Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-31
SItVtN'S WILD CARRIER
FORMER ADVERTISER REPORTER
WnO lR0lTtD Hl6H PACE
MADE SPECIALITY OF DOING UP
HIS RiENDS-FoRcED OUT OF
DAWSON REACHED THE
END AT NOME.

Dawson, Dec. Especial Core
spondence Mortimer |. Stevens. de.
iaulting city assessor of Nome. re.
Gently sentenced to four years in the
Federal penitentiary at McNeil's Isl.
and. Is well known in the Klondike
camp as one OF the men OF mcteoric
career in the great gold fields of the
north. He made two tours into this
region, and on both occasions left i'm
double.quick time. Stevens proved
himself brilliant and resourceful In en-.
terprlse, but was failing otherwise.
To not few northerners Stevens is
known to their sorrow. In the early
days OF the camp he blew into Dawson
from Seattle and began to reap a for.
tune in q way to which objection soon
was taken in official circles. He was
mixed with deals in claims with one
OF the clerks OF the gold commission
er's Office.
After the investigation OF the deals
both the clerk and Stevens went
down the river TO the American side.
and II is understood that Stevens was
given limited time to get over the
line or fed to escape capias. The
other man, named Carruthers, went to
the lower river and did not return.
Stevens career in the Klondikc was
spectacular He was here twice.
when he first arrived he came with
no means, and for q short time worked
on the old Yukon Sun as reporter.
He had had a good newspaper train.
ing. and came here "a n correspond.
ent for one of the big American dailics
He was bright and energetic.
Newspaper work was too trining for
Stevens in the Klondikc, and soon he
fell to organizing a big mining com.
pany. He got the proposition going
rapidly, and went outside and bought
heavy machinery. He returned and
was getting on famously. He opened
an Office in connection with one of the
biggest mercantile companies in Daw.
son, and led spectacular career that
soon brought the commercial venture
to a close.
In the meantime Stevens had ac.
Quired one OF the best starts in Daw.
son, and II seemed that the failure OF
one or two ventures would not put him
down. He lived with his wife ana
child In the finest residence in Daw.
son. Their home was next to the IA.
nous old Nugget mess house. on
Fourth avenue.
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modest and sweetest and most respect.
ed women of the camp In those busy
days. and her little girl was much adj,
mired by the hardy frontiersmen for
her good training and proper demean
or. For Stevens family there was
naught but highest esteem and good
words. After q time the wife and child
left and went to the coast, where
after lapse of some months Mrs. Ste
vens secured divorce.
After the commercial and mining on,
terprise failed Stevens went into tho
mining claim proposition on n whole
sale order. He and Carruthers were
both interested, and were acquiring
properties by the score. The work be
came so involved that II came to the
attention of the officials and both mer
took hasty departures for the lower
river country, to the American side
where they were beyond the reach o.
Canadian Jurisdiction.
Stevens went to Nome, and cventu
ally driited to Honolulu. There he be
came reporter of a newspaper and wal
shot at, II Is said. In a dispute re
gardlng woman. Leaving Honolulu
he had a varied existence, and FINAL,
driited back to Seattle and obtained |
position on one of the big Seattle pa
pers. After some time there, undc
an assumed name, he decamped.
II had been but two OF three year
then since Stevens had been In Klon
dixie. and he came back TO Dawson
He came not as the conqueror, but II
the humblest garb of q workman. II,
obtained a position as cook on
claim on Gold Run, and worked ther,
most of the time two winters ago.
Toward spring, 1t is reported, he dis
, appeared, leaving to the sorrow OF tn,
men on the claim. Stevens again wen
down the Yukon river, and. II Is pre-
sumed. continued to Nome and re
manned there until he became city as
SCISSOR the position from which he wa,
translated last month to the Fedora
penltentiary in the state OF Washing
ton
In Dawson he mixed, the first win
ter, with all the leaders of enterpris,
and society. The gay Official circle
acquainted with Governor Ogilvie ans
the Governors hobbies.
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