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Show PRESENTIMENT. H Savad Dim Iran, llaalh and 1'at Bins H aa tlia Itnad la Wtallh. HH CspL George F. Ellis of Santa liar- jB bara, wbo left thla city last Tuesday H for Alaska,' hasT'Iisd tho'eiperlence of aaB being saved from death by a present- H Iment td become a Klondike million- H aire, Four years ago Kills was a poor H man and reined n livelihood aa master H of a small craft employed at sea- jM otter hunting along the California H coast. Today be owns aeveral of ths H most vstuahle claims on El Dorado and H Ikmania creeks, and he Is known to H the world as one of the miners of the H far northern gold fields to whom for. H tune has been kindest. And this far H flight from the deck of a steam sihoon. H er to tho owner's stateroom of the fin- H est prlvato yacht that can be built, H should Ellis choose to own such a H craft. Is all because he obeyed a myate- H rlous mental warning that kept htm. H In 1895, from becoming a member of B tbe crew of the schooner E. K, Wed. HJ ster, that was lost with all on board, fcT;-. Ellis at that time was flnanclally E stranded In Santa Ilarbarn, with a fara-Illy fara-Illy to support, He secured a position of otter hunter with Ltebes & Co. of this city, and signed a contract to go to tho coast of Alaska on the Webster. For several days before he was to atart the presentiment haunted hit waking and sleeping hours that the voyage he was about Io mako held death for htm. He Is a strong, ftarlrss man, but finally final-ly be yielded to his fears and se:ursd release from his contrsct. The fato that overtook the Webster entirely vindicated vin-dicated tho occult admonition that had reached Ellis, for In a terrific gale oft Laxy harbor the schooner founders I and tho twenty men on board perished, Ellis worked bis way to Alaska, tolled over the ley trails, and reached tho Yukon In time to locale some of tbo richest claims In the Klondike During Dur-ing bit recent visit to San Francisco he brought his family here from Santa Uarbara and established them In a home worthy his present nffluenca. Ellis has returned Io the Yukoi country to look nfler his Interests there. He wH be absent a year, and wilt then como back to bis family anl mako bis home permanently In San Francisco San Francisco Chronicle. |
