The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-15
REUNITED AFTER 90 YEARS.


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Happy Ending.
From the ~. IAnIs Republic.
A remarkable case Of separation ut hls-
hand and wife. and their coming together
again after 10 years. came To light yestcr-
couple ARE now In the city alive and well,
although each believed the other dead for
many years. The history Of the case runs
as follows: In ls47 Theodore Flotow and
his wife lefs Bavaria to seek their fortune
in this country. They were. then n young
couple. and felt confident of achieving
SUCCESS i'm the United States. They landed
AT New Orleans, and Flotow being ~
blacksmith by trade, opened u shoO at
once and went tn work with energy Ia sup
two years Flotow found himself pcnnile..,
with no IIrospect of improving his cOndi-
ton. The California gold fever wns raging
about this time. and. in u tit of dcspera-
ton, he concluded tn leave his family and
start across the plains To the land Of prom
ity. He did not tell his wife, expcctin9, IL
h said, tn rail- them ont there ns sOOr ar
he found himself well situated. He ex-
~pcrienctNl some harl licks, and IL was %
long time before he could make more than
"a barr living for himself.
Ira tho mean time, his wife, who had
waited for months and months. concluded
that lie was dead, and left New Orleans.
She went tn several. places. working. for
the support of herself and child. and i'm n
few years met and married "a German
named Lohenhofcr. They camc to this
city i'm 1854 and lived happily together un-
leaving his wife and family in moderate
circumstance. Since then the widow
Lohcnhofcr has been living on the south
east corner Third and Victor streets. Her
daughter by her first husband also mar
ritsI. and she, too. IL "a widow, residing
on Linn street in this city ,o,.,h.,..
learned through IA German minister living
at Murphysboro. that FIOtOw, her first
circumstances so far as the worlds goods
were concerned. Mrs. L~ohenhofer was
greatly surprised at the Information. hut
concluded To meet her husband without
delay. A correspondence was begun. and
n few days e Fiotow came here from
California. He is ~ years of age, and
meeting between the old couple was
touching would he drawing it mildly. II
was extremely pathetic.
Flotow had a strange story To relate.
He, too. had married again, inkin that
his first wife was dead: He said that
when he got to California. after many
trials and setbacks, he tried to find her,
hut in vain. After waiting "a few years,
and tliinking that she was dead. ne mar.
years, and lac embarked mo- more in the.
matrimonial business. He is well sit,i-
by his first marriage III Linn street.
Unsarthing IL Manmoth'- Homes.
From the. Toronto Globe.
w. Is. Jelly. ex-Itccvc of Amarantl, who
lives on lot No. -, con. ., was last summer
engaged in scooping out n watering place
for his cattle in a wet corner of his farm.
and while eXcavatinR he uncarthed the
ribs of an animal, which were of such "a
large size that they startled him. He re-
solved to prosecute his work next day.
hut during the night il rained so heavily
that hc was unable tn dig for any more of
the remains Of the animal.
He exhibited the ribs "a couple of weeks
man, g.. Mr. Ipl.vn K..1lv Hf Shs.l1n.frsas. t1ss.
result being that this gcntleman..s c,irosi-
~ was so much aroused that hc hired men
parts of what he believed to br AN ante
diluvian animal. Mr.. Jelly. assisted Ivy
David Hocy and John Anderson, ~ few
for "a while they exhumed other bones,
consisting of ribs and vertebra. These
relics told their own tale. Some OF the
ncnt parts of the backbone ars. i'm pro-
portion tn the weight and size OF the
framework Of the body.
Mr.. Jelly, with tine eye of AN archasolo-
gist, prosecuted his search with vigor. and
i'm "a few days was delighted by the nm
carthing of one of the horns of the mann
moth. The enormous size of the antedi-
luvian animal can be estimated from the
size and weight of the immense horn or
tusk.
A I the hitt il is eight inches in diane
ter. and the part secured il twelve feet
eight inches In length. Unfortunately the
workInen could not locate the tip of the
horn hut competent scientists who viewed
the rcmlains say that il extended fourteen
feet. The horn was broken i'm three pieces
and had to bc removed in parts. one of
which required the strength of two men to
elevate tn n wagon. The middle piece.
itself measured eight feet and looks mors,
like n log of wood than the u~ndoubtod
horn of am animal.
The work of excavation is still going on,
and daily ribs and PORTIONS of the vertc-
br,r are being dug uI'. The soil * "a black
muck, from. two to three feet in depth,
and under this il ~ layer of white mari de-
~scending tn IL depth in some cases of two
feet, and others of three or four feet. I'M
derneath the stratum is u bed of black
sand. In the mari arr. to be seen shells,
indicating that the mammoth must have
persisted when the country was covered
with water ar subjected tn the glacial i'm
vasion.
Pretty Hard on IL Father.