Weekly journal-miner., 1908-11-25
SEARCHES COUNTRY OVER FOR LOST
 PARENTS Silent Voiced Fred Have Hunts For Missing
 Family
CFrom Tuesdays Dallyl

Among wayfarers of this country, few have more romantic career than the silent voiced Fred Howe, who ar rived yesterday in Prescott in search of his mysteriously lost mother and father Howe. while never an enlist. American war, as well as a participant in the "Boxer" melee In this latter difficulty he received a wound through his throat, destroying his voice to an extent that his ordinary speccn is mere whisper.
 Not only is his military career a tale rivaling fiction, but his long search for his parents is interesting as story. He is only in inc fourth year of his hunt.
 When the Maine sank, on which Have had two brothers, his parents were in Marysville, Ky. shortly after they left Marysville, and since that time Howe has been unable to find even the slightes, trace of them.
 Into every state capital in the Unit. cd States and many of the smaller cities, Howe has made his way in the past four years. Several times he found what looked like promising clues. only to discover when he run them down that he was trailing false scent.
 That IIowc's parents could so lose themselves to him as to baffle Howe during his parental quest since he be- gan it June l6. 1901, is little short of [ surprising. He often fears that they ! have been killed ar died in A strange ! city. with only the doctor and the l coroner hearing of it.
 Among the many hair.breadth es. capes Howe has had was that of Sep
 tember 27, 1901. Al Balangiega, Sa-
 mar, 106 members of Co. C, 9th infan-
 try. being surprised hy the Filipinos
 while at breakfast, only seven of the
 entire number escaped the slaughter,
 Howe being one of them.
 If was in 1900 al Pekin that Howe
 received a bullet wound in the throat.
 He was then with the regulars in the
 city, and during one of the fights was shot through the neck. He lay he
 tween life and deata for several weeks, and then surprised all the doc.
 tors and nurses by preeovering, but with none of his voice left but whis , per. FIrt-
 Howe has never been ordinary neither in war nor in love, and when he was married he did it in a manner
 that attracted wide attention. He ther ' lay in the Manila hospital with body shot full of holes. and for severa s days at the point of deata. U When the nurse assigned to Howe Y ward approached his cot he fell n
 love with her, and without saying e word to the pretty young lady, aske' that the Chaplain of Co. 20 of kansa ' be called. Asking the nurse to talk Y his hand, Howe told the chaplain [ v pronounce them man and wife.
 But perhaps the most interesting if " cident of the marriage is that How s and his wife were welded 10 eac :. other in succeeding years. Just befor 'o the clock struck the hour of midnigt 'e on New Years eve of 1928. the chal
 lain made Howe husband, and Jui 's after the strokes that nshered in lss ," had ended ne made the nurse Howe ." wife.
 '" Altogether, Howe has twen'y-thr' 'o bullet wounds in his body received
 the various engagements in which . m has taken part in the past ten yea ys or more. He Is small in stature, ar nd stlll wears the infantry uniform. |
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