Yukon who is who

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Jack Smith (d. 1938)
	
Jack Smith was a prize fighter before he arrived at Forty Mile. He was without money and so when he found a dilapidated shop with a broken-down barber’s chair, he simply took it over and became the barber.((Michael Gates, //Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon.// UBC Press, 2011: 75.)) Williams Johns received a haircut from Smith and later met him Dawson where he had a concession for an addition to the Ladue townsite. Johns offered to survey it for him, in exchange for a lot, but was told by the Mounted Police to stop as only licensed surveyors could do the work. Smith gave Johns the lot anyway.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 178. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.))
	
Jack Smith owned several saloons and entertainment halls in Dawson and started the Monte Carlo in a tent on Front Street. Smith and Swift Water Gates formed a partnership and moved the Monte Carlo Saloon into a frame building. Gates went to San Francisco to bring back some entertainment and went through the money he had brought from that purpose. He persuaded a Mr. Wolf to invest $20,000 in the saloon and then used to money to have more fun. When Smith realised what Gates was doing, he attached liens to Gate’s mining properties and share of the dance hall.((Jemery Agnew, //Entertainment in the Old West: Theatre, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other Popular Amusements.// Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2014: 94.))
	
The Monte Carlo was one of the better establishments in town.  In September 1899, a new entertainer was allowed rooms in the Monte Carlo and the previous tenant was invited to leave. The departing girl took the glass pane from the window, as it belonged to her.  C. C. Kelly, one of the proprietors of the Monte Carlo saloon, club room and theatre said that the heating bill was $240 for one week in December, enough money to heat an eastern town of 2,000 for the same amount of time.((Ian Macdonald and Betty O'Keefe, //The Klondike's "Dear Little Nugget.//  Victoria: Horsdal & Schubart, 1996: 81, 120, 124.)) 

After he left the Yukon Smith was a dealer in a gambling casino in Calneve.((Yukon Archives, D.E. Griffith in Coutts 78/69 MSS 087 f.5.))