The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-01
IT'S CLEARLY AN ERROR
Edwin j. Barker Was Not Going
to st. Paul to Marry.
WAS MARRIED ALREADY
His Brother. Was Present at the We'd
ding, Which Took Place at Winni-
peg Last November Miss
Swingley Was Bride.

Great Falls, May 31.-The story that
Edwin ]. Barker, who was killed in the
Rock Island disaster near Waterloo,
Iowa, was on his way to st. Paul to
marry Miss Ida Shadwell of Neihart, is
Enthusiastically an error, as he married,
last November, Miss Marcella Swingley
Of Neihart, at Winnipeg, in the pres
ence of his brother. j. c. E. Barker,
who is now in this city. The facts are
that Miss Shadwell is an old friend of
the deceased and in a way a protege of
the family. Mrs. Barker and her moth
err Mrs. Swingley, are reported to have
proceeded from Arkansas Hot Springs
to the scene of the disaster and will ar
rive here this week with the remains.
The associated press dispatch that gave
occasion for this correction was as fol-
lows:
Edwin J. Barker of Quincy, Ill, who
is among the killed, was to have been
married in Minneapolis yesterday. His
betrothed, Miss Ida Shadville of Little
Falls, Mimi, arrived in Minneapolis
Friday Mr. Barker's brother Robert
lives at Neuhart, Mimi"
NE uispdl CIi Is d cOiH plldliOl Oh err
ors, as the young ladys name is wrong,
her residence is wrong, and Robert
Barker is the father of the deceased and
lives at Neihart, this state.
The last few years of the dead mans
life are curious and even dramatic. He
had great faith in the Big Seven mine
and for years had been investing every
cent he could earn or raise in its devel-
opment, against the advice of his
friN do Sc lit
gagged his other property. and even the
mine itself, to raise funds to work it,
and at the last could get but a few
hundred dollars on a mortgage. his last
| resource. He said that the ore was
there and work would find it, and the
expenditure of this last sum did find
it. Just how much the mine is worth
is unknown and perhaps unknowable,
but his friends say that in the past five
years he had through dividends from
the mine paid off an Indebtedness of
some $4,000 and the mine is still paying
big dividends. His friends say also that
he was on his way to this country for
the purpose of so arranging his affairs
that he might go down to Mexico,
where his brother. Carter Barker, is
engaged in mining, and where jerks
| believed there We're greater cpportuni-
| ties than in Montana.
| J. c. E. Barker, brother of the Edwin
j. Barker killed in the Waterloo Gowa)
disaster, was seen by Standard report
er directly after the arrival of this
| mornings Standard and asked for the
facts regarding the truth in the spe-
cial dispatch from St. Paul. Mr.. Bar
ker said Had there been any truth in
| the dispatch 1 would have known il,
as l have been receiving dispatches for
| the past two days from Mrs. E. j. Bar
ker and the officials of the railway, and
there is no mention in them of any
claim to the body put in by anyone
save the former. AS a matter of fact,
there can be no truth in the claim of
| this Miss Shadville. as both myself and
my wife We're present in Winnipeg when
my brother Edwin was married to Miss
Swingley last fall There is bad mis-
! take made by someone
Mr.. Barker stated positively that
| there was but one Mrs. Edwin j. Barker
| de facto or in prospective and that she
was the one who was proceeding from
Arkansas Hot Springs to Waterloo and
thence to this city with the body.
There are number of stories about the
matter, but they have no foundation in
|