KAYSVILLE KINKS #103 IN SERIES - JULY 1899 Robert L and Ann Holmes Burton family

KAYSVILLE KINKS #103 IN SERIES - JULY 1899

• One of our young Kaysville men sporting his brand new straw hat, set out to Lagoon for the day. Upon his arrival his attention was drawn to the bear pit. While standing there his hat blew down into the pit and it was but an instant until the bears had torn it up and eaten it with a relish, like pigs eat new milk.
• William M. Clawson, Sgt. of Battery B, Utah Artillery has returned home from the Philippines (Spanish American War) and is looking well.
• Pioneer Day was loyally celebrated here yesterday. The meeting house was the gathering place and was tastefully decorated. The program consisted of toasts, sentiments, music and speeches. George W. Barnes and Albert Beazer were the Orators. The music was furnished by the Kaysville Brass Band.
• The 1st news received since September of 1898 of John W. Burton and his brother Heber, who are in Alaska, looking for the elusive Gold in the Klondike, was contained in a letter which arrived here yesterday. He writes 27 men are waiting for the ice to break up so they can get their rafts in the river. They have been snowbound for several months and have suffered many hardships. John W, an expert shot with his rifle, has save himself and many others from starving as their food supply ran short. The coldest weather they have recorded is 57 degrees below zero.
• PHOTO: Robert L and Ann Holmes Burton family circa 1900. Brothers that adventured to the Klondike in search of gold John W. (front left sitting) and Heber A. (back right standing) - courtesy Ancestry