Show lUCK WAS AS WIT THEM How Three Poor Miners Fou Great Wealth eaIth in Alaska Seattle Wash Oct Ho the tantalizing goddess of chance led three poor In the fabulous wealth of the new distrIct In was told h hore rc yesterday b by Col George E B Cook U S A corn com of the post at Fort Gibbon who has hos arrived from tile far nort north h Incidentally CuI Cook ook said that there are aro 2 00 Working lu in the tho of the tho river find and that he thought the spring would of tile the greatest rushes or of history This Is the thc story torr of three prospectors as told by Col Cook Three prospectors started down the Yukon for Gaines creek last May In a boat which they lher lund had thrown together They Ther took look along a boiler bollor which tho they planned to use uSo Jn iii l their heir mining Having Ito flO to row rov their boat they rl up an engine engino the war down iOWn they tho heard that tho United States Stales marino marine Inspectors wore ort on an tour tolt of the craft on the river Nope None of oC lie prospectors was licensed and tho they knew the boat boal would be ba condemned as junk If the o eyes es of the Inspectors ever alighted on It Thc They received this alarming ju just t as the they to torun torun run into the river lest the tho Inspectors catch 1 them hem r thc ho hor r traveled UI tho as fast as they I could and when they ther came camo to a laro lanto tributary which to b I lo I l push d up that stream until the hey could go O no 00 farther b by boat boal Ag Aa t time me was hangIng heavily out on their hands they began to lo J It WaS not long before th the found I Irich rich gravel rac I Thor Tile staked out om and ran their boat bont hack to a station I on the Yukon cn lied A nhak where J tho lucY bought supplieR and returned with as little delay dela as possible to Q the thet theL t L ht d w wI if w I r ne new diggings keeping their strike a t secret ecret News Ners of the find however leaked out and hundreds flocked to tho th diggings from tar far up the Yukon and front from Nome Fairbanks the district |