The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-23
LLOYD
 PASSES 10 THE
 GREAT BEYOND
(From Wednesdays paly)

Thomas Lloyd. one ol the best known o}dumers in Alaska. and a resident of Fairbanks since tho ear Hest days of this camp, died at rho hospital shortly after noon ycster day as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. He had gone 10 the hos pitaI on Sunday a. the result ol one of many periodical attacks of heart trouble, and his condition was seem ingIy much better but he expired just as he was q bout 10 start rat- ing his dinner. r. had been a great sufferer for the past year from liver and heart trouble. and the fact that he had held out Is long d. he did was undoubtedly eIe to his will pow CT. For, knowins that h. had to die. he had strongly and 1enaciously fought death, not giving up until compelled to do O.
 Mr. Lloyd was widely known all over Alaska and parts of the west as mining m Il, having several times amassed sums of money bor- dcring on forum s, and in his ca pacity as a miner he had enjoyed the acquaintance If some of the big gest men in the same. He was also widely known as q politician, having always been an id line Republican. But it was in ls1f that he gained nation wide faEa by leading the Lloyd-Taylor pary, the men who planted the Sta and Stripes on the topmost rock which crowns the peak of Mt. Mckinley, the highest mountain in Norm America.
 Mr. Lloyd was a native of Wales and was sixty-tlsee years Of age. He came to the United States at the age of eighteen years. He first worked in the C. al mines of Penn svIyania. but. following the teach ings of the grc.t Horace Greeley he set his face GsHard the west and finally reached | ah, which he made his home until he came north in 1898 on the stampede to the p&W- son country He had resigned pc sition as state mine inspector in order to go on he stampede, after having been elected as the first gen l tile sheriff of t at county Nor mon settlement, wo different times | In the KIondika MT Lloyd's min ing fortunes were varied, With mum 1 bers of other o'dtimers, he is ac- credited with having had his ups and downs. It is stated however, that at one time he held $400,000 in cash, the property of Arkansas Jim" Hall, of whose interests he was manager.
 He finally met with financial re verses in the Dawson country, how ever, and then started for the newly { discovered mining camp of Fairbanks. 1 shortly after he arrived here, or during the winter of 19O4-05, he stam- peded to the Kantishna country, and was the first man to stake quartz claim at the head of the Kantishna river. The result is that his estate will probably be found to consist | chiefly of quartz properties in the i Kantishna, the value of which has not yet been demonstrated, but which are contended to hold untold wealth in ores of various kinds, chiefly sil- yer and gold, but including anti mony and tungsten.
 MT Lloyd has always been eN- tensively interested in politics in In ! terior Alaska, and was a member l of the Republican territorial commit tee at the time of his death. IL was he who supervised the race of Geo. | D. Schofield, the Republican candi- date for attorney general here last fall, which candidate carried the town of Fairbanks.
 The deceased is survived by his widow, three sons and a daughter. All are on the Outside with the eX- ception of his youngest son, Reese
 Arrangements for the funeral had not been perfected up to d late hour last night It is understood, how ever, that the remains will probably be laid at rest here, and that the funeral will be held under the aus pces of the local IgloO of Pioneers, of which the deceased was a promi- nent member.