Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-03-04
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Missing Man Ordered 70 Give Up
His wealth-Case Begun
Here Against Hin sim
Pending

suit of Peter H. Anderson, formerl'
of Chicago and now OF nobodI
knows where, TO avoid liability @
s2s2.0OO to Nels o. Hultberg, bear
Indirectly upon q suit now pendini
lin this state which is Of more thar
statewide interest. It all hinges up
on the finding Of q gold mine b.
Anderson when he was sent as
missionary among the Eskimos II
Alaska. by the Swedish Evangelica
Covenant of America, a missionar,
society.
Anderson was studying in
school In Chicago supported by the
missionary society and was induced
to become a missionary in Alaska
He went there in 1897, and began
work at Chinik.
In 1898, Anderson purchased from
one of a group Of prospectors, Q
mining claim. Later, this developed
to be a rich gold find, worth hall
million dollars. Anderson made
large donations, many Of them un-
solicited, to charitable organizations,
to relatives and some to friends.
But the Missionary society began
to claim Anderson's rich find, de-
claring that he was their agent and
the society was therefore entitled
to whatever good fortune in the
way of gold mines should come to
him. Anderson protested, and al
leges that in 1901 the society agreed
to clear his name of all charges de-
rogatory to his character and he
gave the society $4,000, the same
to be considered a gift and a full
settlement.
When Anderson reached Chinik,
Nels o. Hultberg and his wife were
then in charge of a mission there,
by the same society that
sent Anderson. After Anderson, as
he alleges, settled in full with the
society, Hultberg ae-
quired whatever claim against the
Anderson mines the covenant or
had. Hultberg brought
suit in the district court of Cook
county, Illinois, to recover from
Anderson. Anderson was then ltV-
ing in Chicago. He maintained
the court proceedings
that he and Hultberg had agreed tip
submit the question as to his libil-
ity to three arbitrators, who were
to inform Anderson when they wish
ed to hear his side of the contro-
versy. Anderson alleges that these
did not consult him,
but decided in favor of Hultberg.
1t seems that by the Illinois laws,
the report Of the administrators was
held legal, as it stood, and judg-
ment given for Hultberg. Anderson
appealed, and the case finally found
its way to the supreme court.
AS soon as fortune smiled upon
Anderson in his adventurous life In
Alaska. he sent to Mellerud, Swe-
den, for Miss Frideborg Erickson,
whom he had met in Chicago while
a student there, and she came to
America to marry him. In 1907 suit
was filed in Dickinson county, where
$50 acres of land in the south part
of this county was in the name OF
Anderson, to collect on
Judgment obtained against her hus-
band in Cook county, Illinois. The
allegation was that the land here
really belonged to Anderson al
though it was in his wife's name, as
it was purchased from proceeds OF
the Alaska mine, and therefore
part of the wealth which Hultberg
declared was owing to him. Hult-
berg got judgment, but the case was
appealed to the federal court, whel e
IL Is uOW pSuulhS' la INV ~ $500 S'-
the federal court decides that the
land in the name of Frideborg An
derson is really the property of her
husband, Peter H. Anderson, then
the decision of the supreme court
of the United States just handed
down, means that the $50 acres OF
county land, worth about
$4,000, will go to the plaintiff In
this suit.
Where Anderson is, no who knows
will tell. Mrs. Anderson's last ad-
dress was Chicago. DR.. A. G. Ander-
son of Salina is a brother. Although
G. w. Hurd of the firm Of Hurd q
Hurd of this city, represents Mrs.
A. n,,Gk no.