The morning call., 1894-10-24
WHERE'S wills SON?
A 100000 Estate Awaits
the Claimant.
WHO IS SAID TO BE HERE.
His Father Died Recently in
Saratoga.
WHO IS SAID TO BE HER
LEARNING THE LABOR PROBLEM.
James Lawrence Wilson Believed
That His Son Ought to Labor a
Portion of His Life.

| Ten years ago James Lawrence Wilson,
a capitalist living at Saratoga, n. Y, told
his son, Harry E. Wilson. then a boy 10
years of age, that In the great struggle for
bread a practical knowlege of toll and in
dustry was essential to the rising gener-
alton In order to perfect the man. He laid
down firm hand on his sons daily life
and insisted upon a reasonable amount of
Industry, besides the training of the mind
received at school. The boy went 10 work
during vacation, but firing of the dis
cipline, after saving about 500, suddenly
quit work one afternoon, and packing up
his gripsack came West. From that day
to this the young man, who is now about
% years of age, has never set eyes upon
the father with whom discipline was
necessity and work luxury.
He wandered toward Indiana and re-
NAMED there ten years, doing all sorts of
work, and occasionally wrote home to his
father. From this point he went to Mis-
| sissippi, and finally drifted south, con-
suming three years in knocking around,
| but always kept his father notified on his
whereabouts. After spending few months
| In ST. Louis he heard that Montana was
! sprinkled with gold and silver mines, ready
to be taken up by anybody who happened
10 come along. He wrote home OF the in
| tended move, but rather that have the boy
| 90 into the wild West, which was as bad
and unproductiye in the MUD of the old
! gentleman as 1t was good and profitable to
the boy, he urged him to return to the
! threshold Of his younger days and share
the riches which were stacking up around
the successful father. His pleas were of
no avail, and the son replied that he
would never go home until he had suf-
fcieDt money TO live comfortably without
the assistance of the sire. He was strong
and hopeful of success in the far of and
glittering land of plenty, but the light
failed when he arrived and the great West
was found To contain as many hardships
| and disappointment as the more thickly
populated bustling East He remained In
Montana, seeking his fortune, and grasped
eagerly every hope held out to the youth
Of speculative turn of mind, but found
the same great labor problems confront
ing him here as elsewhere. He was
trained to disappointments. and although
ne might have averted many of them by
simply complying with his fathers request
made in every letter TO come back to
| u
sire, but wrote home March last that
| he was about to go to San Francisco and
accept a position in a wholesale commits.
sion house rs chief clerk. This was the
last the father heard of the son, and with
the stopping of the letters he felt the bur-
den OF age falling heavily upon him, and
to increase the weight his wife died, and
he was left alone to mourn the loss of the
boys mother and hope for the return of
the wanderer to comfort him in his old
age. No tidings came, and death with a
! discipline even sterner than that of bis
| victim closed the chapter of a sorrowful
, life and left the nOmad an orphan with
! $75, 900 in cash besides considerable valu-
| able real estate TO his credit.
The demise of the father occurred en-
September 4, from stroke of apoplexy,
| and since that time every effort has been
made to locate the only surviving heir 10
the Wilson estate. His movements can be
| traced easily from the time he left home,
| IN 1884, till March. 1894. when he slgnified
bis intention of coming to this city. Since
that period he has practically disappeared.
| and it is evident, from his long silence,
that he is either dead or unaware that he
is an orphan and sole heir to an estate
worth nearly 100000. Attorney A. T.
Barnett, in the Mills building, who was a
! warm personal friend of the late James
| Lawrence Wilson, is taking steps to search
| out the son and follow his course after
leaving Montana. The affairs of the de-
ceased are in excellent shape, and his vii
has been found. which gives the boy
| Henry Z. the entire property now waiting
| a claimant in Saratoga, n. I.