The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-04-07

! hurst is but IS Years Old he has had asome-
what wide and varied experience.
Lord Deerhurst is of medium height and
solid build with fair hair and blue eyes,
and quite a typical Anglo-SaXOn. Mr.
Bonynge, with his enormou~ 'vealth, is ex-
pected to put up sufficient .9ney to start
the young people in a thoro,; .sly comfort
able manner.
Mr.. Bonynge is an Englis: man and serv-
ed as an orderly in the British army He
went to California in 1867 and was en-
pluyed as a gardener. He got tips about
the stock market, and being shrewd made
money rapidly. When the mining boom
began to subSide, he went to New York,
then to London. AS an Eng!ishman he
could not very well get into the inner circle
of society, SO IL is said be went as an Aneri
can. The facts about his life and the social
campaign documents circulated by enemies
are inextricahly mixed.
The Mackays went over, and it became
evident that London wasn't big enough to
hold the two families.
In June, 1888. Mr. Bonynge got Minister
Phelps to present his family at court. Then
the fuss began. Some rowing traveller had
been in San Francisco while Mr.. Bonynge
was there and wrote to The Morning Post
over the name of Publicola to know if it
was right for an Englishnlan to 60 to the
United States, make lot of money, return
and have his family presented, and espe
cially his daughter Virginia, calling her
Miss BODynge when As a matter of fact her
.ame was Daniel.
The Mackays had nothing to do with
this, of course! Nor had Mr.. Bonynge any
thing TO do with stories that began to APP
pear in other newspapers about California
millionaires who put their feet on their
dinner tables and picked their teeth with
bowie knives.
Mr. Bonynge would not say that it was
the work of Mr.. Mackay, but he declared
that at least $4,000 had been spent in a
campaign OF education against Miss b.
nynge.
A book was printed in 1888 which told
that Bonynge married a Mrs. Daniel while
Daniel was in prison at San Quentin, CAL,
ON the charge of forgery, Mrs. Daniel having
secured a divorce. In later editions it was
murder and deadly assault. But anyhow,
when Daniel got out of prison and found
that Mrs. Daniel had married. his heart
was broken, and he shot himself Virginia,
it is said, was his daughter
These books were shipped to different
London book houses free of cost. News
papers printed the story, now one and now
another. These were sent to private houses,
one to the lady Of the house, one to the gen.
tleman at his home address and one to each
of his clubs. AS soon rs Mrs. BOnynge made
a new call one of these newspapers was sent
around there by mail.
Late in 1888 the San Francisco Examiner
printed an article which Bonynge thought
libelous The Examiner made an apology,
but all the copies containing the article
were bought up and shipped to London.
People who knew the Bonyngcs are said to
have been offered St. 900 for their pet chart
ties if they would drop the acquaintance.
The Bonynges went up the Nile in the
winter of 1852. Dispatches, with Cairo
date, appeared in San Francisco newspa-
pers declaring that they had been run out
of London.
Mr.. BonyDges story is that Daniel was
once very rich, but lost his money and his
mind. He married Miss Stephens in 1868,
and year later his wife and babe, Vir-
ginia, separated from him because of his
insane violence and went to Mrs. Daniels
brother in YolO county to live.
Never afterward did the husband and
wife meet. Two years later. under the de-
fusion that he was being robbed by his SUI
perintendent Galway, Daniel shot at him.
Mrs. Daniel wrote to Galway asking him
not to prosecute. Galway agreed not to if
Daniel would leave the state He refused,
nor would he accept counsel. There was
doubt of his sanity. but Daniel declared he
would shoot the man who said he was crazy
and went to Jail, threatening to kill Gal
way if he ever got out.
Mrs. Daniel presented a petition to Gov
ernor Haight asking for her husbands re-
lease. This was granted. Daniel went east
aud slipped off the train near Battle Noun