ALBERT HARPER
November 30, 1897
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Wednesday morning at the Southern Pacific Hotel, Arthur Harper, 
millionaire miner of San Francisco and Alaska, succumbed to that 
dread disease consumption. His wife, physician and several San 
Francisco friends who accompnaied the sick man here, were in 
attendance at the death bed. Harper was on his way to Phoenix 
for which point he left Alaska last September and where he 
imagined he would speedily reain the health and strength snathed 
from him by the Arctic climate when he was seized with the 
illness from which he never rallied.  He was taken off the 
train and comfortably provided for at the Southern Pacific 
Hotel on last Thursday at which time he could not speak above 
a whisper.

He was a millionaire of more than ordinary note in the west, 
his mining operations in Alaska duirng the past few years 
having attracted considerable attention but he won fame through 
his partnershp with Joe Laiue, one of the first to strike it 
rich on the Klondyke and the founder of Dawson City with whose 
name the newspaper readers of the west are famliar.  Yuma

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