William Douglas Johns
	
William Johns was the city reporter on the //Fargo Argus,// the leading newspaper in North Dakota in 1889. He knew Thomas Lippy as the athletic instructor and secretary of the YMCA in Fargo that year. Johns arrived in Seattle in June 1895 on his way north as a correspondent for the //Chicago Record.// He also had a commission for articles on animals and sensational happenings with the //New York Evening World,// but he never sent the articles as he became immersed in the happenings of the Klondike gold rush.((Yukon Archives, W. D. Johns, Robert Coutts fonds, 78/69 MSS 092 f.20.))

He wrote a journal of his trip north and described his experiences rafting through Miles Canyon and Five Finger Rapids. He met Al Day who was on his way poling upstream when the raft was stuck on an island below Fort Selkirk and describes Buffalo Pitt's garden at Fort Selkirk.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) Johns was in Forty Mile and Circle in 1897.((Yukon Archives, W. D. Johns, Robert Coutts fonds, 78/69 MSS 092 f.20.))