Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-10-03
THEY'RE NOT MARRIED.

an excitement among the society people of
Glendale, and about whom and Miss Mills
so many sensational reports have been
evening, and gave a statement to the Ar
gus of how the trouble originated. He
says he has been misrepresented by
the editor of the Lisbon Star, who twisted
and garbled the statements made by him
in an interview wah the editor, who prom
ised him a fsT and impartial statement.
Tt first that he knew of any reports con-
Meeting him withIMiss Mills was that of his
marriage given in the Glendale paper
about ten days ago. Just after this he was
taken sick and was so ill,,that at one time,
Sunday, September 81, the doctor sug-
gested that his friends be telegraphed for.
Miss Mills cam in, nursed him aud cared
for him. Thursday he essayed getting up,
but was taken violently sick again and was
forced to 20 to bed. During his illness
they did not let him see the papers, and he
did not. until Friday, see the charges made,
and so was totally unable to refrute them,
lying, as he was, on a sick-bed, ignorant of
their existence.
The reverend gentleman seemed to feel
deeply the position in which he was
placed; the dropping into light of his wife's
infirmity, necessitated by the charges
lum, of the injury it might be to his little
girl, the cloud on the fair name of Miss
Mills, on whom it would heavily and in
juriously fall, and on his own life and
plans. He seemed to feel that, however in
nOcent one might be proven, that the faint
of scandal would always cling. Already all
his plans for an extended series of revival
meetings, for which he had received much
encouragement had been cancelled and
abandoned n his usefulness destroyed.
All questions were freely answered by Mr..
Nutting, dates and places given, corrobora-
tory evidence, letters, testimonial clip
pings shown, and he seemed to court the
fullest investigation, seeming to feel con-
tident that nothing would be found that
would not bear the fullest scrutiny.
9th inst, says that the Rev. w. w. Nut
ting was asked for a statement concerning
his relationship with Miss Mills. He wrote
out a lengthy article in which he tried to
make light Of the scandal, but confessed
that he hnd kissed the young lady. He
said: 81 was born in Windsor county, VT,
of good and honorable parents. l com
Stephen Thomas of Montpelier, Vt. and
now living. l am a member of the bar. l
was duly ordained to the Baptist Christian
ministry Is years ago at WILLIAMSBURG,
vt. l withdrew some years later without
any exposed or suspected moral delin-
quencies. | have letters in my possession
~substantiating the same. l was last year
naStnr Of q COcintv in VarOnOvt with loftnrc
certifying the same. l was 81 years old
the 18th day of last June. l have five liv-
ing children. NY parents are dead. | ar
rived in North Dakota three months ago.
l went directly to my son in Mcintosh
county. He is 20 years old. 1 helped HIM
good and faithfully to secure some fifty
tons of hay. We went to Glendale after
haying, instead OF going fishing, where we
stopped with Miss ALA Mills. l spoke in
the Presbyterian church. Miss Mills joined
the church that day. She went to Lisbon,
and | Joined her, thinking l would do some
writing. We registered in our own names,
pay our own bills and mind our W bust
ness"
When the interviewer called his atten-
ton to the evasive character of his state
ment, he said he had nothing more to say.
He denied that they were married, but
said he liked Miss Mills and has kissed her
several times. He would not say whether
MS wire was alive or not.
Another interview appears in the Lis
bon Star which Is substantially the same
as above and he ends by saying:
"The newspaper articles, rumors and
statements have been without one particle
of authority. We register in our own
names, pay our W bills and think the
Hotel Horton worthy the patronage of the
general public. l have not permission to
give Miss Mills history but presume she
will if nrnnarIU raulnctn1 Poirr oioL r
apologize for my hurried sketch, but the
private history of mortals are seldom prof
liable as there is non perfect, no. not
one, and should l ever speak to yOu-of
an evening-(n opera house) l trust by
the grace of the AL Father t may so tell
the Simple story of the cross and portray
the life of the 'Crucified One that we may
all be uplitted and ennobled to the good of
the community and world in which we
live"
The Star, in commenting on its inter
view, says it frankly told Mr.. Nutting of
the rumors in circulation, and pointed out
to him that he was treating the matter
lightly, and that his statement would not
tend to allay the suspicious aroused in the
minds of the public. He said that there
was no truth in the rumors, and denied
absolutely that he and Miss Mills were
married. When asked it he and Miss
Mills occupied the same room, he said they
uld not, "DuC," says the Star, 1.-THE reporter
is assured by several persons who belong
at the hotel that one room has answered
their purpose most of the time since the
report of their marriage was published.
Asked if he had a wife living, he refused
to say. Asked if Miss Mill, who is a
"grass" widow, has a divorce from her
husband, he declined to state. He ad-
mitCed that he thought a great deal of Miss
Mills and had kissed her several times,
but that there was nothing wrong between
them, and thought his past life should be a
sufficient answer to all the rum0rs against
him. Mr.. Nutting is evidently a man of
the world, commonly known as a "thor-
%oughbred," and the reporter left his
room firmly convinced that if the Rev. w.
w. Nutting of Boston, Mass, and Miss
ALA Mills Of jackson. Mich, are not mar
ried they ought to be-"
From the statements made by the rev.
erend gentleman to the various papers, it
looks as if the hero and heroine of this
romance from real life were in a tight
place, and, a la Mark Twain. it may be
best to let the public extricate them-or
draw the curtain and let them extricate
themselves. ..
No Kick Coming.
Jacob Kilion, one Of the Kilion BROTH
ers of Ecklund township, is one of Bur-
leigh cOunty'S farmers who has no kick to