| Show GOLD FOR A DYING WIFE I A Romance of the Klondike Where a Husbands Joy is Turnrd to Grief One of the naddist stories born of Vents connected with the Klondike gold discoveries Is that of John Alber son of Norton Ille twelve miles west of Atchison Kan Mr Alberson wan a carpenter In the fall of 1891 thci family consisted of husband wife and two children Tho two children died 1 of ncnrlct fever In quick ruccesslin Work became series In hid neighborhood neighbor-hood and after tumbling as well as pos Ible for the comfort of its wife Mr Alberson started west In search or employment He finally icache fc i1f J lnenf Ji attic In 1895 and from there drlftc to the Klcndlke region Ho write to Ills wlfo apt llilng her of his contemllaled Alaakan Journey llo told her that It would I nosslbly bo n long limo before she would hear rom him again but hade her be of good 1 cheer and as ho woo In I good health hopeful wid i con Hdent lroIlcId a hIp reunion would olItuall follow their long enforced separation During the time Mr Alhereon woo In the Klondike ho had bu one nu tunlty to write I to his mile The letter which told l of Ills good health nolwilholndlllg many hardships and rlvullons I and or the fact that he Was doing well mind wool have a cornlel ency bj the Bprlllg i or lij07 hn lie would return homewn ntute1 10 a returning miner Tills miner met with many oholnclc on him homeward journey jour-ney and woo delayed nt many places BO that the letter WOK not mailed until un-til May of tile resent i year It wa a message of gill tidings and of great Joy to tile lonely wife During the husband lung IIhnco site bad l II severe struggle und Dually sickened Had It not been for kind 1 neighbors a he would have become a lullIc charge John Alhon I an among the first of the returning mllll 10 reach San ranclsco There ha speedily convert ed his Mid dust and nugget about 112 OK Into drafts trecnbeeksand purchased a ticket for the flrol eastbound east-bound train Just before starting nn his homnrd fill br Irlgrnphd his wire of hli vote nrrUnl ut Son Francisco fran-cisco or his good health end goild for tuneft nd that In a few do they auld lie I reunited At several stations he telegraphed tel-egraphed her of Ills proreo toward home Ills last mone wos from Topeka To-peka only forty mil from horn That dispatch rend like this Will be home at supper Kill the fatted calf John Albeon reached Ih Noton illlo depot jut at the close < if cl ly Without casting a glance nt those upon the plait rin and without being rerog nlzed In the twilight by any onp he hurried down the street to his home He wan met at the door hy n neighbor woman wheelolnted to a bed Ithln n room There lay his wife pale an 1 wan and alread Y within the shadow of death I Their eyes met In mutual recognition recog-nition for n moment There vine one Irlrf mbroe grid mhen John lheraon once mr lined his helld and looked UIon the face or his wire she was dendChlrugo Chronicle |
