The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-10-05
Father of an EIoping Oakesdale
Girl Hurrying to St. Paul.
THE MANS NAME UNKNOWN
Last Seen Chatting and Laughing on a
Great Northern Train At
Hillyard.

OakeSdale, Sept. 3O.-Oakesdale comes
to the front with another supposed
elopement and the angry father of the
fleeing maiden is in hot pursuit. Miss
Nellie Dennis is the lady in the case,
and is the only child of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Dennis. Her father has been in
Canada for nearly year and Miss
Nellie and her mother lived in a neat
cottage in Oakesdale, where the for
mer attended school The mother and
daughter were regular attendants at
the Methodist church and when the
father returned, some two months ago,
all three attended regularly. Never mas
breath of scandal been uttered
against any of the family and no one
in Oakesdale stood higher than did
Miss Nellie, who is a bright Miss of
probably Is years.
Recently the father and mother went
into the country to superintend the
harvest on their farm and Nellie was
left alone. She remained at home dur
ing the daytime but at night slept at
the home of Mr.. Hogoboam, a neigh
Dor. one night she failed to go to the
neighbours to sleep and next day search
revealed the fact that she had not been
at home all the previous day. Her par
ents were notified and a search began.
1t was found she had had her trunk
taken to the Northern Pacific depot
where she had bought a ticket to Spo-
kane. There it was found she had TAX
en- the Great Northern for st. Paul,
and Friday her father bought a ticket
for St. Paul and left Immediately over
the Northern Pacific.
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farmer living near here, named
Coolidge, who was formerly married
to a half sister Of Mrs Dennis, Nellie's
mother. Coolidge was granted di-
Vorce from his wife nearly a year ago,
but through some error it was never
placed on file. When he discovered that
Nellie was gone, Mr.. Dennis feared she
had gone with Coolidge and telephOned
to Colfax to learn If the latter was
divorced. The clerk told him no di-
vorce was on record and Mr.. Dennis
started east expecting to have Coolidge
arrested for abduction and seduction.
Later it was discovered by The Spokes-
man Review correspondent that the di-
vorce was granted and signed by Judge
Sullivan and has been placed on record
in the past few days.
The Spokesman-Review correspond
ent learned this morning that Coolidge
was not with Miss Dennis when she
left Spokane. She was accompanied by
a man about 8 feet s inches in height
light complexion, with light mustache
and weighing about 165 pounds. He
was dressed in laborer's clothes anC
bought two tickets and took charge OF
Miss Dennis baggage, An Oakesdal'
bo
in the Great Northern depot at the
time and spoke to Miss Dennis, al
though the latter studiously avoided
him and did not recognize him unit
forced to do so. This man, whose wifi
and family were leaving for the east
rode on the train as far as Hillyard
and when he got off Miss Dennis anC
her companion were sitting together
conversing and laughing.
Coolidge left here several weeks ago
presumably for Wisconsin, where hi
parents live, but Mr. Dennis thinks h
waited in Spokane for Nellie to NEE
him. Who the man is that left Spokan
with her no one seems to know. Som
think it was friend of Coolidge, Will
others think that Coolidge is not nike
up in the affair at all, but the strange
is some one Nellie has met and fallel
in love with. The whole affair is sur
} rounded in mystery and word from Nh
Dennis is anXiOusly awaited.