Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-02


 an account of a girls yearning for a parent whom even hatred, instilled into her from childhood, never could drive from her heart.-Ed.
 LANSING, Mich, April "A for tune amassed by her father, who left home before she was born to join the gold rush to the Klondike in 1898 and never returned home, will soon be turned over to Narian May Cardy. wife of a watchmaker in a Lansing iewelry store
 Back in 1898, Charles Hirdning was a prosperous businessman in Marquette, Mich. He read the stories of the fortunes being made along the Yukon and in other places in Alas ka. So he decided to go. He dis posed of his business at a sacrifice, certain he should find much greater wealth in the North than in Mar qette, organized a company to ''go prospecting" and left his wife in Marquette.
 Mrs. Hirdning didn't like the idea Of her husband sacrificing his busi- ness and their only immediate means Of Livelihood so she appealed to the courts and was given a divorce. A few months after her husband de- parted for Alaska a daughter was born to Mrs. Hirdnng She was named Yarian May.
 Find Gold In Siberia.
 Through the years Varian May was taught to hate her father.
 An uncle who had been member ot the Hirdning expedition returned to Michigan. Varian May was big enough to ask question and he an swered them.
 The expedition had found no gold and had gone broke" in the search for it. It members returned-all but Charles Hirdning, who had noth- ing 10 return to since his wife had got her divorce. He had, however, joined himself to two other men, who were headed across the floZen straits into Siberia, where they had heard there was much gold.
 Varian Mays uncle told her her father probably would be in Dawson City when he returned from Siberia, so she wrote to him there, enclosing a photograph Of herself.
 Time passed and varian May had entered Oliver College. One day came a letter from her father. And the tale it told thrilled the heart of a young coed! Her father had gone -0 Siberia with his two companions. They had found gold in plenty. But they hadn't got back across the straits
 With sleds piled high with gold and provisions they started for Aals- ka again. Things went well until they ran into an Arctic blizzard They were hopelessly lost, but kept beating their way on as long as they could. Th,n their provisions began to run low. When food was exhaust ed the men ripped the soles from their shoes and boiled them, getting what nourishment they could from the broth thus made Then they be gan to kill and eat their dogs.
 Hirdning Only Survivor.
 When the dogs were all but deci mated council of war was held. The men were rational being and the. realized that unless something were done there was possibility the, might, in desperation, kill and ca each other. So they decided to ser arate.
 Dividing the gold and the remain ing dog flesh among them, the, bade each other farewell and set ou in opposite directions, hoping al would work their way back to civil zation; fearing none would.
 Of those three Charles Hirdnin won back The direction allotted t him was the one leading into A aska.
 These things were told to tn Olivet college coed and her fathe promised to visit her in Michiga very soon'' Other letters wer written, but the father was too bus with his new nterests-lumbering to break away just then.
 Then, little more than yea ago, came a letter saying the fathe was going on a long journey an wouldn't be able to write to Varial But there was no news, so Mrs Ga dy wrote to Cordova, the last addres of her father.
 "Long Journey" Explained.
 After a long delay there was