Show I t tM LI IME LADDIE STARTS OUTTO OUT TO 10 EARN ARN Ills HIS fORTUNE IN NEVADA CAMPS i As n emaciated emaciate little f follow just 10 l years yf old stood before the desk ser t-er- count lat last ni night ht at police hc headquarters and in riD DJ tones tOnt'S t that at sounded queerly over the entire headquarters I Albert Mitchell gave cave aVe his name as 1 t He e had just como in between two towering bluecoats lu Iu stature he ho barely bare j 1 ly 11 rench reached d the fringes es of their coats coat despite his bis erect and manly heating 1 Queries as M to his occupation and aDd adt ad- ad t dregs dreS his answer was that he be bad had none Done bundles under his arms proved his bis undoing j Asked as as to where he be got ot them and w at they contained the tho little fellow was gas nonplussed To tell the truth would give e him biro away and he had not been tau taught ht to lie lio So ho choso chose tho the middle course and refused refuse to talk Id The Tho bundles were opened and disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed dosed two pair of well el darned stock- stock hutS hut'S an incomplete set cot of thin un underwear under under- underwear er- er wear several dilapidated shirts and a ar ara r ra rigged ed sweater Search of hi his pockets rs- rs revealed not even one of the thousand things that are arc usually considered inseparable in in- separable frem a boy o of his a age e. e Still be refu refused ed to talk and it was wasu Mip u up to the arresting officers to tell their story ory The lit little a fellow ha had been I I picked eked up at the Short Line depot where be was trying to board a n train for the north fie Ike was wag going oin to Ely I tier l lehe he said That was all the information information I mation be he would give vc Later on in the ni night ht when bis his bold little spirit bad had been somewhat dampened damp damp- aped ened by the stran strange e atmosphere of tho the t ix police station be he told his bis story to sym sym- pathetic o police and newspaper men I I ran awa away from the orphanage I cause causa usa I dont don't want to stay stav there I Im I'm m mI I to Ely where a friend of my mother is going oin to give arive rao mo a ajob job ob in inthe inthe I the mines ho said with something n of man returning to him at the tho mention men men- r tion of or tho work he be a was going to do Where is your She died live five t e days ago in EI Ely and andr r ore be she di died d she she- sent for me But the sisters at nt the e wouldn't let lett t IIO 20 to o. o The Tho man what was a friend of flers bees bers is going olD to take care of mr mt f Is Is Is be a your Jour father queried his audience f II I never no ha had bad any father My y mother put me in iu the tho orphanage three years years ago 20 when flue he went rant to El Ely Bly with tb her friend She said paid shed she'd otIC l lOmO come come- and autI pet get et m me but she never Dever did Once rho sent eDt mo me a railroad ticket but tho the s sisters wouldn't let mo ha have ha it Now ow Im I'm going going go JO iD ing anyway This morning Albert Mitchell was taken takeD back to the Kearn Kearns St. St Anns Ann's or e. e where it was wan said Maid that neither hi his hiA mother during her ber life nor her friend him was fit to caro taro for fol |