The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-02-01
ROMANCEOFAUCTION
SALE OF UNCLAIMED EXPRESS
UNlTEs LOVERS.
Norwegian Harvest Hand Comes
Into Possession Of sweethearts'
Letters and Heals
Broken Heart.

st. Paul, Minn.-At Sale OF uh-
claimed baggage held in the Union
depot Herbert Leonard Of Plainfeld,
Wis, paid $3.50 for one lot Of five
bundles, in one OF which he found
some old letters, and having no use
for them threw them away. Adolph
Berg, a transient, looked upon this
careless waste OF effects with
budding curiosity, paved heedlessly
about among the debris, sorted out
few letters idly. perused them and
stuck them excitedly into his bosom
and made his way rapidly from the
depot 10 a saloon at sibley and Rob
ert streets. He ordered a glass OF
beer for an excuse-leaving 1t un-
touched-anG buried himself in read
ing the letters he had found in the
baggage scrap heap.
Berg mad been a resident OF Amer
lea nearly FIVE years. He came from
Norway and engaged in the restaurant
business at Minot. n. d. He had bad
luck there and took a claim near Bis
marck. He proved up on this and
took a job as farm laborer in the
Darlington neighborhood. His job on
the Darlington branch Of the Great
Northern proved good one for
time.
Now when Adolph left Norway he
left behind Hilda Aase. with whom he
was deeply in love. While he was In
America he promised her he would
send for her and they would get mar
ried and make their home here. But
things did go so awry with all Of
Adolph's brave plans that he continu-
ally declined in fortune until he got
the Job near Darlington.
SO then about a year ago he sent
for Hilda to come In the spring Of this
year. Hilda prepared to do so. but for
reasons not disclosed she did not
make the trip and set the time OF un-
I'll July.
Meanwhile matters we're going bad
with Adolph. The. slump. came during
the winter, hit labor like blast.
cheapened 1t and threw those that had
any sense OF their value out OF a job.
SO with Adolph.
Meanwhile he looked for the com
ing of Hilda with renewed fears. He
feared that the place he was able to
provide for her would not meet her
expectations in this rich country of
America, and wrote her In July not to
come until she should hear from him
again.
After writing Hilda this he secured
position on q threshing machine
crew and worked throughout the Da-
kotas. He received the letter from
Hilda announcing that she had
started, but believed she had received
his own letter before starting, telling
her not to come, and dismissed the
matter from his mind.
SO hard have matters gone since
that time that Adolph Berg has writ
ten no letters to Christiania to the
woman Of his heart.
Little did he know that Hilda, last
July. duly ticketed by the immigration
officials that make ones trip easy
came to America and North Dakota
looking for her long-lost love. He did
not know that she had been caught in
the whirl of the busy world about st
Paul and the northwest, and, falling tc
find him. had returned hastily to hel
native land, depressed to the oblivion
of all else at the thought Of the posi-
BILE detection and desertion of hin
who was most dear to her.
In the debris at the Union station
Adolph Berg found letters written BY
his own self. and they were in {
piece of baggage that Hilda had ono,
owned. II did not take Adolph Ber,
long to find out where the packag,
came from and learn or divine th,
true course of his love-lorn lady o
christiania.
Berg, who has some money save,
up from his threshing experience, sa
down that night in the dingy room o
his rooming house ON Robert stree
and wrote Hilda to come again t,
America, inclosing an express order t
cover the expense.
Herbert Leonard, who bought tn,
unclaimed effects which we're forgot
ten by Hilda at the st. Paul baggag
station in Der sad katabasis back Il
Norway, is also a thresher, by coin
cidence, and has been employed a
Maxbass, N. D., and Valley City. Hi
home is located at Plainfeld, Wis
where are also the other effects 0
Hilda, to which she has no legal right
but which would probably be returne
upon satisfactory arrangement.