The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-05-23
A NAUGHTY nuBBY.
Which Was the Worst-l1is WIFE Or an
Alarm Of FAres

1OllOWSs ADOuV oIXuI mOutu0 S&O
Mr.. and Mrs. s. E. Ewing came to
Alameda county from q place called
Lake View, near Carson City, where
the husband held the responsible
position of Superintendent Of the
pipes of the Virginia and Gold Hill
Water Company, which supplies
water to the towns on the auriferous
slopes of Mount Davidson. The cou-
pie got on as we'll a. most couples do,
and the only reason of their migra-
ton from Nevada to California
was the simple fact that the
husband lost his position. Arriv-
ing ut Oakland. Ewing procured .
position as agent for the Domestic
sewing machine. at 1152 Broadway.
In the retirement Of Lake View
Samuel E. Ewing had not been sub
jected to many - temptations, but
among the blondes of Alameda he
soon found his heart going trifle
astray. Then it was, too. that he
found his wife somewhat In the way
and that he proposed, next pressed
and finally insisted upon the partner
of his joys and sorrows paying . visit
to the old folks in Iowa. All unsus-
pectingly Mrs. Ewing left for the
distant State in September, 1884. No
sooner had she gone than her hus-
band developed an extraordinary
fondness for dance halls and parties,
wherein, as he expressed it, he had
the opportunity of ''sq ueezing the
pretty girls waists"
A TRAP FOR THE WIFE.
1t was all right - long as this fond
ness was general in it's bestowal, but
it was not long before he happened
on one whose waist he liked to
squeeze above all others. The
intimacy grew apace, the two found
that third person would be In the
way, and so It was arranged that the
exile in Iowa had better remain
where she was. Ewing accordingly
wrote q letter to his wife on March
18th, commenced it curtly, without
even q "Dear Wife," and closed it
without signature. He told her
that he was in great trouble-that he
"was in q scrape," in fact, with
customer Of the company, and that
he would soon have to leave Cali
fornia and 60 he did not know where.
The letter was written, of course,
with the intention of bringing his wife
to the desperate conclusion that,
under the trying circumstances, the
best thing that she could do would be
to stay where she was and leave her
disgraced husband to shift for HIM
self. Mrs. Ewing was, however, of
an entirely different metal. No
sooner, HAD she read the letter than
she packed up her trunk and came
directly back to California. just
twelve nights after Ewing had
written the decoy note to his wife he
was sleeping in the back room of the
store, on Broadway, when he was
awakened by loud rapping at the
door. He rushed there in abbreviated
garments, thinking it was fire, and
found instead, that it was his wife.
A RETURN AND ITS RESULT.
It is q toss-up which of the two
the tire or the wife-he looked upon
as the greater evil, but it Is certain
that he made no particular effort to
welcome back Mrs. Ewing as hus-
bands are generally supposed to well
come those better halves who have
been absent tor half q year. "Few
and short were the words they said,"
and it was without any Gladstonian
parley that Mrs. Ewing announced
that she had como back to find out
the woman who was going to drive
her husband out of the State. On
this quest she at once entered, and
though it was not long before she
came to the conclusion that Mr.. Ew-
ing had too successfully covered up
his tracks in that direction to allow
of running down the quarry, she
made such other discoveries that
she retired from the chase,
convinced that her husband was
bold, bad man, and that despite his
fifty years he has been carrying on"
like q Don Juan in the full tide of
lusty youth. A suit for divorce was
commenced on May 7th and two
days after decree was granted on
the grounds of adultery. Ewing
made no defense, in fact no defense
was possible. What little money he
had been possessed of had gone In
riotous living, 80 that the question
of alimony did not enter into the
suit, Mrs. Ewing thinking the re-
lease from her too gay spouse victory
enough for one contest. The divorce
was granted by Judge Hamilton and
extraordinary precautions were
taken to keep the secret out Of the
the papers," But Mrs. Ewing in
sisted on publicity and it is from the
information furnished by her, cup
ported by documentary evidence,
that the account has been written.