The scarlet life of Dawson and the roseate dawn of Nome ..Personal experiences and observations of the author . 1. Nome. Main street—every building a saloon, save one small shop. 2. Nome. Looking across Snake River. 3. Beach scene at The Jane Gray, which sailed for KotzebueSound in 1898. When a few hundi-ed miles out from Seattle, the ship sank and of allon board but four survived. After extensive litigation and notwithstand-ing the total loss of a valuable cargo and a great many lives the S. S. Com-pany was only held responsible in the amount which they received forfreight and passage.
The scarlet life of Dawson and the roseate dawn of Nome ..Personal experiences and observations of the author . 1. Nome. Main street—every building a saloon, save one small shop. 2. Nome. Looking across Snake River. 3. Beach scene at The Jane Gray, which sailed for KotzebueSound in 1898. When a few hundi-ed miles out from Seattle, the ship sank and of allon board but four survived. After extensive litigation and notwithstand-ing the total loss of a valuable cargo and a great many lives the S. S. Com-pany was only held responsible in the amount which they received forfreight and passage. 9 Unwritten The terrible suffering and loss of property and life conse-horrors. quent upon the Klondyke stampede will never be told. It is written in abandoned outfits from Edmonton to the Arctic, from the StickeenRiver to the Hootalinqua, and on the bed-rock of the Yukon in its entirelength,— in the lonely graves along the routes and in the extensive burialplaces at Dawson, and the numerous graves at Nome. The Atlin boomfollowed the stampede to the Klondyke. I was told by a claim owner, whowent there in 1899, over the ice, that the placer mines were not valuable,and that a few slightly prospected quartz ledges are the only resou
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