can take a hundred and you can have
the other four hundred."

Next day Dawson began its laugh. It started early in the morning, just
after daylight, when Smoke went to the bulletin-board outside the A. C.
Company store and tacked up a notice. Men gathered and were reading and
snickering over his shoulder ere he had driven the last tack. Soon the
bulletin-board was crowded by hundreds who could not get near enough
to read. Then a reader was appointed by acclamation, and thereafter,
throughout the day, many men were acclaimed to read in loud voice the
notice Smoke Bellew had nailed up. And there were numbers of men who
stood in the snow and heard it read several times in order to memorize
the succulent items that appeared in the following order:

The Tra-Lee Town-Site Company keeps its accounts on the wall. This is
its first account and its last.

Any shareholder who objects to donating ten dollars to the Dawson
General Hospital may obtain his ten dollars on personal application
to Wild Water Charley, or, failing that, will absolutely obtain it on
application to Smoke Bellew.

MONEYS RECEIVED AND DISBURSED

From 4874 shares at $10.00...............................$48,740.00
To Dwight Sanderson for Town-Site of Tra-Lee..............10,000.00
To incidental expenses, to wit: powder, drills,
windlass, gold commissioner's office, etc.............1,000.00
To Dawson General Hospital................................37,740.00
---------- Total..........................................$48,740.00

From Bill Saltman, for 100 shares privately
purchased at $50.00.................................$ 5,000.00
From Wild Water Charley, for 400 shares privately
purchased at $50.00..................................20,000.00
To Bill Saltman, in recognition of services as
volunteer stampede promoter...........................5,000.00
To Dawson General Hospital.................................3,000.00
To Smoke Bellew and Jack Short, balance in full on
egg deal and morally owing...........................17,000.00
---------- Total..........................................$25,000.00

Shares remaining to account for 7126. These shares, held by Smoke
Bellew and Jack Short, value nil, may be obtained gratis, for the