Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-24
Scion Nobility Is tilted On
 Threshold Altar
(From Sundays Daily)


 of the richest peers in Scotland, a thirty-third degree Mason, ex-English consul to Mexico, mining engineer of international fame on salary of $25,000 a year with a number of hun dred thousand dollars of good Eng fish money at his disposal for invest ment in mining property, for seven teen years a major in the United States army, following service through the Boer war as major and gradu- ate physician, person who registered at the Congress and Linn hotels as C. Hamilton Avondale became en- gagged to a rich young lady who be- lieved she was about to become Lady Avondale. Avondale may be all he represents himself, but the fact that he was invited to leave the Congress Hotel and that the Hotel Linn is holding his baggage for a weeks board bill not yet paid, does not argue well in his favor. His marriage to the rich young lady will not take place, that romance having been shat tered by the breaking of the engage ment when the girl and her mother were informed that the alleged scion of royalty was not all he had so roseately pictured concerning him self, the prospective Lady of Avon dale will not entertain her friends in a castle in Scotland, even the castles in Spain have been demolished by the axe of reality, and several local mer- chants mourn the loss of orders for jewelry and wedding cake which were cancelled after the blow-up took place.
 Here For Some Days.
 Avondale blew into Prescott some days ago. He made himself known as a mining engineer of international note, and soon had become acquaint- ed with some of the best men in the city. who introduced him about town. He introduced himself at the Cham Der of Commerce, and was responsi- ble for mining stories appearing in the Journal Miner and Courier re- garding his desire to purchase cop per properties. He was refused rooms at one hotel, but was accommodated at the Congress. Being a smooth talker he soon commenced to unravel a story of royalty and wealth that at tracted much attention among the guests of the hotel. As a result he was looked up to as one of the most distinguished men who had ever grac- ed Prescott with his presence, and was the envy of many people who came to know him.
 A Wonder of Wonders.
 He said he was drawing $25,000 8 year as an international mining en- gineer, with an immense amount of English capital for investment in min ing properties in this country. He paid visit to the office of Attorney LeRoy Anderson, general counsel for the United Verde Copper Company, and wanted to purchase the United Verde, asking Mir. Anderson to give him a letter of introduction that he might visit the property and be shown through the same. He was thought to be the son of Lord Avon daie and nephew of the Duke of Hamilton, after whom Hamilton, Scotland, was named. He declared he had been major in the U. s. army for seventeen years, following service clear through the Boer war as major, and said he had served in Mexico as consul for the English government, narrating many hair-breadth escapes and incidents in career in Mexico which had no equals, if true.
 Sets Hearts Beating.
 Here was a brilliant opportunity for some young lady to win a prize It is not often that such a character of renown appears in the wild and woody west, and of course the guests at the hotel were all agog with ad miration for him. and he was treated by them with all the respect com men5urate to his dignihed representa- tions.
 Among the guests at the Congress was young lady of modest appear ancc, who was with her mother, the two having suite of the best rooms in the hotel. This young lady was not the only young lady guest at the hotel, and of course the idea of marrying a title and being elevated on the spur of the moment from the ordinary walks of life into the may whirl of royalty with all its attendant grandeur and prc5tige-of being mis- trcss of a great estate on the high lands Of sunny Scotland, were fascin- ating inspirations for them all And when 1t became noised about the hotel that this lordly parsonage was compelled to secure an heir within ten days to annex an estate from Lord Avondale valued at $2OO000, ] and that he was anxious to have cupid on his staff in securing the heir, who could blame the young ladies who had become acquainted with him from casting occasional "googoo" eyes in his direction. The young lady, however, whom Avondale fav- ored with his attentions was Miss Catherine Darst, daughter of Mrs. Darst, an English lady who has con siderable means. Their acquaintance