The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-06
BORN IN BIDDEFORD.
bOKN TN BIUDEFOKD
A Returned Miner With Decidedly
Checkered Career.

New York, August -Klondike gold,
the possession ..of a small quantity scf
which made Henry Gaultier, a returned
miner, the prey of Winchester thugs last
week, has not lost it's attraction for him,
and he intends to start for the Klondike
gain in q few days. He says he has
claims at present in the care of a spartner
that will make him immensely rich.
Gaultier's story is one of adventure and
exciting incident, and a veritable checker
board, with alternating squares of hard
luck and good fortune. A man of si1lewy
frame and considerable nerve, he will I'M
dertake a mid-winter trip to his claims
in the frozen Businesses of Alaska, a trip
which he advises persons without a
plentiful supply of sand and hardwood
not to make Is sss s...
Gaultier returned from the Klondike
leaving his claims in good hands, he says,
because he heard that his father had died
at his home in Laconia, N. H., home
he has not seen for years.
He brought comparatively little money
here with him, only about $4,000 in all,
the result of few weeks work, but the
knowledge, he says that he was verita-
bile Croesus by virtue of his claims in the
rich Klondike region, made him SO free
with his money that he fell among
thieves.
That Gaultier is indeed a miner re-
turned from the Klondike was borne out
while he lay raving in Fordham hospital
by number of articles found in his
from ST. Michaels bearing the name of
the purser, one O'Connor, of the vessel
in which he came from the gold region.
There were, also, bills for supplies fur
nished to him by well known firms of
outftters in Dawson and Circle City.
Gaultier recovered slowly from the effect
of the bad scalp wound he had received,
OF 1oc ,fr,1+ IL
was able to tell his story. While lying
in the hospital he had raved of the gold
fields and displayed remarkable famil-
iarity with places and conditions in that
remarkable region.
Gaultier says that he was born thirty
five years ago in Biddeford, Me. His
family moved when he was still very
young to Tacoma, n. H., where they now
live. He remained at home in Laconia,
he says, until he was fifteen years old.
and then firing of the quiet life in the
New England town, he decided to strike
out for the West. His first goal was the
Colorado mines, then in full blast.
t'Out there" he said, II made a
living by doing odd jobs and chores for
the miners. l wandered about from mine
to mine, and l have been during my life
t ime, in every mining camp in the West
and Northwest. l wandered about in this
way for few years and then decided to
strike out for Alaska.
Gaultier began as an ordinary prospec-
tor, and says that he struck rich pay
dirt very quickly. He located valuable
claims, he says, along the banks of Do
minion Greek, and made money rapidly.
II put in my claim to the authorities, -
he said, land then L heard through a
miner who came in from the East of my
fathers death, L left my holdings in the
hands OF a partner, and started East
again to my old home. / knew / had a
fortune in my claim and made sure to
leave it in safe hands,
Gaultier left Dawson City Immediately,
he says, and went down the Yukon river
by boat to st. Michaels. He came on
the sidewheeler r. p Ware to Portland
arriving July II, the first steamer to
bring authentic news of the great discov-
cries of gold.
There were many miners on the vessel,
he said, who had already made big for
tunes, One man, named Berry, a young
fellow, brought out s135, Ouo with him on
that trip.