The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-01-04
PUT OFF TRAIN,
AN old SOLDIER
STARTS AFOOT
TO WEST COAST
ALEX woLFHoFFLEeER LOST HIS
RAILROAD TICKET AFTER HE
BOARDED D. & r. G. TRAIN AT
DENVER WEDNESDAY.

of the Civil war, aged 50 years, was
picked up on the public highway near
Three Mile spring about 8 o'clock
this morning in a benumbed condition
from the cold and brought to town by
Joe Duphree and taken to the county
clerks office, where he was "thawed
out" and assistance given him.
Mr.. Wolfhoffleger lost his transporta
ton ticket on a Denver & Rio Grande
this city Tuesday night and was put
off the train here by the conductor
because he had no money to pay his
fare. The old man remained at the
railroad station until or 10 o'clock
the next morning, when he started to
walk up town to get something to eat.
Half famished from hunger, he fell
on the streets from exhaustion, but
was helped to his feet by some pass
ers and resumed his journey. About
noon he was discovered wandering
about the streets by G. R. Tanner. who
took him into a restaurant and paid
for his dinner.
Altho without friends or acqnaint-
ances here, the unfortunate man was
not discouraged because he had lost
his railroad ticket and bravely de-
termined to walk to California and
trust to luck to get some thing to eat
on the way. He was taken care of at
the Y M. c. A. Wednesday night and
started out early this morning to walk
to Salida, his first stopping place on
his proposed transcontinental journey.
He was found lying in the road in a
semi-unconscious condition few miles
out of town by Mr.. Duphree while mo-
toring to his home on Tallahassee
creek and brought back to Canon City
to be cared for by the authorities until
some arrangement could be made to
help him reach his destination by a
more conventional mode of travel.
The county commissioners will be
appealed to in an effort to extend to
him assistance, altho the old gentle
spite OF the ugliness of the predica.
ment in which he finds himself.
According to Mr.. Wolfhoffieger's
story, which bears all the earmarks OF
truth, he left Waterloo. Iowa, last Sat
urday on a Burlington train for Den
We ron his way back to his home at
Cardiff by-the-Sea, near San Diego
California. He had a railroad ticket
as far as Price, Utah, and it was hon
ored by the conductor on the first
division of the Denver Rio Grande
road, to which line he was transferred
in Denver. After that the ticket dis.
appeared, but where it went to he has
not the least idea.
He says he has lived at Cardiff by.
the-Sea for thirty-five years and
knows everybody there, in addition to
having limited acquaintance with
people at Long Beach and Santa Ana.
Calf, at each of which places he lived
for several years. He had been to
Waterloo, Iowa, to visit foster daugh-
ter. his only family relative, who is
an inmate of a public home there by
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accidental fall a number of years ago.
Mr.. Wolfhoffleger gave his foster
daughter $50 from his pension check
on leaving Waterloo and only had
money enough to left purchase his
railroad ticket as far as Price, Utah.
He trusted to fate to provide ways and
means OF getting him from there to
the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Wolfhoffeger was born on the
site of what is now the city of Par.
kersburg, w. Va. in 1923, and enlisted
at Philadelphia in the Ninety-F Fifth
Pennsylvania volunteer regiment for
service in the Civil war in 1863. His
command was assigned to Gen. Han.
cocks corps and saw heavy fight.
ing in the Virginia campaign. All OF
its officers and more than one-third
of the privates were killed in the bat
Ties around Richmond. For his mill
tary services during the war of the
rebellion Mr.. Wolfhoffleger draws q
pension of $50 a month from the gov
eminent. Two Of his sons, all that re
manned of his family. lost their lives ir
the Spanish-American war. One o.
them was killed in Col. Roosevelt'i
regiment of Rough Riders in the
charge at San Juan hill at Santiago dc
Cuba. The other was shot thru the
chest at the same battle and died OF
the transport while being invalidet
back to the United States for hospita
treatment
The old man Is unusually intelll