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GOLD RUSH CITY.

Dawson's

Diamond —
Jubilee

or

7 Dawson City, Yukon, the golden

int in its year-long diamond
Pibilee celebrations. City status

as granted on Jan. 9, 102.

At the height of the Klondike
gold-rush, in 1898, Dawson housed
over 40,000 restless adventurers
sand now, although its inhabitants
number 600, a sense of excitement
still lingers. This summer will be
a particularly interesting time to
be there.

Three years after incorparation
the“ citizens, dissatisfied’ with
mismanagement and high taxes,
voted to remove the mayor and
council and to return to govern-,
ment by Ottawa. But the charter
was never rescinded and Dawson
is still the most northerly city in
the Commonwealth. .

It has been a place of quick
changes and contrasts. Within
the epace ‘of ‘months, history
turned a smal] ledge of forest,
wedged between a mountain and
the Yukon and Klondike rivers
which meet beside it, into a
teeming. center of prospectors
and traders, ready to gamble
their lives on rumours of gold. A
few years later, the community
mellowed into upright Edwardian
‘elegance, where Paris fashions
were worn and society was or-
dered with strict formality.

Entertainment was a priority in
Dawson from its beginning. In

‘athe riotuous days of 1899, when
‘Inuggets of gold jangled from
necklaces

con ‘the bar-room giris

4 and passed-from hand to hand as |
normal tender, a colourful

character named Arizona Charlie

:] Meadows came to town to collect

a share of the riches.

No miner, Charlie sought his
fortune in show biz and built the
Pejance Grand theater and dance

Decorating it with plush ~

city of the north, is at the half-way _

cut gowns and ostrich-plumed
hats, Charlie claimed to own the
most lavish theater in the north.
He undoubtedly did. .

‘As the fortune-hunters moved

on to other gold strikes, or. to
‘spend their wealth elsewhere, the
dance hall queens went too and
the theater was abandoned. It
had to wait another fifty years or
so before it came back to life.
'. Now, each summer, the Palace
‘Grand is decked out with flags
and the velvet curtains rise for 4
‘family version of ‘the old
vaudeville shows, with skits,
jugglers, songs and can-can
dancers.

Down the street, gamblers try.

their. luck at Diamond Tooth
Gertie’s Gambling Hall which has
been refurbished in’ honor of
Jubilee year. Red tiffany shades
hang from a black ceiling,
lighting the oval of green baize
gaming tables. Dealers flick the
cards in response to the players’
signals, then gather them up with
smooth professional gestures. .
Round the walls, crown and
anchor wheels spin. Non-players’
walk around, sit at tables beside
the stage or look down from the
balcony on the kaleidoscope of

’ movement below. Several times

a night, the stage lights up and a

_ line of high-kicking girls dance to
the accompaniment of a
honkytonk piano and 4a
comedienne sings and tells stories
with the vivacity of Gertie her-
self, who:was one of the stars of
the gold-rush era.

The
always heen a time of celebration
in Dawson. As almost 90 percent
of the gold seekers came from the
United States, July 4 was a
notable date for them, Combined

’ with the Canadian holiday,
. festivities from July 1 - 4 will

“respectability
beginning of July has -

Six out'of seven nights a week during the summer montha, the castof
the “Gaslight Follies” perform in the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson
City. Two individual shows reflect the type of entertainment staged for
the Stampeders of the Klondike Gold Rush. a

Government of Yukon Photo.

which triggered off the stampede
tot he Klondike. was made on

August 17, 1896. That lucky date |.

is commemorated by Discovery
Day each year. It is a time of
parades, sports and ;traditional
eanoe and raft races, which will
be August 13-15 this year.

As usual, canoes will struggle
across the fast-flowing Yukon
river, in front of the city, and the

rafts willrace from eight miles up.

the Klondike to its confluence

. With the Yukon. ae
September promises to be the

most nostalgic month of this
birthday year as every former
Dawson resident has been invited
to return to join the Homecoming
celebration, What ‘stories and
memories that reunion is likely to
stir up! Over Labour Day
weekend, September 3-5, there
will be barbecues: and receptions
and a brand new contest -. the
Great Klondike Outhouse Race -a
two-mile run round the city for
five-man teams carrying home-
made outhouses. ;

Dawson's museum ‘staff has.
taken a lead in jubilee planning.
Helping. to organize the
distribution of proclamations, the
sale of gold and silver memorial
medallions, the production of a
doll specially designed and sewn
by local people and arranging an
anniversary exhibition. With her
rouged cheecks and prim clothes, -
the doll combines a richness and

Dawson’s golden history. ,
Dawson's civic pride certainly
exceeds its size and
arrangements for its 76th year
have kept the population busy for
months. Last January, a huge.
birthday cake was cut and only
half was eatén. The other half has
been kept for the finale. Until the

typical of |.

LILLOOET, B.C. (CP) — she has thrown at famous: 0s.
Margaret (Ma) Murray
celebrated her 90th birthday
fleatting eat with blue eyes

ashing enjoyment as she
held up her ear trumpet to
bear Jack Pearsall (L—
Coast Chilcotin)
reetings _ from

Mar
wor

poem

bring
Prime
inister Pierre Elliatt
Conservative

Broadbent and

heard a 3

per legen

‘Canadian
ret hi
Wednesday as she‘
pecially composed
ancouver
musician Jennifer Lillooet
Fox describing her ‘‘gentle
touch and good’ strong
mind,” accepted a “book
containing a bottle of whisky
and two glasses, and a
plaque commemorating the
occasion,
In an enterview, Margaret

oliticians
only kind

become a
institution.”

both youn
that old

here has

Margaret had advice for

g and old saying

eople who wish to

Stay. healthly should do as

velvet and staging sumptuous include a variety of community last crumb is consumed,
shows with high-kicking dancers activities this year. sometime in December, -
in frilly skirts and singers in low- The gold find on Bonanza Creek Dawson's party will continue.

_ “MA"MURRAY

? “Tl say one thing about
her she may have a
a headman’s axe,
has a heart the size of a.
‘whiskey, barrel.”

“Her presence 7
certainly done a lot to put
Lillooet on the map. She has
anadian

n like
ut she.

VANCOUVER (CP). —
the Laborers’ International

the union will seek a court
injunction -teday against a
group of dissident members
who have taken over Local
602 offices from an ‘outside
trustee. ne

A group of about 20 union

offices Tuesday, demandin
that the operations of Loc
602 be returned to them and
foreing trustee Stacey J.
Warner .out

" Disside

Union, said Wednesday that -

of : the.

nts |

— «president's office.
John Hart,: spokesman for |... I
’ the. union’s international.

‘Warner was appointed by

headquarters in
Washington, D.C., to take
control of the’ 4,000-member
local--when it was placed

under trusteeship last week.

« Two of the local’s full-time

- Officials, president Ni¢k
~Kiniak and. secretary Ron
members stormed into the -

McClurg, who were fired
without notice, were among
those cecupying the office.

Hart, . the union's
international representative

in Vancouver, said the union

UNION’SQUABBLE”
sif-in.

wants an injunction to get
the members: out -of the
‘offices... He said-that since
Kiniaknand McClurg have
been removed from their
official union positions, they
have no right to be carrying
out union business. n

’ He said the protestors are
acting. _ illegally by
preventing the trustee from
‘earrying out his duties,
accepting money at. the
office and blocking: phone

calls, .
“The local has scheduled a
general . membership

‘response appeared to

| othe
meeting |
officers . retain the’ con-

a Se

wo.

‘tonight’ © to”
determine whether the local.

fidence of the rank-and-file, -

Hart said the meeting

would have no status, as
Xinniak has no authority to
call it. Hart said he doesn’t
know how much support the

dissidents have from the -

general membership, but.
that when the. trustee first
took over the injtial
supportative. 2

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In a letter, the prime
minister said the former
owner of the Bridge-River
Lillooet News was a ‘‘legend
in her own time.” The
governor-general also sent
greetings...

Friends and relatives
guided Margaret, the name
she prefers to Ma, through a
busy day which included
many interviews, a special
Gregorian mass at St.

Jehn’s Roman Catholic.

Church, a roast and a re-
ception at the home of her
. day hter, Georgina

At the roast, Margaret
paid tribute to her husband
of 48 years, George Murray,
who died 16 years ago. The
two owned four newspapers
and worked on 12.

The pa rs included the
Chinook, later The Standard
in Vancouver, the Howe
Sound News, the Lillooet
paper, the Alaska Highway

ews in Fort St. John and
the Fort Nelson News.

They were often poor,
Margaret said, and her
husband was exasperated
when she turned to prayer
time the sheriff
turned up to try repossess a
linotype or some other vital
piece of equipment from the
eris journalists.
though she has been
known for the witty barbs

said she got her reputation
for being irascible because
"T always call a spade a
ade.” But having done
at, she said, she tries to
work with” people she
disagrees with.

In the audience was
Mayor Joe Rickard who
described the woman he has
squabbled with many times
since the two met in
Williams Lake in the mid-

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