Show BEFORE THE GOLD RUSH I 1 doubt that any area or activity ever showed up the graft and chisel ing of civilized ue life and government more clearly than did the klondike of the old days prior to the summer ot of 1808 when the rush was waa on full tilt these towns got along without murder thievery or graft without jail courthouse post office church or schools there were no rules in general except the golden rule role and justice was not only fast but fair nobody had bad locks lochs on anything until the influx ot of civilization in volume I 1 remember one instance of a door being barred from the inside in the absence of the owner with complete written instructions outside on how bow to get in newcomers commented on this but the old sourdough explained i that it made sense only indians read and were lousy edward dean sullivan in cosmopolitan |