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Show Miner Returns to Make His Old Mother Happy New Haven, Conn,, Fob. 7. Morris Smith, -who ran away from his home here twenty years ago, and who was not heard of in many years, is back today for a visit to the cottago occupied oc-cupied by liis old mother, Mrs. Henry Smith. Speculation- in southern ore and mineral lands. Smith says, has yielded 52,000,000 in the last ten 3'ears. "I came home to tell my old mother." said Smith to friends who greeted him on his return, "that sho can ija.e a private car whenever Bhe wishes to -nvoi "r the very best there is in the world." bmith went io tntucky, when he left this city, and became a miner. He drifted to California, then to the Yukon Yu-kon and back to the United States, where he took up Nevada claims, later lat-er going to Georpia. |