Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-04
HEIR 10 S50,O0O
 SOUGHT BY GIRLS Omaha Man Receives 1000 Offers of Marriage, All &
 Girls Professing Love. HAD GIRL ALL TIME There Was No Danger of AnhcuScr Losing Legacy, and Fears of Fi-
 ancee, Ii She Had iny. Ire
 Allayed.
HAD GIRL ALL TIME

Omaha, Neb. July 3.-Frederick w. Anheuser of Omaha, who has receiv- ed more than 1 .0O0 proposals of mar riage in the last six months, is to be married July 15, and he will there by secure a legacy of $50, ,0O0 left him by his uncle last fall provided he got married within tWenty-four months. Scarcely six months has passed since the will was read, and Anheuser has beat the game by nearly eighteen months.
 But shucks." says young Anheus- CT, that S5O.OOO didn't have anything to do with my marriage. I've been en- gagged all the time. In fact, the date of our wedding was set iong before the death of my uncle"
 Anheuser is city prosecutor of Omaha, and the girl he will marry is Miss Katherine Van Lone of this city. Invitations to the affair have just been issued.
 It was last November that Anheus- CTS millionaire uncle died. The day after the funeral the will was read. To Anheuser's surprise the old gen tleman had remembered him with a legacy of $5O,00O. And to his con- sternation he found that he would have to get married in two years or the $50,0O0 would revert to the other heirs.
 The story got into the newspapers, Also MT. Anheuser's photograph, two columns wide. The picture drew at tention to the story, and in twenty four hours all Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming and neighboring staes knew of the matter. From the number of letters that began pouring in on Anheuser it seemed that every unmarried woman in all those states wanted to help him get possession of that S50, 1000.
 | The ink on the paper was scarcely | dry when Anheuser received his first offer of marriage. It came by specia, delivery, and was from an Omaha
 girl who insisted that she cared noth- ing at all for money but just wanted to assist him in getting hold of thai | 50,000. "1m sure we will be happy together" she wrote. "1 know how to spend money and make showing I am real blonde and don't know
 what they use peroxide for" "I'll take that letter out and show 1 it to my girl" said Anheuser. 'l don't know what she will think about some other girl proposing to me in that fashion,"
 But before he left his office that night he had about a dozen more let 1 ters, all carrying the same burden By that time he had changed his mind about taking the letters with him when he went calling that evening.
 The next day Fred's desk was sim ply swamped with letters, and every
 last one of them contained a proposal of marriage There were photographs by. the score.
 q started in to write a courteous answer to each letter when the first three or four reached me-" said Mir Anheuser, "but pretty soon I saw that my time for the next six months would be taken up. Having a girl o1 my own, I just had to have some time off to see her. So I decided not tc
 write any answers at all."
 At the time of making that decision l Mir. Anheuser ordered his stenogra- pher to open all letters, especially those marked "personal and confiden- tial." s hewas to read them all anC refer only the necessary ones to him And for a week or two that stenog- rapher went around all day wearing | broad grin on her face. But An heuser was ashamed to look his clerk in the eye for days and days. In the first batch of proposals was one from a Herman, Neb., girl, who made strong bid for Anheuser- and the $5O,000. "We can get such a nice farm and have enough left for an automobile" she wrote. "I know farm that will just suit us." If there's any one thing Anheuser doesn't want, it's farm.
 A Perry, Ia., girl said in her letter: "I. don't give rap for that money but I've fallen in love with your pho tograph. Throw the money away and come on and get me-"
 From Manhattan, Kans., there came letter from a girl who described herself as nineteen years Of age, blue 
 eyes, golden hair, plump and called pretty. She was so sure that Anheus- CT would be tickled to death with her that she was ready to depart for Oma- ha upon receipt of telegram "for the purpose of being looked over."
 I'm not the kind of girl who has been twenty years old for the last five years" wrote Belle Fourche, s. D., girl. From Lewis. Ia., came modest lit tie letter saying: "I have pretty lips and a natural rosy complexion. l am very handsome and have string of beaux here longer than the River Ito River road.
 Anheuser had an awful time "squar- ing" himself with his girl, however. She didn't like the idea of her fiance being proposed to by SO many other girls and she didn't hesitate to tell him so