The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-26
JOSEPH BOYLE IS LAUDED BY
 QUEEN MARIE

~omes now the modern Sir Walter yo,o;ob in the person of Colonel Joe povle, sourdough mining man or Da"- con v T.. who always said he liked ,o be known as a roughneck, and who' hv his chivalry, bravery, resource1ul- nass and persistence wins favor Ill the eyes of one of the most beautl1ul ,,,eens in all the world-Marie Of Ru- mania-and with it the title Of count' This from the Seattle Post-lntelllgen- cer which says that Colonel Boyle IS o,, ,,rown in Seattle and throughout Canada.
 1t's a deal of step, the newspaper continues from manager of two prlze fighters, a wrestler and the possessor of s19 in cash to a queens favorlte, a trusted adviser of small but glorl- ons nation, yet it was accomplished by Joe Boyle in comparatively fe" years.
 Starts as Fight Promoter
 Twenty-two years ago Joe Boyle joined the rush to the Klondlke, lea on by the lure of gold-the fortunes to be made overnight. He landed i'll Dawson, as he has often reported since, with two prizefighters and a wrestler on his hands, and with Sl9 in cash in his pockets. And upon that fortune he has builded until today his property interests run into many fig ures.
 ... During the early days of Dawson he WAS prominent in the sports of the Northland He helped to promote, and did promote, many wrestling matches, fights and other events, to which the roughnecks from the creeks crowded, paying fromm $5 to $25 apiece for the entertainment But he never got rich in that game.
 Then, with Frank Slavin, the noted boxer, he secured the great Boyle. Slavin concession on the Klondike river, from Ogilvie bridge to point several miles away, approximately the mouth of Hunker creek. With that troubles.
 He was far-sighted. He saw the pos abilities of mining the placer beds of the North in winter in manner never before known, and he started. When 1t was seen that he had winner in numerable jumpers tried to locate on the property covered in his conces- sion. They staked mining claims and timber claims,
 Joe and Slavin tried to have them e]ected. They started long series of legal battles which took them to the very privy council of England itself In this battle Slavin grew tired of the struggle and sold out to his partner But the highest courts of the Dominion and the kingdom finally decided in Boyle's favor.
 He then placed on the ground big ger dredges than had ever been seen m the Yukon territory or Alaska, and at the outbreak of the European war he had an investment reported to be worth several million dollars.
 Equipped Yukon Company
 With the first call to arms the men or the North, subjects of Great Brit am, were anxious to get into the fray The government did not make provi son TOT taking the men from such an out-of-the-way place at first and tc gratlfy the wish of his sourdoueb friends, Joe Boyle organized the first Yukon company, equipped 1t at his own expense and sent 1t to the front
 That company gave a glorious ac count of itself during the early days Of the war, when the Canadians were being slaughtered by the thousands and tens of thousands. And few ot that old Boyle company are living to- day to tell of their experiences on the aMestern front, and of those that are alive, the greater part of them are rnaimed for life.
 But Joe Boyle was not satisfied with equipping and sending a company. He wanted to get into the struggle him self, and finally. after much difficulty succeeded in securing commission He was made colonel and sent to Rumania in command of regiment of engineers.
 Helps Rumania
 The record of his men there was as historical as that of his first company They saw much action and many oi them were captured when Rumania was betrayed and shut off at the mercy of her enemies. But through all the diversity of that nation Joe Boyle was on hand, help to Rumanta. a