The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-26
HER FAITHLEss LOVER.
| Girl Travelled in Klondike to Wed a
Man, and He Loved Another.

ShaAAs anu A4C 4<ONS0 AlOtuCIs
(San Francisco Examiner
After travelling thousands of miles to
wed the man of her heart, Miss Nina
Moore OF this city, young. pretty, well
educated, reached Dawson to find that
another woman had usurped her place
in his affections.
w H Biedsoe is the name of the de-
faulting fiance. Miss Moore and her
mother met him when they We're going
TO Nome last year. He was d fellow
passenger, and made himself very
agreeable, as well as useful to the Ia
dies on the crowded steamer. He was
a pilot in the employ of the Alaska
company. and his knowledge of the sea
enabled him to be of especial service
to the two women Miss Moore, for
TOUR years, had been employed in the
art department of H. S. Croker & Co.
SO assiduously did she devote herself
TO her duties that her health showed
signs of breaking down, and she was
advised to take a sea voyage.
The attention of Bledsoe to the ladies
continued in the Arctic city, and when
she left Nome they were betrothed.
Biedsoe went to Dawson and from
there he sent frequent letters. The
happy day was fixed. Bledsoe arranging
that the marriage should take place in
San Francisco, but the arrangements
mad TO be changed, as he could not get
away, and he asked her to go to him.
Miss Moore sailed from here to Sc
attic on Jan. TO- and at the sound port
took the steamer Sentinel for Skaguay.
From there she journeyed by rail to
White Horse. and thence to Dawson
by stage. On the stage was d woman
from Dawson, and to sler Miss Moore
conffded her romance. With cruel
bluntness the woman told of Bledsoe's
career in Dawson. He had married
Mine Lloyd, variety actress, three
weeks before The marriage was the
talk of the town. Flaring posters had
announced the event, and the -
theatre, where it occurred, was pac-.-d
with a careless. drunken mob. BledSoe
himself was lost to all sense of decency
through infatuation for the woman.
And SO the woman from Dawson rat
tied on. Bledsoe was a laughing stock,
ana Mine, the actress, was twisting him
about her little finger and accepting
the attentions of other men.
The poor girl could bear no more.
She had tried to maintain her dignity.
That another woman should win her
lover was hard enough to bear, but that
he should lay his heart at the feet of
such a creature was too much. She
leaned back in the stage and cried as if
her heart must break.
The stage rolled into Dawson. BIedsoe
knew that the girl he had wrOnged was
to be a passenger, but he stayed away.
Miss Moore told her story to the agent
of the Alaska Commercial company and
received the sympathy of that official.
The story of Bledsoe's desertion was
not quite as bad as had been painted,
but it was bad enough. There Rad
been no wedding on the stage, al
though. as the woman had said. the
event had been advertised in big let
ters on the Savoy bills. At the last
moment BledsOe's friends discouraged
the foOlhardy scheme.
The company's agent declared that
Moore Shn111H no no a dollar.
on the trip. Bledsoe was under con-
tract as a river pilot for the approach
ing season, and it was but just mat he
should pay the expenses of what his
own acts had incurred. Many homes
were opened to the friendless girl. She
wanted to return Immediately, but the
long trip had exhausted her, and her
new-found friends insisted that she
take a proper amount of rest.
Her story became known about Daw-
son, and by and by it reached Mines
cabin, where BledsOe was installed. The
shame of it at last stung him tc the
quick. and reused his slumbering man
I hood. In & rage he left the woman
and sought the girl he had so deeply
WrOnged. But she would not see him;
she would hold no communication with
him, and he soon returned again to his
Zaza.
Mrs Moore received a letter by the
same mail which brought the story of
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Of her daughter.
Nina is all have in the world, she
said. without her my life would be
useless, and were she to die up there
on account of that mans shameful
treatment. ! will hold him 10 account
for it. He seemed a splendid fellow
when we met him, and every inch a
man. He neither gambled nor drank.
In fact, he was a member of the Young
/ Mems Christian association 1 am not
a stickler on such things, but 1t was
| a pleasure to know that my child was
going to marry a man of exemplary
character.
My daughter has had all the adj
vantages of a good education. she was
born in Virginia City, and during her
early girlhoOd we were in comfortable
circumstances. She went to school at
Reno, and finished her education in the
east.
She wrote me a letter, telling me all
about it. How the poor girl had SUI
fered no one but she can tell"