The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-03
ANACONDA NEWS.
TO RIGHT AN OLD WRONG
Montana Man Hunts for Sister
Whose Heart He Broke.
TRAGIC RESULT OF A JOKE
Rancher From the Rosebud Whose
Thoughtless Jest Parted His Sis ter
and Faithful Lover Many
Years Ago.
TRAGIC RESULT OF A JOKE

! The strange story of a Montana
rancher is told in the Chicago Chroni-
Gle as follows:
Thomas W. Mcpherson of the 7-bar-7
cattle ranch. whose range is situated
on the Rosebud river, near the Chey-
enne Indian reservation. arrived in ST.
Souis recently from Forsyth, Mont. He
is in quest of his sister, Mrs. Alma
Jane Lee, who formerly resided with
/ her husband at LIS Carondelet ave-
nue., and whom Mcpherson has not
seen since 1876. when he left st. Louis
to seek a fortune in the Northwest.
Since his departure from his native
} city Mcpherson has been engaged in
the various vocations of cavalryman,
COW puncher, prospector and cattle
man, and in all the years that have in
tervened since his departure he neglect
ed to communicate with his sister. For
tune having smiled upon him in the
) last couple of years, and no reply to
3 his recent inquiries by letter for his
sister having been received by him,
he decided to come to St. Louis and
hunt her up, if alive, or learn her fate,
Z If dead. However, in that he has been
so far unsuccessful.
Carondelet avenue is no more and a
borhood failed to elicit any information
by which Mcpherson might gain a
clew as to his sisters wherea bouts.
Moreover, there exists no record in st.
Louis of the death of Mrs. Lee, and,
consequently, the Montana cattleman
is inclined to believe that his sister
Us still alive. He says that he will not
cease his search until he shall have
found her, and to that end he enlisted
the services of private detective
agency, but their success was no bet
ter. Mcpherson, in speaking of his
search and its disappointments, said
he was by no means disposed to give
up his quest simply because she was
snot to be found in st. Louis.
Behind this search of the Montana
Gentleman for his sister is most re-
markable story told to reporter by
! Mr.. Mcpherson.
Lovers Parted by Adversely.
y In 1868 Miss Alma Jane Mcpherson
resided with her widowed mother and
Brother, Thomas w. Mcpherson, at LIS
tCarondelet avenue. OF good social
lstanding, by nature endowed with per-
ssonal beauty, and of vivacious temper
,ament she was a favorite in society
MANY were the suitors who sought her
hand in marriage, but she had in early
womanhood given her heart to young
George Barrow, son of Colonel
,GeOrge Il. Barrow, confederate Veter-
an. The young couple had early VOW
ed an inseparabe devotion, and though
the financial wreck of Barrow, ST., in
1866 and subsequent death in the spring
of 1867 forced young Barrow to battle
with adversely, with the prospect of a
struggle of years before he should
eventually attain a fitting place in
ahe world, socially and financially, Miss
Mcpherson never once wavered in her
affection for her fiance.
r. The love of Alma, however, was not
without its thorn. In Benina FOrtier,
a French girl, whose father was then
Appointment contractor of st. Louis,
she feared a dangerous rival, and in
view of social rumor, not without
cause. Miss Fortier made no conceal
ment of her admiration of Barrow, and
this moved Miss Mcpherson to jeal-
ousy and ultimately led to a bitter
quarrel between the two women.
Y In his struggle, owing to a dearth
,of business qualities or a lack of
mana cement Barrow's successes were
few, and when, in the spring of 1870,
a few adventurous young men got to-
gether for the purpose of joining
New Orleans party, whose object it was
to seek the South American gold dis
coVeries, Barrow linked his fortune
with them, hoping in the Andes to re-
cuperate the losses his father had sus-
tained. One morning early in May,
1870. the barkentine James Prescott,
with the st. Louisians on board, clear
led out of Galveston on her long trip.
A Missing Adventurer.
Months passed after the sailing of
the Prescott and no tidings were re-