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MITCHELL ON THE STAND

Made a General Denial of the Charges
Against Him,

THE CHIEF GOES ON TOMORROW

What the Accused Bx-Jailer Had to Offer at
the Investigation Last Night—The Prooed-
ings will be Continued in the Morning.

Adolph Klockmann was recalled
and stated that since July the Inter-
national had been a joint stock com-
pany of which Louis Blue was the
president. and the other . officers
were: Vice-president D. Thomas,
directors, R. Gregor, J. Wright, A.
Klockmann and Edward Baillie.

Mr. MacNeill asked whether the
decision made before held good, as
to the production of the books of
the International,” and when _ §in-
formed that it did, announced that
he had no further questions to ask.

While waiting for Daniel Léahy,
who had been subpoenaed,’ Mr.
Klockmann returned and said that
there was'no objection to ‘letting
Mr. MacNeill look through and ex-
amine his books or the books of the
International, and to allow the com-
mission to do the same, but he was
not willing to produce them in open
court. This was not satisfactory to
the prosecution and Mr. MacNeill
announced that the only way was to
produce the books in open court. ©

Then it was another case of wait.
Officer McPhee.was out hunting:
Leahy and vie crowd) was getting:

% |larger and more impatient as the

time went on... Finally the witness
came. He said he was a miner and
gambler and had resided in Ross-
land about a year and a halt. He
had been gambling on his own ac-
count on various occasions. While
at the International he had gambled
like the rest of the boys. He had
had been fined three times for gam-
bling. He had never paid any
money to the pulice at any time,nor
had he been asked to do so. While
he kept the Pacific gambling rooms
he had paid about $200 a .month to
Mr. Watson He -had kept the
place he row occupies about three
months and had not been fined dur-
ing that time.

Mr. MacNeill Then announced
that his case was closed and Will-
iam Mitchell was called by the com-

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+ The mayor told him he
was, of course,aware of the charges
that had been made and asked if
the witness had any statements to
make in the matter. He answerec
that the charges were not true, and
that was all he could say.

To Mr. Macdonald, witness said
he became jailor in November, ’97,
and in addition had to serve papers
and do some detective work. He
was engaged to obtain information
with reference to loose characters
in the city. He knew Mah Hung.
He had come to the jail to see him
about another Chinese, who had
been arrested in Trail. Mah Hung
had never paid him any money. At
one time Mah Hung had offered to
give him $45 as a license for gamb-
ling, and he had said that the chief
and judge were away and that he
had better take the money to the
police offices. He thought the mat-
ter was a catch at the time. Some
time ago the then mayor, Mr. Wal-
lace, had ordered raids made in
Chinatown and the Chinese arrest-
ed. The Chinese were not fond of
him, because he had been in the
habit of going through the houses

so as'to be in a position to let the
other members of the force know
where they could find the gambling |.
rooms. The Chinese were hostile;
him on this account. On the day
after the chief returned from Hal-

matter, and just then Mah Hung
passed the door and Chief Ingram
asked him if he had ever paid the
witness any money, and‘he said he
had not, but had offered him some.
He knew Woh’) Hung, the big
Chinaman, who uSed te cook at the
Kootenay, but Woh Hung had
néver offered, much less paid him,
any money. He had never been of-
fered or paid any’ mohey by any
Chinese ‘other than Mah Hong.
Some days after the offer of money
by Mah Hung, the Chinaman had
said that he had returned the money
to the other Chinese because he
(Mitchell) would not give a receipt.
* He remembered the trouble at
the Columbia hotel, and he had been
called in at the time and had insis-
ted on the money being paid to the
negro. He knew nothing of the
Colorado. Bill incident, and had
never heard of the matter until it
was brought out in the investiga-
tion. The settlement was made
with the negro because he had told
the man to come down to the police
court and- make a complaint, and
Frank at once paid up. Lam had
never offered or paid him any mon-

Mitchell said he had been in one
of the houses on the ‘row’ attend-
[ing to his duties. as_an. officer, but.
in no other way. With regard to
the charge made by Belle Burns, it
was not true. He had been quite
often at the place mentioned hy the
Burns woman. More or less, his
visits were in connection with his
duties as a detective.

He had heard the of

THE MACKENZIE RIVER

Mr. Clotworthy States What He Thinks
of the Region.

cyon he had informed him of the HUDSON'S BAY. CO. CONTROLS IT

That Company Will Not Let Go Its Hold if it
Oan Keep It—The Difficulties of the Route
—No Valuable Minerals There.

Among the visitors to the city at
the present time is Mr. J. Eyre Clot-
worthy, who was a civil engineer
forthe Canadian Pacific. railway,
and one who has had unique ex-
periences.
On the 28th of October, 1897, he
sailed from Liverpool for Montreal
on board the Dominion Line steamer
Labrodor with the intention of ex-
ploring the route to the Yukon via
the Mackenzie river. The party of
twelve of which he was a member
and the leader, considered that the
route down the Mackenzie would
be vastly more easy and shorter
than that by St. Michaels and up
the Yukon. The project looked
feasible and there were a number of
others who believed in the route.
Yesterday, to a reporter, of ‘the
RECORD, he said, that he was com:
pletely disillusioned about the prac-
ticability of the roule. —_Its*, worth
could readily be summed up in’ the.
statement that money could not
hire him to undertake it today.
There was a long stage travel: from.
Edmonton to Athabasca - Landing,
abuut-one hundred-miles;* aridwhens sou «.
that was reached another hundred:
miles on the Muckenzie  river~
brought them to rapids extending~
for a stretch of seventy-five miles.
Through this part of the country~
the Hudson’s Bay company had:
been in the habit of taking down
lies and them through,

“Scotty” Urquhart, and he was
aware that during the month of
which ‘‘Scotty” had spoken he had
received instructions to shut off
some of the luxuries that had been
allowed, because he had in his
charge a number of men who were
too fond of getting inside the build-
ing. He admitted the turkey, but
had proper authority for it. As far
as the charges made that he and
the chief had connived to make
money illegally, there was no truth
whatever.

To Mr. MacNeill, he said he had
resigned some time ago, but had
made up his mind in April to quit
the job, and had told the chief so
in May. He “had known the chief
since 1882. He knew him in the
Northwest Territories and here. He
had resided in British Columbia on
and off during the past 15 or 16
years. He had been in the cattle
business. He had gone by the
name of John Logan in British Co-
lumbia and Washington. He had
been in some trouble in the North-
west Territories. He had been
charged with a serious offence, but
had livea in” the same place for,
years after. He had never been in
any army.

The whole question of the China-
man in Trail was gone through and
Mitchell said Mah Hong had come
up about four times in connection
with this Chinaman. Woh Hong
was at the jail once about a watch
that had been stolen, and he had
referred him to headquarters. He
had not made daily visits to China-
town but had begun his visits dur-
ing Mayor Wallace’s term. He re-

enclosed in floating cases, so ar-
ranged that if they struck a rock
they. would bound away without in-
jury. In fact, they would follow
the current and generally arrive
safely below. But men who had to
go down were in imminent danger in
aboat. After these rapids were
passed another stretch of clear
water far about a hundred miles:
brought them to a series of falls:
that had to be treked around with
ox teams. After a succession of
such experiences, if the party es-
caped with their lives, they would
find themselves in salt water within
the Arctic circle. 5
Soon after reaching the salt water
the mouth of the Pelly river is
réached and the ascent of that
steam is as difficult and dangerous
as the d of the Mach i
From there on to the Yukon is al-
most impassable wilderness which
is valuable to trappers but to. no one
else. '
The Hudson’s Bay company has
forts along the Mackenzie river,
which are also trading posts and
from the pelts and furs they gather
at these posts comes the great reve-
nue of the corporation. No one is
encouraged to come into the coun-
try, but instead every obstacle is
thrown in their way by the factors
at the posts. The company wishes
to control it entirely. <
Mr. Clotworthy did not think the
country would ever be of any value,
and said that e211 reports of rich
strikes of ore on the Mackenzie
were purely fables, for he had ex-
amined them himself. There was
quite a stretch of valuable agricul-
tural land in the Peace River coun-
try that would eventually be opened
up and be valuable, but it would be
opened up from Edmonton.
He considered the project for
running another transcontinental
line of railway north of the Canadian
Pacific was absurd. There was
nothing to support it and he knew
that, from his long work on railway

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