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Show THE MSCOVERER OF NOME. . Quiet, Well-Drcsscd Young Norwegian Who Found Untold Wealth on Shores of Bering Sea. There Is n mm who hnn done some, thins worth while ' rennrked a student nf faces nnddlng tnward n well-built jnjns imn who hnd Just entered the BinnklnR room of the hotel In which they wt ro seated How do jou know?' nskeel hl3 friend Ills face speaks dogged determination determina-tion In every line" was the repl). The shape of his hend tells me Hint he is n man of largo Ideas Ills dollies nnl the diamond on his finger tell mo that ho hns succeeded An 1 ou tlon t know who he Is? ' '.Never saw the man heroic In my life Well jouvn hit It this time for I happen to know the man sold the frfenl llr hnn done something worth while He discovered one nf the grent-est grent-est mining districts tho worll hnn ever known winked out 11000000 In virgin (.old for himself nnl Is nssuied nf nn Income foi jenrs tn enme nn Incnmo the size nt which wnuld slugger jou or me Thnt man Is Jnphet I ludel org the dlutovcier of the Nome diBBlnss on the shorts nf HeiliiK sea ' Pell mt how he did It " demnnded the stulent of chnincter I first met Jnphet I In leberg In 1SS7 when ho cime lo the United States ns thief herder of the reindeer cxielltlon which the ilovcrnment wus sen Hug to Uiskn lie Is a nntllvc of the little hamlet of Tiomsoe In northern Jsnr-wi Jsnr-wi mil had stalled to mako his wny to the Klondike when he heard th it Dr Hlul Ion Jackson wus eninliit, tn his native na-tive pi itc In pui chase rein let r lie le-turned le-turned Iheie nn nipldl nn pissll le nn I wns tngntid ns chief holder on ncrnunt of his reputation ns a winter tiuveler ovei Hit su iv lipids of llussla un l I In-lanl In-lanl He could not spook a woid of I ngllsh when tho expedition swirled in hiss Iho Mlnntlc but b the time It linlel nt Haines Mission nn the Alaskan Alas-kan i. usl u few months later he hid a fair lomninnd nf Iho latiMi ige fin Oovcrnmcnt Isiught tho lelndeer for Hit purposo of euro lug sutpll.s to Hit miners who were wintering In Daw. son ( It and who were su imscd tn be stHrvliih lly the tlmo the heard rpache 1 Miska the situation was n lit veil by n great m ml of the miners llghllng their wa to civ lllziitlon b way nf the Icc-lound Icc-lound liver l.lndtherB was then en-h en-h i,i 1 to go to Slbeili to purchase more thcr f il the Ciiiv eminent stntlnn In northern Aliskn nnl got ns far as St Mhhai Is when la In ird nf n Bold tils rovtry on Holovln Im He hud t,nno to liskn with Iho Intention nf getting Into mining and thl seemed tn be his rhunee so ho resigned from the (3ov-eiiuiient (3ov-eiiuiient service At Oolovlu bn he fell In with I.rlk O Ilndbloim nnd nnother Hwedt und detiiinlni 1 to jirnspett the unknown cuintr on Scwnnl peninsula They ret nut In mi en boil mi I letuined twen-ly twen-ly days later with n tnle of rich gold dlscoveiles on Anvil creek ut t'upe Nome In November 180S the returned wllh sevei il others nnd oigHiilzed the Nam mining district und In a year hoi made a showing which caused a tush to Nome whlth wus second only to 11 e stampede to the Klondike W Ith his ui tnciH lit owns sevtrul hundred nuts of the ilthest lircr hinds In the dlstilit lhe liiivn worked over nbout 10 ptr icnl of their properl nn I hive IJHiilflW tn show for It He Is In New ork foi n well earned rest but tho 1 e-Llnnlng e-Llnnlng of Iho Alaskan summer will Mnd him Inek on his mlnen In llnnnel shirt nverulls nnd hip boots dlioUIng Hie work on Hie t Islms ihe man who studies fnces asked to In- Introduce 1 und then for n story an Alaskan stoiy ou must have suf-ftred suf-ftred mu. h hardship during that first winter' he sold Well ihIIi. r snll the jounif miner In iiinurkiill) ool KiiRllsh Ihe worm of It wns Hint wo hnd nothing to drink mil nn Alisknn thirst slmpl Insists In-sists on being satlslled I remember the firx ( hrlstmns I spent In Nome I had succeeded in gettlns two bottles nf pure nlrnhol, which some one had brought In tn use In a spirit lamp nnd u bn nf cigars The litter wnuld hnve cost ul out two ccntH enth In the btntes, but I was Bind to i n HO cents fnr them With my telebintlnn supplies 1 went lo n lielshhnrlng I sklmn dugout un 1 pro ceptled to try to forget that there wns surh u thing nn On 1 s couiilr The nl cohol wns not hnlf bid when mlxt 1 with wnter. nnl tho iluhnut wns wnrm so wurm Hint ono did not mind the olor Aflor nn hour or twn I went nulslde for u brenth nf fresh nlr h i Ing cniefull hid len the bullies I Hi night When I returned thty were emply nnd there wns a eusptclniiH hllur-It hllur-It In the mnnnir nf the unlives They hnd Inken the rnw nlenho! with n relish and my Chrlstmis was spoiled' Ntw lurk Tribune |