The Nome nugget., 1904-05-07

the one VINO DlOS lalr TO succeed Hetty
Green as the wealthiest OF her sex,
Miss Lena S. Walton, OF Nome, came
to Portland yesterday for the purpose
Of closing contract with |. B. Ham,
mond, of the Hammond Manufacturing
Company, for $4,000 dredge, which
she will install next summer at her
placer properties on the Muklux, says
the Portland Oregonian OF January %,
last.
The item Of the dredge is but an in
cident in the business trip which
brought Miss Walton out OF the frozen
North for the first time in six years.
She arrived here yesterday morning
and occupied frst-foor suite at the
Portland hotel, made the deal for a
piece of mining machinery costing a
fortune with less dickering and fuss
than an ordinary 'mere woman de-
votes to q spring bonnet, and returned
to Tacoma last night. From Tacoma
she leaves Immediately for Washing.
ton, where she has suit involving
from $500, 900 to 81, OOO, 900 now pending
in the supreme court. In Washington
she expects to meet the picturesque
James Hamilton Lewis and retain him
to argue her case, which she expects to
win hands down. This is the second
incident of her mission to "the States. I"
Incident No. is stay OF a week in
New York, where she will confer with
her bankers, and No. is quick run
across to London, where she will con-
clude negotiations for the sale of her
Alaska tin holdings, which represent
figures the naming Of which made the
interviewer dizzy. For the accom-
plishing OF these things she has allOt-
ted herself six weeks, and before the
middle OF March she expects to be in
Portland and in her frst-foor suite
again.
Business From the Word 800"
This bonanza queen. who sat in her
parlor last evening and talked business
on superlative scale with the direct
ness and rapidity of machine-gun fire,
is still young. She is more than 30.
but not much more. A brunette, with
slight, girlish figure and per-
sonality.
A woman who thinks business, talks
business and dreams business. Bust
ness which stops nowhere short of en-
pire building and requires for it's ex-
preston dollars by the million. A
woman who has driven dog sledge
from Nome to Rampant in the dead Of
winter, when hardened veterans Of the
North feared to 60. A woman who
has tramped over all the gold fields
from Atlin to the Arctic and prospect
ed q hundred creeks. A woman who
has beaten the hardest men-prospect-
ors at their own game. living their
hardships and dangers, yet, after all, o
woman with womanliness. While she
talked last evening she busted herself
with a lace handkerchief, which she
held in her lap and twisted around her
fingers. A woman who also knows how
to dress, for in the days before she be-
came millionairess she was milliner
and dressmaker. All of which, the
handkerchief, the dress and the former
vocations, are offered as corrobOrative
evidence of her womanliness.
Miss Walton was much in the public
eye . short time agO as litigant
against the famous Wild Goose Mining
Company, in which Charles ID. Lane, Of
Nome, is the controlling factor. She
began suit more than year ago to re-
cover title to No. - Ophir, perhaps the
most valuable claim on the rich Ophir
creek. She was defeated in the courts
of Nome, and the decision of the lower
court was sustained by the court Of APP
peals, Judge Gilbert presiding. Ac-
cording to Miss Walton, justice was
defeated in both courts through the
machinations of Lane, and she took the
case on APPEAL to the supreme court OF
the United States. 1t will come up be-
two week., and that is the reason she
is hurrying to Washington. That Is
the reason she is DESTROYS of retaining
the picturesque James Hamilton Lewis.
Tier Fight for Gold Mine.
When asked TO talk about her suit
Miss Walton hesitated. She ibid not
like to try her case in the newspapers,
butt is needless to repeat the
aphorism about the woman who hesi-
tates.
''The suit which has gone against me
in two lower courts. but which l ex-
pect to win in the court OF final resort,
involves claim known rs No. 10 Ophir.
Some time in 1893 man named E. s.
Walker struck Ophir creek, which is
one of tho richest g0ld-bearing streams
in Alaska, and fled on claim 10, located