The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-02-22

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MT MARY ANN,
CHAPTER VI,
MARI ,Anl. now Mrs. Frank Franklin,
with Der handsome and loyal husband lived
peaceful and consenial life for three years
| on the home IsiNnd 10 Northern Lake Hur-
on Captain Bill still ran hi. lake steamer
boat and the lumber a Ills furnished plstty
II pine lumber, but the pine forests were
getting pretty we'll cut of and the distance
hsul the lass ipcreased each year and
franklin was looking around for Other and
better ebsnces TO get lumber. 10 the sum-
msr I " an old peek marked Frepcbman
came TO Frapkl,ns cove who proved 10 be
the long lost husband Of Della, the old
Fer CD cook whodid not know him 1t first.
IL appears that when the Civil War broke
sut he wac sailor ou the 81. Lawrence
River and engaged a. sailor On one Of the
Union cruis' rs, aid y hsn the war was ov r
be vas 10 the Pac'A, fleet, and sfter he
sss discharged be worked on the Union
Pacific railroad, finally drifting up into the
Black River country In Wisconsin and from
there TO FraLklih's cove In search Of work.
Both he and bis wife Della hsd suppo, ed
each other dead for ten years but ~ Peter
81. Peter turned up very much the worse
for wear, but all there, Della gladly rsco-
gu,zsd the facts and Peter stayed 1t the
cove, and he told such glowing stories
about the trees up the Black River that
Franklin resolved to take trip up that
river and II he found things as he expected
he would locate some land and move his
lumber business across to Wisconsin. He
organized boat expedition and with old
Peter and several Indians and half-breeds
and one Norwegian, Hans Sloof, they pueh.
ed far up the river among the many lakes,
swamps and timber lands OF that then
heavily wooded country. Ia atout two
months Hsns and Peter came back without
Fraoklin and told how one night after
Franklin had located q lot OF timber be
wanted ard was about ready to return,
some Indians whu bad been In the outfit Of
another lumber looking concern, came to
the franklin camp, demanded fire water,
bacon II d 4 jur, but did not get any. To.
wards morning a great cry was set up out
side the, tent and a. They rushed out Frank
lin was riddled with bullets aud Hans and
Peer were given one OF the canoes and
old to 90 down stream aud never return.
They brolgtt with them Frapklin's watch,
knife, pocket compass and some other tri-
aes and tefore daylight we're miles down
stream. IN. Indians joined the other par.
~. This news Frustrated Mary Ann who
clune to little william her frtt born Of two
years Captain BIZ, who happened to be
at the cove, tried TO comfort her but with
pour success That winter daughter WA
born to her who could never see her father
and sitter that Mary Ann seemed 10 wax |
ing dream. For q year or more she did not
seem TO realize where she WAS or what ihe
WAS doing. Gradually she got better and
Captain Bill having laid out some summer
cottage sites At the cove sold them and the
mill and land and Mary Ann and william
and Mary, her boy and girl, moved to
western home on the warm Pacific coast,
where william grew TO splendid boy Of
s,xteen, and WAS entered at West Point ~
= cadet and later went to the Philippians
aud came home with wounded arm. Max1
grew to fne young lady and few ytass
ago Mary Ann, Captain Bill and bis grano-f
children were travelling through this Rciion{
In an automobile and meeting the writer
they renewed old acQuaintaBces. Mary
Ann said her uncle In France had left her .
large estate and that after they had bid
rood bys, to their old friends and the scenes
Of her childhood, she with Mary would 20
to France, but Captain Bill said be would
20 to Montreal and IL he got tired be would
take to the water again although about 81
} ears old. The young Captain William
would stay in lhs army and Mary would
70 with her mother. A few months sgo
bad . letter from Mary saying Mama died
LAST month" "Oh Il IL sad, but Am 10
alone, Imafkjed an American Nobleman
met 10 Isalysrd ~ have one u the cutes,
lis.ls girls ysar old. We will come TO |,
Amnics ssdVA Ind | viii Cell on you
Grandpa has bsen dead two years. ] often
think Of the times Mama told me abe had =
on the old Lake Chsmplain freight bosts
and expect yUu viii some time writs It up,
Il you ever do ssId me copy and Be sure :
. OF TO use sty real lanes In the story. .
so long Mr." Here I viii end ,hi,
truthful story Of lake, canal and river NJ |
SICLoSE.
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