The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-22

| probated and the property divided among
the legal heirs. Some shyster lawyers
found out that the newcomer had some
money with him and some more at home
so they prevailed upon him to commence
an action Need / tell you the rest?
AN interesting case is told of two mer
who came here in search of a dead rela-
Ave and millions about a year ago
A poor, msera BILE looking foreigner ar
rived in this country in the early eighties.
/ He settled some where in Ohio, built up a
fortune, moved to Chicago and began to
speculate in wheat. That was all his
| relatives at home heard of him. One day
two or three years ago they received in
formation that he was dead and that he
had died intestate. The news produced
a stir and the family began to fight over
the prospective American millions before
/ they knew where their relative died or
! where his wealth was located. They
scratched each others faces. knocked out
each others teeth and had each other
arrested for assault and battery and
perjury and what not. Finally a recon
Citation was patched up and two of the
more educated members OF the family
were delegated TO visit America to in
vestigate and report.
THE two came. saw nothing reported
progress and asked for more money to
keep them alive in the strange country
and to pay expenses.
You see they were so ignorant. these
two of the more educated members Of
the family in question. that they did not
know enough to ask themselves whether
their deceased relative had not by chancce
changed his unutterable Slavish name, as
his fellow ccountrymen sometimes do
by way OF accommodating their English
speaking neighbors. They just went
around asking about him by his old name.
Week after week passed. The people at
home were geeting tired OF the remit
tances they were called upon 70 make and
the two delegates were getting tired Of
their own wild goose chase. when one
day they made the discovery that the
man whose millions theey had come to
hunt was still alive and as full Of fun
as ever.
1t was he himself who had sent word
OF his death to the old country. He was
fond of capital joke. but that was not
all. While boy he was knocked about
from pillow to post He was an orphan
than dinners for him. When he became
independent he thought OF them and thu
trea tment he received at their hands He
wanted to get square on them. but h had
not the heart to keep II up. When he
heard Of the miserable plight the two del
egates finally found themselves in he in
vited them 10 his house That Will DO
he said to them, 7 am the man YOU have
come TO inherit The ghost has risen
from the dead. When you write your next
letter say 20 our people that the past has
arisen from its grave. Tell them I re-
member the handling they gave me when
l was an orphan boy. Tell them reTneun-
Der the supperless nights and the blows
and curses and the drUdgery- Tell Aunt
b / have never forgotten the peculiar
pleasure she used u have in piaching me-
Ii somehow seemed 70 quiet her nerves. II
worked like a charm. Sometimes when she
had toothache and nothing n the world
could relieve her she only had 20 pinch
my elbow till l sritted my teeth with pain.
TO get over Il. I remember one day when
she was sick with half a dozen diseases
and the doctor prescribed as many RENE