1889-04-04-sc-p3-hotel-emery-robinson-rice

April 04, 1889 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 3:

SHE FOUND HER PARENTS

--- A Live Newspaper Proves to Be the Best of Detectives. --- Carrie Robinson, the young woman who was reported in last evening's Chronicle to be in destitute circumstances at the Hotel Emory, is now in the hands of her friends and it has been proved that a live newspaper which is read by everybody makes the best of detectives,

Within an hour after the Chronicle was on the streets yesterday no less than half a dozen people who knew either Mr. Robinson or "Farmer Rice" had called to see the young lady and offer their assistance to her. Not only had she been searching for her father, but for the past four days he has been trying to locate her, but without avail, until the paper brought them together.

Robinson is a farmer living near Reardan and last Friday he was in the city for the purpose of meeting his daughter, whom he expected to arrive on the Northern Pacific. He was at the depot when the train came in and as she was not among the passengers he concluded that something had delayed her starting and he drove back home, leaving word with one of the men working at the depot to keep a lookout for her and wire him at Reardan when she arrived. He was in the city again Sunday, but was unable to learn that she had arrived.

She came in on the Union Pacific Friday night and took a hack to the Hotel Emory, where she seemed to be unable to tell more about her friends than to give their names and the information that they lived somewhere in this country. When the story appeared yesterday it was read by many who knew her father, and a young man who formerly lived in Reardan but is now working tn this city offered to settle her hotel bill and send her to her father this morning, when she left for Reardan on the Central Washington.

Her father and uncle are both well known, but none of those who have interested themselves in the case seem to know anything of the young lady herself further than that she has been in the east for several years and was on her way back to her parents when she reached here, "Farmer Rice," her uncle, is said by those who knew him to have been dead for some time, but his widow resides near Reardan with Mr, Robinson.