The Mena weekly star., 1909-08-19
MISSING BOY FOUND HIS CHARGES FI[ED
sEVEN-YEAROLD WHO HAD DIS APPEARED AT JUNCTION CITY,
 KAN, LOCATED.
WANDERED ALL DAY AND NIGHT
Youngster Was HomseIck ct t4la UncIe's and Started to Walk to Kan. sss cIty-Thlrst Dtovs Him From Hiding Place.

Junction City. Kan, Aug. 18.--Na- ture has made captive of little Jo- seph Welch. Late this morning, with the burning sun curling the long leaves of the corn field in which he had been hidden for nearly two days. thirst overlook the boy wayfarer and he emerged from his hiding place to pump on the place of farmer named Presse. about five miles from the John. son home. whence the Kansas City boy had disappeared.
 Mrs. Presse saw the little figure at the well and made dash for him. He ran timidiy toward fringe Of woods from which he had emerged but was overtaken. His youthful wanderlust by no manner of means appeased, he fought hard to get away, and when 1t was useless, he sat down on the well curb and so5bed. He wished to go home. No that wasn't home-the place from which he had started to walk He had set out for his real home and he meant to walk to it, he said,
 The boys feet and legs are in a pitt ful condition from his two days of stumbling about on the rough ground without either shoes or stockings. He is blistered of the sun and harassed by Insects. but he hadn't ended his peri patetic expedition when captured.
 After the search. which was partic- pated In by three troops of cavalry from Fort Riley and hundreds of farm started four troops of mounted men to cover much the same district as that ridden through before. Many of the farmers also resumed the search with the first coming of light. It was the belief that the boy had been over come by the heat and been missed In the big cornfeld.
 It was about II o'clock when Mrs Presse saw q barefooted boy at her pump, He ran when he saw her ap- pruach but she was faster She immel dlAtely sent word to the searchets and relatives of the boy took him home, where they delivered him 10 his wait Ing mother, lie was not talkatiye after his first weeping.
 He had been homesick and had started out to walk to Kansas City. ha said Sunday be walked long after dark and finally lay down to sleep 1t some soft ground Monday he walked nearly all day. wadlng for long time in a creek to relieve the burning of his Feet and legs At one time last night he saw man with a lantern but was afraid and did not gs near him. Early this morning he left the creek far bs- hind him. as the b'istering sun warmed things up all about him. he grew thirsty. Finally he saw the pump on the Presse farm and went there to drink
 He had not eaten since Sunday aft. erpoon when he left the Johnson home The distance between this place and the Prcsse farm is something like five mics, but he lad must have covered dopble or triple that number of miles n his wanderings.
 The Welches win spend several days more here and will then return to their nome at 76i Euclid Avenue. Kansas City.
 His Wife Was of Negro Blood.
 Columbus, O.. Aug l5.--Ascertaln- Ing after eight years o. married life .nat his wife was negro, Alfred haDerman. white man, after visit 70 Washington. returned today 10 their nome on Summit street and shot her ana himself Neither can recover. Mrs. Alderman was beautiful woman ana had no noticeable negro character ls'lcs The couple have son seven years old.