Building boom continues with construction of prominent city structures like Arctic Brotherhood Hall, and McCabe College, which is built on land donated by Capt. Railroad contractor Mike Heney’s crews advance the line to the summit in February and Lake Bennett in July. Townspeople are called Skagwayans.ġ899 – City has two more newspapers, the Daily Budget and Alaska Traveler’s Guide. Spelling changed to Skagway by post office, and most businesses reluctantly follow. Reid dies from wound and is given a hero’s funeral at the town cemetery on the outskirts of town. John Brady at Skagway’s first Independence Day celebration. Criminal element led by Soapy Smith reigns until he is shot and killed by an angry mob led by Frank Reid on July 8, four days after he stood on the podium with Gov. First school opens in Union Church in June. In June, railroad backer Close Brothers of London purchases Brackett’s road up the pass.
Unofficial city government forms and allows railroad tracks up Broadway. Construction begins in May on White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. Chamber of commerce and volunteer fire department organize. Canadian Mounties begin to guard the passes, although their government is claiming territory including Skagway, where they briefly establish a post.ġ898 – Skagway booms to 8,000 to 10,000 population. Many pack animals perish on crude White Pass, which will be dubbed “Dead Horse Trail.” George Brackett builds toll road to White Pass City, a tent city 15 miles up the valley. Later that fall, a post office, and the first church (Union), and newspaper (Skaguay News) are established. The Moores are overrun: Mooresville is re-platted by surveyor Frank Reid as Skaguay. On July 26 the steamer Queen lands at Moore’s wharf, the first of many stuffed with hundreds of gold seekers. They stake their claim to history.ġ897 – Moore opens trail on July 14, just before steamships Excelsior and Portland arrive in San Francisco and Seattle with famed “Ton of Gold,” setting off Klondike Gold Rush. Carmack and Dawson Charlie on Rabbit Creek, later called Bonanza, a tributary of the Klondike River, 600 miles from Skagway. 16-17, gold is discovered by Skookum Jim, George W. First group of prospectors hike Moore’s crude trail over White Pass.ġ896 – On Aug.
They call the place Mooresville.ġ894-95 – Northwest Mounted Police patrol lands in Skagway and Dyea on way to Yukon to establish Canadian presence in area. They lay claim to 160 acres in the valley floor and begin work on a cabin and dock. In October, Moore returns with his son, Bernard. It is later named White Pass for the Canadian Interior minister. William Moore, a member of Canada’s Ogilvie survey party, over a new pass up the Skaqua river valley. Navy and Army patrols establish federal presence in the area.ġ887 – In June, Skookum Jim, a Tlingit packer from Dyea and Tagish, leads Capt. A few of these Native Americans settle in the quieter areas of Smuggler’s Cove, Nahku Bay and Dyea, head of the Chilkoot trail, a centuries-old Indian trading route becoming popular with early prospectors heading into the Yukon. It couldn’t be more serious,” Dadak said.Pre-1887 – Skaqua or Shgagwéi, as it is known by the Tlingit, a windy place with “white caps on the water,” is used by Chilkoots and Chilkats for hunting and fishing.
Two or three people have taken the rap but the powers that be must have known or turned a blind eye to what was going on. “This is Murdoch’s Watergate because the cat is out of the bag. So 20 million pounds may be substantially too little, it could be double that,” Dadak told Reuters, noting that the media group has already made individual settlements in the affair of up to a million pounds each.ĭadak said News International was now itself at risk of a corporate criminal prosecution, including for potential offences under Britain’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers act, which covers illegal phone interception. News International has declined to comment on media reports it has set aside half that amount, 20 million pounds, for compensation payments.
Settling all the cases could cost the group as much as 40 million pounds ($66 million), said media lawyer Rod Dadak, a partner of law firm Lewis Silkin which represents a number of potential phone hacking litigants.
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