George B. Swinehart 
	
George Swinehart was editor and publisher of the //Juneau Mining Record// in 1896. [The //Juneau City Mining Record// ceased publication in 1894 and its succeeding title was the //Alaska Mining Record// existing in Juneau from 1894 to 1899.] In the summer of 1897, William and George Swinehart headed for the Klondike, joined by William Thompson and William brother-in-law Ham Kline.((Gord Allison, “The Swinehart Farm – Part 1.” 2 July 2018. //Welcome to Yukon History Trails,// 2019 website: https://yukonhistorytrails.com/2018/07/02/the-swinehart-farm-part-1-introduction-from-wisconsin-to-the-yukon-1896-98/))

George shipped a printing plant from the west coast and it remained at St. Michael for the winter. George brought a light makeshift printing plant with him baggage.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike.” Canadian Historic Sites No. 21 in Canadian Historic Sites, Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Ottawa 1979: 77.)) The Swineharts arrived in the Yukon in April 1898 and on 16 May 1898, George put out the only issue of the //Caribou Sun// while they were enroute waiting for the ice to go out of the lakes.((Gord Allison, “The Swinehart Farm – Part 1.” 2 July 2018. //Welcome to Yukon History Trails,// 2019 website: https://yukonhistorytrails.com/2018/07/02/the-swinehart-farm-part-1-introduction-from-wisconsin-to-the-yukon-1896-98/))
	
The party arrived at Fort Selkirk about 15 June 1898 and George left the group to continue on to Dawson. In Dawson, he published the first issue of the //Yukon Midnight Sun// on 11 June 1898.((Gord Allison, “The Swinehart Farm – Part 1.” 2 July 2018. //Welcome to Yukon History Trails,// 2019 website: https://yukonhistorytrails.com/2018/07/02/the-swinehart-farm-part-1-introduction-from-wisconsin-to-the-yukon-1896-98/)) The paper was the first Dawson newspaper produced on a printing press, a quarter-sized, eight-page edition. It was mostly local and mining news, as it was printed before the telegraph line was built, but it did have brief items on the Spanish-American war and an Anglo-French dispute in West Africa. The bigger press arrived in Dawson on the sternwheeler //John J. Healy// on 9 July 1898. The 18 July edition of the //Yukon Midnight Sun// was a dozen full-sized pages. The //Sun,// versus the anti-government //Klondike Nugget,// evolved into a defender of the government while still pressing for reasonable reform.((Edward F. Bush, “The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike.” Canadian Historic Sites No. 21 in Canadian Historic Sites, Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Ottawa 1979: 77.))