Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — OBJECT TO THE TAX. [ARTICLE]

OBJECT TO THE TAX.

Dawson Miners May Forcibly Resist the Canadian Impost. C. C. Burns has returned to San Francisco from Dawson City. When Burns left Dawson, Sept. 23, for the Coast there was in progress a mass meeting of miners to consider the proposed collection of the “dominion tax.” The feeling against the new law, he says, is very strong, and the Canadians have so far led in the agitation. So strong became the mutterings that the collectors of the district had to announce that he would take no steps until informed more fully of the scope of the law. The new chief, who was met on the way in by Burns, is, however, determined to assess the output tax, and the result may be forcible resistance by the men now holding the big producing claims. The shortage of provisions in the district was such that Burns and his companions, who had not entered an ordei for a year’s supplies when they knew they were coming out, could not buy provisions for their trip, but bad to beg and scheme to get a piece of meat here and a little meal there to make up an outfit for their thirty-five days’ trip to Dyea. Burns says the principal shortage win be of flour and the Dawsonite next spring who asks for bread will be., given roast beef or mutton, as the supply of the latter will be good, owing to the number of cattle and sheep driven in during the fall Burns says the holders of most of the bi, claims are now planning to work as many men as possible this winter, make/a big clean-up next year and quit the frozen north for civilization and a big time on the proceeds of their labors.