. Alaska and the Klondike. aw and preserve order. So inaccessible wasthis country at that time from Canada that by specialpermission of our Government these men were broughtby the way of St. Michael and up the Yukon. To-daythere are fifty-five police stations in the Yukon territoryhaving three men each, besides the garrisons at Dawsonand White Horse. These stations are scattered along theYukon and through the mining districts. A weekly patrolis maintained between Dawson and White Horse, fromoutpost to outpost, and at all the roadhouscs on the wintertrail which connects these posts a register i
. Alaska and the Klondike. aw and preserve order. So inaccessible wasthis country at that time from Canada that by specialpermission of our Government these men were broughtby the way of St. Michael and up the Yukon. To-daythere are fifty-five police stations in the Yukon territoryhaving three men each, besides the garrisons at Dawsonand White Horse. These stations are scattered along theYukon and through the mining districts. A weekly patrolis maintained between Dawson and White Horse, fromoutpost to outpost, and at all the roadhouscs on the wintertrail which connects these posts a register is kept wherethe passengers arc re(]uired to register at every stop, inorder that when it may be necessary to locate any one forwhom enquiry is made, his whereabouts at certain times 52 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE may be tletinitcly known. Every boat, scow or skiff leav-ing the upper lakes for Dawson in summer or leavingDawson for the lower river, is registered and the namesand addresses of the passengers taken. In all cases of. Northwest Mounted Police accidents resulting in death and in cases of suicide andmurder the police exercise not only the duties of a policemagistrate but of coroner and make full enquiry. Onthe arrival of boats they assist the customs officers and inDawson serve as a police force for that city. The menare enlisted for five years with the privilege of re-enlist-ment for one, two or three years, as they desire. This A CHEE-CHA-KO IN THE KLONDIKE S3 force is recruited largely from the best families of Eng-land and Canada and includes not only fine specimens ofmanhood, physically, but among the number are men fromthe great universities and colleges. Dawson is not a no-license town; dance-halls and bar-rooms are sufficiently numerous, and other resorts of vice,all under close restraint. Public gambling is not tolerated,and Major Wood, who is a member, by virtue of hisoffice, of the Yukon council, introduced, while we werethere, a bill to prevent women from freque
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