Show TER SEPARATION OF 25 YEARS FATHER AND AUGHTER U THROUGH AID OF TELEGRAM j i Coincidence Leads Lead to Happy Reunion Former Resident of Cedar e City Finds Daughter Now the Mother of a Family and Son a Prominent Business Man By Ira ha C. C Tichenor LATHER ATHER and daughter after a a. separation of ot twenty-five twenty years jears ears during which time the daughter has grown from a child of 4 t 1 W woman man with children of ot her own esterday yesterday for the first time at union station in Salt Lake ater will come a reunion between legand son the latter a prominent Iness mess m man n in California the Telegram is iH acknowledged the father rather and daughter the credit bringing about the h happy PY reunion EI of yesterday est and the prospects for a second one ono I Several weeks ago o there appeared in ht The Tele Telegram ram the brief history of E E. J. J Eddards a former resident of Cedar City who after an absence of twenty-five twenty years had returned to his former home town I It was related that Eddards who had suddenly left Cedar City after a I marital disagreement later discovered the Barefoot mine in the Death valley and thereby acquired the sobriquet of ot Death Valley Joe This mine later was profitably developed by a syndicate of Salt Take Like men I Afterward Eddards drifted from one mining camp to another but later I took up mining and mineralogy as a study and visited all of ot the leading mining mining- districts from Russia and andI Alaska to South America and South Africa I STUDY ASSISTS HIM As a result of ot his studies he realized what he did not know when a resident of Cedar City that the geological I conditions there meant the existence i of great reat mineral deposits While in inI I California he happened upon a copy of The Telegram which contained a statement that plans for the construction construction construction con con- I of a railroad to Cedar City had been adopted Knowing the possibilities of Iron IronI county he determined to return and I Immediately began to acquire control ol of mineral lands Ills his financial success success suc suc- cess at once resulted and It was I stated in the story that Eddards who then was was' on a business trip to Salt Lake would return to Cedar City in his touring car I A copy of the paper containing the story was obtained by a resident off of I Burley Ida who knew a family the children in which went by bv the name I of Edwards and who h had d a number of years vears ago come from Cedar City I The description tallied with that of I Eddards and the daughter daug then learned from her mother for the first I time that her her real name was Eddards instead of Edwards The daughter Josephine who was married several years ago to Seth Harper a business businessman man of Burley at once wrote to her father and the letter was awaiting him when he returned to Cedar City As a result of the correspondence the husband of or Mrs Harper recently went to Cedar City met Eddards and decided to go Into business there It was arranged that Eddards who was I Continued on page 4 4 I 1 AFTER SEPARATION Continued from page 1 1 coming to Salt Lake on another business business business busi busi- ness trip should meet the daughter here I Mrs Harper who was seen at a local hotel today confirmed the entire story and expressed her thanks to The Telegram for having been the medium through which she was reunited with I her fatherSON father I SON BUYS PAPER ON TRAIN The manner In which the son In Los Angeles learned the truth in I. I regard to his father is equally as Interesting This son who also had supposed his nama to be Edwards and is a real estate state operator in Los Angeles had been In Riverside on business and on the Salt Lake train returning to Los Angeles bought a copy of The Tel Telegram gram containing the stor story mentioned The Tho strange coincidence was the fact that upon Eddards' Eddards return to I Cedar City from his Salt Lake trip he not only found awaiting him the letter from his daughter but another from his son in Los Angeles which city Eddards has visited a score of times but not knowing that the C C. LEdwards L L. Edwards whose real estate advertisements advertisements advertise advertise- ments he had read was his son I Mr Eddards now is planning a trip tripI I to Los Angeles both for the pleasure of seeing his son and In connection with an Iron county mining deal involving in involving In- In I Los Angeles capitalists |