The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-03
LOOKING FOR HIS FATHER
Al Myers Spends Time and Money In
Search
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(Denver Post.)
Seeking his father, who has been
lost or dead more than eleven years, A.
I'D. Myers, diseoverer of Goldfeld,
where he located the Combination mine
May "a, 1908, left Denver last night
for Seattle to continue in person the
search he has carried on by CORE
spondence and by other means for ten
years
During the past two days Mr.. Myers,
who has been stopping at the Brown
Palace hotel, has been in conference
with the secret service men who, some
SIX years ago, arrested Robert A.
Woods in Georgetown, Colo, charging
him with counterfeiting, 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. G. Myers, the father of A. d.
Myers, left Cripple Creek for Seattle
and the great Northwest, April !,
1894. According to tho story of his
SON, the elder Myers carried with him
some $4,000. There were living with
him at the time he left Cripple Creek,
his son and two daughters. He aud his
wife had separated and Mrs. Myers
resided at Colorado Springs.
81 will let you hear from me at the
coast point from which / set sail for
Alaska, ; said Mr.. Myers to his chill
dren 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 Creek
and, when asked by young Myers about
his father, said merely he had left him
in Seattle and that when he had last
seen him he was preparing to accom-
pany a party on a hunting and trap
ping expedition.
At this time Myers, the son, was 4
young mamie is but 33 at present
and it did not at first occur to him
that anyone could have made away
with his father for the sake of the
money he carried. 1t was the wife of
Myers who suggested that Woods
might know more than he had told and
when A. D. Myers learned that the
federal authorities were after Woods
Oh d CudTgt VI COuuICI1CltihSt AO w
cluded that if he was equal to one
crime he was equal to another, and t
was her he swore out the warrant.
The government officers got the man
first, however, and Woods was tried
and convicted. About this time Woods
went insane and was taken to the Ia
tional insane asylum at Washington,
where, Mr.. Myers learned from the
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remains.
"Though / have had bushels of cor
respondence with officials at Seattle
and Canadian government officials in
Alaska said Mr.. Myers last night,
"and have been sent record and his
tories of numbers Of people named
Myers, l have not been able to iden-
tify one of them as my father. There
was one letter, though, received by my
mother some years ago from Flagstaff,
Ariz., signed by somebody who called
himself Martin, which partially dis
pelleo my previous conviction that he
had been murdered.
"The letter said my father had
come to Flagstaff, worked q while and
died there. / wrote to Flagstaff, but
could get no tidings of anybody named
Martin or Myers and 1 came to the
conclusion that my father might have
written the letter himself to relieve
the suspense Of all Of US, intending for
his W part to remain as if dead, be-
cause of his inability to get along
amicably with my mother
Mr.. Myers is proceeding on that
theory. 1t was only recently that he
was blessed with such prosperity as to
enable him to carry on his search IN
person. After putting in some years
prospecting and mining in Idaho he was
first on the ground at Goldfeld, helped
to organize the district and has been its
president from the first.
~ am now in shape to take care of
my father and give him all he needs
for the remainder of his life" said Mr..
Myers, "and he's getting old and [
want to find him, and get the family to-
getner. Mother will be the ~happiest
woman in the world if l can find him,
and she and father will be at once
reconciled and all of US will rejoice at
the reunion.
cat any rate he concluded, 81 am
going to keep on TIL / can find out
positively what became of my father
and whether he is dead or alive"