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 A major grievance in the goldfields was the ten percent royalty charged by the government on gold produced. Steele felt that the collection of the royalties was not as honest as it should be so Ogilvie agreed to transfer collection to the police. Then Steele set up a network of undercover detectives in the mining camps to make sure that royalties were paid.((Rod Macleod, //Sam Steele: A Biography.// University of Alberta Press, 2018: 183-84.))
-By 1899, it was evident that the extra pay for Yukon service was not enough to cover costs. Steele made extra money from his duties as a magistrate in minor court cases. He also bought a quarter interest in two mining claims on Bonanza and Sulphur creeks. This was before the government banned government employees from buying claims. By that summer there were those actively working to get Steele removed from his position.((Rod Macleod, //Sam Steele: A Biography.// University of Alberta Press, 2018: 185, 187.))
+By 1899, it was evident that the extra pay for Yukon service was not enough to cover costs. Steele made extra money from his duties as a magistrate in minor court cases. He also bought a quarter interest in two mining claims on Bonanza and Sulphur creeks. This was before the government banned government employees from buying claims.((Rod Macleod, //Sam Steele: A Biography.// University of Alberta Press, 2018: 185, 187.))
-Steele was well liked in Dawson and well-wishers and the miners presented him with a poke of gold dust when he was transferred out in September 1899.((Roderick Charles Macleod, “Samuel Benfield Steele.” //Dictionary of Canadian Biography,// 2018 website: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/steele_samuel_benfield_14E.html)) The presenter told Steele that the gold was for his wife, knowing that Steele could not accept the gift for himself. ((Rod Macleod, //Sam Steele: A Biography.// University of Alberta Press, 2018: 189.))
+Steele got into trouble when he voiced his views about James Duncan McGregor as Clifford Sifton’s choice for Yukon liquor licensing commissioner. Lord Minto, the Governor General of Canada visited the Klondike in August 1900 and he remembered hearing that the Yukon Council refused to follow Sifton’s recommendation because NWMP Superintendent Steele stated that McGregor had been tried for horse stealing.((David R. Morrison, //The Politics of the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909.// University of Toronto Press, 1968: 34.)) Steele sat on the liquor board and knew that this position was also potentially lucrative with considerable room for graft.((Pierre Burton, //The promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914.// Doubleday Canada, 2011.)) McGregor had been a strong political supporter of Clifford Sifton since 1866 and Sifton appointed McGregor Inspector of Mines in the Yukon in 1897.((David R. Morrison, //The Politics of the Yukon Territory, 1898-1909.// University of Toronto Press, 1968: 14; John W. Defoe, //Clifford Sifton in Relation to His Times.// Books For Libraries Press, 1931, reprint 1971: 11.)) When Sifton heard of Steele’s objections to McGregor’s new appointment, he terminated Steele’s position in the Yukon.((Pierre Burton, //The promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914.// Doubleday Canada, 2011.)) At the end of August, Steele heard from a friend in Ottawa that someone there had received a statement from Steele making charges against some of the officers in the administration. He wrote to his wife asking if any of his guarded statements had been repeated.((Rod Macleod, //Sam Steele: A Biography.// University of Alberta Press, 2018: 187.))
+Steele was well liked in Dawson and well-wishers and the miners presented him with a poke of gold dust when he was transferred out in September 1899.((Roderick Charles Macleod, “Samuel Benfield Steele.” //Dictionary of Canadian Biography,// 2018 website: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/steele_samuel_benfield_14E.html)) The presenters told Steele that the gold was for his wife, knowing that Steele could not accept the gift for himself. ((Rod Macleod, //Sam Steele: A Biography.// University of Alberta Press, 2018: 189.))