The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-27
THE IRREpREssIBLE WIDOW.

This time the woman appears in the
roll of an injured, insulted, defenceless,
suffering widow, and threatens suit
against highly respectable gentleman
and his wife, for having expressed
themselves upon leaving her boarding
house-she is a boarding house keeper
as well, and the Lord only knows what
other avocations she may have-in a
very decided manner, as to her conduct,
which, certainly from all that we can
learn from the papers, was of a most
extraordinary and outrageous charac-
ter. But the flend is at work in the
heart of this mercenary and, guilty
boarding-house keeper, and besides,
she fancies that she sees fine
opportunity for making some money
in an easy sort of way by suing
or threatening to sue the gentleman
and his wife for having made use of
defamatory language in conversation,
with her name ands honor. Twenty,
thousand dollars is what this woman
claims for damages, and it is a question
whether she will succeed in securing it
or not. This woman, who sues her
former boarders-and who is also a
widow, and as some affirm, n ''widow
on the wing" whatever that may
mean--it seems owned a house in the city,
and not having money enough to live
on without going to work at something
to make both ends meet, conceived the
idea Of keeping a boarding house her.
self, and as the owner of the property to
remain as a boarder in the family with
her children, one n young man near
grown, and with an excellent reputa-
ton; the other, a young girl, just out of
her teens. 1t was something new for
the widow to descend from her social
sphere in life to the lower one Of a
clearinghouse keeper; but she seems
to have succeeded admirably, for the
very first six months of her career in
that role, she had acquired a reputation
among the neighbors in her vicinity, as
the woman who kept queer house.
The servants were also queer girls, and
the young men and young ladies, albeit
very nice young men and young ladies
had queer ways with them; they would
sit up and drink hot whisky punches,
and the Lord only knows what else
they did not do that was not queer, SO
that the police watched the house after
a while and interrogated parties in the
neighbOrhOOd as to the charac-
ter of the inmates and the style
of establishment that it was, but as the
widow was church member, in good
standing, and attended an aristocratic
church, the ignorant-minded police
man thought the house and the widow
must undoubtedly be all right, and
then let the matter drop. But there
came time when she could no longer
get boarders; they kept away from
the place, but the reputation that it
acquired still scented the neighborhood.
People looking for board came and were
suited, and ''would call again. but
they never did, for they inquired else
where and had enough to satisfy them
that they did not care to return. So
matters went from bad to worse until
the widow in despair induced her
housekeeper to use her influence in
securing boarders among her own imme-
diate friends, and the result was that
the very respectable gentleman and
his wife, who are now in trouble, were
induced to come and take board. To
say that they were scandalized would be