Show I KOOYMAN fAMILY WITH NITH USUAL TROUBLES t BOBS UP SERENELY IN DENVER NEWSPAPER Again or yet The following from the tho Denver Times tells again the tho story of tho lie Kooyman famil family which about one year ago was very much In tho the limelight in this cil city It is the same old stor story w wh h a few new trimmings and so is of more or less In Interest Interest In- In Interest terest locally The stor story foll s J Ten years ago there live livel in ill Amsterdam Amster Amster- dam Holland a happy family Jan Kooyman was the paterfamilias Ten len chil children dren played about their mothers mother's knees and peace hovered over oyer the home For ForJan ForJan ForJan Jan Kooyman was an employee of the Amsterdam wharf And ho he prospered But ten years ago aso the call caB of a new land tingled through the blood of Jan Kooy Kooy- man A missionary visited Amsterdam and preached a new doctrine to Jan Kooyman L He was A converted 1 t L. L He lie came LU America AL uc in ant i utan a a NOW ow Jan Kooyman is a street preacher And his former wife the mother of ot fourteen children faces starvation in Denver Dependent De De- pendent upon her arc are her five youngest I and a grandchild 3 months old The Humane society has been called upon to give the family aid ald aidI I 01 We were happy my husband and I 1 and ancl the children back in Amsterdam said Mrs 1 Kooyman in hi broken English today But now now the tho world seems all topsy now nO Mrs Kooyman lives es at West Bayaud Bay Bay- aud and street Just around the tho COOler lives Jan Koo Kooymans Kooyman's mans second wife Jan Kooyman Kooyman Kooyman Kooy Kooy- man wanted both women to live under the same roof loof I This America Americ of yours seemed such sueh a land of promise said Mrs Kooyman Everything was bright when we landed here And for tor seven years Jan Kooyman prospered out In Utah We made money and we wo had a home Then I suppose I began besan to grow old My husband drifted away from me Ho fell in love with another another another an an- an- an other woman He proposed that he she and I live in the same samo house We Ve could save Y money this way way ho said I di- di him w ill i i With her children Mrs Kooyman con con- continued con con- to live II In Utah until last April Then last laRt winter the second calamity to her hel family fell lell upon her Frank Sprague her eldest daughters daughter's husband and her principal means of support was convicted of counterfeiting n lIe He was sentenced to two years In the penitentiary penitentiary- Her own year old son was arrested as an accomplice and gave the tho testimony which convicted his in brother Then last April I received d a letter from Jan Kooyman said the former wife lIe He asked mo to come to Denver He promised to remarry me Foolishly I took toole my five 11 youngest children and made tho the trip 4 Jan Man Kooyman took me mo and his five children to the home homo of the other woman He lie had married her in the meantime J I had no money I did not know a I soul in Denver Demer What could I do For two weeks I 1 lived under that roof root Then my former husband rented the house on Bayaud street for mo me and the children Ho lie and tho the other woman moved to a house around the tho corner Sometimes he be gave me mo food But Dut all the time he paid the rent for mo me I never novel saw en ti a cent My ly husband had been expelled from the church in Salt Lake City When he came ame hero here he again was baptized He decided do- do de dc- to become a missionary He lie left mc me without a 3 cent or a loaf of bread He lie left the city J I dont don't know where he Is I r heard that ho is preaching in Boulder 11 I When hen ho left Denver he took look with him the 21 l witness fees lU my son had re received received re- re for convicting his sisters sister's hus bus band It loft left me mc with but 5 5 a week which itch m my daughter earns eariS in a laundr laundry I Iam Iam Iam am crippled with rheumatism I cannot work My ty iy children arc are in rags raSs and und ve we e have hardly enough mony to bu buy food with And unless we Tal raise c 32 l by hy Saturday Satur Satur- da day we wo shall be he put out into the street f The Tho womans woman's troubles came canto to tho the at attention at- at of the Humane society through a I suit tiled flied in Magistrate 1 Gavins Gavin's court I yesterday The action was for tho the possession possession pos pos- session of the house in which the woman and aud her children live |