The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-01
After y Break of Twenty. Seven Years 1t
Resumes Operations.

Resumes Operations.
From the New York Herald.
Leaving one of life's mysteries forever
unsolved and unsolvab Bile, Mrs Maria Cor
man passed a few days ago into the re-
gons unknowable. Dying a pauper III
the Kingston, N. Y, almshouse. even to
her last moments her crippled intellect
strove in vain to grasp the fact that this
was the year 1892 She remembered leav-
ing Providence, II. l., for Kingston. N.
Y, only a few months before. That was
in 1872. She was sure of it. How could
it be 1899? More than quarter of CEN
fury of her life was blank. 1t remain
ed blank until her death. 1t proha-
bly, will remain blank forever, for where
she had been from the time she left
Providence. in 1872 until she arrived in
Kingston, few months ago. no one
knows.
A quarter Of century and more ago
Mrs. German was young and handsome.
Left an orphan. she had married when
very young. Her husband died leaving
her considerable property in Providence.
She had no friends there and friends in
Kingston, N. Y, invited her to visit them.
With the intention of making the latter
place her home, she sold her property
and with $4,000 in cash in her possession
she started for Kingston. That was in
June. 1872. The day she left Providence
she wrote to her Kingston friends that
she had started. Two days later her
trunk arrived in Kingston safely. but Its
owner. Mrs. German. did not come.
Days passed into weeks, weeks into
months. stlll Mrs. German delayed her
arrival. Alarmed and fearing the woman
might have met with some accident. her
friends tried to trace her movements
from the time she left her home. They
found that Mrs. German had purchased q
,at1r iaty To
checked her trunk through to her desti-
nation. Then she had, boarded the fast
train for New York. and that was the
last anyone, seemingly, had seen or heard
of her. The passing years brought no
word of the missing woman.
After three years elapsed the friends
of Mrs. German in Kingston died. Their
property was sold. and among the articles
disposed of at public auction was the
old hair-covered trunk of Mrs. German.
The glib tongued auctioneer rehearsed
the meager details of the story of the
strange disappearance of the owner of the
trunk. and when it was finally put up for
sale there was some spirited bidding. The
purchaser of the old trunk was. however,
disappointed when he examined its con-
tents. 1t contained nothing but the wom-
ans clothing, rich and handsome, dainty
lingerie and other articles dear to the
feminine heart. No letters or addresses
bearing the names of any of the woman
friends were found. With the passing of
the years the story of the strange disap-
pearance of Mrs. Maria German was al
most forgotten. The police had searched
diligently for a trace of her. They found
nothing. 1t was believed the woman had
been foully dealt with, and the 1000 she
had with her stolen. This, however, was
mere surmise. No facts to explain her
disappearance or whereabouts could be
brought to light. The mystery for &c
years was as impenetrable as ever.
1t was but few months ago, however
that the woman. long thought dead
reached Kingston. She went about look
ing for her friends. She did not find them
Then it was that she appealed to the au-
thorities for assistance. The story told by
the prematurely aged woman was listen
ed to ;ncredulously at first. The woman
seemed surprised to learn that the year
was 1899.
How can that be?"' she queried. u