Show DULL AT DAWSON There will be an Exodus to Nome this Spring Vancouver j3 C Fob 0 Advices from Dawson today state that up lo the end of the year business In the Yukon Yu-kon capital had been dlscouraglngly dull although work on the claims Aas progressing well Up to December 20ih the weather hud been so mild that I but little gravel had been got out although after thai date this Impediment of temperature was removed the thermometer ther-mometer dropping to 10 cleg below zero and ranging as low as 57 There Is now a good showing on the dumps Tho Damson banks estimate that 21 000000 will be taken out this season From 2000 to 3000 DawsonStcs are arranging ar-ranging to leave on the first boats down the river In the spring for the Nome fields At White Horse the police have undor arrest two men suspected of the murder mur-der of Clayson ttelfe and Olson on the trail The Dawson fire destroyed only eight buildings occupying half a liloek As the buildings destroyed were all lllm shy constructed and lined with cotton It Is considered surprising that the fire was confined to so few buildings Dawson Daw-son lias a wellequipped lire department depart-ment with a force of thirty paid menThe men-The lire engines are housed in on the ice of the river here the ater can most readily be obtained A party of thirteen Dominion Government Gov-ernment surveyors Is In Vancouver en route lo Skaguuy to commence the construction con-struction of a telegraph line from Bennett Ben-nett to Atlln One hundicd men from British Columbia will bo engaged In tile IVOIk |