American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-01-27
rs HR JAMES MGINLEY,.
Or IS HR J. b. HOWn-
Our Nameless Man Has Two Names
Already, and Other Well WlsAers
Are Trying to Provide More.


To have no name IL bad enough, but
two have two forced upon one In the
same week is not much better. Our
nameless man Is James McG!nley to
Mr.. Considine, the Salt Lake mining
engineer. and he is ]. Il. Howe to the
people of Hopetown. Oklahoma. He II
still something else to others elsa
where. The Identification as J.E.
Howe IL positive. The identification
as James McGinley is almost as con-
vincing, yet neither name sounds any
better to the nameless man than any
other name
A telegram to Sheriff Jeffries from
Sheriff II. Hume. OF Enid. Oklahoma.
says: "Man slugged Ia ]. n. Howe. He
worked on elevator at Hopctown. Ok
lahoma. June 9th to June 18th, for
Jack Mangold. He came here from
Tulsa, Oklahoma. and told he had sen,
money home. Said wife had held prop-
erty in Texas. and gone to Seattle"
A wire sent to the chief of police
at Seattle brought reply that Mrs.
J. Elizabeth Howe had left there and
gone to Colorado Springs. but no n.
ply has been received from inquiries
sent there.
| Two things go to support the con-
illusions Of the Oklahoma sheriff: tho
statement that the nameless man came
to Hopeton from Tulsa. and his leav-
ing on the 10Th OF June. Tulsa was
not mentioned IN the information sent
to Oklahoma, because our man could
not connect anything with his visit to
that place. and was Of the opinion
hat he was not there longer than .
few. hours: and the date when he left
the elevator corresponds with the date
mentioned by our man before the tel
egram was received. that he went to
work In the harvest field on 6Atur-
day, and he believed II was June 10.
But other help was probably DIS
pensed with on the same date. 10 this
IL not conclusive evidence.
Then there Ia the wife. Our man
does not know whether he has one or
mot. II this Seattle woman Is the ons
III would sesm strange chat slia Anould
lsjgn. her nrme ! Elizabeth Gal nan
NJ q&Eto JerlaIn Man N u j,s:;2 ~
name does not stand for Elisabeth.
And this does not seem to be without
reason. 80 the probabilities arc that
this woman will not be able to shed
any light on the matter when found.
Mr.. ConsidInc IL quite positive that
James mckinley Ia the name Of the
man. He writes that he boarded al
the same place with this man for sew
eral months In 1896. and gave quite a
long list OF incidents that happened
OF which both had knowledge. In the
hope that some OF them would brins
recognition. But they did not do so.
From Tower City, N. d.. the post.
master writes that several people IN
that locality claim to have seen oul
mystery there, but tney have so fa1
not christened him. They are still
trying. however, and when they fine
the farmer for whom h. worked the,
may be able TO do 30.
A lady was In from Landing tn.
last OF last week, who has a sistel
living within three miles OF Oilton
Oklahoma. and this woman has mad'
. q missionary OF herself by sending I
, picture to her sister. to see II any O
, the Oilton pioneers can recognize tn
: man as former resident Time sui
|. ficient has not yet elapsed for reply
: but one is expected within few days
Reports from other localities ar,
due. and something positive may de
, velop any day.