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Show Famous Ncbrc kan and Wile. Recent Portrait of Man Who Mjy Again Lead Democratic Holts. TO INCREASE OUTPUT COSTLY MINE IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED FOR KLONDIKE. Indications Are That Dawson Will Dt Center of World's Largest Cold Oredglna Fleldi Value of This Year's Product. Dawson. Yukon Tho gold output ol of the Klondike for tho season of lliOfi roaches the total of 5,C97,lt This figure Is basel on tho average valuation or 110 to the ounce. I If the Klondike Is meant that area ol placer producing streams within a radius ra-dius of to miles of tho city of Dawson Daw-son The total ontpat of the Klondike since the discovery or the rump la is'ic is jiii.:m;,.?2 These llgmea are based on Hie royal!) roy-al!) eolleellona b ihe Canadian gor-eminent gor-eminent which controls all tin- M( ramp The figures ire fmm the citnee of I T Million, comptroller of finances In the Yukun If nil) thing the imounta here alvn are ver) conservative They are well under the mark, particularly for Ike earlier )eara. beriiusu It Is believed that many then evaded tho paynutt of tho ro) alt) exacted by tho goura-menl goura-menl Now evasion Is lmposlhj be-cause be-cause nil dust attempted to belaku aurOMi Ihofboundar) lieorq t ..MjrJ, reived the stamp and certificate shewing shew-ing Hint tho royalty la paid Is can Unrated The Indication la that the output lor tho future will bo greatly Increased as soon as Iho man) Mr atreams no t lug acquired by Ihn Cluggcnlielms of New York, Hlgmund llotlimhlldi and associates of Detroit, Colonel W II llama of Paris, Tox , and asrwrlites. I)r A S Grant of Toronto ncl N A Puller or Michigan nie full) equipped with dredges hydiniillc and othei means for working of low grade as well as high grade grounds at a profit The (liiRgenhelms alone hnvo secured se-cured hundreds of claims and are spending millions In Improvements In the Klondike It Is nellrved that wllh ill the Improvcmepta Hint these big companies will make u heavy pay roll will lie malntnlncd here every sum mer and that Dnwsuu will alwn)s be an active mining town atid tho center or one of the largest hjdrnullc and dredging fields In Iho world MURDERER HAS PRIVATE JAIL. His Precautions Wilt Cost Him Double Term of Imprisonment. Hume - wealth) land owner, Hal moudo lare waa In 1S0S condemned by the criminal courts of Itoggla, .'n Italy, to ten ) ears' Imprisonment lot having murdered n servant of his la-lament was assed lu dsfnult ami It was surmised at the lime that tla man had eseaied to some distant land under nn assumed natnu Quite recently the isillre heard Hint he wai in Koggla, and raided Ida house They wore very much iimused In rinding birr. 1 snlel) locked up lu n cell which hu had built fur hlmseir lu fho bnsemtnt ol hla house Ono ol Ida servants waa pnldby him to act as Jailer, und by order of hla master supplied him once A day with bread and n, Jug of water During eight yeara Paco nover atlrred from hla cell, and ho told tho polite that niter completing tho full term ol ten yeara lo which tin waa condemned he Intended petitioning tho king for a royal pardon As II Is tho unfortunate unfor-tunate man has tn start Ids punish tnenl nfresh, nud In thu end will havn served nlmost twice his time |