Show A DIG nsrusAt A Ce In Ublth s Unml lumln 1Iht I lllf tlffn a llnnlrn James Clark of Old l Town Waih know a good tory In connection with the linking of the steamship 1aclflc In the Strait of Juan de Kuca In 1876 of which the only survivor wa Nell Henley now of Tacoma Mr Henley floated around for hour on n raft after the 1rlOe was struck by the bark Orpheus Or-pheus With him on the raft wo n mac Darned WillIam Sampson who became be-came exhausted and tank Mr Clark nays with between 110000 and 112 000 In a belt around hi body Tho fact that Sampson had the gold on hli person wag known to Mr Clark and a I few other only and It 1 has never been published Clark and Sampson were mlneri together on the Yukon river In Alaska The mining claim Will a rich one and < was known In the Yukon district dis-trict as the Threoto One It was 10 called became the party that mined and owned It wai competed of three white men and a Chinese They returned re-turned to Victoria to spend the throb winter after taking out about IS 000 apiece In gold l anti the next spring when they went to back to open up tho mine again they found that the floods had swept away all their machinery and they would hove to spend a const con-st part of the season In making and putting new machinery to handle han-dle the placer deposits Sampson became be-came discouraged and he told hti share In tbd digging to his partner for about 16000 and returned to Victoria Tho Thrce lo One made money that reason the atne ni tho reason before Shortly after Sampson returned to Victoria Vic-toria ho rhlppeil on tho iteamcr Pacific Pa-cific Intending to go to Ban Irancltco Ho put the gold In n belt around hit lady ni was tho custom In those day Tho raft on which ho and Henley floated wan In reality a chicken coop Sampson felt he could not last much longer In the heavy MW which rolled the coop fearfully and he begged I lien Icy to take the cold The latter tccllnt that ho would never Mt foot on shore again refined to tako the belt and It went down with poor Sampson to tho bottom of the HI Henley wn soon picked up The next day though he regretted the low of his companion on the chicken coop he also deplored that he had not taken the proffered bell wills Ito burden of gold |