The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-12
YELLOW ASTER MINI
MOoerS VIII Case Dismissed
in Superior Court.
END OF GREAT ROMANCE
Woman Fights Hard to Save
Her Good Name.
END OF GREAT ROMANCE


from the docket Of the superior court
OF this city the latest chapter has been
written ia the romance and the tragedy
OF the eYllow Aster mine.
II is the romance OF q sudden fortune
smiling after years OF adversely.
Il is the tragedy Of domestic peace that
did not stand the strain Of poverty and
drink and wild ways; OF wife who con-
ccived herself wronged by her husband
VIII and brought to the defense Of her
good name all the resources that the law
affords.
II is this spectacle Of & womau's fight
for her good repute that viii 1--we long
est in the story OF the Yellow Aster mine
despite the CLEAN Of gold and the splen-
dor Of vast wealth that have made the
tale OF its discovery famous along the
Pacific coast
THE BRIDE OF % YEARS AGO
Could Frances L Demarest have read
her horoscope as she stood before the
altar IN Newark. y. j.. thirty years ago,
she might have let the bridal roses
wither from her cheeks before she
plighted troth 10 the future finder Of the
Yellow Aster mine. She little realized
that the plain band Of gold linked her
life with an abject slave Of drink But
neither poverty nor opulence met the
short-sighted vision OF the pair as they
pllghted fealty on that bright summer
morning. They were apparently destined
10 the humdrum middle-iife existence
that is perhaps. after all. the happiest.
Miss Demarest came OF good family
and had received q high school education
81 Ithaca, y. z, the birthplace OF the
AIooerses. Her father was q business
man in easy circumstances; her brother,
W. z. Demarest, is today well known in
New York
1fooers left home when but a boy and
began life as a drug clerk in New York,
His employer subsequently became inter-
ested in the Brooklyn Eagle and took
AIooers with him He was a bright. in
telligent. lovabIe youth. and soon won
his way into the confidence OF the man
ayers Of the paper. But appetite for
drink ruined his prospects and finally
cost him bis position on the Eagle.
To conquer his love for drink Mooers
spent a year in an asylum for inebriates.
but without avail. He tried reporting
on Chicago papers. but gave that up.
His adventurous disposition became fired
with a desire 70 discover gold. He went
20 Colorado and searched the Rockies
From there he drifted 10 Montana and
Wyoming and later 10 New Mexico and
Arizona. once or twice he returned
20 his wife in New York. Early in the
SOS his dream OF riches drove him to
California for good.
Mrs. Ao0ers did not follow her hus-
band wanderings. but took Up such
employment as she could obtain. For
a time she kept boarding house. After
8Iooers went 70 California she was
placed in charge Of a Chndren's home
on Long Island. Later she kept a board
ing house in Long Branch. The next
turn n fortunes wheel gave her a posi-
ton as an attendant at the BlackweIFs
Island Insane Asylum. There was
third member OF the family now-Ed-
ward Demarest Mooers-her s0n-and il
was sometimes difficult 70 keep the wolf
from the door.
Out in California Mooers led the life
OF a typical miner Fired with the ex-
pectancy of finding It this time" the
pick-axe and grub-kit were time and
again strapped TO the back OF the
burro and weary marches made over the
mountains and wastes Of sand. The
AIojave desert was explored and the
mountains for more than q hundred
miles around san Bernardino.
During the years on the desert II IS
said that AIoore's mind became affected.
He was at times subject 70 mania He
located diamond mines in the heart Of the
Mojave and dreamed he had found a new
South Africa Gold was his constant idea
Running to a spot where he thought 1t
lay buried he would cry. dig. dig"
When the men would cease he would
moan and lament like a child
II 1885 came the expedition that was 70
succeed
The men who took part in IL were
M0orss. Austin Burcham. a broken-d0wn
butcher from san Bernar1ino. and John
Singleton. a clerk They were camped to- +
gerher at Goler, a godforsazen place on
the bitter edge OF the Mojave desert
The men OF the camp we're busy show
cling sand into dry washers. It was the
hardest kind OF work 81 the most terrible
OF climates and Yielded a few dollars
day.
Nooers reasoned that = he could find
the place from which the gold-bearins +
sand had been beIched his fortune would
be made. He persuaded Burcham and
crater Of q nextiuct volcano. That's I
volcanic sand" ~ said he was the only
one 81 the three who had studied metal
lurgy. TIE others had sufficient falth II
him % join him. Il would CO 70 harm
anyway.
one dav N1ooers Jumped from the crazy I
wagon in which three were prospecting f
and scrambled up the ledge with his pick
axe. IL was. he thought part CT the
cured rim q crater.
ooh. pshawr' said Singleton. that old 1
dead rock-
Bur q moment later 1looer's hosrse .
voice came down 70 theu. almost iaaud- +
.tle vlth excitement
Burch. come up here VIXEN you have .
III iaEoduce yea 90 yo1z
z rune
II was true VOID
There's enough ore IN sight here rev /
sid ex-Coveraor Markham 9 llttis later. f
.to yield the 3Ieosrs estate Sl-59o
month far twenty years
Az threa p=cspectars became rch.
,I'7ars ard cha Singleton h1- -aiatfaI
IN this CITY. TIE Elrcaau-s
ire u RandzaurE
Tie spot whe-e -he rr-s-e-tl-s pitched
.ha-r tent oul~ SIX wears ago row rhe
-e1ter II rraspercus uE v.Lars
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