Arizona republican., 1911-03-08
Father and Son 10 Meet After
80 Years Separation
REUNITED BY PROsPECTOR
Wandering Miner Hears
Pathetic Story of Father
in Idaho, and Son in Ari-
iona, and They Will Meet
in Phoenix Today.

Thirty years ago a six months old
child was left in a Louisiana orphan
| asylum by its father, who came west
broken hearted by the death OF his
| boys mother. and determined to leave
| the scene Of his unhappiness. Dur
| ing the years which have flown by
| since the day OF the separation of
| father and son they have never
seen each other until this day, when
they are to be united as a result of
a circumstance so peculiar and a
coincidence so strange that it sur
passes in romance all the imaginary
and fictitious inventions of the most
famous novelists. During these years
the father, J. g. CASTILLO. has found
| fortune and has searched unavailingly
\ for his lost son. During these years
the tiny baby has become a strong
man and wandered through nearly
every state of the west in a vain at
| tempt to find his father. This morn
! ing they have at last found each 9TH
er. and the search and the mystery
are ended
Several years ago a well known
prospectOr Of the Dragon mountain
region named Charlie Kayser was
prospecting in Montana. where he
| heard a story concerning a man who
had gone through the state a short
| time previous to Kaysers visit search
ing for lost son The story was
told to the old miner. and he remem-
bered il. A short time later he found
himself on the banks of the Clear
water in Idaho. and here he met Mr.
Castillo who was still engaged in
seeking his boy. The story was told
by the father himself and its pathos
has never been erased from the old
mans mind. Mr. Castillo. now en-
gagged in a profitable business in
Idaho. had paid five years in advance
for his sons maintenance i'm the or
phan asylum. and had worked in the
west for three years when he deter
mined to so back and get the little
boy He was told at the orphan asy-
lum that the child had disappeared.
and no trace was ever found Of him
From that time To the present he
never gave up the hope Of seeing him
again, and has perservered in his
quest in spite Of the greatest dis
couragement, and the extreme i'm |
probability of ever learning his where |
abouts.
A few weeks ago Kayser hav-
ing returned to southern Arizona. |
came along the railroad tracks near |
Red Rock on his wa, to nearby |
town where he was accustomed to |
buy his supplies. 1t was near noon. |
and he stopped at the house OF the |
section foreman who gave him his |
dinner and the two men had a long |
chat afterward The story told by |
the miners host held Kayser's at |
tentiOn, and he began TO go back into |
his recollections to discover it's coun-
terpart. which he was certain he had |
at one time heard. The section fore
man, named Edward CASTILLO told |
how his earliest days of memory |
opened on a Louisiana farm. where
he had been taken to live by a farm
er who had found the little fellow, !
then not more than three or four
years old. wandering along the road
and being unwilling to return him to |,
the asylum from which Sc was learned |
the child had come he took him into |
his own family. and raised him like |
one of his own children. Young Cas-
tello had had his sixteenth birth
day before he left this benificient and |
generous old farmer. and for six
teen years afterwards worked in var
ious places over the country. travel
ing through Louisiana, Arkansas, Tex
as. New Mexico. and other states, al |
ways making inquiry. and always |
with but one thought in mind-to
find his father. During the years he
has married and his wife has been
equally concerned in the search. go
ing with him in all his wanderings. |
and lending him every assistance I'm
directing inquiry.
Kayser listened to this story. and
suddenly he recalled having met the /
elder CASTILLO on the Clearwater. and
he knew that it had been given to
ing these two men together. He told
young CASTILLO. now a man of 81. how
he had met his father in Idaho. and
took it upon himself. with the sons
permission to arrange the meeting
between them.
Kayser opened communication with
Mr.. j. c. CASTILLO by wire. and the
joyful tidings that his son had at |
last been discovered brought back
word that he was leaving immediate
~ for Arizona by way of Salt Lake
City. and would proceed through
Phoenix to Red Rock where he would
meet his long lost hoy.
However. Castillo too inpatient to
await his fathers arrival in Red
Rock, has come up to Phoenix where