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Ia tbs Par N'orlbwf*c Ho Holds a Powir ofJkKorney for the Whole ( ounirf.Capt. Mike Henly of the revenue cutter Bear la a Rood donl moro distinguished person In tho waters of the far Northwest than any President of tho I'nlted Motes or any potentate of Kurope lion yot become. Ho stondH for law and ordor In many thousand suuare nilloa of land and water, and If you should a»k in the Arctlo Hex Who la tho groatest man In America? tho Instant answer would be. Why. Miko Healy. When an innocont citl-r.on of tho Atlantic coast onco asked on tho I’aclllo who Miko lloaly was tho answer came: Don't you know Miko Healy ? Why. he's tho Unltod H tat os. Ho holds in those parts a power of attorney for tho whole country. Tho reply hardly Booms extravagant when It Is known that for twenty yearn or moro Ospt. liealy has beon tho solo roprosontu-tlvo of legal authority In much of tho region northwest of I’ort Townsend. To tho Indians of that region he stands for the United btutes Government. To tho whalorn of the Arctic ho Is by turns a bomdl-cent providenoo and an uvonglng Nemesis. Ho is constantly In tho United Stales courts at San Krancleco. whoro everybody known him. and ho has time and again suppressed disorder and prevontod crime In rogions a thousand miles from any legally constituted Authority. Ho is the ideal commander of tho old school. blufT. prompt, fearless, pitiless in discipline, but not umust. lie knows Behring Hen. tho straits, and oven the Arctic us no other man knows thorn, and his little craft has sailed those waters at almost all seasons. He In usually tho Mrst man up In tho spring and tho last man to loavo tho Northwest ut tho approuch of winter.With ail thin ho is a man of no little book learning, excellent address, and uncommonly agreeable manners. One brother Is a Bishop of tho C'athollo Church, and another a priest. Healy himself was preparing to tuko orders when his scholastic career was cut short by accident* for which he was not altogether un-respotisliilo. After managing to got himself out of a school in the Knot, he w.*h sent to a Hnn.nn lt;utholic school In Paris. Hero young Healy was tuissod ono morning, and at the same time the statue of the \ Irgin standing just within tho convent hall wa* lourid to be un.ihlppud from It* pedestal. There was a ropo round tlio Mrgin'* nock, nnd mis rope had ovidently been thrown • »\%*r tie* wall s-» a* to enable Homo one to ostcaic. All theio suspicious facts, taken together with lleaiy’s an-erne*. made it pretty plain how tho young man had dtsapnciiiod. and the nlTntr aroused considerable interest. The lad was captured, but ho eventually gave up tin* plan of Inking ordorn. oud lluully went Into tho revenuemarine.Cunt. Healy is best soon on hoard Ids own craft, lloic ot no Hum height, with a tlguro erect and well knit, but far irmu stout. A nautical cap partly covers his gray hair, andbeneath its beak ono sees a pair of keen eyes, while a gr 17.7.led. almost white moustache partly conceal* a llrrn hut not unkimily mouth. Navy troupers mid a line jacket of tmpluckod seal complete (lie eoslumu. UupluckedHe.il-skin ia something rarely Hewn In the Ka.t. though nome folks In the Sorthwest think It vastly handsomer than the smooth, brown-dyed analr of cummer** and (he New York atrcots. It la much lighter in color Hum tho MMlnkin worn by w men In the Kant, und it ylillein liki* silver in too h i ushin.*. Miko Healy. pacing Hie dock In hi* simiskln pm-Jacket is a bi illiant il no bononth a cloudless N01 lhwestern sky.Uk|d. MBio llpiU time m the midst Of a busy III to rcud some hold.. and hi* iiniuiiiiitunco with men nnd with Mr mgo place- u varied that his (all. it marvollo jsly ini-i-sting i'cr-hup** no other man in Mel nil o«l Stales hits Meiin us iinicli aretlc d.iViight us Mike Healy. lie so in el line* take* hi-, wife on lit* n«»rih-wosiern cruUo; an no-••uitnoiily pi-»ontatdo m..iron and ngiucalde slilpumto Ui»*o uli know Mrs. Hoily have bitinil her to I e. Once. J ut leas:. t‘iip|. lio.ilv took hu brother, tie* , pi lent, for a M.iiiiiniM v.a'atliin on board tl»e ‘ r—nr. Whrli tho cloiI .d In other • atm* nlionid i lie lijtlmnle I HuM-..mejliing in tho way of re- I ligion-. set vie*- w*«uhi * «* tlie pr- i-iT thing; bi.t • apt. Miko replied t li.it lm was nut only commander of that craft, nut priest nu wall. nnd if . anything In the way **f religious s-mim u.i« , Uccossary |u hbt.s df Would provide It. ’I;.* clerical hr.uher list ■•ne t hut did not fully u code toi'apU Mike s arraogetu*ut, wild on tb • very llrst huiiday, out everybody wan late ..t •lunrforn. « aid. Miko In mired ■d-runlv wli.it it all meant. and ioai him! that tho men louj been detained *t loallns. ‘J -• Md.o lle.uy lit-broMisr'e conduct was littis short of n.it-tin ii*. and when tit- priest came on do x. Mise ion- no lf.no In saying so. mid in u Id.i.gthat only his loth saved His broth*; from■■hastUsniold. .Miko own* thalt; ho *..;ght to huvo kuou n ins mother batter Mian to make such a threat. and that bo uas hardly surprised Whoa Hie priest answered: 'Nevermind tbs coat. Mike; If you want to try trouncing me, come on. Capu Mike did nlt;»t acooptthe challenge, end bo tell* Hie story with evident apyreeUUon of bU brother's griL
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New York Sun
New York, New York, US
Sun, Mar 12, 1893
Page 7
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Wesley S.
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