Show BEFORE THE GOLD RUSH I 1 doubt that any area or activity ever ver showed homed up the graft and chisel ing of civilized life and government more clearly than did the klondike of the old das prior to the sum mier of 1898 1808 wl en the rush was on or foil full tilt fill these towns got along with out murder thievery or graft with out bout jail jall courthouse post office church or schools there were no rules in general except the golden pule rule and justice was not only fast v tut but fair nobody had locks on anything a thing until tle tte influx of civilization in volume I 1 remember one instance of a door leing being barred from the inside in the absence of the owner with complete written instructions outside on how to get in NeA newcomers comers commented on this but the old sourdough ex plaines that it made sensa sense only indians coulden couldn rit t read and were lousy edwird edw ird dean sullivan in cosmopolitan |