The morning call., 1894-10-24
IN NEW BONDAGE.
James E. Mills Marries
Again.
GOT A DIVORCE RECENTLY.
His First Wife's Wild Infatua-
tiOn for Teed.
BECAME AN INMATE OF HIS hOr1E
Story of the So-CalIed Messiah Who
Laid DesoIate the Eminent
biologists Hearth.
BECAME AN INMATE OF HIS hOrlE

James E. Mills. veteran geologlst of
national fame, has cast away the thoughts
of his first ill-starred marriage and has
once more embraced the ties of matrl-
moBy.
The partner of bis second choice is Miss
Jane II. Dearborn. and it was only yes
terday morning that the bashful bride
groom entered the marriage license office
at the new City Hall and obtained the
necessary certificate from Cupid Haley.
This sudden move on the part of man
we'll on in years and known to hundreds
OF old residents in the State of California
carries the memory OF man back to the
tlme, three years ago, when the great
sensation of the day was sprung by the
mad infatuation which Mills first wife
conceived for Cyrus r. Teed, commonly
called kOresh iced, the self-styled Mes
siah.
1t was an extraordinary story and Gre
ated the widest excitement in San Fran
cisco and other parts of the State Mr.
Mills and his wife had lived together in
peace and plenty for thirty years. They
had two children and inha bited comfort
able home at 2106 Van Ness avenue. No
thought of any possible shadow clouding
the brightness of his home ever occurred
to the happy husband and father. Him.
self man of deep learning and devoted to
his hobby, the science of geology, he had
no thought but to end his days in the sun
shine of domestic happiness, presided over
by the wife who had been the partner of
his joys and sorrows for thirty years.
But after all this time the destroyer
came on the scene in the person of this So
called Messiah, Cyrus Teed. This indi-
vidual came to this city after chsckered
career in the southern part of the State
and opened a course of lectures in the
Theosopbical Hall. He professsd to be
the genuine Messiah. and oniured all to
come to his flock. 1t is known that he re-
ceived great many responses to his
broadcast invitations, and when he opened
a koreshan house away out on Castro
street he speedily found all the inmates be
required.
Teed expressed curious views regarding
wives. and from all accounts he appears
to have entertained similar views regard
ing their real and personal property, as
well as that Of several high-toned young
ladies of the city. In short, the man had
only brief career here, but he had many
dupes, and it is to be supposed that he
waxed rich upon the exercise of his wiles.
The man was said 10 have marvellous
power of fascination, peculiarly felt by
women. nsequently it is not to be won
dered at if one by one all who listened to
his pernicious doctrines fell to rise no
more. Among those lnfortunates was the
middle-aged wife of James E. Mills. De-
spising the thirty years. companionsbip of
Fher husband. throwing to the wind all
thoughts of the two young children who
bound her to him In seemingly insepa-
rable tie, scorning alike the scandal and
shame that must ensue, the unhappy
woman left her home one August day in
1891 and cast in her lot with that of the
so-called Messiah.
That person practiced his arts for some
time, and finding at last that business was
getting stale and Improbable, he moved
his tent 10 other shores-in short. he went
to Chicago. Several of his devotees fol.
lowed or accompanied him thither, among
them the unhappy Mrs. Mills. In Chicago
Koresh Teed opened another asylum and
endeavored to get into another sect. 1t is
believed that his endeavors in the Windy
City met not with the success they found
on this coast. but he kept on preaching his
doctrines, and for aught that is known to
the contrary he may be in Chicago yet
Meanwhile the unfortunate husband was
left to mourn his fate with his Two chill
dren. He departed from San Francisco
ana took up his residence in Quincy, Plu-
mas County, confidently stating to all that
when his wife grew tired of her infatua-
tion she would return to him ouce more.
But his kindly, forgiving spirit was not
appreciated by the erring woman. Mrs.
Mills was highly educated lady, at the
time of more than middle age and might
be presumed to have strength of mind
enough to see the error of her WAYS. But
she never returned to her husband and
children, and Que dav last month the
courts awarded James E. Mills his divorce.
The sequel to the Sad story lies in the
happy marriage of Mr.. Mills to a very
estimable lady, a resident of Oakland. She
is also of middle age. being 81 years old,
while Mills is 60. The marriage license
was obtained yesterday without fuss of
any kind, and little did the clerk know the
peculiar history attached to the life of the
elderly, good-natured gentlemen to whom
be handed the all-important document.
At Mr.. Mills late headquarters, the
Occidental Hotel, his familiar figure was
missed from the dining-room last evening.
In the morning a friend of the famous
geologist rushed up to the hotel clerk and
| asked for Mills. He added. ''Mills is 60
| ing to be married and l want to see hin" )"
| The hotel clerk noticed later in the day
his honored guest standing in the hall
with a pieasant-looking gray-baired lady
| on his arm. These few incidents tell the
story of pleasant little romance late in
laf