Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — Keep Away from Klondike. [ARTICLE]

Keep Away from Klondike.

According to Consul McCook nt Dawson 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 prospector* 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 at any price. A Preston, Minn., special says that M. R. Todd, the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore County Bank, has confessed the theft of all tiie bank's deposit funds to M. T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. Grattan told Todd that a lynching waa imminent unless he made a full confession. For participating in the riots last May, Slg. Feschetti, member of the Chamber of Deputies at Florence, Italy, has been sentenced by a military tribunal to ten years’ solitary confinement, and has been excluded from holding otfice for the remainder of his life.