John Sipkus (d. 1939)
	
John Sipkus was a pioneer wood dealer and well-respected and long-time resident of Dawson. After a dispute over wages that amounted to three or four dollars, D.J. McPhee shot and killed Sipkus who was on the river front at Dawson. McPhee then shot and killed himself.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 15 September 1939.)) McPhee shot Sipkus from the window of the Yukon Hotel.((Victoria Faulkner, "Historic Buildings." National Historic Site Division, National Parks Branch, ca. 1962.))