Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — MANY MAY FLEE FROM DAWSON [ARTICLE]

MANY MAY FLEE FROM DAWSON

Famine Ie Threatened and Prices of ProrUiona Rapidly Rising. Captain Charles Cates, recently arrived in Vancouver, claims to bring the latest news from Dawson to the effect that a famine is threatened and a stampede will shortly take place to get out of the land of gold and cold, exceeding in proportion the rush for the Klondike in its most acute stage. Prices are climbing skyward, and provisions are so scarce that single meals are again up to $4. Rents are so high that for one Bhack of offices the proprietors are getting a rate of $2,500 a month from lawyers, doctors and commission agents. Indignation meetings are held twice or three times a week to protest against the high-handed conduct of Canadian officials. They are all getting rich and securing the choice claims. How they do it is “another story.” The police are a power in Dawson, and have become a sort of demigods spoilt by the generosity of those who most desire their aid In the way of legal service. One of the most prominent lawyers in Dawson stated that every government official would leave Dawson a rich man. The hank Is giving sl4 an ounce for dust when it should give $lO. t ’ -- ■ Guy U. Lee, & student in one of Wisconsin's universities, has started in a canoe from Wla., to Brazil. He crossed Lake Monona, and followed the Yahara river south to the Rock river, through which he will pass to the Mississippi; thence to New Orleans and across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. The rest of the trip Ilea along the South Atlantic const to Rio Janeiro. The convention of United Confederate Veterans at Atlanta, Ga., decided to hold the next annual eucampment at Charleston, 8. G.