Newark Daily Advocate / September 11, 1897

A Gloomy Prospect for Prospective Klondike Miners.

Returning Prospectors Say That but Few Who Went Forward Will Live to Realize Their Hopes -- A Starving Man Shot for Stealing a Side of Bacon.

In the mad rush for Klondike gold men are already starving to death. Of the thousands now hastening to Alaska, many will never return. Their bones will bleach under the snows of the deadly passes.

Gold there is in plenty, but it is not easily obtained. And this is not all. Starvation,

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New-York Times / July 2, 1889

DURANGO, Col., July 1. -- At 3 o'clock this afternoon a fire broke out in the south part of the city, and in a short time the flames, assisted by a strong wind, spread in every direction, leaping from building to building until at 4 P.M. half of the town was in ashes.

Every business house and public building in the city with the exception of the Post Office and Strater's Hotel was burned to the ground. The wind at 4 o'clock was still blowing, and the fire was entirely beyond control.

New-York Times / October 7, 1887

LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 7 -- A letter has just been received by Gen. John Baldwin, of this city, from parties near Durango, Mexico, where his brother, Leon Baldwin, was murdered by Mexican bandits a few weeks ago, concerning which outrage the State Department has instructed the United States Consul at Durango to make a full investigation. The letter gives new facts concerning the affair, and states that the bandits, after robbing and killing Baldwin, went to Ventanes and robbed the store of an old man there, also taking his son and holding him for ransom. Villagers pursued the bandits and surprised and killed five of them. Among these was one of the murderers of Baldwin. The people were greatly pleased that some of the worst characters in the community were thus put to death.