Show UTAHN ASCENDS MT ML LUMLEY HIM former coal mine inspector planted american flag on summit of alaskan mountain on april 1 l 3 0 salt lake city thomas thomaa lloyd a former resident of utah has evidently succeeded where explorer cook failed mall advisees advices from fairbanks ks alaska dated april 23 state that the american flag placed on the summit of mount mckenley on april 3 by thomas lloyd and his three companions compan pan lons ions had been sighted a few days before the ad john al mcleod a trapper who has spent hla his whole ufa life in the north and who had been trapping in the Kusko wlm arri arrived vedat at fairbanks with furs and reported I that in the he met J K E hake r a fur buyer who told him that he had seen with the aid of glasses a flag floating from the summit ol of mount amount mckenley DIc Kinley on two separate occasions cas lons ift mcleod Leod who Is thoroughly t familiar a with all the approaches to mount mckenley Afe Kinley says that the ridge upon which the lloyd expedition ascended Is the only possible route over which the summit may be attained thomas lloyd was tor for many years year a resident of utah and was appointed coal mine inspector by governor heher at wells at the beginning of hla his administration in 1896 lloyd was born in wales and came to this coun try as a young man ile he lived in carbon county was naturalized there and served as sheriff for several terms ho married there and had a number of children lloyd was known as a daring fellow a first class minor miner and was highly recommended tor for the position of it coal mine inspector an example of it his daring Is shown by the fact that hat on one occasion he organized a gang of men to follow the celebrated robbers hoot gang which oper ted abed in carbon county |