Show THE gola excitement hot only are the mining regions of the v excited over the ot tabu 1 fr loua discoveries of gold in the klondyke district df strict of the territory bat the whole country has apparently caught the fever an advertisement in a new york paper waa answered by 1200 men who wanted to go to alaska and in even senators eena tors and representatives aro schem ins to have a bent out to determine the boundary line between alaska and the northwest territory in the neighborhood of the gold fields it abo reports that come from dawon city the center of the gold excitement are tally by shipments ot the precious metal aad of eye wit nease although althou eh the already told and the eld received ara convincing evidence there will be a wild rush hotbo region from all parta of tb united states and another gold craze approach ina the exodus from the battern stacee to california in the day of 9 only the hardiest ot and well with money S I 1 afi rl L should attempt the journey into the frozen north abote who leave within the next thirty days wil have barely time in which to reach the yukon before winter seta in the winter 0 the arctic regions with ita great depths of snow penetrating cold and almost continuous night to eke out an existence until eprict next year a prospector should have about with which to buy pork and beans and bour I 1 for those articles are the cheapest of life and yet cost almost a small fortune to procure in quantities to keep a single human being alive the ariza is a most tempting one many have already won their tortures hero by risking their liseq but will be many who will cot only miss the prize but will perish in the attempt there will be more suf ferine more distress and heartaches along the snow covered 1 trail leading from juneau to the lakes at the headwaters ot the tributaries to the yukon and down these lakes to the reindeer river where the bonanzas are being than marked the pilgrimage of the argonauts to the golden shores ot california where nature cast kindly smile upon the strangers Bt rangers and bad of the forbidding surroundings of this new el dorado of the far north |