Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-15

He DESERTS GOOD WIFE AND CHILDREN, AND
ELOPES WITH STRUhPET.

such as to shock the sensibilties of the moral
refined and virtuous. Scarcely does a day
elapse but that the decency of some commun
! ity or other on this coast, IS not outraged by
| the well founded report of an act of blood
curdlng immortality. This city has unfor
tunately not been exempted from this i'm
moral contagon. On Sunday the city was
shocked by the rumor that an old and well
if not favorably known, citizen had deserte
his family and eloped with naughty female.
| Upon investigation an APPEAL reporter ascer-
tanned that the rumor was a truth, and that
the guilty parties are Fayutte King, painter,
and Julia Cannon, the rosy checked daughter
of the notorious Cannon family, who live in
the southern part of the city. Fox some time
past Julia had been an inmate of the King
| family, in the capacity of servant. Recently
Mrs King had well founded reasons to sus,
| pect an illicit intimacy between her husband
and Julia, which for the time created rather
unpleasant relations between wife and hus-
band and the servant was dismissed from the
house 1t appears, however, that this did
not entirely interrupt sriminalities between
the guilty pair, and King frequently made ap-
pointments with Julia, which were kept. The
result of this unholy love, or rather passion,
was, that on last Saturday night, King hired
buggy in which he took Julia Cannon and
his eldest child, girl of about years of age,
and drove to Mills Station, at which point they
took the cars for California, so it is thought,
and sent the team back to this city. This
unprinciped wretch must have contemplated
the contamination of his dastardly act for sew
eral weeks, as, fortnight ago, he stated to
his wife that he was greatly in need of money,
and the only way he could get it would be to
sell their homestead. He evidently told her
some heart breaking story about his wants,
and she consented to sign the deed of sale
The money arising from the sale of the home
stead, amounting to several hundred dollars,
he took with him, and will likely be used in
setting his fair Julia up in housekeeping. He
left his wife, to whom pair Of very hand
some twins were recently born, without
roof to cover her head and without dollar
this elopement, is that Julia is sister Of the
Cannon boys who several months since had
King arrested on charge of attempted brlb
cry, and recently assisted in the prosecution
of the case. The deserted wife is a daughter
Of DR.. W. B. Butts, of this city. The repu-
tation of King has always been at a very low
ebb, and, when the marriage took place, some
eight or nine years ago, 1t was repugnant to
all the other members of the Butts family, |
and had it been possible to prevent it, it |
would never have been consummated but |
living up to his low instincts, King, in the
face of the knowledge that he was greatly des- |
pissed by the family into which he desired to in
-rude himself, induced his wife, who at that |
line was very young, inexperienced girl, to
elope with him after meeting of the Good
Templars lodge, of which order they were
hen both members, and go to Virginia, where
hey were married. The couple returned to
his city on the following day, and DR.. Butts
vas so incensed at the conduct of King, that he
vent shot cunning for him. The first that
he Doctor saw of the fellow after the mar
iage, was near the Bank Exchange building,
vhen he blazed away at him. The first dis
harge of the double barrelled shotgun missed
is mark but the second fire hit King in the
leck, and the wounded man fell to the ground
more from fright, though, than from the eff
ect of the shot DR.. Butts cried out for more
ammunition with which to finish his undesir-
BILE son in law, upon which King picked him
elf up and fed like scared wolf while
hereafter the Butts family concluded to make
he best of a bad bargain, and reconciliation
ook place ; yet King was regarded in very {
npleasant light by all members of the family 5
they knew what he was worth, in every re-
oect. There is no doubt that DR.. Butts now s
ishes that his fire had been of more fatal
ature, for then his poor daughter would have s
cen spared the great misery which must now '
. her lot. This act of Fayette King is the il
ost outrageous ever perpetrated in Carson, h
ld characterizes him as wretch too I'M u
orthy to be called man. 1t is not at all n
'obable that he will ever visit this city again, t
+ if he does he will leave it on rail- with b
at of tar and feathers. 6
NEW ROUTE.-Of a new route of travel
L pleasure seekers, we find the follow -,
G in the San Francisco Gail: "a new
ute from Lake Tahoe to Calaveras Big