The age-herald., 1897-12-12
HAS T ID THROW AT BIRDS Miller Made a Fortune, But Tired
 of Bacon and Beans. SWIFT WATER TRAVELLING The Returned PrCspector Tells Good Story of His Experience in kIondyke-He Is
 Going Back in the Spring.
SWIFT WATER TRAVELLING

From the St. Louis Republic.
 Louis county, went to Alaska in search of gold about a year ago and returned home yesterday rich man. He located a claim on Mastodon Creek, winch pam ned out a little over s5,oOO in a month. Before departing he purchased a claim in the famous Minook district, which he expects will net him a cool, million in the richest and largest lot of nuggets yet discovered in the wonderful Eldora- do of the north. He Is the first man re- siding in the county who has returned from the gold fields with enough of the yellow boys to throw at the birds News of his good fortune preceded him home, and his family and many friends have been anxiously expecting his return ever since he wired them from Seattle His brodhers-in-law, Ellsworth and F. A. Barker, are among the best known citf- zens of the county. In the spring the successful miner will return to look af- ter his properties. He would not have come out at all only that he got very hungry, could get nothing to eat and de- cided to make break for porterhouse steaks and the land where all was not beans and bacon.
 IIcSkutc dSScilhOIS OL hunger, Ile COIISs5 back more robust than when he started. Six feet in he-ght, strong nmbed and hearty Alaskan cold and mosquitoes had apparently no effect upon his con stitution. Locked in the arms of the frozen north he believes is the greatest and richest horde of gold the world has ever seen or will ever see. Stick spade in here, there, anywhere and gold comes up with it. lit may not be in paying quantities, owing ito the present high price of living, but with improved con ditions the mines that are now cast aside as unprofuable will yield large profits.
 MT. Miller is one of the few men who made the hazardous trip through the canyon, the White Horse Rapids and Five Fingers. His story of the trip is as crisp as the Arctic breeze and glit- fering as the gold he found. Here it IS: "I have been a miner for twenty years had been watching Alaska for some time. Tn March of 1896 I left home Juneau outfitted me with clothes, food, sleds and dogs. April 1 found me at Dyea. I picked up a trayeling compan- ion there Over the pass we went. On April 16 we crossed the summit. Then came the journey over the frozen lakes.
 At the canyon, at the rapids and Five Fingers we did not hesitate long. It was dangerous, but it was thrilling Wrecks of boats and several graves on the banks warned us of the danger of the canyon. It's difficulties are not ex- aggerated. The water swells up and down Ike a switchback. Only for the Henting, which we stretched over the boat, we would haye been swamped. At iWhlbte Horse Rapids there were more wrecks and more graves. A pole bear ing a flag was erected alt the entrance to the rapids. Upon the flag was in scribed the word Danger" Many heed ed the warning, and pulled their boats on shore to go around the danger spot by land. We went through safely. In the canyon 1t had taken us two minutes to