The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-05-01

which he chaneed to visit tired of him and would not listen to his embellishcd yarns. He. however. never wanted Tor auditors, for many less wise on min ing affairs-and many there are to be found-gladly paid heed to his golden stories. and the thicker he put it ar. the better apparently they liked fl.
 Rollins spent considerable time at the hotel bar and other drinking places. but it was almost invariably in the capacity of sharing another's hos pitality. for at no time of the float ing" of his scheme did he have very much ready cash Last winter he had rather sumptous apartment in the Col onade hotel. where he received num- erous visitors to explain his mining schemes. His sideboard was usually well stocked and in the elucidation of the project was very literally drawn up- on. It was in his rooms that Rollins elaborated the most extravagantly up on what he had "up near Skagway, but whether in the hotel lobby or in society. or at the theatre or wherever he was. he continuously sang the song of his fabulously rich mines. To those up here who know something of what he really located an idea of the excess oi his elaboration can be had when it IS stated that he told many times tha, he had eleven miles of low grade prop erty which ran from S to $eo per ton,
 In the latter part of the winter and early spring he told many that he had just enlisted capital to work his prop. erty on a gigantic scale and that about the latter part of April he would send up about three hundred men and put them to work upon the mines and I.ep them there all summer. He also had some plan for a great water power plant upon which he expounded al Jne with the other things connected aith this mammoth undertaking. It was rumored several times during the winter that he was inducino people. es pecially women to invest money in his scheme, but whether he did or h0t is not known here. From the arrivals yesterday. and those to come later, it appears that Rollins was truthful in one thing and that was when he said he would send up three hundred men the latter part of April
 The men who arrived yesterday nave not a pick or shovel to work wi:r and Mir. Lewis is out at the mines SO. called with barely enough provisions to keep himself going. Certainly if the thing were all right preparations for the reception of them would have been made in advance and they would have been transported to the mines where accommodation and supplies would have awaited them. There is neither one out there.
 Rollins manipulated a ST2 rate with the steamship company, but the men had to put up their own fare, it is said Mir. Heinrich. who is an old miner, takes the thing philosophically. although he feels that he has been ''jobbed" badly. Rollins designated Mir. Heinrich as foreman and gave him hrst-class transportation. In speaking of the matter yesterday he said he had been treated splendidly on board the Cottage City and would not have cared if the trip had been rro- longed another month. He had plenty of the best to eat, fine bunk. and thoroughly enjoyed himself. He takes the matter as more of a joke than some of the others who do not see much humor in the situation. One oi them said we have been "jobbed" and that is all there is to it. Rollins sprung a lot of finely worded sentences on Us. shook a seasons work at S3.so a day and board at us and we grabbed it. | wish was back in Seattle now" and the speaker made certain vigorous ges ticulations which did not augur we'll for Mir. Rollins carcas if he ever came in contact with him.
 Some of the party are Russian-F Films and it is believed that Rollins got them 10 put some money in the scheme other than their transportation but when talked with they were very non-com- initial. It is known. however, that as far back as last December Rollins sent a man named Mills up here to run a boarding house out at the mines and that this man paid $500 for his privil- ege. Other instances where Rollins duped people on one phase or another of the fake mining scheme are known, and they all indicate an absorbing pur- pose on the part of the promoter @ to get peoples money without giving anything tangible in return.
 Nearly all of the people here talked with yesterday who know Rollins think that he is a iakir and fraud, pure and simple. and that the game he is play