, 1889-06-07
SHE SHAKES" HIM.
Mrs. Fisher, of Hotel Fame, Wants
a Divorce.
She Charges That the "0Id Man
Was Very Cruel.
A Former Cheyenne Charmer in a
Chicago Court.

Most people in Chey enne will remem-
Der that four years ago the Dyer's house
was reopened with a great flourish OF
trumpets and re-baptized as the Fisher
house. The hotel was handsomely reft-
ted throughout and the dining room
brought up to a really high point of ex-
cellence.
The nominal lessee of the house was
Thomas j. Fisher, a bald headed, an
tiquated looking gentleman of negative
appearance who as prosperity seemed to
dawn on him developed a mania for "sev-
en-up," blue Pete" and other sinful
games that was quite demoralizing. Mr..
Fishers boon associates were young men
of the town for whom he r, adily became
what in popular p%arlance is known as a
rank sucker"
Mrs. Fisher was much younger than
her husband. She was tall and stylish in
appearance. Her head was crowned with
a beautiful mass of glossy black hair.
Her complexion was clear and brilliant.
Her manner was extremely fascinating
and altogether she was such an
attractive creature that people went TO
the hotel to board as much on her ac-
count as because of the excellent accom-
modations.
Standing behind the Office counter dur
ing reasonable office hours was usually to
be seen a radiant young man named Wat
erman. All OF his clothing was made in
Chicago. His trousers fitted him as
though he had been moulded into them
and showed off the graceful contour of his
fatted calves so to speak. His coats were
abbreviated to the very extreme of abbre-
Walton while his vests were a gorgeous
mosaic of handsome patterns that chal-
lenGed the admiration of every beholder.
In the matter of neckties Waterman was
always a dazzler and in the center OF each
reposed a scintillating jewel that paled the
effulgcnce of the electric light.
Old man Fisher patronized the bar aud
billiard room with an assiduity somewhat
remarkable for a mar OF his years. Wat
erman gave the guests the razzle dazzle
and exercised a general supervision of the
hotel under the direction OF Mrs. Fisher
who reigned as queen of the household.
Taken altogether, it was a rather pecu-
liar combination. and it was a matter of
very serious debate oftentimes with the
guests as to exactly what position the old
nan occupied in the domestic economy.
Things went along swimmingly for con-
siderably over a year. The hotel was ap-
p~arently making money, but very sud-
denly there was a collapse, and the cred
itors who had provided the furniture and
eatables got tired of waiting for their long
overdue bills and swooped down upon the
Fisher family and Waterman.
The hotel was taken possession of by
the creditors, though it was popularity
supposed that Mrs. Fisher and the ire.
sistable young Waterman hadn't got much
the worst of it, no matter how the old man
Fisher Jared. They driited away, were
heard of subsequently on a ranch at Lar
annie, and finally dropped out OF sight, If
not out of recollection. A Chicago paper
which has lust reached here ~revives inter-
est in the almost forgotten story by the
following publication:
Mrs. Alice Fisher began suit for d.
vorce in the circuit court against Thomas
j. Fisher. She told her story different
from that recited by the average divorce
complainant. She says that when
she married Fisher in 1868 she was
II years old, well educated, and had lived
in afiluence, her family being people of
wealth in Scranton. Pa. She says that
when Fisher came west and started
q restaurant she was made to cook for as
many as 400 persons a day. Fisher
turned out to be lazy and dissolute. The
restaurant %prospered at first and then,
because of its owners habits, it became a
losing venture and finally failed. Fisher
then took his wife out to a ranch twenty
miles from Laramie, Wyo. The owner
was one Hutton. There were fifteen
cowboys on the ranch and Mrs.
Fisher was compelled to cook for them
and do all the hard drudgery of a
cattle camp. She frequently appealed to
her husband for help. but he vouchsated
no response except to tell her to get help.
Feminine aid was twenty miles away and
the advice was valueless. All the time, the
plaintiff declares, Fisher idled his time
away playing cards and drinking. Finally
after eight years of miserable slavery dur
ing which time she had gone barefoot and
had frequently been called up at midnight
to cook supper for the cowboys, her an
kles gave out and she had to practically
crawl on her hands and knees to do the
household work. At this stage she says
her husbands brutality forced her to
leave him. She prays for a divorce for
cruelty.