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William K. Carpenter of Wll-Y mlngton, Delaware. opened thci scoring for the United States entry in the ninth International Tuna Cup match at Wedgeport, Nova Scotla, with this big 670-pound

I penter. left

last Tuna In Hour-Long Battle At li.S.

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bluefln, the biggest taken oifhe first day of the match. Here car- tharcheacied, and his boat crew haul the giant beauty after a battle oi nearly an hour.

overpowering violence. He was a inarked man. Suspicion was on him heavy. The officer decided on a thorough examination of the sleigh. The removal of the steel shoeing

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up river to the rblg" strike, it. took them about a week to negot- iate the 55 miles against ilie swift flowing Yuleon. They staked on nearly every creek in the system. They got the cream of die good clalnis. Prospeetors were limited to one claim on a creek. Down in Alaska prospectors could stake lpromlscuously-one claim adjacent lto another-or in groups of eight claims-l60 acres. Imagine Hen- derson's surprise when heading for Sixty Mile Post again for supplies sir; weeks later, by the same irail ins Coimack and the lndians. when he viewed the stakes of the Forty Milers. Several creeks were staked from top to bottom. He never got a chance to stake a rich claim. He couldn't even net a rich ”lljaCi.IDil," A "fraction" was a thin triangle left between two clainisi when the government surveyors, were putting their imprimatur onl the size and shape of the riaims.i

disclosed a long deep groove in one runner, filled with nuggets and gold dust to the value of several thous- ands oi dollars.

I was told some oi! the

had practically all been brought up hard, and always lived a more or less precarious life. Placer gold

mining was the poor man's dream Flies

some details of the execution by Graham. an lmgiishmnn, who we; on the N. W. M. P. at the time. When a priest visited them before execution, he spoke to La. Belle Iirst - "Well La Belle, you must go on the long Journee." He was a hardened criminal and spurned the exhortations ol' the priest toward sorrow and contrltion, and he was unregenerate - laughed in face of death. and ridiculed the others who both broke down and showed genuine revulsion oi their crimes, and heartfelt contrition. The summary metihg out of Justice had a salutary effect on all who might give way to primitive in- stincts. Practically no one carried firearms. I saw only one man brandlsh a revolver on the street. He was heading for the Tivoli, a hotel Kept by an Italian. somebody disarmed him before he did any damage. Life was simple - Just about the same as in any small town or village in Glengarry Coun-

ty, Ont., or in New Brunswick or Nova Bcotia.

I O 0 Most everyone who was much in the public eye was given a nick- name. The Macdoiialds being prom-

inent in mining operations and in physical stature had big lileck 1265 IN.) and little Aleclt

(225 lbs.) - all bone and muscle no superfluous flesh, Big Rory and little Rory, all from Antigone inn and Cape Breton, Big Hec Stewart. one time fire chief, was from Belfast, P. E. I. Seymour Knight or Georgetown, P. E. I. was also fire chief !or some years. 1 never heard of a iiickname for him, Even the representative of royalty, Hon. F.T. Congdon (from N.S.), Governor of the Yukon, was not immune from the barbs and

arrows of scolfers and cartoonists.

of an earthly paradise. There was always the cliance to "strike it rich." The mount or capital re- quired was negligible. A pick. shovel and gold pan were the only tools immediately necessary. Most

any prospector could be "grub- CIIARLOTTETOWN-Every Tuesday & Wednesday staked" oil a 50-50 basis. That (RCAF Association Club Ronnie Plionn was ilie iinwritten law and undcr- Bank oi Commerce Building) 14.59-L

standing in regard to a grubstake. A ”i'ot-ker” and sluice boxes would be an after-consideration. They indulged in Epicurean habits- rich wines and viands wliicli pre- viously they could do no more than read about. They showered diamonds on dcmi mondes-those roierred to by Judge Dugas, police court judge in Dawson, when sev- eral denizens of Klondike City. (the segregated district across the Klondike river). calrm before. him for trial. They had been lnblbillll too many libcrations oi "Scotch." and had become so hilarious that they had to be gathered into the

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They had him oullcatured in I Dawson paper in e. Jewelled crown.

There was also I "society feud"- the Mounted Police dignitaries and iamiiies on one side and the ad- ministration Nations on the other. It was mostly between natives oi Ontario and Quebec, also Nova Sco- tia, Yukon counciuors Dick Gilles-

pie and Big Bill Currie, formerly of Ind Prince- P.E.i. kept siooi from lam-necine C0m!110n immi-

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feuds.

when W. W.l. Mclnnis at Van- oouver was sent in as Governor. the bickering stopped ebruptly. lie was the soul of urbanity, and oop- aoility. Judge Henderson (1 Van- couver who followed was I rest man's man. They both were ol the calibre who can hob-nob with kings and never lose the

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v-MN. , they recognized his claims to the l ,

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coverer. That was more galllng iol. Henderson than the loss of a good claim.

it took some time and protests to the Government. heforc

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Iliad more buying power than 5500 Hvould have at the present time. lie took his family to Dawson from Aspen Colorado. The boys all had responsible jobs on the gold dredg- es of the Yukon Gold Company, with high salaries. The Henderson family was one of the most res- pected in Dawson. The Henderson boys are still in the Klondike. I hear that Grant, Robert's oldest son is persistent in his search (or the "mother lode" in what is cal- led the Big Dome-forty miles from Dawson.

All his many friends in the West and his relatives and friends in Pictou County, N. 8.. will have and pray that he will find it-or at least some rich quartz vein.

The owners of those million dol- lar claims spent and Rave away money with lavish hands. They

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There was a trio of miscreants who started a career or murder and robbery in the Yukon in 1898. La- Belle, Fournier, and aiiotlier. Their method was to waylay mushers coming over the winter trail on the river. Mushers had to report at police stations placed at regular in- tervals on the trail. Several people had mysteriously disappeared in A certain area. In close examination of the area the police saw some- thing unique and irregular. The tree tops had been cut for some distance back on the wooded slope from the river, making it clear line

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of vision through the trees. They investigated further and mum! a log cabin at the end of the canal in the trees. There was a clear view from the cabin of about two miles oi the river. When they would see a musher approaching, they would go to the river, find out whether he had a "poke" or gold dust. and if he did, lie was robbed and killed, and his body put under the ice. The way of the tranogrrnsor is hard. "Murder will out." At least one of the bodies was found when the ice went out in the spring. o - .

It is not known exactly how many victims those creatures of evil genius had disposed of. Two of the murderers were apprehended in the Yukon. The other succeeded in

Agency. which I believe was later affiliated with the Pinkertons. Another of the trio was about to make a clean and open getaway but the porspicaclty of a Mountie made his ingenious plan null and void.

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