Show GAPE C APET NOME PIONEER t I IQ Q J Discoverer of the Diggings s If Now ow owin in ill Salt Lake 4 STORY TORY S OF OJ THE FIND I t TOOK OOK T OUT A MILLION AND A HALF I 4 One of or the four origins original discoverers di of N ft and Its wealth we is Ii a guest at the Kenyon He is Magnus Kjelsberg Rj of the I Pioneer P Mining company which operates opera tes the he t Anvil creek claims the richest In I I Alaska Mr Kjel berg is accompanied by b y H Ii T Russell Ru who also has hils extensive interests i in the frozen north and amI they are ar a re returning to San Francisco from a ai i trip rip t east cast Since reaching i Salt a Lake k Mr I has learned ea tent fa faa he te is richer iC rr I by b y an untold sum the cloud of ot litigation t has nas hovered over oer the tile first property i located l in Nome Nomi having been raised b I the he t supreme courts court refusal to grant a writ ot 01 certiorari in III the case cae oi or Chipps Chippe vs V The news came in the he t a couple ot 01 days das ago go and am reached eaches r Mr Kjelsberg I one of the tue men principally p interested through the Salt Snit Lake papers The story of oC the discovery of gold on Cape Nome has often oUen been told but nev ner never nerr te teer er e eb r more mor interestingly than by Mr berg b erg himself He Me spun nis narrative in the he t parlor of th the Kenyon lat lait night to an l group 01 ot Salt Lakers In re response s to the request re of a u reporter Three Scandinavian gold golu gob hunters named Linderberg Linder rg j and Brend erson e said he started up the nver river one day da in 18 1898 1 their destination being some ome s forty miles beyond the present site of the city of Nome They were pros prospectors prospectors almost penniless out courage courageous cour gf I ous They were In a aver very small omit constructed c ct in the crudest fashion and ando t i to t o th theIr ir dismay a severe storm came caine up i ithe the he t or fourth day out A storm on Alaskan waters never gives gies warning ot of I Its I ts arc roach and how these men ever j I got through as they did is a wonder They were caught in the squall and for three t hours were pitched about the tha waves finally reaching land Jand about dark I The men laid their blankets on the t o beach and shut till tm morning There was no I break in the storm sto n by daylight and while I 1 waiting for the calm they concluded cl to prospect along the beach There is Ia l the thet true history h Every pan of dirt d showed s what t wonderful wealth IS there I e ed was 1 S Ss In the country Th Thi Thc prospectors were amazed dumbfounded jumped J I by These men continued Mr Kjelsberg were my m partners whom 1 I had got separated a day daj or two before i 1 went o oft on up the and found Cound them thorn there on the beach a couple c uple of days da s later We Ve had bad the place all to ourselves our elve The he only living jiving persons person we encountered were Indians And quite we pros prospected prospected until we what we w thought was the richest ground In that region b A on Anvil Cl k and located i it It j i I I was not long before word of the findings went out of the frozen north It reached Dawson very ery shortly t and there is where the trouble trou le began besan The paper had been taken out In our names all ali of them foreign and I were not long in taking advantage 01 ot it I IA A man by b the name of Chipps came down i from Dawson and jumped our claims on the ground that we were not naturalized ed citizens of the United States whereas as asa asa asa a matter of fact we all aU had our papers Other complications arose through the fhe detective defective laws Jaws of ot the region Alexander McKenzie being bt ing appointed receiver of oC I I the Anvil creek reek claims by b Judge Noyes Noye who received his judicial appointment through political pull pul The property was worked under the receiver rece er j We fought it of or course and anti Chipps Chippa got ot in tn the light McKenzie was ordered by b the California courts to turn the prop pro property I erty ern over oyer to us ms the Pioneer Mining com oom I I pany pan but he be failed to comply with the tile I order The case cae went into the United States supreme court on the application of McKenzie for a writ That application has just been turned down and the prop property erty ert is ours beyond dispute This Thi is a question of great importance to Nome a ap it affects nearly ail au the th owners up there But for the busIness which wh ch was as all II but legalized oy ny the tIle law there thele would have hae been a million dollars more taken out of Nome this season than there was w s The owners of property were actually afraid to work it fearing ft arIn a JL re Now ow all aU this thib litigation is sit t rest and I predict anether another stampede to Nome next spring There certainly will be a 8 greater output Some Gr Great at Nuggets I Mr Jr Kjelsberg carries w with ith him some someI I of the prize nuggets of the region One little J ee e he has nas as a is ls absolutely pure and is just as he picked it u He H values It at Mr Mt Russell also alou has hu some gems gema with him having a ornament of ot gold in the rough bearing be an inscription the letters of which are gold in relief The sum of o has been taken out of the Anvil district by Kjelsberg and his associates since ne th they y landed there This is outside of worked out under the receiver before he was enjoined Mr Kjelsberg expects to go In over the ice at an early earl date Mr Russell will i him |