The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-04-15
A California Problem.
Virginia CITY (Ney1 Chronicle 10th !

Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle, 10th.
The application of the daughter of T. j
Nlilliken, at one time a prominent citizen
of Sacramento, for revocation of letters
OF administration on her fathers estate,
calls to mind one Of the saddest stories of
domestic unhappiness which has ever been
told. If ever there was an advocate ofthe
civil rights doctrine and pronounced and
practical miscegenist it was T. J.Milliken
He was ready enough to answer the old
Southern query, heard so oft before the
war: Would you have your daughter
marry nigger?" He would answer
THAT | would, and do it myself" The
firm OF Milliken Brothers, of which he
was member, was and still is large
hardware house, doing business on a capi-
tai of hundreds of thousands.
Some years ago this man, whose estate
is now in dispute, met and became ac-
quanted with Kate Pearson, a young oc-
toroon Of pleasing address, and certain
kind of fascination. The girl had the ad-
vantage of a common school education,
and was more than ordinarily bright
Milliken, though man of family, with
children almost grown, did not hesitate to
show his affection for the young octoroon,
and she was soon the mistress of all his ac-
tions His wife and children We're neg
lected, and finally he cut loose from all
ties and lived in open infamy with the wo-
man who had caused his ruin. In the
meantime his family suffered more acute
ly than will ever be told Up to the time
of meeting Kate Pearson he had been an
exemplary family man, an atfectionate
father and kind husband.
Il l.
him no more. Every thing was lavished
upon the octoroon, and in the course of
two years, or probably more, over $40
900 was drawn out of the firm by him and
given to the siren who had dragged him
into his great disgrace Sore as was the
task, his wife, seeing him beyond all re
claim, at the advice of her friends and
relatives procured a divorce from him on
the ground of desertion. 1t is probable
that she could have done nothing which
would have caused him more pleasure,
and it is certain that the heart Of Kate
Pearson bounded with JOY when the mari
tai bond was severed between him and his
cruelty treated wife Almost Immediately
she set all her arts to work to further en-
snare the man whom she had already 50
deeply in her tolls. 1t is not probable
that she cared for the man himself, but
she had an itching palm and coveted the
money. They We're married, and at has
death, which took place some lew months
ago, she was left sole legatee
The application Of the daughter OF Mil
liken for revocation of letters OF admins
tration is made on the ground that the
woman Kate Pearson, or Kate Milliken,
as she calls herself, under the laws Of the
State of California, could not marry Mil
liken, and that, if such q ceremony was
performed, it was while her father was
either intoxicated OF under some influence
which rendered him irresponsible. Dur
ing the taking of testimony evidence was
adduced which showed that Nliiliken,
nlany months before the passage Of the
Civil Rights Bill, had taken tins young
woman, this enameled octOroon, into all
the principal hotels of Sacramento; that
he had taken her to all the principal thea
tres in San Francisco and Sacramento, and
had sat with her in the dress-crcle and
boxes; further than this, that he had en-
loyed the cOuntenance and tacit approval
of his conduct of many Of the leading Re
publicans at the California State capital.
The case is being argued to-day in the
Probate Court at San Francisco, and we
hn1" hhs tt. M tehfdccft h cf"4 may Of pA }6pr aW
heirs of the delu,ed man This Is, we
believe. the first prominent ease Of the
kind which has ever been tried on the Pa
cific Coast, and the result will be looked
tor with considerable interest.