White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-06-10

one of higher ideals than Boyle. Both
were British subjects, Boyle a Ca
madam and Slavin an Australian
Boyle had a pull with the liberal
party leaders at Ottawa and he used
it without stint. His first concession
was for a few miles of ground in
the Klondike valley proper, which he
finally secured. and the second one
was the famous Treadgold conces-
sion, which was one of the crooked
est. and most brazen CRAFTS ever
foisted on civilized man. Associated
with him were A. N. C. Treadgold, an
English newspaper writer, and Sir
Thomas Tancred. an E~nglishman
whose title is supposed to have
helped all hands with a little more
of a pull than they would have had
without him.
The terms of the concession were
that mining claims as they expired
and lapsed to the crown were to
automatically revert to the Tread
gold concession. The plain obJecs
was to force the American miners,
the men who made the country and
upon whose labors its prosperity de-
pended, TO abandon their claims and
leave. And it finally worked in just
that way but not quite so precipi-
lately as Boyle and ~Treadgold de-
sired. The issue was fought back
and forth for several years. until
finally the Guggenheims were at
tracted thither and they, with their
real money and far greater wealth,
soon outbid T~readgold and Boyle and
made them look in comparison like
a dirty deuce. In the end the Amer
leans were virtually driven ont and
the country purged of them, the two
outfits proceeded to strip the eoun-
try of its wealth, both using n.y.
draulieking outfits and dredges. In
the meantime The conservative party
came into power and Boyle did not
have so much of a pull. but reports
are that after much litigation The
Guggenheims settled with him by
paying him a million in cash. This
was quite a contrast between his
condition when Slavin and he
boarded the boat at San Francisco
as stowaways, as he has told it, to
join the Klondike rush, with just Sc
cents between them.
While Boyle was not a bad person
TO meet socially. naturally he had
the enmity of persons who never saw
him But in all men there are good
traits as we'll as bad, and when the
war broke out Boyle offered his SER
vices. lie enlisted a machine CUR
battery of fifty Canadian Klondikers
and they were embarked for France.
For the facts of his val exploits one
is dependent upon press reports and
to read these now hat Boyle has died
under distressing circumstances he
cannot be but convinced that in spite
of the feelings felt against him Boyle
was a real hero. He is described as
the last of the D'Artagnans. a replica
of D'Artagnan IN Dumas Three
Musketeers." No more did his hand
picked company arrive than they
were broken up and brigaded with
various units and Boyle's dream van
ished. Then Boyle was sem to Rus
STA to see what he might do for the
army transport. He got a Russian
death battalion of women to throw
a Gordon around the town of Tarno-
pol and saved it from the approach
ing Germans for the time that he re-
NAMED there. He got the railways
to moving and saved Bessarabia from
starving. He used his istic prowess
once to discipline a saucy soviet sol
diers' committee head. When the
bolsheviki gave up to Germany and
took charge of Russia he was APP
pealed to and in f%orty-eight hours
had freight moving out of Moscow to
save the starving armies. In Rou-
mania he showed up and when the
AGstrian-German army was APP
preaching he saved the government
treasury by rushing il to Jassy, for
which he became a national hero.
With credentials held by reason of
his last work at Moscow he was able
TO get back there and with millions
in bank notes he took a train, the
engineer being drunk at the time,
and drove the engine himself.
though he was not an engineer. The
run vas to within walking distance
of the Roumanian border. The Rou-
manian queen personally hung
around Boyle's neck the star of the
Roumanian Order of the Crown, the
highest order of the kingdom.
Boyle undertook to rescue Marie,
dowager empress of Russia, from
Crimea, actually reached her villa by
a ruse, after landing at Yalta with a
ship and 200 soldiers, but the aged
woman would not leave.
Boyle won many other honors. in
Guiding the croix de guerre of
France, the Russion Order of Vladi-
mir. with swords. and several others.
But the old Klondike athlete and
concessionaire is dead. He died from