FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS ARCHIVES

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111 YEARS AGO IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

The top story of the day is fascinating, but the sourcing is a bit soft. Miss Agnes Murray, “a Denver society girl,” says a man stopped her on a downtown street and told her he was her long-lost uncle from Kansas City. He said he had been looking for her to tell her that her father — believed dead in Alaska — is alive and is a millionaire living in Nome, rich from mining and “a dog transportation business.” He father had left town more than a decade ago.

He gave Agnes an address and she told The News she has wired a message. The only problem is she had not yet received a reply so it might have behooved the News to be more cautious with the headline.

In the cartoon the God of War, the planet Mars, is distressed by the warlike violence on Earth.