The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-17
FINDINGS OF FACTS,

Having been engaged for 10 these
many days in tho task Of instruct
ing juries Us to the proper measure OF
damages in horse trades, and listening
to the plaintive appeals OF those who
rashly entered into contracts ut time
when tho ownership OF town lot in
tho impenetrable forest brought to its
happy possessor visions OF untold
wealth, it is'a relief to the court to turn
aside from tho contemplation OF these
engrossing subjects, and dwell upon
tho tale oil love aud innocence unfolded
bytho evidence in this case,
1t appears that away back in 1867.
when many OF tho towns now ambi-
tious OF county scat honors were as yet
unknown to fame, and tho sweeping
bosom OF the Skagit was still unvoxed
by the floating leyiathan OF commerce,
tho deceased, John T. Wilbur, hailing
from tho chete cast, first madO his ap-
peNranCe upon tho scene.
One day in the summer OF the year
aforesaid the said Wilbur, while pre-
sumably in search OF Clams-although
the evidence is strangely silent upon
that point-espied sporting on sand
spit near utsalady a dusky maiden OF
the forest whose supple limbs had been
warmed by the heat OF thirteen sum-
mers and whose cheeks were unCaressed
by Gught save gentle 2ephyrs Deeply
impressed by her visible charms Of per-
son, and being Of bold and venture
somo spirit, no then and there resolved
to claim her for his own. lie made u
liberal offer, but she, modest maiden,
not considering it good form to yield
too readily, rejected with seeming dis
dain his amorous invitation. He re-
turned to his lonely on the Skagit,
there to devise stratagems anew to en-
compass his end. He heard her sweetly
cultural accents in tho signing Of the
wind, and in the floating mist no ever
held her voIuptuous form. Later on,
with rCtinue consisting OF two noble
red mon from Snehosh-ah! the
music OF these Indian names!-he set
out to visit his sable onchuntress at her
home upon the 1ir.clNd hillside of the
Swinomish reservation, near the banks
Of the murmuring slough OF the sumo
name. Arriving there, without Incl
former offer, now rendering her parents
tho princoly sum of $50. But thew
looked coldlv upon his suit, and the
dutiiul Kitty would not surrender bor-
gelf to his ardent embrace unaccompan-
10 by the pNtGrnal blessing. The date
cannot be determined from the evi-
dance, but Kitty, who ought to know,
says it was when the salmon were just
beginning to run. Desiring to BIO exact
in MI things. IL occurred 10 tho conrt
thnt il might be we'll to continue tho
hearing Of iris case for n few veors
whilo stndv;ng the HABITS nj the salmon
but tho litiyants, anxious for tho spoils'
obicr,cd An attorney, whom n iNe Ia in
sirbt seems to.c0re Int littln for scien.
iilic obsnrvotion
Once ovoin Lo roturned IN hia lonolv
ranch There in tho soiitndH n liz
cabin. with M one 70 snrcod his hlnn.
ioie no ono N weavo liz mo,s ho
%rnnJaG ovor Sia sSoto ~ oin"in ~
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nTnrt This ti,no no would "a IL s,nta
80 h" consuitoI "Gh;nH Row IrSo
had tokon nn,o himscli no a vito y c%iiS
~ Tho forest and tho s,roo,n ana ~ wna
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