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this brave and honest man was selected to fill 

 this high position? 



"Please imagine, if you can, what a bub- 

 bling, boiling cauldron of chaotic conditions 

 would and did face him when he took posses- 

 sion of the governor's seat. He held the ex- 

 alted position for three years and never did a 

 Canadian administration have a more perplex- 

 ing, strenuous, and trying position than fell to 

 the lot of William Ogilvie. It goes without 

 saying that under his sway chaos gave way to 

 order, fear to a sense of security, law and order 

 were enforced, and honesty of administration 

 in all the departments of the government was 

 insisted upon. During his time of office Daw- 

 son, the village, grew to be a famous city. 

 The chaff was separated from the wheat; the 

 evil ones, both male and female, who always 

 follow in the train of a gold-mining rush, were 

 either kept under close surveillance or driven 

 out of the territory altogether. 



"All of this work needed and demanded the 

 powerful help of the famous Northwest 

 Mounted Police, numbering at that time in 

 the Yukon one hundred men. 



"It must be remembered that in the wake of 

 the 25,000 or more gold hunters in and around 

 Dawson — men who came from all over the 



