Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Keep Away from Klondike. [ARTICLE]

Keep Away from Klondike.

According to Consul McCAok at Dawsou City the output of gold from the Klondike diggings has been exaggerated fivefold. He advises that no one should attempt to enter the gold fields without a couple of thousand dollars besides supplies for two years. Destitution is imminent, he says, for many prospectors who have exhausted their resources and cannot get away. Provisions cost 25 per cent more even than last year, and lodgings can hardly be secured nt any price. A Preslon, Jlinn., special says that M. It. Todd, the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore County Bank, has confessed the theft of all the bank's deposit funds to M. T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. Grattan told Todd, that a lynching was immineflt unless he made a full confession.

For participating in the riots last May, Sig. Feschettl, member of the Chamber of Deputies at Florence, Italy, has been sentenced by a military tribuual to ten years’ solitary confinement, and has been excluded from holding office for the remainder of his life. n. > v * ' . -- •' •