Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Three young man —Charles Searley, Roy Siunet and Charles Williams, were drowned in the bay at Hamilton, Ont., during a storm. The race at Vancouver, B. C., for the single sculliug championship of the world Gaudapr and Bob Johnson was a fiasco owing to the fact that Johnson struck a snag. Miners who arrived at Seattle from the, Klondike report that scurvy has marked hundreds of men in the Klondike for victims. Typhoid fever and pneumonia have already begun a harvest of death in] the camp. The unhealthy season has begun and the one hospital in the camp was crowded with victims of the diseases peculiar to a new and thinly settled country. The deaths average about three per day. When K. A. Hall, who worked on the Berry Bros.’ claims, Eldorado Creek, left the diggings, the miners were in the midst of their annual spring clean-up. Gold dust was being brought into camp from the mines, hut when Hall left Dawson not more tjiiin S2OO,(XX) of this season’s cleanup had been carried to storehouses at Dawson. Geo. M. Irwin said that of 1.500 claims that have been recorded In Dawson district, - less than 200 have proved to be paying property.