Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1914 — Quelled Klondike Bullies [ARTICLE]

Quelled Klondike Bullies

On my return to Dawson in the evening I strolled into the "M. & N.” saloon, where from the rather disturbed atmosphere of the place I noticed something was amiss. One man was just picking himself up from the ground, while most of tire attention was concentrated upon a drunken miner sitting on a billiard table. On inquiring what the trouble was, I was informed that the miner had “buffaloed” the saloon —in other words, he defied the crowd or any of the bartenders (the man whom I had observed picking himself up was one of the latter) to put him outside. No one accepted the invitation, till the door opened and a trooper of the R. N. W. M. police in his red coat strolled in. Another trooper quietly followed. Neither in any way appeared to notice anything was particularly wrong. The first trooper strolled up to the table and, looking steadily at the drunken miner, quietly ordered him to put on his coat and get out. The miner started to swear and bluster; but at the repeated order, ■* this time in rather sharper tones, he put his coat on and walked out like a lamb. The two troopers followed. They did not even trouble to arrest him, the occurrence being no unusual one. This little incident made me realize what an influence this small body of men had gained in that wild stretch of country. During the great rush the troops of this corps—one of the finest that ever ruled the king’s dominions —did their work in the icy north on their wage of $1 a day, when the lowest wage for ordinary skilled labor was seldom under S2O. During that mad rush into Klondike not a single murder was committed in British territory.—From "A Wanderer’s Trail,” by A. Loton Ridger.