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Show IONO OF KLONDIKE. ALEX M'OONALO tIAS MADU HIS MILLIONB. 1 raw Tetrt At- Ila tTal Common IlK,r.r Now II U HmIIIi II. Kt-ertilfl Kt-ertilfl lilt Ullilril llrmmt of Atarlra Kttpt Atroonlt In lilt Head. (Special Lsttsr.) fr-, 11,1. CONDHIIH, fJ)j who had been In lli Alkn for eight J fa III ))) yeara, bad 11,000 5?S In gold duet In the m'ft tprlng of 9. "Nar-f&Xjir "Nar-f&Xjir r had o wuoh b-S b-S LJ fure," be rsaaoneil, 't&uKH "n" ,Dl "1elr lo &) bats to muoh - v. again unlSM 1 ga " out nn' blow It." Hilt knew everybody In Circle City, and everybody which Include tho Indian In-dian and the Malamute doge onma down In tho atwmer to io him off. Ilcforo Hill reached Heottlo Ibs rich diggings ot the Klondike were dlteov-rred dlteov-rred and 11111 old frlanda who had linked claims In the tint ruth wers worth fortunsa. A ysar liter, when Hill returned, ho sat down on a log In front ot l)tr,aon with hi friends, and each ons bit oil a big chew from Hill' Plug. "Well, Hill," Mid ons of them. "Aleo MncDonatd haa got pretty much tho whols shooting match, lis' king ot the Klondlko now." "Whntl Hlg Aleo that wa down In ClrcloT" "Yep. Ho wa workln' a wlndlat for frank Conrad You remember him? Bo tail ho had to go down on hla kneea to get In n cabin door Mads him tired to lift up his arms and hi leg uted to get lied In n knot. Didn't drink, and didn't aem In care, anyway? any-way? Well, that lucky cue I worth three million If ho I worth n cent. Keller that com down lbs creek with while collar on and Jap cook they call him Miner MnrDonald" "Staked It. I tup!' Pell In'o It and couldn't get out of It?" "Nop. Never staked nothln'." "Well, how In h-1 did ho get It, then!" "Ilrnln!- "Ilumphl Thought there was tomo-thin' tomo-thin' unnatural about It." put In Hill. "That explain It all. Wo never knew he had 'em, and he didn't know be had 'em till ons day he throw up hla job and said 'I ain't going to "IriK,''. ALKX. M'DONAI.D. work any more. I'm going to get rich." That wot Jmt ntter tho Ilonania strike, when we didn't know what wa In HI-dorado. HI-dorado. Mot ot lit thought there wasn't a color In It. Aire scraped three or four hundred dollar togclhor and ha bought No. 30 lltdorado, and everybody every-body thought that he had only clinched clinch-ed another null In his reputation tor being a llgblw.dghl. Hut he took K0,. 000 out ot .N . 30 tho first teuton. Kho's good for a million It (he's worth a cent, Ihuudea that, you'll find that wherever thcre'a a good claim In the country Alec a got hla hand on It or I next door to II. I'lungel Why, that long, lanky Root that wa turnlnjr n wlndlat for 13 a day two year ago plunge In a way that'd turn you gray-headed gray-headed In a night" Indisputably, ' HlK Alee" It the leading lead-ing man ot the Klondike. It Is a community com-munity ot claim owners and ot ths king. In wealth nor In powor no ons there approai lies him. After him titers are a teoro of men, one of whom la a rich a another Us I 8 feet 2 Inches In height, and not particular aa to ths clothe he wenr. lu the tront room ot the little cabin where he roll up In a btauket nt night when ho stop nt Dawson, aro two board propped against the wall Only ot late have the two boards risen to the dignity ot three uuantum-Ing uuantum-Ing account books. In charge ot a man wbo Is the king's secretary. Hut. having hav-ing these luxuries, the king continues to carry hi aorount In hi bead. How would b know that the account book were right If he didn't? Aa a boy he learned to read and write, which was considered enough for any body In the rural part ot Nova Sootla to know. It be bad received an eduaaUon perhaps per-haps be would have more respect (or written language When a man goea to him, with a long written contract, tho king say "Now. I tall you what I'm going to do. I'll remember just what I told you and I'll do It. It you don't like that I'll do business with somebody ilso." If he goes to sny man In the Klondike Klon-dike and says: "I'll glvs you 120.000 for your claim a month from to-dar " the man knows that ho will see tho $10,000 on that day. Ila wa one of the first to hare oonfldenet In the country. When his confidence was proved win the miner of the Klondike In turn bed cosfMenco In him. The king drilled westward from Nora Scotia long before he was ot age. In the 'SOs he accumulated as much as $16,000 In mining operations In Colorado Col-orado This be lost and then he started for Alsska. Kerry rent that he got out ot No. 30 Kldoradu, the first wlntsr, he Invested In-vested In other claims, and with It all tbs other capital that ho could got on the atrengtli of the golA still In tbe ground st No 30, and of tho gold supposed to lie under the untouched sod ot hla new purchases, paying n high In Mim Instances as 10 per cent a month Interest. Tor capital was scarce and knew Ita value. Ths flrst lime that I ever saw the king he was In the cashier' office of tho Alaska Commercial company, and he needed n ihave a much as tho men who were crowding aiound him Ths men had packed down from hi claim $100,000 In dust, which waa piled on the counter In leather bag. Thl amount wa nil going for tho grocery bills ot hi employee and tho payment of sum that be had borrowed during the winter. "I'll pay when clean-up comee," was the promlto that ho Invar-lably Invar-lably made, nnd he kept the promise. I!ven tho men who worked for him walled for their wages until clean-up time. When he had bought a claim on bis word ho got men to work It on hi word. He bought lumber for hi slulco boxes on hi word. It wa a enro ot mako or break, and tha Aleo Mac Donald who wn a poor man In the tummcr nt '07 In tho summer sum-mer of IS wa worth 13,000.000. HI claim seem to have been selected In tho right places He had no Interoat I on tower llonansa, which wa ths dlt-' appointment ot tho icason. Tho claims ! ho owned on Upper Ilonania and I'.l-dorado I'.l-dorado happened to bo tho best there. Whereaa his contldcnre In tho new creeks. Uulphur and Dominion, seems to have been perfectly well founded Tor hi claim on Dominion and Bui-phtir Bui-phtir he could have received three times their cost last June, but he wouldn't Mil. "I nm no speculator," be said "When I buy n claim I work It, and when I go broko It will bo because I've mado mistake In buying." Dig Alee talk this way to hi Intimate friend, but not to n stranger. Tho glanl rem n nwkward to tho stranger a s country boy In tonn. |