Show old bin alan left in shaft ot of mine to die edward mortimar a gray haired miner 68 years old Is the center of a story emanating from dawson Daiv soo where he is said to have been beca kidnapped and lowered into a shaft thirty five feet deep on thistle creek miles from dawson ills captors demanded COO as 05 the price of release but on being told that he had no money left him apparently to perish after twelve hours of effort the old man succeeded in climbing to the surface of the shaft by means of sticks stuck in the side of the shaft abaft and after wandering eight miles found a canoe which brought him to dawson where lie he claimed police protection |