The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-16
FOUND LONG LOST BROTHER.
Land Opening Restores Property to a
Wife.


Guthrie. Q. r., Feb. 15.-The land draw
ing at FL Reno has brought out number
of peculiar things and the latest is re-
corded in the Times-Journal at Oklahoma
City. Had Z not been for that great
land lottery Harry Hunts wife and child
would never have known Of his death
and would not have come into possession
Of the little property he left. IN 1884 he
disappeared and up to last July not a
member of his family had ever heard of
him. When government announced that
there would be a land drawing John Hunt
of Jackson, Mich, concluded TO try his
luck. The Rock Island would have been
his most direct route to Fl Reno, but
he chose the Santa Fe because it was less
crowded. In doing so he was thrown
into Oklahoma City. By reason Of his
stop at Oklahoma City he discovered his
brother. Harry. who had not been heard
from since 1854 when he abandoned his
wife and family Of five children at Den
yer and disappeared. They accidentally
met, recognized each other and visited
together for two or three days. Through
that meeting the family learned of Harry
Hunts death and his son. Arthur. is here
TO claim the estate.
Harry Hunt was married in July 1865,
in Michigan. In 1888 he sold his farm for
about $4,000 and moved to Denver with
his wife and five children. In seven
months after reaching Denver he bought
his wife ticket to Binghamton, n. Y,
where her father lived, and giving her five
dollars. told her to go home to her father.
She took with her the two youne est child
rem. one a mere babe. The~Nree older
children were placed in the home of the
friendless at Denver, and then the father
disappeared. never again to be heard Of
by his family until his death. which oc-
CURED in this city two or three months
ago. When the three children were plac-
Cd IN the home the eldest was q girl of
seventeen; another was a girl of ten and
the third Arthur. was then a boy Of fivh
years. They wanted to go 70 their moth
or. and through the influence of the SUI
perintendent of II = home they were given
transportation to Cleveland. There other
XII ID people sent them on to Erie and at
Erie money was raised to send them on
to their mother at Binghamton. This
rAlkf Atlt NltAtQAtI sum p4Ss-N1 fN III Tic
form Of notes and letters written for them
along the long journey.
The family remained together until
grown when they separated and are all
doing for themselves except the Youngest.
Harry Hunts life from the time he
abandoned his family until ne appeared
in Oklahoma City ten or eleven years
ago is blank unless the woman who
who claims to be his wife can tell.
When he did some two months ago 4
q woman put in an appearance. claiming
70 be Harry Hunts wife. and laid claim
to the property. probably about 81 500 in
value. She shows a marriage certificate
but on one has yet been able TO find any
divorce papers. nor did Hunt mention a
divorce He did not live with the woman
who claims 70 be mis- wife and had not for
st least two years prior to his death.
As far as anyone knew Mr.. Hunts life
in this city was blameless. He was a
Mason and member of the Shrine. He was
employed most Of the time IS a foreman
of water and sewer construction. He was
taciturn except among intimate friends.
and was not known to dissipste in any
particular
1t is a tangled affair that Harry Hunt
left