The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-02-07
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Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, having estab-
lished her claim to $4,000, GOO worth OF
properly in Louisiana, Is about TO enter
upon proceedings TO establish her claim 10
sixteen or seventeen thousand acres OF land
in Missouri. She doesn't need the land !;
there is only possibility that she will ever
secure it; but litigation is with her Il mat
ter OF habit, and this new step would indi-
Gale that che cannot be contented or happy
without quarrel about land AMI other
property on her hands
\ business man who has been intensely
active Tor thirty or forty years cannot he
easy in retirement. He IL lost without the
care, worry and excitement incident 10 the
management OF business complications, and
more often than otherwise such a man re-
turns 10 the work and worry of business
life, and falls, when he does fall, in work
ing harness Much the same spirit must
animate Mrs. Gaines in her present action
To recover lands in Missouri. She has been
so long litigant that 10 be in the midst oi
litigation is, ior her, as We have said, the
only chance fo- contentment or happiness
Her talents and her energies have been foI
80 many years devoted 10 establishing heI
claims 10 property whose ownership WAS III
dispute, that she has an irresistible inciina,
ton 10 continue in the business.
Myra CLARK, when beautiful Young
woman of twenty-five, made the discovery
that she was her fathers heir, and a. such
the rigbtiul owner OF valuable property il
New Orleans. This was nearly half :
century ago, and she entered at once upor
what proved 10 be the work OF a lifetime
and made her the mos famous iItigJnt IL
the world. In lS32, as Mrs. Whitney, sh,
took the first steps to prove the existence o
a will making her the heir OF ID mel Clark
She was Just twenty Hour years in establish
Ing the fact that such 4 will ha,
been in existence, and IN TIN
time had buried he- first husband ana
married second and buried him. Tier
her legitimacy was denied, and it took som,
wears to establish the fact Of her father
marriage to her mother. This accomplish
cd. she, in 1856, filed in the Supreme toUr
OF the United States 4 bill in equity TO re-
cover val liable property then in the posses
sion OF the city Of New Orleans. After
struggle OF eleven wears the court decide
the case in her favor. Many minor suit
followed, and last year she gained tn
GROWING victory that substantially estab
I lished her right 10 all the property claim
ed.
Forty-seven wears after she discovereC
certain important papers in an old frank
she stood before the world the personlica
ton OF persistent and tireless energy, havin;
vindicated her father, defended her mother
and established her own claims 1t wa
expected then that this old lady ri -
having fought so good fight, ami havin:
accomplished so much, would be willing Il
rest on her laurels.
But she was untitled for quiet life. Lik
the warriors of old. she sighed Tor NOR,
worlds to conquer; like the business mel
OF to-day, she WAS as uneasy % a ESh out q
water. Forty years porting over old docu
ments and dwelling on the intricacies OF dis
puted titles had 80 bent her nature to worl
that investigation and disputation had be
come necessary to her existence. The de
| cisions of the courts last year having lei
nothing in New Orleans Tor her to quarre
about, she gladly siezes the remote posi-
bilities in Missouri.
The picture of this old lady, Of NOR
than the allotted three score and ten year
of human existence, enter ng upon such
work is as striking As the now historic tab
leau incident TO her first appearance II
| court The one marked the dedication o
| a high-spirited and courageous woman 4
! the accomplishment of what seemed
| hopeless undertaking. The other show
/ that the habitsof lie and thought, encour
aged by the struggle that ended after s.
long time in success, have made for he
a second nature, with inclinations and long
inss as strong as were the aspirations OF he
young wumanhood.