The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25
She Will Also Receive
 $25,OOO.
HE COULD MARRY HER SISTER
MRS. GATES IS HOME FROM HER
 SEATTLE TRIP.
Says She Went North on the Invita- tion of Her Husband to Ar range for Legal Sep
 aration.

"Swiftwater Bill' Gates has arranged with his wife, formerly Oracle Lamore of this city, by which she is to get divorce on the ground of cruelty and check for S25, 900 simultaneously. When these preliminaries have been concluded the festive William proposes to again ven ture on the troubled sea of matrimouy by wedding the sister of his divorced wife, with whom he is now living in great luxury at the Butler Hotel, in Seattle. Mrs. Gates returned from Seattle yester day, and promptly announced that the report that she had gone north to try to reclaim her husband had no foundation, but that the trip was made at his solici- tation, with the result as stated above.
 'I would not live with him again under any circumstances or for any amount of money she declared positively last night. T hate him, and he knows it, for 1 told him so. He is in love with Gussie, and probably she is in love with him, but guess she thinks more of his money"
 'Swiftwater Bill'' has occupied the front of the Klondike stage almost from the beginning of the gold excitement in the land of snow and ice. He was among the first to be said to have struck it rich, and since then he has devoted large share of his time and energies to enjoy ing' himself. Gussie may really be con- sidered as having the first claim on his affections. The story of their meeting in Dawson City in the spring of 1897, when he laid a coal oil can containing $50.0OO worth of nuggets at her feet and asked her to marry him, is well known. Gussie was al ready burdened with a husband, however, and therefore was compelled to decline the tempting offer. But she accepted s1o,0O0 and allowed him to build her the
 
 she had no hard feeling. Then she re- turned to San Francisco, having first told her lover that sue had several sisters who might not be averse to sharing his for tune. "SwiftWater" followed his charmer to this city, but when he arrived she had departed for the East. He hunted up her twin sister, Oracle, and after courtship Seven weeks of the Alaska miners SO ciety was enough for Oracle, and she left him. Then "Bill' went East, but returned in two months and tried to induce his bride to accompany him to the Klondtke. She declined, and "Bill'' conSoled himself by eloping with her younger sister, Nel- lie As soon as the pair arrived in DaW- son, Nellie promptly fell in love with a more accomplished if less wealthy miner, and incontinently shook William.
 But "Sweetwater Bill' remembered Lamore family. May, the eldest, was in the Klondike metropolis at the time, but after dallying with "Bill" for a while she him she could only be sister to him. Bill" came back to Seattle last October and telegraphed Gussie, who was in New York, to join him. Gussie was now a widow, her husband having con veniently blown out his brains a few months previous, while en route to San Diego from this city on the steamer Santa Rosa So she accepted the invitation and they have been together ever since
 Now that "BnPs" wife is to give him his freedom so he can marry Gussie it looks as though he might at last settle down to the quiet enjoyment of his gold. But Nellie Lan1ore has a twin in New York, and Mrs. Gates says her fiekle spouse confidentially informed her while she was in Seattle that he was contem- plating a trip East to see her. If he should carry out his plan new complica- tfons may arise.
 Mrs. Gates says her husband has loads Of money yet, notwithstanding reports to the contrary.