The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-12

plants that bring the water for ten miles
have been built, as vel as a perfectly
equipped electric-lighung plant
Standing On the spot where Mooers 10
Gated the first claim you can just make
out. On the top OF q neighoring hill. the
indistinct form OF & mold dr. washer.
battered and worn II IS on the top OF
the Olympus claim
When operations we're begun at the
mouth OF the guich 3Iooers built there
small cabin OF primitive architecture
Since then il has been moved several
hundred yards up the hillside, where it
stands minus several boards.
The gulch where this cabin once stood
has been completely nlled 10 a depth Of
one hundred feet with tailings and refuse
ore from the mines. This IS 20 be worked
over by the cyanide process. and IS ex-
pected 70 yield added millions.
OF 8Iooers after lie but little need be
said his vie tried several times 70 live
with him. but gave II up. and for years
made her residence at Patterson. \. J.
where she is favorabIy known. With the
advent Of prosperity the prospector
planned trips around the world and ad-
venturous journeys abroad
III lhave a gay. messy time now" he
used TO say. and when n dead some
folks III remember me tenderiy, any
how"
He gave 2.ooo TO an old printer. He
sent $3.50 10 the widow Of another printer
He sent 500 70 pay a SO grocer's bin in
Brooklyn. He took q barkeeper and his
wife on q two months tour 20 Mexico.
All the mixer had 10 do was 70 supervise
M0Oers artistic poems IN things drink
able. he took barber on a trip 70 New
York He threw So gold pisces 10 street
urchlns. To baby At Rands5urg
named for him he gave a sack Of 10 50
gold pieces. Once ne give $50 u every
dance halI-wonan III Rsndsburg and ad-
vised each In turn 70 go home ana lead
another life.
Yet he merely spent the income from
his mine-nothing more. Some weeks be-
fore his death Mooers had dellrum
tremens and was treated at the Cahfor-
MIA Hospital, in this city. After signing
his viii Mooers started On one OF his
sprees. It lasted from Los Angeles 20
New York. and the record OF the trip IS
ike a serial story. the chapters being
acted in the barrooms of the best hotels
He took Billy Manning. an ex-pugilist,
with him.
About the middle Of May OF last year
Mrs. Mooers learned from the papers
that he was AT the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
New YORK She found him there. iIl. and
in a deplorable condition. On Nay "A he
died.
The mind OF the pioneer prospector had
become embittered against his wife dur
ing their separation and in his viii. made
in the hospital. he gave her but 2650
shares Of the Yellow Aster stock. while
to his mother. his three brothers and his
son, were left the majority OF MS golden
boards and the future earnings Of the
mine.
Mrs. Mooers was not. perhaps. in need
Of greater wealth than the VIII placed
at her disposal. but she felt that she
must fight for her good name. which had
been assailed by her husband relatives.
She contested the will
IN the answer fled in the court It was
alleged that she had not been to AIoores
a faithful wife. and her name was con
uected with that OF J. c. Robinson. OF
New York. her agent and adviser. Tn
der the circumstances, Mrs. Afooers de-
cided that she had no option but TO fight
the will: and in the event she won a prac-
teal victory. the other legatees having
compromised with her by surreudering
a considerable portion Of the stock be-
queathed 20 them
And thus the famous case passes into
history.