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Show A Woman's Adventure. Late last eveniue, a woman entered a res taurant on Maiu street, and told the proprietor she was in a starving condition, condi-tion, and without money to buy the necessaries of life. The owner of the restaurant is humane and ohari table, and furnished her with the best the house afforded. Her story, as told to us, is as follows: She left Brooklyn, N. Y., with her parents, in 153. They arrived in Panama, and were induced in-duced by the proprietor of the American Ameri-can hotel to remain there. Her father ! and mother were taken sick with the Panama fever, and both died in a week after their arrival. It required all the funds she could command to pay (he medical and funeral expenses. The proprietor of the hotel, taking advantage advant-age of her poverty, made improper ad-1 vances to her, and she left tho house, ! and applied to Corwin, then American consul, for aid. Corwin engaged a paspaeo for her on the steamer Golden Gate, and she arrived in San Francisco May 15th. Woodward, of the What Cheer house, gave her employment em-ployment in the laundry department, where she remained two years, accumulating accu-mulating $3,700. While there, t-be made the acquaintance of the first mate of a vessel running to the Sandwich Islands, and married him, Soon after their marriage they left San Francisco for Honolulu, and opened a sailor boarding house. Business thrived with them, the profits amounting to about $1:2,000 the first year, Ono day, her husband was missing. It was thought at first that he had met with foul play, but it was ascertained by the police that he took passage in the bark Mauna-Loa, for Australia, taking with him SI 0,000. The wile was left penniless, and applied to commissioner Gregg lor assistance. He, together with the foreign residents of Honolulu, i made up a purse ot $350, and she re- turned to San Francisco. Since then, this woman has had many ups and downs, according to her story, and is now dependent on charity. White Fine Alios. |