Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — A PARADISE FOR MAIDENS. [ARTICLE]

A PARADISE FOR MAIDENS.

Two Women Secure Rich Husbands in the Klondike. The news is brought by the latest miners that have returned from the Klondike that as a matrimonial market Dawson City has no equal on earth. Women are as scarce as gold dust is burdensome in the metropolis of the new Eldorado. All the men avow that any woman can become a bride with a wedding present of thousands of dollars’ worth of gold dust within thirty minutes after arriving at Dawson City if she will but whisper her consent. Ten thousand dollars in gold was laid at the feet of the lady in a number of instances at Dawson City before the ceremony was performed. Miss Gussie La More, formerly of Juneau, has made the most desirable marriage from a pecuniary point of view. It is a fact that Swiftwater Bill was so smitten with her charms that he called on Miss La More the dayof her arrival and wooed her with $50,000 of gold dust in a coal oil can. The next day she became Mrs. Swiftwater Bill. Violet Raymond, a variety actress, formerly of Sa,n Francisco and Seattle, is now a princess and resident of Dawson City. She married an Italian who struck it rich. He is called Prince Antonio. Miss Raymond and Miss La More went to Dawson City together. There is but one woman in the town who is not married. She has refused every single man in Dawson, and they have knelt before her with uplifted hands full of gold. Being refused they have told her that she does not knoxk b good thing when she sees it.