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[Illustration: THE GREAT ROUND
WORLD
AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT.]

VOL. 1 AUGUST 19, 1897. NO. 41

The stories from the Klondike fields seem to grow more wonderful day by
day.

The first accounts have not only been verified, but surpassed by the
later news. Four million dollars' worth of gold is said to be waiting
shipment at St. Michael's, Alaska, and miners at the Klondike say that