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Show LITTLE KATIE EBB. A Ten-Year-Old Girl Travels Alone from New York to Cheyenne. ,- Among the passengers on the train which started from Newark for Philadelphia Philadel-phia at 6 :30 last night, says the New York Sun of the 11th inst., was a pretty ten-year-old girl, who upon entering the car bade good-by to two benevolent-looking old gentlemen and cuddled down to one of the big plush-covered seats. Around her neck was a string to which was 'attached a large merchandise shipping ship-ping tag with this inscription written upon it r "Katie Erb, bound for Cheyenne, Wyoming, Wy-oming, via Pittsburgh, Chicago, Council Bluffs, Fremont, Grand Island, Elm Creek, Maxwell, and Olgalala." The men who left her on the train were Superintendent Yatraan and Mr. J. C. Wilson of the Newark branch of the Society So-ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mr. Yatman said that Katie had been in his care for several months. Her father, Throb Erb, is a railway employee em-ployee at Cheyenne, and her mother, Jenny Higgins, is in the Essex county jail at Newark for drunkeness. Her husband hus-band felt obliged to leave her seven years ago, and she has since been married to three different men. Little Katie has had a very hard time for four years, her mother being in jail most of the time. Mr. Yatman wrote to her father last month and received an answer last week containing a money order for her railroad fare and instructions to ship her on to him at once. She has money to buy food on the way. ' |