Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-06-22
.HASSAYAMPER
IS IN TROUBLE
Captain Anderson in
Jail For Contempt.
Characteristic Letter From the
Former Philosopher OF Sleepy
Hollow, Arizona.

A copy of the Islander, published in
San Juan county, Washington, was
received at this office recently con-
tanning a letter from Capt. G. W.
Anderson, and dated in the Jail of the
above county.
Now many of our readers will re-
member Captain Anderson, famous
philosopher, politician, placer miner
and withal a jovial and genial man,
who for number of years resided,
with his dog Snyder, in "Sleepy Hol-
low" a tributary of Lynx Creek.
During the klondike excitement the
captain Joined the army of gold seek
ers and with them moved northward
to the land of the midnight sum-"
since which time nothing has been
heard of him until this paper appear
ed telling of the troubles of himself
and his dog Snyder, for the latter
shares his cell in the county Jail.
As the information contained in the
paper was rather meagre, the editor
of the Journal Miner wrote to his old
time friend the Captain to console
him in his trouble. Speaking of the
cause of his being in Jail, the Captain
writes:
about two years ago l made what
was considered a rich mining discov-
cry. 1 bonded it to San Francisco
parties and they gave me and the
mine quite send off through the San
Francisco papers. From this notice
received several letters from women
who were willing to become Mrs. And
erson. l answered one of them, from
woman in Nevada, whom | had
known when girl some twenty-seven
years previously. She told me she
had always loved me, although she
had been married and divorced and
she was willing to become Mrs.
Anderson.
81 fell an easy victim. Well the
mine proved on development to be
an. g." las the woman has also /
proven to be-. l wrOte 20 Der telling
her of the mine failure and tried to |
annul our engagement. She would |
not have it that way. So 1 traded |
the mining property for a farm here,
and We we're married.
''She brought son and daughter |
with her, the latter a woman of 20.
They would not live on the farm but
left and went to Seattle to live. They
made demands on me for money to
keep them in style in the city and
when l would not or could not send
them money she got in with some
graft ,r lawyer and sued me for di-
vorce, big alimony and attorney fees.
| got an attorney named Arthur to
defend me. He and her attorneys and
the judge agreed that had to dig up
all they demanded in the way of at
torney fees, alimony, etc., without
hearing my side. | refused to be held
up in such a cold handed manner by
black mailers and grafters and tried
to dismiss Arthur and have a sub
;titue attorney, all of which l
vas and am denied. so here / am in
contempt and in Jail.
cit serves me right. When an old
allows himself to fall
iuch an easy victim he ought to be
allied. They have my dog Snyder
n limbo with me. We receive the
pest of treatment. The people here
n San Juan county are good old
fashioned people. We are county
If Islanders about 100 miles from |
Seattle.
Those grafters that are trying to 4
lold me up live in Seattle and the I
people here have no love for them. !
do not know how long they will c
Ieep me in. Ii is now game of
reeze out and as you know, an "Old
generally stays with J
he "pot" and don't ''lsy down on a
fluff" which this is. The judge
avs have to stay in Jail until l dig
Up, so and Snyder (as we are the =
My ones in the Jail (have things fixed
Up very nicely by kind friends and
re are thinking of jumping, or locat
ng the Jail and settle down perma-
ently. The Jail is a very comfort
BILE little cottage in the suburbs of
he town. Tell all friends that we
re all right. My health is splendid a
nd Snyder is as lively as in days of \
ore, when we lived at our old home {
q Sleepy Hollow. Remember me
indy to ALL Your old time friend
nd we'll wisher, 7