Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-01-23
BIS LOST DAUGHTER
Strange Meeting In A Beer saIoo


The mattresses employed in one of
the underground saloons on Kearny
street, between Jackson and Pacific,
San Francisco were treated to a scone
a few nights ago which had the effect
| of drawing tears from the eyes OF the
hardened witnesses to the affair in which
one of their number was a principal
participant.
Among the mattresses was one who
went under the name of Jenny Lang,
and all that was known OF her was that
her husband had served four years
in the State Prison for grand larceny
under the name of Frank Jones.
On the evening in question an elderly
man, with gray hair and full beard,
entered the dive to have a glass OF beer.
Seating himself at one of the tables, a
young woman approached him and in
! quired what he wished to drink. Re
| ceiving his order, she skipped across
| the sawdust to the bar. The Old mans
| eyes followed the little form of the
waitress, and his guze was fastened
| upon her as she leaned against the
counter waiting for the beer. Having
obtained 1t, She approached her custO-
mer, her eyes met his, and both looked
at each other intently for few seconds;
then a sudden scream; and the crash OF
| a tumbler broken on the floor caused
all present to look in the direction
from which the sound came, What.
was seen was the form OF the waitress
stretched upon the floor with the old
man on his knees by her side, her
head resting gently upon his arm. The
FOUNDERS of the place were ready to fall
upon and do him harm, as they thought
| l,os - 30 ta1
but the words "My daughter, My
daughter" caused them TO halt In the
execution of their attack. Sumulants
having been administered to the pros
trate woman she sooa recovered and
threw her arms around the mans neck
and covered his venerable face with
Kisses, exclalming: Papa" "Papa,
dear'' He was her father, who, by
the merest chance, had met her a5
narrated.
The closing section of this remarka-
bic incident is told in a few words
Jennie Lang, as she was called, was
the only daughter of Jefferson Wellman,
a miner, who became wealthy by ind
ing a rich mine In Colorado about six
teen years ago. With Jennie and one
boy Wellman and his wife resided in
Denver, where Jennie formed the &C.
quaiutance of the man known as Jones,
but whose proper name was Frank Hy,
land, and who gave the people there to
understand that he was travelling upoI
his income. Wellman and his wife
forbade Hyland the house and eau
toned Jennie TO shun him, but like Z
great many other young women. Jen
ME did not heed her parents and mar
ried Hyland, who was gambler anl
thief.
After their marriage they came to
California Here Hyland deEerted hi:
wife and wound uo in the penitentiary
, for stealing purse from his room-mat,
| in lodglng-houss in this city. Jenni
deserted and ashamed to return to he
, parents, drifted into the BarbarJ
Coast. During the few years since 81
left home her mother and brother haI
{ died and her aged and heartbrokel
father had started off from Colorad
] from the scene of his trouble, and b
chance met his daughter. He took he
? from her degraded occupation to tn
E Russ House, where he was staying a
the time, and, without revealing b
Z daughters indentIty or the manner
z which he found EeT, departed with he
:, from the scene of her troubles.