The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03
D. B. Davison Skips
 With $45,OOO.
KNEW TERRY AND MIZNER
GAVE s5ooo TO THE DOCTOR FOR =: SAFEKEEPING.
The Attorneys Working for the Ex- :. tradition of the Grub-Staked
 Miner From Colo. rado.

- D. B. Davison, a Klondiker who met with success. and others, has come and gOne and thereby hangs tale. He re- turned from the icepacked goldfields on July F on the St. Paul with about $45 900 to his credit Soon after legal proceed ings were brought by the Klondike Ex- .. plorGtion Company, a Colorado corpora tion, to recover the money which they claimed Davison had appropriated, as ne was nothing more than grub-staked miner. Davison fled after the service of the summons and is now under arrest in Seattle, awaiting eXtradition, which has been applied for by the Colorado syEdi . cate from Governor Budd. pr. w. G. Mzner and Reel B. Terry figure in the case as friend and attorney of the shitty DaVison.
 Klond!ke Gold Exploration Company un- der written contract, by which he was to receive $100 per month and expenses. He also had a one-eighth interest in the money derived from his operations in the far north were to be the property of tine corporation. In March of this year Davi- son located claim r on French Guch: It .; was bench claim and proved a very valuable property, estimated by people who know to be worth Tn the neighbor- hood of $500, 900. It Is reported that he sold : this claim for 900 and extracted S20 UU0 . in dust. His pockets inflated with the evidences of a cool s45 ,Oo0 he left Dawson City and went to St. Michael.
 There he met the renowned Dr. Mizner Tn his hands he placed $5OOO for safe keep 'Ing-some think because he feared trouble upon his arrival here. When he reached this city Davison had the dust minted- It was then that the Colorado company learTied of his presence here, and their attorheys in this city were instructed to demand an accounting. Accordingly a civil suit was brought which filled DaVi- .u-ifh kinds and. he fled in the night to colder cline to keep warm. Judgment was had by default.
 In the course of the legal proceedings 1t was evolved that pr. Mizner had received from the volatile miner just $500 and an addition of s2000 from Mrs. Davison, who had come out from Colorado in the mean time to meet her husband. As Nizners story goes this $500 he invested in a spec .tacular performance, the ill-fated Battle of Manila at Central Park, in the produc- tion of which the money was dissipated in the burning of multi-colored powders. AIiZner received $l20 more from the wife which was expended Thus S3600 of the 'company's money has assumed wings and gone none knows whither. Reel Terry was employed as Davison's attorney to quash the summons which called the latter into court.
 The belief is thai Davison went to Se- which he obtained from the sale of the diggings and the dust which he extracted. Just how much Dawson has tossed to the four winds is not known, but the at tOrneys for the Colorado company are working hard to find out.
 As soon as the warrant for arrest was sworn out in this city 1t was telegraphed to Seattle and the arrest was made. Upon application to the Governor for extradi- tion the point was raised that the con- tract under which Davison was sent to the klondike was void as being in con- traventiOn to the Canadian law restrict ing importation of alien labor. The Cana dian law is a duplicate of the American contract labor law and the decision of the . Governor will be of great importance; 'because if the contract Is held void ali grub-stake contracts will fall to the ground. As Davison was one-eighth owner in the corporation's stock it is con tended that this law does not apply to the contract of DaviSon and that he was not a manual laborer within the interpreta- tion of the law. Should the decision be " made adversely to the contentious of the Colorado company the entire grub-stake conventions now in daily would be swept aside by a single stroke and the understood relations arising from con- tracts already entered into would be turned into a sea of confusion.
 Some think that Davison fell into the hands of the Philistines and was fflched. Others that the bulk of his money await ed him in Seattle. If the Governor de- termines to issue the papers of estradi- tton an interesting and sensational trial will entertain the public and engage the interest of the courts.