The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-06
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YOUNG MAN WHO MARRIED MRS.
 YERExEs IS GALLANT. [
"yusf the Man to Win . woman,r Is One of the Things said About
 Him-Is a Fine Singer.

4f 1as4 New York American
 Mir. Mizner is a young man who would captivate the heart of any girl, said one of Mrs Yerkes's woman friends last night, '.and it is no wonder that he won that of Mrs. Yerkes. He Is witty and as wild daredevil as ever made Q misat of modern clothes. He would have made greater Robin Hood or q far more daring Dick Turpin. At the time of Drake or Sir Richard Grenr vile he would have wooed, warlike a mistress. He has the laugh for which his family is so noted on the Pacific Coast. and which is known as the Mia ner laugh. He has the Mizner first and the Mizner careIessness in an extreme degree. He Is knightly adventurer of few centuries out of place.
 six feet three inches in height. broad of shoulder and deep of chest. with quick eye and g ruddy complex ion. he is, as I have aid, just the man knowledge of his own strength. he las never avoided battle at firsticuffs or otherwise. and his fights have been nu- merous. Instances of his bravado and physical courage are told with delight in Alaska today.
 Tn Nome one time, 1t is related, when Wilson Mizner and his, brother were
 
 invented an explosive reported to be ten or fifteen times more powerful than dynamite, jumped a claim that be,onsed to a friend of Mizner. That friend called Mizner and others to aid in evicting the trespasser.
 'Mizner led two or three boon com panions to the scene and was confront cd by the old man armed with an ax. As the band approached the ax was hnt IT nyhfVzAH head. just over his shoulder The old
 man turned and ran into the house. yelling out of the window, If you come any nearer I'll blow you all to atornsr Mizner and the men he was leading, I pointing their pistols at the old tres l passer, proceeded to the attack. They | had not moved 8 couple of steps before l the claim jumper rushed out, holding aloft large square black box.
 Almost all the population of Nome. about 5000 persons in those days, had l turned out to sec the fun. As soon as | they saw the old man with his box of what they believed to be high exp plo- sive, they turned and fled to the hills.
 Even Mizner's companions abandoned him and left Afizner alone to face what seemed certain destruction. .Mizner, in relating his sensations afterwarG. said that he quickly real | !zed the old man was bent on throwing | the stuff to the ground and that there | would be no escape from destruction. He decided instantly. therefore, tc take a chance, and covering him with his pistol, moved on. When almost within | reach of the old man he heard some | thing click, and thought his end had come. He threw himself on the dy
 namiter, grabbed the terrible box. and tore 1t from his possession. only to find that 1t was q large camera.
 The old man had decided to take the pictures of the gang coming o attack him, for the purpose of using them as evidence in q court.
 But beyond his fighting ability. Will son Mizner has a good barytone voice.
 He can sit at piano and bring all to attention with serious ballad or keep all In roar with a comic song. His rollicking voice is known in Dawson, Nome, New Orleans, St. Louis, Mexico, New York, and the tropic seas. He had a fling at race horses, mines, rub Der plantations. treasure hunts, and heart hunts. Now and again his broth CTS have thrown him over because of his daring escapades. But, with his laugh and his song, he has won his way back into the family affection. and In California generally there will be re- joicing that this wittiest scrapplest. most laughter-loving, most daring of all the many merry Mizners has struck mother vein at last"
 Wilson Mizner's father, Lansing B. Mizner. was one of the great pioneer lawyers of California. He was the close friend of stephen J. Field, Asso- cliate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. They operated to- gether in real estate In BeniciR, and Mizner got the worst of it.
 Mizner was always a factor in State
 
 a candidate for Governor. Under Pres- ident Harrison he was made Minister to Central America. A political feud led to quarrel with Blaine, who was then Secretary of State. and Mizner was re- called on the ground that he had al- lowed Joseph Martin Barrundia, Minis ter of War of Guatemala. to be shot on board an American vessel in a Guate- malah harbor. There were two sides to the story, and many believed that Barrundia, who was a reyolutionist, merited his fate.
 His six sons are like the sons of Anak--great, broad -shouldered feI- lows. Lansing Mizner the eldest, Is a graduate of the University of Ca.lifor- mia, a classmate of Governor Pardee He. too. is fighter He is now recog- nized as the wit of the Pacific Union Club, the most exclusive organization of San Francisco.
 Dr. William Mizner Is one of the rec cognized surgeons of San Francisco
 Edgar A. Mizner was his fathers sec rotary in Central America, and always has been an adventurer of the frontier. He was in the heart of the first Occur d'Alene uprising in Idaho. and had Mizner Mountain in the Pend d'Oreiile country named after him, He was enc of the first to cross the White Pass and build a boat to go through the lakes to the Klondyke in the days be- fore the rush of '97 began. He become the superintendent of the Northern Commercial Company--the controlling power in all Canadian and Ameri ,an Alaska. and is now managing mines in Sonora, Mexico.
 Addison Mizner became an architect. He did something for his craft in San Francisco and something in Honolulu The Mizners are all great swimmers.
 One of the stalwart Mlzner sons went out of Harvard and became an Episeo- palian clergyman. He now has a par ish in St. Louis, and the wonder grows among the friends of the Mizners how hG hng ahf