place and Atlin has been practically suspended owing to the early decay of the ice. A number of horses have already broken through the ice and one, owned by Louis Shultz, was lost. Half a dozen freight teams which left here for Atlin several days ago are now stranded on an island.
• April 23, 1915: Buzzsaw James Richards who operates a sawmill close to the gurgling river in the lower part of town, now has on hand a remarkably fine quality sawdust to which the public is welcome for taking it away. "Buzz" warrants his sawdust to not be free from germs of foot and mouth disease and, when used in dog mattresses, is guaranteed to cure mange, fistula and that itching sensation that keeps dogs pursuing their own tails.

• April 30, 1915: All the accommodations on one of the best of the White Pass Company's steamers, probably the Alaska or Yukon, are already sold for an excursion to Fort Yukon, to experience the midnight sun. Superintendent Gordon says that when the intention of his company to run an excursion to within the Arctic Circle was announced in Seattle four or five weeks, ago all reservations were taken within a few days.
• April 30, 1915: Fritz Block who was found dead some weeks ago on the Koyukuk trail, had in one of his pockets a bank book showing that he had on deposit if a San Francisco bank $17,000. Any man is liable to be found dead, but give us seventeen thousand dollars and we will never be found dead on a Koyukuk trail.
• April 30, 1915: Miss E. Ferry and Alfred Scott left here this morning for Skagway and when they return on Friday it will be as Mr. and Mrs. Scott, it being their intention to have the connubial knot tied after reaching the surf-washed city this evening. Mr. Scott is an old timer in Southern Yukon and Miss Ferry came here last fall from New Brunswick. They will make their home at Tagish where Mr. Scott has a fox and mink farm and where a cozy cottage awaits their arrival.

May

• May 7, 1915: Contracts have been awarded for improving the quarters of the officer commanding at the local barracks. Jack French has the carpentering and beaver boarding contracts while Al Stewart secured that for the painting, papering and decorating. The work will be started right away.
• May 7, 1915: As the result of the warm sun Tuesday the water in the river at this place has begun to rise but it will have to raise nearly 18 inches before steamers can enter the lake at the upper end.
• May 7, 1915: It has been brought to the attention of the Post Office Department that some business firms desiring to avoid the one cent War Tax which became effective on the 15th of April, propose making arrangements for the delivery of accounts, bills, circulars etc., through means other than the Post Office, contrary to the Postal Act, and a warning is hereby given that the Post Office will enforce the regulations.

• May 14, 1915: The main headline is about the sinking of the Lusitania, and the resulting violence against German residents and businesses in England. "The torpedoing of the Cunard liner Lusitania by the Germans was the crowning act of barbarity in the present war - a sinking to the lowest depths of human cruelty and depravity." [1,198 of her passengers died]
• May 14, 1915: Chief Isaac of the Moosehide tribe received a telegram today from Selkirk stating that Chief Jackson of the Selkirk Indians died there yesterday. Jackson was an uncle to Isaac, and was about 60 years of age. He leaves a son who is married, and a daughter who is with the Moosehides and who is known as Alice.
• May 14, 1915: The Vidette arrived at Dawson at noon on Tuesday from the foot of Lake Lebarge and the Nasutlin was but one hour behind her. The latter is now on the way back up the river. Both were delayed at several points on the way down by ice jams and low water.

• May 21, 1915: Skagway will celebrate the completion of the new wharf, which has replaced the one destroyed by fire last December, by a dance tomorrow night. Excursions will be given from all points on Lynn canal and from Whitehorse, from where the low rate of $5 for the round trip will apply.
• May 21, 1915: The fact that copper has reached the high price of 22 cents per pound and will probably go to 30 cents or higher is causing local owners of copper claims to whisper together concerning doings. If copper continues to advance in price there is a glaring possibility that several properties will be worked in this locality in the very near future.
• May 21, 1915: Jack Pickering, who has been in charge of the hauling of ore from the silver mine on Galena creek to Mayo, arrived today on the Vidette, and says they have about 1,100 tons of ore delivered, and will have all the 1,500 tons out in good time for shipment by boat to the smelter.

• May 28, 1915: In view of the fact that during the tourist season the Princess steamers of the C. P. R. company will arrive at Skagway every Wednesday morning, remaining there until 7 p. m. of the following day, a series of special excursions to visit Whitehorse are being arranged.
• May 28, 1915: Present indiextions are that copper ore will be going forward from this place to the Tacoma smelter within a few days from at least two different properties, the Anaconda and Grafter.
• May 28, 1915: The attempt of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rost to travel from this place to their home in Dawson in their own automobile four weeks ago did not go well, but last week, repairs having been made, they made another start and managed to reach the vicinity of Little River when the lollygazook of the machine went awry owing to the repairs made on the goozlewhack being defective. Again the machine was towed back to this place.

June

• June 4, 1915: The town was full of strangers who were waiting for down river steamers even before the excursion train from Skagway arrived last Saturday and when it unloaded nearly 200 more including 2 baseball teams in our midst, the town contained as many as on the occasion of any annual celebration held in many years.
• June 4, 1915: The popular steamer City of Seattle, due in Skagway the 7th of this month, will inaugurate the tourist season for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. The Spokane, of the same company, will follow on the 18th. Both steamers are practically sold out for every trip during the tourist season which closes late in August.
• June 4, 1915: Dr. D. D, Cairnes arrived last Friday and left Tuesday for Robinson from which point he will go into the Wheaton mining district where he will spend about six weeks compiling information as to the mineral resources of the country. He will then continue down river and spend the remainder of the season in the Mayo district.

• June 11, 1915: A. E. Acland who came to Yukon seventeen years ago as a constable in the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and four years ago was commissioned as Inspector, is to be transferred to the outside and, with his wife and baby, will leave next Thursday for police headquarters at Regina.
• June 11, 1915: For the first time in her history Whitehorse will have an opportunity for witnessing a complete and modern circus tonight when the Hagenback- Wallace shows combined will exhibit at the North Star Hall. The show consists of four long reels.
• June 11, 1915: Work is now under way which will terminate in the completion of a new government hospital at this place. Read the entire article here.

• June 18, 1915: The dead and practically air-dried bodies of A. L. Dominy and Thos. Boyd were found three weeks ago in seperate but adjoining cabins near the mouth of Swift Creek on the right limit of the Hootalinqna river about 80 miles above Hootalinqua post. Read the entire article, and a much longer one from the Dawson Daily News, here.
• June 18, 1915: W. L. Phelps. who took his motor boat by rivers and lakes to Carcross last Saturday from the head of the canyon, having had it here for repairs, re- ports that there are no less than seventeen motor boats now at the crossing town, one of the best places for such craft in the territory, the lakes there being better adapted to their operation than swift-running rivers.
• June 18, 1915: The excitement which occurred several days ago over the report that platinum had been found on the hillside near Dawson was given another impetus when Dr. Wells made an assay of rock found under Bill Paddock's greenhouse at West Dawson, and declared the material similar to that found on this side of the river.

• June 25, 1915: Two large groups and many independent tourists are sailing down the Yukon River to experience the Midnight Sun at Fort Yukon. A group of forty to fifty sailed on the Selkirk two days ago, and both the Casca and White Horse were required for the group of fifty and that many independents today.
• June 25, 1915: William Lawson, a colored cook, cut his throat twice with a razor while alone in a cabin at Dawson last Saturday. When found twenty four hours later he was lying in a pool of blood in his bed. Although both gashes are very deep, it is believed he will recover.
• June 25, 1915: Judge and Mrs. G. L. Taylor of this place have received a letter from their son, Jack, who left Canada for England with the Second Canadian Contingent as a member of the Borden Battery. He, with 20,000 other Canadians, is at Shorncliffe on the English Channel where they are training and where they will probably remain for two months before going to the front.

July

• July 2, 1915: A sweeping reduction in telegraph rates over the railroad line has been announced. The former rate of $1 for ten words between Whitehorse and Skagway has been slashed and is now but 50 cents; each extra word 3 cents. A night letter rate has been made between the points above named of 50 cents for 50 words.
• July 2, 1915: A number of forest fires have been burning at points to the south of this place for the past eight or ten days and in some places the Government telegraph line has been more or less interferred with. At one point about twenty miles south of Atlin the telegraph poles were all destroyed for more than a mile.
• July 2, 1915: Jim Christie, well known former Yukoner, the only man who ever survived a boxing match with a grizzly bear, was wounded at the great battle of Langemarck. He enlisted with the Princess Pats, but details are expected later.

• July 9, 1915: Frank G. Carpenter, one of the most renowned journalists on the American continent, accompanied by his daughter, was in town from Sunday evening until Monday evening on his way to Nome. Mr. Carpenter is gathering material for a series of articles on Alaska and Yukon which he intends to publish in some forty newspapers.
• July 9, 1915: Work on the new hospital is getting along very well, the concrete foundation being fully completed. The wood structure will be started within a few days, as soon as the force of carpenters complete a job at the power house where it was discovered a few days ago that the foundation under the fire pumps was giving away and that there was danger of the plant dropping into the well.
• July 9, 1915: Captain Bell, Royal N. W. M. P., is authority for the statement that the dog license ordinance will go into effect July 15, after which date all dogs on which the tax has not been paid and found running at large will be taken in charge and impounded and later killed unless "redeemed."

• July 16, 1915: Robert W. Service, the well known writer of the Yukon who left here about three years ago, has given up the grind of making copy gone to the front, where he will drive a motor car.
• July 16, 1915: J. R. Alguire who has conducted the White Pass hotel under lease for the past two years, has turned it over to the owner, C. Racine, who lately arrived with his wife from Whittier, California, and who will conduct the hotel in the future, while Mr. Alguire will move to his place near Pueblo where he has an extensive fox industry to which he will now devote his attention.
• July 16, 1915: Wednesday of this week a couple of malamute dogs owned by Jim Baker raided a corral of P. Burns & Co., in which were nine three months old pigs, killing several of the porkers outright and injuring the others until it was necessary to kill all of them. As the pigs were valued at $15 each, the loss is a severe one.

• July 23, 1915: A recent article by H. M Cadell contains an uncalled-for "dirty knock" on Skagway, which he describes as "a wretched little town with decayed wooden houses and grass-grown streets, the scene of many robberies, riots and murders at the time of the gold rush, which the police authorities had neither the power nor energy to control. Skagway is not, and can never be, of much use to the United States, except as an obstruction to Canadian progress, but might be of some advantage to the vast Canadian hinterland less than 20 miles inland."
• July 23, 1915: Ear Lake has become the most popular resort in this part of the country and is increasing in population with each succeeding warm day. Several families are camping there and last Sunday, there were between fifty and sixty people at the lake. There are now three boats on the lake and boating, baseball and picnicing in the shade is quite an improvement on one spent at home during the present heated period.
• July 23, 1915: The Juvenile Bostonians, the most popular entertainers who have ever visited Whitehorse, will be here during the first half of next week on the way out after playing successful engagements at both Dawson and Fairbanks, devoting a week to the former city both going to and returning from the latter.

• July 30, 1915: Dan McDonald, an oldtimer in the Dawson district, was killed last week and three others were very seriously injured while working on recovering the Canadian Klondike Mining Company's dredge No. 2, which sank last fall. If the accident had occurred ten minutes later, there would have been thirty men under the dredge instead of but four when the staging collapsed.
• July 30, 1915: Work of various types is now underway at the Pueblo, Grafter and Anaconda, and work at the War Eagle and Empress of India is being discussed as copper prices remain high.
• July 30, 1915: Several days ago, while A. Goss was working on a barge in front of the wharf, he lost his balance and fell into the river just above the upper end of the barge. A few seconds later he appeared at the lower end, 80 feet below, swimming for shore. He shook the water off and without further waste of time went back to his work where it had been interrupted.

August

• August 6, 1915: For the first time in the history of Whitehorse there is no snow on the mountain tops visible from the town, the recent hot wave which is waving yet with but slight moderation, having caused it all to disappear. Last week was the hottest ever experienced here, the temperature going to 92 above.
• August 6, 1915: A complaint by a visiting government official got front-page placing. He mentioned the poor attitude shown towards visitors even by businesses, and Whitehorse' reputation for having the worst restaurants in the north. He asked why Whitehorse can't do as well as Carcross.
• August 6, 1915: The steamer Nasutlin has gone down the river to Kirkman Bar, almost to Dawson, for the purpose of dynamiting, dredging and dragging out a channel to prevent hinderance to navigation between now and the end of the season. Captain J. O. Williams, "Dynamite Jack," has been placed in charge of the work.

• August 13, 1915: At a late hour last Friday night as Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dixon and C. W. Cash were returning from the Greenough home at the Pueblo mine in one of the White Pass automobiles which was driven by Mr. Cash, the car suddenly swerved from the road when about two miles this side of the Pueblo and overturned. Mrs. Dixon was pinned beneath the car which was lying across her legs below the knees, but when the car was liften she was found to just be badly bruised.
• August 13, 1915: The many friends of Jerry Quinlan, formerly a popular conductor on the White Pass road, will be pleased to learn that he has chosen by the head of the Alaska government road to take charge of the first construction train which will be operated.
• August 13, 1915: A letter was received from Malcolm 'Scotty" Morrison, who is with the army in England. It said in part: "We are still under canvas and roughing it but expect to go to France very soon. If we are not gone to France before August, I will send you some heather from my native Scotland. I have written Mr. Greenough twice about the Pueblo but he has not answered. You might let me know what is doing there and if it will work very soon. That is the first place I will strike for after the war is over."

• August 20, 1915: Major R. L. Knight with Mrs. Knight and their two children, was here the latter part of last week en route to Dawson to relieve Major J. D. Moodie as commandant of the Royal N. W. M. P. in Yukon. Accompanying him were 11 new members of the force who will be added to the Yukon compliment.
• August 20, 1915: It is reported that a deal for the antimony claims in the Wheaton district owned by Duncan Berback, Howard Cochran and Theo. Becker has been put through by which the property passes into the hands of a Vancouver syndicate which was represented by Mr. Whitfield of the latter place, formerly an oldtime Yukoner, who has been at Carcross for the past several weeks.
• August 20, 1915: Mrs. Jack Mercer, after a most valiant fight for life, succumbed to the ravages of typhoid fever at the hospital at about noon on Monday despite the fact that everything known in medical science was done to save her. Read that story here.

• August 27, 1915: Jimmie Wood, the Indian boy who has been foreman of the Northern Light office, the Chootla Indian school printing office near Carcross, was here several days this week on his way to his ancestral home at Moosehide where he will engage in teaching other natives the gentle arts of civilization.
• August 27, 1915: While at work wiring the new hospital Wednesday afternoon Fred Gray, electrician for the Yukon Electrical Company, fell through a makeshift platform on which he was standing to work, rather seriously injuring his side.
• August 27, 1915: Captain John Irving of Victoria was a guest at the Commercial hotel in this place from Monday until Wednesday when he left for his home. Captain John came north to look after valuable mining property owned by him, notably the Gleaner ledge between Carcross and Atlin and the Arctic Chief copper claim near this place. There is a possibility that he may decide to work both properties in the near future.

September

• September 3, 1915: We have received the sad news of the death at Macleod, Alberta, on August 18 of Blanche Theresa Macdonald, the wife of Inspector Macdonald, R. N. W. M. P. and daughter of Dr. Pare. The deceased, who was only 33 years of age, passed away at her home, after many months of illness which was most patiently borne. She spent much of her girlhood in Whitehorse.
• September 3, 1915: Last Saturday an Indian named Allen was found horribly injured from a bear attack near Braeburn. His partner, Hootchi Bill, described him as "killed but not dead," with one ear and half his face torn off. Read the entire article here.
• September 3, 1915: After remaing only two days in the Ibex country, Mr. and Mrs. George Armstrong returned home Sunday evening, driven back several days earlier than they had planned by the black flies. From their camp at the foot of the Ibex Mountains, they climbed as high as the snow line. They reported very little game of any kind, but millions of flies and acres of berries - enough blueberries and low-bush cranberries to supply the town.

• September 10, 1915: Marshal L. T. Erwin recently sold two river steamers and a barge at Eagle as a result of a judgement and foreclosure against George P. Sproul, the former owner. The steamers sold were the White Seal, 193 gross tons, and the barge Budweiser, 210 gross tons, to the American Yukon Navigation Company for the sum of $3,450. The steamer Florence S. was sold to Wallace Langley for the sum of $1,700. She was of 100 tons gross.
• September 10, 1915: Mike, an old grey horse which has done faithful service for the Royal N. W. M. P. here for nearly ten years had to be killed Thursday of last week because of a broken leg. The horse was hauling granite on the big hill between the Copper King and the Pueblo mines when his bit broke, causing him to stumble and fall.
• September 10, 1915: Three sons of the late William Ogilvie, the noted Yukon explorer and administrator of early days, have enlisted for the front. Gordon Mackenzie Ogilvie, who sailed on the Cameronian, is now probably at Shorneliffe, in the 47th; his younger brother, Private J. J. Ogilvie, of the 6th, now at Valcartier; and his youngest brother, Peter, enlisting in the New Montreal Highland regiment.

• September 17, 1915: Byron N. White, owner of several copper properties in the Whitehorse area, the most valuable being the Pueblo, died in Spokane on September 12th. He was about 60 years of age. He had been sick for more than a year and bedridden for several months and the news of his death was not a surprise.
• September 17, 1915: The United States Department of Labor has declared that any American enlisting in a foreign army thereby forfeits his claim to citizenship. This decision was rendered in the case of Frank Caswell, a native of Maine, who enlisted in the Canadian expeditionary force, was wounded in France and denied a return to the United States.
• September 17, 1915: The riding of bicycles on the sidewalks of Whitehorse must cease. This is the order of the police and any infraction or violation of the order will be followed by arrest and punishment. A number of collisions have occurred lately between bicycle riders and pedestrians in which the latter have, in several cases, narrowly escaped serious injury.

• September 24, 1915: William Welsh Riley, 17, and Jack Fisher, 23, were drowned in the Yukon river Friday evening when they fell through the freight door of the steamer Casca on her way up stream, eight miles this side of Big Salmon. It is supposed they were scuffling and that losing their balance they rolled out backwards through the doorway. An hour was spent searching for them than the Casca continued on her way.
• September 24, 1915: One of the most interesting and busy industries in Whitehorse is the Government assay office where Assayer W. C. Sime is at work determining values of every kind and description of quartz found in Yukon and northern British Columbia. Mr. Sime processes upwards of two hundred samples every month, and has reached as high as three hundred.
• September 24, 1915: Ever since the Indian village in the swamp above town has been inhabited this paper has, from time to time, and in no uncertain language, advocated its evacuation, holding that it was not right that an Indian camp should be allowed so near the town's supply of water. That agitation on the part of this paper is now about to bear fruit.

October

• October 1, 1915: Whitehorse experienced the greatest shock of her existence yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock when it became known that four men of the five comprising the section crew of the White Pass railroad at this place had been murdered on the railroad three miles east of town, the news of the tragedy being brought to town by the murderer himself, Alex Gagoff, a Russian. Read this article and others about the murders here.
• October 1, 1915: George Armstrong, manager of the operations at the Grafter mine, accompanied by Frank Ramsey and Claire Williams, left Wednesday for McDonald creek four miles south of Carcross, where they would secure a large boiler formerly used in the Big Thing power house, which they will bring down and install at the Grafter mine, the boiler used there having gone out of commission several days ago.
• October 1, 1915: Buzz Saw Jimmy is advertising: "A New Sawing Machine. I've got a new machine trimmed in blue. 'Why don't you ran her' so I do. Always working when I can. Must keep ahead of 'tother man. I Respectfully Solicit Your Trade."

• October 8, 1915: Four burials was the record for Whitehorse last Sunday afternoon when the victims of Assassin Alex Gagoff, Patrick Kinslow, Henry Cook, George Lane and Tom Bokonich were laid to rest in the local cemetery. Kinslow and Cook were buried from the Catholic church where Rev. Father Wolfe conducted appropriate services at 3 o'clock, while Lane and Bokonich were buried after services held in Christ church by Arch Deacon Canham at 4 o'clock, the same sets of pallbearers acting in both ceremonies.
• October 8, 1915: R. W. Brown, one of the two section men who came from Cowley to this place last Friday evening to replace the men murdered the previous day, died suddenly in his room over the B. Y. N. messhouse yesterday morning. Dr. Clarke was called and diagnosed the cause of death as heart disease.
• October 8, 1915: George Lewis Alleger. Left Stroudsburg, in 1888, aged 21, for Battleford, Canada, thence went to Dawson City and resigned his position with the Royal North West Mounted Police. Last heard from in that city on July 21st, 1902. Aged mother and sister inquire. If this meets the eyes of any of his friends will they please communicate with his mother.

• October 15, 1915: Machinery for the heating plant in the new government hospital at this place is now being received and installed. The work is being done by John C. Hyde, an expert mechanic from Juneau and representing Geo. K. Gilbert, heating and sanitary engineer of the latter place.
• October 15, 1915: During the season just closing the White Pass Company shipped something like 600 tons of coal from Tantalus where it was mined by the Five Fingers Coal Company of which George. J. Milton of St. Paul is the leading factor. After a fair and thorough trial the railroad people decided the Yukon coal is vastly superior to the imported article.
• October 15, 1915: Five years ago this fall Captain Back, then 78 years of age, discovered gold on Nansen creek, a few miles back from Carmacks. While a large number of claims were staked, little work was done. Over the years E. L. C. de la Pole, who came to the Yukon in 1889 as a young man, has assembled over seven miles of ground, and is bringing in a hydraulic plant. Read the entire article here.

• October 22, 1915: All Whitehorse was shocked yesterday morning when the news was passed around that Judge Geo. L. Taylor had died at home a few minutes after midnight. Read the entire article here.
• October 22, 1915: Supt. C. W. Cash of the winter mail service returned Monday by auto from Montague where the company is erecting a new roadhouse to replace the one which was owned by Mrs. Niles and which was destroyed by fire in August when forest fires were raging over that country.
• October 22, 1915: On October 20th, Mr. Justice Macauley of the Territorial Court of Yukon sentenced Alexander Gagoff to death by hanging for the murder of Henry Cook 20 days prior. The sentence is to be carried out in Whitehorse on March 10, 1916.

• October 29, 1915: Fred Story, superintendent of the Silver Queen and Ruby Silver Mining Co. in the Bennett lake district, brought with him on his last trip out a small sack of molybdenite ore from two parallel veins located about six miles from the railroad, east of Pavey, and four miles east of the Silver Queen and Ruby Silver mines. The ore is a beautiful white quartz.
• October 29, 1915: The T. D. P. & Co.'s steamer Kluahne returned about midnight Saturday from Teslin, her last voyage of the season. She brought down over two tons of moose meat. John Drury, in charge of the company's store at Teslin, came down on the Kluahne.
• October 29, 1915: The twelve young men who left here last Friday morning to enter training at Victoria preparatory to going to the front, were given a royal sendoff at the depot where nearly half the town gathered to bid them God-speed.

November

• November 5, 1915: Ten girls met at the N. S. A. A. hall Wednesday afternoon, to organize a Girls' Bowling club. Several games were played during the afternoon and although nearly all were beginners, keen enthusiasm was shown in the sport.
• November 5, 1915: News has been received here of the loss by fire of the C. K. M. Co.'s power plant at the mouth of Bear Creek, near Dawson, last Saturday. The loss is probably a quarter of a million dollars.
• November 5, 1915: Monday of this week the place formerly known as King's Cafe was reopened to the anxious public by Mrs. Dorcas Joyce who will exercise every endeavor to make it popular with its patrons as well as profitable to herself. Mrs. Joyce is wellknown here where she has resided for ten years.

• November 12, 1915: Henry and John Henderson, sons of Pioneer "Bob" Henderson to whom belongs the honor of finding the first gold on Hunker creek in the Klondike district, arrived in town last Sunday, having walked out from over the trail from Dawson in twelve days.
• November 12, 1915: During the period which will intervene until there is sufficient snow for good sleighing two stages each way will be operated by the White Pass Company weekly between Whitehorse and Dawson. Even should there be sufficient snow for operating sleigns, Supt. Cash will not inaugurate the tri-weekly schedule until all the river crossings are frozen over.
• November 12, 1915: A bunch of Indians arrived in town Tuesday evening of this week with a big consignment of moose and mountain sheep meat. The former is being sold around town at 15 and the latter at 25 cents per pound. Some of the meat brought in by Indians has the appearance of having been towed a la drag from where it was killed.

• November 19, 1915: Two letters from Yukoners in Europe were published: Jack Taylor, son of the late Judge and Mrs. Taylor, is on the Belgian front, and A. G. "Pat" McClelland, who spent a dozen years in Kluane, was about to leave training in England for one of the fronts.
• November 19, 1915: Commissioner Black expects to leave Ottawa for the coast soon where he will discuss with Col. Ogilvie his plan to raise an infantry company for overseas service, which has been authorized by Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia. Meanwhile he will qualify either on the coast or at the Royal Military College, Kingston, as a captain so that he can command the Yukon men at the front.
• November 19, 1915: Two weeks ago a herd of several thousand caribou wandered to within a dozen miles of Dawson with the result that residents of that balliwick got busy and laid in a winter's supply of meat, four carcasses being the average to the household.

• November 26, 1915: When the steamer Humboldt reaches Seattle, she will have navigated over 1,000,000 miles of Alaskan waters, this trip being the 500th trip to Skagway of this popular ship. She has been on the run since 1897, and has been a regular visitor to Skagway since the first pile was driven for the wharf.
• November 26, 1915: There is considerable slush ice running in the river at this place but the latter will not close until well on in December unless the weather turns colder than it has been. Yesterday morning the temperature was at zero, the coldest for two weeks.
• November 26, 1915: Dr. W. B. Clarke was called to Skagway Wednesday afternoon in consultation with Dr. Westerman and to assist in an operation on Mrs. Lorne McAllister, she having been taken seriously ill with appendicitis Tuesday night. A telegram from Skagway yesterday morning said the operation had been successfully performed and the little patient was doing well.

December

• December 3, 1915: J. Langlois Bell has been appointed to the position of police magistrate for southern Yukon. He will leave for Whitehorse November 27, and Mrs. Bell and Miss Bell will proceed there after the closing of Yukon Crossing.
• December 3, 1915: George Black wired his resignation as head of the Yukon government to Prime Minister Robert L. Borden from San Francisco on November 26th, preparatory to his acceptance of a commission as captain in Canadian expeditionary forces to be sent to France in the spring.
• December 3, 1915: L. A. Flint who came from Denver, Colorado with the rush in '97 and who has been with the country ever since, accompanied by his partner, J. McDonald, arrived in town from Burwash in the Kluane district last Sunday. For the past three years they have been operating on upper Burwash with indifferent success.

• December 10, 1915: The new Government hospital which has been under way at this place for several months past is now practically completed, and when the furniture is installed will be ready to occupy. Read the entire article here.
• December 10, 1915: A negro woman, Florence Anderson, who has been an inmate of one of the cribs in the North End for a couple of years or more, last week married Marion Robinson, about 22 years old and thought to be a deserter from the U.S. Army. The new Mrs. Robinson was sentenced on December 8th to a year in jail for paying for $208 worth of jewelry with a cheque that was dishonored. Her husband was ordered to leave the country, and left for Skagway this morning.
• December 10, 1915: Captains William Turnbull and Jack Green, both masters of ships operated by the W. P. & Y. R., arrived here on their way outside from Rude creek where they have been since the close of navigation nearly two months ago. Rude creek is in the new field discovered last summer twenty miles back from the Yukon about 100 miles south of Dawson and 300 miles north of Whitehorse.

• December 17, 1915: Sunday afternoon, while Andy Johnston, a Dominion telegraph lineman, stationed at Nahlin, was on the trail about five miles south of his station looking after the line, a meteorite fell about twenty-five feet in front of his lead dog, and the animal was instantly killed. The team consisted of four dogs, and the other three dogs as well as Johnston himself, were rendered unconscious for several hours.
• December 17, 1915: Mrs. Marion Robinson, formerly known here as Florence Anderson, the recently wedded and convicted negress confined at the barracks under sentence of one year, was arrigned before Judge Bell yesterday on the charge of insanity. She was remanded for a period of one week during which time she will be under the professional observation of Dr. Clarke.
• December 17, 1915: For several days employes of the White Pass have been spending their spare moments chinking the cracks in the floor of the long warehouse north of the depot, with snow, to make a skating rink. Saturday many buckets of water were carried from the river and flooded over the eighty by forty foot space which will be reserved at the farther end of the building.

• December 24, 1915: Edward Benson, explorer, prospector, miner and guide, arrived last week from Kluane and will leave soon on an extended trip throughout the States, visiting a short time at his old home in St. Paul before going on to Chicago, New York, Boston and other important cities, his mission being to advertise the Kluane and Big Horn districts among big game hunters and those contemplating visits as tourists.
• December 24, 1915: Sergeant H. G. Mapley returned last Sunday morning from a patrol down the Dawson trail which took him as far as Minto. He was fifteen days away from Whitehorse. He brought back with him Policeman C. A. E. Williams, who will be here on duty until his time expires next May, W. H. Hayman, a Dawson business man bound for the outside, and C. J. Ross who is on his way to England where he will enlist for service on the front.
• December 24, 1915: Captain J. O. Williams, who has been on the Yukon river between Whitehorse and Dawson for the past seventeen years, arrived in Prince Rupert on Saturday. He intends to spend a week there studying fishing conditions, with the intention of starting halibut and cod fishing, purchasing three schooners in the south.

• December 31, 1915: A moving picture company is negotiating with Charles H. Baxter, the wellknown hunters' guide, with the view of having him conduct a picture-taking party through the game-infested wilds of this country with the object of photographing forest denizens in their native lairs.
• December 31, 1915: Last Monday witnessed the yheaviest fall of snow here ever remembered in so short a time. It is said by those who measured it to have been twelve inches in less than two hours. Train men say there is now twenty feet of snow at the summit of White Pass.
• December 31, 1915: Bob Henderson, discoverer of the Klondike, arrived at Selkirk yesterday and reports that his cabin and supplies on the McMillan river, several hundred miles up the Pelly watershed from Selkirk were burned recently, while he and his partner were out bunting. They had to strike out with snowshoes for the long mush to Selkirk, where he learned that his wife had died.

1916

January

• January 7, 1916: Details are given of the death of Ginger Stewart of Whitehorse in the trenches of France on the brilliant moonlit night of November 23, 1915.
• January 7, 1916: Fully one hundred contributed their goodwill and presence New Year's eve to make the ball at the new hospital a most brilliant success. The net proceeds of the evening, amounting to $200, will be used to help furnish the building.
• January 7, 1916: Messrs McDougal, Gillis and Gaunt, experienced diamond drill operators, are now engaged at the Grafter mine with a drill in prospecting that property in quest of additional ore deposits. At the present price of copper there should be steady work for them in this community for months to come.

• January 14, 1916: There are new music machines in town. Sergeant A. Head has lately received from New York a fine Vocaleon which is now installed in the cozy home of the Heads on Barracks Square. T. C. Richards, who returned last week from a visit to Vancouver, brought with him a new cabinet machine which grinds out nice, dreamy music.
• January 14, 1916: Ada Roberts, a native girl twelve years of age, died at the General hospital Saturday from tuberculosis. She was formerly a pupil at the Indian school near Carcross and was brought here three weeks ago. She was brought from Fortymile to the school two or three years ago. She was buried here Monday afternoon, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. W. G. Blackwell.
• January 14, 1916: Never since a stage line has been operated in Yukon have the trails been in as bad condition from drifted snow as at present. On his last trip, it took Driver Burwash from twenty to twenty four hours to make three posts usually covered in from ten to twelve hours.

• January 21, 1916: Five young men, principally Scotchmen, arrived. Monday from Dawson, having mushed out over the trail which, owing to the heavy and drifted snow, they found a laborious experience. They continued on to Skagway next day. They denied that they were going out for the purpose of enlisting for service on the front, but claimed to be heading for some place on the west coast of Alaska.
• January 21, 1916: The curling rink is complete and the game is under way - when the light is not out of business from crossed wires as was the case both Wednesday afternoon and night just when the new rink was being dedicated by two picked teams skipped by President Judge Bell and Patron Robert Lowe.
• January 21, 1916: The sourest dough in the country never saw such weather. At midnight Tuesday with a temperature of about ten below zero the wind began to howl from the north. The temperature went to forty below Wednesday night and the wind still journeyed southward at fhe rate of forty miles an hour. Streets, sidewalks and roads are blocked by drifted snow, and no stages have arrived or departed.

• January 28, 1916: Frank Pinder who left Yukon with the Boyle contingent, now has a commission in the Royal Flying Corps. He is flying about three hours each day and had flown three different machines. He has three weeks' training left. He says he could buy a machine for $6,000 and get the mail from Dawson to Whitehorse in seven hours.
• January 28, 1916: The Dawson News reports that the snowfall in the Yu- kon valley this winter promises to be a record smasher, and everywhere trails and roads are all but buried. Many roofs of business houses, residences, sheds and other buildings in the city are in danger of breaking down from the extra heavy snow now lying on them.
• January 28, 1916: Mrs. McCloskey who recently arrived from Dawson, is now located in one of D.C. Campbell's houses where she is prepared to do all kinds of sewing, cleaning, repairing and pressing. She is experienced and guarantees good work at right prices. Fur repairing a specialty.

February

• February 4, 1916: Is Alex Gagoff, convicted of murder and sentenced to hang on the 10th of next month, sane or otherwise? Friends of his in Vancouver have employed an attorney who has lodged a motion with the minister of justice at Ottawa to have Gagoff's sentence commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of insanity, the claim being that no man in his right mind would commit the crimes of which he was convicted.
• February 4, 1916: There are stil Indians and dogs in the Yukon who have never seen a horse, and recently at Ross River, an Indian named Sousa and several dogs saw Walter Lambs wood team. When offered a ride, Sousa ran to a cabin for safety, and the dogs had to be driven back by men with blacksnakes.
• February 4, 1916: There is considerable activity at Robinson in mining circles. James Powell, formerly of San Diego, has bonded for $20,000 six antimony claims from Cochran & Becker and two antimony claims from Becker & Patterson, the consideration in the latter deal being $16,000. These two claims are on what is known as Chieftain Hill. From Adam Birnie, Powell purchased the View Mineral claim outright for $5,000. Work will begin about the first of March, from 18 to 25 men being employed.

• February 11, 1916: Full investigation is now being probed into the cause of the fire which spread rapidly and completely destroyed the parliament building at Ottawa while parliament was in session last Friday night. It caused the death of seven persons and injury to scores of others. It appears that fire extinguishers had been filled with gasoline.
• February 11, 1916: For four days last week every man that could be mustered was at work on the railroad spur to the Pueblo mine, to open it after fifteen month of inactivity. There was at least eighteen hundred feet of ice across the tracks, some four or five feet deep. By Tuesday a train whistle was heard at the Pueblo, where work is rapidly getting the camp ready.
• February 11, 1916: Fears are felt for the safety of Tom Dickenson, Dud McRae and Lou Myers, who left Brooks in the Tolsvana camp, four days ago for Fairbanks. The men were to come over an unbroken trail, on which there are no roadhouses. It is sixty degrees below zero and all traffic is tied up. The snow is exceptionally deep and it is feared the three Fairbanksans have lost their way and perished.

• February 18, 1916: Martha Black has been elected a life member of the national chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire of Canada, and has also been appointed as a councillor.
• February 18, 1916: Theodore M. Watson, oldtime Yukoner, for several years engaged with his father in the hotel business at Conrad and later an employe of the White Pass company, was elected to serve on the aldermanic board of the town of Prince George at a recent election held there.
• February 18, 1916: E. J. White, editor of this paper, returned Monday of this week from a ten days trip down Lynn canal, much of that time being spent in Juneau and nearby towns. He found Juneau and adjoining towns, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane being among the latter, enjoying more and greater prosperity than he had witnessed anywhere in the north since the boom days of Dawson fifteen years ago.

• February 25, 1916: Administrator George Williams returned to Dawson last evening after a visit to the southern end of the territory, and reports that the overland trail was drifted worse than ever before. In many places the snow slid off the hills in avalanches, and the old road simply had to be abandoned and a new course taken farther out.
• February 25, 1916: Claud H. Dech, foreman of the Star office for the past thirty-two months, during which timg he never lost a day, left Tuesday for Skagway, Juneau and the west coast of Alaska where he will cast his lot with one of the new towns on the Goverhment railroad. A. M. Rousseau arrived from Skagway a few days ago and has taken Mr. Dech's position in this office.
• February 25, 1916: A. F. Zipf, traffic manager of the White Pass, announced in Seattle that if the government decides to begin the construction of the railroad from Fairbanks and toward the coast it will increase materially the American Yukon Navigation company's fleet, both on the Tanana and on the lower Yukon.

March

• March 3, 1916: Lowell Jackson Thomas, a young college professor, writer and all around live one who visited this part of the country last year, taking in the Midnight Sun excursion and seeing as much of the country in a month as most people would see in four years, is now professor of oratory in a New Jersey college and, when not instructing future spell-binders and dome resounders, is busy boosting for Alaska and Yukon.
• March 3, 1916: A Leap Year dance, complimentary to the people of Whitehorse, was given in the name of the ladies connected with the Loyal Order of Mooee at the N. S. A. A. hall Tuesday evening. A large crowd was in attendance. The spirit of Leap Year was carried out in more than name, as every other dance until midnight was made ladies' choice.
• March 3, 1916: While at work at the Pueblo mine last Friday forenoon William Ford, blacksmith, was severely injured by the overturning of a tipple. He sustained a severe cut on the head, a badly bruised shoulder and arm and a broken hip. He is now in the hospital, where he is doing as well as could be expected. He suffers considerable pain and will not likely be out for several months.

• March 10, 1916: "The Stroller", E. J. White, announces in his column that he is going to be leaving the Yukon after nearly 12 years in Whitehorse and a total of 16½ years in the territory.
• March 10, 1916: To the extent that the taking of one life would atone for four others, the murder of the railroad section crew three miles south of town on the 30th of last September was expiated this morning when, promptly at 7 o'clock, Murderer Alex Gagoff was launched into eternity, being hanged by the neck until dead as the sentence of the court decreed he should be. The temperature was 36 below zero.
• March 10, 1916: General Manager Greenough of the Yukon Copper Co., says that the work of pumping out the Pueblo mine is progressing rapidly, and work on the 200-foot level can be be started by the 15th. Fifty hard rock men are expected by the latter part of next week.

• March 17, 1916: A. M. Rousseau is now editor of The Weekly Star - the March 17th edition is the final one compiled by E. J. White.
• March 17, 1916: A recent Seattle exchange says the American Yukon Navigation Co. is carrying on the most persistent advertising campaign in its history, as it wants to induce all tourists to make a trip through the interior.
• March 17, 1916: The first twelve days of March averaged at this place twenty-five degrees below zero and conditions are but little improved even yet. Something like a dozen ship carpenters who arrived a week ago to go to work are standing around shivering and debating whether it will be cheaper to return to the outside and wait for spring, or buy heavier underclothes.

• March 24, 1916: On March 12th, when Ed Reeves, driver of a W. P. freight stage going north, reached a point on Bonanza creek about ten miles south of Dawson his team, consisting of four horses, went through the snow crust over a crevasse in a submerged glacier and one of the animals was drowned. There were no passengers on board. Besides staples the stage was loaded with a large quantity of eggs and fruit, which was all saved.
• March 24, 1916: The W. P. caterpiller freighter left Thursday of last week for the head of Thirtymile river on a trail breaking trip preparatory to entering on the spring work of transporting goods down the river and over Lake Lebarge to the boats that are in winter quarters at the foot of the lake waiting for the water to open between there and lower river points.
• March 24, 1916: Charles Petit, who has been trapping on the Hitchcock mountain, twenty-five miles north of Atlin, reached town last night and gave himself up to the authorities, stating that he had just killed his partner Alex Swanson, having mistaken him for a moose.

• March 31, 1916: Early Sunday morning word was received that the body of a man named Knox had been found near the Carmacks stage station with the throat cut from ear to ear - a case of supposed suicide. Knox formerly worked on Bonanza creek near Dawson, but for the past few years has been with Mack Bros, at Carmack. He was about 40 years old.
• March 31, 1916: Joe Brewer, the pioneer fox farmer of Yukon Territory, arrived from the 100-mile landing on the Hootalinqua, 20 miles below Lake Teslin, last Friday with a single dog attached to his sled, bringing with him a quantity of furs consisting of 100 mink, 6 cross fox and 6 silver grey fox, valued at over $300. His partner Bill Geary stayed at home to look after the ranch and its inmates.
• March 31, 1916: Photographer Jerry Doody, a partner at one time of E. J. Hamacher, put on a three-round display of scientific boxing with Duke Alexander at the Moose hall in Dawson on March 16. It was described as "a twinkling serio-comedy."

April

• April 7, 1916: Descriptions are published about several Yukoners serving in Europe, or about to leave for service.
• April 7, 1916: On the Princess Sophia, which is due in Skagway on Sunday from Vancouver, will be brought north a shipment of 16 head of beef cattle for P. Burns & Co., which upon their arrival in Whitehorse, will be slaughtered for the home market according to demand. Later a shipment of live sheep will also be brought in for the same purpose.
• April 7, 1916: The Postoffice Department at Ottawa has sent out notices to be conspicuously displayed in all postoffices in the Dominion, to the following effect: 'Smoking spitting, loitering, noisy behavior, in this postoffice, and defacing or interfering with postoffice notices in any way, are strictly forbidden.'

• April 14, 1916: F. F. W. Lowle, the general agent of the C. P. R. at Skagway, returned recently from a visit to points between there and Seattle and stated the coming season is now assured as a bumper one as far as tourists are concerned. All the Eastern tourist agencies are boosting the Alaska trip, partly on account of better and more correct knowledge of the country and partly on account of the glowing stories taken back by the visitors of past seasons.
• April 14, 1916: About two weeks ago a woman, the wife of a Teslin lake Indian named Johnson, died at the temporary camp of the members of that tribe who have wintered about six miles out of Whitehorse. These Indians, with another band that has been encamped between here and Champagne Landing, are now preparing to leave for their homes and will take with them the body of the woman for burial there.
• April 14, 1916: Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Wilson of this place have just received word that Frank, Jr., 18 years of age and the younger of their two sons, for the past two years a student in the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, had enlisted for overseas service in the 196th Western University Battalion of the University of B. C.

• April 21, 1916: In anticipation of the large tourist travel expected during the coming summer as well as the promised increase in both passenger and freight traffic owing to the building of the railroad in Alaska, Foreman Al. Henderson of the B. Y. N. shipyards of Whitehorse is now busily engaged with a large force of ship carpenters, painters and decorators in remodeling, repairing, changing and putting in all the modern conveniences in the comany's boats.
• April 21, 1916: Victor Wisti, the Finnish miner who was injured so badly at the Pueblo mine on the afternoon of April 6th, passed away at the General hospital early Monday morning, April 17th. Read the entire article here.
• April 21, 1916: From "Happy" Burnside, one of the partners interested in the Tallyho group of gold-silver-lead quartz claims in the Wheaton district, who is now in Whitehorse, we learn that a renewal of development work is contemplated on these valuable properties at an early date, the intrease in the price of lead to 8½c. per pound making this desirable result possible.

• April 28, 1916: George Wade Williams, the only son of Administrator and Mrs. Geo. N. Williams, passed away on April 9th at the Good Samaritan hospital in Dawson after an illness of nineteen days from Bright's disease. While the young man had not been feeling himself for the last three weeks, it was thought to be only temporary until just about the last, when he suddenly took a turn for the worse and sank rapidly. H was born in Dawson March 29, 1900.
• April 28, 1916: F. M. Ferguson and wife of Okanogan arrived from the outside a few days ago on their way into the Alsek country, where Mr. Ferguson has stream platinum and placer ground on Inlet creek which he intends to work this summer. Mr. Ferguson is an old-timer in the north, having stampeded into the Bullion creek country twelve years ago.
• April 28, 1916: Although our own face is somewhat streaked with grime we like to see that of our neighbor bright and shining, and hence it is that we urge each resident of Whitehorse to start at once and clean up and get rid of the unsightly rubbish that has accumulated in the streets, alleys and backyards during the past winter. We promise to follow suit at the earliest possible moment we can find time to take the matter up.

May

• May 5, 1916: Immediately after the adjournment of the annual meeting of the General Hospital board at the N. S. A. A. hall on Saturday night an informa! discussion was taken up by those who remained regarding the advisability of obserying Victoria Day this year in the same quiet manner that the program was carried out last year. It was agreed that it would be the proper thing to do.
• May 5, 1916: Sunnyside Dairy of Skagway, A. J. Baker, proprietor, is shipping fresh milk and cream daily to all points on the White Pass Railway.
• May 5, 1916: On Sunday, May 7, the Yukon Cafe will serve a turkey dinner at the usual dinner hour in the evening. None but the best white help is employed in this model establishment while polite and prompt service are also features that commend the Yukon Cafe to its patrons.

• May 12, 1916: On April 30th at 6 p.m., Ernest Young left Jim Boss' roadhouse on the west side of Lebarge, intending to come to Whitehorse via Tahkini crossing. He got badly lost, however. After five nights and four days he stumbled upon the home of Dutch Henry and his large family. They nursed him back to health, and soon after leaving again for Whitehorse, now in the company of Dutch Henry, he met a launch in charge of a R. N. W. M. P. patrol searching for him.
• May 12, 1916: The Whitehorse Silver Black Fox Co. hereby warns all persons against loitering around and peeping over or through its enclosure. Any violations of this notice will be dealt with promptly. Chas. S. Eisenhauer, Manager.
• May 12, 1916: Chas. H. Baxter, wife and six-year-old son arrived from their home in Los Angeles, Sunday, and left for Kluane lake and the headwaters of the White river on Thursday. Mr. Baxter is a guide for big game hunters and this is his seventh season in the country. He left here with ten horses which he brought in with him from the outside and will pick up six more when he reaches Bear creek that he left there last fall.

• May 19, 1916: The Peoples Prohibition Movement of Yukon Territory has completed organization at Dawson and is petitioning for establishment of prohibition throughout the territory as soon as possible.
• May 19, 1916: Captain Hill Barrington and wife and about half a dozen others who left Whitehorse in launches last week expecting to take dog teams from the head to the foot of Lake Lebarge, returned on Friday evening, having found it impossible to make the journey on account of the rotten condition of the ice. They were under the guidance of Billy Williams and an Indian, who mushed in front of the dog teams and tested the ice with pike poles.
• May 19, 1916: Dr. A. P. Hawes is now spinning ground town in his new Ford runabout which he received from Vancouver on Tuesday's train. Ransom Alguire bought the new Ford machine recently brought in by W. A. Puckett and the latter has already ordered another from the factory. Read two articles about these Fords here.

• May 26, 1916: The skeleton of a man found on the Nahinni river, a tributary of the Liard, last winter, has been identified as a man named Weir. He went prospecting on the Nahinni in 1908 with two brothers named McLeod. The brother perished during the following winter, and Weir disappeared.
• May 26, 1916: Tuesday morning the open ground space to the north of the depot platform was filled with a half dozen new Ford automobiles, lending to that part of town a somewhat citified air. Four of the machines had arrived from the outside on Monday's train and were consigned to J. P. Whitney, Isaac Taylor, W. A. Puckett and M. J. Thompson.
• May 26, 1916: To provide additional safeguards for the anticipated greatly increased number of passengers over its river division this summer the W. P. & Y. R. is putting new lifeboats on the thirteen of its vessels plying between Whitehorse and Dawson. All the life belts on these boats are also being thoroughly over hauled.

June

• June 2, 1916: F. X. Gosselin, ex-gold commissioner, and since his retirement from that office a prominent member of the Yukon territory bar, was found dead the morning of May 31st in the bath room of the Yukonia hotel at Dawson. Heart failure was the cause of his death. He was 55 years of age.
• June 2, 1916: A man named Martin had one of his arms broken while working at the Pueblo mine Monday and another named Eaton had three spike nails driven through his foot when a heavy piece of timber to which they were attached fell and struck him.
• June 2, 1916: Qn Wednesday a fire started in the woods about a mile to the west of town and would doubtless have proved a disastrous affair had it not been for the prompt action of the authorities and a sudden cessation of the wind that had been blowing. Yesterday's rain removed all further danger from this source.

• June 9, 1916: As anticipated for two weeks previously, one of the largest crowds that has visited Whitehorse in years came over on June 3d from Skagway to join with us in the observance of the King's Birthday. These, added to the large number of transients already here awaiting the departure of river steamers, more than filled every available public accommodation, and the White Pass made several ships available for guests.
• June 9, 1916: Chas. Gravel, who claims he is a Belgian, but whose recent actions throw a doubt on his assertion, was arrested by the police in the Commercial hotel bar Tuesday for using language of such a heinous, vulgar and profane character in reference to the King, the flag, the police force and the people of Great Britain generally, that the most of it is unprintable.
• June 9, 1916: Word has been received that H. E. Porter, has died on the headwaters of the Stewart river. Deceased was a pioneer of Whitehorse, being the original locator of the Pueblo copper mine. He was also one of the first to locate in the Wheaton district, being the discoverer of the Carbon Hill property.

• June 16, 1916: Albert E. "Buster" Browne, who joined the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1912 and was stationed at different times in Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria, Whitehorse and Dawson, has written a letter to Mrs. W. L. Phelps, and a portion of it was printed. Mr. Browne enlisted with the Boyle contingent in Dawson in 1914 but later transferred to an English regiment in order that he might go to the front.
• June 16, 1916: The steamship Princess Ena of the C. P. R. Line, reached Skagway last Tuesday with 79 head of cattle, 155 hogs, 40 tons of powder and 170 tons of freight for interior points.
• June 16, 1916: Miss Cassie Henderson, daughter of Robert Henderson, discoverer of the Klondike, was married on the evening of June 8th on the steamer Casca when 12 miles above Dawson. The groom was Irvine Growther, employed with the Yukon Gold on one of the dredges on Bonanza.

• June 23, 1916: The wood camp of Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & Co., located on a small island in the Yukon river below the mouth of the Little Salmon, was visited by fire the fore part of the week and destroyed 72 of the 80 cords of wood piled up there waiting to be transferred on to the river boats for fuel.
• June 23, 1916: Wednesday of last week a disastrous fire, whereby the greater portion of the business section of the town was laid in ashes, swept over Atlin. This was the second visitation of the kind to occur there within the past few months. Losses are estimated at approximately $200,000. The fire started in a hotel building owned by Louis Schulz.
• June 23, 1916: Sunday afternoon a refreshing rain shower descended on Whitehorse and vicinity and continued almost uninterruptedly for several hours. Sufficient moisture fell to for a time lay the smother of dust that has been gradually growing worse for the past two or three weeks, and to sweeten and clarify the atmosphere and to again make life worth the living.

• June 30, 1916: For the past week the heat has been very oppressive in the southern portion of Yukon Territory. This condition has doubtless been caused to a greater or less extent by forest fires that are reported to be raging in the vicinity of Tagish and Marah lakes, as well as to one that started sometime Monday in the region between Whitehorse and Carcross.
• June 30, 1916: The new tourist hotel being put up at Atlin by the White Pass & Yukon Route will be completed in about two weeks. The building is 50x100 feet, four stories, and fitted up with modern conveniences such as electric lights, etc. The ground floor is taken up entirely with dining room, lobby and a combined observation and smoking room.
• June 30, 1916: Frank Wilson and family, the first of the Ear lake contingent of summer campers, left for that delightful summer resort on Wednesday. Sunday, an extremely warm day, many people went to the lake and spent the afternoon bathing and boat riding. The pond about a mile to the north of town is also attracting a good deal of attention from bathers.

July

• July 7, 1916: Driver Webster after handling the ribbons on a mail stage between here and Dawson all winter is now busily engaged in enlarging, repairing and fitting up the B. Y. N. Co. stables, over which is located the harness shop of the company, run under the skilled workmanship and efficient management of Jack Cole.
• July 7, 1916: The funeral of E. W. Achison, the Skagway pioneer who was drowned on Wednesday afternoon of last week in the river about four miles above that place, was held there Sunday afternoon and was attended by a large number of people. The deceased was a highly respected citizen of that town, where he had lived since 1898. He leaves a widow and nine children to mourn his loss.
• July 7, 1916: Superintendent of Indian Affairs John Hawksley returned from Carcross Monday where he had been for several days inspecting the Chooutla Indian school, which is located about two miles from that place and is under the superintendency of Rev. W. T. Townsend, who is assisted in his work by Mr. Johnson. There are now 34 pupils at Chooutla who are clothed and fed by a federal appropriation amounting to about $200 each annually.

• July 14, 1916: Ed Dixon, with Bob Jones on the oars, took Lowell Jackson Thomas on a thrilling ride through Miles Canyon and the Whitehorse rapids, recorded by the moving picture machine of E. J. Hamacher and Jack McDonald. Read the entire article here.
• July 14, 1916: The longshoremen on the dock at Whitehorse, who had been getting 40 and 50 cents an hour, according to the work they were engaged in, on Saturday requested an increase in pay to 75 cents per hour and upon being refused walked out the same night. Their places were at once filled with a crew of Indians, who have since been doing the work.
• July 14, 1916: The steamer White Horse brought up about 200 tons of coal on a barge from the Five Fingers coal mine on Tuesday. Wednesday it was being loaded on cars for transportation to different points along the line of the railroad for the use of the White Pass company.

• July 21, 1916: Crown Land and Timber Agent George P. Mackenzie of Dawson has received instructions from Ottawa to the effect that the Yukon land regulations have been amended whereby tracts of land for agricultural purposes may be acquired by purchase instead of only by homesteading.
• July 21, 1916: The net sum of $1079.36 was derived by the American Woman's club of Dawson from the Fourth of July picnic held there. The entire find will be turned over to the patriotic cause.
• July 21, 1916: The Yukon Cafe closed its doors to the public Sunday night. This establishment was opened last spring by Mrs. Dorcas Joyce, and under her management was conducted in an up-to-date manner, the table at all times being supplied with all the market afforded, a good cook was employed and the patrons served by polite and attentive waiters. The closing of the Cafe is much regretted by its patrons.

• July 28, 1916: A special train arrived in Whitehorse Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock on board of which were Dr. Wm. J. Roche, minister of the interior for Canada, and daughter Mrs. Carlisle, and Lt. Col. Alfred Thompson, M. D. member of parliament for Yukon, wife and daughter Alfreda. A tour of the area was conducted, followed by a public meeting at the N. S. A. A. hall which brought an over-capacity crowd.
• July 28, 1916: Upon the arrival at this port from Dawson Monday of the steamer Dawson the firemen, deckhands and waiters askked for an increase of pay and upon being refused, walked out and have since declined to return until their demands are complied with.
• July 28, 1916: W. H. Simpson, who will oversee the construction of the new high school addition, informs us that the material for the same will be here within the next week, that work will then commence immediately and the building be completed within thirty days thereafter.

August

• August 4, 1916: The Lakinaw and Tagish Mines Co. has bonded what is known as the Conrad properties on Little Windy Arm, about twelve miles northeast of Carcross, and for the past month or more have had a crew of fourteen men employed in putting the Venus mine in shape for work and thereafter in getting out about 50 tons of gold-silver-lead ore for shipment to the Tacoma Smelter. The bond also covers Venus No. 2, the M. & M, and several other adjoining claims and what is known as the Montana group.
• August 4, 1916: The flagship Vidette of the Side Streams fleet returned to Dawson on July 24th from a trip to the celebrated scenic resort of Fraser Falls, at the head of the Stewart river. Among those who made the round trip were twelve sight-seers and Dr. and Mrs. Norman E. Culbertson, who went on their honeymoon.
• August 4, 1916: Two miners named Olson and Brown met death Sunday by asphyxiation at the Ruby Silver and Silver Queen mine, located near Pavey on Lake Bennett. The fatality occurred at early hour in the morning and was the result of the men entering the tunnel too soon after the discharge of a blast and being overcome by the gas generated therefrom.

• August 11, 1916: Chas. McConnell, owner of the Robinson roadhouse, was married at Carcross last week to Miss Florence Parvin, of London, England, Archdeacon Canham officiating. Mr. McConnell is a pioneer in Southern Yukon, while the bride formerly acted as stenographer for James Powell, late manager of the Howe & Powell interests in the Wheaton mining district.
• August 11, 1916: Manager J. C. Newmarch and Paying Teller V. Hughes of the Canadian Bank of Commerce went to Champagne Landing Saturday afternoon in the former's auto, making the 65 mile run in about five hours. The road is said to be in excellent condition all the way.
• August 11, 1916: Tom Dickson, game warden in the Kluane lake region, declares that coyotes are getting so numerous in that section that unless something is immediately done to exterminate them they will, within the next three years, either kill or run out of the country all the game as well as many of the fur bearing animals that now range in the valleys, hills and mountains.

• August 18, 1916: The Yukon Chapter I. O. D. E. places itself on record as being willing to promote the interests and encourage the vote for prohibition, which is to take place in this territory August 30, 1916.
• August 18, 1916: Saturday morning of next week the Boy Scouts of Whitehorse, under the supervision of Rev. C. Swanson, will start on a three days' camping trip to Fish lake, which is west of the Arctic Chief copper mine and about twelve miles distant from Whitehorse. They will return home Monday.
• August 18, 1916: The Royal Mail stage from Silver, driven by Bob Newson and having one passenger, was almost run into Tuesday night between 9 and 10 o'clock when about two miles north of Whitehorse on the government road by an auto going at a high rate of speed without headlights or warning signal of horn to indicate its approach.

• August 25, 1916: Saturday evening at 8:30 o'clock Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Wood, wife of Archibald Wood, while walking along the government road at the foot of the bluff just west of town, was attacked by valvular heart trouble, from which she had long been a sufferer, and before medica] aid could be obtained, had passed to the Great Beyond. Read the entire article here.
• August 25, 1916: Dr. Malte, connected with the federal agricultural department, has arranged with the management of the Boyle concession for the setting aside of a ten acre tract of land at the mouth of Bonanza creek to be used as an experimental farm, the department of agriculture to furnish all necessary seeds and the Boyle intests to do the work under and by the advice of government experts.
• August 25, 1916: There are about 276 tons of lower river freight now here, principally for Fairbanks and Nenana. There are also 76 head of cattle and nine horses for Fairbanks. This freight will be cleaned up on the next trip of the lower river boats out of Dawson. To clean up the live stock the steamer Dawson will shortly clear from Whitehorse to Fairbanks direct.

September

• September 1, 1916: Returns in prohibition plebiscite held August 30, from 28 precincts, indicate that the "wets" have won the day by a small majority; so small, in fact, that it could be reversed if the remaining precincts should give a solid vote in favor of prehibition measure; but this seems so improbable that it is hardly worth considering.
• September 1, 1916: Shortly after 9 o'clock Friday morning of last week Roy W. Eaton was instantly killed while working in the pipe shaft of the Pueblo mine, with his head and shoulders projecting through a small opening into the main shaft, upon which he was making some repairs. He was struck by an ascending cage. Read the entire lengthy article here.
• September 1, 1916: Considerable grading has been done within the past few days on the streets enclosing the block on which is situated the new General hospital. The appearance of that part of town has been greatly improved thereby.

• September 8, 1916: Thomas W. O'Brien of Dawson, one of the pioneers of Yukon and during his 29 years residence in the Territory one of its most progressive and influential citizens, passed away at St. Mary's hospital in Dawson, on the night of August 24 after an illness of several weeks, from liver trouble. He was 54 years of age.
• September 8, 1916: W. D. Young, lay missionary of the Anglican church, well-known in Southern Yukon, at one time a resident of Conrad and later in charge of the Reading room at Carcross, reached Dawson last week from Kittygarzuit, a missionary station lying on the Arctic coast east of the mouth of the Mackenzie river.
• September 8, 1916: The Nasutlin will leave soon for the Mayo district with a dredging outfit destined for Highet creek. Kennan Knott is in charge of the dredge, which will be placed on the Middlecoff claim upon which an option has been secured by the Klasco Dredge Co. of Mayo.

• September 15, 1916: There is an epidemic of measles among the inhabitants of the Indian village just north of Whitehorse and out of the dozen or more afflicted with the disease two have died and there are others in precarious condition.
• September 15, 1916: On Saturday afternoon, William Martin was killed at the Pueblo mine while being hoisted in a bucket after quitting work for the day. Read the entire lengthy article here.
• September 15, 1916: Miss Margaret McCarter, eldest daughter of Postmaster and Mrs. Alexander McCarter of Dawson, arrived in Whitehorse on the Casca Tuesday morning. She is on her way to England to marry Charles K. Thornback, formerly a member of the R.N.W.M.P. at Dawson.

• September 22, 1916: The new high school addition to the public school building is now completed with the exception of the furnace. The structure is 24x30 feet, with 12 foot ceiling, and is finished on the inside with dressed natural Douglas fir in alternating perpendicular and diagonal panels, which produce an attractive and artistic effect.
• September 22, 1916: A man named McKillican, hailing from Fairbanks, arrived on the Selkirk Sunday and was taken from the boat in an unconscious condition to the General hospital, where he died Monday between 3 and 4 p. m., without regaining his senses. He was aged about 50 years. Read the entire article and another from Fairbanks here.
• September 22, 1916: Thomas Martindale, who for several years past has visited the Yukon, Northern British Columbia and Alaska in search of big game, died in camp Sept. 18th about forty miles east of Log Cabin. He was 70 years of age and was a writer of some renown. Among his writings is "Hunting Big Game in the Upper Yukon."

• September 29, 1916: James Ryder received a letter from Jimmy Salvatore, one of the Whitehorse boys now on the firing line in France. In it, he gives a glimpse of life in the trenches close to the German lines, with gas alarms going off, British aircraft overhead, and German artillery shells roaring past them.
• September 29, 1916: Constable Foster was released from quarantine Wednesday after having spent thirty days in the detention camp just north of town where Indian measles patients were being taken care of. Mrs. Jack Parker, who went to camp about two weeks ago to nurse and look after the females and juveniles, was also relieved from duty Wednesday. The epidemic been completely stamped out. There were two deaths, an old woman and a child.
• September 29, 1916: The gasoline launch Maple Leaf, the property of H. O. Lokken of Yukon Crossing, which had been stored here in charge of E. J. Hamacher for some time, was put in the river the other day by its owner, who after loading the boat with a lot of supplies left for home.

October

• October 6, 1916: A slide of clay from the high bluff on the west side of the railroad track about a mile south of town Thursday morning covered the track for a short distance to a depth of four or five feet and delayed the regular southbound train tor several hours.
• October 6, 1916: Lieut. John Pringle, a resident of Dawson when his father, the Rev. John Pringle, was in charge of the Presbyterian church there, has died a hero in Europe. While advancing towards the German trenches, Lieut. Pringle discovered a concealed machine gun, and single-handed charged and killed the whole crew with his revolver. He was then killed by an enemy bullet.
• October 6, 1916: The last boat of the year for the lower river sailed from Dawson shortly after midnight last night. It has two large barges, both loaded to capacity with consignments for every point en route. A great deal of the freight is material for the new steel bridge across the Chena at Fairbanks, and the steel railroad bridge that will span the Tanana river at Nenana.

• October 13, 1916: Stories on the front page detail the unrelated deaths of two more Whitehorse boys in Europe - Jack Taylor, 24 years old, and George M. "Happy" Chapman.
• October 13, 1916: Thursday of last week E. J. Hamacher left for Dawson in the gasoline launch Whitehorse, taking with him for inspection of wood camps Fuel Agent Joseph Wilson of the White Pass.
• October 13, 1916: The U.S. harbor boat Jacobs, Capt. Dephew, master, arrived here from Ft. Gibbon, Alaska, at 11 o'clock last night and will be placed on the ways at the B. Y. N. shipyards for the winter. Her crew numbers 21 men. The vessel is to undergo repairs while here.

• October 20, 1916: It was the intention of the people of Whitehorse to entertain the whole of the last levy of the Yukon contingent upon the arrival of Capt Black and his Dawson recruits, but it was learned that the Casca would arrive with barely enough time to catch the train for Skagway to make connections with the boat for Vancouver. The Whitehorse boys, however were given a royal send-off.
• October 20, 1916: Supt. Jack Sherman of the Big Thing mine in the Conrad district, confirms the account we published last week of the recovery of the lost lead, and says that work will be pushed vigorously all winter on the property. He has at present eleven miners at work.
• October 20, 1916: According to late reports, the Indians living at Klockshu lake, near Dalton Post, are afflicted with the measles, although no deaths from the disease are known to have occurred.

• October 27, 1916: George Norris Williams was appointed administrator for the Yukon Territory last week, with the power and authority of the commissioner. Captain George Black still remains commissioner during his war service overseas.
• October 27, 1916: The last river boats, The Dawson and Nasutlin, arrived in Whitehorse on October 23rd, closing the navigation season.
• October 27, 1916: Robert Smart, former government assayer here, now manager of the Nisling Mining Co., arrived early in the week on his way to Dayton, Wash., where the head office of the company is located. He will return in December to ship to Nansen creek, over the ice, about 17 tons of freight now at the steamboat landing at Carmacks as well as several additional tons which he will bring with him from Vancouver.

November

• November 3, 1916: Capt. Bailey of the steamer Nasutlin took that vessel down to Lower Lebarge last week where he placed her on the ways for the winter. While there he also hauled the Vidette out of water and put two barges belonging to the White Pass in an eddy, where they will be safe from destruction during the run of ice this fall and next spring.
• November 3, 1916: The recently organized Pacific Steamship Company, on November 1st brought together the fleets of the Pacific Coast Steamship company and the Pacific Alaska Navigation company, making twenty-two vessels under the same flag.
• November 3, 1916: Last week an Indian, Big Salmon Jim, brought in the carcass of a small black bear which he had killed near Marsh lake. When dressed the meat looked white, tender and toothsome, but we didn't care for any, thank you.

• November 10, 1916: On August 25 this year, Roy W. Eaton was killed in an accident at the Pueblo. He was the principal support of a widowed mother who lives in Vancouver, and this becoming known, one of the miners, Owney McFadden, raised $850 at the mines and in Whitehorse, and forwarded it to her. Her letter of thanks was printed.
• November 10, 1916: The roads in Whitehorse and vicinity are the finest ever known. Since the snowfall of several inches a couple of weeks ago the weather has been fluctuating between 5 and 20 above, keeping the snow in perfect condition. Sleighing by both horse and dog team, as well as autoing, are the best ever.
• November 10, 1916: Collector of Customs Fred. Maclennan and wife have good cause to feel proud of their three patriotic sons, the elder of whom has, since the commencement of the war, been in active service, while the two younger, Fred Jr. and Jack, but recently offered themselves, were accepted and are now in training, one at Victoria and the other at Vancouver.

• November 17, 1916: "Northern Lights," the quarterly journal of the Chooutla Indian schoolat Carcross, has made its November apppearance. This paper was set up and printed by Alfred Ellis, Frederick Boss and David Lwatlatyi, pupils of the school.
• November 17, 1916: A deal was closed November 9 by the Alaska S. S. Company, whereby the two steel freighters, the Stanley Dollar and Henry T. Scott, became the property of that company, the purchase price of the two big ships being one million dollars. By the acquisition of these vessels, the fleet of the Alaska Steamship company is increased to a total of seventeen ships.
• November 17, 1916: Born at 4:45 and 6:30 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 15, to Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Clarke, twin boys. The innocents were not destined long for this world, however, as one passed out at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the day of its birth and the other at 4 o'clock a. m. Thursday. The funerals were conducted from the General hospital Thursday.

• November 24, 1916: The changes and improvements wrought in the appearance of the N. S. A. A. hall during the past few weeks by a busy lot of efficient workers has given the town of Whitehorse one of the most up-to-date places for public entertainments and its members the cosiest, most comfortable quarters of any like organization in the north.
• November 24, 1916: H. C. Wilson, representative of the United States Interstate Commerce commission, after finishing his investigation at Cordova into the charges of excessive and discriminatory rates of railroad and steamship companies hauling freight and passengers to Alaska, is now in Juneau for the same purpose.
• November 24, 1916: In the past week, copper ore has been shipped out by the Anaconda, Copper King, War Eagle, Pueblo and Grafter mines. The Pueblo is making large shipments daily. The ore went to the Granby smelter at Anyox except for that of the Grafter, which went south on the barge Bonanza to the Tacoma smelter.

December

• December 1, 1916: The Women's Protective League of Dawson is now circulating a petition which, when a sufficient number of signatures have been secured, will be forwarded to Ottawa, praying for woman suffrage in Yukon. Read the entire article and petition here.
• December 1, 1916: At almost any hour of the afternoon or early evening now parties of merry skaters may be seen swiftly skimming over the surface of the pond just north of ftown, the waters of which in the summer time are utilized for pleasure and the removal of superfluous dirt but are now congealed into a smooth and almost adamantine hardness.
• December 1, 1916: An interesting letter has been received from Capt. G. R. Pearkes, who left here with the 2nd C. M. R. in March, 1915. After joining, he was immediately given the rank of corporal. For carrying to safety some wounded soldiers, while he himself was severely injured, he was granted a commission in the unit, and he was recently made bombing officer. He soon rose to be captain, and now is to be given his majority.

• December 8, 1916: Through the efforrs of the British Empire club of Dawson the whereabouts of nearly 70 Youkons who are actively fighting at the front have been ascertained, and the Curling club on Saturday, Nov. 25, opened the season of 1916-17 with a grand patriotic bonspiel, with an entry fee of $1.00 each to participants, the entire proceeds to be used in the purchase of field comforts for the Dawson boys at the front.
• December 8, 1916: The tram car at the Grafter mine used for transporting ore down a 200 foot incline from the workings to the bunkers alongside the railroad track, got away Tuesday from the man who had charge of it, while going down loaded, and all that was left of it was a pile of kindling wood. Fortunately no one was hurt.
• December 8, 1916: Word was received here Wednesday of the death at Haines on December 2d, of old "Kasko," father-in-law of Chief Jim Boss, of the Lake Lebarge tribe of natives.

• December 15, 1916: Despite the shortage of labor in the Atlin mining district the gold output for the season has been greater than for any year since the big rush in 1898.
• December 15, 1916: Friday night of last week the thermometer went to 48 below in Whitehorse. Saturday a strong wind set in from the south, drifting the snow badly in exposed places, but sending the mercury up until it registered 30 above, between which figures and 10 above it has remained ever since.
• December 15, 1916: Major George Randolph Pearkes, formerly in the R. N. W. M. P. at Whitehorse, who left here with the 2nd C. M. R., has been awarded the Military Cross. Lieut. R. J. Burde of Port Alberni, who started the Weekly Tribune in Whitehorse 1n 1900, has also been awarded the Military Cross, for zeal and untiring energy in the performance of duty under fire on the field of battle in France.

• December 22, 1916: H. E. Goldburg, Vancouver fur dealer, last Monday bought three handsome silver grey fox skins from Sam Chambers of Carcross. The animals from which the pelts were taken were eight months old and the fur in prime condition. The seller received a substantial price for the product of his ranch, the first time, we understand, in the history of the fox industry at Carcross, wherein a raiser of foxes has been fully compensated for his time, labor and expense in putting his fur on the market.
• December 22, 1916: Jimmy Richards a few days ago got a contract from the Pueblo mine to saw 600 cords of wood and started Wednesday with his machine to commence work. The wood sawing outfit was too heavy for the team that was hauling it to negotiate the steep hill west of town so they had to lay over until Thursday morning when additional horse power was procured.
• December 22, 1916: Sunday afternoon an extra train was run over from Skagway for the accommodation of 24 miners who had arrived there from Juneau on a gas boat and were anxious to reach their destination at the Pueblo mine.

• December 29, 1916: Ed Biederman has been carrying the mail on the Circle-Eagle run the last thirteen winters, but the one last week came near being his last. He had a fine team of seven dogs and a toboggan with sixty pounds of mail. When passing Charley creek, Ed was running ahead of the dogs to find if the ice was safe, but crashed through the ice and was in the water to his waist. Joe Slaven helped him get out and dry out at 35 below zero.
• December 29, 1916: Christmas Day was passed very quietly in Whitehorse. There were no public entertainments but many of the good housewives of the town prepared bounteous feasts of good things and invited a few of their friends in to partake of it with them.
• December 29, 1916: A curious accident recently happened at a trapper's cabin on the Little Twelve-mile, on the Klondike river, four miles above the Hay ranch. A wolverine got in and proceeded to destroy everything. In his efforts he tossed a loaded rifle into the fire. It heated up and went off, sending a bullet into the wolverine's heart. His skin measured 4 feet 7¾ inches.

1917

January

• January 5, 1917: During 1916 the exports from Southern Yukon amounted to approximately $1,000,000, $94,000 being raw furs and the other $906,000 copper and other ores. All of the furs and about 50 per cent of the ores were exported to the U.S. and the remainder of the ores to smelters in British Columbia.
• January 5, 1917: The vaudeville performance at the N. S. A. A. hall last Friday by home talent was in its excellence far beyond the moat optimistic imaginings of what its merits would prove to be, for it is seldom that amateur actors are found so letter perfect in their parts.
• January 5, 1917: The copper miners of the Whitehorse district have been notified by the management of the Granby smelter at Anyox that it will be impossible to handle any more of their ores until next March. The smelter is run by water and the recent cold weather has so greatly reduced the volume of the power supply that a portion of the plant had to be closed down,.

• January 12, 1917: White Pass & Yukon Route has announced the construction of two new steamers to take care of its increasing tourist traffic between Caribou and Taku and on Atlin lake.
• January 12, 1917: Saturday morning of last week Angus D. McInnes, a guest at the Commercial hotel for the past several months, was arrested by the R. N. W. M. P., charged with having entered the rooms of other guests during the previous night and feloniously appropriating their possessions in the shape of money. He was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
• January 12, 1917: For the past four years Ransom Alguire has been putting in much of his spare time in prospecting for the ledge on the Sandon copper claim, which lies between the Pueblo and War Eagle mines, and the other day he struck a twelve inch vein of fine looking ore with a cross-cut tunnel at a depth of about twelve feet from the surface of the outcrop.

• January 19, 1917: On January 13, Mrs. Clara Dixon of Whitehorse was killed and her husband Ed Dixon very badly injured when struck by an automobile while walking across Granville Street in Vancouver.
• January 19, 1917: The body of a man supposed to be Paul Lestor was found about two weeks ago on the trail on the Yukon river between Ogilvie and Stewart. Mr. Lestor left Dawson about Christmas on a prospecting trip to some tributary of the Yukon river near or above Stewart. The body was found six to ten miles below Stewart, lying in the snow rigid in death, and nearby were the man's dogs, gaunt and nearly dead from hunger.
• January 19, 1917: Francis W. Fletcher, now serving a three years' sentence for theft in the New Westminster penitentiary, has been ordered released so he can enlist for the front. A former member of the R. N. W. M. P. at Whitehorse, he was convicted of stealing several hundred dollars from the body of one of the victims of Alex Gagoff.

• January 26, 1917: The Boyle Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery, recruited in Dawson, acquitted itself so well in the great Somme offensive that the officer in charge, Captain Muerling, has been awarded the Military Cross, and military medals have been awarded to seven other members.
• January 26, 1917: The Ruby Silver and Silver Queen mine at Pavey, Lake Bennett district, has been closed down temporarily on account of the depletion of the funds set aside for development work. Supt. Fred Story started East last week and will meet the stockholders in Boston, to whom he will make a report and ask for a further appropriation.
• January 26, 1917: John Jacobsen, the Macrae fox rancher, killed a 2-year-old lynx at his place on last Friday morning. The animal had been prowling around trying to get into the mail box and the rancher set a trap for the beast, with the above result.

February

• February 2, 1917: Administrator Geo. N. Williams, accompanied by C. W. Cash of the Royal Mail Service, arrived in Whitehorse from Dawson on Saturday's White Pass stage; this being his second visit in his present official capacity during the past twelve months as he was here for several days in the latter part of January, 1916.
• February 2, 1917: In addition to the usual allowance of tobacco, gum and chocolate sent by the I. O. D. E. monthly to the men from Whitehorse and vicinity, on active service, the third shipment of wool gloves and socks purchased here has been forwarded and is due to reach the men this month.
• February 2, 1917: For the past week or so there has been an epidemic of lagrippe among the residents of Whitehorse, many of whom have been temporarily laid up from that cause. On Monday the primary department of the public school was dismissed for the day on account of the indisposition of Miss Teskey, the teacher.

• February 9, 1917: We recently learned that on September 13, 1916, Joseph Whiteside Boyle, of Dawson, was given the honor of lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian militia.
• February 9, 1917: Before leaving Victoria for the front, 14 members of the Black Yukon contingent received certificates from the Royal School of Infantry at Work Point and qualified as commissioned or non-commissioned officers.
• February 9, 1917: George Jacks, a 12-year-old Indian boy of Carcross, died at the Whitehorse General hospital last Friday from pulmonary tuberculosis. The deceased was an orphan and had been at the Chooutla Indian school ever since infancy up to the time he came to Whitehorse to enter the hospital. He was a nephew of Kate Carmack, wife of one of the discoverers of the Klondike placers.

• February 16, 1917: The grand masquerade ball given under the auspices of the N. S. A. A. on the night of St. Valentine's day, attracted a greater number of people as spectators and participants than has any social event since the observance of St. Andrew's Day.
• February 16, 1917: A good number of prominent citizens of Whitehorse met on Feb. 8, to discuss the organization of a golf club. A committee was formed to explore the nearby country in search of the most suitable location for a golf course and to ascertain the initial expenses involved.
• February 16, 1917:

• February 23, 1917: A fire broke out in Dawson's Yukonia hotel Wednesday night and an entire block of business houses was destroyed before it was gotten under control. Among the burned building are the Yukonia, Pioneer, Bonanza and Cronin hotels, Sales' jewelry store and Pinska's clothing store. Four people who roomed in the Yukonia hotel are missing, among them C. W. C. Tabor, a prominent lawyer.
• February 23, 1917: Simmie Fiendle, who brought the last stage in to Dawson from Whitehorse, made the entire run in the coldest stretch of the winter. One day he covered 70 miles, from Nordenskiold to Carmacks That day it was 70 to 75 below, he says, along that part of the route, and a little head wind was blowing.
• February 23, 1917: Y. Kitagawa, employed as cook for the Canadian Bank of Commerce force for a long time, will re-open the White Pass Dining Room about the first of the month. Mr. Kitagawa is one of the finest chefs in the North and we bespeak for him a very liberal patronage from the public as soon as he starts up.

March

• March 2, 1917: On Feb. 23, David Armour, engineer, Nick O'Brien, foreman, and five miners filed liens for wages due, in the court at Atlin, against the Ruby Silver & Silver Queen Mining Co. of Pavey, B. C., and the Northern and Maxim claims, located at the same place and belonging to the same company. The approximate amount of the claime is $2,000.
• March 2, 1917: Little Ruth McFarland, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren McFarland, was injured somewhat in Dawson last week by a large native dog. The dog, together with some others of the same team to which he belongs, have been removed from the streets and will be taken to Rampart House.
• March 2, 1917: Bert. Fowler, George Thompson and Harry Derby, B. Y. N. ship carpenters, are all now employed in building pontoons for the pipe from the dredge that will be operated in deepening the channel at the head of Lake Lebarge before the opening of navigation next summer.

• March 9, 1917: A Letter to the Editor by Rev. C. Swanson comments on the many graves in the cemetery that are unmarked. "A nameless grave in the hills is one thing, a nameless grave in a recognized burying ground is quite another."
• March 9, 1917: A large notice on the front page was placed by William Drury, to clarify his support for prohibition despite the fact that his company owns a roadhouse at Carmacks with a licenced bar attached.
• March 9, 1917: Bert Fowler of the B. Y. N. shipyards left Whitehorse Wednesday morning enroute to Atlin to take charge of the work of construction on the new White Pass boat that is to succeed the steamer Scotia this coming summer on the run on Atlin lake between the town of Atlin and the Taku portage.

• March 16, 1917: While in Whitehorse last week, testing the ores from the Conrad district, H. W. Newton, the oil flotation expert for the Lakinaw & Tagish Mines Co., made the statement to a prominent copper mine owner of the Whitehorse district, that an oil flotation plant, with a capacity of 100 tons of ore per day, could be put in here at an approximate cost of $20,000.
• March 16, 1917: B. Bates, who has been in the employ of P. Burns & Co. for the last 12 or 13 years, arrived from Vancouver a few days ago, bringing with him the materia] for the construction of a cold storage plant in the rear of the company's sales room here. The plant will consist of one room 11x19 feet, one room 7x19 feet and a 5x19 foot insulated hallway, all with 8 foot ceilings,
• March 16, 1917: William "Billy" McAdam died in the Dawson fire on February 21, and on March 8 his wife was passing through Juneau, "taking poor Will home." Read three articles about the couple here.

• March 23, 1917: At 11.27 a. m., Wednesday, 21st inst., 18 minutes before the men on shift were to leave work for the noon meal, the west stope in the Pueblo mine caved in. The extent of the cavein has not yet been definitely determined on account of all efforts heing confined to the rescue of the men, nine of whom are either caught in or are entombed behind the cavein on the three hundred foot level. Read this and subsequent articles at The Whitehorse Star.
• March 23, 1917: The Board of Trade has received a letter stating that 100 people from the Seattle Chamber of Commerce will be visiting Whitehorse on July 27. An auto trip to the head of Miles canyon on the driveway that will be completed by then, and a return voyage on a scow through the canyon and Whitehorse rapids, would be an exhilarating and long-remembered experience.
• March 23, 1917: The I. O. D. E. has secured a grant of $300 for the fencing of the cemetery at this place, and an additional grant will be asked for the purpose of erecting the fence, clearing the cemetery of rubbish and weeds and otherwise putting it in presentable shape.

• March 30, 1917: Lieut.-Col. Alfred Thompson, member of parliament for Yukon and head of the Canadian hospitals commission, is busily engaged in his duties as superintendent of military hospitals and the military hospitals commission. The work is steadily growing owing to the increasing number of soldier invalids coming back from the front.
• March 30, 1917: Work on the new White Pass steamer Atlinto, now building at Carcross, is being pushed forward rapidly and although only a few days have elapsed since the ship-builders started in, construction is well under way and the ribs and framework of the boat loom up plainly in view of the people passing through on the train.
• March 30, 1917: In going through Whistler Bend last Sunday with the caterpillar train of about 45 tons, the ice in many places cracked. LeBarge freighting will now be carried on with horses between Whitehorse and Whistler Bend and the caterpillar operated from that point to Lower LeBarge.

April

• April 6, 1917: The rescue work that had been progressing steadily at the Pueblo mine since the afternoon of March 21 has been abandoned by direction of Manager W. D. Greenough on account of the imminent danger of a cave-in taking place in the main shaft. The six men still trapped cannot be saved. Read this and prior articles at The Whitehorse Star.
• April 6, 1917: Manager J. P. Whitney of the Grafter and Copper King mines now has a handsomly flitted-up office on Main street, in the space formerly occupied by the Golden Eagle restaurant run by a Japanese named Kojimoto.
• April 6, 1917: Rt. Rev. I. O. Stringer, Bishop of Yukon, arrived in Whitehorse from Dawson two weeks ago yesterday, and after attending to various duties here and in Carcross, has now returned to his home in Dawson.

• April 13, 1917: Dawson Jim passed away at 10 a. m. Sunday at his home in the Indian village just north of Whitehorse and was buried Monday afternoon. He was a victim tuberculosis, his end being hastened by an attack of pneumonia. His age was in the neighborhood of 60 years. He leaves a wife and seven children.
• April 13, 1917: Promptly at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening of last week, after a short invgcation by Rev. C. Swanson, rector of Christ Church, sixteen members of the Whitehorse Curling club and two guests sat down to a feast at the White Pass cafe that it would have been hard in anyway to have improved upon in this far northern land.
• April 13, 1917: The Empress pf India copper mine, leased by Messrs. Owney McFadden & Co., shipped two carloads of high grade ore to the smelter at Anyox last week. The Valerie mine, owned by A. B. Palmer of Vancouver and associates, re-opened after remaining closed for several years, also shipped two carloads to the smelter last week and has another 300 tons ready to be loaded.

• April 20, 1917: With this issue of the Weekly Star the paper enters upon its 17th volume. It has been under its present management somewhat over twelve months. Taking our advertising patronage and our subscription list as a guide by which to judge whether or not our efforts have met with the approval of the public we can truthfully say they have.
• April 20, 1917: Jerry G. Quinlan, tor many years in the employ of the W. P. & Y. R. as conductor of a passenger train between Skagway and Whitehorse, passed away last Sunday at the age of 57 years. Read the entire article here.
• April 20, 1917: According to Cam Smith, who is making the trip to Lower Lebarge almost daily, the ice on the lake is firm, with no signs yet of breaking up. In his opinion it will be perfectly safe to travel over with light loads for two weeks longer. The ice on the river between Whitehorse and the upper end of the lake is not so good however, and the water is commencing to cover it in places.

• April 27, 1917: The overland trail from Whitehorse to Dawson has reached that stage when it is neither good wheeling nor sleighing. Driver Howes, leaving here the fore part of last week, was obliged to abandon his sleigh at Pelly and take six horses from Pelly north. Driver Gannon, leaving Dawson last Saturday, came out on wheels.
• April 27, 1917: "Canada" magazine, an illustrated weekly journal edited by Walter J. M. Lefroy and published in London and Toronto, in its issue of March 17, 1917, has an article about Yukoners' response to the war. Read it here.
• April 27, 1917: Frank C. Hammond of Los Angeles arrived in Skagway a few days ago and is now in charge of the editorial department of the Daily Alaskan. Mr. Hammond is an experienced newspaper man, and the Weekly Star extends to him a cordial welcome into the field of northern journalism.

May

• May 4, 1917: The Winnipeg Free Press of April 21 said "To chat with Dr. Leonard S. Sugden, lecturer, is to have one's conception of Alaska and Yukon territories shattered, for he paints a word picture in which vegetables and fruits abound, where fiction and some history speak of nothing but ice and snow. He relates some facts which cause one to marvel.
• May 4, 1917: As of Tuesday morning, there is a head tax of $8 per person to take the train to the United States at Skagway, in addition to the regular fare. If there is a reason for this tax, we have not been informed of it.
• May 4, 1917: This will be a banner year for the White Pass & Yukon Route, with the largest tonnage of freight ever handled, and the greatest number of tourists ever. The opening of new placer fields on the lower Yukon are significant, as is the construction of the Alaska government railroad.

• May 11, 1917: During Discovery Day celebrations this year, it is the intention of the Yukon Order of Pioneers to include as a part of their entertainment an exhibit of the resources of this Territory. The mineral exhibit will be one of the main features, and all those able to exhibit minerals oir coal will be given space free of charge and exhibits will get free transportation.
• May 11, 1917: Stella Harwood, colored keeper of a roadhouse at Wells, north of Haines, was shot and killed Friday of last week by an ex-United States soldier named Walter Galvin. The woman formerly lived in Skagway at which time she was the wife of George Payne, porter on the first private car run over the W. P. & Y. R.
• May 11, 1917: Oliver Wilson, delivery boy for P. Burns & Co., has fixed up a small wagon for his dogs and now makes his rounds on wheels instead of by sled as heretofore during the winter.

• May 18, 1917: J. P. McAbeer of Tacoma, Wash., for the past six years superintendent of Tantalus coal mines, has leased the property and will work from 12 to 15 men there this summer, the amount of output to be regulated by the facilities for transportation, which are limited. With the exception of a small tonnage taken by the W. P. & Y. R. at Whitehorse the entire product of the Tantalus mine is readily sold in Dawson.
• May 18, 1917: The case of The king vs. C. Racine, in which accused was charged with an assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm, came up for trial in the police court on Saturday. Police Magistrate J. Langlois Bell found Racine guilty, but Mr. Racine was let off with a fine of $200. The magistrate cited the laws that limit the extent of self-defence actions.
• May 18, 1917: Frank Polley, former mate of the steamer Canadian, Malcolm Campbell, former mate of the steamer Selkirk, Geo. Moir former second engineer of the steamer Dawson and John Scotland, former second engineer of the steamer Casca are all now on the river Tigris. Other Yukon river men, recruited by P. F. Scharschmidt, former superintendent of the B. Y. N., are also in Africa.

• May 25, 1917: The inventive genius of W. H. Jarman of Dawson has proved a wonderful help to the allied cause in the European war. His invention, the "Jarman Listener," can detect air craft, and especially Zeppelins, from a distance of approximately fifty miles, and is now being used successfully by the Allies on the Western battle front. Read the entire article here.
• May 25, 1917: The introduction of the automobile into the business of transporting passengers and freight across the 30 miles across Lake Labarge in the spring, after the river both above and below the lake has opened and the ice on the lake daily becomes more dangerous to travel over, has developed a situation that one must be personally acquainted with to believe possible. Read the entire article here.
• May 25, 1917: Use of motor trucks from Haines to Porcupine and Rainy Hollow mines will be commenced as soon as the roads now being constructed by the United States government, and those soon to be constructed by the British Columbia government, are ready for such means of transportation.

June

• June 1, 1917: The correct name of the new White Pass passenger boat now building at Carcross for the Carcross-Taku run is Tutshi, not Atlinto, as we have heretofore designated it in the Weekly Star. The other passenger boat belonging to the same company, now building at Atlin, has been named the Tarahne.
• June 1, 1917: Although the children's sports, which will take place at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, will be interesting to witness the main event of the Empire Day celebration will be the baseball tournament between competing teams from Whitehorse, Skagway, Fort Seward and Douglas.
• June 1, 1917: Capt. Wm. Turnbull, of the B. Y. N Co., who for a week previous, assisted by four men, had been engaged in removing rocks from the river channel at Rink Rapids, returned to Whitehorse Saturday, leaving his crew to continue the work.

• June 8, 1917: On May 24, 1900, the people of Skagway and other towns on Lynn canal and Gastineau channel celebrated Victoria Day in Bennett, but since then have come to Whitehorse, at first to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, and later those of King Edward and King George. The observance of these national holidays was several years ago combined into one, now known as Empire Day.
• June 8, 1917: Seven carloads of cattle came in on Monday night's train, consigned to Lower Yukon river points. There were also several coops of chickens for Dawson.
• June 8, 1917: Rev. Arthur C. Field is in the city from Fortymile, where he has had charge of the Anglican mission. He will be here several days after which he will proceed to Carcross, to have charge there as rector and be made an instructor in the Indian school. Rev. Field was educated at Oxford and will be a valuable acquisition to the school.

• June 15, 1917: The launching of the B. Y. N. steamer Tutshi took place at Carcross Tuesday, June 12, at 9:30 p. m., and was witnessed by an enthusiastic and appreciative throng of home people as well as by many visitors. Read the entire article here.
• June 15, 1917: A representative of the Weekly Star paid a visit to the Chooutla Indian school last Monday and was shown over the grounds and buildings and given an insight into the work being performed by the pupils. Read the entire article here.
• June 15, 1917: Hutshi Jackson and his brother Little Joe, of the Hutshi lake tribe of Indians, gave a potiatch to their friends of the surrounding tribes at Mendenhall, commencing Friday night of last week and ending Tuesday night of this week. There was a big gathering and the time was mostly passed in feasting and dancing.

• June 22, 1917: It was with profound regret that the | many Whitehorse friends of Dr. D. D. Cairnes, Dominion geologist, became apprised by telegraph last Friday of his sudden death at Ottawa, on Thursday, June 14. No details of the sad occurrence have yet come to hand. He was about 36 years of age.
• June 22, 1917: Marco Pini and the man on whom he is charged with committing an assault with intent to kill last winter in Atlin, Marco Vendramal, were passengers on the Princess Alice last night, bound for Prince Rupert where the trial will be held. Provincial Constable Scarlett was in charge of the prisoner.
• June 22, 1917: Superintendent Berg of the Pueblo mine, who is now on the outside, telegraphed in to Tom Kerrush the latter part of last week to immediately secure a crew of men and be in readiness to start the work of re-opening the Pueblo mine as soon as the necessary machinery, then enroute from the outside, should arrive.

• June 29, 1917: The society event of the year was the marriage on Wednesday night, June 27, at Christ Church, of Miss Doris Jean Bell, daughter of Magistrate and Mrs. J. Langlois Bell, to Mr. John Charles Newmarch, Rev. C. Swanson officiating.
• June 29, 1917: In quite a number of places in Whitehorse the sidewalks abutting on vacant lots have either been broken down or else badly damaged by the passage over them of teams of horses and heavily laden wagons. This 1s a practice that should be discontinued at once.
• June 29, 1917: Sunday morning an accident occurred that had a touch of the pathetic in it, although only the loss of life of a little dog was involved. A visiting lady had brought along with her a small pet dog. She was walking across the street with it when it darted away, into the path of an auto driven by Bob Palmer, and was crushed.

July

• July 6, 1917: At an unofficial meeting of a number of the members of Whitehorse Lodge, Y. O. O. P., it was decided to request Miss Katherine Ryan, one of the sourest of sourdoughs, to take the part of "Miss Canada" in the celebration at Skagway. Miss Ryan kindly consented, and will appear with the Goddess of LIberty in the parade.
• July 6, 1917: Last week after the completion of the Miles canyon boulevard, a 30-foot section of the cribbing put in around the steep bluff at the big bend commencing at the foot of the canyon and running south, caved and left the road impassable until it was repaired.
• July 6, 1917: Charley Baxter, the well-known freighter and big game hunters' guide, returned Sunday from as trip to Kluane lake, bringing with him intelligence of the recent near drowning of two men in the Canyon river rapids when the heavily-laden boat they were trying to bring down hit a sweeper.

• July 13, 1917: On June 27 Roy Yoshioka, a Japanese fox farmer living in West Dawson, reported to the police that he had found the body of his wife, Hisha Yoshioka, lying in the brush near the cabin where they lived. Police soon also found the body of a Peel River Indian named Percy.
• July 13, 1917: Kenneth Watson, youngest son of Mrs. M. G. Watson of this place, while visiting with his brother Matthew and family at Carcross last week, went fishing one day and fell from the railroad bridge into the stream below. He was rescued by Supt. McFarland of the Venus mine No. 2, who was casting off his launch from its moorings on the bank a short distance below.
• July 13, 1917: The steamer Gleaner returned to her old run on the lake between Carcross and Bennett Saturday night, when, on account of a washout and two small slides on the railroad, the vessel was pressed into service to carry a lot of tourists around the breaks to the head of the lake where connection was made with a train to Skagway.

• July 20, 1917: Mining and milling work is proceeding energetically at the Venus camp. The mill is working one twelve-hour shift and doing good work, notwithstanding inability to use the flotation adjunct owing to temporary lack of power.
• July 20, 1917: Government Assayer W. C. Sime has in hand the work of preparing a mineral exhibit from the Southern end of Yukon and Northern British Columbia for the Discovery Day celebration at Dawson. After the celebration the ore will be placed on permanent exhibition in the Dawson library.
• July 20, 1917: Ed. Benson, the well-known prospector and big game hunter's guide, returned Monday from a four months' visit to the head of the Donjek river, where he went for the purpose of trapping young foxes. He reports a great scarcity of game, a region that formerly teemed with animal life and was rightly termed "Hunters' Paradise" by those who had visited it.

• July 27, 1917: The trial of Roy Yoshioka on the charge of murdering his wife, Hisa, likely will begin August 6. The accused is under a guard at the barracks jail day and night. Every precaution is being-taken against the man doing bodily harm to himself.
• July 27, 1917: W. A. Puckett is responsible for the introduction into Whitehorse of the first automobile trailer. The machine is a two-wheeled affair, something like a go-cart, and is attached to the rear end of the auto by a short tongue.
• July 27, 1917: J. B, Adams, proprietor of the Takina roadhouse, has had Ole Dickson and Mike Cyr engaged for the past two or three weeks in repairing and making great improvements in this popular place of public entertainment.

August

• August 3, 1917: Constable Pavely of the R. N. W. M. P., and Mr. Jack Parker left Sunday on the steamer Dawson for Gold Point, on the Yukon river five miles below Big Salmon, and returned on the steamer White Horse Tuesday afternoon having in charge Mrs. Olaf Olsen, against whom a complaint had been laid alleging that she was suffering from dementia and had made threats against the lives of different people living in the vicinity of her home.
• August 3, 1917: John Jacobsen, for some time past in charge of Martin & Cathro's fox farm near Macrea, resigned his position on the 20th and departed with his wife to Carcross, where they will make their home for a time.
• August 3, 1917: Sunday morning at 2 o'clock a party composed of Fred Gray, Charlie French, J. D. Durie and Harry Athow, under the guidance of Robert Reddick, crossed the river at Whitehorse and struck off over the trail through the woods to the head of Macaulay creek, where Reddick claimed he had found rich placer ground.

• August 10, 1917: The report in the last issue about a placer discovery on Macaulay creek was erroneous; the discovery was on Reddick creek, a tributary of Russell creek, and at the present writing looks exceedingly promising.
• August 10, 1917: It was reported in the Skagway Alaskan on Aug. 7 that Captain Alexander has sold the Engineer mine in the Atlin country for a sum which reaches seven figures. If the report is true it means that several hundred men will be employed in development work, and that much travel will pass through Skagway and Carcross.
• August 10, 1917: The Southern Yukon road appropriations for this year having been exhausted, a number of automobile owners clubbed in together last week and hired Jimmy Richards to put in five crossings over the railroad track between Whitehorse and Wigan. They expect to be reimbursed for their outlay at the next meeting of the Yukon Council.

• August 17, 1917: After a little over two months' vacation which was spent by the principal and teachers of the Whitehorse public school in visiting relatives in Eastern Provinces and British Columbia, the 1917-18 term will open next Monday with the same efficient staff that was employed last term, viz.: D. A. Grant, principal, Miss S. A. Smith and Miss M. A. Teskey, teachers.
• August 17, 1917: The Pueblo Mine is almost in shape to resume work on a big scale. Tuesday the pumps had lowered the water in the main shaft to midway between the 400 and 500 foot levels and it is expected by General Manager Berg that by tomorrow night the entire workings will have been cleared of water.
• August 17, 1917: Mrs. John Henry, late of Dawson, died in Vancouver on the night of August 5th, according to a telegram received in Dawson on the 10th. A son was born to Mrs. Henry shortly before her death, and at the time the message was sent was doing well. Mrs. Henry formerly was Miss Magwood, and was the kindergarten teacher in the Dawson public school before her wedding.

• August 24, 1917: Saturday evening late Cam Smith, Fred Gray and Charley Greime, accompanied by Johnny Jack and Johnny Joe, two Indians, left Whitehorse in an auto for a new placer gold field which the latter claimed they had discovered on a small tributary of Klutshi creek, which empties into Hutshi lake. li> August 24, 1917: Lieutenant C. H. Chute, of Dawson, was killed Aug. 14 in a motor accident. Exactly how the accident happened or where is not stated, but it is likely that it occurred somewhere in or near Witley camp, where the Second Yukon Motor Machine Gun contingent had been training for several months.
• August 24, 1917: A new 150 horse power boiler is due in Carcross this week for installation at the Venus mill, according to Superintendent McFarland. he states that assay returns for the first hundred tons of Venus ore of this season reaching the Trail smelter ran in excess of $100 per ton. Some 500 tons are now in transit of a like grade, not including one carload of fancy ore shipped separately.

• August 31, 1917: On Tuesday morning, the regular northbound White Pass passenger train, at a point a mile and a half north of Glacier station, was hit by an avalanche of rock, resulting in instant death to Engineer W. C. McKenzie and his son Bert, who was firing. Read the entire article here.
• August 31, 1917: The Whitehorse branch of the Canadian Bank of Whitehorse shipped Tuesday to the Dominion of Canada assay office at Vancouver, 210 ounces of gold dust, the greater part of which came from Livingsone creek in the Big Salmon country. The value of the consignment was between $3,500 and $4,000.
• August 31, 1917: The White Pass yesterday put in place a 75 foot flag pole at the southwest corner of the depot building. It is a nicely painted pole, having a weather vane and ball at the top.

September

• September 7, 1917: A new placer strike has been made on Kitchener creek, in the Nansen creek district. There has been quite a stampede into the creek from both up and down the Yukon river. From Carmacks into Kitchener creek there is a wagon road most of the way.
• September 7, 1917: The course of the Nenana river is being completely changed by diverting the waters of the stream into an old course, thus forever obviating all possibility that the stream will ever again endanger the railroad grade in the vicinity of Twenty-mile as it has been doing for the past three weeks.
• September 7, 1917: Three insane people are being taken out to the insane asylum at New Westminster: Dominick Colosino, a miner from the Dawson creeks; Mrs. Olseon of Gold Point, who has been in the police hospital here for several weeks; and an Indian woman from Dawson.

• September 14, 1917: There are several successful fox ranchers in Southern Yukon, and some of them are located in the vicinity of Whitehorse. Two of the most up-to-date of these are the J. P. Whitney & Co. Black & Silver Fox Farm and the Whitehorse Silver Black Fox Co.'s farm, both of which raise not only foxes but also rabbits and Belgian hares to feed the foxes.
• September 14, 1917: Road Superintendent McNeill came up from Dawson the middie of last week. He left here in Cam Smith's auto for an inspection trip of the government road and bridges between this place and Canyon river, then left for Carcross to inspect the roads leading to the mines in the vicinity. He will finish by taking in the Wheaton district roads.
• September 14, 1917: Audrey and Ailene Brady, two little girls who were born at Big Salmon on the Yukon river and who spent practically all their lives there, arrived at Juneau in late August and will spend the winter with the Sisters of St. Ann's Hospital and attend the Parochial school. The father of the little girls is Dominion telegraph operator at Big Salmon.

• September 21, 1917: A carload of the finest looking copper ore ever mined in this district is being hauled to town from the Rabbit's Foot mine and put on the car for shipment to an outside smelter.
• September 21, 1917: Cam Smith last week made the first round trip by auto between Whitehorse and the Venus mine on Windy Arm, via Carcross. The time consumed in going from here to Carcross was 5¼ hours.
• September 21, 1917: A handsome minature sailboat has been made by Al Henderson, foreman of the B. Y. N. shipyards, and donated to the I. O. D. E. for raffle. It has been named the George M. Chapman in honor of a brave Whitehorse lad who gave up his life on the western front in France a few months ago.

• September 28, 1917: The Venus mine near Carcross has produced and shipped upward of one hundred thousand dollars in crude ore and concentrates the past 14 months. When Supt. J. E. McFarland assumed the direction of affairs of the Venus and Montana groups last year, he had the difficult task of rehabilitating a property long since given over to the elements and the junk collectors.
• September 28, 1917: The annual I. O. D. E. bazaar was held Wednesday afternoon and evening in the N. S. A. A. hall. The chief item of the evening.s program was the unveiling of the Roll of Honor for the boys serving King and Country at the Front from Southern Yukon. Various raffles, auctions, and sales raised approximately $1100.
• September 28, 1917: George Simmons left Carcross on Tuesday bound for Whitehorse in his launch with three passengers but had a difficult trip. Camping at Marsh Lake they were plagued by mice and rats, the engine of the boat froze overnight, and they had to walk the last seven miles into town.

October

• October 5, 1917: Most of the miners at the Pueblo were paid off on Monday night, the management having decided to do no further mining or development for the present. The mine will not be closed down completely, pending the decision of the owners as to future operations.
• October 5, 1917: 0. P. Zortman, president of the Montana-Atlin Development company, returned to Atlin on Sept. 26 and will continue mining operations on his property for at least six weeks more this season. He says the amount of gold taken from the Atlin creeks this season is considerably larger than last year,
• October 5, 1917: Only six men in the whole American Fortymile are eligible for military service, according to J. A. Kemp, the registrar of the district. Of the 250 men there, nearly all are old timers, beyond the military age.

• October 12, 1917: The steamer Vidette, which was being taken to Lower Lebarge Tuesday to be used as a bunk house for the steamer crews engaged in putting the other White Pass steamers in their winter quarters, sprung a leak when off Goddard Point and went down in seven feet of water while the crew of the Canadian were endeavoring to beach her.
• October 12, 1917: At 1:30 p. m. Thursday of last week, as the steamer White Horse was making its way upstream about eight miles this side of the mouth of the Big Salmon, P. J. Poulin of Dawson, one of the passengers, jumped overboard and was drowned.
• October 12, 1917: J. L. Harper and J. E. Macfarland have returned from a trip to the Engineer mine on Taku Arm. Both of these men state that the Engineer will become the leading gold mine of the world, and that the systematic development done by Capt. Jas. Alexander, the owner, has shown wonderful results.

• October 19, 1917: Tom Vaughan of Dawson, who arrived in Whitehorse Sunday morning, brings word of the staking of two new creeks on the trail between Selkirk and Kitchener creek. Vaughan grub-staked Bob Ensley of Dawson to go on the recent Kitchener creek stampede and the latter on his way out on his return to Dawson staked discovery claim on a creek 21 miles from Selkirk, which he named Puzie, and four miles further on another, which he named Bess.
• October 19, 1917: Purser W. A. Thompson of the lower river steamer Yukon brought with him on the last upstream voyage a bear cub about six months old which he is taking with him outside. The little fellow was held in captivity by a collar and light chain and appeared docile and playful.
• October 19, 1917: There is a broken board in the sidewalk in front of McPhee's store on Front street that should be replaced before someone steps through the opening and geta hurt.

• October 26, 1917: Wm. McBride of Supt. Gordon's office and Corp. St. Laurant of the R. N. W. M. P. went down in a launch yesterday morning to the head of Lake Lebarge to meet the steamer Nasutlin, to attend to certain necessary preliminaries to expedite the departure of the 20 passengers and 65 members of the crews of the steamers Schwatka and Seattle No.3 for Skagway to catch the Princess Alice, which was held there until after the arrival of the special train.
• October 26, 1917: With the departure of the White Pass launch Falcon last Friday in charge of Cam Smith, with 139 sacks of mail for lower river points, Postmaster George Wilson recorded one of the latest Fall clean-ups ever made in the Whitehorse postoffice.
• October 26, 1917: Word was received a few days ago that Oris E. Church, former well-known resident of Whitehorse, had died in the King county hospital in Seattle about a month ago, from tuberculous meningitis. Deceased left here last Fall with the Yukon Infantry Co. under Capt. Black, but failed to pass the medical examination after reaching Victoria.

November

• November 2, 1917: The launch Falcon, which left here October 19th, was located at the mouth of the White river where they were held up by floating ice. The first class mail was forwarded on to Dawson in charge of Capt. Hoggan by single horse to Black Hills creek over the Henderson Divide, and the balance of the mail and express will be taken on to Stewart City where it will be met with teams of the White Pass company, now en route to that point from Dawson.
• November 2, 1917: President Elliott of the W. P. & Y. R., who had been here for several days, left Thursday morning for Carcross for the purpose of inspecting the Tutshi, the fine new passenger steamer of the company, built last summer to accommodate the tourist trade to Atlin, and which he had never before seen.
• November 2, 1917: There was such a severe storm on Atlin lake the fore part of the week that the White Pass steamer Tarahne had to lay to at the dock until its abatement.

• November 9, 1917: At a public meeting at the N. S. A. A. hall Tuesday night, Chas. H. Johnston, president of the Whitehorse Conservative association, announced dissolution of that organization, with a view of forming a Unionist association in Southern Yukon, with which citizens, irrespective of party politics, could affiiliate.
• November 9, 1917: If the war should continue much longer, (which God forbid) the question of a possible shortage of food would become very grave. It is commonly understood that a considerable proportion of big game is wantonly destroyed during the winter, and as, in this territory, such a source of food would be invaluable in given circumstances, I respectfully suggest the adoption of the obvious remedy.
• November 9, 1917: Wednesday night the members of the local igloo, Y. O. O. P., after the regular monthly meeting, had a spread, at which was brought up the question of forming an organization of Native Sons. A canvass revealed that only one of the members had a son who had been born in the north.

• November 16, 1917: The future of the mines in the Whitehorse copper belt certainly looks promising. Among the positive news, development work at the Copper King mine has uncovered an extensive body of high grade bornite and copper glance ore on the 150 foot level.
• November 16, 1917: Friday morning of last week two Indians, Jake Fred and Frank Smith arrived in town from Dalton Post with a poke containing $14 in coarse placer gold, which they claimed they had taken from a creek about five miles northwest of that place.
• November 16, 1917: A squad of citizens has been lately formed and is being drilled in military evolutions and exercises, but they were lately informed by a concerned citizen that notice of a prohibition of such assemblies was published in a recent Canada Gazette.

• November 23, 1917: Miner George Russell Clark, who has been in the Yukon country for the past 19 years, claims to have invented a projectile with one-half greater penetrating power than any now in use and which will increase the range of the gun from which it is fired, with the same amount of powder now used as a charge, at least 30 per cent.
• November 23, 1917: A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnized at the residence of Mrs. Ellen Evans in Port Arthur, when her third daughter, Lucy, was married to William Stephenson Drury of Whitehorse.
• November 23, 1917: As there seems to be a misunderstanding here in regard to military drilling by civilians, Capt. A. L. Bell has informed us that until the proper authorities authorize the drills he will not permit of their being held in Whitehorse.

• November 30, 1917: A northern blizzard, that dropped the mercury from 20 above to 20 below in a few hours, struck Whitehorse early Tuesday morning and has been busy ever since. Considerable snow fell in the early stages of the blow and has badly drifted in many places since.
• November 30, 1917: Geo. W. Waltenbaugh, chief engineer of the steamer Nasutlin, has died of heart failure while walking along the streets of Seattle. His home was in San de Fuca, Wash., where he leaves a wife and one child. He was between 50 and 60 years of age.
• November 30, 1917: A northern blizzard, that dropped the mercury from 20 above to 20 below in a few hours, struck Whitehorse early Tuesday morning and has been busy ever since. Considerable snow fell in the early stages of the blow and has badly drifted in many places since.

December

• December 7, 1917: Col. Joe Boyle of Dawson has been decorated at Petrograd by Gen. Korniloff with the Order of St. Stanislaus for distinguished service in the transportation department of the Russian army in Galicia and Rumania.
• December 7, 1917: The parents of Frank Wilson have just received a letter from him in which he states he has so far recovered from his wounds, which were not serious, that he is now able to be around. The wounds were caused by shrapnel, and were received at the battle of Paschendaele ridge.
• December 7, 1917: With a denial of his guilt and the words of the song "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know," his last earthly utterances, Roy Yoshioko stood on the gallows in Dawson City on November 23rd and his soul was plunged into eternity. He was convicted of murdering his wife Hisa at West Dawson in June. Her unborn child also died, and Percy James was also found dead at their home. Read the entire article here.

• December 14, 1917: Two men were found dead this past few days. George Scott, the government mail carrier, was found on the trail about half way between Lower Lebarge and Braeburn. The cause is not yet known. W. H. Brethour froze to death on the Atlin-Carcross trail, just 5 miles from his destination, Carcross.
• December 14, 1917: Ed. Mathews, one of Skagway's boys, was severely gassed recently on the French front while fighting with the Canadian forces. He enlisted with the 50th Canadian infantry at Calgary about 13 months ago and since then has been in some of the severest fighting of the war. He is thought to be the first Skagway boy to actually see service in battle.
• December 14, 1917: For the past week Whitehorse has been in the grip of a cold wave that has registered all the way from 40 below until Wednesday night it reached 47 below. Thursday the thermometer hovered all day around 50 below.

• December 21, 1917: Despite brutal weather, Constables Vinall and Kinnard of the R. N. W. M. P., who left last week to bring in the body of the late Geo. Scott, succeeded in their mission. Mr. Scott's Indian wife had found his body and tried to bring it in but had to abandon that sled. She did bring in the mail sled. Read this and 3 other articles about George Scott's death here.
• December 21, 1917: A dog fight that occurred in front of the Regina hotel Wednesday resulted in the breaking of one of the valuable plate glass windows in the lobby of the building.
• December 21, 1917: Rev. C. Swanson, late rector of Christ Church, preached his last sermon Sunday and departed on Tuesday's train enroute to Victoria, where he has accepted a position as teacher in the University school. Mrs. Swanson and their little one joined him at Carcross.

• December 28, 1917: The coldest weather ever experienced in the Yukon since its settlement by the whites, this early in the winter, was ushered in during the closing days of November with the thermometer registering 35 to 40 below, and a fierce, biting wind blowing steadily from the north. Read the entire article here.
• December 28, 1917: The first band of Peel River Indians to arrive this season got in from the Blackstone river after a mush of many days. They brought ten toboggans drawn by as many dog teams and manned by ten drivers, all laden with mountain sheep and caribou. They report all well among the tribe.
• December 28, 1917: Mrs. Harry Hoskins has received news that her son, Joe Harkins, a Dawson high school boy, was top man in the recent examinations of his class at the Oxford school of aviation, and that he won a lieutenancy and was complimented highly. Joe initially went from Dawson with the Black contingent.

1918

January

• January 4, 1918: Charley Chinnery, veteran White Pass stage driver between here and Dawson, after going through a month of 40 to 86 degrees below zero weather on his last round trip to the Yukon metropolis, arrived in Whitehorse unscathed by the Frost King on Tuesday of last week, only to go through the painful experience of having the tip of his nose frosted on the following Saturday while walking up Front street from the White Pass barns to the depot with the thermometer registering only 10 below zero.
• January 4, 1918: Hundreds of telegrams were received on December 25th by the government from the temperance people throughout Canada, congratulating the ministers for passing the order-in-council Saturday which after April next means practically Dominion-wide prohibition.

• January 11, 1918: Dr. Thompson addressed a meeting Monday night in the N. S. A. A. hall under the auspices of the Whitehorse Unionist association. There was a splendid attendance and the hall was filled. The speaker said he had returned to Yukon to give an account of his stewardship as the representative of the people of the Yukon in the last parliament.
• January 11, 1918: A letter from Fred T. Congdon is published, stating that he should be the Unionist candidate for the Yukon, as 82 members of the association attended Dr. Thompson's nomination meeting, whereas no less than 275 members of the public attended his.
• January 11, 1918: Yesterday the police patrol was due to hit the trail on its five hundred mile mush from Dawson to McKenzie river. Members of the patrol party have been getting the dogs in shape for a couple of months past, taking runs up and down the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and now the animals are fit for any thing that comes along.

• January 18, 1918: The Canadian Klondike Mining company ended its dredging season with the shutting down of gold-digger No, 2 on the 18th inst. Deep ground was encountered and it was found imposible to dredge the ladder sheaves in the cold weather.
• January 18, 1918: After a lapse of almost, if not more than a decade the old R. N. W. M. P. post at Pleasant Camp, on the international boundary back of Haines, Alaska, is to be rehabilitated and put in charge of a police patrol, consisting of Consts. Vinall and Gurr of the Whitehorse detachment.
• January 18, 1918: A letter received from France from Robert Gourlay, veteran Yukoner, tells of seven other old time Yukoners being lost in a big battle against the Germans in France recently. The victims are: Joe Tilton, William Kerr, Peter Morrison, Peter Allen, Fred La Blanche, George Otis and Frank Pregant.

• January 25, 1918: Hiram Goode, the young Tagish Lake hunter and trapper who so nearly lost his life while making the round of his traps on Little Atlin Lake in the blizzard that swept over the North in the latter part of December, left for the outside last week. Read the entire article here.
• January 25, 1918: Upon the request of the Skagway Council of Defense, the Commandant at Ft. Seward, sent sixteen soldiers to patrol the town and guard the wharf and waterfront, White Pass offices, Customs office, Court House, the White Pass shops and Broadway. After the arrival of the soldiers Deputy U. S. Marshal N. O. Hardy issued a warning to fifteen enemy born citizens of the town.
• January 25, 1918: J. R. Alguire, owner of the Sandon and Arab copper claims in the Whitehorse district, has been doing a lot of development on the properties during the past four months and is quite elated over the good showing that has been made both in the quantity and the quality of the ore uncovered.

February

• February 1, 1918: Although Frederick Congdon is ahead in the polls so far, it is expected that Alfred Thompson will win the Yukon election for the member of parliament once all the votes are in.
• February 1, 1918: Thursday night of last week, just after we had gone to press, a blizzard sprang out of the north which for five days kept the people of the Southern end of the Territory within doors, unless absolutely necessary for them to be abroad. During the time the thermometer dropped from 15 above to 50 below. It was the severest storm that has visited this section of the country for a long time.
• February 1, 1918: Capt. Harry F. Meurling, who has won distinction in many months of hard fighting as the commander of the now famous Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery, writes from France to the Dawson News in which he pays a tribute to the bravery and undying devotion of the force. The battery was originated in Dawson through the generosity of Joseph W. Boyle, who equipped it, and the members were recruited by Andy Hart, Dawson's fire chief.

• February 8, 1918: Capt. A. L. Bell of the R. N. W. M. P., returned a few days ago from Pleasant Camp, where he went a couple of weeks ago to locate a police patrol of two men consisting of Consts. L. A. Vinall and V. Gurr of the Whitehorse detachment. From Haines the party took in supplies with dog teams to last for several months.
• February 8, 1918: In a letter from Louis E. Belney, Yukon pioneer, he says "I arrived back in England the fore part of November, after the Pashendale scrape, and have been in three different hospitals since. I was transferred here one week ago today and am almost as good as new again. Today I asked to be transferred to our depot at Seaforth and from there I intend going back to the battalion in France."
• February 8, 1918: Fred Newman, well known farmer, located on the Yukon river three miles above Dawson, killed, several fine pigs a few days ago, which he had fattened with home grown peas. No better pork has been seen in the country, and Mr. Newman is enthusiastic over the fact he is able to produce the meat entirely with the products of his own farm.

• February 15, 1918: The Yukon Chapter of the I.O.D.E. has elected its officers. Isaac Taylor is the regent, F. Wilson is the 1st vice regent, Miss Smith is the 2nd vice regent.
• February 15, 1918: C. J. Gaunt of the Caribou Mining Company reports that their Windy Arm property is looking fine. They are pushing the development work in the main tunnel and pulling around a shift besides sacking some high grade ore. At the adjoining property, the Venus, the mill was started again on the 5th and has been running steadily ever since.
• February 15, 1918: The task of removing the machinery from the workings of the Pueblo mine and the tearing down and shipping of the material used in all the buildings that had been erected there for the accommodation of the officials of the mining company and their families and the miners and their families, is almost completed, and the dozen or so men engaged in the work will soon be leaving for other fields.

• February 22, 1918: Gold Commissioner George Mackenzie has been advised that Canada has removed the embargo which has existed for some time against the export of tungsten and molybdenum from the Dominion. This will be good news in the Yukon, as these ores are found here, and there is a promise that they will add materially to the Yukon exports.
• February 22, 1918: The Tallyho mine, in the Wheaton district, shipped the middle of the week to the Tacoma smelter 14 tons of gold-silver-lead ore of an approximate value in all three minerals inclusive of $50 a ton.
• February 22, 1918: There is a shortage of gasoline in Whitehorse, in fact there is none to be had, and until a supply is received from Vancouver the famine will continue, as shipments of gasoline from the United States are now prohibited by that country.

March

• March 1, 1918: While the men employed at the Copper King were at their midday meal Saturday fire broke out in the power house of the mine and before it was discovered had yained such headway there was no chance either of saving the building or salvaging its contents from the ravages of the flames. The building destroyed was about 50x50 feet in size, and was used as power house, boiler room and blacksmith shop. It is thought that the blaze originated from a carbide lamp left burning by its owner while he was at his meal.
• March 1, 1918: Lovell C. Jefferson is on his way outside for the purpose of offering his services to Uncle Sam in any capacity and in any department where most needed. Although a resident of Whitehorse, he was the second man to register when the list was opened at Skagway and has been arranging to go outside ever since for enlistment. He is a printer by trade and for the past two years has been associated with his father in the publishing of the Weekly Star.
• March 1, 1918: Officials of the Canadian government have become apprehensive as to the well being of Louis Dixon, deputy collector of customs at the Boundary. Chas. Roos was sent to the Boundary to learn if all is well with Mr. Dixon, taking with him Star and Bob, the two famous sledge dogs of L. T. Watson, but he was unable to reach Boundary because of so much snow. He will leave again tomorrow, with two men.

• March 8, 1918: In a leter printed in the Wrangell Sentinel, J. B. Callbreath, the merchant and packing contractor of Telegraph Creek, says "We are having a terrible winter. Late rains, heavy snowfail, and later, bitter cold weather has completely ruined the trapping, and indications point to a very small fur catch. Winter has been very hard on all stock.
• March 8, 1918: The wood dealers of Whitehorse have heen struggling during the past winter with the difficult problem of furnishing customers with their allowance of fuel without increasing the price of this very essential article, but have found it a losing proposition for many reasons, chief among which were the unprecedented snowfall and deeply drifted roads, over which latter it was found almost impossible to haul a decent sized load. The price of 16-inch wood has gone from $10.50 to $12 per cord.
• March 8, 1918: Bernard W. Dunkel, formerly of Dawson, and well known in Yukon and Alaska, was killed recently in France serving with the Canadians. His parents were natives of Germany, but lived for many years on the Pacific coast. Dunkel street in Fairbanks was named after the deceased soldier.

• March 15, 1918: Work at the Copper King mine, temporarily suspended by reason of the disastrous fire there on Feb. 23, has been resumed in part, the big compressor being again in operation. Since the resumption a body of high grade ore has been reached and is now being taken out for shipment to the smelter.
• March 15, 1918: On Feb. 28 Frank Wilson went out on the Princess Sophia to meet his son, Frank Jr., who is now on his way across the continent, having been invalided home from France, where he was quite seriously wounded several months ago.
• March 15, 1918: J. J. Hughes, returned soldier, who received a bayonet wound in the jaw while in the trenches on the Western front and was thereby incapacitated for further military duty, arrived in Whitehorse Tuesday from Vancouver and is now employed atthe B. Y. N. shipyards.

• March 22, 1918: Two men were killed when their rotary snow plow hit a glacier on the Whitehorse copper belt spur on March 18th. Read the entire article here.
• March 22, 1918: Dawson, March 1: Two rigs got away yesterday morning loaded with men who will work at Coal Creek, assisting in preparing the big machinery plant of the Northern Light company for shipment outside. More men are to go down in a few days. It is understood about forty, all told, are going.
• March 22, 1918: Yesterday in Dawson the weather was 42 below; at Whitehorse, 12 below, blowing a hurricane from the north, and the snow flying in blinding clouds; in Skagway, 8 above, and blowing so hard that the velocity was determinable only by the use of scientific instruments.

• March 29, 1918: Capt. David A. Henkes, of the Sixteenth United States Infantry, formerly stationed at Fort Egbert, Eagle City, has been sentenced to 25 years at hard labor. He is of German descent, and endeavored to resign his commission, giving as his reason that he did not care to fight against his relatives and friends.
• March 29, 1918: The blockade of the White Pass for the past week, caused by terrific gales on the summit of the coast range, which drifted the loose snow into the cuts faster than the rotary plow could clean them out, will end today when the regular twice-a-week schedule will be resumed with a train each way.
• March 29, 1918: Fears are entertained at Dawson that "Old Man" Rose, as he is known throughout the Pelly country, has perished somewhere in that region. The last known of him was when he started from Selkirk last fall for his headquarters 250 miles up the Pelly. He left in a small boat in company with "Dad" Moore.

April

• April 5, 1918: Federal estimates reduce Yukon annual grant forty-two per cent. The offices of commissioner and administrator at Dawson, assistant gold commissioner at Whitehorse, and mining recorder at Mayo and Glacier are abolished and the respective officers are dismissed, effective as of April 1st. Gold Commissioner George Mackenzie is the new administrator of the territory.
• April 5, 1918: Word has been received that the Seventeenth Yukon Machine Gun battery, commanded by Captain George Black, has been moved to Seaforth, England, from Whitley. The Fifth Battalion, to which the company was attached, has been broken up. It is expected that this change is preliminary to the movement of the Seventeenth Company soon to France.
• April 5, 1918: Many nations have now adopted the plan of putting their clocks one hour ahead during the summer months. The White Pass line commenced on Tuesday to adopt the system and has put its clocks forward one hour to correspond with the time now kept by the boats at Skagway. There have been many suggestions made that Whitehorse follow suit.

• April 12, 1918: A flying machine with a capacity of fifty passengers is projected for service between Dawson and Skagway. It is said that the promoter of the plan believes an aircraft suitable for this service can be secured, and that it will be able to make the trip, one way, in four hours. Read the entire article here.
• April 12, 1918: Robert Lowe came down from his wood camp near the Venus mine, in the Conrad district, Friday. He left Sam McGee in charge of the wood camp. Wednesday of last week a valuable horse belonging to one of Mr. Lowe's work teams died from the after effects of exposure last December in the extremely cold weather on the lake.
• April 12, 1918: Last Sunday was a lovely day and many of our townspeople took advantage of the warm sunshine to auto down the river over the smooth, broad ice trail left by the White Pass caterpillar on its way to Lower Lebarge.

• April 19, 1918: The Vancouver Province of April 4 announced the death in action on March 24 of 21-year-old Lieut. W. Hilliard Snyder, son of Major A. E. Snyder, retired from the R. N. W. M. P. Major Snyder was commanding officer of H. Division, R. N. W. M. P., and lived here with his family consisting of wife, daughter and son, for several years subsequent to 1901, when he took charge. Mrs. Snyder died several years ago in Vancouver, where the family had made their home after leaving Whitehorse. Major Snyder's daughter is now driving an ambulance in France.
• April 19, 1918: T. A. Dickson, Kluane lake homesteader, hunter, trapper and game warden, arrived in Whitehorse Saturday by dog team, accompanied by Dick Fullerton, Burwash creek miner, who has held down claims on that creek ever since its discovery. Dickson's eldest child, a daughter of 14 years of age, accompanied them, but had to be left at Champagne Landing on account of a sore throat and a high feyer she had contracted on the long, cold journey from the foot of the lake, a distance of about 150 miles.
• April 19, 1918: Entire Family Goes to War. Dr. R. B. Coutts, former well known Klondike surgeon, Mrs. Coutts and her son, Eddie, are all in the war servive, The doctor is a veterinary surgeon in the British forces in Italy, and has the rank of captain. Mrs. Coutts is working in a hospital in England. Eddie is in the Canadian flying corps, now training on this side of the water.

• April 26, 1918: Forty eight parcels soldier's comforts were mailed last week to our men in France by the Yukon Chapter of the I. O. D. E.
• April 26, 1918: The train arriving from Skagway Tuesday brought Pte. Frank Wilson, the first returning Whitehorse volunteer from the western front, and as he stepped from the car and was clasped in a loving mother's arms, felt the hearty hand-grip and heard the appreciative words of the friends, both old and young, whom he had left behind, he forgot for the time being the horrors of the hell he had left far overseas - the incessant roar of the big guns that thunder a constant requiem for the slain, the airplanes darting overhead in flight swifter than that of the carrier-pigeon, the nightly brilliant flare of the electric light over No Man's Land, and the groans of the wounded and dying on that drear, desolate and war-scarred waste - and remembered only that he was back in the land he loved.
• April 26, 1918: Tuesday eight feet of new snow fell at the summit of the White Pass. In Whitehorse the same day there was a fall of snow for several hours, but the now melted almost as soon as it reached the ground, and is now all gone, leaving us only the old snow which is fast disappearing.

May

• May 3, 1918: Saturday night a Buda gas car came in from Carcross, having on board J. F. Wikidal, vice-president and general manager, and T. B. Landers, general superintendent of the Venus Mines Co., in the Conrad district, W. S. McGee, foreman of Robert Lowe's wood camp near Conrad, and John Williams, foreman of the White Pass section gang at Carcross. They all came down to be present at the farewell dance tendered to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Miller and family by the citizens of Whitehorse.
• May 3, 1918: Mrs. Geo. Armstrong gave her delightful lecture on Alaska and the Yukon in the auditorium of the Central Teehnical School in Toronto last evening, the proceeds of the event going towards the furnishing of the babies' ward in the new Women's College Hospital on Rusholine road.
• May 3, 1918: In appreciation of his services in bringing them through in such excellent shape from Dawson to Whitehorse on the overland route, Wm. Donnenwerth, driver of the White Pass stage on which they traveled, was waited upon at his home Monday evening by ten of the police boys and presented with a handsome and valuable pair of cuff buttons.

• May 10, 1918: Gov. Thos. Riggs, Jr., lately appointed by President Wilson to succeed J. F. A. Strong, arrived in Juneau, the Alaska capital city, last week. A reception was given in his honor by the people of Gastineau Channel on the night of April 30. Gov. Riggs is a pioneer of the Klondike and the lower Yukon river country and will no doubt make an ideal executive for that territory.
• May 10, 1918: Heretofore it has been the habit of the U. S. customs officers at Eagle, Alaska, to permit small boats going down the river to pass the international boundary duty free. The deputy U. S. collector of customs at Eagle, J. J. Hillard, however, has received instructions to charge duty on all Canadian built small boats passing into American territory, except those which are under bond to return to the Yukon.
• May 10, 1918: Chas. Nye, prominent and wealthy resident of Skagway, was arrested last Saturday on a charge of having used seditious language on May 1st, 1918, and at various times previous. His case was called in the U. S. commissioner's court Monday, but continued until Tuesday in order to allow him time in which to secure a lawyer. He was released on $3000 bail pending his hearing on Tuesday.

• May 17, 1918: Word was received here Sunday that an ice jam had formed in the river below Yukon Crossing and the back water had drowned 10 head of horses belonging to the Royal Mail service, and flooded all the buildings in the vicinity. When the jam broke it carried away the stable, feed cache, two sleds, one thoroughbrace wagon, the ferry, old police post, and the old telegraph office.
• May 17, 1918: On Saturday, Peter Milovitch, the Montenegrin who was adjudged insane last week and ordered committed to the asylum at New Westminster, was taken to the depot in an auto by the police. He became so uncontrollable he was finally put into a straight jacket.
• May 17, 1918: No more shipments of liquor will be allowed to be made into Yukon Territory excepting such orders as were placed and already sent before May 1, 1918. No action was taken respecting the sale of liquor already in the territory or en route before this date.

• May 24, 1918: An epidemic has struck Herschel Island and the Mackenzie Delta. Many people including explorer Stefansson are sick and some including Const. Lamont of the R. N. W. M. P. have died. Read the entire article here.
• May 24, 1918: Those who dwell in the far reaches of this northern land pay but small attention to the ordinary hazards of the wilderness, but the experiences of several people on their recent journey from Dawson to Whitehorse will never be effaced from their memories as long as life shall last. Read the entire article here.
• May 24, 1918: Miss Pauline Raymond has just opened up a neatly fitted up place on Main street, near Second, where she will be pleased to serve the public with ice cream and soft drinks. She also carries a fine line of fruits, nuts, candies, chewing gum, etc.

• May 31, 1918: Cam Smith and Bob Palmer left Sunday morning in their autos for Carmacks, having on board the Royal mail and four passengers. The roads were in very bad shape and the bridge at Nordenskoild crossing had been washed away. They returned to Whitehorse, reaching here Wednesday evening.
• May 31, 1918: At a meeting on Saturday evening, it was decided that, although much had been accomplished here in the past for the Red Cross, still more could be by the organization of a branch society. A motion to that effect was unanimously carried.
• May 31, 1918: H. K. Zynkian, high class photographer, is now located in the White Pass hotel building on Main street, where he will remain for three weeks. He makes a specialty of portraiture. This work is up-to-date in every respect and prices moderate.

June

• June 7, 1918: The 1918 celebration of Victoria Day in Whitehorse will long be remembered by those who had the good fortune to take part in it as one of the most glorious occasions that ever occurred in this northern land.
• June 7, 1918: The steamer Tanana, which left Fairbanks on May 27, has on board about 60 outward bound passengers. She is expected to reach Whitehorse shortly after navigation on Lake Lebarge opens.
• June 7, 1918: Capt. A. L. Bell of the R. N. W. M. P. returned from Vancouver on Tuesday, bringing with him eighteen new members to replace those who went out a few weeks ago. Six will be stationed at Whitehorse, twelve at Dawson.

• June 14, 1918: D. G. Click, who had been in the Good Samaritan hospital twenty-three days as a charity patient, died Wednesday, evidently without any funds. In searching a small grip of his, however, the public administrator found $1600, most of it in $100 bills. There were also clues that he had funds elsewhere. He was about 50 years old, and had been here for about ten years.
• June 14, 1918: The Dawson Daily News in a special telegram to the Weekly Star on Tuesday announced that the Klondike hydraulie dredge and all other mining operations on the creeks were going ahead at full blast and that no more labor is needed in that country.
• June 14, 1918: C. G. Greime, manager of the gents' furnishing store of Greime & Smith, got away early Tuesday afternoon for Teslin lake with a launch load of merchandise which he is taking in to barter with the Indians for furs.

• June 21, 1918: The Venus mine, in the Conrad district, last Sunday shipped 700 sacks of concentrates on the steamer Tutshi to Carcross for re-shipment from there to the smelter on the outside. At that time there were 8300 more sacks of concentrates at the mill ready for shipment and which were being added to at the rate of 100 tons daily, the mill now running at its full capacity.
• June 21, 1918: Pioneers Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Macdonald passed through on Tuesday their way outside. They will first seek care for Mrs. Macdonald's fractured ankle, then go to Penticton, where they have one of the finest fruit ranches in the Okanagan valley.
• June 21, 1918: The Yukon recruits under the Military Service Act in Classes A and B, nearly if not quite 100 strong, are expected to reach here on the steamer Selkirk early next week. They will be joined here by about six more recruits and at Carcross by the Atlin contingent of 18 men.

• June 28, 1918: Robert Lowe had both hands burned quite badly one day last week by the explosion of a piece of waste paper which he had lighted to start the fire in his furnace. It is thought the paper had been used to wrap some fireworks.
• June 28, 1918: After a week's illness from pneumonia, complicated by asthmatic and bronchial complications, Dan C. Campbell, pioneer resident of Whitehorse, passed away at the Whitehorse General hospital at 9 o'clock p. m. Wednesday. Read the entire article here.
• June 28, 1918: Tuesday night at 9:30 o'clock the steamer Selkirk pulled into the dock at Whitehorse from Dawson with 95 men who had been enrolled in Yukon's quota of troops for overseas service. Following a wide variety of entertainments, they left for Skagway Thursday morning, to board the Princess Sophia.

July

• July 5, 1918: The Dominion Day excursion to Lower Lebarge under the auspices of the I. O. D. E. was a grand success, not only from a financial standpoint, but from the number of hours consumed in the trip and the amount of enjoyment crowded into each and every one of them. The steamer Casca left the White Pass dock promptly at 10 o'clock a. m. and did not get back until after 4:30 a. m. Wednesday.
• July 5, 1918: In answer to a complaint charging him with having sold one bottle of peroxide remedy and one bottle of mosquito preventative upon which no stamps had been placed as required under the New Special War Revenue Act of 1915, H. G. MePherson, Whitehorse druggist, appeared in the police court Wednesday morning. The case was dismissed and costs $15.75 were assessed against the complainant.
• July 5, 1918: "Curley" McIntosh, the B. Y. N. carriage maker and wheelwright, whose shop was completely destroyed by fire last winter, is now located in new quarters in the front of the stable building. The room he occupies is 30x60 feet, with a partition running through the center. In the forward part there are two blacksmith forges.

• July 12, 1918: C. W. Cash and I. L. Seevers made a trip overland to Yukon Crossing during the past week. They report that although the roadhouse and all buildings were seriously damaged or taken away by the ice and water, repairs or replacements of all needed buildings is underway. The road crew will arrive in the next two to three weeks and has much work to do.
• July 12, 1918: Miss Smith and Miss Teskey, teachers in the Whitehorse public school, will leave next week for Carcross, in the vicinity of which, at Lake Nares, they have rented the S. E. Chambers cottage, in which it is their intention to spend their summer vacation.
• July 12, 1918: Robert Lowe is experimenting in raising potatoes by a new method. He planted the potatoes in a wooden slatted crate of several feet each way, alternating layers of earth and potatoes. Now green shoots are coming out through every opening on all sides of the crate.

• July 19, 1918: On Saturday, July 13, the employes of the Venus mine descended upon the once populous and lively, but now deserted, town of Conrad for the purpose of holding a picnic and dance. The abandoned Yukon hotel was chosen as the place to hold it, and there were even 32 people from Whitehorse, arriving by train then on the Tutshi.
• July 19, 1918: Frank Dumontier is now at Conrad with a gang of men engaged in tearing down the old Geo. Curtis hotel building. The material will be shipped down the river to Whitehorse. Frank MePhee is thinking seriously of putting the building he owns in Conrad on a raft and towing it to Carcross.
• July 19, 1918: Saturday and Sunday a big forest fire was raging along Little Atlin Lake. The country between Tagish lake and Carcross was filled with smoke.

• July 26, 1918: With tender and impressive rites, all that is mortal of Mrs. Hugh Quinn Cutting (Bessie Lucile Cutting) was laid to rest the afternoon of July 15th in the Masonic cemetery at Dawson. The funeral was attended by hundreds of the best known of Dawson's people. The christening of her daughter was held the previous afternoon.
• July 26, 1918: The embargo against the importation of fruit and other vegetables into the Yukon is another of the absurdities imposed upon the people of the Klondike by a board ignorant of the conditions of this remote district. Fruits and vegetables brought here from the coast are held up at this end because of the arbitrary ruling of some board thousands of miles away, and may rot before they are released, and possibly they never will be released.
• July 26, 1918: Col. Joseph W. Boyle, formerly of Dawson, Y. T., who is connected with the Canadian troops, has been decorated by King Ferdinand of Rumania, for having saved prominent Rumanians from capture at the hands of the Bolsheviki.

August

• August 2, 1918: The firm of Greime & Smith, dealers in men's clothing, furnishings, boots and shoes, for years one of the business standbys of Whitehorse, announce a clearance of their entire stock and their retirement from business.
• August 2, 1918: Early Saturday morning Dawson John, an Indian, arrived in town and reported to the police that the day before he had accidentally shot and killed his hunting companion, Joe Jacky, another Indian, while the two were moose hunting on the McClintock river.
• August 2, 1918: The White Pass stables at Yukon Crossing, washed out and destroyed last spring when a big ice jam in the river broke and carried them away, are to be re-built. All the material used will be fashioned into shape here, Ed Benson now being engaged in the work of making window and door frames, casings, etc.

• August 9, 1918: Thursday night or last week, at 11 o'clock, Terence F. Curran, mining recorder for Southern Yukon, was in the barroom of the Commercial hotel and from that time until now, no trace of him has ever been seen or found, although the R. N. W. M. P. have diligently searched. Read the entire story here.
• August 9, 1918: Tuesday night a party of about fifteen young people of Whitehorse autoed out to the Pueblo mine and held a dance in the Alguire store building there. They reached home at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning.
• August 9, 1918: Max McSwayne, commercial traveler, was before Judge Macaulay in Dawson court yesterday afternoon on a charge laid by Monty Maltby, alleging the sale of cigars without license. Mr. McSwayne pleaded guilty, and was fined $50 and costs. The charge was laid under the Transient Traders Ordinance.

• August 16, 1918: All doubts, of the fate of the late Terence F. Curran, mining recorder for Southern Yukon, were dispelled early Wednesday afternoon when his body was found by Jim Boss, lodged in a clump of willows on the east shore of the Yukon river, opposite the mouth of the Takini river.
• August 16, 1918: Mrs. Alberta Hanover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Ferry, late owners of the Indian river roadhouse on the Whitehorse-Dawson overland mail route, arrived in Whitehorse with her parents on Tuesday. She is on her way to the coast where she will endeavor to enlist for service in France, and plans, if possible, to get to that country before the winter.
• August 16, 1918: Manager J. P, Whitney of the Copper King mine recently purchased the big boiler formerly at the Pueblo mine, and last Friday the boiler was transported by wagon from the White Pass depot to the mine by Ike Seevers and Curley McIntosh

• August 23, 1918: In coming around a sharp bend a short distance this side of Ear lake Monday the locomotive of the northbound train ran over two railroad ties that had been placed between the rails, intentionally or otherwise, by some person or persons unknown. Fortunately, the ties laid flat and were only grazed by the firebox of the locomotive as it passed over.
• August 23, 1918: About the middle of June Alfred Cronin of Whitehorse was gazetted as lieutenant and is at present attached to the First Canadian Tank battalion, which recently reached England from Canada. He is instructional officer in infantry training, as all the recruits have to receive infantry training before they get tank instruction.
• August 23, 1918: About seventy persons from Skagway responded to the invitation from Haines to join with them in the "farewell" tendered the boys of the Fourteenth regiment stationed at Ft. W. H. Seward last Saturday evening, and had the capacity of the harbor boat Peterson been more, the probability is that a much greater number would have gone to the mission city.

• August 30, 1918: Letters recently received by Bishop Stringer from the Arctie give some particulars of the doings and travels of the missionaries working among the Eskimos of that isolated region.
• August 30, 1918: Administrator George Mackenzie of Dawson and wife will pass through Whitehorse within a few days on their way to Ottawa, where Mr. Mackenzie has been instructed by the ministry to appear and give a report on the affairs of Yukon territory.
• August 30, 1918: One of the first cases to come up under the workmen's compensation ordinance was tried in the territorial court at Dawson on Aug. 20, when Alfred Thompson, a cook, was awarded $450 for injuries received while in the employ of W. G. Clarke of Coal creek.

September

• September 6, 1918: Isaac Taylor and family who left here by auto the middle of August for an outing trip to Carmacks found the weather so pleasant and the roads so good they extended their journey on as far as the Pelly. The only mishap they had was that of getting stuck on the way north in a mud-hole between here and Little river, but that delayed them for only a brief while, as they had the necessary apparatus with them to overcome the difficulty without outside assistance. They reached home Sunday afternoon.
• September 6, 1918: On the summit of the Little river divide the road gang working between Carmacks and Takhini laid to rest "Dooley," the pet dog of Foreman Burwash, the animal having succumbed to some canine malady beyond their ability to relieve. Before departing from the grave a salute was fired over it in honor of the passing on of a faithful companion and friend.
• September 6, 1918: We recently learned how George Raymond died, from his father. The young man was instantly killed in England by the overturning of his machine when only a few feet above ground, and that he had been buried at the place where he met death.

• September 13, 1918: Whitehorse citizens enjoyed a treat Monday night in the form of a lecture, under the auspices of the I. O. D. E. and Red Cross, by Commander Stefansson, the noted Arctic explorer. He spoke in the N. S. A. A. hall and his words were listened to with rapt attention by the large audience that had assembled.
• September 13, 1918: Sub-Collector of Customs Leo Simmons and wife of Carcross received a message a few days ago announcing the serious wounding in the back by a gun-shot of their eldest son, Sergt. Aubrey Simmons, of the heavy artillery, who went overseas two years ago with the Black Yukon contingent. The wounded lad is getting along all right.
• September 13, 1918: Friday of tast week Otto Nelson, an operator on McKee creek in the Atlin district, was caught in a clay slide in one of the tunnels of the mine and instantly killed by having his back broken. Nelson has several relatives living in the Atlin district. He was buried at the Atlin cemetery.

• September 20, 1918: Jim Hall, former owner of claim No. 17, Eldorado, which produced more than 2 million dollars, has committed suicide in Valejo, California. Read the entire lengthy article here.
• September 20, 1918: An automobile owned and driven by J. N. Spence capsized on September 13 while traveling up Hunker creek. The car turned a complete lateral somersault, and landed right side up on the wheels. All those in the car were thrown out in the middle of the road, and some were badly bruised and scratched. Those in the car beside Mr. Spence were W. E. Cockfield, Dominion geologist; Jack Pickering, and Jimmy Lloyd, the Gold Run quartz miner.
• September 20, 1918: The trading steamer Kluane, belonging to Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & Co., left the middle of last week for the company's trading post at Teslin lake. Sergt. Mapley of the R. N. W. M. P., who is acting as assistant registrar in the registration of Yukoners now going on, as well as police patrol for Livingstone creek and the Teslin lake country, was a passenger.

• September 27, 1918: The Carcross church, which lately has been closed for repairs, was re-opened for service on the 15th, Rev. John Hawksley officiating, and delivering a fine sermon. W. H. Simpson, who has been doing the repairs, is to be congratulated on the improvements he has made. The interior has all been beaverboarded, and a chancel and vestry added at the east end. The arrival of a stained memorial window will complete the edifice.
• September 27, 1918: The White Horse arrived Saturday morning with about 90 outgoing passengers, among whom were to be seen many who have been in the Yukon since the early days. The vessel left on her return to Dawson early Sunday morning with several passengers and a lot of railroad material for the Alaska Engineering commission at Nenana.
• September 27, 1918: There is a rumor circulating in Whitehorse, for the truth of which we are not prepared to vouch, that the Venus mine, in the Conrad district, will open up again in a short time.

October

• October 4, 1918: A dance was held at the N.S.A.A. hall for Ike Seavers, an employe of the White Pass for the past eight years, before he left to join the American forces. Mr. Seavers left for Skagway Monday and when he appeared at headquarters of the Local Board Tuesday at 10 o'clock, he was appointed leader of the nine recruits there assembled, until they reached Fort Seward.
• October 4, 1918: A letter from the father of George Raymond tells of his death in the crash of his airplane in France. Read that letter here.
• October 4, 1918: Frank Debrisay of Dawson, a member of the Canadian expeditionary force in the aviation corps, was shot down in France on July 4 when flying above enemy lines. His machine crashed down behind the allied lines and the young Yukoner was thrown out on his head. His hip and one arm were badly bunged up and his eyes were affected. He is in hospital, where he will likely remain for some time.

• October 11, 1918: Thos. F. Day of Dawson and another man, whose name is supposed to be Thorensen, were drowned in the Yukon, at the mouth of Indian river, the middle of last week, by the swamping of the gasoline launch in which they were traveling. Read the entire article here.
• October 11, 1918: The men's furnishings stock of goods of Greime & Smith, which is being sold at reduced rates in order to permit of the proprietors' retirement from business in Whitehorse, is almost closed out, and Mr. Greime, manager of the concern, expects to leave with his family for Seattle at an early date.
• October 11, 1918: Two lots of stage horses, one of 20 from Minto and the other of 14 from the Island on Lake Lebarge, were brought in this week from the pastures and are being distribited to the various stations on the overland route between here and Dawson. Jack Cole, Ernie Burwash and F. E. Browne were dispatched after the horses on the island, but got caught in a storm and were detained there for two days.

• October 18, 1918: Fairbanks, Oct. 7 - The launch Flyer, master Astral Vernon, known as the Hungry Kid, and son of George Vernon, formerly of Dawson, was lost in the Tanana river, twelve miles below Chena, on Friday. Eleven people were aboard. Searching parties have not found the bodies. Geo. Coleman, manager of the N. C. Co., was among those lost.
• October 18, 1918: Ernie Johnson came in from the Wheaton river country on Thursday bringing with him a quantity of big game, among which was a mountain sheep. Indians brought in from the same section of country at about the same time several moose and two mountain sheep.
• October 18, 1918: The U. S. steamer Jeff C. Davis arrived yesterday morning from St. Michael, and has been put on the ways here for the winter. Capt. Bergman, a pioneer of the North, is master. There were several U. S. army officers and their families on board, besides a number of men of the U. S. Signal corps. The vessel's progress was impeded by a herd of thousands of caribou swimming across the river in the Forty Mile country. Eleven of the caribou were killed by those on board.

• October 25, 1918: A telephone message was received Thursday afternoon from Skagway stating that the Princess Sophia, which left that port Wednesday night with 300 passengers on board, had run onto Vanderbilt reef, about 65 miles south of Skagway. The vessel was apparently uninjured and was expected to float at high tide.
• October 25, 1918: The Engineer mine closed down last week for the winter, and Capt. Alexander, owner of the mine and wife left Monday for the outside. Captain Alexander_has been in poor health for sometime, and will undergo treatment while away. [He died in the sinking of the Princess Sophia]
• October 25, 1918: The train that left here Monday morning for Skagway was a record breaker for the W. P. & Y. R. There were eleven coaches and two baggage cars filled with passengers and three box cars loaded with baggage. Four hundred passengers left from here and there were thirty-four others waiting at Carcross to board the train when it left there.

November

• November 1, 1918: On October 24th, the Princess Sophia ran onto Vanderbilt reef in Lynn canal, 65 miles south of Skagway. Passengers remained on the vessel as there appeared to be no danger. A day later, bad weather and enormous waves swept the Sophia across the reef, filling it up with icy water. The Princess Sophia sank within minutes, causing the death of more than 350 passengers.
• November 1, 1918: Capt. A. L. Bell left Tuesday morning for Juneau to assist in the identification of the bodies of the late passengers on the wrecked steamship, Princess Sophia. At Summit he was joined by Sergt. Mapley of the R. N. W. M. P., assistant immigration inspector, who accompanied him to Juneau.
• November 1, 1918: Bishop Stringer has received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity at Wycliffe College for his missionary work in the Arctic, in particular on Herschel Island.

• November 8, 1918: Whitehorse was the first community to hoist the governor general's flag in the north. Whitehorse received this honor for the number of recruits sent to the front and for generous contributions to war relief work.
• November 8, 1918: The steamer Tutshi of the White Pass line operating between Careross and Atlin, is on a sandbar about two miles down the lake from Carcross, where she will be allowed to remain until next spring.
• November 8, 1918: Miss Katherine Ryan, government inspector on the White Pass trains for the prevention of the smuggling of gold dust from the Yukon, has secured leave of absence of four months. She is going to Juneau, where she hopes to recover the body of her nephew, Leo Ryan, one of the Princess Sophia wreck victims.

  

• November 15, 1918: Monday morning [November 11th] at 10 o'clock a flash over the Dominion wire from Vancouver announced the glorious news of the signing of the allied armistice terms by the plenipotentiaries of the German government and that fighting would cease on entire Enropean battlefront at 11 o'clock, Paris time, on that day.
• November 15, 1918: The remains of the late Vincent Dortero of Skagway, whose death, from Spanish influenza, occurred a few days ago at the U. S. military training camp at Fort Dodge, Iowa, reached Skagway Wednesday on board the steamship Jefferson and will be laid to rest in the cemetery at that place. (see his grave here)
• November 15, 1918: Yukon Chapter, I. O. D. E., are having made a memorial cross as a tribute to the heroes of Southern Yukon who have made the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of Europe, and which it is their intention to put in place in the Whitehorse cemetery at a date within the next two weeks to be announced later. The cross will be seven feet high, including its base.

• November 22, 1918: The Victory Loan quota allotted to Whitehorse was $25,000, and this amount was raised in two days, thereby gaining one of the Governor General's honor flags. This flag is now flying from the flag staff in front of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Read the entire article here.
• November 22, 1918: For the past week the temperature in Whitehorse has been exceedingly mild, almost, but not quite, reminding one of a winter in Florida had it not been that the orange blossoms were lacking. A strong chinook wind from the south for several days has caused the snow to disappear from the roofs of the houses in town.
• November 22, 1918: Mrs. Katherine Barry passed away the morning of Nov. 16 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. P. S. Murray in Skagway. Mrs. Barry has been a resident of the north for over twenty years, having come to Skagway with her family in 1897 from Spokane, Wash.

• November 29, 1918: On Sunday, December 8, at the I. O. D. E. rooms, Archdeacon Whittaker will deliver a short address, after which all who wish will march to the cemetery to witness the unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of Southern Yukon men who have made the supreme sacrifice on the battle fields of Europe. The present wooden monument is but temporary, and will be replaced by a permanent one of marble, at as early a date as possible.
• November 29, 1918: Development work which will keep forty-five machine crews two years to accomplish has been laid out at the Alaska-Juneau mine, in connection with stoping out of the mineral ground lying between the Alaska-Juneau and the Gastineau Company holdings on the east.
• November 29, 1918: Miss Appleyard, senior deaconess at the Choutla school in Carcross, after five years of service, has resigned, and expects to go early in the New Year to her brother, rector of St. Paul's, Woodstock, Ont.

December

• December 6, 1918: The formal opening of the I. O. D. E. room, in the public library building, took place Friday night and was attended by about 70 people, who passed the time very pleasantly until near 1 o'clock a. m. Saturday. The room, in the shape of an L, is large, comfortably furnished and well adapted to the purposes for which it is to be used.
• December 6, 1918: Rev. C. K. Nicoll, former pastor of the Presbyterian church here, he has received his appointment as chaplain, which carries with it a commission as captain. Mr. Nicoll left here in March, 1916, for Winnipeg, where he enlisted in an ambulance corps. Reaching the western front, he was through some of the heaviest fighting that transpired there.
• December 6, 1918: Thousands of caribou have been crossing the hills and vales of the Twelvemile district, north of Dawson, of late. For many days they swarmed down the Little Twelvemile and across the Hay Meadows, and covered the hills between Kentucky Point and Lapine Ridge, on the wagon road which follows the Guggie ditch from Dawson to the Twelvemile power house.

• December 13, 1918: Robert Lowe and George Armstrong write from New York that they have succeeded in interesting Mr. Louis Whicher and associates of The United Verde Extension Copper Co., to the extent that they are to send one of their engineers immediately to!report on the Whitehorse copper properties and the possibility of consolidation for working as a unit, and the harnessing of power at Miles Canyon, etc.
• December 13, 1918: After escaping death by cancelling his reservation on the Princess Sophia an hour before she sailed from Skagway on her last trip south, J. Austin. Fraser, prominent lawyer of Dawson and former member of the Yukon Council, died in Seattle on Dec. 11 at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. N. McLean, of pneumonia following influenza.
• December 13, 1918: Capt. A. L. Bell of the R. N. W. M. P. has issued strict orders that no Indians be allowed to enter the town of Whitehorse during the prevalence of influenza in Klukwan, Haines and other Alaskan towns where the Indians are in the habit of going to visit relatives and friends. A quarantine station also has been established at Champagne, to prevent the Indians from Dalton Post mingling with the interior Indians.

• December 20, 1918: The Valerie copper mine, about seven miles southwest of Whitehorse, which has had a small crew of miners engaged in development all winter, closed down last week, with the exception of the two diamond drill operators, who still continue at work.
• December 20, 1918: Chas. Eisenhauer, manager of the Whitehorse Silver Black Fox Co., about a week ago killed all of the animals belonging to himself and partners, numbering 52, and will probably retire from the business, as the co-partnership heretofore existing between John Zarnousky, Max Ross and himself has been dissolved.
• December 20, 1918: The sudden and unexpected death Monday morning of Mrs. Dorcas Joyce caused a feeling of extreme sadness in the entire community when it became public, shortly after 11 o'clock. Read the entire lengthy article here.

• December 27, 1918: Our well-known and respected jeweller, W. J. Stoddart leaves Whitehorse next week to take over his father's business in Victoria. His bright little children, Isabelle and David, will accompany him and will be missed by teachers and scholars, who wish them long life and happiness.
• December 27, 1918: Christmas day the thermometer registered 30 above, probably the mildest weather ever experienced here since the country was settled by the whites, and something like 100 degrees warmer than it was Christmas day, 1917.
• December 27, 1918: John King, pioneer Klondiker, died November 12 at Queen Charlotte City, 75 miles south of Prince Rupert, where he was engaged in getting out airplane timber at a sawmill. He was found dead at his place of work. Heart failure evidently was the cause of death. Mr. King was 60 years of age. He had lived in the Klondike district many years prior to leaving with his family this fall.

1919

January

• January 3, 1919: Word has just reached Whitehorse of the death by drowning on December 19 of J. E. Fox, a pioneer resident of Atlin. Fox left Atlin December 14 with mail for the Engineer mine and was to have taken back with him on his return important documents belonging to the late Capt. James Alexander, owner of the Engineer mine, who was lost in the wreck of the steamship Princess Sophia.
• January 3, 1919: The steamship Princess Mary arrived in Skagway Wednesday with eight passengers, among whom were Miss Fraser, the recently appointed teacher in the primary department of the Whitehorse public school, and V. I. Hahn, superintendent of the White Pass. All of the passengers now are in quarantine in Skagway.
• January 3, 1919: Two residents of Dawson were before Judge Black, sitting as police magistrate, on Dec. 20, on charge of theft of electricity from the lines of the Dawson Electric Light & Power company. They had been taking the electricity for use in their homes.

• January 10, 1919: Mr. and Mrs. E. J. White of Juneau, Alaska (formerly residents of Whitehorse) have made the first donation to the local I.O.D.E. Chapter for a permanent memorial to the memory of Southern Yukon men who made the supreme sacrifice in the great war. The memorial was finally unveiled on June 9, 1920.
• January 10, 1919: The mounted police patrol for Fort McPherson is expected to get away from Dawson in a few days. Col. Knight says Sergeant Dempster and his party are ready to start as soon as a supply of anti-influenza vaccine arrives from the outside.
• January 10, 1919: Const. J. E. Banks, of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, gained his liberty this morning from the White Pass detention hospital in Skagway, and will take tomorrow's train for Whitehorse, where he will report for duty to Capt. Bell, in charge of the Yukon detachment there.

• January 17, 1919: The rector of Christ church desires to thank those persons whose subscriptions have helped to maintain mission work among Indians and Eskimos in Canada. The results of such work ought not to be judged by the lack of progress of our local Indians, who have been more influenced by the lower side of what is called civilization. Among most Indians, and especially among Eskimos, the mission has stood between the native and complete destruction.
• January 17, 1919: Dr. William Turnbull of Dawson has received word by wire from San Jose that Mrs. Turnbull and their charming little girl, Edora, three years of age, have recovered from the influenza after a most severe illness. For quite a while it was feared Mrs. Turnbull would not recover.
• January 17, 1919: Prisoned in a wilderness of ice and massive glaciers, ignorant even that his country had been plunged into the European war, Tony Shannon has come back to civilization, arriving at San Francisco a month ago. He was the first of the Stefansson party that set out three years ago to arrive in safety from the fearful and perilous expedition to the Victoria Islands.

• January 24, 1919: The Yukon Development League was organized in Dawson on January 21st. The object of the organization is to secure development in the Yukon.
• January 24, 1919: Gold Commissioner and Mrs. Geo. P. McKenzie arrived in Whitehorse Tuesday, after five days detention in the quarantine annex at Skagway, and Thursday at noon left on the stage for Dawson, accompanied by Sergt. Daniel Gleeson, who is returning from active service.
• January 24, 1919: D. E. Powell, a pioneer of the Klondike, where he has been employed by the Canadian Klondike Mining Co. as blacksmith's helper, came in Tuesday from Dawson, from which place he had journeyed on foot, consuming about two weeks on the way.

• January 31, 1919: John Rosene, at one time an extensive mine operator in Alaska, the organizer of the Northwestern Commercial company. and promoter of great Siberian econeessions from the late Czar, died in Seattle on Jan. 27. He was well known in Whitehorse, having made his headquarters in Haines for a number of years.
• January 31, 1919: Four Alaskan prisoners who have been confined in the detention station at Seattle and held for deportation, eseaped and a determined search is being made for them. Their names are Gustof Cahier, B. Pappas, Nelmuth Wagner and Ludwig Olsen, The men were charged with being slackers.
• January 31, 1919: Because of the loss of the ship Karluk, with all its stores, Stefansson and his men were forced to live off the natural food supply of the north. For the greater part of five years they subsisted almost entirely on animals and fish, including bears, seals, reindeer, musk ox, and wolves.

February

• February 7, 1919: The international bowling tournament will end tonight and the Dawson team, which has been putting up a strong game all the way through, it is now almost certain, will stand at the head of the list. There are 5 teams, from Dawson, Skagway, Treadwell, Whitehorse and Juneau.
• February 7, 1919: Capt. S. C. Barrington, along with $5 to renew his subscription, sent a note saying he has a nice business onn the Stikine River and is building a new boat which he hopes to have in operation by the 1st of May.
• February 7, 1919: According to word received here recently a number of the Southern Yukon boys are with the Canadian army of occupation in Germany. Among them are Archie Mclean of Carcross , and Jack French, Sam Coulter, and several others from Whitehorse whose names we disremember.

• February 14, 1919: News from Dawson on January 30th that trapper Bob Levac narrowly escaped death when mauled by a grizzly near Fraser Falls in the Stewart River country. Intervention by his dog no doubt saved him, but the bear killed the heroic dog. Levac was able to reach Mayo, 20 miles away, by dog sled for assistance.
• February 14, 1919: A lease has been given to Montana parties on the Venus Mine, and work including installation of a new mill will begin no later than June 1st.
• February 14, 1919: A series of brief articles report on divers exploring the wreck of the Princess Sophia in search of more bodies. The bodies of two women have been spotted but recovery has not been possible.

• February 21, 1919: Jack Goslow, or "Whiskey" Jack as he was commonly called by those in Whitehorse with whom he was acquainted, was arrested in Skagway last Friday on instructions from United States Marshal J. M. Tanner of Juneau, on a charge of grand larceny, but it has since developed that a far more serious accusation has been entered against him, viz.: that of the murder of Myra Schmidt, a woman of the underworld.
• February 21, 1919: Capt. P. Martin of the Arctic Trading Co. returned Thursday noon of last week from a round trip mush with dog team between this place and Carcross. He went by the way of the wagon road along the line of the White Pass railway and returned via Tagish lake and down the river. He reports a good deal of snow and heavy traveling in the big draw northeast of Carcross, through which the trail runs.
• February 21, 1919: A strenuous effort is being made by the people of Skagway to have the infinenza quarantine at that place raised, but up to the present the movement has failed by reason of the strong protest against it from Dawson, in which almost everyone there joined.

• February 28, 1919: A report from the British Air Ministry predicts that large freight airships, 1,100 feet long and capable of carrying 200 tons vast distances, will be a reality.
• February 28, 1919: Juneau fur dealer Chas. Goldstein & Co. is offering $5-20 for wolf pelts, $35-37.50 for large lynx, and $50-100 for cross fox.
• February 28, 1919: Four former Whitehorse men have now left Seattle for the oil fields of Texas where fortunes are being made and lost between the rising and setting of each day's sun. On the search are C. G. Greime, Tom Granville, Fred McGlasham and Walter Gerard.

March

• March 7, 1919: A lengthy editorial argues against the "hysterical and unreasoning fear" that had quarantines and travel restrictions put in place. Read the entire article here.
• March 7, 1919: On Feb. 17 Peter Jackson, an Alaskan native of Klawock village near the town of Craig, shot and instantly killed the deputy U. S. marshal who had him under arrest, The murderer escaped and for several days evaded capture, but finally, when he found that his apprehension by the authorities was certain, turned the gun on himself and thus ended the affair.
• March 7, 1919: Monday afternoon about 3 o'clock fire was discovered in the attic of the Chooutla Indian school at Carcross, and for a time it looked as though the entire structure was doomed. Owing, however, to the aid of the citizens of Carcross, who rushed to the scene as soon as the alarm was given, the blaze was gotten under control with only slight damage to the roof of the building. There was also some damage occasioned by water.

• March 14, 1919: A grand reception to welcome our returned soldiers was held at the Caribou hotel, Carcross, on Thursday last. The guests of honor were Aubrey Simmons, Fred Maclennan, Ike Gillespie and Alf. Dickson. There were 47 present, which consisted of the entire population and then some.
• March 14, 1919: A test run of a ton of ore from the Venus mine, in the Conrad district, to ascertain the actual values contained therein, will shortly be made in Seattle by the new lessees of the property.
• March 14, 1919: Tony Grisco, who owns a trading post at the head of the White river, about 350 miles northwest of Whitehorse, arrived in town Friday with two dog teams and an Indian boy companion, having made the journey in eight days. He brought with him $4,000 worth of raw furs of fine quality.

• March 21, 1919: Billy Taylor, former superintendent of the river division of the White Pass & Yukon Route Company, died in Seattle on March 15.
• March 21, 1919: Two more Eskimo prisoners from the Coppermine have been brought to McPherson to be tried, this time for the murder of a woman who was wife to both men, one of the very few cases of polyandry known among Eskimos.
• March 21, 1919: J. D. Durie, for the past eleven years engaged in the mercantile business in Whitehorse, has sold his entire stock of general merchandise and house furnishings to John Sewell, another pioneer of Southern Yukon. Mr. Durie's eventual destination is to be Vancouver.

• March 28, 1919: Yukon pioneer Percy Reid, acting commissioner of immigration in Winnipeg, has received the appointment of chief inspector for Canada of the department of immigration and colonization and assistant chief controller of Chinese immigration.
• March 28, 1919: Two deaths are reported from Skagway. Chris. Boshart, pioneer resident of the Yukon and Skagway, passed away the White Pass hospital of plural pneumonia. Miss Stewart, a sister of James L. Stewart, clerk in the White Pass auditor's office, died from heart failure.
• March 28, 1919: The lot of people who are compelled to travel to and from Yukon for the next four months will not be altogether happy, as the incoming ones will have to go into quarantine five days on their arrival at Carcross and the outgoing ones be compelled to stay the same length of time in the Golden North hotel at Skagway.

April

• April 4, 1919: James Richards Falls on Rapidly Revolving Saw. "Buzzsaw" Jimmy Richards escaped death Monday afternoon by as narrow a margin as ever fell to the lot of anyone who lived to afterward tell the tale of his adventure.
• April 4, 1919: On Wednesday night a meeting of citizens was held at the N. S. A. A. hall for the purpose of discussing the most effective methods and to devise ways and means to fight the mosquito, and as far as possible to restrict the activities of the pestiferous insect during the coming summer.
• April 4, 1919: Word of a rich placer strike in the Teslin lake country was received in Whitehorse Monday, and as the story is verified to a certain extent by W. S. Copland, mining recorder at Teslin lake, there seems to be small doubt but that the news is authentic and well worthy of investigation.

• April 11, 1919: Supt. W. D. Gordon of the river division of the W. P. & Y. R., reports that from the numerous inquiries being received and the large number of bookings already made, that the approaching tourist season will be taken advantage of by more sight-seers than have ever before visited this country in the same length of time.
• April 11, 1919: A tin box containing Royal yeast cakes "made expressly for the Klondike trade" in '98, by E. W. Gillett Co. Ltd., Toronto, with the yeast still in good condition has been recovered from the old deserted town of Teslin City, which was 60 miles from the present T. D. P. Co. post.
• April 11, 1919: Dr. Norman E. Culbertson, territorial health officer for the Yukon, gave an interesting and instructive informal talk on "Influenza" to a fair sized audience at the N. S. A. A. hall Friday night. He left for the outside last fall, and arrived in Vancouver during the worst stages of the ravages of the malady throughout that section of country. Physicians were scarce, and the need of their services urgent, so Dr. Culbertson volunteered his assistance and was assigned to Queen Charlotte Islands.

• April 18, 1919: J. P. Whitney reports that a strike of rich ore has been made at the Copper King mine at the 150 foot level. It shows an average of from 15 to 60 percent copper.
• April 18, 1919: Between 200 and 250 Eskimo children in the region around Nome and St. Michael have been left orphans by an influenza epidemic. They are being taken in by other Eskimo families throughout the Kobuk region.
• April 18, 1919: William and Judd Matthews report having found the bodies of two men, presumably victims of the Sophia disaster. The Matthews boys were looking for logs that had drifted up on the shore and found the bodies at a place near Seduction point.

• April 25, 1919: The Yukon Chapter of the I.O.D.E. gave a reception and dance at the N.S.A.A. hall yesterday in honor of Canadian and American returned soldiers.
• April 25, 1919: A long list was published of crew members returned for the season, for the steamers Washburn, Nasutlin, Seattle 3, Dawson and Casca. About a dozen wil be going with a White Pass team to Lower Lebarge today to get their boats ready.
• April 25, 1919: Mining expert E. R. Cooper is in Dawson en route to the Fortymile country in the interest of the Fortymile Power & Dredging company, a concern which was organized this winter in New York. It is capitalized at $5,000,000, and has taken over what was known as the Great Northern Mines Syndicate, which held the extensive placer properties on the Fortymile which were familiarly known as the Davidson properties.

May

• May 2, 1919: A report on the annual meeting of the Whitehorse General Hospital was published. It showed that a total of 77 patients had spent 1,819 days at the hospital - 22 of those patients were employed by the B.Y.N. Co., another 9 by local mines. A government grant contributed $3,675 to the $9,501 budget, while the B.Y.N. Co. contributed $2,847.40.
• May 2, 1919: Several crew members from the U.S. transport Jeff C. Davis, now lying on the ways at Whitehorse, and the U. S. transport Gen. Jacobs, in winter quarters at Ft. Gibbon, Alaska, arrived in Whitehorse from the outside Friday. Under the direction of. Capt. Bergman the Jeff C. Davis will be overhauled and put in shape for launching in time to depart down the river immediately after the river opens.
• May 2, 1919: Max Rosenberg, who formerly ran the Pioneer chop-house, Front street, Whitehorse, but who left about three years ago and went to Skagway where he for some time conducted a similar establishment, is now in Ketchikan, Alaska, where, according to the Miner of that city, he is soon to open up a Russian steam bath, for the treatment of rheumatism and other ailments.

• May 9, 1919: The Teslin Lake placers. McLean, Miller and Alex Brown, who, after sinking 35 feet on discovery, were driven out by water, are now building a dam with the hope of being able to ground sluice down to bedrock and to prove the creek by July. It is their opinion that while the prospects found in the gravel make good showing they are not proof positive of the existence of a paystreak on bedrock nor are they sufficient to justify a stampede into the district.
• May 9, 1919: A Russian interior trader, name unknown, but who has been engaged in the business for years, and Henry Arp of Whitehorse, have gone into partnership and left Wednesday morning down the Yukon with a small scow loaded with three tons of miscellaneous goods which they hope to dispose of either en route between here and there or at Dawson. Failing in this, they will keep on going until they do sell out.
• May 9, 1919: The rector of Christ church desires to say that the rectory being in quarantine, every precaution has been and is being strictly observed to avoid the spread of infection. It is with the doctor's express sanction that the rector, being exiled from home, continues his duties. All Sunday School papers on hand have been burned, and a new lot just received are quite safe.

• May 16, 1919: Percy De Wolfe, the lower Yukon river mail carrier, of the Dawson-Eagle route, broke through the ice while traveling the river April 26th and had a thrilling experience in which he barely escaped losing his life. Two fine horses, valued at $600, which he was driving, went through the ice at the same time, and were lost in the river. Read the entire article here.
• May 16, 1919: Monday E. J. Hamacher made a round trip from here to the head of Lake LeBarge in the gasoline launch Whitehorse with two passengers, Thos. Aitkin, the well-known interior mining man, and A. W. H. Smith, returned soldier. The passengers were landed on the solid ice at the head of the lake and expected to make their way from there over the ice to the Jim Boss roadhouse and from thence to Lower LeBarge to connect with the first steamers leaving there for Dawson.
• May 16, 1919: It having been rumored that influenza had again appeared in Skagway, a meeting was called Wednesday p.m., at the N.S.A.A. rooms to reconsider the arrangements which had been made for holding celebration day on May 24. The matter was passed to Drs. Clarke and Culbertson for study.

• May 23, 1919: Due to fresh cases on influenza at Skagway, a planned holiday excursion from Whitehorse has been cancelled.
• May 23, 1919: It must be embarrassing for a fellow to take a young lady out for an auto ride and when many miles from home to have the machine bog down in a mud hole, as happened to a Whitehorse young man while enroute to Takini Sunday.
• May 23, 1919: Quartermaster Sergeant Frank M. Bittinger of the U. S. transport Jeff C. Davis, now on the ways at Whitehorse, was married in Skagway on Sunday, May 17, to Miss Esther White of San Francisco.

• May 30, 1919: Of 36 men who ate at the Yukon Gold Company's dredge camp at 54 Hunker Creek, 8 have died of apparent ptomaine poisoning, and 11 more are in hospital, 3 in serious condition.
• May 30, 1919: Mrs. Monty Maltby, wife of the territorial secretary, met death on the evening of March 25th and her little son Chart suffered a fracture of the skull and is dangerously ill as a result of Gold Commissioner MacKenzie's auto jumping a forty foot bank and going into Hunker Creek.
• May 30, 1919: The water in the river at Whitehorse is extremely low for this time of year, which is accounted for by the cold nights, during which the formation of a skim of ice has been the rule, not the exception. The ice in Lake LeBarge is also being held together by the frosty nights.

June

• June 6, 1919: Not published.

• June 13, 1919: Probably feeling that now is a good time to bring a national symbol up to date, the Canadian government is considering the adoption of a new coat of arms. The present coat of arms was adopted in 1858, and includes only the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• June 13, 1919: There are about fifteen men now employed at the Venus mine, beside a small crew of wood cutters. The machinery for the new Ball mill, which is to replace the old Huntington plant, is now at Carcross and the work of transporting it to the mine and its installation there will commence as soon as navigation opens.
• June 13, 1919: The handsome and speedy gasoline launch, "Twilight," has been purchased from its former owner by W. L. Phelps and after being overhauled and repainted will be taken to Carcross, the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Phelps, and placed in Lake Bennett.

• June 20, 1919: Saturday night the owners of automobiles of this place met and formed an organization to be known as The Southern Yukon Automobile Club. J. C. Newmarch was elected president, Dr. A. P. Hawes, secretary-treasurer, W. A. Puckett, Isaac Taylor and L. B. Davis, members of executive committee.
• June 20, 1919: E. J. Hamacher left Sunday in his launch Whitehorse for the mouth of Big Salmon with a supply of gasoline for the White Pass mail boat in eharge of Ike Seavers, which was lvid up there on account of lack of fuel. Mr. Hamacher returned on the Casca Wednesday, leaving his launch at Big Salmon to be brought back by the steamer Dawson.
• June 20, 1919: A meeting of returned soldiers for the purpose of organizing a branch of the Great War Veterans association of Canada, to be known as the Whitehorse branch, was held at the police barracks on the night of June 13, Sergeant Harper presiding.

• June 27, 1919: On Saturday morning an excursion train from Skagway with over two hundred people from Juneau, Douglas, Fort Seward, Skagway and Carcross on board, pulled into the depot here, ensuring that the "Festival of Midnight Sun" would be a great success.
• June 27, 1919: The gas boat Clopek, with Diver Donovan on board, arrived at Juneau yesterday from the Sophia wreck today with 17 bodies. This makes 39 bodies recovered in addition to those picked from the water last fall. The bodies of a woman and a boy, heretofore reported unidentified, are now known to be those of Mrs. Edward Bell and son of Dawson.
• June 27, 1919: Crede Bonebrake and associates, who have been here for several weeks engaged in the building of two launches equipped with aeroplane propellers for the transportation of their prospecting and mining outfit up the Nasutlin, which empties into Teslin lake on the northeast shore, made a try-out run on the river in front of Whitehorse Friday and Saturday evenings, and found everything working smoothly and satisfactorily. They left yesterday afternoon on their way down the river.

July

• July 4, 1919: The steamers Casca and Yukon returned on June 30th. They had sailed on June 18th with about 70 tourists each, bound for Fort Yukon on a Midnight Sun tour.
• July 4, 1919: On July 1st, 50-year-old Pete Peterson, a brakeman on the Scotia Bay-Taku portage railway line between Taku and Atlin lake, was instantly killed at Scotia Bay by being run over by an engine.
• July 4, 1919: After thoroughly overhauling, repairing and repainting his new purchase, the speedy gasoline launch "Twilight," W. L. Phelps had Robt. Lowe haul the boat to the head of Miles Canyon by team Sunday afternoon and then ran it 80 miles to Carcross.

• July 11, 1919: Thomas D. Ferguson, general secretary of the Knights of Columbus committee on war activities for the Northwest division, accompanied by two assistants, arrived in Whitehorse Monday and left on the boat that same night for Ft. Gibbon and Nome, where initial steps will be taken to inaugurate Knights of Columbus service for soldiers stationed at each of these places.
• July 11, 1919: A party of 7 people left here Saturday afternoon by auto for a round trip to Champagne Landing, reaching that place at 10 p. m. They were delayed about an hour the other side of the Jo-Jo roadhouse by one of the front wheels of the auto very unceremoniously falling off, almost overturning the machine.
• July 11, 1919: Alex Coward, trader in the McMillan river country, who has been here for several months past engaged in the construction of a gasoline launch, completed his task last week. He was joined here about three weeks ago by his partner, a man named Zimmerly, and Monday the two men loaded up the craft and set out for their home, about 300 miles east of Ft. Selkirk.

• July 18, 1919: The White Pass hotel will in future be under the management of Mrs. Viaux, who arrived the latter part of last week from the outside for the purpose of taking charge. Mrs. Viaux is a part owner in the business and property.
• July 18, 1919: Mrs. Aseyeh Allen of Washington, D. C., will deliver a lecture on "The Religion of Today," at Moose hall, Sunday, July 20, at 9 p. m. Admission fyee, All will be welcome. The subject is treated from the point of view of a movement called "The Bahai Revelation."
• July 18, 1919: The government road gang under the foremanship of Ernie Burwash is doing excellent work on the public highway between here and the Anaconda mine. A quarter of a mile of new road has been built from the top of the bluff northward and a number of new culverts put in.

• July 25, 1919: The steamer Selkirk sailed for Dawson on the 18th, towing the barge Tahkeena which, carrying 157 tons of rails and fittings, is destined for Alaska Railroad construction at Nenana.
• July 25, 1919: Saturday night the Nasutlin took down and turned loose on the Island in Lake Le Barge twenty-five head of horses belonging to the Royal mail service. There is excellent feed on the Island and in addition the animals are not tormented while there by the many varities of insects and flies that abound and make life almost unbearable for them on the mainland.
• July 25, 1919: Seven hundred and fourteen marten skins, valued at approximately $25,000, were seized recently at Eagle, Alaska, by Deputy United States Marshal John Powers. The furs were in transit in the United States mail bags en route from Tolovana. The taking of marten has been closed for a year or two. Most were bundled inside furs which are legal.

August

• August 1, 1919: The Yukon Territory, during the war, contributed more money per capita to the various relief funds than any other province in Canada.
• August 1, 1919: The body of Capt. Thomas Fallow, who was drowned last fall by falling off the launch Hazel B., of which he was master, was found July 25 in the slough near Sunnydale, opposite Dawson.
• August 1, 1919: Out of 125 Indians in the Champagne district, 104 had influenza and 11 died. All who died save one were old men or women. Dr. Clarke of Whitehorse had charge of the quarantine. Three Indian cabins were burned after the epidemic as a precaution against spread of the disease.

• August 8, 1919: On July 18, at Big Arm, on the east shore half way between the head and foot of Kluane lake, an Indian moose hunter named Long Peter shot and instantly killed Sam Isaac, his partner, another Indian hunter. Capt. A. I. Bell, officer commanding the R.N.W.M.P., made a thorough investigation of all the circumstances in the case and came to the conclusion that Sam's death was entirely accidental.
• August 8, 1919: Dr. L. S. Keller arrived on the train Monday evening from Skagway and is now occupying his office on the south side of Main street, between Front and Second. Already he is busily engaged in the practice of his profession of dentistry, as he has been doing on his periodical visits ever since the fall of 1900.
• August 8, 1919: A lengthy report by George Armstrong on an 11-week big game hunting trip in the Kluane district is printed on the front page. Read the entire article here.

• August 15, 1919: Our citizens who take a summer holiday are mostly content to go no farther than the pretty little town of Carcross. Just at present Whitehorse people are making things quite lively in the attractive little watering place.
• August 15, 1919: A party of picnickers Sunday at the Big Bend, five miles down the river from Whitehorse, saw a portion of what afterward proved to be a coffin, projecting out of a cut bank just below where they had landed. The coffin contained the corpse of a young white man that had evidently been buried many years ago. The police have no record of the burial.
• August 15, 1919: Mr. and Mrs George Armstrong left yesterday morning to catch the Princess Alice at Skagway for Prince Rupert. It is more than likely they will not again return to Whitehorse, which is much regretted, as Mr. Armstrong has for years been prominently identified with the business interests of Southern Yukon.

• August 22, 1919: Barney J. McGee, a former well-known business man of Whitehorse, died in Seattle on August 17. Deceased in the early days was employed by the W. P. & Y. R. at Log Cabin and Summit. Later he came to Whitehorse and engaged in the hotel business. Several years ago he sold out his interests here and went to Seattle, where he remained until the time of his death. He was aged about 72 years.
• August 22, 1919: The sand, gravel and decomposed granite to be used in the construction of the memorial monument to Southern Yukon soldiers is being hauled and unloaded on the grounds in front of the Whitehorse public reading room, where the monument will be erected.
• August 22, 1919: The Casca which arrived at Dawson August 15, picked up and brought to Dawson two men who were lost for days in the wilderness and had a narrow escape from death. They are J. V. Gepfret, whom they found at Coffee creek, and M. Boyer, who was at White river.

• August 29, 1919: Ralph Edmunds, magazine writer and retired capitalist, E. C. Phelbrook, moving picture man, and Henry Katony, Japanese moving picture camera man, all of Los Angeles, California, arrived in Whitehorse the latter part of last week and left the next day under the guidance of Rodney Thomas of this place for the headwaters of the McMillan river to hunt for big game trophies and to secure photographs of moose, bear and other wild animals.
• August 29, 1919: Mr. and Mrs. C. McIntosh left by auto the middle of last week for Nordenskoild and Braeburn, in the vicinity of which Mr. McIntosh, who had a 38.55 rifle along, expected to meet and vanquish the big grizzly bear that had been reported as having done so much damage to the roadhouses at these points. They were unable to find the bear, but it turned out that the rifle was out of repair and useless for either offense or defence.
• August 29, 1919: J. E. Geary, in charge of the J. P. Whitney fox farm on the opposite side of the river a mile below Whitehorse, while out in the woods getting in his winter supply of fuel a few days ago, had the misfortune to get caught by a falling tree, which nearly broke one of his legs. He has been laid up ever since.

September

• September 5, 1919: The first mention of Keno Hill in The Star: "Taking of options of properties on Keno hill, at the head of Lightning creek, by the Yukon Gold recently, and plans for prospecting there, have stimulated interest in the district. The opening of the rich new ore on the Lookout mountain property also has caused no little renewed interest in the district. Quite a number of prospectors are planning to spend the winter in the district."
• September 5, 1919: All bars are closed in Dawson on September 2nd. The Weekly Star writes: The "closing of [the] bars [is] marked by freedom from drunkeness".
• September 5, 1919: Quite a number of school children from Whitehorse and towns in Southeastern Alaska will leave on the next southward sailing of the Princess Alice for Portland, Oregon, where the girls will enter Mt. Angel academy and the boys Mt. Angel college, Catholic institutions where both secular and religious learning are taught.

• September 12, 1919: Telephones are installed along the telegraph lines at Carmacks, Yukon Crossing, Selkirk, Beaton's Wood Camp, Coffee Creek and Stewart City.
• September 12, 1919: Sister Mary Mark, until recently superior of St. Mary's hospital in Dawson, has heen appointed superior of St. Joseph's hospital in Victoria, one of the largest in Western Canada. Sister Mary Mark went to Dawson fifteen years ago, and was teacher there for twelve years. Three years ago she succeeded Sister Mary Marcienne as superior of St. Mary's hospital in Dawson.
• September 12, 1919: Ike Seavers and Alex Shaver, crew of the White Pass gasoline launch Dodo that took the C. E. Young party of big game hunters to the headwaters of the McMillan river, returned Saturday on the steamer Selkirk.

• September 19, 1919: Following a successful trip to their Teslin post, Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & Co. have concluded the purchase of the little steamer Thistle from the White Pass. The steamer Kluahne, which has done such valuable service for Taylor, Drury, Pedlar & Co., has been placed in the boneyard and her machinery removed.
• September 19, 1919: Last Friday rain started to fall in torrents in the mountains surrounding Skagway and by the following morning the Skagway river was a raging flood, filled with trees and driftwood, that carried all before it. Four bents were washed out of the railroad bridge near the car shops and eleven bents out of the railroad bridge at the four mile post.
• September 19, 1919: Settlement has been made by the Yukon gold company with the widows and others who lost relatives in the Hunker poisoning tragedy last May. The company has paid to four widows the sum of $2,500 each. The husbands of these widows were working with the company at its camp on 54 Hunker when they partook of the fatal meal at noon on May 22 last.

• September 26, 1919: Captain Sid Barrington recently decided to devote a portion of his time to mining. He has taken over several claims which are located in the Cassiar. He brought with him a crew of six men, and left Friday afternoon for Telegraph creek, B. C., from which place they will go by pack train to the mining property.
• September 26, 1919: The next White Pass barge to leave for Dawson will have on board the small stern wheel steamer "Christine," which has been on the ways at the shipyards for the last four or five years. The boat belongs to a man named Boutelier, an old time resident of the Yukon metropolis.
• September 26, 1919: Two big game hunting parties of Americans have recently returned to Whitehorse from the headwaters of the McMillan river. Both brought with them the maximum number of trophies allowed by the Yukon ordinance.

October

• October 3, 1919: Mangus Manson was brought to Dawson by the U. S. transport Gen. Jacobs from Coffey creek, badly cut about the face in a desperate fight with a bear. The bear had Manson down, but the man held fast to his gun and succeeded in delivering a fatal shot. Manson will recover.
• October 3, 1919: Steward Larry Higgins of the N. S. A. A. last week put a coat of enamel on the bowling alleys at the club house. Tuesday of this week he removed the covering of sawdust and polished the alleys up and Wednesday night the first game of the seasen was pulled off. From now on there likely will be bowling going on every night. As formerly, Wednesday will be for the ladies.
• October 3, 1919: Mr. and Mrs. William La Rose, who for a number of years have had the management of the White Pass hotel at Atlin, are on their way south to spend the winter on their farm near Vancouver. They state that the tourist business was the greatest this season that was ever known in the Atlin country.

• October 10, 1919: The steamer Nasutlin sailed from Dawson on Sept. 30th on her last trip of the year up the Stewart river. She goes as far as Mayo, and has forty-nine tons of general freight for that point. She also will take on lumber and spikes at Stewart City for the Highet dredge. The material will be brought to that point by the Selkirk, now en route from Whitehorse.
• October 10, 1919: A grand re-opening of the Royal Alexandra hotel under the new management and proprietorship of Paul Guite and P. A. Knudson occurred on the evening of Oct. 4th. The management announced the place will be run as a strictly dry place, but will carry soft drinks, and be conducted in such manner that the most exacting cannot complain. The Yukonia hotel was also re-opened, under the man- agement of Thomas Doyle, formerly of the Bonanza. He will make the Yukonia his home, he announced.
• October 10, 1919: Mrs. W. W. Dickinson arrived home Saturday on the steamer Casca from the mouth of the Hootalinqua river, which point she had arrived at a few hours previous to the arrival there of the steamer after an extremely hazardous and uncomfortable voyage of nine days down the Hootalinqua river in an open row boat.

• October 17, 1919: James P. Rogers, superintendent at White Pass & Yukon Route for seven years, died in Spokane, Washington, on October 8th, following a long illness.
• October 17, 1919: The Dawson sailed on Oct. 9th for Minto, carrying freight only. On Oct. 12th she proceeded downstream and arrived at Dawson Monday. She left Dawson Wednesday for Whitehorse, carrying about a hundred passengers. The Alaska and Seattle 3 arrived at Dawson Wednesday morning. The Seattle 3 will winter there, and the Alaska left Daswson Wednesday night for Whitehorse, with 114 passengers. The Yukon and Washburn left Circle early yesterday morning, in an effort to make Whitehorse. They have 105 passengers. If everything goes well, they should reach here about Oct. 24th.
• October 17, 1919: Sure signs of winter were made manifest on Wednesday morning when Denny O'Connor came up the street with a six horse team and sleigh, loaded with the roadhouse outfits for the overland trail. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cutler of Atlin will have charge of the Little River roadhouse, and Mr. and Mrs. Alguire will be located at Braeburn.

• October 24, 1919: Lieut. Jack Maclennan,, D. F. C., who reached here Monday on his return from overseas, was tendered a reception at the N. S. A. A. hall Tuesday night by the Whitehorse branch of the Red Cross society assisted by the Great War Veterans and citizens of the town.
• October 24, 1919: Rev. C. K. Nicol of the Presbyterian church of Whitehorse preached his farewell sermon last Sunday and will leave today for Skagway to catch the Princess Mary for the south. He will stop for a while in Vancouver, but as yet has no definite plans as to his movements after that. He resigned his position here early in 1916 to enlist for overseas service. He served in the ambulance corps and was decorated by King George IV with a medal for bravery on the battlefield.
• October 24, 1919: The new mill at the Venus mine in the Conrad district is finished and the machinery in place. A trial run was made a few days ago and proved satisfactory. On account of a shortage of fuel the mill will not commence running regularly until next spring. Development work in the mine, however, will be pushed forward steadily.

• October 31, 1919: The Bear Creek Roadhouse owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beauchamp was completely destroyed by fire on the morning of October 17th. Mrs. Beauchamp escaped barefoot and in her night clothes, and even at that was burned quite severely. Read the entire article here.
• October 31, 1919: The crew of the steamer Nasutlin, with the exception of Capt. Baily, nineteen in number, arrived Saturday on the steamer Washburn from Dawson, to which place they had mushed overland from Mayo Landing, on the Stewart river, where they had been forced to tie up for the winter.
• October 31, 1919: From the number of people going outside for the winter it looks as if those who remain in Southern Yukon will have a long, lonesome time to look forward to before spring travel sets in. However, it is quite likely that when the news of the rich silver-lead discoveries in the Mayo district get circulated on the coast there will be a stampede to the territory that will rival, if not surpass, the early Klondike rush.

November

• November 7, 1919: Rev. W. E. Dunham, pastor of the Sixth Avenue Methodist church in Vancouver, died in that city on Oct. 27th of diphtheria. He was pastor of the Dawson Methodist church for several years previous to 1911, and left there for Cranbrook, where he Was stationed for some time, and afterward was promoted to the important post in Vancouver which he held at the time of his death.
• November 7, 1919: Capt. Wm. Turnbull died very suddenly from heart failure at his home in Vancouver on the morning of Oct. 30. He had only reached there from Whitehorse the night before his death. Capt. Turnbull was one of the best known steamboat men on the Upper Yukon river, and had been with the B. Y. N. Co. ever since it first started to operate between here and Dawson.
• November 7, 1919: White Pass stages arrived on Nov. 1 and 5. North of Pelly the roads are reported almost free of snow and very rough for the wheeled vehicles that are still in use. On the Little river summit, on the south end of the road, the snow is about three feet deep.

• November 14, 1919: To fittingly commemorate the first anniversary of the wonderful happening of November 11, 1918, the Whitehorse branch of the Great War Veterans' Association of Canada, represented worthily by those who had served in the three great divisions of the British Empire's defensive and offensive forces, entertained the people of the town Tuesday night at the N. S. A. A. hall with a grand ball and supper.
• November 14, 1919: The Venus mine, in the Conrad district, which had been working a crew of eight or ten men during the past summer, closed down the latter part of last week for the winter. The new mill put in last fall is all ready to start up as soon as the present fuel shortage is overcome.
• November 14, 1919: Work of dismantling No. 1 dredge of the C. K. M. Co., now located on upper Hunker creek, began on Nov. 3. It is said the dredge is being taken down preparatory to movement to another location for operation. No. 1 dredge was the first modern dredge installed in the Klondike, and has handled an immense yardage since its construction.

• November 21, 1919: Capt. Henry Bailey of the White Pass steamer Nasutlin died at Mayo Landing on the Stewart river on October 27 from stomach trouble, with which he had been suffering for a number of years. The body was taken to Dawson overland and will be shipped to Seattle for burial. He was 63 years of age.
• November 21, 1919: George Ryder, returned soldier, efficient nightwatchman and recently elected fire chief of the town of Whitehorse, went over to Skagway Friday to meet his fiance, Miss Edith Walters of Chilliwack, B. C., who had come north under the chaperonage of Mrs. Frank Wilson. Their marriage took place Saturday night in Skagway.
• November 21, 1919: Messrs. Simpson & Gould are engaged in leveling up and putting in new foundations under a portion of the White Pass hotel. Other necessary repairs also will be made and the place put in first class shape for handling the heavy transient travel that is expected to start early in the new year.

• November 28, 1919: Dawson finished the Victory Loan campaign with flying colors. Returns from all outlying districts are not in, but the figures in the hands of the committee today total the magnificent sum of $210,950. Many thought at the beginning that the total would not reach $50,000.
• November 28, 1919: Three mining engineers representing San Francisco capital arrived in Carcross on Tuesday's train en route to the Engineer mine for the purpose of making a thorough examination with a view to purchase if it comes up to their requirements.
• November 28, 1919: Every winter the snow piles up in a deep drift on the sidewalk on the south side of Main street in front of and just east of Dominion Land Surveyor H. G. Dickson's office. In the hope of doing away with this inconvenience to pedestrians small pine trees with foliage intact have been placed in the street lengthwise, parallel to and a few feet from the outer edge of the sidewalk.

December

• December 5, 1919: The North American Reindeer company has been granted concessions of 75,000 square miles north of Churchill river to raise reindeer and caribou for the market. A royal commission was named some months ago to inquire into the possibilities of the far north as a meat and wool producing area by domestication of caribou, musk oxen and reindeer.
• December 5, 1919: The R. N. W. M. P. will despatch a party from Dawson on or about the first of the year for Fort McPherson. The expedition will be in charge of the veteran navigator of that trail, Sergeant Dempster. He will take with him Constables Brine, Tyack and Beasley. The four men left Dawson on November 23 for Halfway House, about 25 miles below Dawson, to get the police dogs which will be ised on the long traverse
• December 5, 1919: Early this week an Indian hunter killed five moose in one day near the Pueblo mine.

• December 12, 1919: It has become such a common occurrence for "Buzzsaw" Jimmy Richards to get tangled up with his wood saw and come out second best that a serious accident which befell him Saturday, one that will detain him in the hospital for several weeks at least, caused hardly a ripple of excitement in town.
• December 12, 1919: Friday of last week, George Mowl of Skagway passed away at the White Pass hospital in that city, at the age of 80 years. He was a prominent pioneer business man of Skagway who first arrived in 1897. For many years he was engaged in merchant tailoring and four years agro opened the Popular Picture Palace, which has run continuously since.
• December 12, 1919: Constable Benson, of the R. N. W. M. P., arrived in Dawson on November 28, thus completing a trip of 600 miles over the ice from Rampart House, on the Porcupine river, above the Arctic Circle. Benson made the trip entirely alone, save for his team of six dogs.

• December 19, 1919: The Prince of Wales honour flag, awarded to Whitehorse for generous contribution to the 1919 Victory Loan, is flying at the top of the Canadian Bank of Commerce flag pole.
• December 19, 1919: The People's Prohibition Movement, the chief dry organization of the Yukon, held a large meeting in Lowe's hall in Dawson on December 2nd, and took steps preliminary to the plebiscite to be held in the territory some time in the near future. About half the members are men and half women.
• December 19, 1919: Bert Peterson, foreman at the White Pass dock, has been engaged with a gasoline engine and wood saw this week in cutting up a big lot of wood for use in the stoves of the various offices of the railway company.

• December 26, 1919: Not published.

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