The Nome nugget., 1904-01-23
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until tho schemer had "knocked" about twenty claims The New Yorker pointed to three benches one of the leading creeks of the Noms district Oocated the wrong limit) and asked How about thsse?"
 "Ah" exclaimed the schemer eff you get hold of those claims pay any price asked for them. know that particular ground well, and have myself gotten as high as $5 to the pan from it. l regard those claims as among the richest in the entire dis trict, and would like to the ground myself"
 Several of the remaining claims given good send off," and the New Workers retired feeling that they had secured reliable information.
 A few days went by, and deal made with c on the following basis Ten thousand dollars cash forty thousand dollars March 1, 19- A bond taken the interest of for three hundred thousand dollars, money to be paved after claims had been prospected.
 The three schemers then met at an appointed rem dezvous to talk over future plans. had expended some $4 900 on and c, in order that they might keep up flush" appearance. B carried the waa, and now assumed the leadership of the party. Turn ing to A he said "As you going to the old country will give you $1 ,O00 of the $1O,00O ceived. The remaining 5000 and l will need to carry on the play of being rich miners. When you return in the spring will get the $40,OOO due on
 
 A, trusting his accomplcss fully, assented to this, and spent the winter in his old home and in the meantime, having glorious time blowing in" the 5000. Spring came, and returned from across the waters to find that and c had drawn the $4O- GOO, and had been made manager of the company who made the purchase, to remain as such until the bond of $3OO,OOO on his interest had been taken up and deferred giving A his share of the $50OOO, or h0 m nd he ad n them, giving various and excuses and telling him to wait until the "big dear' went through and they would all have plenty of money.
 How to put the $3O0OOO proposition through be- came the subject of many conferences between the consprators. suggested that if he could be engaged by the New Workers to report tho ground in their behalf he would guarantee that the report would be favorable. They all agreed that this would be the thing to do, and, with much tact, it brought about that A, in company with young society sap head who postmaster in the art of Terpschore, and had developed his pedal extremities at the ex- ponse of his cranum, to represent the purchasers in the Northland The latter would be easy mark in the hands of those who possessed active, thinking minds.
 The plotters planned that the claims should be "salted"-some of them, at least-shown to the dude from New York, and a favorable report made to the home company and the bond would then be taken up.
 Everything looked propitious for the schemers, but the old Scotch proverb once more to become demonstrated truth: "The best laid plans of mice and and men often gang a'gey."
 | On board of the large steamer, bound for Nome in the spring of 19O- was B, the head of the trio c and and the "ping pong" exponent. On arrival at Nome began to get little suspicious of and c, and suggested that before the big deal' was pulled off he would like settlement of the smaller one mighty then and there broke out among the erstwhile friends, which ended in A telling and to go to h and saying that he would "knock" the "big deal" in the head. He was as good as his word, and told the New Yorker that the deal was put-up job. While the latter try ing to collect his thoughts sufficiently to know what course to pursue towards prosecution, and left for tho outside, followed shortly after by the New Yorker. remained in the country until last fall his faith in mankind badly shaken, result of his rather expensive experiment. LES.