{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3602", "width": "2499", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\nBook\\nCOPYRfGHT DEPC61T", "height": "3420", "width": "2405", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3420", "width": "2405", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3420", "width": "2405", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The Scarlet Life\\n0 DAWSON\\nPersonal Experiences and Observations\\nb the Author\\nLA BELLE BROOKS-VINCENT", "height": "3649", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3430", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE\\nScarlet Life of Dawson\\nAND THE\\nRoseate Dawn of Nome\\nILLUSTRATED\\nPERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE\\nAUTHOR\\nLA BELLE BROOKS -VINCENT\\nCopyrighted by M. R. Mayor, A. D. 1900, in the United States,\\nin England and in all Foreign Countries\\n1", "height": "3430", "width": "2322", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "rjTVVO COPIES\\nHECElViiO,\\nLibrary of CeBgpet%\\n56787 Office of the\\nAPR 1 1 1800\\n8egl\u00c2\u00abt\u00c2\u00abr of Copyrtghtft\\nParka of reindeer skin with fur cap and reindeer skin fur boots as worn\\non xT; trTp doi; the Yukon to Forty Mile with a dog team In J^^^^^-\\nNM n.i906^/aa", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "cMr^\\nINTRODUCTORY.\\nIt can t The life of the Yukon is an untold story, and an unsolved\\nbe told. mystery, despite the fact that some of the brightest minds\\nand most deserving writers of the day have passed this way, and have\\nwritten of this strange life. Reports have gone out differing so widely as\\nto condemn all. Invariably the new-comer finds so much that is unlike\\nwhat he has read or expected as to cause him to decide, with the aid of\\nman s natural prejudice in favor of his own opinions, that he only has seen\\naright. Each sees a different phase of it, or judges from a different\\nstandpoint\\nOnly one The life of Dawson and of Nome, from its origin and\\nscarlet life. environment, is necessarily a unique development and\\npeculiar to itself. It is different, in every detail, from other life. There\\nare no commonplaces in this life; it is tragedy, comedy, farce and vice,\\nvaried by the fascinating and inspiring influence of single examples of a\\nstaunch fidelity and honor amid fearful temptations, or an exquisitely\\nbeautiful pathos in instances of undeserved, or unexpected, suffering and\\ndisappointment. An honest writer will, at the outset, designate his work\\nas simply some impressions of the life of the Northland, admitting that\\nmuch must be left untold, and yielding to various writers other impressions\\ndifferent from, but possible as true, as his own.\\nAll who have witnessed the mighty contagion of greed which possessed\\nmen, sending thousands of them hither in the great gold stampede of 97\\nand 98 to a dearth of unstaked ground and to wide-open gambling houses\\nand dance-halls, and to the long rows of red-curtained abodes of its demi-\\nmonde, which here await to absorb both Cheechargo surplus and the\\ngolden fortune of the miners, will admit the fitness of this title, The\\nScarlet Life.\\nGood but Some good men and women are here whose lives are spent\\nunavailing. in saintly devotion, and noble work of charity; and most\\nimpressive of all, is the vast, silent colony up on the mountain-side, just\\nabove the sound of revelry and the dark passes of crime.\\nit s a Yet it is true that no good man or woman can breathe\\ncontagion. j^j^jg tainted atmosphere and be again quite what he was\\nbefore. The wages of sin is death, and even enough experience of this\\nlife to be called a knowledge of its sin, is a destroying influence. From a", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "prevalence of the life of evil a strength is accrued in an atmosphere of\\nvice, and the magnetic forces about the good are menaced and weakened.\\nThe combined magnetic force of all the good and pure of Dawson is so\\nweak, as compared with the combined magnetic force of all the evil, as to\\nbe almost nil. The condition is exactly contrary to that in localities out-\\nside, in which the population is largely of good moral men and women\\nwhose magnetic force for good tends to subdue, and weaken, the combined\\nevil force of the few who seek a life of vice Dawson affords an illustra-\\ntion of a large population, living under conditions of a predominating evi]\\natmosphere, that is both aggressive and menacing,\\nSad but Accept this work, kind reader, as a study in the purple\\ntrue. scarlet shades of social life. That its chapters are facts,\\nor the utterable parts of facts, and that its stories are founded on facts,\\nor are easily possible as an outgrowth of this life, is pity to those who\\nhave been whirled in its vortex of passion and license, and a most solemn\\nwarning to those who are tempted to a contact with such life. The un-\\nenviable record of Paris in its extreme of vice must be yielded; but there\\nwith all the glamour of beauty, of music and of artistic surroundings, vice\\nis softened to sweeter measures and the soul is wooed to a forgetfulness of\\nits lost condition.\\nThe scarlet life of Dawson, and of Nome, has no gilded\\nlights from a near contact with the civilized world oo golden\\ntints from the hidden recesses of neighbouring art galleries; no perfumed\\nincense from the shadows of great cathedrals. It is naked vice. The bed-\\nrock of vice laid bare; the pay streak located and every pan a record\\nbreaker. This life may be recounted in a light and frivolous way for the\\namusement of a distant public, but its reality should be dreaded and\\navoided. It is the part of wisdom to keep away from centers of vice, and\\nfrom this worst of all centers. The combined influence of a number of\\npersons who come here actuated by a spirit of greed, determined to scruple\\nat nothing to satisfy that base passion, generates a life of greed to which\\nphysical and mental strength succumbs. Here the good are contaminated,\\nthe careless become vicious the vicious mad. Selfishness and GrSed guard\\nthe entering gateways. Suicide, Murder and black Despair lurk in the\\nshadows of the exits. Justice is in mourning, and Liberty a ragged men-\\ndicant.\\nI If the life of the trail, of the camp, and of the mines on\\nthe Great Yukon and the greater Behring Sea, were as\\nare the paths of city parks and the homes of civilization, its language", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "might be the same; but since it is a different life, a different language, to\\nsome extent, has been evolved; and to write or speak of the life of the\\nNorthland without a natural use of its language, would be to substitute a\\nlexicon for simple narrative. The life of the Northland is told, not made,\\nby authors. To add a glamour of poetry and romance would be to put a\\nwreath of orange blossoms on a Death s head, and to twine its cross-bones\\nwith roses. A display of fine language and of rhetoric would not reveal\\nthe subject.\\nThey re yet It may be mentioned that people in the Northland are\\nthe same. seldom known there by their right names, as Mr. J. L,\\nBrown, Mr. John E. Harris, etc. Unless some nick-name is applied, the\\nmost important personages become, in common conversation, Ogilvie,\\nBrown Barnett, Healy, Jo Ladue, etc. As the next grade of\\nfamiliarity: Old man Harper, Missouri Jackson, Colorado Eames,\\netc. Then follows the nick-names:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Big Alex, Nigger Jim, Pete the Kicker,\\nPoker-chip Joe, Diamond-tooth Gertie, Dirty-faced Maud, Old By-Mighty,\\nMuck-a-Luck Sue, Alabama Joe, Hungry Bill, Skookum Jim, The Swede,\\nThe Greek, The Dago, Shortie, Eveline, Flossie and Lillie.\\nIf I am compelled occasionally to unveil some phase of life\\nthat I would wish did not exist, but which I know does exist,\\nand is a menace to many, it is not to teach and preach and moralize; but\\nto present, as its sequence, the condition that surely results, and cannot\\nfail to discourage any who would try for an independent solution of the\\nmatter. Vice is found in life amid the cosmopolitan crowd, amid excite-\\nment, in extreme dissipation, in familiar places and in familiar language,\\nand so is consistently written. The vice of civilization is not this extreme\\nof vice, but this extreme of vice had its beginning, and gathered force, as\\nit swept over civilized lands to center in the Scarlet Life of Dawson and of\\nNome. The result may be reported back to civilization, to forewarn as to\\nthe consequence of a concentration of the forces of greed and selfishness.\\nWhat Books are written for classes. Truth is for the discrimin-\\nmessage. ating. Wit and humor for the unwary. Myths and fables\\nfor the credulous. Sophistry and fads for the imitative, and conventional.\\nCreeds, maxims and texts for those whose aspirations exceed their in-\\ndustry. Peculiar works are for peculiar people.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "NOME.\\nThey The world loves the glitter of gold, and delights in stories\\nstampede. of treasure finds, of treasure stores, of treasure ships; in\\nmysteries of lost or hurried wealth, and of possible, undiscovered gold.\\nThe prosperous miner dreams of new discoveries. His one ambition is of\\nthe one ideal, supreme discovery of the Mother Lode, the supposed source\\nof all gold deposits. People dream and hope, and in their dreaming and\\nhoping, are often led to grievous sacrifice, and to woeful disappointments,\\nfrom not making a just estimate of conditions, as was the case in the great\\ngold stampede to the Klondyke of 97 and 98.\\nThey The source of reports is first to be considered. All re-\\nexaggerate, ports of discoveries of gold originate with the miners\\nwho are the discoverers and owners of claims. From personal investigation\\nand observation, I would estimate that 99 per cent of those who stake\\nclaims desire to sell them rather than to work them. This often gives rise\\nto exaggerated reports as to their value, especially in a remote region like\\nAlaska.\\nThey The coast cities of the United States are interested in creat-\\nadvertise. j^g boom in Alaska and a stampede thither, as it brings\\ntrade and causes prosperity. The stampeder does not stop to consider the\\nbenefit it is to a city to furnish him his outfit and transportation, at a cost\\nof several hundred dollars, but the coast towns and transportation com-\\npanies are acutely conscious of the fact that a large number of stampeders\\nwill greatly benefit them. It is a well known fact that, at the time of the\\nKlondyke boom, Seattle was in a very uncertain state financially, but she\\nrecovered, and prospered, and expanded, under the influence of the boom.\\nIt cost thirty millions dollars to outfit the Klondyke stampede, and as much\\nmore has been expended since, which is more gold than the Klondyke has\\nyet produced. It is to be regretted that the stampede was due largely to\\nexaggerated reports, circulated intentionally for the purpose of inducing\\ntravel. On another page is a sample of the boom articles published to in-\\nduce the Kotzebue Sound stampede; two thousand men went to Kotzebue,\\nenduring awful privations and suffering, hundreds died of scurvy, and the\\nremnant of the party managed to get back to civilization, some were\\nbrought back at the expense of the government, broken in health and dis-\\nheartened. No gold was found in Kotzebue, not even a nugget as big as a\\npin-head.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "1. Nome. Main street\u00e2\u0080\u0094 every building a saloon, save one small shop.\\n2. Nome. Looking across Snake River.\\n3. Beach scene at Nome.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "The\\nJane Gray, which sailed for Kotzebue\\nSound in 1898.\\nWhen a few hundi-ed miles out from Seattle, the ship sank and of all\\non board but four survived. After extensive litigation and notwithstand-\\ning the total loss of a valuable cargo and a great many lives the S. S. Com-\\npany was only held responsible in the amount which they received for\\nfreight and passage.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "9\\nUnwritten The terrible suffering and loss of property and life conse-\\nhorrors. quent upon the Klondyke stampede will never be told. It is\\nwritten in abandoned outfits from Edmonton to the Arctic, from the Stickeen\\nRiver to the Hootalinqua, and on the bed-rock of the Yukon in its entire\\nlength, in the lonely graves along the routes and in the extensive burial\\nplaces at Dawson, and the numerous graves at Nome. The Atlin boom\\nfollowed the stampede to the Klondyke. I was told by a claim owner, who\\nwent there in 1899, over the ice, that the placer mines were not valuable,\\nand that a few slightly prospected quartz ledges are the only resources of\\nthe place. The camp is deserted.\\nA thrice This year it is Cape Nome. When thirty thousand people\\ntold Tale. j^g^yg outfitted, have paid their fare to Nome, and have re-\\nturned sadder but wiser, then there will be great discoveries in Siberia.\\nGreed s representatives will attend to it that reports are circulated from\\nWest to East, and even to foreign lands.\\nThe story In the winter of 97- 98 I sold my property in the\\nMiddle States, removing to the Pacific Coast. Not\\nfinding investments that suited me for my idle money, I decided to send an\\noutfit consisting of food supplies, machinery, boilers, engines, steam pipe\u00c2\u00bb\\nsteam hose fittings, hardware and tools to Dawson, via St. Michaels. With\\nthe assistance of a hired guide and a boatman, I then went to Dawson, via\\nthe Chilkoot Pass, and on down the Yukon in my own small boat.\\nScenes of The trip was accomplished safely, and proved a reve-\\nbeauty lation of picturesque nature in its wonderful pano-\\nrama of scenic beauty and grandeur. I continued my travels from Dawson\\nup the Klondyke, 12 miles to Hunker Creek, 20 miles by Hunker Creek to\\nthe top of the Great Dome, and on down Dominion Creek, returning after a\\nfew days over the Great Dome and down Bonanza Creek to Eldorado, the\\nKlondyke and to Dawson. I walked these distances with hired guides pay-\\ning $60.00 expenses for the round trip to Dominion and transportation of\\nblankets and food necessary.\\nI could It was my original intention to sell my property and\\nnot leave return to civilization before navigation closed, but as\\nmy outfit did not reach Dawson until Sept. 12th, it was impossible to do 8o\\nand I found that to leave the country and trust to others to transact busi-\\nness, was impossible, owing to the chaotic condition of business and a lack\\nof means to recognize reputable business firms.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nI had a valuable salable outfit. Parts of it (fittings, condensed milk,\\nbutter, sugar, etc.) were worth 600%, 1000% and 2500% more than the\\noriginal cost. Machinery was in great demand and was scarce in the mar-\\nket, and could not be brought in from outside before the following summer.\\nI had invested $25,000 in outside money, and at this time my holdings were\\nwell worth $40,000.\\nI was advised, by conservative business men, to place the machinery in\\noperation before selling it.\\nMy first I entered into an agreement with a Mining Broker,\\nmistake. ^j^q represented himself to be the owner of one hun-\\ndred valuable claims, and of abundant financial resources. He was to buy\\nvaluable claims, paying or J of their value down, and secure contracts\\nfrom owners providing for the payment of the balance on bedrock or\\nout of the proceeds of the mine. I agreed to place my mining plants in\\noperation, and to devote the proceeds of the mines to the payment of the\\nbalance due, until all was paid, when I became owner of of what re-\\nmained of the mines. I believed that self-interest would prevent the\\nbroker from buying any but property that was really valuable, and at as\\nlow a price as possible.\\nBy the bedrock proposition the owner was practically guaranteeing the\\nvalue of the mine as to his own claim for the^balance, which is never done\\nwhen there is any doubt as to the extent of the pay. I retained the right\\nto control the work and to sell my interest when opportunity occured.\\nHe was My estimate of the situation was wrong from a false\\nnot rich promise. The broker had neither money nor valuable\\nclaims. He at once engaged in a swindling and bunko operation seldom\\nequaled in business enterprises. It was an act of folly, prompted by van-\\nity, on the part of the broker, but was pursued maliciously to compel an\\nawful sacrifice and suflfering to others, which the broker was finally unable\\nto control to his own profit.\\nHe approached mine owners, and, by inflating prices, assured them that\\nhe owned my five mining plants, and would soon own every plant in the\\ncountry. He induced them to sign contracts, crediting him with a cash\\npayment, in one case of $5,000, in another case of $4,000, and of various\\nlesser amounts. To do this he had, in most cases, incorporated a clause\\nin their contract permitting them to receive wages for themselves, or a\\nrepresentative, from $1.50 to $2.00 per hour, with no limit as to the num-\\nber of hours a day, or the value of labor rendered, until they were paid.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\nBut he Before the work was well under way, the broker de-\\nwas vain manded that I transfer my outfit to him. He at-\\ntempted to compel me to do so, and tried to menace me in every way\\npossible. I had employed as manager a machinist. A whom I believed\\nto be competent, I gave orders that expenses should be limited at the out-\\nset, by allowing only necessary work. I never knew whether the broker\\nplanned with an employee, or whether a part, or all, of the men united in\\ndishonest effort, or whether a large amount of unnecessary work was done,\\nwithout my knowledge, to create a labor bill of $6,000 in less than a\\nmonth. I could see no reason for expenses to exceed $2,500 or $3,000 at\\nmost. I had hired the men by express agreement to take their pay at the\\nclean-up.\\nI sold my outfit, but subject to amicable settlement and a transfer of\\nmy contracts to the new owner, who was engaged in litigation, involving a\\nvast amount of property, owned by absent capitalists whom he was repre-\\nsenting, and against whose interests a vicious attack was being made.\\nAnd he My attorney advised me that my only safety lay in ob-\\nknew best. taining an annulment of my contract with my part-\\nner, the broker, which I did, but only when the broker became convinced\\nthat he could not obtain possession and control of my outfit by his present\\nefforts.\\nI consented to lose the value of the labor performed, which I believed\\nto be from $2,000 to $3,000. For some reason I could not get possession\\nof the time book, which was retained by my employees, and I never after-\\nwards succeeded in getting it. Other owners of valuable claims informed\\nme that they would be glad to have me remove my machinery to their laims\\nand work by my present plan, or by the lease system, without a cash pay-\\nment on the property.\\nI signed the agreement of dissolution, whereby the broker took from me\\nthe result of labor performed by the men, and for which it was soon proved\\nthey claimed as wages the amount of $6,000.\\nI fondly I believed that I was free from the persecutions of\\nhoped. ^I^g broker, but was disappointed, as I soon discovered\\nthat he had other designs. As soon as the dissolution agreement was\\nsigned, he started with a fast dog team to Dominion Creek, where my em-\\nployees were in camp. He called the men together and harangued them\\nin a most venomous attack upon me, showing what some of the men desig-\\nnated as a spurious contract when afterwards shown my genuine contracts.\\nHe incited the men to strike for their wages.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nBut hoped When he had finished his harangue, the utmost con.\\nin vain. fusion prevailed in the camp. The broker offered to\\nchampion the cause of the men\u00e2\u0080\u0094 offered them his office as a meeting place,\\nand told them to proceed at once to attach my outfit and he would buy the\\nsettlement claims. The men threatened the life of the time-keeper to com-\\npel him to work all night to give time checks, upon receiving which they\\nstampeded to Dawson,\\nHe had A lawyer, whom I will call Grillem, exacted of fifteen of\\ntheir claims. ^n irrevocable authority to settle their claims.\\nSuit was brought under the Master and Servants Act, and although the\\nmen admitted their agreement to receive their pay in the clean-up, and the\\nnew owner offered to guarantee their wages and make it a claim against\\nhis property and private income, the magistrate rendered judgment for the\\namounts demanded, and, if not paid in from five to flteen days, imprison-\\nment in jail at the rate of seven hours in prison for every hour the laborer\\nworked without pay There was a panic in the money market at the time*\\nand I could not raise $6,000 on short notice.\\nHe saw My attorney, comprehending the almost sure chance\\nno cliance ^f imprisonment for me, and the reckless destruction\\nof my outfit by attachment and sale, advised me make a secret flight to the\\nAmerican side.\\nHe believed if I escaped, and they could not put me in prison, that the\\nmen would make a reasonable settlement, and would perhaps continue their\\nwork on an adjoining claim under the new owner. They would have my\\noutfit in their possession as security, and the claim was valuable and sure to\\nproduce large profit.\\nAnd so I At midnight, January 26th, I started with a dog team\\nand driver, and with but $200, on a wild ride down\\nthe Yukon. I traveled continuously twenty-two hours, when I was com-\\npelled to rest at Forty-mile Post, fifty-five miles below Dawson.\\nAnd they At 4 a. m. Corporal M of the N. W. M. P. come\\ncame too ^q arrest me. He had a distress warrant on behalf\\nof a labor claimant, and without demanding the money, arrested me. He\\nafterwards said that by paying about $300 he would release me. I did not\\nhave that amount. The reason for my lack of ready money is explained\\nunder another heading.\\nThey charged When the Yukon British officials issued an order for\\nno crime. ^y arrest, and detailed Corporal M and a\\ndriver with a team of dogs to go down the Yukon with all speed and bring", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nme back, no crime was charged against me. The cause was a labor bill of\\n$100. My outfit was in Dawson; the most cursory examination of the\\npremises about my cabin could not but have revealed valuable property-\\nSi, 500 worth of wool was piled against one side of my cabin. Several\\nhundred feet of iron pipe, worth $1,000, and other machinery were there.\\nI had nearly $2,000 worth of food supplies in my cache, and five mining\\nplants out on the creeks. It was not charged that I was removing my\\npossessions, yet I was apprehended and arrested as a criminal. I was\\nstanding near the dining-table of a bunk-house near Forty-mile when the\\nofficer approached me and laid his finger upon my shoulder saying, I arres*-\\nyou in the name of Her Majesty,\\nThe debtor s I was taken to the barracks a prisoner. I was de\\nprison. tained there one day and was then taken back to\\nDawson to the debtor s prison, which is the common jail. 1 was taken into\\nthe guard-room amid a crowd of soldiers and policemen, where I was com-\\npelled to wait six hours. Two gentlemen, at the request of my attorney*\\nwent to the Dawson jail to stand before its officials and sign necessary\\nbonds to the amount of $128, in order that I might be released from jail.\\nAs I walked out of the jail and along the streets of Dawson, people stared.\\nThey knew I had been arrested. It had been told upon the streets during\\nthe afternoon that I was in the jail, and now I seemed to them a different\\nbeing. The mere fact of arrest and imprisonment implies a stigma. An\\noutrage against an innocent person inspires a fear in others as to possibil-\\nities for themselves at some future time; hence people who had been my\\nfriends seemed afraid to speak to me. I had fasted fourteen hours I ate\\na light supper with a friend. A gentlemen offered to\\nformal escort me home, as it was night. As soon as we\\nreached the street he asked me to go down to the\\nlower trail on the Yukon ice. This wounded me deeply, as I perceived that\\nhe did not wish to pass along the lighted street with me, so lately released\\nfrom prison. These evidences of an awful reality of the injusti e of arrest\\nand imprisonment which I had suffered, were a bitter anguish. I soon\\nreached my cabin, to find it dismantled every thing had been removed*\\nleaving only empty tin cans, and broken boards and papers lying about.\\nMy friend had urgent business, and left hastily. My\\nrobe had been brought from the prison, and there,\\namid the dirt and litter of the place and in utmost desolation, I laid down\\non the floor upon my robe for that night. It was a chill and a horror made\\nfor me by enforcement of the British law.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nWith mornins: came hunger and a faintness and weariness. I had no\\nfood excepting a few pieces of pilot bread and some tea.\\nI went out upon the street and tried to conciliate my\\nThey owned my former employees. These men had not been working\\na long season so that they needed their money. I\\nI had refused to hire any but men having outfits to last until the time of\\nthe clean-up; the man who had me arrested, claiming the $100, had worked\\nbut ten days.\\nIf I had been hiring men to be paid each week their wages would have\\nbeen but $5 to $6 per day at most\\nWhen this man demanded his wages from me, before bringing suit, he\\nshook his fist in my face, with the words, Say, will you pay me, will you\\nI went to the Magistrate who had sentenced me to\\nHe heeded not. explained that I had ample means and\\nwould soon settle the debts, even though they were unjust, and the pay roll\\nevidently inflated. My attorney also made a statement at length, showing\\nthere were assets to pay $7 for every dollar of debt claimed. He asked\\nthe Magistrate to avert such sacrifice, but was refused. The Magistrate\\nwould not modify the jail sentence.\\nThe workmen were brutal in their demands. The lawyers secured more\\nwarrants for my arrest, at the same time demanding that I surrender every\\nthing I had. I consented to do so. They refused to withdraw the order for\\nmy arrest while I went down to the A. C. Co. s office building to sign the\\nbills of sale.\\nOn the evening of February 18th, 1898, I went along the\\nThey glared. Dawson and up to the 2nd floor of the A. C.\\nBuilding. I waited on the landing. My former employees were standing\\nabout the door of a lawyer, whom I will call Mill, who was now directing\\nthe settlement. The men were grouped together and they looked at me\\nsullenly.\\nMill came out of his office and made his way through the crowd, passing\\nto me the bill of sale. I had thought they could not possibly secure a com-\\nplete list of my extensive outfit. To my dismay, I saw they had every item.\\nI said, Mill, how could you learn enough about my outfit to make this\\ncomplete list? He answered, Oh we got that from your Manager A.\\nHere was a new treachery. My Manager, who was presenting a bill of\\n$1,165 for his services during a little more than a month, had used the\\nknowledge which he had of ray outfit to make it possible for these men to\\nextort from me all that I had. It was then brought to my notice that three\\nmen had refused to join with the others in their persecutions.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nUnjust to I said to Mill that since they were taking all I had\\nfellow laborers. j^j^gy ^lyg^ include the claims of the three men,\\namounting to $300. Mill answered, But the boys will not stand any\\nmore. I replied that I would not complete the settlement unless the\\nclaims of the three men were paid with the others. He returned to the\\noffice and soon came back to say they would allow 50% of the claims. I\\nrefused to complete the settlement on that basis. It was plain they\\nintended to take from me all I had, but when I saw they would take unfair\\nadvantage of three honorable men of their number. I was incensed beyond\\nendurance. In the excitement of the moment I said, You have taken\\nfrom me my Aeolian Grand, my food, my wood; I have only my clothing\\nleft and these three half dollars, but poor as I am, I am able to give to\\nyou. I threw the half dollars f 01 cibly among them, say-\\nthem men Take these buy yourselves honor buy decency\\nbuy something to make you worthy of the name of men,\\nwhose form you wear\u00e2\u0080\u0094 give some to Mill give a large amount to Grillem,\\nand all the rest to my trusted Manager, A Mill went into his office\\nand soon returned, saying they would pay the claim of the three men. I\\nsigned the bill of sale, resigning my entire possessions. A\\nthe orice $3,000 in money received the bill of sale-\\nHe gave $1,500, and my food supplies, to pay Grillem s\\nfifteen men, which was nearly $400 in excess of their claims at their own\\ninvoice price of the food supplies, and their own time list as to labor-\\nAnother $1,500, with my Aeolian Grand and music, paid the rest of the\\nmen. (The Aeolian Grand with the music I had was worth $1,000 at the\\ncost price in Chicago, with freight to Dawson added.)\\nThe five mining plants, my surplus of hardware and fittings, $1,500\\nworth of wood, an Ingersoll Drill a centrifugal pump, a blacksmith outfit\\nwith tools, an electric light plant, quicksilver, blasting powder, a patent\\nLittle Water Gold Washer, and various other articles of value, became the\\nproperty of unknown persons. Sacrificed for debts that were not bpna fide\\nas to amounts. The true amounts were based upon an agreement as to\\nprice, with a privilege of time until the clean-up to pay. None of the labor\\ndebts were due and there was no sale under the attachments.\\nThere were orders for my arrest as a debtor, and for\\nthe carrying out of sentences of 15 days with hard\\nlabor, 30 days with hard labor. The aggregate of the sentences of\\nimprisonment with hard labor would have been three and one-half years\\nand upon my release I would have owed the debts, and could yet be im-\\nprisoned under the Capias law, if I attempted to leave the country.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nIf I were in prison the cost of guards to look after the property, and of\\nsale under attachment, with attorneys fees, would amount, practically, to\\nconfiscation of the property.\\nI was compelled to submit to what was nothing less than legal robbery.\\nThe men took their money to the saloons and dance halls, in many cases,\\nand paid for a few hours dissipation.\\n1^ f I f f returned to my cabin in awful despair. I was alone,\\nwithout food and without fuel, and it was midwinter.\\nThe pilot bread and tea were soon gone and I began to realize the possi-\\nbility of starvation. For two weeks I had eaten little and I was becoming\\nweak\\nIn this emergency I received notice from my landlord that I must vacate\\nthe cabin. This seemed a pitiable solution of the matter, as a lack of shel-\\nter would soon obviate the necessity for food.\\nIt may be inquired if there were none to aid me My employees, of the\\nordinary class of laborers, had been both insistent and brutal, with the\\nexception of three men. Various lawyers, who are of the business class*\\nwere aggressive and merciless, excepting the one who advised my trip to\\nForty-mile. He received no pay, and made no demands for pay, nor has he\\nsince.\\nThe officials were enlightened as to the sacrifice I would\\nI tl6V Kn6W\\nbe compelled to make but were alike merciless in placing\\nme in my present situation. Some of my friends, perhaps from a super-\\nstitious fear that their effort to sustain me might strengthen their own\\nchance of persecution in future, were inclined to avoid me A few offered\\nme loans; but for a woman to accept favor of men under such circumstances\\nis often to place herself under obligations that imply sacrifice in other\\ndirections. A few offered aid from genuine good-will, but it is only justice\\nto refuse to allow the sacrifice of others until all means of living indepen-\\ndently are exhausted.\\nYet others For a time there seemed to be no hope for me to secure\\naided. either food, fuel or a cabin; but soon Bob Lowry, a less\\nmercenary neighbor, offered to rent me a cabin on the bank of the Yukon\\nnot far away, agreeing to wait until I could get my wardrobe from the out-\\nside and realize money from its sale. Other neighbors brought wood and\\nmade a bunk and a table for me. I asked the men why they did these kind-\\nnesses. One answered that they belonged to a brotherhood in which they\\nwere taught to assist those who were unfortunate. I afterwards learned\\nthey were Odd Fellows. I had not known previously that the good works of\\nsuch orders are not exclusively reserved for widows and families of members.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "1 View of resting place on the bank of the Klondyke.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2. A cache on\\nthe bank of Bonanza Creek under which I slept all night on one of my trips\\nfrom Dawson to Dominion.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3. Odd Fellows bringing wood for me \u00e2\u0080\u00944. $1,5UU\\nworth of wood before my cabin as I left when I Tvent to Forty Mile. I paid\\na month for this cabin.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5. Interior of the Lowery cabin.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6. The Lo^ery\\ncabin, rent $30 a month. L. B. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nBefore I became settled in the new cabin I discovered a small but very\\ncomplete outfit which had been stolen from my cache and secreted hy a\\nformer employee, who had access to the cache. So I had 200 pounds of\\nflour, 50 pounds of sugar and a little of almost everything except butter\\nand milk. I exchanged some of the supplies for these luxuries, and con-\\ntinued to live independently.\\nIn this emergency I felt impelled to try for a deeper ex-\\nA newer life\\nperience of real life and independent thought. I had\\nbeen freed from what, when I possessed it, I had valued highly, but which\\nwhen taken from me, had, as I discovered, been a cause of narrowing my\\nlife to fit the conditions which my prosperous circumstances made. I was\\nleft as it were, without any environment that I owned or controlled partic-\\nularly. The whole world became my environment; all phases of life were\\nits conditions, and alike mine, as I chose to subject myself to their influences.\\nIn this mood I undertook a novel, entitling it, The\\nStrange Confessions of a Suicide. This story em-\\nbodies the life of the trail, the camp and the gold diggings; and voices the\\nimpressions of the heroine, Harriet Havelman, of that life as against the\\nconfessions of Roland Amsden, the hero, as to advance of truth.\\nAs an amusement I wrote my impressions of the most interesting and\\npeculiar phases of life around me, in a set of squibs and short stories, in an\\neffort to solve its hidden meaning. In my lonely cabin at night, writing by\\nthe light of a single candle, I have even laughed at some of the situations I\\nfound myself picturing. In that Northern daylight-midnight my gloomy\\nabode has been peopled with strange fancies, and, though penniless and\\nalone in the far Northland, I found companionship and an exhilerating sense\\nof new life in my subject. The impressions that resulted in these squibs\\nand short stories have taken the form of, The Scar-\\ny aim. j^.^^ Dawson and the Roseate Dawn of Nome,\\nand John Bompas and other Stories of the Northland. Such books to be\\nuseful must be founded on fact. No effort has been made to flatter or con-\\ndemn any person or class. Facts have here been presented in the garb of\\nfiction. Composite characters have been employed and the truth has been\\narranged to avoid personalities. Let no lover of scandal search these\\npages for flings at any envied or erring one\\nYou cannot It has been my aim to state fairly the conditions which\\nknow. gxist in the Yukon territory, and to portray its life as I\\nsaw it. I would suggest a reserve as to prejudice against any people or\\nnation. I could give no valuable opinion as to the result of a comparison", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nof the life and actions of those whom I have designated as Yukon English,\\nwith average Continental or Canadian English, I believe the Canadian\\ngovernment will grant me justice when my case is properly put before\\nthem\\nYou cannot t II would also suggest a reserve of suspicion as to in-\\ndividuals who have been identified with the life of the\\ntrail, and of the Northern Mining Camps. The prevalence of vice, and its\\naggressive and almost irresistible influence, should not cloud the reputa.\\ntions of any who have struggled to maintain honor with entire, or even with\\npartial success. No small degree of honor has been maintained without a\\nstruggle that is worthy of commendation.\\n,j. It has always been a part of my creed not to pay\\ntribute to misfortune and affliction, in tears and in\\nacrimonious recriminations. Live superior to all life s ill, is better philos-\\nophy. The hurried, bustling world is weary, and in its few leisure hours\\nwould be amused. I have sought relief from sorrow in writing, may you\\nforget care in reading. l^ belle Brooks- Vincent,\\nDawson, Y. T., August 14, 1900.\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Up to the time of going to press, March 20th, 1900, no variation as\\nto the Yul on British policy of government has been reported.\\nu The exceptional case of the broker whose high-handed\\nHe had no fear, j v xx\\ndealing caused me such loss, may be cited. He after-\\nward incurred labor debts to the extent of many thousands of dollars,\\nsecuring labor upon the assurance given laborers in my case, which became\\nhis capital in guaranteeing the payment of wages at a risk of personal\\nsafety. He entangled many owners of valuable claims by his contracts,\\nand as innocent parties in litigation with laborers. By some means he es-\\ncaped imprisonment or punishment and avoided permanently the payment\\nof his labor debts, excepting a few cases in which from six to eight per\\ncent of the amount due was tendered.\\nHe paid He obtained six thousand dollars in money from an aged Ger-\\nno cash. using his contracts made in connection with his agree-\\nment with me, and which showed a credit of various amounts, $5,000\\n$4,000 and other smaller amounts, as having been paid in cash, as a means\\nto obtain credit with his aged friend. This transaction resulted in the\\narrest of the broker by the German for obtaining money under false pre-\\ntenses. The broker s defense in the preliminary hearing was Ma/ ke never\\nrepresented to the German that he had paid any cash on those contracts.\\nHe was detained in the country under bonds for trial. The outcome of the\\ncase is looked forward to with much interest.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nHe said The dramatic escape from Dawson of the editor of one of\\ntoo much. t;}jg Dawson daily papers, has been the subject of much com-\\nment. The editor, whom we will call Semple, has for some time been en-\\ngaged in anti-administration literary work. He published some facts in\\nregard to a case which was being tried, when the Yukon officials, who are\\nrather inclined to exercise authority for profit, even though vengeance is\\njustice, proceeded to fine Semple $1,000 for contempt of court. Semple was\\ntaken to prison, but he didn t have his gold sack with him. The Yukon\\n-r. officials courteously declined to allow Semple police escort to\\nThey locked j n\\ngo out upon the trail and find some friend who did have a\\ngold sack, and in that brief, uncertain hour the lever swung\\nback and Semple took all his stock of rhetoric, of logic, and of garnered\\nYukon facts and was escorted down the vile corridor, past 44 cell\\ndoors, through the gratings of v/hich peered 44 criminals, or vagrants,\\nor debtors, or others, till at the end of the promenade a second lever\\nclanged, a cell door opened and the bright name of Semple was eclipsed\\nand he became No. 45, a prisoner. A friend subsequently brought the\\nthousand dollars, which was the price of Semple s contempt, and paid it to\\nthe Yukon officials for the material they furnished Semple with which to\\nmanufacture his expensive contempt, and Semple was set at liberty. Semple\\nwent back to his sanctum but his stock of contempt was not exhausted and\\nhe was soon fined $1,( 00 for his next installment of contempt. By some\\naccident the news reached Semple before the officer arrived, which caused\\nSemple to ascend the Moosehide Mountain and lodge for two\\nor three days in the cabin of a friend. His friend, instead\\nof carrying his gold sack down to the Yukon officials and paying for\\nSemple s contempt, decided to circulate a few Yukon exaggerations as a\\ncheap expedient. He told that Semple had gone to the American side. It\\nseems that the Yukon officials believed these reports, for soon Semple\\nJ, started safely with a dog team for the outside. He measured\\nSemple fled. \u00c2\u00ae^\u00c2\u00ae^y journey with his surplus contempt, but\\nkept very quiet during his periods of rest at the various road\\nhouses in the neighborhood of the police stations.\\nNow Semple is now in the States, and free. The British officials\\nSemple s here, j^g^^g j^jg thousand dollars. His business interests are in\\nDawson, but he is obliged to transport his contempt thither by wireless\\nHis money s telegraphy, as the Yukon telegraph line does not carry\\nthere. sush messages.\\nSan Francisco, Cal., March 20th, 1900. L. B. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "s^\\no\\n+J 3 1\\niiii\\n(1,0\u00c2\u00b0 o\\n,d a\\nbe 1^ d\\n71 \u00c2\u00ab2 to\\nO n3\\n\u00c2\u00bb3 d OX!\\no cj\\n(S fe o\\nSS 2\\n=3 9 I\\n03222\\nOr\\nbe\\ncan s\\nccX2 o O", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A SOCIETY TRANSFORMATION SCENE.\\nThey chose The tale of Cinderella or the Crystal Slipper\\nno men. j^^g proven a triumph in works of imagina-\\ntion, retaining its hold on the public through generation\\nafter generation. Writers of this and similar tales have\\nrested satisfied with transforming poverty into affluence,\\nonly requiring that the poverty be accompanied by youth\\nand beauty. When not inherited, wealth and power are\\nimpossible to the poor in real life, except occasionally as\\nthe result of long, patient and well directed effort. In\\nfiction, the object of favor is usually a beautiful woman;\\nvide King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid; men have not\\nbeen thus transformed in the imagination of writers. No\\nbeautiful fairy ever singled out an ash-man and had him\\ndrawn to a court ball in a great brougham conjured out of\\na pumpkin, and drawn by spanking roadsters made from the\\nmice that ran out of the garbage-barrel. No charming\\nprincess ever found his crystal boot after he had made his\\nescape downstairs, five steps at a time, falling in love with\\nits owner, when his face and actual presence during the\\nball had failed to impress her. Ash-men have been, and\\nare, ash-men still, for all any high-titled ladies may care.\\nAn English queen may have been flattered at the gallantry\\nof a Raleigh, quick-witted enough to lay his cloak upon the\\nground to cover a muddy pathway, to repay his gallantry\\nby casting him a few crumbs of power and dignity from her\\nsurplus. The rash young daughter of a millionaire papa may\\nelope with papa s coachman, but as a result she generally\\nadapts herself to the young Jehu s environment instead of\\nraising him to power and dignity.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nWhen Genius has become faint and aweary, when men\\nhave cried bravo! bravo! and granted the laurel wreath to\\nwriters o f imagination, and honored those who have been\\nelevated by sudden and extraordinary good fortune, then\\nhas a mischievous Fate bestirred the stagnant pool of life\\nto free new wonders.\\nIt is a matter of conjecture whether this same Fate is\\nlaughing or weeping over the joke she perpetrated when she\\nplanned the great discovery of gold on the Klondyke.\\nShe made The men who were to be transformed into\\nsome kings. so-called millionaires had never dreamed\\nof the possibility of wealth and power. They left their\\nfarms, their work-tables, the saloons and gambling dens, all\\nthe wealth and comfort of civilization which they were un-\\nable to buy, and gravitated toward the Northland. They\\nhad no ideas as to a consistent use of wealth, nor of the\\nmethods by which it is usually acquired; and, as a matter of\\nfact, they had no definite knowledge as to the extent of their\\nown capacity for enjoyment of the advantages wealth may\\nsecure to its possessors. Bacon, beans and flour comprised\\ntheir outfit of food. Log cabins, which they built at the\\npost now called Dawson, became their homes. Most of them\\nwere trying to escape the tyranny of long hours of toil, and\\nconsequently were not seeking employment as prospectors.\\nThey all realized, however, that someone must do a little\\nwork, and there was a general feeling of unrest until three\\nor four Swedes started up the gulch and began the actual\\nlabor of prospecting.\\nThey worked For several years a few hardy miners had\\nthe bars. rocking gold on the bars of the Stew-\\nart River, about sixty miles distant. These men were not\\nencouraged by the fur traders whose little steamer passed", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nonce a year up as far as Selkirk, three hundred miles above\\nthe present city of Dawson. They had been obliged to make\\nlong trips to the outside world for food supplies, which they\\ncarried over Chilkoot Pass and down the Yukon via the\\nCanyon and White-Horse Rapids; thus consuming much valu-\\nable time in early Summer and leaving but a short season\\nfor work upon the bars. The present process of thawing\\nfrozen ground by fires, or by use of steam, was unknown,\\ntherefore Winter work was impossible, and the miners were\\ncompelled to idly wait during the long Winter months. In\\nthe early summer of 96 a few venturesome prospectors,\\nwho had been working on Quartz Creek, a branch of the\\nIndian River, crossed over the Great Dome and went down\\nto Gold Bottom, a gulch that enters Hunker Creek about two\\nmiles below Discovery. Here they found gold. They hastily\\nconstructed some sluice boxes and worked until their pro-\\nvisions were nearly gone. For some unknown reason they\\ndid not return to Stewart for a new supply of food, but went\\nover the mountains and down to the mouth of the Klon-\\ndyke, where, upon the boggy flat now occupied by the City\\nof Dawson, they found two Indians encamped and with them\\na white man called Injun George. They told of their new\\ndiscovery, and Injun George, with two Indians, started up\\nthe Klondyke and thence up Bonanza Creek, intending to go\\nto Gold Bottom.\\nThey found At a distance of twelve miles from the\\nthe pay. mouth of the Klondyke, they camped on\\nBonanza Creek. Digging down a few feet they discovered\\nthe wonderful Bonanza pay streak. It is somewhat remark-\\nable that their discovery should have been in the richest part\\nof the Creek. If they had prospected a few miles below\\nthey would have found nothing, and if they had gone a few\\nmiles further their efforts would also have been futile.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nGeorge, with his Indian companions, staked out claims and\\nreturned with all haste to the mouth of the Klondyke.\\nFrom there they embarked in a small boat down the Yukon\\nto Forty-mile Post, fifty-five miles below, to notify his part-\\nners and companions of the new strike. The camp at Forty-\\nmile was soon depopulated, and the news spread to Circle\\nand to various small camps. The steamer of the fur-trad-\\ning company at Selkirk, on its way up the river, proceeded\\nwith all haste to reach Selkirk and to remove its store and a\\nsmall saw-mill to the new camp at the mouth of the Klon-\\ndyke. In August the first cabin in Dawson was built by this\\nCompany, and the mill machinery was placed in operation.\\nThe Forty-milers were first on the ground to stake claims on\\nBonanza. Circle City and Stewart River miners were not\\nmuch behind them. A few essayed to do a little prospect-\\ning on El Dorado but, discovering nothing, came back down\\nthe Creek and, at its junction with Bonanza,\\nmistak^* erected a sign board with this inscription,\\nWe leave this creek to the Cheechargos\\nand the Swedes. A few cabins, saloons, bunk houses and\\ntent houses were hastily constructed at the new post, and thus\\nthe approach of Winter found them. This was the condition\\nwhen the before-mentioned Swedes started out on their pros-\\npecting tour. The Swedes went up Bonanza and notwith-\\nstanding the sign at the mouth of El Dorado, which was\\nintended to convey the idea that the creek was worthless,\\nthey decided to prospect in El Dorado. They set their picks\\nand shovels with determination and soon found colors. Faster\\nyet they worked, until thirty feet below the surface they\\nuncovered El Dorado s bed-rock. Not Heaven, but paved\\nwith gold. They staked their claims and the news spread\\nlike wild-fire. Soon all those who had waited so patiently\\nstampeded to the new diggings, set their stakes and marked\\ntheir claims on El Dorado.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "1. An El Dorado kingdom. \u00c2\u00abq nm n\\n2. Miners drying and weighing the gold after the clean-up. J8.000 in\\nthe pan by the window.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "1. Prince Antoine and lady of Birch creek.\\n2. A group of Klondyke kings. The first man to the right in the pic-\\nture with wide rim hat is Alex McDonald, beside him is Dick Lowe.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\nKings and It is a solemn scene when kings are made,\\nkingdoms. when kingdoms are spoken into existence,\\nbut mischievous Fate turned her dimpled cheek and winked\\nher eye saucily when she saw a common looking fellow set\\nhis stakes at the four corners of a claim. He could chop\\ndown the spruce tree and hew it into square posts and set\\nthem in the earth, but he could not write the words, I,\\nBlank Blankson, claim five hundred feet up and down this\\ncreek; measuring south from this post. A companion\\nmarked the stake and Fate said merrily, Never mind the\\nwriting, I hereby make you a millionaire. You don t know\\nit, but there are one million dollars in gold on the bed-rock\\nof the claim you have staked. I ll show the world a wonder.\\nYou shall make the history of a million of dollars in gold,\\nHe felt launched upon its mission of good or ill.\\nthe same. turned to another, whose muddled\\nbrain was losing to him the fourth corner of\\nhis claim, and by strenuous effort, she prevented him from\\nstaking a triangular piece of ground. She consoled him by\\nsaying, Good luck my boy, you are a little off on geometri-\\ncal figures, nevertheless I crown you an El Dorado King, and\\nthis is your kingdom. You can buy champagne in a flood to\\nequal the freshet that tears down this gulch in springtime.\\nHe was helped another to move his stakes\\nthe same. include a fraction. She suggested\\nthat, later, he might want to locate a friend\\non the fraction. She helped another to a million dollar slice\\nof El Dorado in these words, Good boy, you don t need a\\nHe did not stand or a fruit stall; you can now buy\\nbelieve it. whole menagerie and a plantation. A poor,\\nweazened-looking fellow planted his stakes\\nfirmly, and Fate promised him he should be a great swell", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "and a sport. And so the work progressed on\\nthat eventful day. All the unclaimed wealth\\ntwfls so*\\nof El Dorado became so many little kingdoms,\\neach within four newly-hewed posts. The Yukon country\\nwas now the checker-board of fate, and kings galore were\\nmade. Kings that could be moved, and cornered, and\\njumped, and ignobly cast aside when the game is played.\\nFate laughed merrily. The kings could see a possible few\\nhundreds or thousands of dollars, but she could discern mil-\\nlions in new, shining gold. These kings assembled that\\nnight at the post, and the rose-hued dawn of their vermillion\\nhistory began. They were robed in the despised garb of\\npoverty, they had no temperance mixtures from lack of the\\nKlondyke water, filtering through gravel to\\nthe nearby well of the Dawson water works,\\nto be supplied two years later at five cents\\na gallon. They swore, by the ace of spades, the oath of\\nallegiance to self-made authority. They drank each other s\\nhealth in over-draughts of hootch and bad whiskey.\\nA crown One of these kings attempted to perpetrate a\\nfor sale. joke upon a Swede named Gunderson. He\\ncaused him to become intoxicated, and while he was in that\\ncondition, sold him his kingdom on El Dorado for eight\\nhundred dollars. Repentance came to Gunderson with re-\\nturning sense, and he tried to compel the return of his\\nmoney, but he was obliged to retain the kingdom. It has\\nsince yielded him half a million in gold. One\\nKing of the i. i j j\\nman commenced to buy kmgdoms and prm-\\ncipalities. He soon became the Prime King\\nof the Klondyke. He had never been a money king or finan-\\ncier before, yet he pursued the methods of successful busi-\\nness men in civilization in buying, for a mere pittance, king-\\ndoms scattered along all the creeks, as they were stampeded", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nand located. Before these were prospected the kingdoms\\nwere sold at a low price. When a creek proved rich he\\nshared largely in its wealth. When a creek proved a failure\\nhe lost little, as his original investment had been small. A\\nfew good creeks, like Hunker, Dominion and Sulphur, se-\\ncured to him a profit, a small percentage of which easily re-\\nplaced his losses on other worthless creeks. The Big\\nMoose, as this king is familiarly called, is a canny Scot.\\nWhen his wealth told a million he still continued to live in a\\nsqualid log cabin in Dawson, a corner of which, enclosed by\\na board partition covered with cheese cloth to which some\\nbadly demoralized wall paper was clinging, constituted his\\nprivate office. When I called there one day a bookkeeper\\nsat perched upon a high stool, counting the wealth of the\\nrealm, its income, its royalties and its bills payable; for the\\nking of the Klondyke is a plunger in speculation, and has\\nno fear of 10% a month paper on the deals he makes. Fur-\\nther back in the cabin was a camp cooking stove and other\\nnot too luxurious furnishings. Just as the midnight sun was\\nsending her crimson rays to the eastward on the previous\\nnight, this squalor had been glorified by the arrival of five\\nmen, each carrying fifty pounds of gold, and a pack train of\\nmules, each loaded with a hundred and fifty pounds of the\\nprecious metal. The king will drink now and then with a\\nfriend, but no part of his millions passes over the bar in\\npurchasing hilarity for a lot of followers. He wears plain\\nclothes. A sack coat hangs loosely from his broad shoulders.\\nII His grey eyes and heavy features wear an ex-\\nno swell pression of indifference as he passes along the\\nstreet. It is said that he never worries or\\npasses a restless night. He always wears a broad-brimmed,\\ncow-boy hat, and may be seen on Sunday at 8 a. m. entering\\nSt. Mary s Church, for early Mass. He contributed twenty-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nfive thousand dollars toward building St. Mary s Church,\\nwhich is a record no other miner has made. Once he ac-\\nquired a lesser fortune in mines, in the States, but he came\\nhere without even an adequate outfit. He was packing for\\na living when the wealth of El Dorado came to his rescue.\\nIf he gets gloriously drunk upon occasion the fates do not\\nrecord these lapses. There is no record of his ever having\\ntransfered any of his wealth to a woman. It is reported\\nthat he has married a foreign girl of good family, which is\\nunusual in the history of these kings. The lady could not\\nhave married him for his title, as she can never become a\\nShe is no Klondyke queen except by moving thither and\\ndonning a short skirt, heavy, high-laced boots\\nand a cow-boy hat, with a dog team or pack-\\nhorse accompaniment, and by acquiring the necessary num-\\nber of claims to establish her right to the title. The title\\nonly lasts during the active reign on his native soil of the\\none in power. If this great king removes to the environ-\\nment of his lady he may be a millionaire but it will be said\\nof him, He was the king of the Klondyke. Scraps of the\\nhistory of these kings, and the affairs of their realms, have\\nreached the public through the industry of the press, whose\\nfeats of imagination surpass all records in fiction. Fate has\\ndecreed the early passing of these kings; soon they will all\\nbe cornered, or jumped, or played to a finish in some shape,\\nand cast aside as dead material. Observers of the game\\nwill turn their attention to other affairs of life and forget\\nthat these men ever did play any part at all as kings, or\\nthat Fate ever used them in such important roles.\\nA Klondyke The next important one in the play was a dago\\nking. king. Not a king of the Dagos, but a dago\\nKlondyke king. He had a warm, southern nature, and\\ndreamy eyes that upon occasion bespoke passion and purpose,", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "1. Bench claims on Bonanza, 500 feet above the creek level. The\\nclaim showing chute for pay-dirt produced $200,000 to the interest of\\nAsche, the owner,\\n2. An El Dorado kingdom.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3. Shows the dumps before the clean-up.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nand, after forty years of waiting, he proved himself equal\\nto a most ardent romance of peculiar, vermillion hue. Back\\nin New York, Chicago and Frisco, he had seen painted stage\\nbeauties singing popular songs and doing the skirt dance,\\nbut when their terpsichorean feats came within his range\\nof vision he knew they were playing to the gallery for ap-\\nplaus only. Their real smiles, and much worn affections,\\nwere for the boxes and the circle.\\nWhen the first news of vast wealth on the Klondyke was\\nconveyed to civilization and it resulted in the appearance in\\nDawson of dancing, singing, thirsty women, he thought it\\ndue to the philanthropy of dance-hall men in risking ex-\\npenditure to import all this talent for the entertainment of\\nlonely miners. He might surmise these beauties were women\\nof forty or forty-five, disguised as seventeen, but how could\\nhe know they were prospectors for sure wealth and for\\nground already staked? The miners were to work the claims\\nbut the women would work the miners. When this Dago\\nking had fully established the wealth of his realm and had\\nmeans to indulge creditably in the dissipation of Dawson,\\nwith leisure to enjoy the racy exhibitions of Dawson s\\ntheatre, he found these imported stage beauties were in-\\nclined to abbreviate their stay in the greenroom and join\\nmen about the bar as good fellows.\\nShe sang He had long admired the singing and dancing\\nto him. of Miss Bessie Yarrow and had applauded her\\nact heartily. When she would return and give her encore\\nwith a dash of naughtiness, he, with other men, (there were\\nno women in these audiences), would throw coins and gold\\nnuggets upon the stage until she returned again in a\\ngraded success of abondonment, far exceeding any club\\nrelish ever enjoyed outside. When the stage was littered\\nwith an attractive debris of wealth and Bessie walked", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\ndown among the men, there seemed to be a magnetic\\nattraction established between the two by the coins and\\nnuggets that he had charged with his deepest love and\\nadmiration, and had cast at her feet. When, true as a\\nmagnet to its pole, Bessie came straight toward him, throw-\\ning her thin arms as far around his great girth as was pos-\\nsible, and pillowing her head against the woolen shirt upon\\nhis breast, with the impassioned words, He looks good to\\nme, the sensation which this king experienced nearly took him\\noff his feet. His heart pounded under his left suspender as\\nthe picks pounded upon the bedrock of his kingdom. This\\nwas bliss! It was a wonderful experience!\\nTo pay a dime outside for a seat in the gal-\\nlery just to watch the painted beauties from\\nafar, had seemed a seventh heaven of delight. To pay five\\ndollars in Dawson for a nearer view he had deemed a pre-\\ncious privilege. A small exposed section of Bessie s painted\\nshoulder had suggested a Venus-like perfection. The tip of\\nher slippered foot, with its red-stockinged instep arching\\nabove a high heel set exactly in the middle, had seemed a\\nfairy thing, but now to possess her entire personality, if\\nonly for a moment, was the quintessence of bliss. He did\\nnot need the champagne and mixed drinks that he ordered\\nthat night, costing him hundreds of dollars. Nothing could\\nincrease the happiness of being in the presence of Bessie\\nYarrow. What Bessie lacked in ardor and spontaniety pec-\\nuliar to youth, she made up in resourceful arts accumulated\\nby an experience of forty-five sweet summers and forty-\\nthree and a half winters of more or less severity. Bessie\\nhad a lover already, one Tom Thomas, who accompanied her\\ninto this country, and her heart, or what she called her\\nheart, was true to him. He was back in the wings shifting\\nthe scenes, and his left suspender was in a tolerable state", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nof vibration, but not from jealousy or anger. Oh no, he\\nknew Bessie too well for that. He was confident that when\\nshe cashed in her checks in the morning at\\nthe bar, her twenty-five per cent of what the\\nKing had ordered would be a nice little sum,\\nand he did not know what further profit might follow.\\nBessie could w^ork the king, but he was working Bessie, so\\nit was all his gain, and the king was very much elated and\\nvery happy. He began to realize that he was a real, live\\nking. He had but one trouble. His kingdom was away up\\nthe gulch. He must turn his back upon Bessie and go oc-\\ncasionally to look after his subjects. The men who were\\ntearing up the golden bedrock might be putting great pieces\\nof it in their pockets. They must be looked after. So the\\nking put on his parka and mocassins and mushed back to the\\nkingdom alone but he came to hate the trail that led away\\nfrom Bessie, and his log cabin royal palace\\nwas dingy as compared with the saloon where\\nBessie caressed him as he ordered the cham-\\npagne. The tin cans in which he cooked his food disgusted\\nhim. The mounds of bright yellow gravel that lay about\\nthe shafts that penetrated to the bedrock of his realm, were\\nmountains of difficulty, and the spaces between were little\\nvalleys of discontent. All because Bessie was so far away.\\nIrony of fate! Here was a king in full, undisputed posses-\\nsion of a kingdom. This kingdom was not set with beans\\nand potatoes and corn, like those outside, but was stored\\nwith precious gold throughout its length and breadth. The\\nking s reign was not menaced by discontented tenantry, nor\\nwarring factions, yet all of this great power and wonderful\\ngift of wealth seemed incomplete. It was to him a source\\nof misery and downright discontent. He would gladly ex-\\nchange it for the unoccupied portion of the heart of Bessie\\nYarrow!", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "In this extremity the King appealed to Bessie herself.\\nShe was shrewdly able to see the advantage of giving per-\\nsonal attention to the handling and cleaning up of so much\\ngold. Stage work was a drudgery and a bore to her, except\\nas it served to place her in communication with kings. She\\nfeigned to demur at making the king her final choice. She\\nfeared that if she went up the gulch to his palace he might\\nask her to polish the palace, tin- ware and to prepare the\\nroyal menu, and in the Spring she might have no checks to\\ncash in. When the king understood her fears, he readily\\nmade out a check in advance in the form of a nineteen\\nthousand dollar mortgage on his dumps. So Bessie went\\nc. up the gulch to look after her interests and\\none saw\\nI the king was happy. She no longer danced\\nnor sang, she had no other accomplishments,\\nand could neither cook nor keep the cabin clean. She really\\ndid not amount to much out of her sphere as an ordinary\\nvaudeville singer and dance -hall girl, and she had not gone\\nbefore this king in the capacity of a dancer in his palace.\\nHe sometimes pondered deeply, realizing that she was an\\nexpensive toy. He had a vague idea that she was not ad-\\napted to satisfy those needs of a king which are common to\\nordinary mortals. But he knew full well just why he wanted\\nher. Other kings had seen and applauded her, and some-\\ntimes, when she caressed them in public, they had seemed\\njust as delighted as he had been when she bestowed such\\nfavors upon him. He wanted to show them that he could\\ncapture the prize and carry her off bodily; extinguishing\\ntheir stage light for ever. It was his victory. In this he\\nwas not unlike many other men. Even whole nations have\\nfought for prizes and when acquired have not known what\\nto do with their new possessions. Bessie conferred with\\nTom Thomas. In view of the king s half-a-million they con-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "39\\neluded that Bessie should become his wife. So, after the\\nclean up, the king and Bessie were married and sailed away\\ndown the Yukon to buy diamonds and wine in such quantities\\nas to astonish the outside world, and to travel in other lands\\nleaving a trail of reminiscences as to the final disposition of\\none Klondyke fortune. Bessie was careful to have Tom\\nThomas left in charge of the kingdom as prince-regent, and\\nhe proceeded to tear up the golden bedrock in a way to\\nastonish even the king himself. When his majesty returned\\nhe found a base usurper in his place, one who had already\\nfound favor with his consort. But Bessie s heart is prin-\\ncipally with the kingdom, and next to that, with regent\\nThomas.\\nThey live When the dispensers of spiritous liquors, dia-\\nfor show. mond merchants, hotel proprietors, trans-\\nportation companies, tailors and modistes have given of\\ntheir goods for the gold of this king, Bessie s experience\\nwill not count as an attraction on the vaudeville stage. A\\ndago fruit-stall man and a dance-hall girl transformed to\\nmillionaires may be a sensation of the day, but a Klondyke\\nking selling peanuts for a living, or his diamond-bedecked\\nwife as waitress in a beer garden, are events to be forgotten.\\nWhatever may be said of this king, he got\\nI g n se. ^,jj^|^ j^g p^ld foj.^ ^nd enjoyed an appear-\\nance of security in his possession. Not so with the little\\nSwedish king, Gonorse. This was probably the fault of Miss\\nAster who was an important pawn the day it became the\\nturn of King Gonorse to be used in a decisive play on the\\nchecker-board of fate.\\nFate looked the kings over, and as she lifted Gonorse for\\na jump over a Bonanza potentate whose kingdom was short\\nin the yellow metal pavement, she discovered that though\\nhis head was a little light, his kingdom had been increased", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nby conquests in various directions. So she decided to make\\nhim the victor and, incidentally. Miss Aster s conquest.\\nAn arctic Miss Aster had a head but she had no heart.\\nlove. She had a piece of bedrock firmly secured in\\nthe place where that tender organ should have been. She\\ntried the dance-hall but she was becoming conscious of her\\nsuperior worth in other directions. She was a large,- fine\\nlooking woman with an abundance of nerve. She had a\\ncertain vital energy, which, if influenced by an ardent pas-\\nsion, would have made for her a record as a queen of love\\nin social life; but when centered on self, and dedicated to\\nmercenary ends,meant danger to others. She would devote\\nonly part of her time to any man and it was folly of Gonorse\\nto attempt to claim it all. He was ambitious, and, with\\ncommendable perseverance, he sought to make up in con-\\ntributions of kingdoms and interests in kingdoms, what he\\nlacked in personal attraction. Foolish man When Miss\\nAster was put in possession of two-thirds of the steenth\\nkingdom on Dominion, he had not added one inch to his\\nstature nor any new power of discernment to his brain.\\nThis heartless woman then decided her mission was no longer\\nto cash in checks at 7 a. m. after a night in the dance-hall.\\nShe could not, for a time, decide whether she would hence-\\nforth be a female Shylock or the doorkeeper in an oflacial\\nhouse of authority in Dawson. She wanted to be something\\nterrible, the sooner the better. While toying with possibili-\\nties the polished Mr. Maco entered upon the scene. He was\\nversed in the art of love-making and he hated work.\\nAnd she Miss Aster already had a lady lover but she\\nwas wise. confined her attentions to afternoons and oc-\\ncasional morning hours, and installed Maco as a means by\\nwhich Gonorse could be made to pay roundly for her favorj", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nShe showed him that a period of fickle forgetfulness on her\\npart could be cured by a gift of an interest in a kingdom.\\nWhen the sufferings of Gonorse were past endurance he\\nbought relief by transferring to Miss Aster an interest in a\\nkingdom and both were very happy.\\nAnd she Her great, white arms about his small shoul-\\nwas fair. ders were a wealth of beauty sacrificed, even\\nwhen his appreciation was magnified to its fullest capacity.\\nA portion af a kingdom, or a small principality, seemed\\nslight recompense. Poor, deluded man!\\nBut she To complete this record of the Scarlet Life,\\nwas false. base downright cold-hearted treachery must\\nbe added, and Maco furnished that element. Maco abond-\\noned all pretense of work and devoted himself to Miss Aster.\\nShe was launched upon a career of treachery that out-rivals\\nall others in Dawson, as a cowardly use of the charm of\\nwomanhood to torment, punish, and betray a man who was\\nunable to discern her motives, and too ignorant to protect\\nhimself from her wiles. At times she ignored Gonorse and\\nspurned him. She took every means of showing her con-\\ntempt. Gonorse would become distressed and almost insane\\nfrom grief. A gift of a kingdom or two would buy a smile\\nand a few kind words from Miss Aster, and he was restored\\nto happiness. Miss Aster revealed her duplicity in turning\\nto her parasite lover and openly lavishing upon him the gold\\nof the betrayed Gonorse. Over and over again this beauti-\\nful, treacherous w^oman brought her powers to bear upon the\\nYet he luckless Gonorse, and yet again would he cast\\nweak wealth at her feet. Miss Aster now possesses\\ninterests worth a quarter of a million, and it\\nis believed that she will retain the bulk of her fortune.\\nGonorse continues to evince a sincere infatuation for her.\\nMaco is not a man of sensitive mould or he would not profit", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nby a woman s base treachery to another. The trio are a\\nunique combination, even in the life of Dawson. A Klon-\\ndyke fortune has been a curse to Gonorse in affording temp-\\ntation to such a woman as Miss Aster to prolong what can\\nbe only punishment for him. His lack of judgment is to\\nbe deplored in that he does not perceive her transitory smiles\\ncan only be bought with gold.\\nA Klondyke king s The Checker-board of Fate was left one\\ncelebrated day in Springtime to the manipulation\\nbreakfast. of an unknown force. Easter-egg roll-\\ning of civilization had just arrived. A little late, but eggs\\nwere selling up here at a dollar and a half each. It was was\\ntime for a new king to be moved, and so one decided to make\\nhis own play. Violet Pease had been the favorite stage artist\\nof this king, but she had coldly left him for another lover.\\nAs the king looked up from a six months old Frisco paper,\\nwith which he was beguiling his time as he awaited the ap-\\npearance of the second installment of his tardy breakfast of\\nsalt ham and boiled beans with onion dressing, he chanced to\\ndetect the musk-scented aroma of Miss Violet s presence, and\\nto hear her soft voice ordering, Three fried eggs^ please f\\nGreat Heavens! groaned the deserted king, three fried\\neggs, and for her! I swear by my kingdom, and the fraction\\nI own besides, she shall not have them. Here waiter! he\\ncalled. That functionary came quickly, for\\nhe feared the king had found a bean in his\\ndish a little off color, as he had ordered pink beans of a uni-\\nform size, shape and color, that morning. The kin? cleared\\nhis royal throat and said, Bring me every Qgg in the house,\\nfry them, bake them, stew them, serve them on the half\\nshell, make them into soup, smother them with garlic, cover\\nthem with macaroni sauce, fee yourself with them, scrub the\\nfloor with them, but serve me every Qgg in the house. The", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nwaiter covered the distance to the kitchen in just threes\\nhounds and was soon tearing his wool in an effort to rei)eat\\nthe king s order. The proprietor flopped his ears thought-\\nfully and started up and down the alley to the back doors of\\nother restaurants, for more eggs. JSoon the whole force of\\nwaiters were moving in a solemn procession from the kitchen\\nto the royal table. They brought eggs on plates, on saucers,\\nin basins, in pans and on pieces of tin cans. They served\\neggs rolled in napkins and strung on wires; they filled the\\ntable and the chairs. They hung them up on the hat hooks.\\nWith toothpicks they pinned great fried eggs on the king s\\nroyal robe where buttons should have been. They placed a\\nbig omelette as a plaster over his heart, and they crowned\\nhim with another. They made a miniature kingdom, the bed-\\nrock of which v;as the whites of the eggs, the pay streak\\nthe yolks, and they formed the thick gravel deposit above of\\nLerue s crystalized hen-fruit, making a muck covering of\\nSpanish fricassee. Violet tapped her little foot impatiently\\nupon the floor as she waited, only to see the waiter approach\\nher empty handed, saying, Very sorry, Miss, but we have-\\nnn-e.(jc)sy In these words lay the king s triumph. The waiter\\nplaced beside the king s plate a check which read 5/20,\\nBreakfast $900.00 but then had he not made the decree\\nto Violet, We havr-no-r(jg i No eggs for Violet, he\\nhad nine hundred dollars worth of eggs, but Violet could not\\nhave a single one. At last he had thwarted her, and she was\\npunished.\\nAs the king poured nine hundred dollars in\\ndust from the plethoric depths of his royal\\nsack, into the blower on the counter, the waiter was disap-\\npearing through the kitchen door with a tray-load of the\\ndebris of the king s celebrated breakfast. As he kicked the\\ndoor open he was heard to soliloquize, By de holy smoke, if", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\ndat fellah had tip me about ten dollars I jes done tole dat\\ntheatre woman ebery egg in dis heah house done gone rot-\\nten and spoiled. I calls dis heah a foolish piece ob business,\\nI does.\\nThus was old Aesop s dinner of tongues,\\nand the modern Seeley spread, discounted\\nby this Klondyke king s celebrated breakfast.\\nFate was looking musingly at her checker-\\nAn abdication. i, n\\nboard one day, occasionally jollying the\\nkings, when she was surprised to hear one express a d-esire\\nto abdicate. He explained that he had a chance to buy out\\nan interest in a saloon for four thousand dollars, adding, I\\nthink I will look nice behind a bar; that will just suit me.\\nYou know, sweet Fate, my girl wanted some money and I\\nsold half my kingdom to raise the riffle for her, I am. deter-\\nmined to be a bar-keeper and I will let the other half go for\\nfour thousand dollars. It is well worth twenty thousand.\\nFate gave the tip to another king, who readily took advan-\\ntage of the bargain, and the crown was removed from the\\nhead of him who preferred to be a bar-keeper. The great\\npleasure of going to a bar and ordering drinks gave him an\\nexaggerated opinion of the enjoyment to be derived from\\ndispensing such favor; there is no record that he ever re-\\npented his choice.\\nA kingly A Norwegian king was played one night* to the\\ncharity. extent of three thousand dollars, in favor of a\\nsaloon. He saw his folly when he paid his bills the next day,\\nand avoided such waste thereafter. He went to Norway and\\nbought homes for his parents, his brothers and sisters, and\\nprovided for a permanent income for them. He pays his\\nmen $1.50 per hour, and an extra one hundred dollars at the\\nclean-up, and in many ways exercises a royal charity and\\nconsideration for others less fortunate.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Interior view of the Monte Carlo, a gambling house and dance hall.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "1. $500,000 brought from Dawson in iron bound boxes lined with gal-\\nvanized iron.\\n2. The same in the assay office in gold bricks.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "47\\nThe charity One king sneaked away to the outside with\\nof a king. j^jg quarter of a million in gold, and, by his\\ncareful investments, has become a useful citizen, a very im-\\nportant church member and a possible future power in poli-\\ntics. He assists liberally in paying heavy indebtedness of\\nchurches and societies, but a loan of a few dollars, even\\nalthough well secured, to an unfortunate but obscure\\nbrother, is not in his line.\\nA royal Fate was at the theatre one night when it came\\nactor. t,he turn of a great Skookum king to be played.\\nHe secured a mount, and upon his coal-black charger rode\\ninto the theatre, amid the crowd occupying the parquet\\nchairs. The moving pictures were on, but as often happens\\nin Dawson, living pictures in the rear of the house were\\nmore unique and exciting than stage play could possibly be.\\nDawson Dawson theatres often furnish scenes that\\ntheatres. surprise the cast. The audience is always\\nsupplied with conditions of its own, but the cast usually fol-\\nlows its lines without improvisations; however, in the atmos-\\nphere of Dawson, genius blooms in a variety of surprises.\\nThe vaudeville singer never condescends to a little coon imi-\\ntator in the gallery; she can create the impression she de-\\nsires unaided; besides, in the place where the dress circle\\nand gallery should be are boxes all the way around. In some\\ntheatres there are two tiers, and in others but one. These\\nboxes have curtains for the use of occupants when they are\\ntired of seeing the play, and prefer to attend exclusively to\\nthe consumption of wine.\\nPrudence One night the play was Camille and the\\ninterpolated. audience was becoming sympathetic and\\nexcited over the situation. Camille was on the stage doing\\nher part in a manner wonderful even for a Bernhardt. She", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\ngoes to the window and calls, Mistress Prudence, Mistress\\nPrudence, Mistress Prudence! Instead of the expected\\nmerry response from the stage distance imagine the effect\\nmade by the shrill voice of the truant actress, Prudence, as\\nher frowsy head appears between the curtains of one of the\\nwine boxes, her bare arms resting on the railing as she al-\\nmost screams, Call away all you want to, Mistress Pru-\\ndence will not be there to-night. The intoxicated actress\\nwas removed by the waiters and the play continued until it\\nwas interrupted by the leading man coming before the curtain\\nto air his personal grievances against some men about town.\\nThe inconsistency of the Dawson theatres is that the\\nstage is properly the audience and the audience the real,\\nthrobbing, pulsating, extreme drama, that far exceeds in\\ninterest what is attempted behind the footlights; but people\\ndo not fully realize it. Managers might well advertise,\\nCome to-night and see the Kings and Dance Hall Girls pose\\nin Living Pictures. See our Prima Donna with a Prominent\\nSociety Man in a Box in an Abbott-Irwin-Worlds-Fair-but-\\nstrictly- original Dawson Episode. Never mind Paul Re-\\nvere s Ride, See a Skookum King come tearing into the\\ntheatre Don t wait for the curtain but look at the Au-\\ndience.\\nA royal A great foreign nation has sent a Consul to Daw-\\nbuffoon, son whom we will call Duff. He seems to be a man\\nwithout an occupation, for either there is nothing for a Con-\\nsul to do, or this Consul does not prove energetic in discov-\\nering his vocation. Fate determined to transform him into\\nsomething unlike the character which a Consul should dis-\\nplay. She waited patiently and studied her subject. His\\narrival was commonplace. The banquet tendered him by the\\nYukon British was a tame affair. The British are of all\\npeople the most self-sufficient, and would prefer that foreign", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "49\\nnations trust them to administer their government fairly.\\nDuff, the Consul, was a tighter and a descendent of the fight-\\ning McDuffs of history. His countrymen in Dawson were\\noften oppressed and in trouble, nevertheless Duff did not\\ncare to fight; in fact, he ignored their appeals. Sometimes\\nhe inquired indifferently if there was anything in it for\\nhim but evidently his interest lay in another direction.\\nDuff was possessed by an unnatural appetite\u00e2\u0080\u0094 due perhaps\\nto snow eating on the trail\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and he was visibly affected by\\nthe heavy odor of musk which hung about the dance-hall\\nsociety. He was fat but he could dance, if only to please\\nthe girls, and he was bent on seeing the sights of Dawson.\\nSo he yielded to the prevalent contagion, and was soon going\\nthe pace of the genuine kings. Here is where Fate, with\\nrare discernment as to the eternal fitness of things, raised\\nher magic wand and tickled the red nose of the Consul, say-\\ning, I hereby decree that you shall be the most dis-\\ntinguished buffoon of all history\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gee Whiz! Z ip!\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nand away you go. The Consul did not discover any remark-\\nable change in himself, in fact he felt quite\\nHe was natural and unusually sober. He took several\\nthe same. ^^.j^^j^g j^j-^^e himself, and ordered drinks\\nfor the girls. Then he broke loose in oratory. I say, girls,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094I m a Duff-er\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a McDuff-er\u00e2\u0080\u0094 anything you choose\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but I\\ncan t fight\u00e2\u0080\u0094 oh no\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this is a truce\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I surrender\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I throw\\ndown my arms\u00e2\u0080\u0094 help yourselves. The girls went through\\nhis pockets, they took his watch and chain, a lot of gold\\nnuggets, his fountain pen, a horse chestnut that he carried\\nto prevent rheumatism, a sample of quartz ore a man had\\ngiven him with a tip as to the location of the Mother-Lode,\\nsome silver and gold coins, all that he had of value they\\ntook; and though they were satisfied they had all, he urged\\nthem to look again. They searched and found some matches.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50\\na soiled letter beginning, My dearest Duff, a U. S. post-\\nage stamp and a piece of chewing gum. They all laughed\\nloudly and threw their arms about him, and still more girls\\ncame to hang around him, and Duff was very happy. He\\nfinally waxed patriotic and proposed to compel from each\\none present a tribute to the flag of his own country. He\\ncould not do that as the British flag waves over Dawson, and\\nafter some lively rebuffs on the part of a few men present.\\nDuff decided not to undertake what might be an unequal\\nfight. From his ancestors he had inherited the spirit of war,\\nbut in his muddled condition, he could not tell whether he\\nwas the victor or the vanquished. The ruling passion is\\nstrong in death, and Duff was losing ground in a way to in-\\nvite its approach. With a last effort before the fall, he\\nlooked about him to select the most able bodied man pres-\\nent; assuming that it were less ignoble to pose as a van-\\nquished warrior than as a successful dance-hall beau, he said\\nto the bar-keeper, Pete, kick me. He fell in a convenient\\nposition over the counter. Pete had never had such an\\nopportunity in his life before. He retired to the\\nrear of the dance hall and poised himself for the\\neffort, while one of the girls pinned the flag of\\nDuff s country across his coat-tails. Pete ran and kicked\\nvigorously on the flag and hard against the anatomy of Duff.\\nThe girls laughed and Duff was never so happy in all his life.\\nKick me once more, Pete, and Pete repeated the opera-\\ntion again and again, at the request of the Consul. The\\nConsul laughed and seemed to enjoy the fun most of all.\\nPete leaned against a barrel of whiskey to rest. Fate with\\nher wand tapped the corns on his toes and said, Ah, Peter\\nof the Nimble Shoon, you have this day won a proud distinc-\\ntion. You have earned the title Kicking Pete, which\\nshall live in history.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "51\\nThen the Consul would sing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 He ponders deeply\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Silence\\nall\u00e2\u0080\u0094 here are the lines:\\nTO PI ^TK OF THE NIMBLE SHOON.\\nI ;im the last of the fighting McDuffs,\\nAlone on the Yu-li-Kon\\nThis was my Ru-bi-con.\\nI came from the States to the British domain,\\nThey told me K^//-may-come,\\nSome say r( .^rt -a-bum.\\nI have no chance to my honor maintain.\\nRefrain Oh Peter, Peter kick me,\\nThe British ought to lick me.\\nBut they fear they might offend my Cousin Givadam.\\nOh Peter, Peter kick me,\\nOh Peter you re so slick! see?\\nSo run and jump and plant your feet upon me once again.\\nThe English have soldiers and mounted police,\\nAnd they with Might-and-main\\nDo us then Fight a-gain.\\nMy occupation is gone in a day.\\nWhen me they Sight-a-gain\\nI just get Tight-a-gain,\\nThey wink their eye and toddle away.\\nRefrain Oh Peter, Peter kick me, etc.\\nA COSMOPOLITAN CAMP.\\nThere are peculiar characters among the miners. Some\\nare men of superior mental attainments. It is not uncom-\\nmon to meet men who are conversant with many languages.\\n1 employed, as a day laborer, a man who was familiar with\\nboth ancient and modern languages. Upon his complaining\\nof the injustice and thieving propensity of a partner, a fel-\\nlow countryman, a lady present suggested that he resent\\nsuch treatment by threshing the fellow. He turned to her\\nhaughtily and said, Madam, I am a Greek.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nAn Italian boy, whom 1 employed to wash\\nDivine art with r ^J\\nthe dish water. prepare fuel, would accom-\\npany his dish-washing feats with ex-\\nplanations as to the effect of atmosphere about Athenian\\nstatuary, which gives them a life-like appearance, and would\\nspeak familiarly of Mascagni and A erdi, and the overtures\\nand symphonies of classic composers; also discussing the\\npossibilities of life to the possessor of one or of five dollars\\nin Constantinople, Athens, Paris, Tokio or Bombay, as against\\nNew York and Chicago.\\nOne morning in Summer, as I stood in\\nDivine music to u- i i i.\\nthe mountains.\\nward down Dominion Creek, noting the\\nundulating distances and verdure clad, flower bedecked\\nmountain sides, the clear melody of an aria rung out upon\\nthe Summer air, in a well modulated and highly cultivated,\\ntenor voice. The rhythm was maintained true to a possible\\norchestral accompaniment. At the close, miners, who were\\nshovelling on the opposite side of the creek, responded with\\na hearty clapping of hands. I discovered, lying upon the\\nmossy bank, about three hundred feet down the trail, an or-\\ndinary looking man resting upon his pack. He responded\\nwith another song and then arose and passed out of sight?\\nup toward the Great Dome, his pack upon his back.\\nDown in the mines all day, working by\\nDivine melodies i.r, t 1,4. j? i ji t i. ^i.\\nthe light of a smgle candle, is John the\\nSwiss. At evening, when not too tired,\\nhe will come to my cabin with a large accordion, which he\\nowns, and, by a most marvelous execution, will render not\\nonly the most charming Swiss Folk songs and plaintive melo-\\ndies, but classic compositions and the best music of the\\npresent day.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "1 At thp windlass on Gold Bottom creek.\\n2 Placing wood in a mine to make a flre to thaw the frozen\\n^l^ ill^ Tol Z\\\\n?^^^^^^ ground in a mine on Gold Hill.\\nThawing by steam.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "Clean-up on El Dorado. $1,000 In the pan.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "56\\nOne day a queer looking little old man,\\nDivine sentiment j?. li. i\\non the trail wearing a small, soft felt hat with a\\npointed crown, a canvas coat, and with\\ntrousers tucked in his boot tops, came to my cabin and lean-\\ning against the door said, Do you know what is the cun-\\nningest thing in the world? I hesitated a moment, thinking\\nof babies, kittens and dogs, but finally asked, What is the\\ncunningest thing in the world? He continued *I was an-\\ngry this afternoon, I was very angry, I never could fight in\\nall my life. When I went to school the boys all licked me\\nand some of the girls too, but to-day I was mad enough to\\nfight. Ever since I camped here a little grey bird has come\\nabout my tent and I give her crumbs, finally she built a little\\nnest in a space between three rocks. A woman, who lives\\nin a tent near me, found the bird s nest, and when I was\\ngone she carried it away. As soon as I learned where the\\nnest was I went to the woman and told her she must bring it\\nback. I told her the bird was flying about and chirping and\\nthat the nest was hers, the place in the rocks belonged to\\nher and was her claim. The little bird was there before us\\nand we had no right to disturb her. She gave me the nest\\nwith the three little white eggs, and I put it back where it\\nbelonged, and there it lies with the little mother-bird flitting\\nabout come with me and I ll show you the cunningest\\nthing in the world.\\nConversations in miners cabins frequently\\nabounds in recitals of the greatest interest;\\nof travels to remote regions, of incidents\\neither perilous or remarkable, of history, of science, of edu-\\ncation and of religion. I never passed an hour about the\\nstreets in Dawson, or on the trail, that I did not learn some-\\nthing new and valuable to me.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nANOTHER KIND OF MINER,\\nThe success One of the most remarkable characters in\\nof assurance. Northland, aside from its kings, is\\nMcGillygalore, a very spry little miner. His name has been\\ngiven him because of a certain large way he has of doing\\nthings. When he owns wild-cat claims he buys by the hun-\\ndred, and has claims galore. When he does business with-\\nout money, and buys claims without making cash payment\\nhe owns the confidence of the miners, and has friends galore.\\nWhen he mines by machinery, he has steam-thawing plants\\ngalore. When he cannot pay, he has creditors galore, and\\nlawsuits galore. When he does hydraulic mining he removes\\nthe dirt expensively and the pay galore is noticeably absent,\\nbut the other man has the labor bills galore to meet. He\\nhappens to be the double of a man who has a wife and chil-\\ndren outside, so that raises a question of wives and children\\ngalore.\\nThe success When the Cheechargos in 1898 descended\\nof oratory. upon Dawson as a cloud, they discovered\\non a high platform at the farther end of a big tent upon the\\nmain street, and against a large map of all the creeks of the\\ndistrict, two figures known as Punch and Judy. It was never\\nestablished whether Punch acquired his name from some\\nseparate qualification, or merely in order that the little fel-\\nlow might be called Judy. Judy acquired his first literary\\nexperience in exploiting spitballs at school. He was after-\\nward promoted to the role of bill-poster, which gave him an\\nexaggerated opinion of his own importance. Then he met\\nhis destiny in the person of a tall, large, beautiful woman;\\naltogether too tall and large to waste much attention on the\\nlittle fellow, but, in some way or other, she became his.\\nThere is, however, a tremendous debt to nature implied in\\nsuch a combination, and the two are ever trying to palliate", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "57\\nthe disparity by the constant use of the most extreme terms\\nof endearment. They are vegetarians; a proper nourishment\\nfor such verdant efflorescense of affection. Here is one\\nmorning scene that occurred in their Hillside cabin: iShe,\\nOh lover, here is a garnish of condensed milk for your\\nmush.\\nHe Dearest, why will you worry yourself in such anxiety\\nfor my welfare Sweetest, when I bought those frozen eggs,\\nlaid last Augut, it was expressly because I knew you liked\\nsalad. It is my only pleasure, dear, to think of your hap-\\npiness.\\nShe: Lover dear and did you think of me away out in\\nthe cold when I was here at home mending your mocassins?\\nlet me kiss you, da?-ling He: Sweet star that shines\\nfor me alone in this log cabin I cannot eat it is food\\nenough to behold the dainty mush that your sweet hands\\nhas prepared. I ll not devour the plate and spoon, nor long\\nfor meat at two dollars and a half a pound. Let s get the\\nmap, my love, and see where all of our wild-cat claims are\\nlying (the map is spread upon the table). She: Lover\\ndearest, let me find the places on the map. Oh, here is my\\nmansion, and my coach and pair and here a trip to Europe\\nhere are diamonds and fine clothes (He), And all for\\nyou my dearesty sweetestj onliest one! Now let me say good-\\nbye, with kisses all the way down the trail I see the Chee-\\nchargoes are out, they re going to hear me talk, so I must\\naway (She), Oh lor-erl it was the sour dough s swear\\nwords that broke upon the fearful hollow of thine ear be-\\nlieve me, dear, it was no Cheechargo, and you know the\\nsour-dough s will not listen to your talk on mining when\\nthey know that you only recently arose from bill-poster to\\nnews reporter, and from reporter to a miner is a long way\\n(He), Ta-ta so long (She weeping), Sweet-dear-\\nlover-duckie-dar-ling-oh s-w-e-e-t t-h-i-n-g", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nThis conversation is given to illustrate the pitiable strug-\\ngle of romance for an existence in the atmosphere of Dawson.\\nJudy proceeds to the auction room and climbs upon the\\nplatform. Punch is pointing to the map and explaining the\\nformation of the earth, Judy responds by assuring the crowd\\nthat claims on Dedrasted Creek are selling at $25.00 each.\\nIt is an unknown creek. Eldorado was unknown two years\\nago this creek may be another Eldorado. It has never been\\nprospected. No one knows what is in it.\\nSome buy, others go wisely away. Sometimes the little\\nfellow guesses fairly. He loves to talk confidentially to his\\naudience. He cultivates a familiarity in his public talks, in\\ncontrast to the over-dignity of the British officials and busi-\\nness men. One day he ventured to tell his hearers that\\nSwede Creek was staked in Winter, and in Spring they found\\nsluice boxes, left by old miners, which proved that there was\\npay there. A sour-dough in the back part of the audience\\nspoke up, Little fellow, if the old miners went off and left\\nthat creek you need not waste your time trying to convince\\nus it is any good. This broke up the meeting and there\\nwere no sales that day.\\nThe success Perhaps the most stupendous success in the\\nof nerve. whole Yukon country is that which came to\\nanother small miner named Joe Lee. He had big ideas and\\nwas full of big schemes, and an inordinate self-conceit. He\\nstrutted about town and people laughed at his assurance,\\nand at his assumed wisdom in regard to mines. He made a\\npractice of stampeding every little creek, then he would\\nperch himself upon a stake and tell exactly how much beans\\nand bacon, or how many yards of silk, the gold in the pay\\nstreak would buy. People did not regard this trait of Joe s\\nseriously, but he was not discouraged. When he had been\\nobliged to lose all of his wild-cat claims from lack of repre-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "59\\nsentation, and was almost compelled to go outside for want\\nof means to stay, he had a very peculiar experience. The\\nfollowing is according to a lengthy report of it in a Dawson\\npaper. The facts were evidently obtained from Joe, and the\\nEditor is supposed to be in the deal.\\nIt was Fall, the leaves were beginning to\\nturn, the days were becoming shorter, and\\nJoe had reached a dire emergency. In one desperate su-\\npreme effort, before despair or flight, he went up to Grand\\nForks, sat on Gold Hill and ruminated. Jacob s dream was\\na marvel but there were no immediate results. The beauty\\nof Joe s dream was the quick action which followed. He\\nsimply dreamed that the blank claims on Hunker Creek, from\\n38 to 60, are not due, as is supposed by many, to the non-\\nexistence of a pay streak, but that the pay streak, in some\\nway, got up over the mountain and became lost. Joe\\ndreamed where it could be found. There are all sorts of\\nhills, dry gulches, level elevations, bogs, woods and rocks\\nbetween the gold-bearing creeks, but Joe and a friend were\\nable to walk straight to the lost pay streak. They were not\\nrequired to dig, they could, with the toes of their boots, kick\\nup yellow gravel similar to that which usually lies above the\\npay streak. There is a superabundance of this kind of\\ngravel in the Yukon country wherever there is a shortage\\nof muck, and no one knows, or ever will know, how many\\npay streaks have not been uncovered.\\nThis was a sure thing, but how to protect such a gigantic\\ninterest from the interference of the Yukon officials, who\\nmight sneak out and stake it, became a serious problem to\\nJoe and his friend. The friend must now be considered, for\\nhe had the money and Joe the dream. Joe dreamed again^\\nthen went boldly to the Crown surveyor\\nand said, I want some land surveyed for", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60\\na company that wants to get a hydraulic concession. The\\nsurveyor laughed, for he knew his bill for surveying would\\nbe $1500 cash, in advance, and the concession a matter of\\ndelay in dickering with officials at Ottawa. But Joe had not\\ntold all of his dream. Six days were allowed for surveying\\nand then he employed a Dawson street orator to go out, in\\nthe style of ancient Athens, and find among the motly crowd\\none hundred men willing to sell their rights not their birth-\\nrights, which were possibly to work hard for the privilege\\nof seeing how narrowly they could escape starvation, but\\nthe right the British Government allowed them of staking\\none claim in each district. In this case also he used the\\nconcession mind-cure. The syndicate wished to secure the\\nmine without delay and preferred to stake it. Dewey s\\nConquest of Manila was nothing compared to Joe s valorous\\nadvance with his army upon the unstaked ground, and his\\ntriumphant return with his men, who were doing the act for\\nthe sum of $35 each, not for glory. Joe was not safe until\\nhe had passed the official guns and looked down their muz-\\nzles, but this he did boldly, convincing the officials that he\\nhad been out after a hydraulic reserve. He might succeed\\nin fixing up a reserve, but the watchful recorder took the\\n$1500 in fees for recording, unmindful of where the lost pay\\nstreak might be, or that each piece of paper at $15 might\\nbe just 250 feet square of that pay streak. Joe paid the\\nBritish Government $4000. His army of men, who had\\nstaked and claimed the ground, received $3000. Joe and\\nhis friend own about a hundred claims. They have seen\\nthe yellow sand, but they have not seen the pay streak.\\nThey do not even know how deep it is, or what it averages to\\nthe pan. They say they know they have one million dollars\\nin the scheme, all as the result of a dream, backed by the\\nexpenditure of $7000 in money. This illustrates the", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "1. t.uiu iliii.-(u i^ the Grand Forks Hotel buili :.I....^ Mulrooney.\\nShe derived |5U.i)UU profit from the bar and bunks and restaurant during\\nthe Winter of 97- 98.\\n2. View of Grand Forks from Gold Hill showing (1) Grand Forks Hotel.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "X. Street scene in Dawson.\\n2. Showing crowd about the door of the Recorder\\noffice, waiting to\\nbe admitted, a few at a time, to record claims. Men have waited three\\ndays in line to gain admission. The next building is the Canadian Bank\\nof Commerce.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "63\\nchances of a mining camp, and shows how fortunes may be\\nmade or lost, and how the very boldness of a scheme, as the\\nDawson paper states, wins a sure success. It was but four-\\nteen days from the dream on Gold Hill to the triumphal\\nmarch past the official muzzles. The world can laugh no\\nlonger at Joe; he has done what neither capital nor expert\\nability could do, or would dare attempt.\\nThe only In the early days of the Klondyke excite-\\nCasey ment a printer s boy named Casey, in one\\nof the coast cities outside, decided that he would not be a\\ndevil any longer, but would embark in business for himself.\\nHe bought a barrel of mineral water and started northward,\\nventuring the uncertain feat of having the barrel dropped\\noverboard opposite Juneau and of rescuing and towing it\\nashore, by means of a canoe, during the night, to avoid an\\nunprofitable interview with the Custom oflicer. The venture\\nsucceeded, as did other similar ventures, until one day the\\nofficials became aggressive in their efforts to interview\\nCasey, when he was compelled to drop into the water\\nbetween the ship and the Treadwell Dock, at Douglas Island.\\nCasey clung to a post until, chilled by the cold water, he\\nwas almost exhausted. He managed to attract the atten-\\ntion of the occupants of a passing boat, and was rescued.\\nHe then decided to change his business. It was warm Sum-\\nmer weather and Juneau was without ice. Casey made a\\ntrip to a glacier a few miles distant, in a small boat, bring-\\ning a few hundred pounds of ice back to the town. He\\ncarried the ice about in a wheel barrow, and transacted busi-\\nness under a sign bearing this inscription: Casey, Ice\\nDealer. Ice by the pound, ton or berg. Casey soon\\naccumulated sufficient means to enable him to go to Dawson,\\nwhere he succeeded in making a good living, but he did not\\nacquire a fortune until one day a King of the Klondyke told", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64\\nhim he would give ten thousand dollars for a certain claim\\non Dominion, commissioning Casey to act as broker in the\\nmatter. Casey bought the claim for seven thousand dollars,\\nthus making three thousand dollars in a day. He sub-\\nsequently married an estimable young lady. Casey, upon\\nthe occasion of meeting an old friend, concluded the recital\\nof these remarkable experiences in his life as follows:\\nWhen I closed that deal with Mac I felt good. I had\\nthree thousand dollars. More money than I ever had before.\\nI tell you the flame that old Nero kindled in Rome wasn t a\\ncandle-light to the illumination that I started in Dawson\\nthat night. At four o clock the next morning I was full and\\nhadn t a cent. However I pulled myself together and got\\na job at the Aurora. One day I saw the girl who is now my\\nwife walking in company with some people whom I knew.\\nI wanted to meet her, so I watched my chance and got an\\nintroduction, and afterwards called on her. I just did my\\nbest, but I don t see how she ever had me. She is so much\\nbetter than I am, and so much above me, that words don t\\nexpress it. She is pure gold and I am like pig iron. One is\\ndear by the ounce and the other is cheap by the ton.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "o 2\\n\u00c2\u00a33 P,\\nWd\\n5 5", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "THE DANCE HALL GIRL\\nDance hall girls on the Chilkoot trail stampeding to Dawson.\\nShe knows The habits of the Northern dance-hall girls\\nthe men. afford a most striking study of the Scarlet\\nLife. These girls possess a wisdom that is worthy of exer-\\ncise in a better cause. In the game of living chess it may\\nrequire ability to corner, to jump or to vanquish kings, but\\nit necessitates a crude sort of finessing to secure a peaceful\\nand undisputed possession of their kingdoms. Dance-hall\\ngirls are not necessarily entertaining in conversation. They\\nare seldom beautiful or well-dressed, but they are thoroughly\\nversed in all the details of their business, which is to use the\\nsecret knowledge which they possess as to the possibilities\\nof these men, to their own advantage financially. Watch\\none of them in her natural environment, the saloon, the\\ndance hall and bar room. She is all nerve as she enters a\\nroom and surveys the waiting crowd.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "67\\nShe chooses The elderly man leans back in his chair and\\nhim. displaying a heavy gold watch chain,\\nLooks good to her. Hootalink Hal has on new knicker-\\nbockers and plaid golf hose; as he leans against the bar she\\nknows he is posing for her admiration. The fellow in muck,\\na-lucks and overalls, with a red sweater and cap, would give\\nhis last nugget if she would but go to the bar and drink with\\nhim. Texas Harry, with the blue shirt and white tie, will be\\nlonesome and disappointed if she ignores him. There is Jim,\\nwith his brown coat and brass buttons, lounging on the bal-\\ncony railing with a cigar in his mouth; but he is waiting for\\nLittle Annie who has not yet arrived. The dance-hall girl\\nis always prompt to act. There is absolutely nothing to fear.\\nShe will meet no repulse. The elderly man with the watch\\nchain need not wait long. She is soon favoring him with\\nflattering attentions. He is seated in the middle of the room\\nand the men who have not been marked for attention gravi-\\ntate to the sides, where they stand as wall fl )wers and look\\nlonesome. The M. P. now has his arm about the waist of\\nAnnie, who seems not averse to such a lover-like demonstra-\\ntion. The love scene of a farce is being played upon the\\nstage, but its action pales to insignificance when compared\\nwith this real life, although Dawson s stage exhibitions are\\nin themselves no ordinary entertainments. One large, fat\\ngirl, dressed like a French doll, in a gay-colored pinafore\\nreaching to her knees, and with black stockings and red slip-\\npers, her hair hanging in short, knotty curls, sits on a small\\ntable swinging her feet, and claiming the\\nattention of two admirers sitting on either\\nside. Her bare right arm is about the neck\\nof one, while with her left hand she pats the cheek of the\\nother, and the two men note each shade of difference in her\\nattentions with all the ardor of race-track fiends watching", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "their favorite horses in a fairly equal race. The dance-hall\\ngirl is industrious. She is Inever vacillating or undecided;\\nshe is persevering. She does not flit about the room bestow-\\ning a smile here, a caress there and again a pouting neglect.\\nWhen she selects her victim she stays with him. The more\\nmarked her favor the greater is his triumph, he does not\\nadmire her; he does not love her; He needs her to complete\\na spectacle of himself as a favored beau.\\nThe play is over and the floor is cleared for dancing.\\nThe crier calls for recruits, as the salary of the musicians is\\naccumulating. The elderly man pays a dollar for a ticket\\nand tries one waltz with the girl who is yet in his possession.\\nCI. Afterwards he takes her to the bar and\\nbne perseveres.\\norders drinks amountmg to two dollars; the\\nbarkeeper gives the girl a check for one-quarter of that\\namount. This is where her income begins, and is the sweet\\nreward of all her labor and her care. If she has wisely\\nselected a victim, possessing more appetite than agility, she\\ncan easily land him in a box, where the exercise of dancing\\nwill be uncalled for. The beginning of a box-experience is\\nthe most difficult for a dance-hall girl, but after a few visits\\nof the waiter, champagne flows freely. The girl is always\\nself-possessed, and when her victim is a little confused from\\nwine she is all tact. She orders more wine. The waiter\\nbrings the glasses filled, also a bottle half empty, upon a\\ntray. He places the glasses upon the table and the girl bids\\nhim take himself off without loss of time. The victim\\ndrinks, not observing the girl s glass is full\\nThe wflit.er\\nI of ice, and forgetting the unused wine in the\\nbottle the waiter carried away, and which\\nis duly charged to him at the rate of fifteen dollars a bottle.\\nA lively conversation ensues, and the seemingly thirsty girl\\ncalls for a new bottle of wine. The same scene is re-enacted", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HMT. NAS4y?;HDt ftKVV TOR tttl,%X.\u00c2\u00bbl!.m\\nOrlSKVNSQH 0\u00c2\u00abT=\\nhi -i", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "^^^..m^^^^^^^m-\\n^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0gnB m\\np 3\\nM\\n^hI\\n1\\nw\u00c2\u00ab^ iiii^iff tb\\n^^H\\n^^BlB\\nI^^^^B^^jl\\nH[\\n^H\\n^mjl^^^. ^j^^^^^l\\n^E\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0H\\nB\\n^^^bP^^^^H\\n,i,iiiiiiiiiiiiff\\n1 ^....^^^tffliMHH\\nHL\\n-^Hw _", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "71\\nwith the waiter. The victim is charged over and over again\\nwith the same bottle of wine, and the girl of genius has her\\npocket full of checks. The night passes in revelry, but the\\nvictim is the only one that revels. The waiter attends\\nstrictly to accounting the few bottles of wine really used\\nand the many empty empty ones, or dead men, served as\\nnew bottles. The girl, and and each and every one of her,\\nin all the dance-halls and theatres, never overlooks the\\nchecks. As morning dawns the victim is easily transported\\nfrom the box to a restaurant, where this dance-hall genius\\nshines in a new role. The victim is lured into a private stall\\nor box where the waiter appears to take their order. The\\ncharmed one tosses a bill of fare to the girl, saying Order\\nwhat you like, and the same for me. This is a welcome priv-\\nilege, and she orders, as near as possible, the whole bill of\\nfare. It contains scarcely an item less than one dollar in\\nprice. The man pays the bill and she gets the checks just\\nthe same at the bar. In a few instances the girls are entirely\\nfree from further complications than the public demonstra-\\ntions I have described. In such cases they are not success-\\nful financially. To lead a victim into an extravagont expen-\\nditure of money usually requires promise and a very flexible\\ncompromising social etiquette. Tbe man recovers his head\\nHe s better now drunk to ever know\\njust how foolish he had been. However, if\\nhe had not been worked by the girl who was sober, he would\\nhave been with drunken companions and his money would\\nhave disappeared. The victims are, in turn, of every grade,\\neven to men of the highest social, business and official stand-\\ning. Inquiry as to why men crave to take part in such pub-\\nlic exhibitions resulted in the statement, by the demi-monde\\nthemselves, that these men consider it a mark of distinction\\nto be caressed by women in public. They like to have other", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72\\nmen see them thus honored! A back door\\nThey are so entrance to a saloon or a disreputable\\nhouse would be unused in Dawson. Men of\\nhigh standing walk upon the streets with women of easy vir-\\ntue, and talk with them in public places. The ordinary crowd\\nmust give way to these women in banks, offices and stores.\\nThe lack these men feel of home surround-\\nThey are so suitable female companionship,\\nmay augment the opportunities of the\\ndance-hall girl, but her victims are seldom, if ever, influenced\\nby a feeling of affection for her. A true solution of the\\nproblem is, without doubt, that an atmosphere of vice and of\\nlicense exists in Dawson which amounts to contagion, and,\\nunder its influence, men are not really themselves. Vice, in\\nits over-power, exercises a hypnotic influence that paralyzes\\nthe judgment and neutralizes the more refined tastes. This\\nis proven by the fact that some men do publicly in Dawson\\nwhat they could not be induced to do privately outside.\\nSteamers have stood at their wharves in Dawson, their decks\\ndisgraced by conduct on the part of departing passengers\\nwhich the same persons would disavow outside. The same\\nh ff ^^owd would land in Seattle with utmost\\ndecorum. No one would there be stricken\\nby any misgiving or have any regrets to restrain, but all\\nwould be removed from the atmosphere of extreme vice that\\nstimulated them to improper demonstrations in Dawson;\\nentering upon the changed atmosphere of Seattle restored\\nthem in a degree to a normal condition.\\nJust how far reaching the effect of the Scarlet Life will\\nbe, no one has attempted to prophesy. It would not seem\\nunreasonable to say that some taint of its effect will con-\\ntinue throughout the lives of those who have come under its\\ninfluence. There are women of all classes in Dawson. A", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "?3\\nfew men have brought their real wives from the outside.\\nSome are living with women who are not their wives but they\\nacknowledge them as such. Many men\\nThcv rc sorn6\\nconsort with women whom they call house-\\ntimes mixed. rt 1\\nkeepers or cooks, beveral men, livmg in\\none cabin out on the creeks, or in town, often hire one cook.\\nHousekeepers and cooks sometimes live honorably and some-\\ntimes they do not. Girls and women are often enticed, by\\nfriendly overtures on the part of miners, to go out on the\\ncreeks as cooks and housekeepers, expecting a share of the\\ngold cleaned up. After working hard for many months they\\nget little or nothing and find that they have been deceived.\\nOccasionally a girl or woman becomes a favored guest in a\\nminer s cabin, and is waited upon carefully by the miner and\\nrewarded reasonably at the clean up. In some cases the\\ngain is secured by shrewd management on the part of the\\nwoman that amounts to downright robbery and treachery,\\nbut there are very few women who have\\nprofited at the hands of miners after a con-\\ners then.\\ntmued relation. If a man spends ten dol-\\nlars in entertaining a woman, he usually reports that he has\\nspent fifty. The public women are poorly paid, and are at\\ntheir wits end to devise means of avoiding the impositions of\\nmen who are their patrons. They are the easy prey of the\\ntrades people, and a source of great revenue to the govern-\\nment, as they are subject to a tax of twenty dollars a month\\nfor physicians fees. They establish themselves in one quar-\\nter of the town, and when business houses spring up about\\nthem, the government passes a law removing them to the\\ncenter of a vacant district. Landlords hasten hither to se-\\ncure the lots and to build houses, which they rent them at\\nexhorbitant prices. Business houses are built in the new\\nneighborhood and the Crown vacant property is sold. It is", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74\\nestimated that the Crown realizes about a hundred thousand\\ndollars a year from physicians fees alone,\\ntheir fines service ordered to public women.\\nThese women are seldom arrested, except\\nregularly about once a month, when they are fined fifty-six\\ndollars each. They seem to be favored by the Government\\nofficials in staking, recording and holding claims. Two sisters\\nrobbed a man of eight thousand dollars, but they escaped\\npunishment by restoring part of the money and leaving the\\ncountry. Their crime was counted less than that of an hon-\\nest married pair who appropriated, on the trail, a rag from\\nan abandoned tent. They were sentenced to eighteen\\nmonths imprisonment with hard labor for that offense.\\nIn May and June, when the dumps are\\nsluiced, and the gold clean-up is in prog-\\nress, these women migrate to the creeks.\\nThe road houses are well supplied with whiskey, and large\\ntents are erected in convenient places for dance-halls. On\\nthe Queen s Birthday, 99, a man who is well known, and has\\na family in one of the coast cities outside, brought\\neleven prostitutes over the Great Dome, on pack horses, to\\na road house near Upper Discovery on Dominion Creek, about\\nforty miles from Dawson. That night four thousand dollars\\nwere taken in at the bar and the festivities continued during\\nthe next day and night. A girl whom I will call Flossie,\\nalone, carried five hundred dollars in Dominion gold back to\\nDawson. Men are cruel in their persecutions of these\\nwomen, and seem to delight in cursing and ridiculing them\\npublicly when they have exhausted all other means of amuse-\\nment. So bitter is the punishment meted out to them that\\nthe poor, degraded creatures break down and cry when\\nscorned by men who have been parties to their ruin. They\\nspend their money for gay apparel, seldom reserving any", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "1. Weighing gold in the Aurora.\\n2. A C. Co. s department store, showing the Monte Carlo in the\\ndistance", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "1, Oshiwora.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Dawson White chapel.\\n2. Dawson banquet table. The first man at the right-Lee an\\nEldorado king, spent $1,200 at this banquet.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "77\\npart of it as a means of support in case of illness. Suicide\\noften ends these lives so full of hard experiences and keen\\nregret. The hillside above Dawson is dotted over with\\ngraves of these unfortunates who have died of disease and\\nby their own hand.\\nWhen the population of Dawson was estimated at 25,000\\nthe demi monde numbered about 400. Their red curtained\\ncabins were upon the principal business streets. During the\\nWinter of 98 99 they were by official edict retired to\\nFourth and Fifth Avenues, back of the center of the town.\\nEach one occupies a little house twelve feet wide on the\\nstreet and extending back twenty, thirty, or forty feet.\\nThe walls of the houses are covered with cloth and papered\\nwith wall paper. Lace curtains, rugs, and pictures complete\\nthe furnishings. The houses are unpainted and are erected\\nby the occupants at a cost of about $800. The women are\\ncompelled to pay $30 a month rent for each narrow lot.\\nThey are kind to each other in case of sickness or mis-\\nfortune in a seeming effort to avert the chilling effect of\\nthe coldness of the world.\\nThe district occupied by them is called Oshiwora, or the\\nDawson Whitechapel.\\nMACQUES\\nThe acme of vice in Dawson is represented\\ne acques evolution of a small army of men\\narc viiG\u00c2\u00ab\\nknown as Macques. These attach them-\\nselves to disreputable woman for the purpose of acquiring\\nan easy living from their earnings. If they are lovers they\\nare also hard masters. When a Macque once obtains author-\\nity in the life and affairs of a woman, he takes possession of\\nher earnings and uses them for gambling, or for his own\\nneeds. He watches his victim that she does not escape, and\\nhe chides her and restricts her in her movements to suit his", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78\\nfancy. The Macque sometimes solicits patronage for her.\\nThe woman is his slave, and she seldom escapes from his per-\\nsistent grasp.\\nThe honest wife in Dawson is unnoticed and forgot. The\\npretended wife of a man who is otherwise married is hardly\\na public affair; the woman grafter is a triumph of greed;\\nthe well dressed prostitute posing as a society woman is a\\npitiable fraud; the public woman is usually the one who suf-\\nfers most from her acts of vice. Drunkards are low in the\\nmoral scale, but the Macque stands pre-eminently the vilest\\nemanation of the vilest essence of the vilest place on earth.\\nHistory, both sacred and profane, has ac-\\ncorded to woman a capacity for lowest\\nworst.\\ndegredation. Partly on account of the\\nhigher elevation on which she stands, making a greater con-\\ntrast to her depth of shame if she falls, and partly because\\nit seems more vile to sin for money than from passion. But\\nit has been demonstrated in Dawson that the level which up-\\nbore woman, in her most hopelessly submerged condition,\\nwas only the muck on the surface of vileness, and down\\nthrough a depth of gravel, far, far beneath, on the solid bed-\\nrock, and working in the pay streak, was the Macque.\\nThus does crime and Scarlet vice bask in the sunlight of\\nDawson, the beautiful Northland Metropolis.\\nA sad phase of this life is the fate of the\\nrospec ing or j-ggp^g^^ble middle-aged women, who came\\nto the Yukon expecting to marry rich\\nminers, but only to find that rich miners seek wives either\\nin the dance-hall society or outside. These women have\\nstruggled hard, amid great privations, to even sustain life.\\nThey have done laundry work and have become cooks in\\nroad houses, or in miners cabins, some have been more un-\\nfortunate.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "79\\nT. jr The saddest phase of the Scarlet life is the\\nI hey were false.\\nseparations which have occuired in respec-\\ntable families. In many instances men who have acquired\\nwealth have cast aside their plain middle-aged wives, who\\nhave shared their struggles in poverty, and have married\\nyounger and more showy women. A Hunker miner went\\noutside and secured a divorce and married a younger woman\\nhis original wife remained and supported herself by keep-\\ning a road house. A venerable, gray-haired man, connected\\nwith one of the great companies, secured $100,000 as his\\nprivate fortune while engaged in manipulating the com-\\npany s affairs. He was living in a cabin with a young girl\\nas housekeeper, when his aged wife arrived, quite ignorant\\nof the condition of affairs. He promptly sent his wife\\nmoney and told her not to leave the steamer but to return to\\nthe outside, which she did.\\nAn old farmer and his wife, from one of\\n^I2QQ the Eastern States, came to the Klondyke\\nin the hope of making enough money to\\npay off a $1500 mortgage on their farm. The couple made\\n$1200 in a road house during the winter of 98 -99. In the\\nspring the woman was enticed away by a worthless man, who\\ngained possession of the money, which she took with her,\\nand at once deserted her and she was abandoned to a life of\\nvice.\\nA young couple from a city in the Eastern\\nHe wds\\nStates came to Dawson in search of fortune.\\nThe wife was employed as housekeeper in\\nthe cabin of some prominent business men who are very\\nnear to official circles; the husband had other employment.\\nThe wife was given carte hlanrke in the affairs of the cabin\\nas to expense. The husband soon left for the outside,\\nbroken-hearted; the wife explained that she had decided", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80\\nthat she would not live with him any longer that he was\\nashamed of such things and had gone. Her reign in the\\ncabin of the men of high social and business standing will\\nsoon be over and she will be abandoned to her fate; which\\nmay be in a descending scale toward lower grades of soci-\\nety.\\nA respectable, middle-aged woman is seek-\\ntoo o\\\\a\\\\n employment as a laundress, while her\\nwealthy husband, who cast her out, is liv-\\ning in all the luxury that his newly acquired wealth can\\nafford.\\nTheir prey. Young men of high social standing, but\\nunfortunate financially, are open to the\\ntemptation of becoming dependants or macques of disrepu-\\ntable women who have money.\\nThus does the Scarlet Life hold for each one a possible\\nplace as the master or maker of vice, or as its victim.\\nNoble lives No th withstanding this fact, out upon every\\ntrail I have met men, often bearing heavy\\nburdens, who, as they sat upon the ground or against a tree\\nto rest, would refer to wife and family outside, and, as they\\nrelated their hard struggles and bitter disappointments^\\ntears would fall and it wag easily perceived that they were\\nnot open to the influence of vice.\\nSeveral instances of this kind so impressed me that I\\nhave written them in short stories.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "i^\\nParka of asbestos-tanned sheepskin lined with silesia, with mittens and\\nmoccasiLS, the costume I wore during winter in Dawson, being sufficient\\nprotection from cold ranging from 20\u00c2\u00b0 to 60\u00c2\u00b0 below zero. L. B. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "The Yukon British Debtors Prison\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Midnigbt Dome to\\nthe right of the flag; the Moosehead Mountain and Slide to the left.\\nDawson is below. L- B. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "83\\nIN A YIKON BRITISH DEBTORS PRISON.\\nI was proudly free my freedom was the\\nonly thing of which I ever boasted. When\\nI had wealth and every prospect of success, and I met on the\\nstreet, in offices, or in places of business, friends who might\\ninquire, Well Mrs. V., how is everything going to-day? it\\nwas my habit to answer, Thank you Mr I am welL\\n1 am happy and I am free. I aimed to be free from selfishness\\nand from envy, free from the power of those who would ex-\\nhibit vicious tendencies. I tried to live free in the enjoy-\\nment of life s best gifts, and superior to its ills and misfor-\\ntunes.\\nI chose It was a pleasure for me to realize that I\\nmy way. ^ould choose my hour for rising, the hour\\nand place for dining, and my every occupation. I could buy\\nmaterial possessions with gold, and I could sell my possess-\\nions for gold, but my sack was soon forgotten in its hiding-\\nplace. The flattering attention of friends to me, I knew\\nwould soon be merged in flattering attentions to others. The\\nromance of my life is a sad, sweet memory. So I came to\\nvalue the resources of self, in making a new life and happi-\\nness of various conditions that existed in my surroundings^\\nand to have a realizing sense of a personal freedom that sur-\\nrounded me as an atmosphere, the inspirations of which be-\\ncame as an elixir of life.\\nThey took Some months before, I had lost my all\\nmy all. through a legal robbery. Previous to that,\\nin the Autumn before, (September 1898,) I had laid the foun-\\ndation from which new persecutions were to arise, in a busi-\\nness transaction, in which the only gain I expected was to\\ntransfer a few thousand dollars of outside money to my pres-\\nent location.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84\\nAn unfortunate man appealed to me in\\ngreat distress. Nature had permitted an\\nawful menace to his freedom in a constantly recurring epi-\\nlepsy. He had allied himself with a cruel partner, who had\\nwronged him grievously, and creditors were out on every\\ntrail. He had a mine just prospected enough to prove it\\nhad rich pay. He implored me to take the property at any\\nprice, and upon any terms, only to give him money to go\\noutside, as that alone would save his life. I did not care to\\nbuy the property at what I considered the high valuation of\\ntwelve or fifteen thousand dollars for a half interest, neither\\ndid I care to force the unfortunate man to what might prove\\na wanton sacrifice of a valuable interest, as he believed the\\nproperty worth $20,000 for a half interest. So I agreed to\\nadvance him some money on the property, taking a deed of\\nit as security. He proposed that if I would increase the\\namount to four thousand dollars, and would use the proceeds\\nof the mine, which was being worked, and which he guaran-\\nteed would amount to two or three three thousand dollars\\nbefore winter, in paying the most importunate of his credi-\\ntors, that he would take the four thousand dollars and go to\\nLondon and would sell a list of unproved claims, which he\\nowned, at a profit of about sixty thousand dollars, and upon\\nhis return would divide the proceeds of the transaction with\\nme, and would take the claim and pay me all I had invested.\\nHe had spent the previous winter in London, and showed let-\\nters from responsible persons who seemed to be willing to\\ntake the unproved claims. I neither expected nor depended\\nupon profits from so uncertain a source, but I did expect to\\nhave my money returned to me at the clean-up, and I did not\\nanticipate any inroads upon my personal funds to satisfy his\\ncreditors. I was not legally bound to pay those debts. This\\nman, whom I will call Lyle, can neither read nor write, ex-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "85\\ncept to sign his name, and the papers and legal documents\\nsigned upon this occasion were drawn by myself, and he\\nsigned them without having them examined by any other per-\\nson; which, to me, seemed an indisputable evidence of good\\nfaith, and disarmed my judgment as to necessary precautions.\\nAnd then Lyle magnified his need, until the four\\nhe hoped. thousand granted became five thousand five\\nhundred, and then he made a lease of one hundred feet of the\\nclaim to a friend, who advanced one thousand dollars, which\\nwas paid to Lyle, making six thousand five hundred dollars,\\nwhich Lyle carried outside with him, part of which, how-\\never, consisted of my personal cheques on banks outside.\\nIn order to give him credit abroad, Lyle desired to have the\\none-half interest in the claim appear on the record as twenty\\nthousand dollars, its true value according to his estimate,\\nand asked to have me make a note for fourteen thousand\\ndollars secured by mortgage on the one-half interest, which\\nwould show the transaction consistent, in his abstracts. The\\nmortgage was not made a claim on the dumps and was not\\ndue until July 14th, which is after the clean-up. This also\\ndisarmed suspicion on my part. Lyle s original intention\\nwas to fulfill his agreement. The five hundred dollars that\\nhe had in excess of the recorded price of twenty thousand\\ndollars, was not credited on the mortgage note. Lyle\\nhad stated that the claim was three hundred feet in length,\\nbut, when measured to assign the ground to different laymen,\\nthe claim proved to be but two hundred and seventy feet in\\nlength, so that the price was far in excess of prevailing\\nprices for full claims on Dominion Creek, mid-way between\\nthe discoveries, either at that time or since. Although the\\nclaim afterwards proved very rich, and worth $20,000 for a\\nhalf interest, it was not in time to avert the sacrifice to me.\\nIt was known in time to have enabled Lyle to protect me\\nand to gain several thousand dollars to his own interest.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "Twas better After the signing of the papers with Lyle,\\nthen. jjj tjjjg transaction, Lyle informed his cred-\\nitors that he had made arrrangements with me to pay the\\nclaims, and at once departed on an up river steamer for the\\noutside. The next day a messenger came from the mines\\nwith information that work was suspended. As water had\\npenetrated to the drift, further work was impossible until\\nwinter. Very soon Lyle s creditors came. They were men\\nwho had been doing representation work upon the unproved\\nclaims, and their demands were imperative. Legal proceed-\\nings would involve Lyle s property and would ruin him. I\\nalso discovered that if I refused to pay these men they\\nwould report upon the streets that I owed them, and could\\nor would not pay them, not explaining that the debts were\\nLyle s and not mine. He had told them that he left means\\nwith me to pay. To avoid injury to my own credit and bus-\\niness, 1 paid these debts at a cost of two thousand dollars,\\nand at a great sacrifice. This was what caused my lack of\\nresource in meeting labor claims later, which were precipi-\\ntated upon me suddenly, in violation of a direct agreement\\nby these men to wait for their wages until the clean-up.\\nThey did When my outfit and belongings had been\\nnot know. taken away from me in February, my em-\\nployees had ignored the Dominion claim and had repudiated\\nit on account of the fourteen thousand dollar mortgage\\nwhich appeared on the record. They did not learn of my\\nconditional agreement with Lyle, and the property was left\\nundisturbed, especially as during the winter the laymen on\\nthe claim had reported very unsatisfactory prospects. The\\namount necessary to provide for my expenses on a trip to\\nDominion, and for a stay during the clean-up, with wages\\nnecessary for a competent man to look after the work, was\\nfully twelve hundred dollars. I was absolutely without", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "87\\nmeans. Having learned, by a severe experience, the danger\\nof incurring labor debts, I decided not to attempt to incur\\ndebt on this account. It became a question as to either\\nabandoning the property, or of making an attempt to sell,\\nsubject to my agreement with Lyle. I found that to be al-\\nmost impossible. Business men usually assumed that Lyle\\nwould come in over the ice, as I had sent letters and tele-\\ngrams to him, advising him of my business difficulties. They\\nalso believed that, as I had no adequate means of compelling\\nLyle to fulfil his agreement with me, Lyle would take an un-\\nfair advantage. The mortgage did not compel a transfer to\\nLyle of the proceeds of the dumps, and it was not due until\\nJuly 14th, which was after sluicing time. It was a mortgage\\non the claim, but it was assumed by business men that Lyle\u00c2\u00bb\\nupon his arrival, and by the aid of a resourceful lawyer,\\nwould obtain possession of the property, by attachment, or\\ninjunction, or some other process, available in the Yukon\\nterritory when disputes arise as to property, and would re-\\nfuse to pay labor bills or to make a just settlement. I finally,\\nby representing strongly that Lyle would make a fair settle-\\nment, as I believed he would, sold the property to an honor-\\nable man, subject to my agreement with Lyle. The con-\\nsideration, under the circumstances, was small, especially as\\nthe laymen reported a clean-up of possibly but six or eight\\nthousand dollars. The new owner B incurred the expense of a\\ntrip to Dominion, and a stay of nine weeks for the clean-up.\\nI went to represent Lyle s interest, giving my time in ac-\\ncounting. The amount cleaned up was, to my surprise, about\\nthirty-two thousand dollars, one half of\\nayman s ^^ich was retained by the laymen, ten per\\ncent was paid in royalties to the govern-\\nment, and two thousand dollars of the owner s share was\\nreturned to the laymen who had advanced that amount.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88\\nWhen Lyle returned after the clean-up, instead of coming to\\nme to learn the condition of his business, he went to lawyer\\nGrillem, the same lawyer who had acted for my former em-\\nployees. What Grillem told Lyle no one will ever know, but,\\nas a result, Lyle came to Dominion and made a very impos-\\ning entrance into my cabin in company with two witnesses.\\nThey seated themselves upon boxes, one at either side, and\\none directly in front of me. Lyle spoke as follows: I\\nwant you to pay me nine thousand dollars.\\nof Lvie claims in London for sev-\\nenty-five thousand dollars. The claims in-\\nclude a quartz claim back in Juneau, and I need nine thousand\\ndollars to pay for the quartz claim, when I will go to Seattle\\nand transfer the property, and get my money, and bring you\\nback your thirty thousand dollars profit, or I want to know\\nwhether you will take wages for what you have done in look-\\ning after my business, or an interest in my profits. I was\\ntoo much surprised to give a rational reply, but asked the\\nwitnesses to withdraw as I had no business with them. I\\nthen asked Lyle if he had contracts that he could show, or\\nif his English clients had deposited money, but he replied,\\nNo, I had to come back to see if the property was all\\nright. I asked him to take the Dominion claim and settle\\nwith the man to whom I had transferred it, according to his\\nagreement with me, but he left the cabin without replying.\\nNext morning he proceeded to the police\\nNow Lyle i\\ncommands station, about a mile distant, and soon I\\nwas requested by a written message from\\nthe Captain of the M. P., sent by a private messenger, to\\ncome to headquarters. Lyle was there and proposed to\\narrest me. I had no one to advise me, but I asked the cap-\\ntain to do me the justice of requiring from Lyle a state-\\nment, under oath, of some charge against me by which I", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "could legally be arrested. The captain asked Lyle if he\\ncould sign such a document, when Lyle answered, Til sign\\nanything, go on and make out the papers. I was excused\\nfrom the room, but for some reason no charge was made. I\\nwas required to wait several hours, or until about 4 p. m.,\\nafter which hour I started to go to Dawson, walking thirty\\nmiles to the mouth of Hunker Creek, and\\nreaching my cabin in Dawson before eve-\\nning the next day. Legal advice, and the\\nefforts of friends, failed to effect any settlement or concili-\\nation. It transpired that Grillem could only advise Lyle that\\nmy note for fourteen thousand dollars to him was an appar-\\nent evidence of debt. The capias law made it a crime for a\\ndebtor to leave the country. If I would but attempt to leave\\nthe country, I could be arrested and imprisoned. Bonds\\ncould be exacted which would make the bondsmen respon-\\nsible for the debt. If the bonds were not forthcoming, I\\ncould be held one year in prison until the authorities were\\nsatisfied that I had no means with which to pay, and that no\\none would assist me.\\nA crime Their only hope was that I w^ould attempt\\nto leave. to leave the country, giving them the op-\\nportunity to arrest me. They watched and they waited,\\nhoping that I would dare this pitfall on a hidden trail, but I\\ncould not go from lack of means. So intense was their\\ndesire that they concluded to forego the necessary evidence\\nand assume that I was going. Lyle found two friends, one\\nto whom he afterwards transferred a half interest in a Creek\\nclaim on Upper Bonanza, and another one, a man whom I will\\ncall Soy, a former layman on the property, who was soon\\nafterwards in possession of the Dominion claim, who signed\\nfalse statements that I was about to leave the country.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90\\nAnd Dpr*iirv incurred no responsibility and made\\nno oath, but gave an information as to\\nwhat the others said. The judge issued them their capias\\nand assigned to their service a constable.\\nOn a warm, sunny afternoon in June, I was sitting in my\\ncabin writing; free, despite the misfortunes I had sustained,\\nand thinking of home and native land, and how, from lack\\nof means, I was powerless to take a step thitherward.\\nI called, Come in, in answer to a knock at the door^\\nwhen Constable S. entered. He had a war-\\nrant for my arrest. My right of freedom\\nhad been sworn away in perjury. To prison\\nI must go because a man had averred that I intended to\\nleave the country.\\nGracious heaven! that America should be\\nsuch a fossized civilization! Why did she\\nnot invest me as a criminal for coming here? But no, I had\\nbeen permitted to take my good twenty-five thousand Ameri-\\ncan dollars and spend them in an outfit. I had paid duties to\\nthe Yukon British; 1 had paid my license and all dues and\\nexpenses; I had submitted to legal extortion and had lost\\nall; I had lost about nine thousand dollars on the Dominion\\nclaim. Though having produced $32,000, the claim was at\\nthat time considered by many to be but prospected, the\\nbulk of the gold being already in the mine, the mortgage\\nshould be better security than to menace the freedom of a\\nwoman already almost dependent upon charity for a living.\\nThe lawyers Lawyers were directing Lyle s attention to\\nwanted it. me, to punish, reserving the claim for\\nthemselves for profit. Lyle could have obtained possession\\nof the claim forcibly, by allowing the balance due me above\\nwhat the new owner had received, then not over $5,000, and\\nhe might have compromised for less. Lyle could have sold a", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "1 1\\nC en;", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "Upper half of No. 1 shows a bank of the Klondyke where I slept without\\nshelter; lower half, Bonanza Trail where I was thrown from a pack-horse.\\nNo. 2 shows the same pack-horse upon the Bonanza Trail near the Klondyke\\nferry. No. 3 was taken as I was returning from a sketching trip across a\\nbridge over Dominion Creek. No. 4 shows ice 15 ft. thick at No, 14 Dominion\\ncaused by continual flow of water in winter from a soda spring. No. 5 is a\\nview of a log cabin near the catholic church in Dawson, for which I paid $60\\nper month rent. No. 6 was taken as I was standing upon a pile of logs In\\nKlondyke City to obtain a view of Klondyke river and mountain beyond. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "93\\nhalf interest to a former layman for $10,000, making $7,000\\nprofit; or by working the claim he could have secured\\n$4,000 taken out by Soy and his partner lawyers, in a short\\ntime of Summer work, and a possible $30,000 during the\\nwinter; but his attention was directed to a false demand, in\\nwhich there was no equity nor profit to himself, except as\\nsomeone might place bonds for me.\\nThe lawyers must do something for Lyle, and to avoid a\\nsensible act in obtaining possession of the claim peaceably\\nfor Lyle, they sought to arrest me and put me in prison, and\\nexalt Lyle to the important role of accuser, in such a case.\\nOtherwise, placing Lyle in a position where he would be\\njumped and out of the game, and thus my free choice was\\ngiven over, in deference to British law and justice.\\nThe trail leads The trail was chosen for me, and it led\\nto prison. promptly across the narrow, swinging\\nbridge, above the noisy, splashing waters of the Klondyke,\\nwearily along the dusty roadway, set with shops and stalls of\\nthe Cheechargoes selling outfits, humhly past the Court-\\nhouse, the British Temple of Justice, and sadly to the un-\\nwelcome entrance of the low, log building with iron grat-\\nings at its windows, that looked out like crabs eyes, from\\nunder the edge of a flat roof covered with dirt.\\nA pause in The prison! A tomb for the living! Worse\\nexistence. than the silent tomb, the grave, for there\\nthe occupant is never conscious of imprisonment. It makes\\nno difference to him whether his body be embalmed, frozen,\\npetrified or mummified; whether it lie in state on exhibition,\\nin a crematory, in a cache or in the earth. This tomb for\\nthe living is different, as I found when once within the vile\\nenclosure.\\nI passed along before a row of locked cells, from the\\ngratings of which the prisoners peered at me curiously. 1", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94\\nfelt that life, which had been rendered so sweet to me by\\nfreedom, was pierced through, when the lever clanged, and\\nthe grated door closed behind the guard.\\nSearch where I would within the prison, so far as I was,\\npermitted to go, 1 could find no beauty, no companionship.\\nDivine influence did not seem to penetrate to such a depth,\\nI could find nothing to answer to my need of life. I experi-\\nenced a pause in existence. Physical routine remained as a\\ncondition whereby life might be resumed at some future day.\\nA realization of my awful situation pressed upon me in\\nin thoughts like these:\\nThe soul My surroundings are indeed strange! Yon-\\nto itself. der grated door does not open at my volit-\\nion. Even the guard inside has no key. He is in for two\\nhours. He sold his freedom and consented to be locked in\\nthis corridor, for twenty-eight cents. My freedom is lost\\nby the cruel act of one of my own countrymen, come here\\nto take advantage of the British law, to persecute a woman\\nwho had already lost all, and is without protection in a for-\\neign land. And now these glad summer days are only to the\\nfree. They are lost to me. Rays of the evening sun fall\\naslant this prison roof, which absorbs the treasured sunlight\\nand makes the direful shade to envelop criminals. The\\nprison roof revels in the flight of birds; in the changing col-\\nors of soft evening clouds; in the beauty of the Great Yukon\\nwaters, a brown, forceful torrent, cut by the swift, clear\\nblue current of the Klondyke; in all the mountain barriers\\nof this world famed river, and in all the stream of humanity\\npassing by. All live to this prison roof, which is but a pall\\nover me. I have had my own houses and lands, and have\\njudged critically when contractors prepared for my abode,\\npolished hard-wood, mosaic or brass. I have traveled on\\nPullman cars, on magnificiently appointed steamers, and have", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "95\\nenjoyed the luxury of hotels, from the Ponce de Leon to a\\ng^ Klondyke road house, and now I have a\\nprison cell. I am number 8. I am hungry.\\nAh, the kind corporal in charge gives me bread and cheese\\nand a cup of cold coffee, left from a lunch spread for some\\nsoldiers on duty in the guard room.\\nThe atmosphere of this place oppresses me. What is\\nthis strange influence? Is it that a criminal sat at the table\\nopposite my cell door where I have ventured to write? At\\nnoon time he ate his beans and bread and wiped his greasy\\nfingers; at eve he gulped down, with his allowance, a bitter\\nregret. To-morrow another will succeed him. The place is\\nchill and cold. I will go to my narrow cell, where there is\\na bunk of some boards and blankets. Think, oh! ye free of\\ncivilized lands, of the warmth of blankets that have wrapped,\\nnot one, but many criminals. How they crawl! They\\nwrithe! They sting! until sleep is impossible and dreams\\nare torture.\\nDebt a crime Dawson, where to be charged\\nwith debt may become a crime. Dawson\\nwith its incomparable summer climate, its crisp, ideal North-\\nern winter, its wild waters of the Klondyke, its swift, swirl-\\ning Yukon, its green, flower-bedecked mountains, and its\\nstores of yellow gold.\\nI am here by the accusation of a man who came to me\\ncrying like a child, begging me to save him from the perse-\\ncutions of his partner, and from the threats of his creditors.\\nHe has sown my good dollars to the winds, in London and\\nParis. Ignorant, but assuming, he cannot earn money, and\\nwhen, by good fortune, or by the favor of men, he gains it\\nand is able to pay his debts, he travels to far lands and his\\ncreditors must not hope. He is a devout christian and\\nboasts his hospitality and charity. He has a good wifg, and", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96\\nboth pledged me an undying gratitude. It was my act of\\ngood will to him that has eclipsed all life to me except the\\nlife of crime, the atmosphere of which permeates this place,\\nand contaminates its belonging.\\nThe fling The Yukon is truly a land of promise, but that\\nof fate. promise unfulfilled leaves it a monument of\\ndespair, and a tomb of hope, permeated with the aspirations\\nof terrible greed and selfishness. My own loss of forty\\nthousand dollars has been accompanied by a year of hard-\\nships. I have walked hundreds of miles over awful trails. I\\nhave slept on the ground, on rocks, on stumps, on the slant\\nmountain-side, when a lack of level space forbade reclining\\nin a horizontal position. Once I slept on poles laid across a\\nminiature mountain torrent, tumbling down through a crevice\\nbetween two steep banks. Once on the top of the Great\\nDome, where I sank down exhausted after a long walk over\\nbogs, through mud and up the mountain-side. Even in my\\ncabin I slept, in my robe and blankets, on a bunk made of\\nboards, without spring or mattress. One night in February\\n1 spent on the Yukon far from even a cabin, near the awful,\\nrushing, steaming open water.\\nBut now to sleep in a prison cell! Sand-\\nA prison cell, ^[q^^q^ among a lot of criminals. May\\nGod never reveal to another soul the sense of awful calamity\\nthat settles over me as I sit alone and helpless in this British\\ndebtors prison, knowing that my chance of release depends\\nupon my ability to disprove the perjured statements of the\\nmen who sent me here.\\nMy attorney explains this imprisonment as an attempt, on\\nthe part of those who are persecuting me, to extort bonds\\nfrom some one who may, from kindness, desire to get me\\nreleased. The bonds will also further secure my note. I\\nhave paid nearly nine thousand dollars and have never had", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "97\\none dollar from the claim, except the small amount from the\\nman to whom I sold. The claim has not produced, to the\\ninterest I held, but little over one-half the amount I invested.\\nThey can foreclose the mortgage and take the property; they\\ncan, at small expense, by equitable settlement, take the\\nproperty, yet they exact, at this cruel extremity, a bond.\\nBut I have no friend to give a bond to the amount of twelve\\nthousand dollars, which is demanded as my ransom. If I can\\nsucceed in convincing the Judge that I was not going away,\\nI am yet a prisoner in Dawson. Every movement to be no-\\nticed, and upon the slightest suspicion as to departure, an\\narrest. That suspicion not disproved insures a permanent\\nimprisonment. Equitably I owe no one. I have no means\\nwith which to pay. This is the penalty of a faulty business\\nmethod, and of an over-confidence in the word of another.\\nThe gloom of the prison deepens.\\nA nightmare Horror of horrors what is that Adown\\nof reality. the corridor a miserable wretch is con-\\nstantly repeating a bellowing moan, now raised to a shriek.\\nIn the guard-room are sounds of loud talking, shuffling of\\nfeet, the click of metal, and now a rattling of chains and\\nthe iron bars are replaced; some drunken men have been\\nplaced in a cage just beyond me.\\nTheir voices are loud. Occasionally one of them falls to\\nthe floor with a dull sound. They are cursing and railing\\nagainst the authority that placed them there.\\nOne voice, clearer than the rest, is saying in good orator-,\\nical style, I want you to understand that I am an Amer-\\nican. Do you hear? And I am no Cheechargo. I was in this\\ncountry before Capt. Harper. I was here when Constantine\\nwas the head guy. Harper is a good fellow, but he has too\\nmuch power. I don t like this place. I want to get\\nout. If I can t pay my fine, I ll saw wood. I aint lazy but\\nI don t like to saw wood for nothing.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98\\n(Guard), Keep still, go to sleep. (First voice), I aint\\nsleepy. You re a good guy but you can t answer a\\nsquare question. Gee! I wish I could lose my job. I never\\ndone no harm. I aint killed nobody at least I don t think I\\nhave still, there might be a whole row of them down at the\\nmorgue. Keep still! **1 aint disturbing you. You can-\\nvas coat fellers are pretty good guys, but Gee! I hate the\\nsoldiers. It looks like coercion, and I hate coercion.\\nMounted police are necessary, but policemen and soldiers\\nare two ve-ry dif -ferent articles. Soldiers are cheap. Gee!\\nthe squeaking of that door! It sounds like fellers getting out.\\nI aint seen one liberated since I came in here. They took\\nmy tooth brush and my lead pencil away from me. I sup-\\npose I ll have to trust to the honesty of the British Govern-\\nment to get them back.\\n(Third voice), What do you expect when you come to\\nsuch a place as this?\\n(First voice), Did I come here? They threw me in.\\nThey knew better than did where I belonged. I would sign\\nanything to get out say anything. D the Eagle or\\nthe Stars and Stripes. The English, Irish or Welsh are a\\nsight better than the American native born. I hnoio\\nwhereof I speak, but I ve got it in the neck. I ought to get\\nit. Many a good man has been thrown into this\\ncoop that never saw a prison before; and look at me! What\\nlaid so vilely on my stomach is now bespread upon my\\ncoat. Its a dirty bird that befouls its own nest. Say,\\nGuard, give me some water, I want to take a bath. Gee! I\\nwish I had never seen the French thing that got me here,\\nand I ve been at the head of labor organizations. Geei\\nthose soldiers. I don t like coercion, behind it is force, and\\nwhen you show force you restrain liberty. If I don t get\\nout to-day I ll be if I don t stay in until I do get", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "out. I m no slave. I ll saw wood before ni bow down to\\nanybody.\\n(Second voice), Ob, sit down and keep still.\\n(First voice), Yes, you re the kind of man that will lay\\ndown when there is trouble. It is such fellers as you that\\nbreak a strike. would stand, and be a martyr. Here,\\nProvost Corporal, I d like to have a hearing. I d like to\\nknow what I ve done. Charge it against me. This reminds\\nme of a time when I went to look for a job as longshoreman.\\nThey said, *Do you belong to the Union? I answered No,\\nThen you can t have a job, they told me. I went to join\\nthe Union and they said, Have you got a job? I said No,\\nand they said, Then you can t join the Union. But still\\nyou ve got to maintain the dig-mty of the law.\\n(Third voice), Give me a drink of water.\\n(First voice), D a man that will holler for water in\\na place like this. You ought to have mud. Here, Captain,\\nCorporal, General or Ma-jor-General, whatever you are\\nthis man wants one of your canvas coats for an alcoholic\\nstimulant.\\n(Second voice), Sit down and keep still.\\n(First voice), There isn t a man in this place that can\\nput me down. I worked last night on Gold Hill and I didn t\\ncome to town to twist the lion s tail, I came to get my\\nmail, but I don t bow down to anybody. Gee I don t like a\\nslave. D a man that will submit to order. They can\\nthrow me in but I wont lay down, t aint no patriot, I m just\\nas good in Canada as anywhere. Oh you fellers keep still.\\nWe re a lot of law breakers or we wouldn t be\\nhere. I don t like this. I m used to living where my ris-ion is\\nnot obstructed by bars. I m not one of those patriotic fel-\\nlers to whoop for the flag. To h with America, or any\\nother country. It looks to me that some of these fellers", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100\\nwith a star have to do something to keep up their dig-nity,\\nso when they find a feller a little off they just throw him in\\nhere. 1 wonder what I was doing anyway. I must have\\nbeen oh-struct-mg the sidewalk. I wonder what I would\\nhave done if they had not molested me. Oh, I ve had too\\nmuch Dawson bad whiskey.\\n(Fourth voice), Say, Guard! I want to see Mister Col-\\nonel Steele! I want to see him nowl I want Colonel Mc-\\nCook! Send the American Consul here! I want Consul Mc-\\nCooJc I am an American in trouble.\\n(First voice), Mush back into your corner. You can\\nhave the Consul, but you bet your life when you see Colonel\\nSteele you will be sober. You can t have a hearing till you\\nkeep quiet. You ve got to hu-wiWate yourself.\\n(Fifth voice), I want a glass of water.\\n(First voice), Water is to wash dishes with. I believe\\nin free speech. asked for water and they gave me a look\\nof scorn.\\n(Sixth voice, new arrival in handcuffs), Say, Soldier!\\nSay, Sergeant! I m an American citizen and I m a soldier, I\\nwant you to understand, every inch of me. I\\nwant the American Consul brought here at once. (Falls\\nheavily), I belong to the C family of Washington, and\\nI^m a brave man lying-right-here. I m just naturally\\ndrunk.\\n(First voice), I m. artificially drunk. (Fourth voice),\\nAint it too bad that I can t see Colonel Steele. (First\\nvoice), Yes, too bad for him. (Sixth voice), I ve never\\nbeen in jail before and I don t like it. They ll never get me\\nhere again. (Third voice), We none of us like it. (Sixth\\nvoice), Say, Guard! here s ten dollars get me out of this.\\n(Seventh voice, just in), Hooray, for the Stars and\\nStripes, Begorra! Be s ony of yez masons or be yes Odd Fel-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "101\\nlows? Phat s the matter? Oi m beastly drunk thot s all.\\n(Sixth voice), Fm a good soldier, I want you to under-\\nstand. (First voice), Well, Canada s spoiling for a fight\\nwith Uncle Sam over the boundary.\\n(Seventh voice), Be thot so? Then, be Jasus, Canada\\nwill have to be gettin out her license. Hooray! Oi m an\\nAmerican! He falls upon the floor, when follows a tirade\\nof vile epithets, too vile for the vilest criminal to hear, and\\nprofanity self-exceeding, until the prison seemed the nu-\\ncleus of a glacial hell, and I a lost spirit in torment. I retired\\nto my bunk and indited a prayer to Colonel Steele asking,\\nthat, if womanhood must suffer loss of freedom unjustly, to\\nspare me the awful desecration of this contact with crim-\\ninals, and the vile stench from a vilest humanity in its vilest\\nmood.\\nAnd this is a Yukon debtors prison.\\nAnd this the place, surroundings and\\nsociety in which a woman accused of debt in Dawson is sub-\\nmerged. Here are vicious men, thieves, murderers, swind-\\nlers, forgers and macques. Intermixed with them are men\\nserving out a sentence of six or nine months hard labor, for\\ntrifling offences.\\nA N. W. M. P., Corporal in rank, stayed out all night and\\nbecame intoxicated. He was stripped of his rank, ejected\\nfrom the force, and given six months in prison. Another\\nN. W. M. P. was serving one year for desertion which oc-\\ncurred eight years previous. One man was in for attempt-\\ning to commit suicide, another for attempting to elope with\\na young girl. A N. W. M. P. may get from seven to twenty-\\neight days confinement in the barracks, in service without\\npay, for failing to report every hour when on duty, or for\\nover staying a pass. Sometimes a fine of a month s pay is\\nadded. This, with the withdrawal of the privileges of own-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102\\ning property by officers and employees of the Government,\\nmay eventually deplete the police force, and should disabuse\\nthe minds of any who may foolishly imagine that the laws\\nin the Y. T. are administered in favor of Canadians. The\\nNorthwest Mounted Police are men of ability, culture and\\nexperience. They are fearless and absolutely faithful in the\\ndischarge of duty. They are the best class of men in the\\nYukon Territory, and deserve favor, if any.\\nMen were serving sentences of six months, with hard\\nlabor, for petty offences such as the theft of a bottle of\\ncatsup, a can of oysters, or a fowl.\\nOh ye dark ages, breathe again and wit-\\nReminiscences, j^^gg English justice in the throes of\\nlabor over the theft of a bottle of catsup Think of English\\ndignity as an X-ray focussed on a miserable can of oysters.\\nIs English justice ahungered, or well nigh starved, that it\\nmust be fed on such poverty of crime? or is it that crime\\nin the Yukon country is so aggressive that it must be so\\nenormously eaten? Have the British sent their mighty\\nJustice out to this land widowed? unsupported? Have\\nthey endowed their noble and trained military with a ham-\\nmer and looking glass accompaniment, in according to it\\njudicial power?\\nDressed in brief A military man is trained to duty. To\\nauthority. be exact and thorough is his life. Give\\nhim the ponderous machinery of the law to run, and, though\\nhe may not understand thoroughly the degree of crime com-\\nmitted, nor its fitting punishment, and he may not consider\\nexhaustively the exact object of the law in securing the\\nwelfare and rights of all concerned, he will enforce some-\\nthing. It is in his line, as a military man, to take aim, to\\nfire and to bring down his victim. It matters not with him\\nwhether justice is tempered with mercy or stuffed with Aunt\\nRegina s Pancake flour.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "103\\nThese military judges over humanity in the Yukon have\\nno prejudice against classes, nor against nations. They have\\npower. They feel a loyalty to the source of their power that\\nmakes them over-ready to act.\\nThe prodigal The wonderful resource of the English is\\nEnglish. shown in the very existence of the N. W.\\nM. P. In them the English command a large number of\\nmen, who are, under every possible test, gentlemen, not\\nopen to bribes and corruption but faithful and efficient in\\nthe performance of duty; they are able to endure long trips\\nover the ice in Winter, and over awful trails in Summer,\\nwith long hours of service, and under rules that are severely\\nexacting. They are under contract for a term of years, at\\na ridiculously small salary their contracts, as a rule, were\\nmade outside, after which they were ordered to the Y. T.,\\nwhere the expense of living is much greater, the hardships\\nincreased and privileges diminished. No increase in salary\\nwas made when the removal was ordered, while desertion is\\npunishable by imprisonment. Even after they w^ere deprived\\nof the right to stake or own claims the men remained faith-\\nful to duty, and are serving out their time.\\nSome subjects The M. P. are often victims of the peculiar\\nrule. conditions made by the over power of Eng-\\nlish law. It would ordinarily seem fitting that a subject\\nshould be entitled to his liberty until some one is willing to\\nmake oath that he has acted unlawfully, but here it is not\\nso. The renegade American, or the foreigner (and of tener\\nthose than the British subjects), having a malicious intent\\ntoward another, may go before a magistrate and lay an\\ninformation. He tells some suspicious circumstances, but\\nmakes no statement under oath, except that he is informed\\nthus and so. He is usually gifted with the art of lying in\\nall its variations, and with all the industry of the original", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104\\nKlondyker, strengthened by the experience of his stay in\\nthe country. The magistrate has one side of the story, and\\nbeing zealous to maintain law and order, commissions an M.\\nP. to arrest the man, believing that he is paying tribute to\\njustice, but really he is acting as a servant to the usually\\nmalicious complainant, who at once goes about saying, I\\nhad so and so arrested. The M. P. marches with his victim\\nperhaps thirty or forty miles, over horrible trails to Dawson,\\nto find that in many instances no case is made against the\\naccused. The malicious complainant then goes back saying,\\nI let him go, I didn t push the case. I didn t want to put\\nhim in prison, and so poses as the benefactor of the accused\\nman. The injured man, now indignant and outraged, at-\\ntempts to punish the one who has disgraced him by unjust\\narrest and imprisonment, but finds that his accuser incurred\\nno liability according to the law, in so doing. The accusor\\nshrewdly sees that in court he holds an advantage in being\\nthe aggressor. Strange as it may seem, the burden is upon\\nthe accused of proving himself innocent, instead of upon the\\ncomplainant of proving his guilt. The accusor incurs neither\\ncost nor liability in causing the arrest of another. Thus\\nEnglish justice is not required to catch a guilty man. It\\ncan arrest a man, recite a hearsay report and make him\\nprove himself innocent. Once arrested, an escape is diffi-\\ncult, for Yukon Justice is tempered in rigors from its neigh-\\nbor, Siberia.\\nIf England had sent the military here armed with good\\nmuskets, and with common sense, and not as good little boys\\nin red jackets, with a lexicon as a compendium of all knowl-\\nedge, she would not have made conditions whereby the whole\\ncountry is rapidly passing into the ownership and control of\\na set of lawyers and legal sharpers, who have but to await\\nan opportunity to manipulate, with a master hand, the real\\nlaw to their own interests.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "105\\nThe prodigal The English, as exemplified in the Yukon,\\nEnglish. No. 2. .^j^g prodigal. The extreme of prodigality\\nas to individuals is the so-called Cockney Englishman. His\\nsense of his own dignity is upon him as a disease. It is a\\ncondition of importance and of largeness. It is not known\\nthat he considers his ideas small, but as they are, he either\\ndesires that they be larger, or he sees them of more import-\\nance than would an ordinary man. He gives to his smallest\\nideas the orotund of grandeur and sublimity, and the de-\\nliberate, forceful measure of an oration appealing to the\\ndeepest interests of mankind. His finest rhetoric is none\\ntoo good for commonplaces. He will bid a malamute dog\\nto move on from his pawthway with as much dignity as a\\nNapoleon would apostrophize the Egyptian pyramids. Ac-\\ncent, inflection and emphasis are poured with molasses on\\nhis pancake. He rarely uses simile or metaphor, as they\\nsavor too much of a recognition of other greatness. He\\nnever uses French words or phrases, as he believes rather in\\nexpanding the English to satisfy all needs. He uses no\\nslang, as that also implies a poverty in the quality of\\ngenuine English. As there are no worlds for him to\\nconquer, no battles for him to fight, his dinner table be-\\ncomes his Waterloo, his belongings his army, and the shop-\\nkeepers supply the re-inforcements to make him a Com-\\nmander-in-Chief, and an exemplification of a wasted dignity.\\nFew Yukon Englishmen are entirely free from a tinge\\nof this over dignity.\\nQuick change The lawyers of the Y. T. are the exempli-\\nadvocates. fiers of an elastic legal etiquette. An at-\\ntorney defends a client one day and prosecutes him the next-\\nHis fees are enormous. He takes his client into court to-day\\non an assurance that the law clearly gives him his case-\\nThe Judge decides, This is not the law but this is what", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106\\nthink is right, and the case is lost. Again he goes into\\ncourt with equity on his side, but the Judge may decide\\nagainst him on some remote point of law. In despair, the\\nforsaken client goes into court depending upon showing the\\nfacts of his case, and the Judge may ignore him as a man\\nwith no attorney, and so not worthy of success. The effort\\nof an attorney, though it may be unheeded, serves as a\\nresistant force against which the authority of the Judge\\nmay act.\\nAn avalanche Any Yukon Judge is one of the most pecu-\\n01 greed. liarly situated persons in creation. He is\\nlike a human being buried out of sight in the debris of civil-\\nization. Some one asks him what era it is. He sends us a\\nsmothered cry, Oh, my God! it is the time when mortals\\nhave voluntarily sought a glacial hell, to brew the liquid\\nwith which perjury is written, and to combine in a magnetic\\nforce, friendly to the growth of a horror unspeakable, to\\nfeed that force upon a vilest greed, to fan its flame with a\\nmonstrous inhumanity, to lay upon its altar all that man can\\nvoluntarily sacrifice of honor, to compel a wanton waste and\\ndesecration of all that true womanhood holds sacred. The\\nJudge is the ruler, but he can never tell which is the black-\\nest perjury, and Truth is a stranger in her own household.\\nWhen the masses press beyond his portals, in a life of greed\\nwith no disguise, as they pray to Justice, what blame if he,\\nin a wild delirium, rises to the occasion in a spontaneous,\\nbenevolent decision, thus: Oh, ye diciples of Greed that\\nask of Justice, take the fate that here is coined for your\\nemergency. You ask for bread you deserve rocks but I\\nwill give you sawdust.\\nLiberty There, in the Hall of Justice, the fates of men\\nin sable. are decided. The guilty accuse the guilty.\\nThe guilty accuse the innocent. The innocent sometimes", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "107\\nventure to accuse the guilty. The guilty accuser can sum-\\nmon the aid of other guilty ones to whom he can in future\\nreciprocate the service. The innocent are denied aid by\\ncompetent witnesses, who fear to incur the enmity of the\\nguilty opponents. The self-interest of attorneys may ob-\\ntrude. So, in the name of Justice, the battle of greed is\\nwaged from day to day.\\nAlien In prison all days are days of waiting. I\\nfreedom. was standing in the corrider near my cell\\ndoor one morning, forgetful that it was America s day of\\nfreedom, when I heard the sound of a band trying to play\\nMarching through Georgia. A sense of my own situation,\\nbrought about by the dishonor of my countrymen, and the\\nvileness of the prison, overpowered me for a moment in\\nchoking sobs and most bitter tears. A kind-hearted guard\\nwas sitting on a box beneath a grated window. As I came\\nnear he offered to allow me to stand upon the box where I\\ncould see what was passing without. It was the celebra-\\ntion, on British soil, of America s day of Freedom. The\\ncrowd was entering the courtyard, Capt. Arizona Bill, on a\\nbay horse, in the lead. He is a poet, scout and successor to\\nWild Bill, he is also proprietor of The Tepee, a tent\\nsaloon- He was gorgeous in cream white leather breeches,\\nwith leather fringe down the legs, a ruffled blouse, yellow\\ntie, and a cow-boy hat surmounting his brown-gray hair,\\nthat lay in a kinky mass upon his shoulders. The motly\\ncrowd that followed was made up of something of respecta-\\nbility, something of mediocrity, and something of the scum\\nof all creation. Alas, that many from America, forgetting\\nto be American, were men who love license and mis-name it\\nliberty.\\nNo kin Within the prison the howling, bellowing\\nof ours. victim of vice raised his voice higher, in", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108\\nan unconscious dishonor of his country. The cage was over-\\nfull of men who were not aware that they shamed America\\nin proclaiming their loyalty to her colors. The crowd with-\\nout was soon reinforced with bright costumed wom.en, all\\nmassed there, without shelter from the hot sun, in the open\\ncourt.\\nA young man, with able lungs, stepped upon the porch\\nroof of Colonel Steele s office and rejoiced in his inability to\\nspeak well, or at length, upon such an inspiring occasion as\\nwhen America is permitted to celebrate on British soil. It\\nis a sincere pity that his words are noted citing us as one\\npeople and brothers. A pity for the British in that one\\ninstance, and a pity for us always, if such conditions con-\\ntinue to exist.\\nI saw the The singing of The Star Spangled Ban-\\ncrowd, jjgj. ]3y f Q^ voices, followed, when Cap-\\ntain Bill made a stage entrance from the open window upon\\nthe little roof, a la jack-in-the-box. With a boom he\\nshouted, I tell you boys, I am glad to be here. No one\\ndoubted him, but the sentiment was not reciprocated by the\\ncrowd. He continued with an imitation wild west speech.\\nThe crowd hurrahed for the Stars and Stripes, for the Eng-\\nlish flag, for America, for the Queen, for Colonel Steele, and\\nthen scattered to witness some races and contests.\\nThey were not The brown canvas coats of the mounted\\nthere. police, and the red coats of the soldiers,\\nwere conspicuous only by their absence. The English\\nofficials and social lights were busy elsewhere.\\nI thought, on this, the National Holiday of my native land,\\nthe land of Freedom, I a helpless prisoner in a British\\ndebtors prison! but what I saw and heard were not of my\\nhomeland.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "1. A group of Canadian Northwest Mounted Police.\\n2. A group of Canadian Soldiers in winter dress.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "No. 1 The Quadrangle showing the barracks. The window above\\nthe middle dog is the one from which I viewed the Fourth of July cele-\\nbration on British soil. There were numerous vacant places for the cele-\\nbration and it is difBcult to say why the prison quadrangle was chosen\\nunless for the benefit of American prisoners. L. B. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nIt sounded Q America! That thy foster children, with\\nstrange. ^j^eir tongues yet unbroken of foreign\\naccent, should thus dishonor thee. Dishonor thee till I\\ncould feel it better fate to be in prison than of them, who,\\nin their traitor lives, so draped thy blood-bought colors. And\\nwhy not wholesome dicipline to make these lives of some\\naccount, and fit to be American, before thy priceless boon\\na citizenship?\u00e2\u0080\u0094 else are we no nation. Only conglomer-\\nate of waifs and exiles of every land on earth.\\np. I Days passed and Yukon days do never end\\nin summer. But prison days are hours, and\\nhours, and hours, and hours of waiting. Loving yet the life\\nthat was, longing for the life that may be. Prison life is a\\ndash in one s existance, a death except that breath and\\nsense remain. To be imprisoned with a memory of crime,\\nor with regrets what punishment! To take away the\\nexperience of varied scenes and changes which obscure un-\\nwelcome memories, and by a solitary imprisonment, to leave\\nthose memories to hover o er the bare and trembling soul,\\nbecomes its agony, even merging to insanity. Innocence\\ntakes no such punishment within the prison, suffering but a\\nblank waiting, and a lack of varied experience and a means\\nto an active life.\\nHe hears At last the summons comes. The judge\\nmy case. ^j^^ holds my fate upon his open hand, will\\nhear my case. The perjurers are not called, Lyle sits by as\\nthe guest of honor. His accusation is admitted and he is\\nenjoying all the privileges of an accuser, but I am question-\\ned long and critically, and all my proofs examined. The\\njudge decided, There is no evidence that this woman\\nattempted to leave the country. I dismiss the case. This\\ncame as a benediction to me I lived again, and free!", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112\\nFrom prison I returned to my cabin after the release\\nto prison. from prison. My brain was on fire from\\nthe excitement and horror of the experience I had under-\\ngone. It seemed that an age of awful torment had passed\\nover me. I could not eat. Hour after hour I laid upon my\\nbunk in a delirium of remembrances and of apprehension.\\nDuring the long hours of the daylight night, and as the\\nfollowing day lengthened to evening, I lay in a bewilderment\\nof pain, until a knock at my door was followed by the\\nentrance of a friend, who came to tell me that the sheriff\\nwished to enter. I told him to bring the sheriff. The\\nsheriff had a warrant tor my arrest on a charge of theft-\\nMy accuser was a former partner of Lyle, and was, by\\nagreement, held to pay half of certain partnership debts.\\nHe fraudulently claimed a halfinterest in the Dominion Mine\\nand was attempting to enforce his claim to a balance of\\n$140, advanced by a layman on the Dominion Claim, and\\nwhich $140 I had used for Lyle s interest. I was Lyle s\\nagent, so authorized by power of attorney.\\nHe knew This man D had visited the barracks,\\nhis chance. securing the necessary permit to talk\\nwith me in the guard-room. He had used his privilege\\nto make a brutal demand upon me, a prisoner, in a matter\\nwhich was Lyle s affair. I told him that as soon as I was at\\nliberty I would try and have Lyle adjust his business mat-\\nters, and whatever rights he had would be recognized.\\nHe then He had proceeded with all haste to have\\ninformed. me arrested. The sheriff did not attempt\\nto take me to the prison, but left my cabin, telling me to\\ncome over to the magistrate the next day, if I was able.\\nI had a hearing before the magistrate. I showed by\\nunquestioned authority that the layman paid me a check on\\nthe outside, which I collected by my own endorsement and", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "113\\nguarantee that I receipted to the layman for his check-\\nthat the check was advanced in security for his lease upon\\nthe Dominion Claim, and that the claim or the other pro-\\nceeds of it, was held for the return of the $1,000 deposited\\nby the layman. Lyle owned the claim, at least until the\\ntime when his miners license expired, when the claim became\\nthe property of B to whom I had sold a one-half\\ninterest. D had no claim to the balance of $140,\\neither in law or in equity. I had neither secreted nor\\nmade misuse of the money as to Lyle s interest, as I had\\nused a large amount of my own money to protect Lyle s\\nbusiness. Yet the magistrate failed to dismiss the case. I\\nwas held in bonds of $500 for trial, but was later discharged,\\nas no case was made against me.\\nHe went D incurred no responsibility for his\\nhis way. act. He arrested me as a thief and set\\nthe machinery of the law in motion for hearing and trial,\\njust to dignify himself as an accusor, and to be able to go\\ndown the street saying, I had her arrested.\\nDid Hooley This man D figured as accusor in the\\nsteal. case of a man whom I will call Hooley, a\\nreputable citizen of Fairhaven, Wash., who had a lease on\\na Dominion claim, which belonged to Lyle. Hooley found\\na $50 nugget, which he was legally entitled to retain as part\\nof his 50% of the gross output of the mine, according to\\nhis lease. D who claimed an interest in the property,\\ndemanded the nugget of Hooley, and upon Hooley s refusal\\nto accede to him, he had Hooley arrested for stealing the\\nnugget. One of the Mounted police marched Hooley forty\\nmiles, through mud and slush and over awful trails, to\\nDawson. The miners along the way stared at Hooley, seeing\\nhim under arrest. They wondered what crime had been\\ncommitted. Hooley was well known in Dawson, and his", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114\\nfriends heard on the street that he had been brought down\\nfrom Dominion under arrest and was in prison. D went\\nabout the streets telling that Hooley stole a $50 nugget, and\\nhe had him arrested for it.\\nA cell for Two or three men made the trip from\\nHooley. Dominion at an expense of from $10 to\\n$25 each, as witnesses. Hooley was locked in a cell and\\nD proceeded to negotiate with Hooley s friends. He\\nwas a great man that day. He had commanded an officer to\\nmake a long trip. He had Hooley, an innocent man, locked\\nin a cell. He had a magistrate ready to hold Hooley in\\nprison and to await his, D s pleasure to listen to his\\naccusation.\\nAfter much parlying he issued his ultimatum. If Hooley\\nwould give him the nugget he would let him out of prison.\\nI was called into the conference as Lyle s representative. I\\nadvised Hooley to demand a hearing and to demand redress\\nof the authorities against D His lawyer decided, as is\\nusual in such cases, that the accusor had incurred no liabil-\\nity. In Lyle s interest I refused to consent to the demand\\nof D and he was compelled to withdraw his charge\\nagainst Hooley.\\nThe nugget When Hooley went back to his work D\\nHooley s. had been busy circulating a report that he\\nhad decided to be lenient with Hooley on account of his\\nfamily. He did not want to injure him. This was told with\\nthe air of an innocent man who had been injured. But\\nthere was no redress for Hooley, and there never will be.\\nD will always tell his story. Hooley stole a $50\\nnugget. I had him arrested but would not push the case.\\nThere are some who will say, Ah that fellow Hooley let\\nme see he was arrested for stealing a big nugget on\\nDominion. D is ignorant, and unjust, and cruel, yet", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "115\\nYukon British law made him a favorite, and a hero, and\\n^ave him power to safely work terrible injury to an innocent\\nman.\\nThe lawyers It was now midsummer. I was released\\nwon. from prison. Lyle had allowed his\\nminer s license to lapse on June 12th, and, by the present\\nlaw, the mortgage and his other half interest of the Domin-\\nion claim, lapsed to B the other owner. I had been\\narrested by Lyle charged with leaving the country on\\naccount of the $14,000 mortgage which B legally\\nowned. B had been compelled to pay $550 retainer\\nfee to his lawyer in the case. A former layman estimated\\nthat the claim contained at least $50,000 in gold, and\\noffered $10,000 for one-half interest in the claim, after the\\nclean-up of $32,000. Soy had paid Lyle $1200 (it is\\nbelieved for my note and mortgage and his interest in the\\nclaim), but no papers were placed on record. The bill of\\nsale executed by Lyle was to a Dawson banker, for Soy arid\\nhis two la\\\\N7ers. I had lost nearly $9,000 on the claim.\\nI went to an attorney to see what relief I\\nlie knew\\ncould obtain as to my note given to Lyle,\\nand so treacherously turned oyer to Soy and his lawyers. I\\nwas told, Don t come to my office. Don t go on the street.\\nDon t talk to anyone. Don t write some one is always\\nwatching you and listening, ready to make out a new charge,\\nor to do some new harm.\\nThis advice, though possibly wise and needful, I did not\\nheed. I went upon the street frequently, and talked when\\nI felt so inclined. I ivas watched, continually.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "116\\nTHE BEAR TOTEM OF THE BARRISTERS.\\nBears.\\nThe legal\\nfraternity\\nof Dawson all claim-\\ned the bear totem.\\nGrillem keeps the\\ndoor of his den wide\\nopen. When a com-\\nplainant enters and\\ntells that some re-\\nfractory brownie\\nminers have been\\ninterfering with his\\nbackyard, Grillem\\nsays, Don t allow\\nit, give me entire\\nauthority to settle\\nthe matter as I think\\nbest sign this.\\nThe next step is to\\narrest the brownies\\nand remove them to\\nthe Yukon prison,\\nwhere they must\\neither undergo pun-\\nishment or give\\nbonds. They are\\nusually compelled to\\npay. Unjust claims may be quickly collected in this way\\nand Grillem exacts the last penny before he will release the\\nchance of placing his victims in prison.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "117\\nCalifornia Mill is an alien bear. The two bears in the\\nbears. front office are supes and are harmless. They\\nare Canadian bears, and their business is to own the sign on\\nthe door, and to affix their names to Mill s legal documents\\nwhich are to go on record. They meet strangers who come\\nto complain, and direct them to Mill s den for Mill to eat.\\nMill is very sympathetic. When he has determined to eat\\nhis victim, he says, Tm so sorry I just hate to eat you\\nbut I must do it you know I have to do what my clients\\ndirect.\\nThe microbe Kyle is a venerable, legal bear. He was in\\npossessed him. the chair the night when the English debt-\\nors prison microbe was active, and is the godfather of the\\ncapias law.\\nWise but in Green is young and is the best of the lot.\\nthe minority. He knows the bear propensities of his as-\\nsociates, and by a remarkable resource, backs his legal abil-\\nity with a string of malamutes. Plate is a bear oracle.\\nWhen a complainant enters his den, he cuts short his story\\nwith this remark, Two hundred and fifty dollars retainer,\\nif you please. Now go home don t come to see me again,\\nI ll fix this all right. Plate is a competent lawyer. He\\nknows more about law than about his client s business. These\\nlawyers are experts in manipulating the English laws so as\\nto turn the affairs of clients to their own profit. The prop-\\nerty owner who is lucky enough to escape simply by turning\\nhis property over to them, is to be congratulated. They\\noftener prefer to take the property and hold the victim by\\nthreats of prison, in the hope of securing bonds or fees from\\nhis friends.\\nOnly one When Grillem failed to secure bonds in my case.\\nSoy. and the judge released me, he abandoned Lyle\\nto the tender mercies of a miner named Soy. Soy is the", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118\\ndouble of a man who claimed the distinction of being the\\nonly American citizen who has ever abandoned the flag of his\\ncountry to become legally a British subject. This act oc-\\ncurred some years ago in British Columbia. The first thing\\nthe British did with him was to sentence him to two years\\nin the penetentiary for committing an assault upon a young\\ngirl. He ventured back to the States to buy a gamblers\\noutfit to take to Dawson in 98. The atmosphere of America\\ndid not seem to agree with him, for at Skagway he ventured\\na second time to the parlors of one of Soapy Smith s fair\\nones, in an eifort to secure a rebate on account of an over-\\ncharge in a previous transaction. The fair one beat the\\naged sinner, and staff in hand, he attempted to escape down\\nthe street. She continued to belabor him until his husky\\nson came to the rescue. Soy is very entertaining in con-\\nversation, and delights in arguing as to his favorite religious\\ndoctrines. I learned from Soy that the Yukon mosquitos\\nare generated independently from the Yukon moss, and not\\nfrom mosquito eggs or germs.\\nSoy assumes to hobnob with bankers, and high class\\nCanadian barristers. It required just six hours for Soy, with\\nthe aid of the aforesaid Canadian barristers, to secure from\\nLyle the Dominion claim, and my note, secured by mortgage,\\nfor fourteen thousand dollars, at the small cost of twelve\\nhundred and fifty dollars. Soy furnished the twelve hundred\\nand fifty dollars, and acquired a half interest in Lyle s pos-\\nsessions. The lawyers furnished the advice and obtained the\\nother half interest. It is not known who furnished Lyle the\\nincentive to depart secretly that same night for Cape Nome,\\nleaving his other property and unsettled business matters.\\nAs a result of this peculiar business transaction in re-\\ngard to a Dominion claim, I lost nearly nine thousand dollars.\\nLyle received nearly ten thousand dollars, which was as", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "119\\nmuch as the half interest had been worth on the market.\\nLyle lost the other half interest, which, by Soy s report,\\nproduced several thousand dollars during a few weeks in\\nSummer, and which was estimated would produce another\\n$30,000 in Winter.\\nGreed in It was not many days after Lyle s depar-\\nchurchly garb, ture when I received a letter from Grillem,\\nstating that Mr. Murcraft had a claim against me which he\\nhad placed in his hands for adjustment, and demanded that\\n1 bring to his office, forthwith, a certain note of two thous-\\nand dollars given by Murcraft in Seattle, as collateral se-\\ncurity for the payment of which I held mortgage notes to\\nthe amount of four thousand dollars, and certain steamboat\\nstock valued at five hundred dollars. I had made the loan\\nto Murcraft for a short time, but upon his failure to pay he\\nhad offered to go with my outfit to Dawson, via St. Michaels,\\nin a clerical capacity, for his fare, which I advanced him. I\\nhad a written agreement signed by him, that he would, under\\nno circumstances, make a charge for wages, but would at\\nonce engage in some business by which he could secure\\nmoney to repay the loan. Consequently Grillem s demand\\nastonished me.\\nI went to the lawyer s office to learn what claim Murcraft\\nhad against me. Grillem referred to a paper written in pen-\\ncil, a part of which only I was permitted to see, but from\\nwhich I gained the information that Murcraft proposed to\\ncharge me several hundred dollars a month for his time in\\nmaking the trip, and afterwards, when he was employed upon\\nhis own business, to the amount of thirty-eight hundred\\ndollars. So that my claim against him was to be extin-\\nguished, and I was to be his debtor to the amount of eighteen\\nhundred dollars. Debt in the Yukon territory is a means of\\nimprisonment. To defend myself in litigation was impos-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120\\nsible, as I had no means with which to hire an attorney.\\nMurcraft also insinuated very forcibly that, in any further\\nprosecutions or persecutions which might occur against me,\\nit would be to my interest to render it agreeable to him not\\nto aid the prosecution, (by perjured testimony, I assumed,-\\nas I now comprehended that Murcraft was shrewd and dar-\\ning and would scruple at nothing). I also comprehended\\nthat Murcraft had no intention of paying his note to me. I\\nhad been notified by my banker outside that the collateral\\nnotes were signed by unknown, or undiscoverable, or non-\\nexistent persons. As a result, I signed an agreement by\\nwhich I was to return the notes and release all claim against\\nMurcraft, also giving him five shares of steamboat stock\\nworth five hundred dollars originally.\\nYoung A few days after this occurance, I was pass-\\nbut able. ing down the main street of Dawson when I\\nwas accosted Jby an Italian boy who had landed on the bank\\nof the Yukon in front of my cabin, in the fall of 98, suffer-\\ning from lack of shelter and food. I had\\nAuthority n j i, i i,\\nallowed him to sleep m my cache, givmg\\nhim a stove and fuel and food. All he could\\ndo for me in return was to wash dishes and bring wood and\\nwater. By express stipulation he was to receive no pay\\naside from board and fuel. I gave him some valuable cloth-\\ning and offered him employment at the mines when I was\\nemploying men, but he had refused such employment. He\\nmade no claim for wages when my outfit was divided. Upon\\nthe occasion of the meeting referred to, he said, Mrs. V.,\\nI see that others have succeeded in getting money out of\\nyou, I don t see why I shouldn t do the same thing. I d like\\nto have you pay me some money.\\nI answered, I have no money. I owe you nothing and\\nyou have taken a great many things that belonged to me\\nwhich should be returned.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "121\\nHe answered, Oh, you can get money in some way, and\\nI shall sue you and make you pay.\\nI tried to reason with him, but he went to lawyer Mill,\\nwho at once brought suit against me, claiming two hundred\\ndollars a month wages, besides his board, during the time he\\nhad slept in my cache, making a total amount of six hun-\\ndred and eighty dollars.\\nNotwithstanding that he had no proof of an agreement\\non my part to pay, that many good men were glad to work\\nfor. their board without wages, and that an action under the\\nMaster and Servants Act cannot be commenced legally after\\na period of sixty days from the time such labor ceases, and\\nhis suit was brought four months after, his claim was allowed\\nand a judgment against me was rendered. This boy had\\nbeen a perjured witness for Lyle, had committed various\\nperjuries in recording claims which by his own confession he\\nhad not staked, yet he became a sleuth and an informer for\\nSoy and for those who were holding a capias awaiting a time\\nwhen might be taken in the act of leaving the Yukon ter-\\nritory, when I could be imprisoned if bonds were not fur-\\nnished for me. In this emergency some friends transferred\\nto the boy a steam launch which had cost me outside twelve\\nhundred dollars, and which had been left on the lower Yukon\\nby Murcraft and an associate, and which I had already sold\\nto these friends. Another friend paid the boy fifty dollars\\nin money and he went down the river towards Nome, to be\\na not insignificant figure in its scarlet life.\\nThe race Before leaving Seattle I had agreed with\\nof greed. a man named Siller to advance him his\\nexpenses to Dawson, via St. Michaels, and he was to work\\nfor me as an engineer in Dawson. Siller abandoned the trip\\nat St. Michaels. He went to a lower river town and engaged\\nin business on his own account, but later came to Dawson", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122\\nover the ice. I had lost all. He made no reference to his\\nbusiness relations with me but went about upon his own\\nbusiness. He finally entered into a contract with an outgo-\\ning Eldorado miner by which this miner was to advance\\nSiller his expenses during a trip out. They left for the\\noutside in March. Upon his arrival in Seattle, Siller pro-\\nceeded at once to attach a balance which I had left in the\\nbank owing to outstanding checks which had not been pre-\\nsented. Siller claimed two hundred and fifty dollars wages\\ndue, and six hundred and fifty dollars due from me for his\\nexpenses from Dawson to Seattle. An acquaintance directed\\nan attorney to protect my interests in the case, which, after\\nvarious complicated and expensive legal proceedings, re-\\nCannot command\\nAmerican authority. j^^^\\ncountrymen, which saved a portion of\\nthe last two hundred and fifty dollars of my fortune, was\\nthe first relief from the oppression of greed after a long\\ntwo years endurance.\\nThejury recognized During the days and weeks of waiting\\nSiller s calibre. that followed these exciting experiences,\\nI appealed to the U. S. Consul and to Gov. Ogilvie in an effort\\nThe Consul to get a passport out of the country. The\\ndidn t care. Consul ignored my request. The Governor\\nlistened kindly and said he would see Judge Dugas. My\\nThe Governor cared former lawyer censured me, telling\\nbut could not help it. me that by such acts I was placing\\nin the hands of the officials evidence that I desired to leave\\nthe country, and they might appear as witnesses against me\\nin some new proceeding. I do not know how serious an\\noccasion existed for the censure, but no harm came of it.\\nI began to feel that I was enslaved to a monster\\nauthority and a helpless prisoner in Dawson.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "123\\nThe As the late summer lengthened to fall my wait-\\nescape, jj^g became oppressing. My food supplies were\\nnearly gone, and I had no outfit for winter. I had no means\\nof earning money. In this mood I became desperate and\\ndetermined to escape. I would not compromise any of my\\nfriends, so on the afternoon of September 26th I placed a\\nfew necessary articles of wearing apparel in a canvas sack\\nand asked a neighbor to carry it to the steamer Astorian\\nand await my arrival on the lower deck. I walked slowly\\ndown the main street and mingled in the crowd upon the\\nwharf.\\nThey did not There were soldiers and police on every hand,\\nsee me. A prominent man was leaving and all eyes\\nwere directed to the upper deck. A moment before the\\nboat started I stepped upon the lower deck and retired to a\\ndark place, where some bundles and boxes were stored. A\\nyoung man came near. I recognized him as one of the three\\nwho had refused to prosecute me previously. I said to him\\nI am trying to escape. Will you see the Purser and get a\\nberth for me. He readily assented. I intended to retire\\nto my berth and remain there during the entire trip, but, to\\nmy dismay, I learned there was neither berth nor extension\\nto be had.\\nThe young man said he knew the Chief Engineer and\\nwould consult him. The Engineer had read of the persecu-\\ntion I had endured, and consented to do all in his power to\\nenable me to escape.\\nThe chief was I was directed to a little, dark room between\\nan American, the engines and the wheel. The firemen\\nloaned me two blankets and a pillow, I hid myself in the\\nlower bunk and was soon on my way up the Yukon.\\nHe drank. present, but, alas, a new\\ndanger was to appear. A drunken watchman", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124\\ndiscovered my hiding place, and, crazed by liquor, his con-\\nduct soon became indecent and unbearable, even dangerous.\\nThe Engineer did not wish to proceed in any way to attract\\nthe attention of other officers of the boat, and thus disclose\\nmy presence there, and for a time I was in a desperate\\nsituation. The drunken man disappeared temporarily, and\\nthe young man before referred to bade me go above. It\\nwas midnight, and the steamer was tied up to a bank wait-\\ning for dawn, when we could proceed with our journey. I\\nmade my way around great piles of wood, forward to the\\nstairway, and was shown to a vacant bunk in an extension\\nfitted for about sixty men.\\nI had a life preserver for a pillow, but no blankets, and\\nit was cold. I could not sleep on account of my anxiety as\\nto the outcome of my perilous trip.\\nIt was the last trip of the Astorian, and few boats would\\nattempt the trip either way, as ice would soon be floating in\\nthe rivers and lakes.\\nThev slept. looked over to the adjoining\\nbunk, but to discover the brown canvas coat\\nand brass buttons of an M. P. On the next bunk, in the op-\\nposite direction, I discovered a soldier. I did not wait to\\nconsider expedients, but arose at once and found my way\\nback into the dark room below. I retired to the narrow\\nbunk and there I lay during the long hours of the day the\\nmighty engines so close labored in a deafening noise until\\nthe vibration became fearful. It seemed that I would be\\nshaken to death, as I could not change my position readily.\\nA stowaway. fireman brought me food twice a day from\\nthe galley, but I was too ill to eat. Some one\\nusually remembered to warn me when officers of the boat,\\nor passengers, were in the engine room, or likely to come\\nnear my hiding place.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "125\\nThe One night, as we were tied to the bank, I was\\nscarlet life, alarmed by the sound of a woman s voice\\nshrieking and cursing. I learned that she had been a com-\\npanion of a prominent man aboard the boat in a debauch of\\nfive days. Returning to her room at 2 a. m. she found that\\nher room-mate had locked the door. She was kicking the\\ndoor in an effort to break it in. The male passengers had\\nleft their bunks, most of them clad only in underclothes.\\nThey were running races, and were urging the woman on,\\nincidentally. In my hiding place I moralized that there\\nmight be more freedom above, but not, necessarily, more of\\ndignity.\\nA mop as As dawn began to illumine the eastern sky I\\na scepter, heard a great downpour of water upon the deck\\nabove. I learned that it was the act of an ex-Klondyke mil-\\nlionaire, who was mopping the deck to pay his way outside.\\nThe corpse A heated discussion in an adjoining quarter,\\nin a cache. I learned, was that caused by the wrath of an\\noutraged miner at the scandal created by a local paper, be-\\ncause he had cached the body of a friend in a vacant cabin\\nduring the summer, and was bringing it out in a sealed\\ncasket.\\nMelody in Another night episode was a fine baritone voice\\nthe hold. from another room, where a deck-hand slept, in\\nsome good concert songs. He was working his way out.\\nPlethora of I also, during the trip, overheard an estimate\\ngreed. by the down-stairs society, as to the ratio of\\nfares to the company, to those in the Purser s pocket, on\\none given trip. It was decided as 120 to 80.\\nI spent eight days in the dark room amid the terrific\\nroar of the machinery of the Astorian.\\nAt White Horse Rapids 1 made the portage of five miles\\nvia the tram road to the canyon during the night. I secured", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126\\na berth on a steamer which was to leave for Bennett at\\ndawn. I remained in my berth thirty-six hours and upon my\\narrival at Bennett I wrapped a scarf about my face and\\ntook the narrow gauge road over the pass. In two hours I\\nhad the pleasure of beholding the British flag in the shadow\\nof the American colors at the boundary and I was in America\\nand free. During a most delightful trip of 1,000 miles via\\nthe inland route by S. S. to Seattle I received the congratu-\\nlations of friends and strangers alike. A British official\\nwho was a passenger even expressed a pleasure that my\\npersecutions were over.\\nTHE DAWSON PRISON.\\nThe The prison or barracks at Dawson is situated\\nbarracks, about midway between the Moosehide Moun-\\ntain and Klondyke City, and is in about the center of the\\ntown on the river front. It is a low, log building with a\\ndirt roof, about 100 feet in length on the street, with an L\\nof nearly the same length extending eastward from the\\nnorth end of the main building. Other buildings stand about\\na quadrangle, as shown in the accompanying design made\\nfrom a pencil sketch which I drew when I was there.\\nTomb for The cells are five feet wide by eight feet\\nthe living. long; they are supplied with bunks eighteen\\ninches wide, and with one or two coarse grey blankets, and\\nwith a tin can for slops. At 7 a. m. there is a sound of\\nclanking of arms as a detachment of Mounted police march\\ndown the corridor before the cell doors and take their places\\nnear the exit A. An iron lever is swung backward in the\\nguard-room, which unbars the cell doors in one corridor.\\nThe prisoners put their cells in order and go to the sink\\nb and wash their faces, after which they take their places\\nat the tables, c, d, e, f, g, h. The guard-room door is un-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Chief Engineer Chas. H. Jennings of Portland, Oregon, who allowed\\nme to occupy the dark room, as illustrated, as a stowaway during my\\ntrip of eight days from Dawson to White Horse Rapids. He was obliged\\nto leave without his belongings and make a hasty trip over the pass to\\nthe American side upon hearing that an officer was inquiring for him\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nhe feared arrest on account of the assistance he had given me. The\\nyoung man with my sack, containing a few necessary articles, is Harry\\nbalton. L. B. V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "mim\\nI\\nm\\nThe Dawson Debtors Prison and Barracks.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "129\\nbarred and four prisoners enter, carrying large tin cans\\nthat hold fifteen gallons each. The prisoners at the table\\narc served oatmeal mush with bread, and weak coffee in\\ntomato cans. Laborers are served a little fried bacon extra.\\nBreakfast over, the prisoners return to their cells and are\\nlocked in, excepting the laborers, who are taken into the\\nguard-room, a few at a time. Murderers receive their pun-\\nishment in seclusion. The man who was partner to the one\\nwho stole a fowl stands while he is searched by the Corporal.\\nThey wear a He then has a chain with a heavy\\nchain and weight, weight attached to his leg, and goes\\nout with the man who had no employment the vagrant\\nwho also has a chain and weight secured to his leg. Both\\nare followed by the employer who hired men and could not\\npay, and is walking with the weight and chain attached to\\nhis leg. They take their places in the streets, or on the\\nwood-pile, with other criminals and desperate characters,\\nto work under guard of soldiers with guns. They must\\nlabor in continuous strenuous effort.\\nA provost corporal discharges There is no matron and no\\nthe office of prison matron. separate place for women\\nin the Dawson debtor s prison. I was given a cell among\\nmen, most of whom were criminals. A few necessary\\narticles of apparel that were left for me during my confine-\\nment in the Dawson debtor s prison, were examined by the\\nguard. The Corporal came one day to take my penknife\\nfrom me, but I promised to use it only when my pencil\\nneeded sharpening, and he did not take it. Letters by post\\nleft for me were not delivered until I was released. To see\\na prisoner visitors are required to have a written order\\nsigned by the Superintendent, and the interview must take\\nplace in the presence of a guard. I was not permitted to\\nspeak with my attorney except in the presence of a guard.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130\\nThey make I was given the same food as other prisoners\\nthem walk. at noon beans and bacon and bread was\\nserved, and at night bread and rice and beans. At 9 a. m.\\nprisoners who are awaiting trial, and those who are serving\\na sentence of imprisonment without hard labor, are com-\\npelled to walk in the corridor, i-j, a few at a time the\\nmacque, the murderer, the would-be suicide, the young man\\nwho tried to elope with a young girl, with the M. P. deserter,\\nwere given this privilege. At noon the working prisoners\\ncome clanking into the guard-room. The guards go through\\ncertain noisy maneuvers with their arms. The chains of the\\nprisoners rattle on the floor, and they stand for the Corpo-\\nral in charge to pass his hands over them, searching for\\nweapons or unlawful property. The lever is then swung\\nback and a detachment of M. P. marched down the corridor,\\nafter which the prisoners are sent to the tables for dinner.\\nThe same programme is followed at 6 p. m., when supper is\\neaten.\\nSilence At 9 p. m. all cell doors are locked and the\\nreigns. Corporal in charge, with a guard, visit each cell,\\nwith a lantern, making a thorough examination of the walls,\\nfloors and contents, when all is closed for the night. A\\nguard is always stationed at k, and another in the cor-\\nridor, 1. These guards are relieved every two hours.\\nThe prison service is all by mounted police. The\\nprisoners who labor are guarded, in some cases by soldiers.\\nFor A company of soldiers is quartered at the bar-\\ndefense, racks. Several times during the day a bugle\\ncall results in a scurrying of all soldiers in the guard-room;\\nthey seize their arms and make a dash out of doors and are\\nat once in line, with their weapons in position. It is an\\nexhibition of their skill in defense, in case an assault should\\nbe made by wild miners upon what remains of their cotton-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "131\\nwood stockade, or in case the unemployed should be dis-\\ncovered in great numbers, or in the event of the peril of an\\nunprotected can of bivalves.\\nBesides the preparations for defense, two soldiers march\\nbefore the prison night and day, and in all kinds of weather.\\nIn summer they wear red jackets, with black pants having\\nbroad yellow stripes down the legs, and high boots, and on\\ntheir heads they wear little caps the shape of bread trays.\\nIn winter they wear fur caps and overcoats. I never saw\\none with a parka on. The P. 0. is guarded by a soldier at\\nnight, also other places. There is a police station at Upper\\nDiscovery on Dominion Creek, and a detachment of soldiers\\nnear Lower Discovery; also a police station on Hunker\\nCreek.\\nNothing There have been no riots in Dawson no labor\\nbut greed. strikes and no election excitements. Vice is\\nindividualized in the mining camps of the Northland.\\nYUKON PRISONS AND COURTS.\\nFour Indian Murderers.- This picture was tal^cn when the Indian\\nboys were confined at Tagish in charge of the officer at the right. L.B V.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132\\nMum affairs of the Yukon Government are under a\\nmilitary discipline that guards every opening\\nwhereby knowledge may be obtained, except as to the\\nroutine and rules which are apparent to all. Officials and\\nemployees of the Government are not communicative.\\nGuards are as silent as the prisoners under them are com-\\npelled to be. Long and patient inquiry as to details proved\\nfruitless, until I was confined for a time on a false charge\\nin the English debtors prison, and was able to acquire some\\nknowledge of the hidden side of Dawson life after English\\npower had spent its force.\\nThere is an awful grief and humiliation to a real criminal\\nwhen Power is just in enforcing upon him punishment that\\nhe too well deserves. But when Power becomes the criminal,\\nin an unjust attack, using its superior advantage in a\\ncowardly menace to the innocent accused, how is that\\nPower degraded, and the helpless sufferer martyred in his\\nwaiting behind the prison bars. Here is Dawson s Scarlet\\nJudicial Life; Justice in crimson robes and flaunting a red\\nrag to the public.\\nExecute Two young Indian boys monopolized one cor-\\nchildren. ridor. They were awaiting execution, in the\\nnear future, for the murder of a stampeder on a lake just\\nbelow Tagish Post. Two stampeders, with their outfits in\\ntheir boat, drew up to the shore and camped for the night,\\nas thousands of others had done whenever and wherever\\nfancy or necessity dictated. These Indian boys, Jim and\\nDawson Nantuck, with two others, stole upon them as they\\nwere about to leave the shore and shot both men. One man\\nwas killed and his body fell into the lake, the other, though\\nseverely wounded, managed to row away and gave the alarm\\nto the M. P., who succeeded in capturing the four boys.\\nOne turned State s evidence and was freed; one died, leaving", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "133\\nbut two to be executed. If their aim had been more true\\nthe outfits of the men would have been secreted, the boat\\nconfiscated and the names of the men would now be posted\\nin Dawson, with those of hundreds of others missing, after\\ninquiries had been made by anxious friends outside. These\\nNantucks were dull and stupid, they had no sense of responsi-\\nbility, and no comprehension of the meaning of the terrible\\ncrime committed. They were employed at the kindergarten\\nwork of making designs on cards, in colored worsteds.\\nThey explained that some white men killed an Indian once,\\nand they had a right to kill a white man. If the Govern-\\nment must punish them, they hold that it is unfair to take\\ntwo lives for one. They were careless, native children,\\neven in the shadow of the gallows. To the casual observer\\nthese Indian boys seemed more suitable subjects for humane\\ncare and guidance on the part of a civilized Government,\\nthan of execution. The free Indian boy, who was equally\\nguilty with the others, may have learned the lesson that to\\nenbark in criminal undertaking with others leaves an easy\\nmeans of escape for one.\\nThey Some men were in prison for dishonest business\\npunish, transactions. One young man, evidently unbal-\\nanced mentally, was awaiting trial for the murder of his\\npartner. He was afterwards adjudged insane by a jury, but\\nthe Yukon authorities refused to turn him over to his\\nfather. They preferred to incur the expense of caring for\\nhim in an insane asylum, possibly during long years, in order\\nto retain the privilege of trying him and hanging him if he\\nshould ever regain his reason.\\nPetty One young man was serving six months, with\\nlarceny. hard labor, for being partner to the man who\\nstole a fowl. One man was serving six months, with hard\\nlabor, for stealing a bottle of catsup, another served six", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134\\nmonths, with hard labor, for the theft of a can of oysters.\\nIt is said this last occurred on the upper river, on a scow.\\nThe man s life was in danger from floating ice in the river.\\nHe was compelled to remove the goods from the scow to the\\nriver bank, in order to save the property of the absent\\nowner, and he came on to Dawson with other men on a raft.\\nThe can of oysters was taken from a case that was broken\\napart in order to remove it from the scow.\\nThe victim of vice, who was howling and bellowing\\ntwenty-two hours out of the twenty-four, received no medical\\nattention or special care.\\nInsane around the corner from him an insane\\npatient was said to have practically starved to\\ndeath. He was given food in his cell, but, not being\\nrational, he was unable to sustain life by taking nourishment\\nproperly. He became reduced in strength, and death came\\nto his relief. His lack of the services of a nurse was prob-\\nably due to the fact that the sentence of hard labor\\nmeans continuous strenuous efforts, and nursing would be\\nmerely a light employment.\\nDegrees A macque was serving two months, without hard\\nof crime, labor. The personnel of the prison, as I saw it,\\nfurnished material for much subsequent reflection. The\\nmacque, although properly convicted of being a macque, was\\nin for but two months, and without hard labor, while the\\nCorporal was in for six months, with hard labor. Yukon\\njustice esteems a macque as requiring but one-third of the\\npunishment given to a Corporal for some trifling offense, or\\nto a laboring man guilty of petty larceny.\\nPirates A dozen well-dressed men were locked two in a\\nbold. cell. They were the captain and crew of a high-\\nclass river steamer. They were charged with piracy. Some\\ntrouble had arisen by which a former captain had been dis-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "135\\ncharged by the company. Complications with patrons of\\nthe boat arose, and it was rumored that these same river\\nmen were arrested and charged with being pirates bold and a\\nsacrifice of a dozen men was planned to save the dollars of\\nthe company. The prison is easy of access in Dawson.\\nCheap I was informed that when wood was needed in\\nlabor. winter for fifty stoves, men having no employ-\\nment were picked up by the police, tried and sentenced to\\nsix or nine months imprisonment, with hard labor, and\\nplaced on the Dominion wood pile as cheap labor. Streets\\nare cleaned and graded, and all the Government buildings\\nare cared for by prisoners under guard.\\nA former employee of one of the large commercial com-\\npanies was in for two months, with hard labor, for taking\\nforcibly from his partner two hundred dollars, which was all\\nthat remained from the sale of joint property sold by the\\npartner for six hundred dollars, and which balance the\\npartner refused to turn over to the rightful owner.\\nA young man was in prison for attempting to commit\\nsuicide. He had followed his young wife in from the out-\\nside, only to find her in a Dawson resort of vice. The hours\\nof anguish and despair that nerved him to an attempt upon\\nhis life may be pictured, but the vice which the young wife\\nfound upon her arrival in Dawson, and which had been the\\ncause of her downfall, went unheeded. The prison doors\\ndid not open to receive any who lured her on in her wayward\\ncourse. No authority of law interposed while the young\\nhusband s life was being thus despoiled of its honor and of\\nits happiness, making for him a degradation and torture be-\\nyond endurance; but when life became unendurable the\\nauthority of the law interposed a late punishment, the only\\nresult of which was to cast the young man into prison\\namong criminals, and thus add to his wretchedness.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136\\nProtect doqs. Malamute dogs are expert thieves. They\\nwill steal canned goods, opening the cans\\nwith their teeth. They will steal from a hot stove food that\\nis boiling, by taking the bail of a pail or a kettle between\\ntheir teeth, taking it away and watching it until it becomes\\ncool. They will crawl under the edge of a tent, or through\\na tent door, and are sure to find their way into caches\\nunless securely locked. A man caught a malamute dog\\nstealing bacon from his cache. He shot the dog and re-\\ncovered the bacon, but was fined and sent to prison for kill-\\ning the dog. Another man was in for attempting to com-\\nmit suicide, another for attempting to elope with a young\\ngirl.\\nSleuths. Another prodigal use of loyalty and of power is\\nthe commissioning of the M. P. as sleuths,\\nand of using them to discover petty offences and inform the\\nofiicials. A well-known proprietor of probably the most\\norderly resort on the Yukon was visited one Sunday by a\\ndetachment of police. He called them aside and gave them\\nwine and whatever drinks they preferred. They were suc-\\nceeded by two M. P. s in citizen s clothes who ordered drinks,\\npaying therefore, whereupon they arrested the man, and he\\nwas subsequently fined one hundred dollars for the offence.\\nThey had induced him to do an unlawful act, and paid him\\nfor it, and then appeared as witnesses against him. Such\\nan effort to secure evidence proves that no open or flagrant\\nviolation of the law occurred. Is it possible British authority\\nis induced, in any degree, to such acts by the paltry amounts\\nwhich the offenders pay as fines? Is Yukon royalty so\\npoor? It is nevertheless a fact that the man who stole the\\ncatsup worked six long months for the Yukon Government,\\nearning $1,440; deducting $540, for board, leaves $900 net\\nprofit.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "1. Dawson street scene.\\n2. Steamer leaving Dawson for Nome overcrowded with passenger;", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "1. View of rear of the cabin of Alex McDonald\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a Klondyke kin^\\n2. A Dawson street orator.\\n3 and 4. Soldiers with arms on guard at the barracks in Dawson.\\n5. Policeman ordering Cheechargoes to move.\\n6. E. Leroy Pelletier and wife. Miner.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "139\\nProfitable The man who stole the can of oysters did the\\nbusiness. same amount of work, also the two who stole\\nthe fowl, making $3,600 net profit to the Yukon Govern-\\nment as the result of the theft of one fowl, value $5, one\\nbottle of catsup, value $1, and one can of oysters, value $1,\\nor a total of $7. Several vagrants served six and\\nnine months each, so that, altogether, the Scarlet Life of\\nhard labor in the Yukon prison is one of the most profit-\\nable institutions of the realm. The Government may not be\\nmercenary, but it creates an unpleasant anxiety on the part\\nof the public, to know that these small offences are a source\\nof such great profit to the Government. A man and wife\\non the trail near Bennett took a piece of an abandoned tent\\nand were fined eighteen months imprisonment, with hard\\nlabor. From two different sources it was told, as coming\\nfrom the ofliicials, that they excused the excessive fine by\\nstating they needed a cook at one of the police stations en\\nroute. Whatever may have been the cause, the Govern-\\nment will profit $4,000 by the labor of the man and woman\\nduring the eighteen months imprisonment, for the theft of\\na miserable rag picked up by the wayside.\\nThe wages of crime Fines are imposed for everything. A\\nare appropriated. man is fined from $25 to $50 for\\ndrinking; $5 for committing a nuisance, $2,000 for a license\\nto manufacture liquor, $100 for each offence in manufactur-\\ning it. Dawson will be built in one place at one period, in\\ntwo months whole blocks may be removed by order of the\\nGovernment, and the people fined for failure to obey\\npromptly. Another decree moves the town, or a part of it,\\nin another direction.\\nThe mine owner is fined and imprisoned for employing\\nlabor beyond his ability to pay. The laborer is arrested as a\\nvagrant, and compelled to do hard labor, for not having", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140\\nemployment. American steamboats pay the duty levied by\\nauthority, then they are taxed from $1,500 to $2,500 ad-\\nditional, and are fined for using the boat without license.\\nThe debtors Not the most insignificant feature, by any\\nprison. means, of The Scarlet Life of Dawson is its\\ndebtors prison. In the beginning this referred only to\\ndebts for labor performed, but, by later local enactments, it\\nhas been made a sweeping measure and applicable to all\\ndebts. Under a law called The Master and Servants Act,\\nan employee may bring an action in a police court against\\nhis employer, with but a few dollars expense to himself, and\\nwithout an attorney. He may cause his summons to be\\nserved immediately, compelling the appearance of his em-\\nployer in Court the following day, where judgment is\\nrendered for the amount demanded, to be paid in from five\\nto fifteen days. If not paid the employer is sentenced to\\nimprisonment, with hard labor seven hours for every hour\\nthe employee worked without pay. Owing to peculiar con-\\nditions this law has wrought hardships to innocent people,\\neven to laborers themselves.\\nThe Yukon Territory has no agricultural\\noomerang. resources, and no easily accessible adjacent\\nterritory to which the laborer may resort in case of need.\\nSo that labor is utterly dependent upon the mining industry.\\nMining, at its best, is uncertain. No miner will undertake\\nto open his ground without a reasonable hope of success, as\\nthe expenses, aside from labor, are great. The laborer is\\nusually hired by an agreement to take his pay on bedrock,\\nor out of the proceeds of the mine. He has the same ad-\\nvantage as the miner, of knowing his prospects, and as the\\nwork progresses, he is fully aware of the condition of the\\nmine. Work is necessarily done in this way, as each Sum-\\nmer the miners who have cleaned up enough gold to enable", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "141\\nthem to pay cash for labor the ensuing Winter, elect to go\\noutside and leave other miners who have claims, but no\\nmoney, to be the workers. There is never enough money in\\nthe country in Winter to pay the labor bills.\\nThe best paying mines, those producing from thirty\\nthousand to one hundred thousand dollars in gold, require\\nfully half the amount mined to pay labor and royalty, and\\nsometimes more, as pay dirt in the Klondyke region is from\\n25 to 100 feet below the surface of the ground, which is\\nfrozen to an unknown depth. Claims that yield less, and in\\nwhich there may be trouble in locating the pay, require\\nsometimes all the gold mined, and more, to pay for the labor\\nrequired. The cost of labor, at one dollar per hour, amounts\\nto three hundred dollars per month per man. Where several\\nmen are employed in a mine, to detract from the pay streak,\\nto suffer from the inflow of water, or from gas in the mine,\\nso as to require extra work and delay, will, in a short time,\\nprecipitate financial ruin upon the owner. The owner takes\\nthe greater risk and endangers even his right to liberty,\\nwhile the laborer demands a sure one-half of the gold mined,\\nif not all, retaining the sublime privilege of placing his em-\\nployer on the Government wood pile in case of misfortune.\\nThe favored The law is administered broadly in favor of\\nof authority. the laborer. The courts have refused to\\nrecognize the admitted agreement of the laborers to receive\\ntheir pay in the clean-up, and have rendered judgment sev-\\neral months before wages were due in a case where the em-\\nployer had abundant assets, thus causing a ruinous sacrifice\\nof property to get money quickly.\\nMen who, from charity, have been given their board when\\nin need, have gone into court and collected high wages\\nwhere no labor of value was performed. One man collected\\nwages of another who directed him to a certain man as a", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142\\npossible employer. He obtained employment but afterward\\nfailed to receive his wages; he then brought action against\\nthe man who directed him to the delinquent employer, and\\nobtained judgment, which was paid.\\nThe laborer may go to a poor widow and incur a debt for\\nboard, when she needs the money for fuel, or for supplies,\\nand asks relief of Yukon justice, she finds that the laborer\\nmay laugh at her and say he has nothing that is attachable.\\nThe small dealer, too weak and ill to work and just able to\\nattend to his little store, is induced to let his goods go on\\ncredit to the laborer whom the Yukon law favors, and when\\nunable to collect the poor invalid may starve or become a\\ncharge upon charity. He has no means whereby he can\\ncompel payment or punish the offender, unless he attempts\\nto leave the country. Thus is this brawny, strong, healthy\\nlaborer permitted to become the possible bully and beat; to\\nprey upon the helpless, and yet be the darling of Yukon\\njustice.\\nA relic of a The debtors prison is a microbe that lingers\\nbad past. long in the English anatomy, to develop\\nspontaneously and blossom into new life upon the slightest\\noccasion.\\nInnocent people, who are not well known, and have no\\ninfluential friends, and no way of establishing their identity\\nas respectable persons, may be cast into prison upon a false\\ncharge of debt. The fact of arrest as a criminal may be\\nthe only thing that is widely known of such a person. He is\\nreported as a criminal, but after proving his innocence he\\nhas no means of redress agaainst those who have wronged\\nhim.\\nI have spent many hours in the criminal court, listening\\nto cases in which persons accused of crime had been held in\\nprison, or released upon bonds awaiting trials, when abso-\\nlutely no case was made out against the majority of them.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "143\\nHe had In one instance a man had deposited a gold\\nno case. sack, containing a few thousand dollars in\\ngold dust, in the safe of a well-known gambling house. Sev-\\neral persons had access to the safe. The man took the sack\\naway, used several ounces of dust from it and placed several\\nounces of other dust in the sack, the sack being in the pos-\\nsession of others, and handled by others, in the meantime.\\nHe claimed to have discovered that he had lost thirty ounces\\nof gold from the sack. He had the cashier of the gambling\\nhouse arrested. The cashier was tried at great expense.\\nExpert testimony was introduced as to the possibility of a\\nsack containing so much dust becoming enlarged from the\\npressure of the dust, which the accuser urged as an evi-\\ndence that a theft had been committed. The cashier was\\nfinally discharged.\\nHis friend Another young man had been in prison\\ninformed. nearly three months. A laborer, living in\\na tent on Eldorado, had left a sack containing six ounces of\\ngold, value ninety dollars, under his pillow. He left the\\ntent for a number of hours, upon two occasions, and, after\\neighteen hours, discovered his loss. The accused was an\\nacquaintance living in another tent not far away. About\\ntwo weeks after the loss of the gold another man in-\\nformed the loser that he thought the accused took the\\ngold, whereupon the loser had the accused man arrested and\\nconfined in prison. Upon the occasion of the trial, his Wor-\\nship, the Judge, sat for an hour listening to the testimony\\nof the loser as to affairs of minor importance, and to the\\nvery conclusive defense of the accused as to where he got\\nthe sixty dollars found in his possession when he was ar-\\nrested, and which was not claimed to be the gold of the\\nloser, nor that it was in the gold sack of the loser, nor that\\nthe sack of gold even resembled that of the loser.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144\\nThe accused brought witnesses to show where he had ac-\\nquired his money to clear himself from the possibility of\\nguilt, if it should be charged as a crime that he had sixty\\ndollars in gold dust. Finally the Crown attorney arose, in\\nhis long black robe, and said, Your Worship, don t see\\nany ivay of connecting this evidence with this prisoner,^^\\nHere was a situation. There was an accusation, and evi-\\ndence, and a prisoner, with a Judge, a Crown prosecutor and\\nan attorney, but there was wo way of connecting the evi-\\ndence with the prisoner as against his right to liberty. The\\nloser had not been asked to prove that he ever had a gold\\nsack and six ounces of dust, or that he was liable to tell the\\ntruth upon any occasion. The accused had spent nearly\\nthree months in prison, which was a definite wrong.\\nThe gravity of the situation became oppressive to the\\nhearers, until his Worship spoke in these words, You are\\ndischarged, but don t do so any more. I have many times\\npondered as to the meaning of these words addressed to a\\nprisoner under such circumstances.\\nThe prosecutor Earlier in the day, my attorney had asked\\nspoke. the Crown prosecutor if he would call the\\ncase of D. vs. V., as the prosecution had failed to make a\\ncase, and the accused was a woman, and he would like to\\nrender it possible for her to leave the court-room. I was\\nanxiously awaiting the result of my attorney s request but\\nto hear these words, spoken so distinctly by his Honor that\\nthey could be heard by all present, Oh, d the woman.\\nA man whose debt is not legally due may become a crim-\\ninal, under bonds, or imprisoned. Thus the Yukon debtors\\nprison grinds out injustice and inhumanity, and is oftener a\\nservant for the vicious than a protector of the innocent.\\nThe law practically protects the guilty when he is the ac-\\ncuser. This may not be from intention on the part of the\\nYukon British, but from a lack of perspicuity.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "i4r\\nThe ordinary man A reasonable conclusion, after an ex-\\nthe imperial bully. perience and study of conditions un-\\nder monarchical goverment, is that the dread and hatred\\nAmericans entertain of imperialism as a menace to personal\\nliberty, is entirely without foundation. The ordinary man,\\nby allowing the imperialist the garb of authority and the\\nappearance of power, can make that power his servant and\\nhis tool, even in acts of inhumanity and of oppression to\\nothers.\\nIt requires neither wisdom nor art to possess the priv-\\nilege of doing great injustice to others. Officials are not\\nopen to bribes, so it is a much cheaper process than in the\\nStates, where the free use of money is said to be a condition\\nto the owning of official power by outsiders.\\nWhen will English power, in the Yukon country, ex-\\nchange its debtors prisons for the real advancement of a\\nsuperb civilization, as the maker and arbiter of justice, and\\nnot as the dupe and servant of designing men.\\nThe variable business conditions of mining camps are\\nsufficient warning to creditors to protect their interests\\nsuitably, or to prepare them to expect loss. Circumstances\\nwhich require the arrest of a fleeing debtor also expose an\\nequal criminal carelessness and neglect on the part of the\\ninjured creditor.\\nToo difficult The Yukon officials have not always suc-\\nfor them. ceeded in capturing real criminals. Some\\nminers found the skeleton of a man in a burned cabin on\\nLast Chance Gulch. The man was known to have had gold,\\nand evidence of crime existed, but the authorities never\\nfound the murderer. Various robberies of caches and of\\nindividuals have occurred in the City of Dawson, but the\\npolice have not captured the robbers. Some daring swind-\\nling operations and legal robberies have been perpetrated in", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146\\nDawson and the guilty ones have escaped arrest, and have\\nnever been called upon to give an account for their mis-\\ndeeds. Men have disappeared from the trail and evidence\\nof crime has been reported, but no arrests were made.\\nIf this were a recital of single isolated experience it\\nmight pass as a subject for a peculiar tale of the Northland.\\n1 was the only woman so persecuted, but hundreds of men\\nsuffered similar experiences, and quite as flagrant injustice.\\nTo ask relief in 1 hope to ask redress of the Canadian Gov-\\nmy own case, ernment. If I were permitted to seek re-\\nlief for all, I would ask that the man who would arrest or\\naccuse another of crime, or would attach property or insti-\\ntute litigation that might prove expensive, should be required\\nto make oath that sufficient cause existed to warrant such\\nprosecution, and should be held in bonds to substantiate his\\nclaim. The witnesses should be found and examined, and\\nplaced under bond to appear at the trial. This alone would\\ncorrect the evil practices of the Northland. Next, the pun-\\nishment inflicted should bear a natural relation to the crime,\\nand should be reasonable.\\nFor equal In the case of the arrest of a debtor, the\\nrights. one who accuses should show, by an ex-\\nhaustive examination, and by creditable witnesses, that he\\nhas a just claim also that due precaution was expressed in\\ntaking security and protecting his own interest, and that the\\ndeparting debtor is guilty of fraud the accusor should be\\nheld on bonds to prove his charge by suitable documents or\\nby reliable witnesses.\\nThe reliability of witnesses should be questioned an ex-\\nStates prison convict, and an admitted perjurer, and a known\\nthief should not be permitted to swear away a respectable\\nperson s fortune and deprive him of liberty.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "1. Miner s Camp during the cleau-up.\\n2. Girl wanted.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "Sttimpeder on the bank of the Klondyke resting with his pack\\non his back.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "149\\nMINERS MEETINGS.\\nAuthority.\\nAuthority is the quintessence of civilization\\nsince Eve was made from the rib of man to\\nbe his helpmate, and since Adam assumed that an item of\\nexistence cannot be greater than its source, and therefore\\nis not entitled to an independent life as a lesser light. Also\\nsince the descendants of this pair have been tribes and\\npeoples, and nations warring against each other for suprem-\\nacy, but with no reliable decision as which was best fitted to\\nrule; the strong, conquering host, or the possible wiser, but\\nweaker vanquished victims.\\nThose who made a long flight up the Yukon from prefer-\\nence, if from no more serious reason, left the authority of\\ncivilization behind, but the life of authority has sufficiently\\npenetrating vital force to grow spontaneously. The isolated\\nminers soon discovered that while it was not pleasant, in\\ntimes past, to be under authority, to exercise authority was\\na very different proposition. Miners meetings of the Yukon\\ncame into history as a result. Of these meetings it may be\\nsaid that disorder, or violence, or wrong doing, would at\\nonce characterize the miners as outlaws and bandits, sub-\\njecting them to punishment, and extinguishing their author-\\nity. It became a matter of serious moment to maintain a\\ngood degree of justice in the doings of the meetings. The\\ndecrees of the meetings were easily enforced, as the meet-\\ning was composed of the entire camp, and they did not meet\\nuntil they were ready to condemn and accuse.\\nThe judge Miners meetings have been called to stimu-\\nwas slow. ulate a too tardy administration of justice;\\nas in the case of a man arrested at Circle City, and confined\\nunreasonably in jail, on suspicion of having robbed some one", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150\\nat Fort Yukon. Judge Crane did not call him for trial.\\nThe miners demanded a hearing for him without avail. The\\nminers finally, under the leadership of four prominent men,\\nreleased the man from jail and set him at liberty. The reg-\\nular court resented this offense to its authority, and com-\\nmitted two of the leaders to Sitka for trial, for their inter-\\nference.\\nThey make In Alaska a truce exists between real and\\nthe Hootch. bogus authority in the sale of whiskey, by\\nmeans of bribery and a regular tax of a dollar per gallon.\\nThis is usually admitted. The manufacture of Hootch, an\\nintoxicating beverage, is also a hidden spring of the Scarlet\\nLife. Some men of high social standing have made practical\\nuse of their knowledge of alchemy in this direction. The\\nmagical properties of Hootch are unique, and are sufficient\\nto transform a poor miner into a millionaire for the time\\nbeing, and also to make a millionaire miner a poor man. It\\nis the claim of the knowing saloon-keeper, who prefers\\nnot to work, but to linger near a warm fire in winter while\\nthe miners work. He knows that at the clean-up the miners\\nwill salt his claim with genuine gold, and the precious metal\\nwhich shone with promise between the riffles in the sluice-\\nbox, will lie darkly under cover in his capacious sack.\\nMiners meetings are sometimes dry when the favored con-\\ntestant is privileged to furnish to the judge and jury the\\nliquid stimulant necessary to a decision in his favor.\\nShe would nt An Alaska miners meeting was called in\\ntell. in the case of an industrious colored woman\\nwho had a business, or means of acquiring wealth, which\\nwas a mystery to all. A prominent society man was charged\\nwith indebtedness to the amount of thirteen hundred dollars,\\nto this colored woman. An actor, not unknown to fame,\\nwas counsel for the complainant, and his brother took up the", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "151\\ncause of the defendant. A prominent Chicago physician was\\nelected judge. The oath of office was regularly administered\\nby a notary public, who was the Government agent. The\\nfirst sparring was done to obtain an itemized bill, and a prov-\\ning of the charge. An effort was made to secure her ac-\\ncount books, giving the names of other customers and\\namounts due. The woman, with the loquacity of her race,\\nwas entrapped into making damaging admissions. It finally\\ntranspired that one hundred dollars of the amount was for\\nfood for the defendant s dog, which she had recently cap-\\ntured and was holding for ransom in her cabin. The defen-\\ndant had cruelly tempted the dog to a jump for life through\\nthe cabin window. This was one case where the accused\\nwas acquitted by a miners meeting. The poor woman was\\nunable to recover what may have been a just debt, from a\\nlack of knowing how to make her claim in fitting terms.\\nTruth was obscured and its force weakened in an atmosphere\\nof ridicule.\\nFor everv ill miners meeting has been a panacea\\nfor all the ills of the miner, hence it hap-\\npens that the record of those meetings is as varied as is the\\nhighly wrought need and lurid experience of settlements so\\nremote from civilization.\\nTHE TRIAL OF SIGH WARNEM,\\nIt was a warm August evening and the Moosehide\\nmountain was all aglow with yellow sunset color, while the\\ngray clouds that trailed above the midnight dome were\\nblushing a beautiful rose-hued pink. The hurrying Yukon\\nreflected a golden color that looked quite real; as if fine\\ngold from its frozen bedrock had been released and floated\\non its surface.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152\\nAnd they Three ravens were sailing along above the\\nwere black. river, and the steam ferry was just arriv-\\ning from West Dawson with one passenger. 200 restless\\nspirits had just sailed for Cape Nome as steerage passengers\\non a down river steamer, and Dawson was in a sort of para-\\nlyzed condition, awaiting events. The hanging of two In-\\ndians and a white man for murder, one murder and suicide\\ncombined, and one suicide, with the discovery of the charred\\nremains of a murdered man in a partly burned cabin on Last\\nChance Gulch; several deaths from typhoid, the continuance\\nof the long continued stampede for the outside, of its in-\\nhabitants, and a few drowned, was all the month had afforded\\nto interest those who were waiting to be entertained. A\\ncrowd of miners had gathered around a faro game at the\\nCasino to see the little Jewess Mariette play high stakes and\\nlose $3,500. As Mariette retired, Taklaheena Bob, who was\\nreading a brand new P. L, called the attention of the\\ncrowd to a report on Alaska, by Sigh Warnem. There it\\nis, said Bob. Another one of those writers has been in\\nThev should passed that no\\nnot come. reporter, story writer, or book maker\\nshould be allowed to come further than\\nLake Bennett on the up-river route, or Rampart on the lower\\nriver route. Listen to what he says:\\nAll men ar liars, everybody knows, but for cheerful, in-\\nnocent, stupendous, monumental, colossal liars of the first\\nwater, the people of Alaska take the cake.\\nIt seems to be a part of the country that you soon be-\\ncome an enormous, mastodontic liar. But the people are\\ngood, whole-souled, kind fellows, with hearts as big as their\\nlies, who will put on a new bonnet and choker and come\\ndown to the boat and bid you good-by, even if you haven t\\nknown them more that a couple of days. The scenery, the\\ncountry, it s impossible to tell about it. Even the liars have", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "153\\nto stop when trying to tell about it, for they can t think big\\nenough. If I was going to be banished, I should like to be\\nbanished to Dawson.\\nI wouldn t believe my own father if he told me a thing\\nabout Alaska, even if he had lived there for years; for I\\nknow he couldn t tell the truth about that country; nobody\\ncan. They told me about mosquitos, and that I would have\\nto go coated in a thick immersion of pennyroyal to save my\\nlife; but I didn t see a single mosquito all the while I was\\ngone, and I don t believe one ever saw the country. Such\\nmarvelous scenery that passed us on our way down and up\\nthe river defies the world to equal. The Dardanelles don t\\ntouch it; nothing on earth is in comparison. It surpasses\\nanythingl ever dreamed of. The whole trip was a pano-\\nrama of beauty, except the voyage down, when I had to\\nsleep with an African.\\nThe most heroic men in Alaska are the women. They\\nare so enthusiastic that they take your breath away, and\\nmake you like the country whether you want to or not.\\nThey don t care for the hardships. Nobody will ever say a\\nword against the country. Even the hard-luckers have noth-\\ning to say for Alaska but good.\\nWhile I was there, two cases, involving the ownership of\\nclaims, came up. They were both between Canadians and\\nYankees, and the Yankees won, because they were right.\\nOne was about a woman who had staked a claim, but couldn t\\nget it recorded, and when she went back the next day found\\nsomebody else had recorded it. She proved this to the satis-\\nfaction of the judge and got her claim, which was worth\\n$200,000, and the Canadian was told he could appeal to Ot-\\ntawa if he wanted to.\\nAnd Sigh I propose that we go over to the Olympic,\\nhad gone. ^g there is no play on there this week, and\\nsend Old Handy, the Dawson Demosthenes, out with his 40-\\nhorse power voice to announce a miners meeting to try\\nWarnem for this offense. Nine o clock sharp. Boys, what\\ndo you say?", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154\\nThe classic Aye, aye was the answer that went up\\nfrom the crowd. Handy was soon out in\\ntrue Athenian style. At every street corner he paused, and\\ndelivered a short oration thus\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Now boys, I ve got some-\\nthing better for you to-night than the dear little Klondyke\\nSand-paper, and something more delightful than wine. Ce-\\ncilia s grand operatic concert, and the balloon ascension ain t\\nin it with this and the Paris Exposition Klondyke moving\\npictures don t compare. It s a miners meeting at the Olym-\\npic theater, at nine o clock sharp. Go and do your duty,\\nevery one of you get all the girls to go \u00e2\u0080\u0094we ll try the son\\nof a gun that has dared to come here and stay two days and\\nout again, to write our history. I tell you, boys, we ve been\\nrobbed that fellow gathered up enough lies in two days\\nto last him all winter, and he got himself inoculated so\\nhe can tell lies of his own; he has skipped out without pay-\\ning royalty, and, if the truth was known, I bet you ten dol.\\nlars he never took out a miners license, nor done a blamed\\nthing that was legal while he was in here.\\nIt *\u00c2\u00ab5 a fact robbed us he owes us get out a\\ncapias the prison yawns for him ^you go\\non boys to the meeting I ll be there myself as soon as I\\nmake the Grand view the Post-office block Nigger Jim s\\nPavilion and the Monte Carlo. I won t stop to orate long\\non such a subject as this everybody will go easy enough.\\nPromptly at nine the meeting was called to order by\\nTaklaheena Bob; a new curtain by Brown, the Klondyke art-\\nist, was let down. It was a garden scene. Adkin s yard,\\nabout two miles up the Klondyke river, on the right limit,\\nabout half a mile up the slant bank from the river, and about\\na mile and a half down from the top of the bank, which is\\nbroken in domes and divides. From its peculiar location,\\nthe garden is tipped up on edge, which, tho inconvenient for", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "166\\nthe purpose of agriculture, is handy for the artist. The\\ncurtain shows the residence of the gardener as two stor-\\nies high and built of boards, with a lot of gables, and a rus-\\ntic porch built of little poles. The garden is mostly a turnip\\nranch. In this country turnips are 25c each, and the leaves\\ngrow large, and tender, and juicy. The bugs do not eat\\nthem, but whether on account of the high price, or in def-\\nerence to the elite of the town, who use them for salad, is\\nnot known. The asters and marigolds look very beautiful,\\nas they peep through the picket fence, and the people stand-\\ning about are of the upper ten. Mrs. Judge Dothis and\\nmembers of the A. E. Co., the B. N. A. Co., the N. A. T. Co.,\\nthe A. C. Co. and some other companies which may not be\\nmentioned they have presumed to appropriate claims on\\nthe face of bluffs about Dawson as a place for their adver-\\ntisements, and the miners propose to show them that they\\nare off from the pay-streak, by boycotting such firms. Daw-\\nson was pretty well represented at the meeting between the\\ncurtain and the audience on the ground floor, and some girls\\nin the boxes, (who had proved an attraction to some of the\\nbank and company employees, thinking it was to be an occas-\\nion like the foregoing week, when they had, in those same\\nboxes, with the same or similar girls, run up wine bills to\\nthe amount of $100 or more each.)\\nThey all Judge O Flannigan was elected to the bench,\\nwere there. and the oath of office was admisistered.\\nO Flannigan was an American lawyer and had been repressed\\nso effectually by the British rule, which forbids Americans\\nto practice law in Dawson, that he was almost overcome with\\nemotion to find himself elected judge of a miner s meeting.\\nSeveral moments were required for him to collect his scattered\\nthoughts and prepare for speaking. But, finally he arose\\nin response to calls for A speech, a speech, and said", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156\\nFriends and Miners The honor you have conferred upon me\\nwell nigh breaks my heart. I was judge in Chicago for\\nyears, and learned the laws of many lands, I came to the\\nYukon, but I find that to bask in the sunlight of so much\\nBritish dignity and authority just withers and dries the mar-\\nrow in one s bones, The British will have no law except as\\ntold by British students, no medicine except\\nas prescribed by British pill-makers; they\\neven demand that no school shall be estab_\\nlished unless a competent British teacher can be found.\\nThey have no confidence in law; unless it is strained through\\nthe brain of some barrister and polished by his logic and\\ndrugs, through grown in other lands, must be fed to them\\nby British hands, and knowledge must be nursed as British\\npap. Such conceit and over-dignity, so nourished, should\\ngrow and thrive, and all the fees and profits go to British\\nsons. That is well, for when I go to court and see the little\\nbarristers so weakly tugging at their heavy cases, all at sea\\nfor what a wise experience would give, I say, Tis well to\\nthus protect the barrister he needs it let the client fare\\nas best he may he beards the British lion in his den he\\nmust be eaten. The British curb our wills and suffer with\\nus in their greed of power and high authority, to make\\nthe terms as hard as possible for us to live. They give\\nno titles to our mines, and only lease from year to year\\nto menace us, and then the wiser English withhold, with\\nothers, all the capital that they else might invest here.\\nThey send the soldiers and police out over awful trails to\\ncollect a royalty of 1/10 of the gross output of the mines,\\nwhich is more than the net profit to owners on the whole,\\nand capital again withdraws. They reserve one-half of every\\ncreek that is staked, for the Crown, and labor declines to\\nprospect and take so many chances of failing to record even", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "157\\nthe one small claim that is prospected. They license saloons\\n$1,000 and $2,000, and then refuse the importation of\\nliquors, and pile up thousands of dollars in value, of the stock\\nalready ordered at the boundary line.\\nAnd so the Yukon English play goes on mistakes of\\nprejudice and injustice of experience.\\nShe is so The Queen, good woman that she is, sends\\ngood. us a member of Parliament to see that we\\nhave no roads, that business is all gone wrong. This M. P.\\nmakes a public speech to say that the government is in\\nsympathy with the people, and their grievances will be at-\\ntended to; while he naively confesses that the people made a\\nmistake in sending their complaints to Ottawa.\\nThey should have sent a set of resolutions commending\\nthe Yukon government for its brilliant policy, and for its\\ndignity and power. They ought to have known better than\\nto complain, or to even suggest improvements. They should\\nhave taken our taxes with our compliments.\\nHe wants The British will be brought to the point of\\nto know. sympathy with us, but the miner will yet won-\\nder what his royalty of from $500 to $5,000 is for. The M.\\nP. thinks the people do not tell the truth about the amount\\nmined, and he would remove half the royalty as an induce-\\nment to the miners to be honest. The M. P. does not know\\nthe Yukon royalty collectors, nor the police patrol up and\\ndown the creeks, nor the sleuths in plain clothes out on the\\ntrails. If there was any reason for such a statement, some\\none s claim would be confiscated.\\nThe Yankee One surprising utterance of the M. P. is a\\ntricks. compliment to the shrewdness and acumen\\nof American business men, and an admission that Canadian\\nbusiness men might profit by their example. I would never\\nhave dared to say such a thing publicly, but here is an open", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "admission from a man of exalted position, of the cause that\\nunderlies all our trouble a lack of shrewdness and acumen\\notherwise, and said directly, a stupidity and a dull, blun-\\ndering, slow, mistaken policy. Power without ability. Au-\\nthority without tact and skill.\\nOur case has been diagnosed and we know what ails us,\\nbut tho an M. P. may admit the advisability of a Yukoner\\nas a teacher of Yankee shrewdness the Yukon Britisher\\nmay not see the need of it and may refuse to learn, and may\\nbe paralyzed, or fossilized, in his present condition, and as\\nlong as he retains power and authority we may suffer as of\\nold.\\nAs to the case in hand, since Warnem is not\\no ar a y. present I will not place his interests in the\\nhands of an amateur, but will appoint barrister Black, whom\\nI see present, to take charge of his interests. Taklaheena\\nBob may open the prosecution. The Judge sat down amid\\nan amused titter, which had arisen in the audience at the\\nappointment of barrister Black. Black was a young advo-\\ncate, whose knowledge of law and keen insight into the\\nmeaning of written documents, made him very competent to\\nadvise in complicated litigation, but, so great was his sense\\nof his own dignity and ability, he would scarcely give a\\nclient time to state what his claim really might be. He\\nwould usually shut him off in the middle of his recital, take\\nhis $250 or $500 retainer fee, and dismiss him with the in-\\njunction, Now go home and stay there do not ask me\\nquestions do not talk nor write to me, say nothing when\\nyou meet me, and I will fix this matter all right. Black\\naspired to the reputation of an oracle. He permitted his\\nclient s presence at the trial, but never inquired after wit-\\nnesses that might be called. Black and the law, and as\\nlittle of the client as possible, were all sufficient. Yukon", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "159\\nJudges sometimes ignore the law, but Black would never\\nlearn to fortify all sides of his case, and often lost his case\\nas a result of his dependence upon his own oracular wisdom,\\nand his neglect of weaker means of defense, so his appoint-\\nment to defend a client whom he had never seen, or possibly\\nheard of, appeared to the crowd as a bit of sly humor on the\\npart of the Judge. Bob and Black took two orchestra chairs\\njust below the center of the stage, and Bob arose to speak,\\nwhile Black tried to look bored, Bob said\\nIt s best Friends, as you know, our motives in\\nfor them. making the regulation that reporters and\\nstory-book writers should not be p ermitted to come farther\\ninto the country than Lake Bennett on the south and Ram-\\npart on the north, was not devoid of philanthropy, as it is a\\nuseless expense for literary people, who, as a class, have\\nno money to waste. Think of two women who recently\\nmade this trip with a great Dane dog, mak-\\nwas here entire distance from the mouth of\\nthe Yukon to its source, and all the way up\\nstream. What the dog endured eating Yukon river steam-\\nboat fare for weeks and weeks, no one will ever know. I\\ndoubt if he even learned the first octave of the malamute\\nhowl, or became versed in the art of opening tin cans with\\nhis teeth, or of handling a granite-ware pail full of steaming\\nhot food, without being discovered by the owner and without\\ngetting burnt. That dog never wore dog moccasins, nor car-\\nried a pack saddle filled with 50 pounds of tin can stuff in\\nsummer, nor pulled a load of cordwood in winter. He does\\nnot know all of the slang and profanity in the English, In-\\ndian and Creede languages, like the commonest, scrubbiest\\nmalamute in the pound, and, I venture to say, it is nothing\\nless than cruelty to animals to bring such a dog on a trip up\\nthe Yukon and out over the pass. The women could get", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "160\\nsome ideas of some things by landing at Dawson and stop-\\nping at a $10 a day hotel, but the life of Dawson is deeper,\\nand more far-reaching, and more complex and terrible than\\nto give up its secrets in such a way as that, and the dog-life\\nof the Yukon is not phased one particle by a visit from a\\nliterary great Dane dog reporter.\\nIn just As to Warnem, there are two mitigating\\ntwo days. circumstances one is, that owing to his\\nbrief stay of but two days, his visit may have been accidental,\\nand judging from his published statement, it is probable that\\nhe was lost. It is best for us to determine the nature and\\nextent of his offence, then we can fix upon a penalty. That\\nWarnem came here cannot be denied, and while here, during\\na part of two days, he did these things,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 He walked up Bo-\\nnanza to No. 76 and sat on one of the rustic seats, and drank\\nof the mineral water that some say is lithia and some seltzer,\\nin fact he discovered the mineral properties of that springy\\nfor while we have all been guessing, he has demonstrated the\\neffect of its waters. The remainder of his visit his call on\\nthe Governor and a sitting at the Gold Commissioners office\\nto absorb the spirit of official life\u00e2\u0080\u0094 does not signify. He\\ndrank of the free waters of the first and\\nH d L ^^^y genuine Klondyke mineral spring; and\\nthough he did not seek such fame, all the\\nworld will know the consequences of the drinks he drank.\\nThat was probably the cause of his hasty departure; he was\\nfull and his mission was accomplished. Ponce de Leon dared\\nmalaria of the Coast of Florida in search of the fountain\\nwhich would make possible to him a perpetual youth.\\nBrown-Sequard proposed a toast to nations in his so-called\\nElixir of Life, but since the mistake of Eve in eating of the\\ntree of knowledge, people have been wary of a search for\\nwisdom at first hand, preferring hearsay, and to profit by", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "s^M\\nH^^ ^l\\n1. Mineral spring at No. 76\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bonanza.\\n2. View of Bonanza creek from the trail at No. 79.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "162\\nthe dearly bought experience of the few. But here among\\nthe waste bedrock of our mines have we neglected a wonder-\\nful spring, and judging from the experience of Warnem, it\\nis a wellspring of knowledge, and we are chagrined at our\\nown neglect. Think of the tram road, with no tram, running\\nby this spring and collecting 50 cents a trip from a man\\nmushing his sled, [and 25 cents extra for the sled, over\\nthe snow that fell freely from heaven to make a trail, and\\nthink of all the fellows that pass with their pockets lined\\nwith miners licenses licenses to cut house logs, to cut\\nwood or to sell what grub they have to spare, and yet no\\nlicense to drink of this valuable water no royalty on the\\noverflow, and this book-maker has had all this benefit free\\nof expense, and without contributing a cent to the wealth\\nof the realm.\\nHe paid This Yankee story writer will now sell at a\\nno dues. j^jg^j price to the Yankees what he so\\ncheaply obtained.\\nThe situation is worse than I expected.\\nBill sat down dejectedly, and Black looked very tired.\\nPeder, the Swede, next came forward and spoke excitedly\\nas follows: I tell you, boys, it hurts my indignity to have\\na Yankee reporter get the best of us in that way. I say it\\nis out-diculous, and what does he do he don t look for no\\nyob with a pick and a shofile. I read that article. I know\\nwhat he does. He just sit down by dose spring and make a\\ngeography of the country. He discovers himself just two\\nmiles up Bonanza from the mouth. He pats himself on the\\nback and says, you re a good boy. Sigh take anodder\\ndrink of the water and go back to Dawson you ve done\\nenough. By Jemmeny Christmas! I give that fellow point-\\ners on the Gold Commissioners office when he said that the\\nYankee got the claim away from the Britisher. Couldn t he", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "163\\ntell that the Yankee was a woman f I wonder if he called\\nthat sizing up our officials; and to think he did not know\\nthat old crowd down at the steamboat landing he thought\\nthey were big-hearted citizens of Dawson down there to see\\nhim off. That old crowd was left back from last winter\\nthen they kept moving to save mushing wood, but this sum-\\nmer they just stay round the landin to see the steamers\\ncome and go, and to wait n^xt time for something non-\\nreasonable to happen. They re a cultus lot.\\nDose mineral water must be hot stuff, to find so many\\n48-hour old friends in that crowd. I know that fellow\\nSigh was lost. He thought he saw Alaska, and after a few\\nmountains along the coast from Skagway to the White Pass\\nhe went down miles and miles of British America and the Yu-\\nkon Territory and never even dreamed it. He heard of mos.\\nquitos in Alaska. Why didn t he go down to Alaska to dose\\nYukon flats and see about it? no one ever told anybody we\\nhave mosquitos in the Yukon Territory. If this is the intox-\\nicashun effect of the water, I say it is dangerous stuff a\\nman would not know what he is talking about.\\nPeder retired, and Prof. Linkus Gadder came forward,\\ntook a careless position before the audience, and began an\\naddress.\\nHe learned Friends and Miners. This man Warnem\\nthe news. seems to evince peculiar ability in discov-\\nering liars, or, rather, in admitting all men liars. There is\\none good thing, he did not talk to any of us while he was\\nhere; so whether it was the spring water or the officials, or\\nthe contesting parties, or the crowd on the dock that con-\\nvinced him we are such prize liars, is hard to tell.\\nAs to a law-suit over a claim, it would not be surprising\\nif some one lied the decision was a fact as to the crowd on\\nthe wharf; a sensible man would not expect much of friends", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164\\nof 48 hours picked up in such a country as this. It is a\\nmystery to me how a man can acquire such an understanding\\nof the truth as to be able to distinguish lies reliably in so\\nshort a time; it must be due to the mineral water. He is\\nonly another one who failed to comprehend that this life of\\nthe Yukon has many pleasures and infinite variety, and that\\ntwo people may each tell a true story of his or her exper-\\nience, and yet the stories may differ so widely as to appear\\nto be false. Comparisons are difficult to conjure that will\\nbe apt in discussing the life of the Northland and its en-\\nvironment, and if Warnem has given us a sample of his\\nfuture sketches when he cites the Dardenelles, he surely\\npromises something new and fresh in literature. He admits\\nof our Yukon scenery that the Dardenelles don t touch it.\\nHere is a mystery. What in all the panorama of the upper\\nlakes and rivers, could have suggested the Dardenelles to\\nSigh Warnem, even as a contrast? He must have been think-\\ning of Sweet Marie and how Leander swam the Hellespont\\nall for to kiss his beloved, and he got mixed with Yukon\\nscenery.\\nMr. Warnem should know that we do not deign com-\\nparisons. We are individual, unique, and no frivolous ap-\\npearance, but a severe test for his English, as well as for his\\ndiscrimination and judgment.\\nThe arctic The mineral water gets in its work again\\nbelies. when this book-maker writes about the\\nwomen that take his breath away, and make him like the\\ncountry whether he will or not just like a veritable sour-\\ndough, for all the world, and to come here from civilization\\nand not know that we have the most insinuating, tootsy-\\nwootsy darling lot of women grafters in Dawson that can be\\nfound anywhere on earth, and that they just take possession\\nof every man, especially if he has a well-filled poke. Sigh", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "165\\nwas only one of many, for even the two days he was here.\\nThey have owned the U. S. Consul the business men, the\\nminers, the soldiers and police, and why not the innocent\\nbook- writer? And this is the record of two days. What\\nmay we expect during the winter? I am more than ever con-\\nvinced of the justice of our act to prevent such trips to the\\nYukon. Give them Ogilvie s book on the Edmonton trail,\\nand a set of Commercial Co. s guide books with illustra-\\ntions and a map, and then let them write us up. Let them call\\nthe Yukon Territory Alaska, and the people liars. Let\\nthem read each other s books, and discover more lies and\\nmore liars. Let them talk about The Dardenelles and the\\nSuez Canal, if they wish; we will remain undiscovered and\\nvirgin territory for literature when they have passed away,\\nand the world knows what a lot of fair-weather tourists have\\nwritten, and thinks it has learned of the life of the Great\\nYukon the tragedy of nations the high tide of human\\nlife. The Professor retired and Black arose and said:\\nHe did Gentlemen, I cannot deny that my client\\nno harm. was here, but by your own admissions, he has\\nwritten nothing about you nor about the Yukon Territory.\\nHis writing is of Alaska, a country that we have nothing to\\ndo with. As to the mineral spring if he proves it a well-\\nspring of knowledge, we may well concede to him the benefit\\nhe derived from the use of its waters. I move that the case\\nbe dismissed, and a judgment rendered accordingly. Black\\nsat down and the Judge arose, and said:\\nWe are As to Warnem and all other writers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 we are\\ntoo deep. the same and undiscovered. They can make\\nup their books to suit themselves. Do as a recent writer did.\\nMove the Indian River from its place 20 miles above Dawson\\nand put it about 40 miles below Dawson. That is not much\\nof a feat. Follow the example of another who wrote of a", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "166\\nterrible experience from thirst, of prospectors up one of the\\ngulches, where sand and hot sun prevented the water-carts\\nfrom going never mind the inconsistency let the real peo-\\nple toil up the boggy real gulches, wet to their knees, and\\nthen write them as dying of thirst; let them climb the\\nmountains, and follow the ridges, and get mired in bog, and\\ndrowned in springs up there while they cry, Water, water,\\nor I die! Another may write of the snow-eating habit of\\nwinter, from the same cause. The poor victim becomes fas-\\ncinated with the habit. It is his manna in the desert it\\ngladdens his heart and intoxicates his senses he wastes\\naway and dies, and with his last breath calls for snow. He\\nhas not deigned to drink the open water of the rivers or the\\nubiquitous, perpetual springs of the creeks that flow on and\\non forever, wasting water enough to form a glacier 30 feet\\nthick in a season. The snow eater could always get water\\nby melting snow in a tin can over a little camp fire. But let\\nhim die in an opium dream after snow eating.\\nThink of the childlike innocence of the author who wrote\\na long account of digger Jim, the white singer of coon\\nsongs, so affectionately nicknamed by his friends, but by\\nthis wise author described as an aged negro cook discharged\\nfrom a river steamer and left penniless in Dawson, but,\\nthrough, staking a rich Eldorado claim, now a king rolling\\nin wealth. The origin of Yukon shrewdness and guessing is\\nas a defense against the Yukon inaccuracy of speech.\\nIt was his I wish to read you a clipping from a Dawson\\ndream. paper, which consists of twenty-five metered\\nlines, and signed by Sigh Warnem,\\nOn board the S. S. Astorian, Yukon river.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "167\\nTO THE DAWSON SANDPAPER.\\nIn your sanctum sanctorum\\nThere are many gems of art.\\nO er which the bright electric glimmer gleams.\\nAnd among them there s a picture\\nThat almost breaks my heart\\nA picture of a woman dressed in dreams.\\nThere s a hint of hope half hidden,\\nThere are dreams of fruits forbidden,\\nThere s the winsome wahabaya\\nWhere the tangled tresses fall;\\nAnd I ll own there s nothing, Peter,\\nNothing sweeter or completer\\nBut you ll have to\\nturn that picture\\nto the wall.\\nI had fancied in this heart of mine\\nAll passion long deceased.\\nI ve been virtuous from the springtime to the fall,\\nAll this sultry, sunny summer I have lived just like a priest\\nBut you ll have to\\nturn that picture\\nto the wall.\\nThere are hands that seem to draw me,\\nAnd my pulses throb and thaw me.\\nThere s an unseen something tells me\\nThat I m just about to fall.\\nNothing s dearer, and you know it,\\nThan his virtue to a poet\\nSo you want to\\nturn that picture\\nto the wall.\\nIn these lines, my friends, is much food for philosophical\\nreflection. It has been charged that the very atmosphere\\nof Dawson is a contagion that makes men what they were\\nnot before, even if it does not insure that they will be what\\nthey are. This man came here after ideas, and after lies", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "168\\ngathered on their native soil; but witness his experience as\\ntold by himself. I give this as an evidence of a peculiar\\nlife about the place that is possibly a contagion. He has\\ncompleted his tour of two days, has passed the wharf crowd\\nof 48-hour friends, and is on the up-river steamer. He is\\nnot troubled with blisters on his feet, nor with rheumatic\\npains, and does not long for home. He used to write\\nSweet Marie, but witness the change, and see what he\\nwrites after 48 hours in Dawson. And what does he see?\\nA woman not a nude picture, but dressed, and dressed in\\ndreams. This must be a new kind of dream that is even\\nmore unique than Jo s dream which covered the pay streak,\\nor blank ground, but we are left in doubt as to whether\\nSigh s dream covered or revealed. Popular literature has\\nhad its dresses that were dreams, but this modern poet\\nmakes a sky-rocket ascent and sees a woman dressed in\\ndreams leaving us in doubt as to the rest of her costume.\\nThere is one saving expression the hints of hope half\\nhidden.\\nWhat can But the winsome wahabaya is another\\nit be. mystery what can it be? It surely is not a\\nparka, for parkas are not winsome. It is not a bodice, nor\\na cloak, for while those may be where the tangled tresses\\nfall, they are not winsome. We must ever remain in\\nignorance of what the wahabaya is, although we know\\nwhere it is. But whether opaque or scanty as to dress, the\\npicture is complete. It is in the Editor s sanctorum, and\\nwhile Sigh s heart is almost broken he writes the lines\\nhastily; not to beg and plead, but just to state the fact\\nbluntly You ll have to turn that picture to the wall.\\nHave to are pretty big words to leave in Dawson, if only\\nas a prophesy of the fatal power of a picture. But, then,\\nthe Editor is an old timer, and is acclimated to dream-clad", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "169\\npictures, while Sign is a Cheechargo. Sigh then takes oc-\\ncasion to indulge in reminiscences. He was a passion-\\nless, no-good sort of a fellow, and boasts virtue. I do not\\nknow whether this is a sample Alaska lie which he is trying\\non us, or what he really does mean.\\nWhat does he Passion aroused and sweeping over the dead\\nmean? past like a Dakota prairie fire his pulses\\nthrob and thaw him. How can these wandering pen\\nartists deny that there is something spontaneously warm\\nabout Dawson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 our record is made, and henceforth we may\\nnot permit allusions to the glacial hell, or to the blue\\nmoon, or to the chill Northland \u00e2\u0080\u0094we are a warm, tropi-\\ncal climate all the year round, and our warmth has hands to\\ndraw a fellow like Sigh, and an unseen spirit to send an\\nelectric message chasing up and down his spinal vertebrae.\\nLucky Sigh, that the Astorian sailed that day, and did not\\npermit another twenty-four hours on shore, and another\\nperiod of basking in the Dawson warmth that thaws and\\nmakes a fellow in danger of falling. How near did the\\nworld come to having a record of a fallen man. But Sigh\\ndid not fall \u00e2\u0080\u0094he went home.\\nHe did not We may not decide hastily of the cause as to\\nfall. whether it was the atmosphere of Dawson or\\nthe spring water. He has given us the picture as a com-\\npanion piece to the woman dressed in dreams, and both must\\nbe turned to the wall.\\nYou have all heard the arguments. I propose that we\\nvote Sigh Warnem guilty of entering the territory, and that\\nhis sentence be to prove himself a consistent writer of all\\nthat he gathered while here.\\nAn overwhelming affirmative vote was carried, amid\\napplause, followed by dancing until morning.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "170\\nINDIANS OF THE NORTHLAND.\\nThey re fat The original Indian\\nand short, inhabitants of the\\nYukon are low of statue and\\nare rather disgusting looking.\\nFrom their appearance they\\nmight be wild Japanese. The\\nfierce northern winters have\\ntamed their native wildness.\\nThe moss-grown mountains and\\nboggy valleys do not tempt\\ntheir short legs to roam as\\nheirs of all creation, so they\\nsquat along the rivers in\\nmiserable tents, in houses made\\nof hides, in snow houses, in sod houses, in caves or small\\nlog cabins, and await the annual tour of King Salmon, when\\nthey build their traps and put out long rows of the de-\\nmortalized fishes like rags a drying, as sweet perfume to\\nquell the natural or acquired odor of their habitations in\\nwinter, while furnishing a means of sustaining life. Some-\\ntimes a resourceful one among them, in a moment of inspira-\\ntion, conceives a viler odor and a more exquisite degree of\\nfilth, and proceeds to prepare a pit, into which are cast the\\nbasely-captured fish, there to rot with worms and awful\\nstench until the cover is occasionally removed and the glad\\nIndians dip therein, with eager fingers, to regale a healthy\\nappetite.\\nAnd lazy too. Indian is a lax hunter, he kills a moose\\nor caribou occasionally for food or a bear,\\nwolf, fox, beaver or muskrat for fur. He builds a birch-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "171\\nbark canoe, or kyak, and skims over the surface of the\\nmighty, rushing river, unmindful of its swift current and\\ndangerous rapids.\\nIndians may fish in the waters of the Great Yukon, and\\nthey may eat fish, and smoke tobacco when they can get it,\\nand live on and on in a tame, spiritless existence, but their\\nsquaws were born to ultimately eat white man s muck-a-\\nmuck, if not to a better fate.\\nThe trader White men, ten or fifteen years ago, imagined\\ncame. that Indians of the interior would enjoy the\\nprivilege of buying tea, tobacco, jewelry and gay clothing,\\nbut they would hardly have taken steps to gratify them in\\nthat respect if they had not anticipated the Indians gen-\\nerous bargains in furs. So they journeyed hither, these\\nknowing white men, to profit by the ignorance and inexperi-\\nence of the aborigine.\\nAnd sold them These fur traders had no music, no books\\nguns. and no theatre. They had but one amuse-\\nment to place a gun, with an exceedingly long barrel, up-\\nright on the floor, and watch the poor Indian pile up skins\\nbeside it to the height of the muzzle. The gun then became\\nthe Indian s property; the skins belonged to the white man.\\nOther amusing exchanges were effected, exercising the\\ngenerosity of the Indian to the white man s profit. It was\\ninteresting to exchange a single bead for a skin, and a small\\nquantity of tea for a number of skins. This was the poor\\nIndian s first lesson in civilization, and to this day he is\\npondering deeply over whether or not he paid too dearly for\\nit. Wrinkles have been added to his face, and his spirit has\\nbeen quelled in this mental struggle, and he wears his green\\npants and yellow Mackinaw coat, with red bandana handker-\\nchief, sadly. The steamboat whistle, unable to awaken the\\ntorpor of centuries, may sound a requiem over savage life,\\nlost in a useless imitation of civilization.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172\\nSQUAW-MEN.\\nAbout the scattered trading posts in early days were\\ngathered men from the overflow of a too-full civilization,\\nand search was made in the earth for gold. The gold was\\nfound and was the honest reward of honest toil.\\nAnd took their It has never been discovered what cause led\\nsquaws. the miner to smirch this fair record. Pos-\\nsibly the trader, not content with the Indians generous con-\\ntribution of furs, had essayed to take his squaw, and thus set\\nthe pace for the unsophisticated miner. However that may\\nbe, the miner was not content with the golden gift of nature,\\nand ventured to prey upon humankind, and, having nought\\nhe cared to trade for furs, he took a squaw. She was often\\nneither ornamental nor particularly useful, but the white\\nman was inclined to make the best of the situation in a long\\nand patient effort to teach her habits of cleanliness and of\\nusefulness at least up to his own ideas of neatness and of\\ndomestic arrangement, which are not necessarily fastidious.\\nHe would endure much for the proud distinction of being\\nknown as a squaw-man. He might have a wife and family\\noutside some of them did but this was life! To dig in the\\nearth and pan out little grains of yellow gold, then to come\\nup out of the mine and seek the low door of his smoky,\\ndingy log cabin, and within its shadow, by the one pane of\\nglass that answered for a window, to espy the dusky face of\\nhis squaw companion to study if the fire-light made the\\ncopper-tinted glow on her cheek, or if twere nature s car-\\nmine blighted by a northern chill to ponder if her glossy\\nbraids were carressed by the well-nigh toothless comb, to-\\nday, or if twere yesterday, and did she bathe last week, or\\nwhen it rained? and to regret the rainless Yukon days.\\nAgain, her muck-a-muck and would she ever learn to cook?\\nAnd then, somehow, by some way and means the gods wot", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "173\\nnot- came the little half-breed mite, amalgam of the miner s\\ndomestic prospects\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and others yet of later date.\\nAnd now they The church essayed to train the Indians for\\nknow. a higher life, and took the girls into its\\nmissions and taught them English and how to live on white\\nman s fare, and, incidentally, to despise the tepee of their\\nfathers; thus affording, in a noble, well-meant charity an\\neasy temptation to these girls to become the unlawful prey\\nof white men. Very young Indian girls have been appropri-\\nated by white men, which they termed taking a chicken.\\nSquaws are regarded as property when in the possession of\\nwhite men, who occasionally have fought to the death upon\\ninterference with their squaws. White men often beat\\nthese poor creatures cruelly, and, upon leaving the country,\\nusually desert them, when they are forced to go back to\\ntheir tribe, with their half-breed progeny. The squaws are\\ninclined to join the Indians once a year, when they assemble\\non some favorite fishing grounds, to fish and participate in\\na season of dissipation, when the utmost license is practiced.\\nAt the present time the squaws are deteriorating in health\\nfrom association with white people. In some localities the\\nIndians are rapidly becoming exterminated from the ravages\\nof loathsome diseases, and from a lack of care and proper\\nmedical treatment.\\nTis bad for Whiskey is the ruin of the squaws; white men\\nthem. give them this intoxicant, and thus they be-\\ncome easy victims to their vilest moods.\\nIn the suburb of Dawson are a number of squaw-men\\nliving with their squaw or half-breed companions. A few\\nare respectable families, but some half-breed squaws\\npresent, through their association with white men, most\\ndisgusting spectacles. A fairly good looking half-breed\\ngirl was seen in Dawson one Sunday morning in company", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174\\nwith a white man. He had his arm about her waist and was\\nattempting to drag her to a near-by saloon. She wore no\\nhead covering, and her face wore an expression of abject\\nmisery, as she struggled to escape from him, all the while\\npleading, Let me go; I feel sick, and I want to go home.\\nHe persuaded, Come along with me. No, I can t, she\\nanswered. He replied angrily, Then you want to go with\\nsomeone else, I see it, you want to get away with someone\\nelse. He finally succeeded in pulling her into the saloon in\\nthe hope of giving her whiskey to stimulate her to the in-\\ndulgence in whatever dissipation his brutal instinct might\\nsuggest. His failure to perceive that her pathetic appeal\\nwas from pain and weakness, and from no other cause,\\ncertainly betokened in him a most vile and brutal nature.\\nThe stage- It is a matter of history that just over on the\\nstruck set. American side some men, of well-known repu-\\ntation, joined others less reputable in a most peculiar pro-\\nceeding, the details of which are not obtainable. Two Indian\\ngirls, named Netto and Gola, were made drunk and were\\ntaken to a sand pile, where a stage was improvised, but\\nwithout dressing-room or curtain. A vaudeville show was\\nextemporized, in which the audience were performers and\\nthe performers were audience interchangeably. There were\\nathletics, there was comedy tinged with reality, and tragedy\\ntempered by misgiving, and living pictures that the sun\\nstayed awake all night to blush over. Although there was\\nno curtain to fall when the actors yielded up the appearance\\nof life, the play was merged into a sombre tableau-\\nEmblems of the church were improvised and the unconscious\\nbodies were decorated with funeral lights. So delighted\\nwere these actor-miners with the result of their own re-\\nsourceful daring, they aspired to live it all over again, and\\na miners meeting was called for a mock trial. A well-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "175\\nknown M. D., whose name decorates the records of a great\\nin?titution in one of our largest cities, presided, and the\\nmock trial was undertaken for the further amusement of\\nthese men, who had dared an original attempt at theatricals\\non the Mighty Yukon; an event which marked an era in its\\ndramatic history.\\nHe ponders The squaw-man has made himself a squaw-\\nyet, man, and usually retrogrades by such in-\\nfluence. While the little he teaches his squaw of neatness\\nand usefulness may be good, he also thus prepares her to\\nsuffer from the cruelty of his ultimate desertion. Upon the\\nwhole, his record is not creditable. There are exceptions\\nas in the case of a man whom I will call San Sangson, who\\nhas accumulated a fortune by freighting with dog- teams and\\nhorses, which, as a business, is surer and more profitable than\\nmining. In winter, I visited his low, dingy log cabin, stand-\\ning against a picturesque bluff, around which the Yukon\\nsweeps in a majestic curve in summer, and against which\\nits broken, icy barriers are piled, in its last struggle for\\nfreedom, at the approach of winter. The one room, kitchen,\\nbed-room and living-room for the whole family, was in\\na state of disorder. One child lay dead in the house of a\\nneighbor. A girl of fourteen was lying in a bunk in one\\ncorner, ill with typhoid fever; the other children were jump-\\ning and playing noisily. The freighter and his squaw sat\\nweeping upon a roll of bedding on the floor. The front of\\nthe cabin was decorated with great masses of harness, hung\\nupon pegs. Dogs howled about the door. In a tent, close\\nagainst the cabin, a dozen horses were stabled. It was\\neasy to understand why the whole family had been stricken\\nwith typhoid fever during the summer,", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "176\\nSquaw-man and His Family.\\nAnd this\\none knows.\\nSangson knows something of law, and\\nthough a Dane or a Russian, can read and\\nwrite English. When asked as to prices for freighting, he\\nwill not answer verbally but goes home and writes a letter,\\nwhich he delivers personally. When business differences\\narise, he seeks his adversary at his home or on the street,\\nand will question and cross-examine him. A man at his el-\\nbow is his witness.\\nMrs. H., widow of Capt. H. of early days, a fur-trader of\\nprominence, is a half-breed, and a woman of wealth and cul-\\nture. Her business ability and distinguished bearing are\\nremarked by all who know her. Her sister, Mrs. W., is also\\na woman of culture and fine presence. The Indian women\\nare unassuming and gentle in their manners, and have low\\nwell modulated voices.\\nThey re The problem of the squaw-man presents\\nmodest, too. one phase which the new woman would do\\nwell to consider thoughtfully. A few squaw-men have", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "177\\nopenly avowed their preference for the Indian women over\\nwhite women. Not at all on account of beauty, or charm,\\nor intelligence, but because they are obedient and serve\\nthem faithfully. I interviewed an Indian girl, Tatto, who\\nanswered my inquiry as to whether she occupied her cabin\\nalone, by saying Oh, no, I live with my man. He has\\ngone to Forty-mile to look after his claim there. I have a\\nlittle baby nine months old, see him in his hammock. I\\nwent to the tiny hammock swung across one corner of the\\ncabin, to which my attention had been directed, and saw the\\nlittle half-breed baby. I said, Tatto, are you married to\\nyour man? She answered, No, my father will not allow\\nme to marry a white man. He thinks when they get money\\nthey will leave the Indian girl. I was out to the coast to\\nChilkat to see my people this summer. My man told me to\\ncome back so I did. I used to be in the mission at Sitka,\\nbut as soon as I came out I went to live with my man. He\\nused to be around Juneau seven years, but he said he never\\nknew any Indian girl but me. Tatto, do you love your\\nman and would you like to stay with him? I asked. Oh\\n2/es, she answered earnestly. Does your man love you,\\nTatto? I continued, I dont know she answered, hesitat-\\ningly, he never says. Tatto is twenty years old. Her\\ncabin is neat, though containing few articles for either use\\nor ornament.\\nWe know Thus is presented an object lesson for the\\nloo much. j^g^ woman. Man in his necessity turns\\nto the savage tribes for the obedience and unobtrusiveness\\nof our grandmothers. This may be the dawning of an era\\nwhen the pale-face woman will be left alone to coldly nour-\\nish her bicycle and her typewriter, while the Indian girl be-\\ncomes the mother of statesmen and of financiers.\\nThe white men who like squaws dislike the affectation and", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "178\\npretense of white women, and the inclination some evince to\\ntake unfair advantage of the favor of men. Indians despise\\nthe selfish and vain ways of white people, and call them pale\\ntrash. It devolves upon the new woman either to educate\\nman to relinquish somewhat of his authority, or to lose some\\nof him. The Yukon country affords pitiable illustrations of\\nthe desire for authority over others on the part of some\\nmen, who as a rule, are not especially able to govern them-\\nselves. First, in the intermarriage, or co-mingling, with\\nsquaws, and again in the free use of money to command, and\\nin a sense own, a certain authority over disreputable women.\\nIf the dissipations of men were limited to the single item of\\nsensual pleasure, it would be reduced 75% at once. The\\ngreat and ruling passion with men in the Northland is the\\ndisplay of wealth and power.\\nThey re found Indians are found in spots throughout the\\nin spots. Northland. As the Indians are migratory,\\nthose spots are difficult to locate permanently. Their his-\\ntory is not easy to discover and record. The Indian village\\nof to-day may be the primitive forest, or deserted shore of\\nnext year, with never a sign of human life. The Indian has\\ngone to new fishing or hunting grounds, and carried his his-\\ntory with him. Upon discovery of an Indian village it is\\ndifficult to learn whence its inhabitants came, or whither\\nthey will go. Much more diflicult is it to guess where the\\nIndians of several generations ago migrated from, or where\\nthey went upon disappearing. The Innuits, on the Eastern\\ncoast of Siberia, have something of the appearance of Japan-\\nese, and may have found their way northward from the Pac-\\nific Islands. At present they frequently cross Behring\\nStrait in boats, and camp on the western shore of Alaska.\\nYukon Indians appear much like the Innuits, and are found\\nin various camps the entire length of the Yukon and its trib-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "179\\nutaries. A small tribe is encamped on Lake Labarge, a few\\non Lake Marsh, and a few near the north end of Tagish Lake.\\nThe Aleuts are found along the southwesterly coast of\\nAlaska on the Aleutian Islands. About Pyramid Harbor,\\nSitka, Fort Wrangel, from Kodiak to Vancouver Island, are\\nfound, besides the Aleuts, the Sitkas, Hoonas, Chilkats,\\nStikines, Fort Wrangels, Thlinkets and Hydah Indians. All\\nsimilar in appearance to the Innuits or Siberian Esquimaux.\\nThey are short, fat, have broad, good-natured faces, greasy\\nskin and shiny black hair. They eat blubber, fish oil, dried\\nfish, and flour, tea and sugar as they can get them from the\\nwhite traders. The home of the Innuit is called a topek.\\nThe winter topek is made by setting walrus ribs upright for\\nthe sides, about a circular base; other walrus ribs are placed\\nabove against the center which forms the support for a\\nroof. Sods or dirt are banked against the sides and upon\\nthe roof, supplemented by a heavy coating of snow in winter.\\nThe topek is heated by means of an improvised oil lamp.\\nNo cooking is required, as the food of the Esquim-aux has\\nbeen previously prepared. The Esquimaux has no regular\\nhours for eating or sleeping, but follows his inclinations in\\nthese matters. The summer topek of the Innuits is made\\nby placing walrus skins stretched upon frames so as to form\\na kind of tent or house. Occasionally a piece of canvas or\\nor a tent is used.\\nOf boards The home of the Aleuts is called a barabara,\\nand sods. and is built of dirt or of pieces of wood,\\nwith the walrus skins stretched on the frame, or of any odd\\npieces of boards they may be able to obtain. The Aleuts, as\\ndo also the tribes further south, have what is called a sweat-\\nhouse, adjoining their homes. To this sweat-house the\\nIndian repairs for his bath, which is taken by means of\\nthrowing heated rocks into a small pool of water in the", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "180\\nYukon Indian Girls\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Grass for baskets drying, also gashed pieces of\\nsalmon. Behind the tallest girl is the door of their barabara or sod-house.\\nsweat-house. The compartment is nearly air-tight and a\\ndense steam is generated, which causes profuse perspira-\\ntion. After this steaming the Indian at once repairs to a\\nstream or sea near by and applies cold water, or snow, to\\nhis body, rubbing briskly. This is considered proper treat-\\nment in either acute sickness or chronic ill-health. In cases\\nof pneumonia, they die about four hours after the treatment.\\nThe life of the Indian is passed in a monotonous effort to\\nsecure necessary food, and the furs to protect him from\\nwinter s cold. His life is peaceful; he has neither politics\\nnor religion. His social life may remain in a state of de-\\nsuetude for years, but when he has social aspirations history\\nis made. Occasionally it becomes tragedy, as in the case\\nof the Hall Islanders who traded their furs to some whalers\\nfor whiskey. The whole tribe got drunk\\nand spent the remainder of the summer in\\nto starve.\\ndebauchery and revelry, neglecting to pro-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "181\\nvide the necessary dried fish and oil as food for winter.\\nWhen the whalers returned the following summer the entire\\ntribe had perished from starvation. This, however, is not\\nthe usual society event among these Indians.\\nThe Alaska Indians have been completely isolated from\\ncivilization until quite recently. It is hardly possible that\\nany of them ever heard an account of the Bradley-Martin\\nball, or of any of the affairs of the Vanderbilts or Astors;\\nhence the unique and elaborate social triumph called the\\npotlatch must be original with them. A potlatch is of\\nrare occurrence, but in this entertainment the Indian may\\nfairly claim a superiority over the white man in social enter-\\ntainment.\\nHe does The Indian does not care for political honors\\nnot care. or to be a spiritual leader and adviser of his\\ntribe. He doesn t care for bonds, or mortgages, or incomes,\\nor estates. All creation is his, anyway. His future food\\nsupply is swimming around in near by waters, taking care of\\nitself, and his future wardrobe is roaming about in the for-\\nest, or up in the mountains, and he has only to appropriate\\nwhat he needs to his own use; which places him, in a way,\\non a level with royalty. His one ambition is to be able to\\ngive a potlatch. To do that he must possess wealth equiv-\\nalent to from two to five thousand dollars. He may, by a\\nlaborious process, carve a totem pole, stain it in gaudy col-\\nors, and have it ready to be erected upon the occasion of the\\npotlatch, as a monument which will distinguish him as the\\ngiver of that function and the owner of the pole.\\nPreparations for a potlatch consist in invi-\\ntations which are sent some months in ad-\\nvance to the neighboring tribes, by heralds. A council\\nhouse, or large hall, is erected, and the royal host proceeds\\nto invest his entire wealth in blankets, beads and ornaments.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "182\\nA huge pit has been previously filled with fish heads and por-\\ntions of fish and blubber and, by a natural process, the oil,\\nwith the concentrated essence and aroma of the fish, rises\\nto the surface in a salmon-scented tribute to the occa-\\nsion. The day before a potlatch, squaws and Indian maidens\\nprepare the banquet, upon which occasion the guests are\\npermitted to dip their food in the oil as a salad, relish, con-\\nfection or bouquet. The toilet of the Indians, upon the occa-\\nsion of the potlatch, consists of bright-colored blankets,\\nfeathers, beads, necklaces of walrus teeth and turbans of\\nbrilliant feathers; their faces are smeared with bright-\\ncolored paints, large rings are suspended from their noses\\nand ears. Scalps and tomahawks do not figure in these\\nentertainments. Members of the tribe of him who enter-\\ntains greet the neigboring tribes as they arrive in their\\ncanoes, or by land, with a dance of welcome. Then all pro-\\nceed to the council house or hall, where some special dances\\noccur. These are not skirt dances, nor clog dances, nor\\neven the cake walk, but consist of a variety of contortions\\nwhich are said to recur in definite order.\\nHe s The giver of the potlatch makes a damatic\\nintroduced. stage entrance, wrapped in a huge bear-\\nskin, or in white drapery, according as his fancy may direct\\na disguise. After a season of acting or performing by\\nthe host, a speech or toast is offered by an attendant.\\nThe host then nerves himself for the occasion, and expands\\nin a dearly-bought pride, and in a glorious sense of his own\\nimportance, as he proceeds to give his entire wealth away\\nto the guests assembled; disposing of all the blankets,\\nbeads, red cotton cloth and gew-gaws that he has impov-\\nerished himself to purchase. The guests, after receiving\\nthe presents in silence, go away. If they are not pleased\\nwith the gifts, they will not return. Hence the giver of a", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "183\\npotlatch may part with his all and yet not be honored; if\\nhis guests return the potlatch is a success, and a general\\nrejoicing follows. The Indians join in a wild revelry and\\nwith various contortions, moaning, groaning, jumping and\\nkicking, this is continued, with almost superhuman effort,\\nfor a great length of time, or until the dancers fall down\\nexhausted.\\nTis over The next day a feast is given, and the pot-\\nnow, latch is over. The visiting tribes return to\\ntheir homes, the entertainers lay aside their best clothes,\\nremove the rings from their noses, wash off the war paint\\nwith a rag saturated in the same fish oil they had for salad,\\nand every-day life is resumed.\\nThe giver of the potlatch is now a poor Indian and may\\nbecome a dependent upon his tribe, but he has gained a cer-\\ntain caste by having given a successful potlatch. It is not\\nknown if this acquisition of caste benefits the Indian partic-\\nularly, or increases his credit or authority. It does not aid\\nhim in borrowing a dollar when he has no prospect of pay-\\ning, and his word in locating a boundary line, or in dividing\\nthe season s catch of fish or furs, is of no more value than\\nany other Indian s. His condition is similar to that of the\\ngiver of a civilized entertainment, only the Indian sacrificed\\nhis all to give the potlatch, and he made his guests useful\\npresents. His guests received a substantial compensation\\nfor their sacrifice of time and effort in honoring their host.\\nThe white man s entertainment is given from his abundant\\nmeans, and without sacrifice to himself. His guests assemble\\nto do him honor and are required to pay their own carriage\\nhire, while their refreshments and favors are of compar-\\natively small value.\\nHe has The Indians usually have a vague idea of a\\nno creed. future life and of a great Spirit, but, with", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "184\\nthe exception of one idol, which was erected by the Hydahs\\nagainst a tree in a forest at Klakwan, and before which\\nhuman beings were sacrificed, no Indian religious or pagan\\nceremonies have been widely advertised.\\nTOTEMISM.\\nIndians are somewhat deficient in sentiment, and their\\nimaginations are not active in the direction of spiritual\\nthings. They have not the civilized man s reverence for\\nauthority, either with or without adequate reason. Hence\\nreligion fits them as a parasitic growth rather than as a\\nnatural development. The Indian s one mental resounce and\\nunique accomplishment is in a peculiar habit of mind, known\\nas totemism.\\nThe swellest The Indian four-hundred is represented by\\nset. the tribe of the Hydahs. The Newport of\\nthe Hydahs is situated on Queen Charlotte s Island. The\\nearliest voyagers in Northern waters were astonished upon\\ndiscovering, at this place, the homes of these aristocratic\\nHydahs. Their cottages and mansions are solid structures,\\nbuilt of heavy, hewn logs and planks neatly mortised. The\\nroofs are supported by rafters and covered with shakes. In\\nfront of these buildings stand immense totem poles, forty\\nand fifty feet high, covered from top to bottom with curious\\ncarved figures. Queen Charlotte s Island produces a black\\nslate, sections of which are beautifully carved in unique de-\\nsigns, closely resembling ancient Egyptian sculptures. The\\nSheldon-Jackson Museum in Sitka contains a complete col-\\nlection of these slate carvings; scientists who have seen it\\nexpress a belief that the makers of these curios emigrated\\nto Alaska from another section of the globe. It is not\\nstated what part of the world is favorable to the develop-\\nment of skill in slate carving. The Egyptian and Central", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "1. Potlatch of the Klakwan Indians. The dance of welcome.\\na. The an-ival of visiting tribes in canoes.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "t3 a\\nWE\\n(D to\\nm:3\\n^0\\nI", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "187\\nAmerican carvers may have emigrated from Alaska. Totem\\npoles are found at Queen Charlotte s Island, Prince of Wales\\nIsland, Sitka, Wrangel and at various other places, but are\\nnot common north of Prince of Wales Island. The rigorous\\nclimate of the north does not admit of leisure and of out-of-\\ndoor employment in carving the poles, and there is also a\\nlack of timber for such use.\\nWe do not There are various theories as to the origin and\\nknow. meaning of totem poles; the Indians them-\\nselves do not know, as a totem pole means one thing to one\\nIndian and another thing to another. In one instance it\\nstands for tribal or social alliances, again it may represent\\na death, an accident or other remarkable event. The figures\\nupon a totem pole are neither of humankind, nor of animals,\\nnor of birds, but are most remarkable combinations. Oc-\\ncasionally the form of an animal is fairly well defined, or a\\nhuman face or head is outlined, but the figures are more\\nfrequently combinations of bird, beast and human features.\\nIt is evident from a study of many poles, that the totems\\nare a result of the Indian s recognition of a certain affinity\\nhe bears to the animal kind; -sometimes amounting to the\\ndeifying of a certain animal, as his ancestor. His son-in-\\nlaw, whom he disliked, he might designate on his totem pole\\nas a frog; his old maid neighbor, as a raven; while his ally\\nand good friend would be a mallard. The man whose pot-\\nlatch he had attended would be a whale.\\nThey are so No one, who has ever seen these totems on\\nqueer. their native soil, can deny that they have a\\nweird, uncanny influence that amounts to a spell.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "188\\nCAPE NOME,\\nThe first news of the Cape Nome gold discoveries reached\\nDawson in the spring of 1899, and was hailed with delight\\nby the disappointed miners who had struggled unsuccess-\\nfully against fearful odds in the Yukon territory.\\nWith the opening of navigation little parties of these\\nunfortunate men embarked in scows and in small boats for\\nthe long trip of 2,000 miles, from Dawson down the Yukon\\nto Nome. Varying reports continued during the summer,\\nuntil August the news of the beach diggings caused a\\nstampede to Nome. It was too late to attempt the journey\\nin small boats, hence every ticket that steamboat companies\\nwould issue was sold long before river boats arrived from\\nbelow. These boats, upon their arrival, were quickly un-\\nloaded and were off with such crowds of human freight as\\nnever before ventured upon frail river boats. Beds were\\nimpossible and men slept on floors, on benches, upon the\\nwood pile and about the engine room.\\nWhen a boat was to leave for Nome thousands of people\\ncrowded the river bank. There was no cheering, and no\\nmerry good-byes. The departing crowd left silently, and\\nthe remaining crowd looked silently at the disappearing\\nboat, only regretting that they were not of the fortunate\\nones who were going. For hours after the departure of a\\nsteamer for Nome the crowd would remain about the streets\\nin little groups, talking in subdued tones of Nome. There\\nwas a suppressed excitement until the atmosphere seemed\\nto be charged with a magnetism of unrest, as in times of\\nwar. Men who had neither money nor outfit were willing to\\nrisk health and comfort, and even life itself, to go to Nome.\\nMen who had cabins, and claims, and outfits, were ready to\\nleave all to go to Nome. The gamblers and saloon men,", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "189\\nwith the dance-hall girls and women grafters, scented the\\nnews of gold and a new camp, and promptly stampeded to\\nWome. Others planned to remove business and buildings to\\nNome. Dawson will be depopulated. The Scarlet Life of\\nDawson has already dawned in Nome in a roseate promise,\\nand will soon be a lurid reality. 1 have spent several\\nmonths in Seattle and in San Francisco, studying the Nome\\nproblem, as to future prospects, from the miners standpoint\\nand from the steamship company s standpoint, and from the\\nstandpoint of the coast outfitting cities. My conclusions\\nare these:\\nNome stands on a treeless, barren, inhospitable shore.\\nFogs and rains, with high winds, prevail in summer, usually\\ncold, but with periods of intense heat. The climate is\\nextremely unpleasant in winter from severe cold and winds.\\nShips anchor opposite Nome and unload by slow process of\\ntransferring freight to scows, when the waves are not\\nrunning high to make it dangerous. Nome is built near the\\nbeach, on what is called the tundra. The beach sands merge\\ninto the tundra, where the limit of the high tide renders\\nvegetation possible; the tundra usually extends several\\nmiles back to the hills, and is a miry bog of moss and nigger\\nheads, and of cesspools of stagnant water. It is a mass of\\nfilth and decaying vegetation in its natural state, and when\\ndug up it emits a horrible smell; this, with the addition of\\nthe garbage and filth of a town, quickly affords the con-\\nditions for epidemic, malignant typhoid. The filth from the\\ntundra seeps into the Snake River and contaminates the\\nNome water supply. The moisture from the tundra is very\\nlikely to seep through the beach gravel into any wells that\\nmay be dug, so that escape from its influence is well nigh\\nimpossible. The tundra is similar to, but worse than, the\\nbog flat upon which Dawson is built, and which caused the", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "190\\nawful epidemic of typhoid there, the extent of which has\\nnever been estimated. I camped on the bench just below\\nthe Catholic Hospital in Dawson for two months, and it was\\na surfeit of horror to see the litters pass with the sick and\\ndying, and to see the black boxes carried up to the burial\\nground in about the same proportion. Pure water is scarcely\\npossible to Nome. A company is organized to bring water\\nby means of a wooden conduit from Moonlight Creek, but\\ntime will be required to complete such a work, and it will\\nnot be likely to operate in cold weather.\\nThe stampede to Dawson was a calamity, but Dawson has\\nideal places on the mountain sides and up the gulches for\\ncabin homes. There is abundance of wood for cabins and\\nfor fuel. The climate of the Yukon is incomparably de-\\nlightful at all seasons, and its landscape a panorama of\\nbeauty. In winter the Yukon water is pure, in summer the\\nKlondyke water may be used by boiling thoroughly. People\\nmay escape from Dawson by poling up the rivers in summer,\\nif unable to pay steamboat fare, or by a trip over the ice in\\nwinter. There are blueberries, currants, cranberries, fresh\\nvegetables in small qualtities, if one will raise them, moose,\\ncaribou, ptarmigan, ducks and fish as game; but at Nome\\nthere is little possibility of either comfort or safety at any\\ntime, and no reasonable chance of escape except in mid-\\nsummer. Work is only possible from July 1st to September\\n15th, and there will never be transportation for a large\\npopulation to leave Nome after September 15th. Nome\\ngold lies on or above the so-called bedrock in creek claims,\\nwhich lies from three to four feet below the surface. The\\ngravel and rock from the surface to the bedrock is usually\\nthrown into the sluice boxes and washed. The labor of\\nmining the Nome creek claims is about equal to sluicing the\\ndumps in the Klondyke region, except from lack of sufficient", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "191\\nwater at Nome. The Klondyke miner labors all winter to\\nthaw and elevate his pay dirt to the surface of the ground,\\nas the bedrock is from twelve to fifty and a hundred feet\\nbelow the surface. The dumps freeze solid. The Nome\\nminer is enabled to rest all the winter, while the Klondyke\\nminer must work. The Klondyke miner sluices his dump,\\nwhile the Nome miner sluices his pay dirt directly.\\nBy industrious inquiry, and exhaustive clippings from\\npapers, I have found upon authority that ought to be reli-\\nable That the original discovery of gold on Anvil Creek\\nwas by twelve different men. That gold is found on a great\\nnumber of creeks, also that gold has only been discovered\\non Anvil, Snow and Dexter Creeks, these being short gulches\\nalmost devoid of water and affording but few claims. That\\nthe pay streak is very rich, also that the pay streak does\\nnot compare with Eldorado in the Y. T. but, from the fact\\nthat the pay streak is near the surface, a large quantity of\\ndirt can be handled at small expense, yielding a larger net\\nreturn in a given time by a given number of men. That\\nthe beach diggings were discovered by Indians, also that\\nthey were discovered at various times by different white\\npeople. That the coarse gold is near the water s edge.\\nThat the coarse gold is near the tundra. That the pay\\nstreak on the beach is twenty-five feet wide. That the pay\\nstreak on the beach is five hundred feet wide. That gold is\\nfound on the beach for a distance of several hundred miles.\\nThat gold is only found on the beach between Nome and a\\npoint opposite Sledge Island, about fifteen miles to the west-\\nward, with several barren spaces within that limit. That\\nthousands of men cannot exhaust the beach gold in a life-\\ntime. That the beach diggings are now practically exhaus-\\nted. That the beach diggings are the the poor man s dig-\\ngings. That the poor man who digs on the beach can only", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192\\nmake wages. That two men have rocked seven thousand\\ndollars in thirty days. That two men averaged two hundred\\ndollars a day each for a month. That all the beach diggers\\nmade at least fifteen hundred dollars. That many beach\\ndiggers made little. That some beach diggers made noth-\\ning. That J. H. Lewis reports from Washington, over his\\nown signature, that he cannot secure for the miners the\\nright to control the beach. That he cannot resist the pres-\\nsure brought to bear to place the beach in charge of the\\nmilitary. That the military last summer arrested the miners\\nand attempted to prevent them from working on the beach.\\nThat the military had no means of sheltering and confining\\nthe army of beach diggers after they arrested them. That\\nThat the military underwent the humiliation of being com-\\npelled to discharge the beach diggers. That the military\\nhaven t forgot what happened last summer. That when the\\nmilitary have authority to make their acts effective they\\nmay ask commerce to go around by another route to accom-\\ndate the miners. Also that the military may clear the beach\\nfor the benefit of commerce. That Nome gold w^as really\\ngold from the Klondyke. That no gold was shipped from\\nNome. That three million dollars in gold was shipped from\\nNome, That Nome is so easily accessible from civilization\\nby ships as to make the cost of living very low. That fresh\\nmeat in Nome was $2.50 a pound in summer, lodging $3.00,\\npancakes 50c a piece, coal $100 a ton, and lumber $200 a\\nthousand.\\nFrom averaging reports, and from the careful, detailed\\nreport of an exceptionally reliable man, whose name I cannot\\ngive, as he was to go to New York in the employ of transporta-\\ntion companies to manage a Cape Nome information bureau,\\nI believe the conclusion may be assumed:\\nThat some work was done on Anvil Creek resulting in a", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "193\\nprofit to Lane, Price, Linderburg, Lindebloom, Bostrum and\\nothers, of from twenty-five thousand to two hundred thous-\\nand dollars each. That three million dollars was taken from\\nthe beach. That the value of the tundra and of creeks\\nother than those mentioned above is unknown, but that the\\ntundra will prove as good as the beach. That every square\\nfoot of ground from the beach to the mountains, and prob-\\nably to the Arctic Coast, beach, creek, tundra, mountains\\nand plain is staked. That the stampeder will sail to the\\nNorthland on one of the ships that are advertised to land at\\nNome, but which land in Behring Sea, opposite Nome. When\\nhe, with his outfit has been lightered ashore, he may find the\\nmilitary guarding that shore in the interests of commerce.\\nThat the tundra has been platted in town lots, which are\\nowned by individuals. If he would set his tent, which the\\noutfitters have advised him to travel with, he will find these\\nboggy lots are valued at from one to ten thousand dollars\\neach. He may rent a little square of the great golden\\nNorthland, large enough for his tent, at from five to ten dol-\\nlars a month, as he did when he stampeded to Dawson in 1898.\\nHe may, for a consideration, induce the military to include\\nhim in the interests of commerce sufficiently to admit of his\\ncamping on the beach. When he raises his tent the over-\\nhead conditions will be agreeable except for rain, but under-\\nneath will be an oversupply of moisture. His blankets will\\nsoon be wet, his clothing will be wet, his food supplies will\\nbe wet, aud the wind will blow against the tent, and salt\\nspray from the sea will mingle with the mist from above in\\na damp condition that will prepare him for an attempt at\\nprospecting or rocking all day while standing in water to\\nhis knees if\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he is fortunate enough to find that the inter-\\nests of commerce admit of his working on the beach, or if\\nhe succeeds in getting a lay on some other man s claim.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194\\nThe outfitters advise men not to go north to work for\\nwages. If they would prospect they will soon be found cal-\\nculating how far they can travel over the tundra and hills,\\nand exist upon the amount of food they can carry with\\nthem fromNome, and how they can safely store their outfits\\nleft behind, A man can carry thirty-five pounds on such a\\ntrip, possibly fifty pounds. He requires a blanket, a pick\\nand a shovel. He requires at least three pounds of food a\\nday, hence what he can carry will provide for a trip of\\nabout ten days. He is three, four or more days distant from\\nunstaked ground, and his prospecting tours are not apt to\\nbe a success, as he will be compelled to spend from six to\\neight days on the trail, to provide food at the scene of the\\nprospecting for from two to four days work; water is scarce\\nand he will be delayed in carrying water with which to pan\\nthe dirt he is prospecting.\\nThe outfitter advises a certain list of articles as food. It\\nis easy for the stampeder in civilization to rise from a din-\\nner of roast beef and potatoes and go to an outfitting com-\\npany and buy beans and bacon for breakfasts, dinners and\\nsuppers during a stay of long months in the Northland. But\\nto eat such food without fresh meat, vegetables, milk, fish\\nand fresh fruits month after month, is very different, es-\\npecially as cooking is done under unfavorable circumstances,\\nand often by those who are incompetent to do such work.\\nTo maintain health under those circumstances in any climate\\nis practically impossible. It may be well for the stampeder\\nto take one-twentieth of the year s food and with his tent\\nand camp outfit, go out upon some boggy swamp and remain\\ntwo weeks; drinking the swamp water and endeavoring to\\nsustain life with food prepared by his own hands. Let him\\nsee how the experiment agrees with his constitution. Such\\nan experiment would be likely to result in a change of plans", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "195\\nby the stampeder, as to his outfit. The bacon and beans are\\ncheap and may be taken. Beans are easily destroyed by\\ndampness and it would be useless to transport beans to\\nthe Alaska seacoast in canvas sacks. The same may be said\\nof other foods. The miner s outfit should include a liberal\\nsupply of the best brands of canned meats. Evaporated\\npotatoes may be cooked in a hash with canned sausage, as a\\nstaple to alternate with beans and bacon. Canned roast mut-\\nton in small cans, and boned chicken and turkey are very\\nvaluable. The miner should provide two pounds of butter,\\nfour pounds of sugar, three or four cans of condensed milk,\\nand two cans of best-grade tomatoes for each man per week,\\nLima beans are valuable. A can of best grade of canned\\ncorn added to two quarts of Lima beans cooked but not\\nbroken, with one-fourth can of condensed milk and a little\\nsugar, makes a palatable food to alternate with beans and\\nbacon, and is easily prepared. Evaporated green peas are\\nvaluable if used properly. To one quart of the green peas\\nadd three pints of cold water and salt to taste, add half a\\nmilk can of cubes of sliced bacon, the same quantity of\\ncubes of bologna or summer sausage, one teaspoonful of\\nbeef extract, one-fourth milk can evaporated celery. Evap-\\norated leeks or onions may be added in small quantity, and a\\nfew evaporated parsnips. Stew until the peas are cooked\\nbut not broken, keep the peas well covered with water, the\\nsoup should be clear when served. This soup may be warmed\\nover, and will keep several days in cold weather. Beef extract\\nshould be included in a miner s outfit, also malted milk tab-\\nlets for use in case of sickness. Plenty of summer sausage\\nbut no dried beef, except in cans. Summer sausage in cans\\nis best for all use excepting pea soup. Pilot bread is useless\\nexcept in case of threatened starvation. Edam cheese is a\\ngood investment, also tin boxes of good crackers. Canned", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196\\noysters and clams should be avoided but canned clam juice\\nis very useful. Canned fruits are indispensibe. The best\\nbrands are cheapest. Peaches that cost at the outfitters\\ntwelve and fifteen cents a can are usually worth seventy- five\\ncents and a dollar a can .in Northern camps and require the\\naddition of one-half pound of sugar at thirty cents, but when\\nserved in the miner s cabin have not one-tenth the value of\\npeaches put up in sugar syrup that cost twenty-five and\\nthirty cents outside. All brands of canned goods should be\\ntested by opening one can; great precaution in their selec-\\ntion should be exercised. Outfitters, as a rule, sell very in-\\nferior brands of canned goods to miners. Canned pineapple\\nis the most satisfactory of the outfitters canned fruit. It is\\npossible to buy canned peaches, apricots, greengages and\\nother fruits in sugar syrup, that are valuable. Only the best\\nbrands of butter, baking powder, yeast and soap should be\\ntaken. Beware of the outfitters unknown brands that are\\njust as good. If the stampeder does not know the differ-\\nence between cane sugar and beet sugar, he should seek\\nenlightenment. Also as to varieties of tea and coffee. A\\nfull and complete list of medicine and of useful drugs is in-\\ndispensible as a part of a miner s outfit. These articles and\\nthe luxuries mentioned are a source of vast profits to local\\ndealers, as many items which are considered luxuries here\\nbecome positive necessities before the miner has progressed\\nfor any considerable time in his life remote from civilization.\\nHis stomach will refuse the beans and bacon, and baking\\npowder or sour-dough bread, and his system will rebel in a\\ntrue scurvy, and the miner will spend his last dollar for fresh\\nmeat, or for canned tomatoes or fruits.\\nThe packages comprising a miscellaneous outfit should\\nbe properly packed for shipment, under the supervision of\\nthe owner, and should be identified as the articles he bought.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "197\\nwhich will prevent the great disappointment and possible\\nloss occasioned by substituting inferior grades of goods, les-\\nser quantities, or by a failure to send part of the goods which\\nsometimes occurs in the case of careless or dishonest outfit-\\nters. Boxes should be bound with wire.\\nThree hundred gallons of distilled water would be val-\\nuable, and would afford the miner two gallons each day for\\nfive months. Six hundred gallons as a year s supply would\\nbe better, as the water from Moonlight Creek may be impure\\nand may be too expensive by the gallon. The company may\\nalso fail to convey that water to Nome by means of a wooden\\nconduit.\\nAnother accessory to a Nome outfit, is a metallic burial\\ncasket. It may be needed for the return trip, if not needed\\nit can readily be sold at a large profit to some one who does\\nneed it.\\nIf the stampeder takes with him a complete outfit of\\nfood supplies, clothing, fuel, house, drugs and medicines,\\ntools and machinery, he will provide for himself econom-\\nically. By his neglect he will enrich the Nome dealer.\\nIf he buys stocks in syndicates and in companies, he will\\nhave prospects and a costly experience. When corporations\\nand mines are known to be rich the stock is not sold cheap\\nto strangers. There is no case on record of a poor stock-\\nholder being raised to affluence by sudden expansion of his\\nNorthern mining stock. The promoters of such schemes sell\\nprospects for money.\\nEven when all is said the prospects at Nome will prove\\nsufficiently alluring to tempt the venturous stampeder to\\nleave civilization, and to dare even death, in a search for\\ngold! He will try to make his way across the tundra. He\\nwill sink into the mud and water to his knees, pulling one\\nfoot out by a strenuous effort then struggle to get the other", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198\\nfoot free, falling over bogs, and with no place to sit down\\nand rest. When some man, with a concession or an exclu-\\nsive right, builds a road across the tundra, he will pay his\\ntoll of from one to five dollars, and will roam beyond the\\nhills looking at the claims of other men. He will be cold\\nand wet, and tired and hungry, and on every hand will find\\nthat means to relieve his discomfort are only obtained by a\\nsacrifice of a large amount of money. When he turns to the\\ntransportation company that painted the trip to him in such\\nglowing colors, inducing him to go to Nome, he will find\\nthese companies have been working a clever scheme. When\\nthey have a large number of people at Nome they have them\\nin a trap. If they would get out they must pay what the\\ncompany demands. Last year in Dawson there was no fixed\\nprice as fare to Lake Bennett. If two or three boats were\\nloading, or large numbers going down the river, the fare\\nwas forty dollars and fifty dollars. If there was but one\\nboat, and many passengers, the fare was ninety dollars and a\\nhundred and twenty dollars. The fare from Seattle to St.\\nMichaels by S. S. is usually forty and fifty dollars, but last\\nfall the ships charged one hundred and two hundred dollars\\nfor bringing people from Nome. Passengers who came down\\nin October on what is considered the best ship on the route,\\nreport they were charged two hundred dollars fare. The\\nship was crowded with passengers, so that even halls and\\npassages were occupied. The ship sailed from Nome without\\nballast, and a most dreadful sanitary condition prevailed.\\nOnce at sea a system of grafting was inaugurated by the\\ncrew. Passengers were required to pay exhorbitant rates\\nfor attention, and even for necessities. It was estimated\\nthat the steward made seven thousand dollars on the trip,\\nby his successful grafting.\\nThe schooner Hera left Nome overcrowded with pas-", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "199\\nsengers, and with an inadequate supply of food, which was\\nsoon gone, and the water supply exhausted. Several pas-\\nsengers died from starvation and exposure, and all suffered\\nuntold agony from hunger and thirst. The Laurada, with a\\na valuable cargo, went to pieces on a rock off Dutch Harbor;\\nit is said that she was unseaworthy when she started. Other\\nunseaworthy boats will sail for Nome. The men who want\\nthe fares of the stampeders will risk loss of life and\\nproperty.\\nAn outfitting firm in one of the coast cities equipped the\\nJane Grey during the Kotzebue Sound stampede. This boat\\nproceeded several hundred miles on her journey, when, with-\\nout warning, without stress of storm or tide, she rolled over\\nand sank; but four of all those who were on board survived.\\nRelatives of those who perished entered into extensive and\\nlong-continued litigation, in an effort to obtain justice, but,\\nby a recent Supreme Court decision, the outfitters were held\\nliable only to the amount they received for fares and freight,\\nwhich they succeeded in having estimated at about $6,000.\\nThe majority of people, who have some knowledge of\\nmining and of stampedes, are going to Nome to sell whiskey*\\nor to manage dance halls and gambling houses; to build cheap\\nbuildings and sell them, and to run restaurants and bunk\\nhouses. One man will build a bridge over Snake River and\\ncharge 50 cents toll. These people go with schemes to get\\nmoney from the stampeders and from the miners, but not to\\nmine. An army of bunco men will go to Nome. The bunco\\nman, the saloon man, the gambler and the dance-hall girls\\ndid not need to mine in Dawson. As soon as the clean-up\\nwas over the gold all found its way to them. If similar\\nconditions prevail at Nome they will be alike successful.\\nThe laws of the Yukon territory are notoriously inade-\\nquate. The strict administration of those laws only tends", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "Itut^ i s-M :i^y^ iiLx.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0mCrttil SPOT ON EAUTH\\nTHE FAST BARK\\nIHEPP\\nR. D. WIDK8, CommaiHllng.\\nr Kotzefue So\\nFields, on Of \u00c2\u00abtiniii\\nMAY 1st. 98\\nV^lll Sail for Kotzefue Sound\\n(kid\\nMENRV L. BORDEN, C-ixoril MinasM\\nSample of boom articles of 1898 after history has been made to demon-\\nkte the actual result of such reports. In the case of Kotzebue the result\\nstrate the actual result of such reports\\nwas loss of life and property to many.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "201\\nto exaggerate their bad qualities. A large number of law-\\nyers aim to get people into litigation, and then manage to\\ntake what they have. Bad as is the business outlook in\\nDawson, Nome does not promise an improved condition. The\\nact of the military at Nome in arresting the beach diggers,\\nwas a Siberian-Canadian-American episode that bespeaks\\nmore a display of power than of reason. The Canadian offi-\\ncials are very careful not to steal or rob, or do any unlawful\\nact. The Indian boys were hung legally. The labor of\\nprisoners is acquired by process of law. Outfits of spiritu-\\nous and malt liquors are confiscated or retired from active\\nuse in business by a manipulation of the majesty of the law.\\nAll is done with dignity, and in order, and effectively. At\\nNome the Americans are more crude in their efforts, it\\nwould seem, as was evidenced by a circumstance recently\\nreported from that camp, by which all the official lights\\nwere extinguished at once, and by a supreme folly of those\\nsame officials, who, like the foolish virgins, were barred from\\nthe glory of Nome, and were led ignominiously to St.\\nMichaels by their outraged but unofficial accusers. The\\nChief of Police and his attaches are reported to have been\\ncaught in the act of stealing whiskey, and were apprehended\\nand arrested by the miners. This proves a great lack of re-\\nsource on the part of the authorities, as they could easily\\nhave spoken into existence a Sunday closing act, or a\\ndebtors prison, with a clause enabling them to confiscate\\nthe property upon any appearance of violation of the law.\\nA prominent Judge has resigned a very important posi-\\ntion to practice law in Nome. It is said that a prominent\\nlawyer refused the office of High Commissioner of Alaska to\\npractice law in Nome. The lawyers will be at Nome with\\nthe bunco men, the sharpers and the grafters, and woe be\\nto the unsuspecting stampeder.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "202\\nGLOSSARY OF YUKON TERMS.\\nAccuser, the man who has made no\\nstatement under oath and sits\\nby serenely watching the opera-\\ntion of the machinery of English\\nlaw at his command in prose-\\ncuting, or in persecuting, one\\nwhom he desires to injure.\\nAdvocate, an English lawyer, a Bar-\\nrister.\\nAliens, Ninety per cent, of the popu-\\nlation of the Yukon Territory.\\nThe ones who do the work and\\npay the royalties and fees.\\nA Bonanza King, worth $20,000 to\\n$50,000.\\nA Klondyke King, worth $500,000 gross.\\nA King of the Klondylte, worth $100,000\\nto $300,000.\\nA Long Pol e a well-filled gold sack.\\nThese sacks vary in size from\\ntwo inches wide by eieht inches\\nlong to four inches wide by four-\\nteen inches long, and are made\\nof deerskin.\\nAn Eldorado King, worth from $50,000\\nto $100,000.\\nArrest, when an accused person is\\ntaken to prison.\\nA Poke, a sack containing gold dust.\\nA Grub-Stake, food sufficient to last a\\nseason. A stake is money\\nmade or saved\\nBarracks, the Dawson Prison with a\\nguard-room attachment, and a\\nquadrangle, around which are\\nlog buildings, the quarters of\\nsoldiers and mounted police.\\nBarrister, a Canadian lawyer,\\nBateau, a boat pointed at both ends.\\nBed Rock, a stratum of solid or shaly\\nrock, upon which the gold in\\nmines is found, and which lies at\\na depth of from five to one hun-\\ndred feet below the surface.\\nBench Claim, ground the pay streak\\nof which is on a higher level\\nthan the creek.\\nBunk, a narrow bed made of poles or\\nboards, upon which may be laid\\nspruce boughs or blankets.\\nCanadians, ten per cent, of the popu-\\nlation of the Yukon Territory\\nwho rule and punish the 90 per\\ncent, who are aliens.\\nCash In, is when dance-hall girls col-\\nlect their commissions at 7 a. m.\\nCache, a small platform, on four\\nposts to be above the reach of\\nanimals. Food supplies are\\nplaced upon the platform, and\\nare covered by a tent or tarpau-\\nlin. Sometimes a small house of\\nlogs, with a dirt roof, is erected\\non the platform, and sometimes\\na Cheechargo boat is sawed\\napart crosswise at the middle,\\nand is elevated upon four posts,\\none section forming the floor and\\nthe other turned upon it for a\\nroof. A door with a lock closes\\nthe open end. The food supplies\\nthus stored become the cache,\\nas well as the structure itself.\\nAll cabins have a cache attach-\\nment, which is an out-of door cel-\\nlar. The prospector caches his\\nprovisions when he goes on a\\ntrip, and returns to his cache\\nfor new supplies.\\nCheechargo, an Indian word meaning\\nnew comer.\\nChecks, tickets given the dance-hall\\ngirls, good for 25 per cent, of what\\ntheir partner pays for at the bar.\\nClean-up, when the water is shut off,\\nthe riffles removed, and the gold\\nseparated from the remaining\\nsand.\\nClaim, 250 feet in the Yukon Terri-\\ntory, and 1,000 or more feet in\\nAlaska, up and down the creek.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "20a\\nColors, small particles of gold found\\nupon prospecting.\\nCourt, the Yukon British rocking\\nproposition; fines and penalties\\nare its clean-up.\\nCriminal, the man who plans his\\ncrime and seizes upon one of the\\nmany means at hand to escape\\ndetection, hobnobs with the po-\\nlice and watches them catch the\\nfellows guilty of such petty\\noffences that they did not realize\\ntheir danger of arrest.\\nCultus, worthless.\\nDead Men, empty or partly filled bot-\\ntles of liquor, served and charged\\nto patrons a second time, after\\nhaving been paid for once.\\nDome, a rounded mountain top higher\\nthan others near by.\\nDog Team, a string of from two to\\nnine dogs harnessed one before\\nthe other, and pulling a sled, or\\ncart, or other load.\\nDust, gold in small pieces, varying\\nfrom grains the size of a grain of\\nsand to pieces weighing several\\npounds. Dust is taken at about\\nfifteen dollars per ounce at the\\nbanks, and at stores in trade for\\nabout sixteen dollars.\\nDump, a pile or mound of pay d rt.\\nDyea Trail, from Dyea to Canyon City\\nover the Chilkoot Pass, down\\nCrater. Long and Deep Lakes to\\nLindemann, through the One-Mile\\nCanyon to Bennett, down Lake\\nBennett, Caribou Crossing, Ta-\\ngish Lake, Six-Mile River, Marsh\\nLake, Fifty-mile River, (in the\\nMiddle of which is Miles Canyon\\nand the White Horse Rapids),\\nLake Labarge, Thirty-Mile\\nRiver Lewis River, Five Finger\\nRapids, Rink Rapids and the Yu-\\nkon River to Dawson City, Eagle\\nCity, Circle, Rampart, Anvil, and\\nvia Behring Sea to St. Michaels,\\nCape Nome, Cape York and Si^\\nberia.\\nEdmonton Trail, across British Co-\\nlumbia via the Great Slave Lake,\\nMackenzie River, and down the\\nPorcupine to the Yukon.\\nGod s Country, the Homeland to which\\naliens flee to escape trials and\\npersecutions.\\nGrafters, people who induce a kind of\\nvoluntary blackmail, to their\\nown profit.\\nGrub, food.\\nGulch or Pup, a branch of a creek,\\nusually a deep crevice in a moun-\\ntain side and only a mile or two\\nin length.\\nGrant, what the Canadian Grovern-\\nment gives the miner, a lease or\\npermit to hold a claim one year\\nunder certain conditions.\\nJudge, the man who administers\\nBritish law to suit himself.\\nKlondyke, or Klondil e. a popular\\nname applied to the Troandyke,\\na river emptying into the Yukon\\nat Dawson.\\nKyak, a small Indian boat or canoe of\\nbirch bark.\\nLaying an Information, going before a\\nYukon Magistrate, and by a re-\\ncital of either suspicions or pre-\\njudice causing him to believe\\nthat someone is committing an\\nillegal act.\\nLining a Boat, letting a boat slowly\\ndown a canyon by means of ropes\\nattached to trees or rocks, the\\nropes being loosened gradually.\\nMacque, common name for a\\nmaquerau, a man who derives his\\nsupport from the earnings of a\\nprostitute.\\nMagistrate, a soldier who hears law\\ncases and issues orders to arrest\\npeople.\\nMalamute, a cross between a wolf\\nand a dog.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "204\\nMoccasins, shoe- made of dressed\\nsheepskin, or deerskin, and hav-\\ning no solid soles; insoles of\\nseveral thicknesses of felt are\\nrequired, also two or more pairs\\nof extra heavy socks or stockings\\nto protect the feet from cold and\\nfrom bruises.\\nMuck-a-Muck. an Indian word mean-\\ning food.\\nMuck-a-Luck, a boot with a foot like\\na moccasin, made of undressed\\nsealskin, and fairly waterproof.\\nMush, to go or get on; mushing,\\ngoing or traveling.\\nN. W. M. P., Northwest Mounted Po-\\nlice.\\nOfficial Routine, the Yukon British\\nsluicing proposition; licenses,\\ngrants, taxes, fees and royalties\\nare its clean-up.\\nOutside, the civilized world.\\nOutfit, the belongings of an individ-\\nual taken into the country from\\noutside.\\nPacking, carrying by means of a pack\\ntaken upon the back by use of\\npack straps; also means carry-\\ning or conveying.\\nParka, a coat of fur or canvas, with\\na hood that comes well over the\\nface as a protection from wind\\nand cold, worn by both men and\\nwomen.\\nParlor House Girls, girls who live in\\nso-called hotels, and, by favor-\\nitism, escape the liability to\\nfines which the public women in-\\ncur.\\nPay Dirt or Pay Gravel, dirt above the\\nbed rock that carries gold.\\nPay Streak, the width upon bed rock\\nat which pay may be found. It\\nis generally from twenty to two\\nhundred feet across.\\nPoling Boat, a long narrow boat for\\ngoing up stream by poling along\\nthe shore.\\nProposition, any transaction from a\\ndog fight or an underdone pan-\\ncake to a mining deal.\\nP. I., an outside newspaper.\\nPup, a gulch or branch of a creek.\\nRepresenting, work required of the\\nclaim owner by the Government.\\nRobe, a fur robe eight feet square, of\\nlynx, fox, or other fur. costs $100\\nto $200, and is used by miners as\\na wrap while sleeping.\\nRocker, a cradle-like box having lit-\\ntle riffies m which the pay dirt is\\nwashed by means of rocking while\\nwater is poured on the dirt.\\nRoyalty, Ten per cent, of the gross\\noutput of mines paid to the Cana-\\ndian Government.\\nScow rectangular flat bottom boat.\\nSinking a Sliaft, digging a hole in the\\nground about the size of a hole\\ndug for a grave in the States.\\nSiwash, a native Indian; Siwash\\ndogs are inferior or small mala-\\nmutes.\\nSkagway Trail, from Skagway over\\nthe White Pass to its junction\\nwith the Dyea trail at Bennett.\\nSluicing, washing pay dirt by means\\nof a line of sluice boxes having\\nriffles or bars in the bottom and\\nthrough which water runs with\\nconsiderable force.\\nSour Dough, an old-timer who has\\nbeen in the country two years or\\nmore.\\nSquaw Man, a white man living with\\nan Indian woman.\\nStikine Trail, from Fort Wrangell up\\nthe Stikine River and Telegraph\\nCreek, 200 miles portage to Lake\\nTeslin, and down Hootalinqua\\nRiver to Lewis River.\\nTo Salt a Mine, to place gold in the\\ndirt, either by use of a gun and\\npowder, or by mixing the gold\\nwith dirt and pasting it upon the\\nface of the drift, allowing it to\\nfreeze, or by throwing gold dust", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "205\\ninto the burning fires in the drift\\nto be found by panning, or by\\nsecretly dropping gold into the\\npan when tests are made.\\nThe Hearing, when a suspected per-\\nson is called upon to prove his\\ninnocence.\\nThe Post, the town formerly a trad-\\ning post.\\nTimber Grant, extending from Dawson\\nup the Klondike fourteen miles\\nis the exclusive right of Boyle\\nSlavln to cut all the timber in\\nthat territory, and It is more val-\\nuable than a champion s belt.\\nTimber grants up the Yukon\\nsixty miles are the exclusive\\nrights of a few other men, and\\nenable them to control the wood\\nmarket and brings the N. A. T.\\nCompany s coal into demand.\\nTrail, w^here men travel, not necessa-\\nrily a path or roadway.\\nThe Woodpile, the Government wood-\\npile in Dawson where prisoners\\nare compelled to work out their\\nsentences.\\nWhitechapel or Oshiwora, Dawson s\\nFifth Avenue, built of long rows\\nof red-curtained homes of the\\ndemimonde.\\nWinning Her Out, inducing a public\\nwoman to become the property of\\none man.\\nWcodslide, a groove on the mountain\\nside down which logs are pro-\\njected to the mines, or down\\nvvhich the miner brings his sled,\\nload of^wood, in a mad slide,\\nusing his feet braced forward\\nagainst the snow as a brake.\\nYukon English, the officials of Daw-\\nson, the lawyers, doctors, mer-\\nchants and others who are recog-\\nnized by the officials as citizens.\\nThe Yukon English are often\\nFrench, and sometimes Cana-\\ndians, and are a distinct people\\nfrom the English as met in the\\nStates, and from Australians\\nand British Columbia English as\\nmet on the Yukon or elsewhere.\\nThe mounted Police may be said\\nto be subjectively Yukon Eng-\\nlish rather than aggressively so.\\nPRESS OF BROWN MEESE CRADDOCK\\nSAN FRANCISCO, CAL.\\nHALF-TONES BY WM. BROWN\\nSAN FRANCISCO, CAL.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "THE SCARLET LIEE OF DAWSON\\nAND THE\\nROSEATE DAWN OF NOME\\nPrice 75c. and $1.00\\nFor Sale by Dealers Canvassing Agents Wanted\\nAddress\\nMrs. L. Brooks-Vincent,\\nDenver, Col.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "The Strange Confessions of a Suicide\\nA Story of the Northland\\nBy LA BELLE BROOKS- VINCENT\\nThis story embodies the life of the trail, the\\ncamp, and the mines, and is written true to the con-\\nditions of that peculiar high-wrought life and will be\\npublished during the next year.\\nJOHN BOMPASS??h\u00c2\u00b0e nor\\nSTORIES\\nRTHLAND\\nBy LA BELLE BROOKS- VINCENT\\nIs a book of short stories founded upon incidents in\\nreal life, and will be published during the next year.\\nTHE IVIUSICAL COMPOSITIONS of La Belle Brooks -Vincent\\nand of her husband, the late L. 0. Vincent, are in-\\ncluded in the Catalogue of the Vincent Co. pub-\\nlications now under the management of the Ideal\\nMusic Co., successors to Vincent Co., Wabash\\nAvenue, Chicago. Send 6 cents for Vincent Co. s\\nCatalogue, containing two good ballads My dear old\\nCottage Home, a contralto song, by L. Brooks-Vin-\\ncent, and My Dolly is my Sweetheart, a juvenile\\nballad, by L. Brooks-Vincent.\\nAddress\\nIDEAL MUSIC CO.\\nWabash Ave., Chicago, 111.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "Vincent Co/s Publications include\\nBallads and Descriptive and Illustrated Songs\\nLove in Dreams, Stanton, L. O. Vincent. Bariton or Contralto. Humming ace.\\noptional.\\n*Waiting till Papa comes Home, Latnt, Z. B. Vincent. Sweetly pathetic, descrip-\\ntive Song.\\n*Way down in Carolina, L. 0. Vincent. Popular Song. Harmonized quartette\\noptional.\\nI want my Love to love me, Lamb, L. B. Vincent.\\nSweethearts on the old Plantations, Lamb, Adler. Good Song.\\nAint you got no home? L^amb,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Adler. Stage hit.\\nQueen of the Morning, Lamb, Vincent Exquisite Irish Ballad.\\nDars Gwine to be Troub, L. O. Vincent Good Coon Song\\nAll for Thee, Lamb, L. B. Vincent. Fine Baritone or Contralto Love Ballad.\\nDolly, why dont you grow, Zfl wZ L. O. Vincent. Immensely popular juvenile Song.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Dreaming of Home, Gardner, L. O. Vincent. A Song of the heart. Chorus\\noptional.\\n*Elinore, Latnb, L. O. Vincent. Exquisite Melody. Optional Chorus.\\nOld Glory of the Sea, Smith, llncent. A grand Chorus.\\nTopsy-Turvy, Smith. Funniest Children s Semi-Chorus ever written.\\nJudge not, Anderson, Vincent. A grand Baritone Song.\\n*Cuban Serenade, LLil bourn L. O. Vincent. A beautiful Song.\\n*My dear old Cottage Home, Lamb, L. B. Vincent. A charming Contralto Balllad.\\n*My Dolly is my Sweetheart, Latnb, L. B. Vincent. A catchy juvenile Song.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Asleep in the Deep, La?nb, Petrie.\\nPieces marked with a are illustrated with original colored lantern slides\\nwhich may be obtained for $1 each colored slide.\\nAny piece on the above list may be obtained at present special rates by\\nsending of the marked price, 25 cents to\\nTHE IDEAL MUSIC CO., Wabash Ave., Chicago, III.\\nSONG BOOKS\\nSong Stories, No. 1, Parts I II. For the Sunday School 15c. each\\nSong Stories, No. 2. For the Schools. Part I, 128 pp. for lower grades,\\nPart II, 128 pp., for the High School and the Home 25c. each\\nSweet Song Stor es, words by Rose Hartwick Thorpe^ music by Z. O.\\nZ. B. Vincent, illustrated by Lulo Thorpe Barnes. Thirty beauti-\\nful Songs finely, illustrated. Songs embodying the life of Child-\\nhood. A valuable book for the Kindergarten and the Home.\\nPrice $1.50 and 80c.\\nBurlesque Nursery Rhymes, set to music 50c. net\\nThe Witch of the Woods, Z. B. L. O. Vincent.\\nAn Operatic Extravaganza for Amateur Musical Societies. Send for circular.\\nIdeal Mtjsic Co., Chicago, III.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "J\\nm\\nIllustrated Conversations with Illustrated Songs\\n11 be given under the Auspices\\ny Churches, by\\nMRS. L.\\nleir^S VINCENT\\nILLUSTK/. CONVEP.SA riONS\\niOOO O.iginal Illuiilrations\\nThe Great Northland\\nThe Koyokuk\\nThe Coast of Alaska\\nThe Klondyke\\nThe Aleutian IsSancs\\nThe Dyea Trail\\nSiberia\\nThe Chilkoot Pass\\nNome\\nThe White Pass\\nThe Great Yukon\\nThe Inland Route\\nSUBJECTS\\nCONVERSATION\\nGold and the Greed jf Gold\\nGreat Glaciers of the Northland\\nThe Scarlet Life o^ Dawson ard\\nIn the Land of the Midnight Sun\\nof Nome\\nThe Prodigal English\\nTotems and Totemism.\\nThe Poor Man s Propos\\ntion\\nNorthern Indians\\nPractical Education\\nMiners and Mining Cam.ps\\nPractical Religion\\nILLUSTRATED SONGS\\nOrigina\\nIllustrations\\nWay down in Carolina\\nL, 0.\\nVincent\\nDreaming of Home\\nGardne/i L. 0.\\nVincent\\nMy dear old Cottage Home\\nLamh\u00e2\u0080\u0094L. B.\\nMncent\\nMy Dolly is my Sweetheart\\nLawh\u00e2\u0080\u0094L. B.\\nVincent\\nAsleep in the Deep\\nLamb\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Petrie\\nWaiting till Papa comes Home Lamb L. B.\\nVincent\\nElinore\\nLawh\u00e2\u0080\u0094L. 0.\\nVincent\\nCuban Serenade\\nLUlhourn L. 0.\\nVincent\\nAA D\\nOTHERS\\nFor terms\\nAddress\\nMRS. L. BROOKS- VINCENT\\nSeattle, Wash.", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3696", "width": "2561", "jp2-path": "scarletlifeofdaw00vinc_0220.jp2"}}