The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

36 pleasure seekers to a watery grave. He was tried in New York on a charge of manslaughter, but was acquitted. This episode ended his lake career and he wandered to Florida. From Florida he crossed to Hayti in 1896. Ii happened that Hayti was then engaged | in one of its numerous scraps With Santo Domingo. it's neighbor on the other side of the island. Holmes had nothing to do, and seeing an oppor- tunity for a bit of excitement offered his services as experienced ship commander to President Hyppolite of l Hayti. The president promptly mode Holmes admiral of the navy. 1t was a fortunate move for Hyppolite. Holmes took his little fleet, which consisted of a ward liner. ferry boat and tug; the latter he made his flagship, and met the Dominican fleet, which consisted of Ward liner and two tugs. He rammed the Santo Domingo with his flagship and sent her to the bottom and cap tured the other two vessels of the fleet Then he had to make race for the beach to to prevent his flagship, which was fast filling, from joining the Santo Domingo at the bottom of the sea
 The victory was complete, and soon afterward Santo Domingo came to terms and peace again reigned over l Hayti. Captain Holmes. seeking new adventures. went to Cuba and was placed in command of the schooner l Dauntless. and was carrying filibuster iparties and arms and amunition to the Cubans in the uprising that immediote- lily preceded the Spanish American war. On one of these expeditions he was captured by the Spanish and taken to l Havana. It was but short time be- fore he carried out a desperate planto escape by seizing small sailing boat and making a dash out of Havana har- bor His escape was discovered and he was wounded, but two days later he was picked up by an English sailing vessel.
 Arriving at New York he spent severa | months recuperating from. the effects O his wound Then came the great rush ts the KlondilSe. which he Joined. His time however was not spent in digging fol gold because he found more excitemen fin running whisky into the country pas l the northwestern mounted poiices9 H ltells an interesting story about the frs news of the Spanish-American war t, reach the gold fields A gold miner hat received an old copy of a newspaper tell ing of Dewey's victory at Manila bay l Setting up a big tent the miner charge, slO admission to hear the report read He had a capacity house, Holmes bein among the audience. M
 It was in the Klondike that he met Re
 Beach. the famous novelist, and the char
 acter of White Horse Charlie f Beach's great novel of the same name,
 said to be Captain Holmes.
 It was Captain Holmes who plotted tn
 first steamer, the Yukon, down tn
 treacherous channel of the Yukon river
 That was on his return trip to the states
 He roamed restlessly over North an
 South America for years and then re
 turned to his old home at Grafton an
 was married. But the Mexican revolutio
 drew like a magnet and he returned to hi i first love and joined the Mexican force
 and fought at Torreon. Several inquirie
 from his friends at Wheeling and othe
 eastern cities have been received by hi
 Ei Paso acquaintances.
 The career of Tracy Richardson woul