Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — MADE FORTUNE IN KLONDIKE. [ARTICLE]

MADE FORTUNE IN KLONDIKE.

New-Yorker Makes Ills Stake at Dawsou City. Frank G. Simons has arrived in New York after n year in the Klondike, with $140,000 in gold dust and a total fortune of about half u million. He arrived on the gold fields penniless. He reached llawscfn City ahead of the rush. In addition to‘prospecting, he bought a lot nt Dawson City and built a two-story hotel. He claims on the opening day and evening to have taken in $15,000. The duily receipts thereafter averaged $2,000.