Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-22
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A Missouri Maiden's Mysteri-
GUS Message to Her Ore
gon Orlando.
How an Investment of One Dollar
Melted a Cool Million to a
Lucky Portlander.
BOTTLED BLISS.
Portland oregonian.l

Portland OTeBohiSh-l
A certain young gentleman residing on
Seventh street, and who is well known IN
business and society circles OF Portland Is
to day the happiest man in the state oi
Oregon. Yes. he is probably the happiest
man in the United States, and the proverbial
felicity of the mammoth sunfiower is no.
where, so to speak, when compared with the
Joy of our fortunate young friend. Inc
fact of the matter is, the gentleman IN
question has struck it rich" as they
say down in the mines. He has realized
a cool million and boundless happiness by
the investment of q single dollar The
story of his brilliant good fortune, which
is, as yet, unknown save to a few imme-
diate friends, is briefly told as follows
I'VE will not st this time mention names
of parties concerned. ALI will shortly be
known During the latter part of last fall
the Young Portlander above referred to paid
a visit to some friends in st. Louis, Mo.
During his sojourn he met one night at
grand ball at the Lindell hotel, one OF the
reigning bellies of the Sunny South, whom to
meet was to love. The young lady was charm
ing, accomplished, and beautiful-the only
daughter of millionaire parents. The Orego-
mans heart went "pitapat," and his brain
went "whirligig." It was genuine case OF
love at first sight, and the young mans atfec-
tions were reciprocated. He was invited to
the lady's beautiful home near the park. The
father was dead. Tears idle tears The
serious opposition of the mother was based
upon the fact that her daughters health had
bsen enfeebled by frequent attacks of chronic
rheumatism, which latter resisted the
treatment of the most skilled physicians
of the south and north. The young man
begged implored, beseeched but all in
vain. At last the stern parent so far
relented as to promise her consent to the
marriage as soon as her daughter should
be entirely cured of her continually occur
ring painful trouble. Her case had been
pronounced hopeless by doctors, and was so
regarded by friends; still the lover hoped
He procured at the drug emporium Of Messrs
Meyer Brother& Co., st. Louis, two bottles
of the great German remedy, about which SO
much ia now being said and written. These
he left with his sweetheart before departing
for home where he went to spend the hoi-
days This was about two weeks ago. % If
I should be cured, George, remarked the un-
happy girl upon bidding her lover farewell,
" I'll send you a kiss and then I'll be yours
truly forever" AS may be imagined George"
returned to the city with heart as heavy as
the Columbia rivers salmon shipments.
However sanguine may have been his hopes,
the reader will readily understand that the
young man was not happy. In fact he, like
his far away sweetheart, was very unhappy.
When therefore telegraph messenger called
at the Seventh street residence early last Sun
day morning New Years day. with q dis
patch from st. Louis, the feelings of our
friend and fellow-citizen can be much better
imagined than described.
But alas for the mystery
OF unwritten history.
The telegram was from the rheumatic
young lady, to be sure, but it contained
only three letters, namely, G. Y. K.
In vain George" tried to decipher the
meaning. In vain did he tax his mem
ory. As last resort he visited the
telegraph office, but there, too, no one seemed
charge suggested that key to the cipher be
requested of the sender of the mysterious
dispatch. This was promptly DONE At half
past Sunday night, just as the first day of
the new year was beginning to draw to q
close, the answer came. 1t read as folIows
LIyDEtL HOTEL, ST. LOUIS, No,
January l, 1882.
Oregon: Here C. Y Il. means a Consider Yourself I
Kissed. Thanks to your thoughtful gift Of st. +
Jacobs OIL, am entirely cured. Mamma says,
&c Take George, and ba happy" Come and We will
set the day and drink the health OF ST. Jacob.
JULIA.
To say that this message made George
the happiest man in Oregon is, as above
stated. drawing it mild. As he dropped in
at the Esmond late last night with few per-
sonal friends he ec-t>;s4szJT looked and felt as
.aouga he-would rot exchange his recently
woh prize, or even that mysterious cipher
dispatch, for the entire Northwest. All ap-
peared to feel extra dry" and although
" Mum" was the word, the reporter was en-
abled to catch on, as it were, to the C. Y.
K. telegram, which. by the way, probably
conveyed the most valuable kiss that was 9
ever transmitted over the wires of this or any E
other country.
1t is an honest fact"