An Australian gentleman, just returned to British Columbia from Skagway, the northern gateway of the Canadian goldfields, describes Skagway as the roughest camp he had ever seen. Law and order are, he says, unknown there, and vice is rampant. When he left, a notorious bully was rnr.niug the town with 50 " bposters" at his back. It was not safe for lespectable people to venture out after dark, as hold-ups and sandbagging were almost of nightly occurrences. Some deaths due to exposure and blizzards, had occurred iu the passes. On Januaiy 14th a baker who was travelling to Lake Bennett, was frozen to death. In calm weather the White and Chilcoot Passes are all right, but if o man is caught in them during a blizzard the chance* are 10 to 1 against him.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 297, 4 June 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)
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