The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-24
CHANCE FOR HANkSHAWS.
PEOPLE ANXIOUS FOR TRACE OF
MISSING RELATIVES.
1hi~f Of Police Reed Delayed With
Mass Of Correspondence From All
Over United state. and Canada
Little Information II at Hand

Mysterious alsappearances. one dating
back p years. were told Or IN q hatca II
mali received By Chief 81 Police Reed
yesterday afternoon IL ors.r 10 answer
b@kf THE questions the detective force
would - kept at work for q month. one
woman cannot collect her life Insurance
necause SHE cannot prove conclu4ively
that her husband is dead. did Alex Nc
Lead. Seattle saloofs man, leave any
property for wife and children Is an
ether prokAesn 10 be solved IL JAcoo Micai
can only 0e discovered. his fathers estate
may he settled
Thirty years ago Thomas Rogers left
Canada To settle either In California or
Seattle. lie has never been heard froEn
and his relatives are afraid he Is 5te&..
HIS sister Mrs. A +. Sgeszey, of Thrae
Rivers. Canada. province az Quebec.
would - grateful for any information
that would solve tae mystery.
is 1t true that Alex Mcleod. a Seattle
saloon man is dead asks j II. Dun
das 81 Hunter. y -, and II SO. did lie
leave any property / am interesting
myself IN behalf OF ais wife and children.
whom he left some years ago"
Ia order To settle an estate, Henry Michi
3st East One Hundred and Eighteenth
street. New York city. is anxious To To-
cate jacob Michi who was last heard
OF on the Pacific coast in isss. His ioca-
ing man vas of rost@g disposition, us2-
ally working farm hand
Ole r. oleson. Of Edgar. Wis. has heard
that his steV-0rother. Martin Svenes. or
Ole Martin OaeSon. WAS killed while work
Ing railroad near Seattle, He desires
confirmation or dsulai OF the report. II
IL supposed that Svenes or Oleson board
cd at 80 Main street. Seattle
Was Dell Taylor ktlieds
Mrs l. V. Parker. OF sl3 Mailon avenue.
spokane is anxious 10 learn definitely
whether her %rosbes Horatio -. Taylor
better known Is Dell Taylor. wss killed
In a mill accident IN Seattle. He WAS
working in a suiIi here four years ago.
ard she has not heard anything from him
except IN a roundabout way
Elite 4. Phillips. OF to Bathurst street
Toronto. Canada, says her father, John
Christie 81 Hamilton. Ont. arrived in Sc
attic last MAY. Its intention HAS ~ Eat
work a. ly@a- All letters sent him have
been returned Christie Is blacksmith.
desires 70 hear from Marie Jackson who
IS said IN have arrived IN Tacoma or Sc
attic about SIX months age Mrs Jack
aous daughter II with Miss Anderson
and Il is on account Of the child thar
Miss Anderson writes. Mrs jackson IL
supposed ~ have a sister ln Tacoma
William Y AsssIer left his home af 6Tl
Haist*d street. C9icago. fer Seattle last
August. lie wrote MS wife from CrpEsls,
Sre+k saving he would continue his jour
n@Y in few days lie has no, been
heard ~ sinee Messler ard his family
lived in Seattle In lSSs HE worked for
Herman MYerS on Front street and board
*d with Mrs. u Richardson Cd Mil
street trow fv@Ier wnY1. across from tho
Su1sfa house His wife and son are
afraid something bias happ4ned 70 Mess
Ter
". h, Niit~r's Disappearance.
Mrs " - Miller. of - West street
las Angeles Cal. drsirts more lngorrna-
tton about the disappearance of her rus
Hand. ~ Is Miller Last fall the Post
intelHK9ucer printed an stern aboaf him
and two weeks later Mrs. Miller received
q letter from Levi T.. Sawyer q Park
CITY Mont. saying t5at MlIier had csezs
drowufd Sawyer said ~ woulS - fn
PARK city of:lv a short time. bat ,hst Il
Mis- Miller desired more information she
eouid get x lie failed 20 give his all
dress ard the letter. sent e him have
h.tu returned Mr. Aler's life was tn
sured bur his ~ife ~ powerless to act
without proof ~ ,seslth
Mrs -. II fease. 81 los Locust street
Topeka kaS SIS left with a large family
upon her hands rs she disappearance %
her husband from whowa she has not
heard since March IS Xxx She has re-
csfxs1 information that ho arrived IN Sc
attge Marca r. 1875, oa thu Northern Pa
efas. c4gt rann0t obtain further trace of
him. k'eaSe had a chest oI carpenters
tools with hsgn on arriving in Seattle. Sup
posed 70 aaSe hzsen delivered en prcStn-
tation ~ r 4 II special check num-
hered y 80 a Bergen, al attorney. who
writes about tae case says That MIS-.
reaSe IS worthy woman and ia great
distress
Il II williams ~ 10 South Lincoln
sVvrua. Denver. Co3s.. writes that h
fAs not heard from bis father. Il NJ
" nHmrns faT over : year When last
heard ~ Ia was 10 SEATTLE. bound for
Alaska lie - supposed - haYe drawn
- r~s.ss{ssv4 In seattle August i. l%ss. He
VS. somewhat addicted 20 drink. accord
inz SO his sons letter.
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