Wealth of Klondyke Hits Fever Pitch Across Coast
San Francisco reports a Klondyke gold frenzy with claims of 6 million dollars in gold dust arriving on the Excelsior and Umatilla voyages. News highlights Mrs. Clarence Boyce's Yukon fortune and a journey from Fresno to Dawson via Seattle Forty Mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarencé Boyéé
Boyce
the Grand
Fresno
Seattle
Juneau
Chilcot Pass
Forty Mile City
Dawson City
Klondyke
Alaska
Woman recounts Klondyke experience and voyage notes
A Klondyke diary fragment describes daily life at Forty Mile and Dawson City camps in winter, including cooking, stoves, thawing water, high prices, and social details. It notes a New Year feast, weight gain, and gold prospecting efforts. Seattle dispatch reports Portland steamship leaving Seattle for St Michael with 140 passengers and 1000 tons of provisions bound for Klondyke fields, highlighting notable passengers like John H. McGraw and George Carr and their Yukon fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson City
Alaska
Six Newspaper Correspondents Go to Yukon Gold Fields
Six Portland correspondents travel to Alaska to gather news on the Klondike gold fields. One carries homing pigeons for field transmissions. a printing outfit heads for Dawson City to publish the Yukon Nugget in about seven weeks at 60 cents. Police hope to deter departures as salaries rise. Notices seek workers for good wages. new drivers appear on streetcar lines.
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Portland
St. Michael’s
Yukon
Dawson City
E Mail
Jack Carr
John Scott
Yukon Nugget
Tién A&Ré
Klondyke
Reed
Wood
Alaska
Lively Times in Klondyke Asserts Distress and Gambling Boom
Fred Price of Seattle reports great fear for travelers lacking supplies in the Klondyke. He doubts supply capacity of trading firms and notes Dawson’s gambling dens thriving amid winter gloom. Price warns newcomers to seek claims on other creeks and nearby Stewart River, while many spend lavishly.
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Fred Price
Seattle
Klondyke
Price
Lye
Stewart River
Dawson
Dawson City
Klondike Gold Rush Exoduses Diminish Home Front Hopes
The article describes massive gold shipments from Alaska and Juneau with hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold dust en route to Seattle and San Francisco. It notes crowded steamers, frantic arrivals, and lingering warnings against leaving home as the Klondike rush draws financiers and workers alike. It also recounts personal tales of hardship, letters, and a Yukon voyage, highlighting social upheaval and market excitement.
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Seattle
Wells- Fargo Company
Juneau
Beattie
Eldorado
Mother Earth
First Women to Start for Klondyke Adventure
Mrs Boyce says no warning stops determined women. The Excelsior will carry many women from all walks of life to Dawson City for the gold rush. Miss Bessie Thomas may be the first to depart for the Klondyke and plans to run a restaurant in Dawson. Miss Daisy Bush joins the fever after Mr Boyce’s Alaska trip. Miss Pauline Kellogg seeks information from the San Francisco postmaster after sending a telegram clipping. Alaska Commercial and Pacific Coast lines seek Yukon business, with a steamer expected to depart Michael's in August.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Excelsior
St. Michael’s
Yukon
Express
Umatilla
Puget Sound
Port Townsend
Klondyke
Puget Sound Tugboat Company
Yukon River
Circle City
Klondyke Valley
Sound
Alaska
Victoria
Cook's Inlet
D. Harvey Patton
John Kavanagh
Pacific Union Club
Golconda
Boyce
Daisy Bush
Pauline Kellogg
West
Congress Street
Chicago
Alaska Commercial Company
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
North American Transportation and Trading Company
Michael's
D. J. Greubinn
NAVERHILL Men Seek Gold in Alaska
Five Haverhill men have signed to join an Alaska expedition if five more backers are found. Led by Arthur Seymour, son of Professor Seymour, the group forms the Haverhill Mining Company with members George Ashcroft C Haven Coffle A C Ford and Frank H Ducey.
Carl Schurz May Take It As Civil Service Chief
Carl Schurz has been offered a position on the national civil service commission with the role of president. President McKinley extended the invitation at the White House. Schurz declined at first but later asked to consider and has not yet decided.
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Washington, D. C
Carl Schurz
National Civil Service Commission
McKinley
Schurz
White House
Congress
Democratic State Committee Chooses Jaquith and Sets Worcester Convention
The Democratic State Committee met in this city naming Jaquith as a new at large member and Schaeffer as a replacement. They fixed Worcester Mechanics Hall for a September 28 convention with representation based on city wards and presidential votes from 1896.
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Méchanics’ Hall
Worcester
John S. Cusick
Brookline
Coughlin
Frank H. Pope
Leominster
Théommittés
Dr. Coughlin
Daniel M. Crowley
Danvers
Farley
Harry Lloyd
Harry J. Jaquith
Wellesley
Corcoran
Jaquith
Mr. Scollard
Henry T. Schaeffer
Winchester
Sullivan
Schaeffer
Robert T. Paine, Jr
Davenport
Ridgell
Paine
Joseph J. Corbett
Democratic Party
Connecticut Begins 1898 Campaign With Bryan Lectures
The Democratic State central committee met at Savin Rock and scheduled a statewide campaign kickoff in New Haven on October 21. They plan to invite leading Democrats to help fund and organize efforts and to arrange a series of lectures with William J. Bryan in January March 1898. The meeting signaled a commitment to follow Chicago and Hartford conventions in strategy.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Democratic State Central Committee
Savin Rock
Devas
William J. Bryan
Sécvéntéen
Chicago
Hartford
Archbishop Williams Returns Home From Rome Journey
Archbishop Williams arrived in Boston from New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II after a Genoa to New York passage blessed by favorable weather. He rests at home with Mgr. Magennis and Father Rossi and may take a month’s vacation with Bishop McQuade at Rochester, New York.
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Rome
Boston
Archbishop Williams
New York
Genoa
Mgr. Magennis
Jamaica Plain
Father Rossi
Brighton
Bishop McQuade
Rochester
N. Y
John O Chapman longtime Salem postmaster aide dies
Salem obituary reports John O Chapman aged 65 or older and longtime assistant postmaster in Salem died at his home on 155 Lafayette Street after months of illness.
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Salem
John O. Chapman
Lafayette Street
Forty Fights Ill Ones
Post doctors have relieved pains nor set td rea and prescribed medicines. The North End but partly covered urgent appeals received from all parts of the city starvation through ignorance cause of many ills fresh air shut out by crowded tenements post work augmented by offer of
The Post's Sick Baby Fund Expands Citywide Aid
The Post reports its medical corps treated forty eight sick children in the North End over four days despite heavy rain. Families plead for broader coverage as malnutrition and illness persist, and the Ten Times One Society offers harbor trips to give exposed children a breath of fresh air while Post doctors arrange tickets.
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North End
Post
Dickie
Papa
Shan
Times One
Grandchildren Are Orphans In A Back Street Store
An elderly pair of Italian grandmothers runs a small shop in a crowded north end block. The doctor treats Olivia a sick child while a local rescue mission emerges as a young girl guides him through tenements to find sick babies. The narrative highlights poverty, language barriers, and charitable outreach in a tight urban maze.
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Olivia
Pleaded for Her Playmate in a City Health Note
A doctor visits an elderly patient in a crowded Italian quarter basement, treating an 80 plus mother with asthma. A caller praises the Post’s aid to the poor and requests continued help for sick babies and aging neighbors. An organ grinder’s small, dingy home is described nearby.
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Post
Appeal for Babies and Help for the Poor
A reader from 58 Winter Street sends five dollars for a sick baby and urges Christians to aid the suffering poor. The plea asks to fund acts of charity over grand church edifices and costly attire, recalling the command to care for the needy.
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W. L
Winter Street
In Jesus Name Aid for Sick Babies Letter
A Chelsea reader signs a donation to the Post sick baby fund dated July 21, enclosing one dollar and asking for divine help to bring in more supporters for needy children.
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The
Post
Thorniig
Jesus
Chelsea
Soldier sends $3 to hospital fund at Fort Warren
A Fort Warren hospital steward signs a brief note dated July 22 asking the editor to add three dollars to the post's sick baby fund, stating the contribution from a soldier. The message is terse and focuses on the donation.
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Pos
Post
Atrick Onema Hospital
Altos Ye Army
Fort Warren
Injunction Sought Against Quincy Street Railway Plan
In equity court Judge Dunbar heard Ella Carvér and others petition to restrain Quincy Street Railway Company from laying tracks on a narrow street in Quincy. They claim tracks would obstruct travel and argue rural city rules apply. case referred to a master.
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Superior Court
Dunbar
Ella Carvér
Quincy Street Railway Company
Quincy
Sister Mary Alice Buried in East Boston
Sister Mary Alice buried from the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer East Boston yesterday morning. She was sister to John Haggerty South Boston and to Mrs. Timothy Dahy Massachusetts avenue aunt of Dr W J Dahy Beacon Street. Interment in the sisters lot Holy Cross Cemetery attended by many clergy and Notre Dame sisters.
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Mary Alice
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
East Boston
John Haggerty
East Eighth Street
South Boston
Timothy Dahy
Massachusetts Avenue
W. J. Dahy
Beacon Street
Father Garrity
Father Hamilton
Father Griffin
Lizzie Quirk
Sisters of Notre Dame
Holy Cross Cemetery
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Beese
North
Kiondyké
Tacoma
Locse Harbor
St. Michael's
Charles H. Hamilton
John H. McGraw
First National Bank
Washington
Carr
Ion
Tey
Fred B. Crewe
Sewapaper
Douglass
Londyke
Roxbury
Pyne
Warren Street
Naverhill
Jacquith
Cies
Bryan
Democratic Committee To Uphold
Prescribed Medicines
the Post
Patrick
Neill
U. S. Army
Tess
South End
Child of the Attic
Jordan
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