Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-11-11
SEARCHING FOR PARENT.
A. ID. Myers Engaged in Deter
mined Quest.

Seeking his father, who has been lost
or dead more than eleven years, A, y.
Myers, one OF the discoveries Of Gold
field. where he located the Combination
mine May "a, 1908, upon hearing Of the
strikes at Grandpa, which is now COW
cred by the Kendall and Sandstone
properties, left Denver last night for
Seattle to continue in person the search
he has carried on by correspondence
and by other means for ten years, says
the Denver Post.
During the past two days Mr.. Myers
has been in conference with the secret
service men who, some six years ago,
arrested Robert A. Woods in George
town. Colo, charging him with counter
feiting, Just before Mr.. Myers and a
deputy sheriff could reach him with a
warrant charging murder.
1t was in the company Of Woods that
w. c. Myers, the father Of A. p.
Myers, left Cripple Greek for Seattle
and the great northwest, April 4, 1894,
According to the story Of his son, the
elder Myers carried with him some
$1,000. There were living with him at
the time he left Cripple Creek his son
and two daughters. He and his wife
had separated and Mrs. Myers resided
at Colorado Springs.
Il will let you hear from me at the
coast point from which | set sail for
Alaska, said Mr.. Myers to his children
and he added that, before he sailed he
would take out $4,000 in life insurance
in favor of each of the girls and would
send them the policies.
Not one word has since been heard
from the elder Myers. About a year
after the departure of the two men
Woods reappeared in Cripple Greek and
when asked by young Myers about his
father, said merely he had left him in
Seattle and that when he had last seer
him he was preparing to accompany q
party on a hunting and trapping expe.
dition.
At this time Myers, the son, was
young mamie is but 80 at presant-
and it did not at first occur to him tina
anyone could have made away with hi
father for the sake of the money h
carried. 1t was the wife of Myers VIII
suggested that Woods might know mor
than he had told and when A. d. Myer
learned that the federal authorize
were after Woods on a charge of coui
terfeiting, he concluded that if he wa
equal to one crime he was equal to al
other, and it was then that he swol
out the warrant.
The government officers got the m;
first, however, and Woods was tri'
and convicted. About this time Woo
went insane and was taken to the n
tional insane asylum at W~ashingto
where, Mr.. Myers learned from t
secret service men in Denver, he st
remains.
Though have had bushels of CO
respondence with officials at Seat
and Canadian government officials
Alaska" said MIR. Myers last nigl
"and have been sent records and h
tories of numbers of people nam
Myers, | have not been able to ident
one of them as my father. There v
one letter, though, received by
mother some years ago from Flagsta
Ariz., signed by somebody who cal
himself Martin, which partially
PEELED my previous conviction that
had been murdered"
1t was only recently that Mr.. My
was blessed with such prosperity as
enable him to carry on his search
person. After putting in some We
prospecting and mining in Idaho he v
first on the ground at Goldfeld, he'll
to organize the district and has been
president from the first.
81 am now in shape to take care
my father and give him all he needs
the remainder of his life" said
Myers, Hand he's getting old and W
to find him and get the family togetl
Mother will be the happiest woma
the world if | can find him, and she
father will be at once reconciled ant
of US will rejoice at the reunion.
e'At any rate" he concluded, II
going to keep on until | find out |
lively what became of my father
whether he is dead or alive"
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