| Show seeking her husband mrs rhoda dykins a aged lady of modest self possessed manners manders and aad with an air of deep anxiety pervading her bar gentle features ati arved alved fla in butte from ogden utan last saturday accompanied by her little dau daughter liter emma in ma a nine year old child child her errand to this city is a very sad one being none other than the endeavor to discover the whereabouts of her husband from whom she has not heard beard tor for two months to many this would net seem an unusual lapse of time but in her cage cae it was so as his bis letters had never been so far apart before A representative of the miner paid the lady a visit last evening at the centennial hotel and found her in great distress she gave the reporter her story as follows I 1 the last letter I 1 had from my husband was about two months agol ago when he be wrote from butte that he bag bad been to work for several weeks being employed as a brakeman on the anaconda ore train on the montana union with conductor luke lie he wrote me that he would be home in a few days I 1 waited and waited for his bis arrival until I 1 rew weary and wrote him again and gave ave received no word from him since I 1 then decided to come to butte and endeavor to find him this being the last place I 1 had heard irom him when I 1 arrived here I 1 found fouad out that I 1 he had bad been discharged for intoxication and left for parts unknown I 1 heard beard he was in anaconda and tried to find him there but found that he bad never been there since he be left they also told me that he had gone tp to work on the northern pacific I 1 have written to two superintendents who wrote me that he be has never been employed by them the lady says that they lived happily for ten years past he being a conductor on the union pacific for the past seven years and she is afraid that he be has committed suicide or something has happened to him as ile be was a loving husband and tender father at one time he be wanted to throw himself under the wheels of an engine sue thinks that something has happened to mm him and would esteem it a favor bavor if any aay person knowing his whereabouts would communicate tie the same to her his name was D deking king and the follows following g description w will facilitate bis identification short heavyset heavy set sat dark hair and whiskers with a tinge of red brown bown eyes weighs about 1715 pounds he were a brown coat and blue pants when last seen been dutte butte miner hiner may 31 |
