The Yakima Democrat -- Vol 5. No. 52 -- September 16, 1899.

Abstract

"That well advertised 'fake' the 'backdoor-route,' better known as the Edmonton trail, which was advertised far and wide--one and two years ago by thrifty 'Canucks' as the shortest and best route to the Klondike, has not claimed as its victims all who trod its lonely paths. Occasionally we read of a lucky man who has successfully run the gauntlet of death by drowning, freezing, hunger or scurvy, returning again to civilization to unfold his tale of woe, but many of the poor unfortunates have left their bones to bleach in the Arctic wilderness as evidence of the trust they placed in the bright but lying and deceitful circulars of the Canadian Pacific railroad."