Arizona republican., 1902-01-11
HAPPY" JACK EVANS
It's No Longer Nickname, But Full
 of Meaning.

Happy Jack Evans is back again, and he is happier than ever. He arrived here yesterday morning on the s. F., P. & P. and is stopping at the Commer- cial hotel. Happy Jack is known as the former partner of A. B. Williams in the Castle Creek mines, which they sold last spring.
 That mining sale meant more to Jack than most people imagined. It made a new man of him. It was like d draught from the fountain of perpetual youth which Ponce de Leon did not dis cover. Jack had been known as an old Arizona and Pacific coast prospector for thirty years and he knocked about as all that class of people have to. Starting from old England as a sailor and winding up in d prospect hole, he naturally took on a little of the rough, but he kept a stout heart. For years he hammered away with the pick and drill. Finally he came to town some years ago and enlisted in the Salvation army. That was his first big strike, and he stayed with it as faithfully as he did with the prospect hole. Then he sold the mine and things looked differ ently. That was his second strike and he decided to lay aside the overalls for a NIllIt tHJoS liit iiSibt oi suit of town clothes. He bought ticket to Los Angeles last summer and had hardly reached there when he met an old friend, who wanted him to go to Copper river. Alaska, expenses paid, and expert a big property.
 He went, but he got no farther than Valdez, owing to the fact that trails were washed out. it was showing in June and there was no means of trans portati But he was gone about a month did the best he could and had a nice trip: He got back to Los Angeles in September.
 But in the meantime he had been do- ing some vigorous thinking. Luck was coming his way. and now that he had a little money he felt a sort of moral obligation to start life all over again. build up a fireside, settle down and live the rest of his life like a man ought to. He consulted with Miss Berry. whom he had met in Phoenix some years be- fore as an ensign in the Salvation army, and who labored in nearIy all the Ari Zona towns. Ensign Berry encouraged Jack in his good resolutions and they were married October 24.
 They now have a nice little home at Garvanza. a suburb of Los Angeles. are surrounded with all the reasonable comforts of well to do people, and, bet ter than all, they are happy. Both re- tain their interest in the work of the army, though Mrs. Evans has resigned her office as ensign and is now reign ing as an uncrowned queen in the Evans household. While Jack is no longer the man behind the drum al the Phoenix army barracks and in the street parade. he is still faithful to the cause and grateful to the army or Eaniza tion. for it is through that in fiuence he found his personal reforma- ton and secured for wife. as he be- heves at least, the best woman in the world. His army cap has given place to d hard boiled tile. the blue clothes are laid by for business suit, and with a bright red necktie he looks and feels at least twenty years younger. There is surely no Phoenix acquaintance but who will hope for them both the great est good fortune in the future.
 After q few days in visiting old friends here and attending to business affairs, Jack will leave for Mexico to lock after some mining property he has