The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03
WILL PROVE :. j: IDA KING IS ..
 HIS WIFE :.  C. A.. Auburn Will Not
 Yield to His Rival.
WEDDED THREE YEARS AGO
THE GIRL BRIDE SAYS SHE IS :,. STILL SINGLE.
With His Mother-in-Law the Hus- bond Leaves to Square Mat
 ters in Stock ton.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

90S Broadway, Sept. 3.
 young lady nearly IS years of age is causing much excitement in two cities. She is either Mrs. c. A. Auburn or she is not. Mir. Auburn declares she is his wife. She is just as positive that she is not. MT. Auburn is the proprietor of an Oakland hotel and his wife or Miss Ida King whichever it is-is at present in Stockton basklng in the smiles of another and de- clarlng that she has a perfect right to please herself In the matter
 Mir Auburn was in Stockton few days ago and found his wife with a rival. He consulted the Chief of Police, but the woman stoutly denied that she had ever married him and assured the Stockton .. Chief that she could prove her statement. Auburn also offered to prove that she was his wife, and has been in Oakland the past two days getting together his proof. He left this afternoon on the bringing home the young lady whom he claims as his wife. He was accompanied by Mrs. King, the young lady's mother, that she will identify the Young woman.
 My wife left Oakland last Saturday" said MT. Auburn this afternoon, "osten- nDiy 10 visit friends at Pleasanton, she having been rather i'll for several days. At Niles she changed her mind and went to stockton, sending word back to me by . boy who had accompanied her as far as Niles. In the meantime I had heard of something that aroused my suspicious. Fred Spinney, a railroad man, had been hanging: around my hotel for several days and l learned that he had left about the same time as Mrs Auburn did, and I had no doubt. but that he was following her, So hastened to Stockton, where I caught them. It's not true that had them both arrested. No arrests were made but we went to the Chief of Polices office. I l should have" A stormy scene followed the meeting at the Stockton Chiefs office when the young woman denied that she was Au- burns wife or ever had been. In fact, She claimed that she did not know Au- E. burn. Spinney stated that he had known her in Oakland for some time, but never had any knowledge that she was married. Auburn stoutly asserted that she was none but his wife. and would return to . Oakland to bring her mother to Stockton to bear out this statement
 MT; Auburn to-day claimed that he and Ida King were married in Los Angeles nearly three years ago, but upon being pressed as to particulars he admitted that the. marriage was by contract and that neither minister nor authorized judicial officer officiated.
 Before we decided to marry" contin- . ued Mir. Auburn, we called on a Los Angeles attorney named Millar or Mil Ter. I told him that perhaps we had bet ter be married by a minister, but this attorney advised us 1t would be all so We let it go at that and have since been living together.
 'I do not know what prompted Mrs. Auburn to deny that we were married unless it be that she grew angry because l went to Stockton and raised this rum pus.. My wife is a young woman of rath- CT peculiar temper. She is just as liable to blacksnake me as she is to sit down and. eat tafnale; but I'll say this for . her; she's as good and as hard a little worker as eyer lived, and I'll see that this whole. affair is strengthened out with out injury. to her.
 '"Spinney is no good and 1t would be wise for him to look out for himself al- though I really don't anticipate any fur .. ther- trouble.
 .."When her mother, Mrs. King, talks to her and identifies her, she will in all probability accompany us home'
 Auburn claims that Fred Spinney has . not seen Mrs. Auburn at any time dur ing the past three years, but that prior to thatitime he knew her well while the King. family lived in Fresno, near which town Mir. King owns an extensive ranch. ... Miss: Ida King Is well known in this city. At the time of her marriage or alleged marriage, to Auburn at Fresno she was but 16 years of age. There has .. always been more or less doubt among her friends as to the nature of her sup posed marriage to Auburn, and his state ment that the ceremony was performed by contract Is hot altogether a surprise The girl is only 19. years old and those whe know her: best declare that Auburn's estimate of her disposition is somewhere near the truth