Visitors to the Yukon and Alaska are always interested in the history of the areas through which they travel.
Of all the natural phenomena peculiar to the Rocky mountain region none is more strange, or terrible than the mysterious storm known to the Indians as "the white death".
Two gentlemen, who are stopping at the Savoy, and who arrived from the inside last night, bring a story of another reported tragedy on the trail.
The first authentic news to be received from the new strike on Livingstone creek in the Big Salmon country is that brought out by Mr. Leonard Matchett who, though not the discoverer, was one of the first locators on the creek.
In Canada the most complex process of racial intermingling occurred in British Columbia,
A Dominion Creek Miner -- Dufor was shot by LaBelle and his body thrown into the River -- LaBelle's past career.
Had four hundred dollars in Bank of Quebec notes when arrested -- Police hot on the trail of Fournier’s partner.
Robert W. Service, a young Englishman with a soft Scottish accent, was probably more responsible for making the Yukon known around the world than any other writer.
Whitehorse was swept by fire early this morning and is now a mass of blackened smoking ruins. Loss $300,000.
The details are sketchy but here's what we know so far...
Whenever there was a lull in local news or the overland telegraph broke down, Star editor "Stroller" White lapsed into memories of the deep south, or "interviews" with local colourful characters whose authenticity was left to the readers imagination.
Of all the accidents that can befall a person on a boat surely an explosion and fire is one of the worst.
The story of ice worms and blue snow apparently impressed Robert Service as well as the local chechakos and The Ice Worm Cocktail was the result:
Robert Whittier Blows Out His Own Brains After Attempting to Murder Ida Williams.
The sport of bowling rolled into Whitehorse in a big way in July 1908. The alleys were located in a new annex of the North Star Athletic Association building on the north side of Main street between Third and Fourth Avenue.
Yukon Council - Territorial Legislative Body Now in Session. The Dawson Daily News of the evening of July 15 contained the following:
Dawson, April 17 - From the weird wilds within the Arctic Circle comes a story of hardship, starvation and death seldom equaled and which reads like fiction but is only too true.
Alex Gagoff, Russian, Runs Amuck Yesterday and Wipes Out Railroad Section Crew - Most Terrible Tragedy in Local Annals Takes Place on Railroad Track Three Miles South of Whitehorse - Murderer Comes To Town, Tells What He Had Done and is Taken to Jail - Believed to Be Insane.