The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27
BE WHO EMPTIED HAILEYBURY
ma nav IDSON ~ row y. WANTS
q DRINk, CIN'I NAVE IT.
"a q ulIblonslre These DAYS AFTER Dr'ng
Jusl = Dam PrenssrSisr Ter IN Wears
90 ~ He strurk % nlsls az Porru-
,,ine last August I mier Escort Here.

,sine last NagusI 4 mier Escort Here.
hn Davidson blew into town the day
before Yesterday. and gosh what a thirst
that man did have yesterday morning
B1t Jack Gudfrey and Milt Flynn put hun
- 20 " ter wagon at ~ O'Clock sharp
Ia not a drop II anything would they
l.s him have. though they said Bill could
bury out the whole bloomln' hotel II he
Wanted.
nm in pIblic hie II William II. David
son. Esq. 70 Porcupine. Ont. HIS ad-
dress hitherto has hnen almost any min
inR camp in the West or In canada, FOR
nil n or rather was a prOspector. He
has become William n. Davidson. Eco.
millionaire. since last August. when he
struck gold az POrcupins and emptied
the town oG HAileybury by going back
there and letting out his news over the
nrst conyivial glass with old friends.
Ne has been in New York before. has
Bin. aud he has come down this time to
get rid ~ little money and To attend
% some business. and Ia insure that he
would no, devote himself Ia the former
he brought along his lawyer and his
sneine~r. and the two have had their
hands full ever since they struck New
York.
4 don't kno~ what d b-cone q me
n 10 wasn't for them fellera.- said Bil
rehsctively when seen at the Wolcutt.
Il eapsss hs foolish hat us the effect
a. betn' up there IN the woods shy
he leaned over and whispered. you don't
happen to have anything liquid in your
inside eoat pocket. do your
Mr.. Davidson - tall and lanSy with n
bronsed countenance and q stubby red
dish brown mustache. He wears a loose
fitting suit OV clothes and q VIDE bTimmssi
black hal BE didn't feel conversational;
he said IL was because his throat was tOO
dry; and ~ viewed pencil with SUSPICION.
I'm y wears old he sad IN answer
60 a QUESTION -Rnd I've done nothin' els,
but pFospect since I was yO'tnEster
Where was boTn? Say. do I have to
90 into that Well. ~ was az Gait Yes.
that's IN Canada. run away fr,m homo
when I was u wears Old. You -ee. had
a dog Gen. I xas mighty Joud ~ that
dog. Nv I'D man didn't like the animal
and he threatened 10 shoot II. ~ whcn
he said one mornin that he WIS going
TO kili the beasi sure ] up and u, outside
hitched the dog To a sled and went an
over the SNOW. That WAS thirty yeaE
ago. and | never went hack I kept On
Roin' west until I made North Hay. where
a. luck would have II there hat heen
wreck and q carload o PIEs had broke
loose and the critters were sstrnpar'n
about EVERYWHERE I -aw there was
money In Caichin eSa, and set {" u
and that Day made g. ~, which vas the
fruit money I ever had.
-Nell, KEEP steer!n west, and blInehy
fell M with a fellow named Daniel Mann.
Ne IN the man who N nov building the
Canadian Northern. Mann was drivtn a
team and ! wont 10 work with him. II
wasnt long before ! vas prusInC,in'. ani
stnce then I've done aorne gittin around.
u guess I've been 10 almost every
minin' town ia the United States aud
Alaska. and a. for British Columbia
I've bs.en over almost every ioot ~ n
I lived ont there twenty years ~ n ga,
and then when heard - Cobalt I skIpIs-i
Fast: hut Tor mc there wasn't much dom
until last sumner.
-Of cn,Iras I'd struck IRE many q time
herr n there but never tOcttsst claim
that | could get InCrs'n fifteen ~ twenty
thousand dollars for. and when man
Strikes civilization that only Uik"Ts
wad- Il iout bas'. and tbeu yuti = laCE
aud work for 81 a day Well D. Urn
come M last The RAnneTuru D. ~
struck Por~upin" first and WIS y" newt
man that hu thC -Ispt Rut | c'n-siarnel
was indebted 10 the bannsTmar- iu'
shown me tho wav. an ' bals-o "a
playin' ssy1are. -, ! says To them. Rows
now this place - yuIr~. an I don want
to butt IN. IN tell yer what IN h.,
III jes' STAY IN my tent until you fells-S
have staked out everything Won want
and then you c'u coma an toll mo. and
then III git ~; an look around tpT ny
srlf' We'll. hey did tell nv" W.. sir
We'll : went but and legan lookin'
aroun' | kneS that seven years before
an old prr-T"ctor had -trurs drroSs
through that country. hlaTn' trail
a. he went, and thar after no I3d pas
HE last hiaye on tree on III" M"'aga'nl
River. which u ~ the west 81 he gold
district no had disappeared som" ssy
that tho old Teller was drowned ~ ih"
river while ufherS think %" go' hack
Co civilization snd iind Well. ! found
the line b. had hlASsd an on ono troH
- marked I made ont the gEsgs -
cut in the barb | had he'.n lookin oNeF
the ground urstty Close an ' knew
vas Ia a gold country. and 10 me thai
~ meant sonsihin' NJ ! stepped on
seventy one races from the tr"e. and
begun wOrkin around IA a circle ~ that
distance q how I fought for that.
livery morning ar dHybreak for thr'-'
weeks ! would get ur end go ont with NV
hammer and pics IL was hard, slow work
'catlsue the ground therrabouts IN covered
with Irndarhrtnsh ~ CuS-s'd thick that
Won almo-i have o" uE- dynamite TO gIt
u away. an th"rr - swamp. and Then
Va places you have t. dig through thick
mo~a We'll. 7 ''psIy found The ruErtz
tho real yellow sun ia Lhe rock. Well.
I chipgSad ~ Eotn" pI.sr--. siaked OUT
some other lO"ations. an a. ! had boon
40 lucky | vent back % hRibayhnTy ~
fast 80 7 could 60 10 fall my friends
y s,~pDed into a hotel bar 20 git drink
and hndin' lot ~ friends Their" I told
ON shat 7 had got and showed INV
nuggets Well. air. by the time ] ordered
my third druk rr"r" WASH ANYBODY
lett w the roam hut ~. l,arEaeT@r an
mo and bv moot, -" n.s' Isy the whole
male population - llatl"vuuTv wHs headed
tor PorrIptn" ddu hay" money enough
20 do my assas-U-nt work. which the
(,ov'ruent requires - order - make
a claim legal. ~ l"rr"a 81 $50. NttnIn
cav weeks ! sold NV ms'n claim for
good ncRsr ant handed So Hsi 20 m"
Fnsn who had lsut ~" ,hc $50 ! gsv"
away ~, cral cla'ur~ I had sIakHd TO REL
lsFs thar wsr" fov ~ IN ih"iT hI'k and -pTne
Of EN- made a. much a. eiplfsH w aellin'
em lafnf When 7 was 30, tn 10 work
ing fw., fellows came along I Was short
~ grub and they rad spm" and CAV"
me = Fneal They asked ~" y hsre thnrs
a