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Show sold mmm Fritz Lander, a Salt Lake Laborer, Disposes Dis-poses of His Wife for One Hundred Dollars. OLD LOVES AGAIN EE-UNITED. A Strange Story of Separation and Ee-nnion Ee-nnion Truth More Wondrous " Than fiction. Ono of the strangest trausaetiions on record took placo in Zion yesterday by which Henry Strauss of Chicago gains a wife aud Fritz Lander of East Seventh street loses one, tho woman being sold by Iter husband as one would dispose of a horse. Its a queer story as can be seen. Four years ago by the side of tho Blue Rhino which rolls seaward between its purple banks, Strauss and Ids sweetheart, sweet-heart, Marie Wiltig, a buxom German lass, plighted their troth and vowed eternal fcally to each other, while tho twinkling stars looked down upon tho scene and the leaves on tho trees whispered whis-pered " dast ist uiisgesichnil." They agreed to marry each other, and were happy. But then, oh! the oppression of iiion. archy. Henry received word from the powers that be that ho would be expected ex-pected to do his little term of service in the army of his country. That knocked tho wedding plans silly. Marie wept and Henry, or Heinrieh, blubbered, but tears could uol wash away the writing on the ukase of Bismarck, Bis-marck, and sadly tho young pair rcalt ized that they must wait. Wait! yes, nu eternity it seemed to them, but Heinrieh was loyal 'to his eoiinti v. so he said, aud would obey tho mandate. But he didn't. A young friend of his was going to America and ho suggested that Strauss make a sneak, 'go to fair Columbia's shores, become naturalized aud start a saloon and then give the Iron Chancellor Chancel-lor the merry ha, ha. Besides lie could send for Mario and tinder the starry flag the twain could become one llcsh and lie happy. Great head. Capital idea that. At least that's what Heinrieh thought, and so he told Marie and she rejoiced, and made Heinrieh promise to scud her money to pay her passage over, kissed him several fond farewells aud in tho night ho made his exit. In tho course of time lie was duly installed in-stalled as a bartender in a Stato street saloon in Chicago, and by successfully watching tho cash box was in a short time able to buy Ids employer out and retail beta' and bologna for himself. TURN HIS SENT FOR JlAltlH. Over the sea went tho passage money and ono broad-footed Gorman girl did a woiuer-worst hornpipe when she learned that site and her lover were to be reunited never again to separate. So tilling her sparo shawl with hand kase and pretzels, she took steerage passage and in duo course of time landed In the city of conventions and the great world's fair. She found the way to Heinrich's saloon, but Heinrieh had gone out. Tho bartender, a sort of flossy duck, not dreaming who she was, informed her that Strauss had died the week before be-fore and was comfortably resting with his toes toward fho blue vault of heaven iu an adjacent cemetery. This broke Marie's heart and she wept bitter tears for a week. At tho end of that lime sho struck a sit as a domestio in a family that w as go- ing west and wanted someone to care for a trio of healthy urchinswlio needed watching. That is how sho got to Denver, Colorado. When for want of someteing better to do she married Frilz Lauder, an ignorant chuckle-head who lias not sense enough to go in when It rains, lie "vas reading in dor baber about Said Lake" and concluded to come here, which lie did aud brought Mario "with him. He wont to work on a sewer whilo she devoted herself to keeping keep-ing tho two chairs, a table and a bed, which composed their furniture, in good condition, But what was Strauss doing all this lime? Why, ho was -making all Chicago Chi-cago howl because tho prospective wife of his bosom didn't show up. Ho wrote to Germany .and found she had left there aud had gono on a steamer to America. Do also discovered that sho had boarded a train at New York and started for Chicago. Later lie found that sho had been there, and had been to his saloon. Then ho paralyzed his bartender with a bung starter and put an ad in every German paper iu the United Stale's "If." Ono day Mrs. Lander discovered oue of these ads, and she sat right down and cried a few quarts of briny salt tear drops and then wrote to Heinrieh ami told him tho whole business, and ho telegraphed tel-egraphed right back that he was coming com-ing to Zion. And ho came. Lauder didn't like the idea of giving her up, but when Heinrieh got hero sho told him that she proposed to quit him cold. He said he would havo her arrested. Then Heinrieh said if ho would keep his shirt on and not raise a fuss ho would give him one hundred cold hard dollars in cash, and when ho counted out tho boodle Lauder, who had never seen that much money before, agreed to lake it and give a quit claim deed. That is why a loving couplo about twenty-eight and twenty-five years respectively are sitting side by side in the Ogden train this afternoon as the perfecting press of The Times is rolling off the story at the rate of 10,-000 10,-000 copies per hour. May they live long and die happy. |