The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-28
PARTED FIFTY YEARS hGO
FE' THE MINING KING, IN
SEARCH OF HIS
WAS AN ORIGINAL 4s-ER
Left His Bride in Vermont 70
Dig Geld in California
and Never Re-
'@Ensd'iav TON asa
WAS an ORIGINAL 4s-ER


a. "A UNIQUE character bowled into town
bi 80 ciie est last night. Ire. called
hiinseIf Pete, the Mining King, and
CANNED to have been at. the oo' n-ng 81
every big gold field since the DAYS rs +ba
original "Eldorado, when Marsbo
struck the first rich vein OF the ms
metal IN the fertile SOL of ,C,aJif6rnia
oacK IN 49, 1t was t.l1s same ssPeta .
accorolng to his own tale, who put Mar
ti'I onto the g2me and steerea him to
the niue SPOT wiere, he made the d .si9ov-
cry which proved to be the openine waf3eo
TO the most phenomenal boom in t..esh s.
Tory Oh gold mining. IF fa;f this oil
man told is true, his fame is sfcond
not even to that of Gen. Funston who
mas SO recently found the nugget of tie
Philippines
Mixed in with the adventure l2e.' Of Of. this
OLD mans yarn was an element of no
thetic romance. rersf -,a-rane'T57 80
Back in '4S he started from his. New
england home for the far-off, gold fiells
OF the PacIEc coast. He had been mar
rled but one year before and his Young
VIE was to stay with. her parents until
ne returned, which, he believed. -sweilId
De within couple of years The parting
was hari, but lured by TIE g eed for
gold and buoyant with the assurance
that he would find it in abun lance and
then go back to his wife to begin a II e
CT ease and comfort in the Green Noun
tam nome of Vermont the venturesome
young man began his long Journey. It
was late in the spring Of 40 when Re
reached his destination, the trip having
been made by various means Of crude
transportation. He cast his lot with
others of his kind and fer some months
dug without as much as a sign of gold
Then luck changed and he ana ssed a.
small fortune. 50 tat at tie end of TIE
first year he might have CON, back to
his waiting cFmEa~i with enough god
to have lived cor fortah1y for a life
time under the frugal system prac4iced
by the staid New Eng1anjers But Re
did not 60. Fortune hid favored him
once and why would it rot do SO again?
He would rema a while longer AM
then return the possessor OF fabulous
wealth.
STRUCK LOSING STREAK
During the first five years CT his al
sence. Pete" Qor that is the only name
he gives kert up correspondence with
his young wife, and each month he re-
neWed his promise to return to tie old
home, his intentions being of the best
Presently she went with Ter parents 70
Illinois. where they settled on sore new
land. The wandering miner began to
drift down stream; he struck losing
vein. The uncertain vicissitudes of gold
searching Began to have their effect upon
him, unit at the beginning of the seventh
year in TIE West he found himself ba
ly able to muster grub SAKE" lie
took to drink and was soon out Of to ca
with all his relatives, who by this tire
had left the place to which they FIST
moved in Illinois.
The stages Of fortune and fa:la~a
through which the man passed from that
tune until the incept' on Of the gold bonn
in the Klondike were, according to his
own tale, full Of enough thrilling a lven
ture to supply a dozen dine noyeiists.
He ran the entire gauntlet but was st II
of the Yukon, when the tide Of HUNGRY
direction.
Bowed by tie weight CT years and
grieved by the misfortune Of losing
both the gold dug from the earth in Cali
fornia and the woman to whom he IA
piighted his troth, this Old .miner, de
crepit for gold seeker, strrck the Xxi g
pin at last and came out of the EIon :ike,
q rich man. Fe is now on his way to
Southern Michigan. where he says MS
wife is living if she Is living at all He
will find her unless she has depart d Tor
the golden fields from which no return ia
possible, and W II tell her that re las
brought back TIE gold that irred him
away more than fifty years AGO. frcnI
the richest prize that ever tempted the
sorl of hungry miner
The cid man said that he woul NOT
| make his identity known TO any one if
he failed to find his wife.