Tanner, Millard Filimore

Pre 1898

Passenger on steamer Wolcott, left Seattle for Copper River, 11/20/97, member of Witch City Mining Company, Seattle P-I, 11/21/97;

1898-1899

Passenger on steamer Wolcott, left Seattle for Copper River, 11/20/97, member of Witch City Mining Company, Seattle P-I, 11/21/97; Witch City Mining Co. split between Hoag and Haines factions, members of Haines party: Lee, Call, Tanner, Haines, and Pierce, Seattle P-I, 2/3/98; Killed Call and Lee Jan. 2, 1898. Convicted by Miner’s Meeting. Hung at Hang Town. The San Francisco Examiner, in CS2, p. 83; also in Margeson, Gold Hunters, p. 62ff; Powell, Trailing, p. 15, (rev. 97), 19-20; also in Amy, W.S. “Story of the Founding of Valdez,” in The All-Alaska Review, 1:3, 7/1915, p.8; Remington , Charles H. (Copper River Joe), A Golden Cross? Frank Meals Letter;