Courtney's Store and Post Office at Sheep Camp on the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, circa 1898. View full size.

Naugatuck Daily News / August 27, 1897

A Lumberman Comes Back From Alaska With $150,000

HAS A CLAIM VALUED AT $1,000,000.

When Nearly Out of Food and About Ready to Give Up, His Party Struck a Valuable Vein by Chance.

Chicago, Aug. 27 -- One year ago Fred [Frank] Phiscator was a poor man, engaged in the lumber business at Barodo [Baroda], Mich. Saturday night he arrived in Chicago on his way home from Alaska. In a big red pocketbook which he carried in the inside pocket of his vest there reposed a certificate of deposit for $120,000, besides which Mr. Phiscator had sufficient loose change to keep him from

Washington Post / January 2, 1906

Millionaire Cuts His Throat After Nights of Carousal.

San Francisco, Jan. 1 -- Frank Phiscator, a Klondike millionaire, who joined the original gold stampede from Eagle City to the mines, and who built the first house in Dawson, died last night from wounds in the throat, which he inflicted while

Saint Joseph Weekly Press / November 7, 1907

George Phiscator, of Baroda, Well Known Farmer, Commits Double Crime in Drunken Frenzy

(From Thursday’s Daily.)

Wild with the effects of several days of debauch, his brain on fire from the fumes of whisky which he had consumed, George Phiscator of Baroda committed a double crime this morning, shooting down his wife as she ran from his doorway