Year: 1871

In camp few miles from here, last week.
there occurred very strange and unexpected
meeting. Among the early settlers of San Fran
ciseo were two brothers of the name of Thomp-
SON Both young, and it was resolved
that they should become rich and the better to
accomplish this, one of them should go to tue
mines, and the other was to remain in the city of
San Francisco, and trust to the chances of gath
erng gold pieces. 1t decided by an ar
raagement common to the country, that the eld-
er should go but in the meantime he had fall
en- in love with II young woman who had left an
Eastern State to try her fortune on the Pacific
The marriage was consumated, and in few
weeks the great mines in the north were opened,
and with many good wishes the husband and
brother started for the scene of the excitement
He reached the mines and had varied fortune,
but not satisfied. He went to the Indian
country, and in the camps of the red men he was
miner, hunter and rapper. Still going to the
north he reached the Fraser River excitement
at its best, and made two hundred pounds of
gold dust, which he expressed to his wife and
brother at San Francisco. He still Gelved on,
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fortunes. He did not learn anything from his
brother after he sent the money. He wrote fre-
quently, but could not receive reply. He final
Iy wrote to friend and informed that his
wife and brother had left, and that they could
not be found. Brokcn-hearted and dspirited,
he joined an expedition to the Great Slave Lake,
and for three years he entirely beyond the





Victoria there an expedition fitting out for
Idaho and he joined it. He was blessed with
the usual luck of miners, and went from Idaho
to Montana where he remained until 1866, when
he went to Salt Lake City and remained there
two years. White Pine then became the excite
ment, and he was among the early prospectors
of that district. There he was one of the few
who had smallpox and recovered from it. His
fortunes were not improved by two years res
idence, and he looked for a place. He
found that there was no smile for him that would
come in coin, He was disprited, and was cal
culating to go with the first company he could
find going to Arizoua. His existence was given
to excitement and an effort to forget. party
made to go, and in the outfit was u man of
the same name. A little inquiry, and the stran-
ger was found to be the brother he had left ia
San Francisco in 1851. And the wife, she had
been at the beautiful valley ranch she had pur-
chased with the money he sent to her The
brother had been for fifteen years prospecting
and looking for the elder one, of whom he heard
frequently, but could never reach. Explana-
tions made, and instead of going to Arzo-
ma both left for the home of the wife and sister
When leaving the country both were lavish in
their praise of the model woman, of whom for
twenty years one of them could find no words
equal to his hate. She has been doing her duty,
and discreet widow had become rich in this
world s goods. Ere this there has been a meet
ing The decline of life will be passed in ease
and comfort by one who had supposed that the
perfdy of woman had been his ruin She has
been the true woman, and while he has been
wasting his time, she has been accommodating
wealth for him. Eureka (Neoada) Sentinel