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Show i GIRL OF HiS CHOICE Ml HIS DEATHBED JuOnyipiirana a Half Mer"siic -Became a ' Bride Death tladcMrs; : .JamcsJ. Allona Widow '.' HARRIET). . " ALLON-CHRISTESEN James: J." Allon and Zlim Christensen were mar-VJi mar-VJi Wednesday afternoon. March 11, .1903; at 2 o'clock, at the home of the , groom s parents,' 250 South Second 8t The ceremony was performed " , By, Elder Frank Eldrtdge and was witnessed by the .family of the . groom. . V ' DUD.,. . ALLON James J. Allon. died Wednesday, Wednes-day, afternoon, March 11. IMS, at $:S0 clock of malarial fever. The-de-v ceased leaves a widow. JTJames J. AHon and Zlna, Christensen fcere married Wednesday afternoon at Ao'clock, and In an hour and a half the x bride was a widow. James J. Allon met pretty Zlna Christensen, Chris-tensen, who 1 only 18 years old, at a public gathering a little less than a year ago. Allon, who had served through the Spanish-American war as a packer, and who ', had . never been wounded, while in the service of his country. fell j & victim of Cupid's machinations, and loved Zlna Christensen at first sight. - Miss Christensen returned the affection, affec-tion, and the match was made. Plans for the Wedding;. Everything progressed as the lovers had planned, and two weeks ago Allon secured rooms downtown where he had planned to take his bride as soon as they were married. Last week the prospective groom and the bride-to-be visited a furniture house and selected the furnishings for the little borne. The ceremony was to have occurred In a couple of days and the lovers were as happy as only lovers could be. But Allon was taken ill on Thursday, with an attack of malarial fever which had clung to him since he served in the Spanish-American war, in- pack train No. 12, which carried supplies to San Juan hill Just before Roosevelt's wonderful won-derful charge. His illness was not considered serious seri-ous until two or three days before his death. Then fee became delirious and in his aberration talked constantly of the girl whom he had planned to marry. In his ravings he recounted the scenes - ft their courtship, and laid plans for he future. 2?7 Her Lover's Side. All through his illness his wife, who was cashier in the Portland coffee house, worked at her desk, but watched at the bedside through the long and .' dreary nights, hoping against hope that he would show signs of improvement. Her scanty earnings and the money she had saved for the trousseau were spent for medicine and a doctor's services, as the groom's family were in straitened circumstances and were unable to meet , all the extra expenses.. ' But all the loving care and gentle ministrations of the sick man's fiancee .. ana can lamuy were unavailing, ana , when on Wednesday afternoon it was evident that life was fast waning, Allon called his mother and Miss Christensen Chris-tensen to him, and said he wanted to, marry her at once. A Deathbed Wedding. Mrs. George Cook, a sister of the young man, went at once to the County Clerk's office and implored him to go with her and issue a marriage license. Thi County Clerk James did. and while the Instrument Was being drawn. Elder Frank Eldrldge of the Mormon church, was summoned. Then, in the presence of the sister of the bride the members of the groom's family, and with Death for groomsman, the young couple were married. The ceremony was performed at 2 o'clock. At 3 o'clock, the groom died in the arms of his heartbroken bride. ' Funeral Ends the Tragedy. The funeral of the groom -occurred yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Mount Olivet cemetery. The scene at the grave was harrowing. The grief-racked grief-racked bride collapsed and had to be carried .to her carriage, and was removed re-moved at once to the desolated home of Vher mother-in-law, who was also prostrated. pros-trated. The bride-widow is left with no means of support. Her husband carried no insurance and his smsll savings had 'boen spent in furnishing the home In which he intended to live. The widow will live with her mother-in-law. |