The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
Poverty Forced Him to Send the
Girl Out TO Earn a
Living.
he GAINS WEALTH AT MINING.
The Wife Who Deserted Him Found
Bearing the Name of
Another Man.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Sept 13.-After a
long search, involving trip by blackboard
from Seattle to this city, over 1900 miles,
James Rust has found MS 17-year-old
daughter Jenny, and both are supremacy
happy. They were separated ten years
ago, when Rust was miserably poor and
Jenny was little founding, and they
meet now, Jenny beautiful girl budding
into womanhood and her father a rich
man.
1t was in 1885, ten years ago almost TO q
day, when Rust, a poor carpenter, was
forced to see his children sent out to make
their own way in the world, while he went
way seeking livelihood. The bulk of his
misfortune was caused by q faithless wife
She was a Mexican woman, gifted with
unusual beauty, and when poverty came
and i've children had to be fed, she proved
recreant and left her husband and babes.
She was afterwsrd located north of this
city, where she had married a rancher.
Jenny was the youngest child. AS the
others grew up they made their own way,
and most of them married. One lives in
Bakersfield and Others are scattered
through the State.
Jennie was adopted BY Alexander Beller
and wife, who live at Encinitas, thirty miles
north of San Diego. AS she grew up she
became known far and wide as one of the
prettiest girls in the county, her features
blending the American and Castilian
types with rare charm and beauty.
Rust was completely disheartened. He
drifted to Arizona, and worked for while
at Wickenburg and Congress, picking up
a good deal of information about mining.
Then he went North, and East, and
North again. He lost track of his children
completely, and for a time was so poor
that he was forced to tramp with hobos
and hard characters over the country. Up
in Idaho he ran across something that
looked like good thing n mining, and
he stayed there awhile. Fortune seemed
to be against lin, but he stuck TO it until
he made a little start. He then went into
the State of WASHINGTON, and found two
or three mines that yielded a small sum.
He continued prospecting. and after
nine years OF struggling he found what
he had been seeking, rich mine He
developed it considerably, and when q
syndicate wanted TO bond it he accepted
their offer and left the camp a rich man.
even if the mine turns out to be worth
nothing.
Then Rust resolved on the journey down
through Oregon and California. He pur-
chased a stout blackboard and 8 fine
horse and left Seattle on July 8, bound
for San Diego. He had obtained the adj
dress of one OF his children at Bakersfield,
and so far as he could learn his pet daugh-
ter, Jenny. was still at the home of her
adoption IN this county. On the way
down he ran across two other married
children-a son and daughter.
Rust drove I'D 10 the Beller ranch, near
Encinitas, last Sunday, and asked for his
daughter. Mrs. Beller had completely
forgotten him, but recognized him after
he told his story. An old ranchhand on
the place recognized Rust Immediately,
and they had a good talk over old times
But the anxious father was much cast
down when Mrs. Boiler told him that his
daughter was in San Diego and had been
here for two weeks. Rust jumped into his
blackboard and turned his faded horse
toward San Diego. He had learned that
Jenny was safe, happy and almost a grown
woman, and this made him still more
anxious to see her.
On the way down Rust had lost his
way, and inquired of Il passing rancher
the name of the people living at a house
near by. The rancher gave the informa-
ton, which nearly knocked Rust off his
seat. 1t was the home of his erring wife.
The rancher replied to Rust's questions.
ana told MIN that the woman had three
children since she remarked.
Rust did not turn aside to renew &C.
quaintanceship with his wife, for obvious
reasons. Pushing on to this city he
hunted up the address given by Mrs.
Beller and had the supreme satisfaction
that night of clasping his daughter in his
arms. Her beauty and womanliness gave
her an added charm and he was loath to
leave her, even to rest after his long
journey.
Rust and his daughter are still in this
city and be Is making plans for their fu-
ture. One thing, he says, is sure, and that
is that Jenny will have as fine an educa-
ton as money will procure, and another.
that she shall not marry for a while yet.
He wants her all to himself, he says to
pay him for the dark experiences of both
during the past ten years.