The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-06
FROZEN FOOT" IS SOME eOER
 OR WAS ONCE
.Alaska's Star Still Resi- dent of Juneau, Given
 Big Write-Up.

rcSluence ION III tne. stOunty Jdli di Seattle serving time for connection with still, is given some fanciful write-up in a recent Seattle Post-ln- telligencer. Tho articel is a very in teresting one. and as written by Hal Armstrong, is as follows: a.
 Frozen Foot. Johnson they call him around Nome, and at Juneau he is known as Ed" the first and foremost moonshiner in Alaska, and the hardest one to catch. In the county jail here yesterday he responi- ed to the name John Ed wards"
 Bashfully he came out of a tank of cells, hobbling on his frozen foot. the toes of which he left on. one of the gold creeks north of Nome. and drawled:
 All this talk you've heard about me being So smart is the bunk. Smart enough to break into jail; that's me. And that ain't very smart"
 He draped six feet three-and-a-half inches of brawny frame over a bench in the corridor and crinkled up the corners of his eyes. m
 Begins His Story
 ''Nope,' he said '1 never struck 1t rich and blew my dust like a mad man around the Klondike dance halls. Who was telling you that? l wasn't hard to catch; the United States mar shals could have got me any time on the street at Nome. Moonshiners? !? We'll, that's what THEY say. And if I'm the brother of Daisy Dee then my folks have deceived me cruel, for, so far as they ever told me, I never had a sister,
 But at the marshal's office here, and the Federal dry agents bureau, the record of Frozen Foot" Johnson speaks for itself. And what the record doesn't say comes by word of mouth Mrom the Far North. This is the story:
 When Alaska was young and gold was everywhere, Johnson seemed to have more of it than any other lucky prospector who made Nome his play. ground. The dust he left in his wake made dozen girls and men rich. He paid $100 for plate of ham and eggs, and when he played roulette it was for a half million, stacked on the table in tiny jokes, and staked on one whirl of the wheel sf
 Johnson Goes Broke
 Johnson went broke, but it took a long time, and when he started back to the creeks for more yellow dust blizzard caught him and froze him. stiff. He lost his toes and his robust health, Nand thereafter Alaska had moonshine. lots of it., that was said to be the best on earth. and somehow. though he' seemed to be doing nothing. Johnson had plenty Of money.
 Daisy Dee, Federal government agent, was reported to be his sister, and all the deputy United States marshals in Alaska were hot on John sons trail, but they didn't catch him, and he boasted they never would, until two years ago.
 { "The slickest moonshiner in the North, and the best" as he was known. was convicted by a jury in April, 1921. for violating the Alaska bone dry law and the national pro hibition act by manufacturing liquor, and was sentenced to be fined $500.
 Pays $500 Fine
 Johnson. the story goes, laughed loud and long as he paid his fine and strolled out of court and disap- feared.
 MOonshine continued to flood Al aska. Johnson .hwas blamed openly. and secretly admired, and the mar shars deputies went after him again But none could find him. except whei. he came to Juneau on peaceful busI- ness. F& -s
 1.-Two young fledgeling -deputie,, on probation. ambitious to make thei.' names and get themselves In solid with the government, it is said ben. all their efforts towards care1sng Johnson in the act of operat.1y his still. They found him, after slaJhthA of endeavor, so the story goes, besEla a giant distillery on an island. To their surprise he surrendered.
 They set him aboard their launch and headed for Juneau to put him in jail. but when they reached there, it is reported here, Johnson went up- town, ostensibly to get them $500 each for theiF trouble that he might