Won A Wife By Bravery

Charles Litner is one of the luckiest sailors that ever sailed out of this port on a sealing schooner. He is going to be married to one of the prettiest girls in Japan. Not only is she very pretty, but her parents are very wealthy, according to the story told by C. Burdell, says the San Francisco Examiner. Burdell came up on the steamer Coptic last week. Speaking of young Litner, he said: "Charlie is the son of Sebastian Litner, a laborer, who lives out on Nineteenth avenue. He is an athletic young fellow and has always had an ambition to see the world. That's why he shipped on the schooner Jane Grey and went roving over the seas in search of seals and adventure. While at Hakodota, Japan, a few months ago Litner happened to be on one of the chief thoroughfares one afternoon when a spirited pony ran away with a Japanese girl, Miss Siena Kato. Litner saved the girl's lifé by springing in front of the runaway and striking the pony a stunning blow on the head with a club. The act was regarded as one of rare bravery, and be fore we left Japan it was announced that Litner was engaged to marry Miss Kato. He was hurt in the accident and was first taken to a hospital, but was afterward removed to the young lady's residence at the request of her parents. The mnrriage ceremony was to have taken place two weeks after we sailed. They are probably married by this time."