Show ROMANCE R O fANCE OF FORTUNE WRITTEN IN EL ELY EY Y V Surrendered the Sword of War V V V and Took Took Up the i V Pick V PRETTY STORY OF DIGGINGS r V Achieves Cs a n Fortune anil nini Kudos Old f i V Comrades and auth lite Ills Comrades Comrades' V V Children V f. f V V V VI t j I I f MJ c C. C R. R I who hio was among V the lo to shoulder arms when the V V nation started fort forts forth J to aven avenge o the sinking of ot the Maine and the slaughter r V of Its children and who wo retired front from V the tho w service to amass amas a fortune at V Ely is determined that his comrades V nor nOI their offspring shall shull want for fOl or a dollar as nB long as It Is possible ossi for his 7 millions to It prevent This V tion has haR been n exemplified In a a. chapter of most philanthropic lh deeds since that T V V V V fortune was amassed and not a n. C few W V are toda today revelling In his generosity The Thc r recital of ot th the majors major's exploits In V tho the diggings Is 15 endowed with a a. ro roV romance ro- ro V mance nance that has hns been written only at V V rare lale Intervals al VV V Th The war at an nn end nl the lie major who V was waN schooled In lii the lie law lav and who r ed number of In Iii its forum V VV VV V V S served a a. r years cars V with not noL a. a little distinction decided V V V that there was an easier road to toV V V fortune and to fame fanie perhaps than V that which I led ell through the rotundas of his profession lon On this hiM decision he ho shouldered a pick instead of a fowling fowling- V piece and hitting the lie trail soon oon had VV V Ills his tent stal slaked ed in the Nevada camp V which Is now commanding the attention atten allen V tion of the copper world v In that C V camp of oC copper so long Ions stagnant and amI V neglected he lie acquired interests that I have tave since placed him among tho the mul multi tI-m tI s. s V Wife iCo Ser e Notice v V Meantime he lie had hart left a 1 young wife wiCe r V V up In Idaho nor was It possible for J him while wooing the goddess at I Ely b to contribute as indulgently as an Idolatrous would have liked to her ambitions Such means as V were at his disposal al the major forwarded for for- forwarded warded to his mate They were me meager er Finally he was served with witha a n notice that the young oung wife from Whom he had absented V himself had sought u ht the courts for a V decree ec o of oC separation He lie instructed n hIs lawyer at nol Bolso o to her the thc she the desired nOd and In the d croe cr o handed down b by tho the courts It vas fas a. a il he contribute as us V 1 mouth month to ti t her malibu malibu- nice ance V rf V l he tho Interests at nt r r Ely Kly Nov Ner began to tr r respond with their V V r customers hc hogan begun n to 10 explore the lie field and hl his Interests ts I were among the most sought for upon t the bargain counters of the tile camp which Is now electrifying the thc world According to th the majors major's own story he disposed ed of Interests from which he ho has derived several se millions of dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars jars and r retained Interests that promise him Infinitely more Meantime ho hof f sought Ought the threshold from which he had been perpetually excluded by the decrees of a court and anti at th thip solicitation tion lion of the girl he had loved o and said to her without exploiting his achievements in the diggings that if sho iho would r relinquish h the right to allm alimony in iii the munificent sum of or 10 no per month he would undertake to endow her hel In a a. manner more r V blo ble with her needs To this tho the widow V consented d. d anti and thereupon the major t rV V V V purchased for fOI her at na Bask Basin ln I Ida a. a a n. L ranch acres of or land and to her credit placed in bank no less les i I than The Tho major went on his wa way anti and beV bean began be be- V gun gan an seeking 1 old olti comrades with whom I ho had gone through the tho Spanish con con- Some Seine having perished In battle hattle V he ho sought their children and It Is said V of or him him that today tollay he is adopting a as many as cl eight ht of or their offspring and aUd V has bus paid for tor their matriculation and I V schooling at one ope or more morp of or the tho prominent nent Institutions In the IV East ElUt 14 Salt Lakers alers Amon Among Those who endeared them them- V selves CM to tu him during the heat of ot war var ki V W S J John hn R. R of or tills this city and anti when tho the now multi-millionaire multi began besan V tho the allotment of his benefactions It was WIlS to Mr tr Ir Little that his heart hearl first turned His old comrades comrade's life lire had not ot been oon free from frivolities around V the bar and anti when he ascertained ll V that perhaps II there hero was wal still room for V improvement ement he sought his hisIe Ie Mrs V Margaret R. R Little a steno stenographer who U Is now lIow Sf serving I tho the law lav of k Stephens Smith Miner tUnel of this city lo To her a few ow hours hourN ago h he lie presented lre V a n check a-check chock In favor favol of ot her hI husband in V I th the sum sine of or and to the little 1 lad lady laly a a thousand shaft H of stock In Iti Ule one t of the tile more prominent companies at EI Ely Nov Nev Upon Ullon this thi thit little souvenir of at LV the majors major's esteem she ml might h t realize V quite munH munificently at this time but I V inasmuch as necessity does not require J J It Ih she has haj decided to tako take her chances chalices V with tho tim future that Meantime the tho little word vord comes come from Basin woman from whom heV he V V had 1101 been required to absent himself V while seeking a a. fortune fortuno at Ely is h I dan dangerously roual ill iii I and the tile major Is now as n rapidly o as Q can en carry carl him making hl his 1119 way to her bedside This Thu 1 Ial visit might culminate in a tion ton Who ho is there thero who does doc dac not V hope for It V |