The Alaska daily empire., 1913-07-25


 to the United States border; of his coming to Juneau. and of his prev i icus career.
 No Malice Toward Jones. ! He said that he bore Jones no ma ! lice at all at the time of the shooting; that he regarded him as insane; that he (MacDonald) was an expert pis- tol shot had competed in many con ! tests with the crack shots of the United States, including American army Ocers-in revolver shooting and had always come off victorious; that ! if he had wanted to kill Jones he would have done so with one shot instead of trying to cripple him as he did; that he wts troubled with sciatic rheuma- tism at the time of the shooting, or some other trouble, and that he was lame, and at times his left leg would give out completely, while Jones was a big man, six feet or more in heighth and weighing more than 200 pounds, and he was afraid that Jones would regain his revolver and kill him or he would not have fired the last shots into his body; he felt that he was fighting for his life. q could not avoid shooting, he said, "my life was in danger all the time"
 Mining Career Began in California.
 Macdonald said that he came to the United States when a boy in 1874; that he had very little education that he began working in a mine carrying tools at first and later as a miner; in two or three years he became sup erintendent of the Jupiter mine in Cal ifOrnia, and afterwards of the Little Chief mine in Colorado; that he went to the Robinson mine near Leadville; then to Silver City, New Mexico, as superintendent then back to Lead vile, where he had charge of the Mansfield mines and the Leadville Mines, Limited; then made an exam ination trip into Mexico then for sev- eral years he was ~at the head of diff ferent mining companies in Montana, having charge of three and four at a time; then he went to Couer d'Alene, Idaho, where he was superintendent of the Tiger mine and other proper ties. and afterward consulting engin- eer for several Idaho and Montana properties and manager of others at the same time. He came to Douglas isl and in 1900 and remained four years. From there he went to Portland, and later to Mexico where he now is man. ager of three properties. He said that during all that time he had never made failure of a single mining property that he had been connected with ac- cording to the best of his knowledge.
 First News of Indictment Macdonald said that he had been notified that his case was being probed by a grand jury in Juneau, but that | the first news that he received of the indictment was in a telegram from friend in Mexico City who told him of dispatch in the Mexican Herald containing that information. Shortly afterward he was placed under nom inal arrest by Mexican officials, act ing under instructions from the Amer ican State Department, but that he was permitted to go about his business and live at his own home
 Cost Lot of Money to Get Extradited
 It not only cost Macdonald, accord ing to his testimony, lot of time but he had to spend a good deal of money to get the extradition arrangements to work at all, much less smoothly or quickly In the first place, the Mexi- can government had no money to send guard with him to the American bor- der, so he paid the guards $400 and 1 their expenses to Texas. Tn addition to that he had to pay the Rebels, when he got into Rebel territory s7O0 not to burn a railroad bridge until his train got across it; $4OO of this was paid in advance to the telegraph op orator who telegraphed ahead to the Rebel general and $500 to the latter after the train had got passed the =
 bridge. The bridge was burned the minute the train crossed it. The guards, officers of the regular Mexi can government, were afraid to be known as such when they were i1 Rebel territory, so the warrant and extradition papers were turned over to Macdonald, himself, by the Mexi cans and the latter passed themselves off as men that were going to Texas to examine some properties that they pretended Macdonald owned there. In Texas Macdonald met Joe Warren the special agent of the United States State Department, and with him came on through to Juneau without further mishap.
 Miners Would Release Macdonald.
 The employees of Joseph MacDon aids mines wanted to take him iron the military hospital where he was Continued on Page 4.)