Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-16
UTAH COLOR IN
LOVE AND ROMANCE
Too Eusy With Wedding to Go
After Man Who Jumped
His Claim.
WILL LIVE IN SALT LAKE.
story Of Hardship, Work, Prl,ation
And Faith In Just One
Girl"

The New York World prints the fol-
lowing love and romance story that 10
hued by Uiah color and which viii be
read with interest here:
When Louis d. Gordon. who struck
10 rich on Round Mountain. New, last
March, was packing trunks at the Ho-
ta Imperial for his wedding trip yes
irday. "a Telegram came with this la
comic message:
Dave Waddou has jumped your
to4nsito with a placer claim. Better
come back quick
Mr. Gordon. who IS only 3 years old
and whose marriage 20 Miss Cornelia
~ Windsor r. 20 be- solemuized IN Holy
Cross Episcopal church. Plainheld. ~
j.. today nv Dean Redman, sent back
this brief telegram
Too busy 10 return Immediately. Tel
Dave I'm attend 20 him ln three weeks
Then Mr.. Gordon resumed his pack
Ing and passed the booming town Of
Gordon TO the back Of his mind tenn
poranly lie went to Plalnheld last
night. where his bride-to-be lives with
Mr. and Mrs. Charles n. Smith at l2s
Grove street.
After the wedding today there Will
be a honeymoon trip Of two weeks IN
Maine and then Mr.. Gordon will es-
tablish his bride al Salt Lake city and
assume charge again OF GordontoWn,
which has increased In size from two
tents 20 a place OF 500 population since
gold was discovered three months ago
in such paying quantities that MI
Gordons claim was capitalized al H.
900 .000.
Around the wedding today hangs as
pretty D romance as ever surrounded a
pair Of young lovers. Il dates back 70
the summer of 1904, WHEN young Cor
dom whose father before him had al
ways spent his summers al Pleasant
Point. y j.. went there to get the
alkali dust OF the Nevada desert coun-
try out Of him.
LOVE SENT HIM BACK AGAIN.
His last previous year IN Nevada had
been spent as cashier Of the bank IN
Austin. and when be came east 1t was
with a firm resolve TO get a position In
some brokers' Office In Philadelphia or
New York and wear Numbered linen
every day But the little god Cupid
disposed otherwise.
Al the Hotel Carrollton where the
tan, 1.-THE young Westcrner stayed, was
a little woman with blue eyes and
brown hair ana gentle ways. who wa
unlike anything he had ever seen or
dreamed Of IN the western country.
Miss Windsor had been reared IN the
home OF wealthy parents, surrounded
by every luxury and every advantage
that money and refinement could COM
mand. He fell In love with her prompt
~ and. 20 his surprise she surrendered
her heart TO him.
His proposal OF marriage was about
like this Il love you. and / shall
never love and never marry any other
woman but you but I'm too much Of /,
man 10 ask you 70 share the lot ] can
offer you now. III go back TO Nevada,
which Is no NJ country for a white
man 10 live IN. but where a man can
make money n he has patience and
pluck, and III stay there till I've made
enough 10 support a wife IN the way
you have lived and ought 10 live. And
II you'll walt long enough I'll come
back with my fortune and offer you my
heart and hand. And n You get tired
Of waiting ! won't blame you but,
please dear, wait for me
The answer must have been satlsfac-
tory, because for two years Gordon bat
tied with fate and hard luck and alkali
dust and lie in a tent. and always
kept cheerful
FORTUNE AT LAST.
lie took the management Of mine
on Round Mountain Tor a pittsburs
syndicate and then % was decided 10
abandon operations 10 owed 5000
and had not a cent lie had done
some prospecting himself on the south
side % the mountain and he had Just
about paid on his debts when a Won
derful surface deposit turned up on bic
own claim and Round Mountain began
20 attract prospectors from all over the
mining country.
Thea a rival claimant appeared and
for a time q was a toss-up whether
the Round Mountain country was 10
see some sensational shooting or a tedl-
Gus and bitterly contested lawsuit.
Il wouldn't have been hanged or any
thing Ike that" said Mr. Gordon re-
fectiye.y yesterday. and II IL hadn't
been Tor this little woman back east I
probably would have done what men
usually do in Nevada when they be-
| lieye some one has Jumped their
claims unlaWfully But ! figured that
after all. the easiest ways the best
and 50 I compromised. Then I laid oui
the town and had 1t accepted by the
county commissioners-and CUES,
that's all"
But about the br.de-to-be?' was
suggested.
well" said Mr. Gordon modestly
/ Il think she's the most wonderful w0m.
/ an On the world. but 7 suppose every
/ man thinks that. doesn't he. about tht
} woman he loyes2 she's had a wonder.
/ ful influence on my life. But FOR her I'd
/ probably be waiting trial out there
] NOW