Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-09-19
MISS REAL In. DEMAND.
Husbands Galore For Girl Who
Drew a Lucky Claim
GETS MANY KINDS OF LETTERS.

Her 81 Big Block OF Railroad Stocks
as an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Stu
dent Wants Her tt wait Two Years.
Young Ransan Means Business.
Miss Matte Beal Of Wichita, Kan,
who drew the second choice claim in
the Lawton land district, is receiving
as. high as 100 proposals of marriage
daily from all parts Of the United
States. In her absence In Oklahoma
her mother and sister open them and
find much amusement in their parusal.
They expressed the other day about
200 of the letters to Miss Beal, who
had not seen any of them owing to the
fact that h has been away from home
practically all the time since hearing
of her good fortune.
Mrs. BeaI allowed a representative of
the Kansas City Times TO look over
such of the letters as were not mark
ed confidential" and he noted some
peculiar phases of owe sickness. One
man claiming to be a railroad manager
in Michigan gushes forth his love for
Miss Beal in eloquent language and
promises to make her q present Of a
block Of railroad stocks worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 if she becomes his
wife. He says his friends call him
handsome, that he is a widower, and,
though far advanced in years, he looks
young. He refused to give his name,
but gave her the number Of a postofice
box at a station in the vicinity of De-
troit which he said he had rented espe-
cially for her communications to him,
promising that when he should receive
one letter from her he would satisfy
her as to his identity and position
The senior partner in q Kansas City
manufacturing enterprise rendered
Miss Beal his heart in a very pathetic
manner, saying his last wife had been
q telephone girl, whose brief reign of a
year and q half over his household
filled his home with sunshine. She died
about three years ago.
A young man in St. Louis with $4,000
cash and a house in Joliet, Ills, worth
$1,000 begs Miss Beal to let him know
whether her heart is not pledged. His
chief recommendation to her outside Of
his cash and tenement is that he wears
q No. 6 shoe.
A saloon keeper at Paris, Tenn,
would ain win her heart by means of
a photograph and a positive assertion
that while he is 80 years of age he
has never loved a woman and did not
think he ever should until he heard Of
her. He postscribes the fact that he
is strictly temperate and Of a good dis
position.
A wealthy Baltimore lady asks her
to appropriate an acre of her claim to
the cultivation Of roses as a thanks
Offering to fortune.
A Tennessee young man boasts Of
having in his veins the best cavalier
blood of the south and offers a long
pedigree as an inducement for her tic
wed him.
A young man Of Waterbury, Conn,
asks nothing better than to be her
neighbor and wants her to inform him
how he can ecu the claim adjoining
hers. He has the money to pay for 1t
straight, he says
A "poor" young man living at Brazil
ton, Kan, is the only one who 50 faI
has inclosed stamps for a reply to his
proposal.
"My proposal to you is not an Idle
fancy or transient passion" says g
young nduuIdcluT6F VI new 1I6uLOU1
Ind. at is prompted by an impulse
which l canDot control and impelled
onward by a passion which Over
whelms every other consideration
have dared to address you with the
hope that fortune, which sometimes
seconds a desperate resolve, may favor
my suit. Pray, madam, do me the ia
vor to consider and approve my~pro
posal."
One young man who is attending TIT
Illinois Medical college at Jacksonville
wants and begs her to wait two years
for him. He a y he will graduate
then and will be in a position to maxi
her lots of money.
One young man, a K%ansan, Of course
says: "You do not know nov to farm
/ do. If you marry me, l can furnish
5000 in cash and $3.50 worth of faFmin,
utensils" 1t is cold business with tn
Kansas man.
Monument to