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Show jRQMANCE Of j it City of 20,000 Has Been Reduced to a Town ol 1,000 Seattle, Oct. 2fi. The steamship I I'n-Mtilla arrival from Nome with 51 1 I passengers anil J2.".m,iiihi in bullion and will b.- followed closely by tho steam-fdilps steam-fdilps Victoria and Northwestern, each carrying god and a luavv passenger list. The exoi:s from Nome marks the end "f the romantic period of the famous fa-mous gold camp's history. In the Fumner of 1 r- ij 1 . 2.1. ntui persons were I aemhled on the bead at Nome. I whoso Fitnds were rich it gold diet, . The camp yield, d f tn.oOn.iiiiii In gold ' and will produce much juoie than that in the future; but the rich dirt that could be worked by hand has ben washed and the mining henceforth will I be done by dredges 1 Kstinir.tCK of the number of persons I now in Nome ran.e from l.oun to j l..'o". There are nearly 2 .."" a men j In the Tnnoho and 'dltarod districts 1 and oi've tal hundred In the dig n-js I north of Nome. Thc.e are mill "pixr 1 men'p enmp.-i." but Nome has gone the way of the Klondike and will trat'S-lorm trat'S-lorm no more laborers into millionaires. million-aires. ! I I |