Whitehorse Daily Star

June 8, 1917

• Yukon's great showing World War I

March 21, 1917

• Cave in at Pueblo At 11:27 a.m. Wednesday, 21st inst., 18 minutes before the men on shift were to leave work for the noon meal, the west stope in the Pueblo mine caved in.

October 1, 1915

• Three Are Killed, Fourth Is Dying Alex Gagoff, Russian, Runs Amuck Yesterday and Wipes Out Railroad Section Crew - Most Terrible Tragedy in Local Annals Takes Place on Railroad Track Three Miles South of Whitehorse - Murderer Comes To Town, Tells What He Had Done and is Taken to Jail - Believed to Be Insane.

April 21, 1911

• Death wins on arctic trail Dawson, April 17 - From the weird wilds within the Arctic Circle comes a story of hardship, starvation and death seldom equaled and which reads like fiction but is only too true.

July 9, 1909

• First all-elected Yukon Territorial Council Yukon Council - Territorial Legislative Body Now in Session. The Dawson Daily News of the evening of July 15 contained the following:

July 3, 1908

• Bowling Comes to Whitehorse The sport of bowling rolled into Whitehorse in a big way in July 1908. The alleys were located in a new annex of the North Star Athletic Association building on the north side of Main street between Third and Fourth Avenue.

May 22, 1908

• Home Grown Band No More Musical Talent Imported For Celebrations.

September 20, 1907

• With Murder in his Heart Robert Whittier Blows Out His Own Brains After Attempting to Murder Ida Williams.

June 28, 1907

• Takhini Springs Recent Discovery Told Of By Mr. Hamacher

March 8, 1907

• Ice Worm Cocktail The story of ice worms and blue snow apparently impressed Robert Service as well as the local chechakos and The Ice Worm Cocktail was the result:

November 1, 1906

• Indoor baseball the rage of 1906 The details are sketchy but here's what we know so far...

October 12, 1906

• 1906 A Grim Death Indeed. Of all the accidents that can befall a person on a boat surely an explosion and fire is one of the worst.

May 23, 1905

• Whitehorse swept by fire Whitehorse was swept by fire early this morning and is now a mass of blackened smoking ruins. Loss $300,000.

January 14, 1905

• "A Consignment Of Hockey Junk?" Those are fightin' words!

December 20, 1902

• False Reports Circulated Of An Indian Outbreak In The Pelly River Country A Full Investigation Being Made by the Police -- Major Snyder Characterizes Story as a Fake.