Show di HARD LUCK MINER LET FORTUNE claim worth half million sold for the death deat h at Que quesnel suel B 0 of abe stutt stott characterized as the ibe original liard hard luck miner recalls the story of how bow be sold for u claim which chic h brought its purchaser a coot cool halt mil E nys the los angeles times silice stutts death the story of his early in the caribou country has been told by old timers ahu knew liliu well und and were lo 10 a the territory when he listened to wiseacre wise acres s w I 1 v liu told lalni eflin there could not be gold in a ills holdings and witnessed him sell lily ills birthright fur a mess meiss ot of pottage bat mckenna a young irish police lilun fredi from the chicago blue coated furce gets a place in this stor story y because if 1 lie he had bad not made stotts the englishman probably never would have made his strike BIc Kenna made ills his way up to barkerville then the headquarters of the Cuil hou miners and after at a week of trying to drink the hardened miss miners ers under the table he be decided to seek a ti quieter dieter spot he ran into stott w who ho told librn of the quietude around eight mile lake where the fish bit well A week in the new atmosphere was enough for the ahe young irishman to throw off the effect of his bis drinking but jilt and give him hla his all oi of fl he decided he would do some prospect in ing g lie ile did not know how to zo e R bout about it and stott it ft window windo w droeser could give him little assistance so 80 put pal decided to start richt at the camp lie ile dur dug u hole bole in front of the tent lit which they lived presently bedis he als covered nuggets in the botton bottom of ills hla pan even though practical Ucal miners s said for of alie ground bar barred red gold yet the partners turned turnell up gold nuggets whenever they felt like panning a barrowful occasionally they went out ana ami fished a day or two andre and replenished p pleni leni shed their pokes for months at a ume even been then the th scientists admit gold was there la in paying quantities eventually stott became disc dis heartened and sold his share in the claim to billy ogden an old ume prospector for ogden and mckenna worked their claim for a while and when a minneapolis man dan named hannah offe reil for their property they grabbed it before the buyer could 1 lit mind hannah began ln n ai 1 lige work nork n ork on the mine and when 11 he rot got through with it lie had taken gold to the value of from the claim |