Iowa
Old Press
Bellevue Leader
Bellevue, Jackson co. Iowa
February 24, 1898
GEORGE WEBER TO ALASKA GOLD FIELDS
George Weber of Bellevue, will start for the Alaska gold fields
next Monday and will be the first person from this immediate
locality to make the venturesome trip. He will pack his
possessions and leave by way of Minneapolis over the Northern
Pacific to Seattle and thence to the new Eldorado. (reprinted in
the Jackson Sentinel, March 3, 1898)
[transcribed by K.W., July 2013]