SCOTCH SETTLER'S WINDFALL.
The Edmonton, Alberta, newspapers report that Mr Jack Hainber, who until recently .was acting as a cook for 350 miners at a coal camp in the Pocohontas district, west of Edmonton, at a salary I of £l4 a month, has been notified by a I firm of lawyers that he is heir to a for- ! tune amounting to over £IOO,OOO, left him by a long forgotten relative, wka died recently in Glasgow. Mr Hamber, who emigrated from Scotland some years ago, is now in Edmonton arranging with the lawyers- for his return to Scotland to claim his inheritance. Ho declares that he is enf gaged to a girl in Scotland, and that assoon as they are .married they will return to Alberta, where he, will continue • mining, but in the role of. mine-dwnerl ~' ".The lassie;*' said Mr Hainber,'i will .; *• be glad'wfien'she our dream ' of .a" home in the~ foothills of tW jDanaV" '.* „ diari Rockies, is' ,I ; am-going over | about it.* 1 . ,' "J '" _ "r'j^"^'
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 3
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166SCOTCH SETTLER'S WINDFALL. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 3
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