The daily morning Alaskan., 1899-12-21
Mrs. Dr. Harding at Last
 Gives Her Story.
ARRAIGNS THE DOCTOR
says She Was Compelled to Earn m IIiEo ten Livelihood for the Whole Family.

AlonzO chappelle, the self-llleged Klon dlke potentate and paramour of Mrs. E. H Harding, sought by the authorities or charges of adultrY, preferred by thf med leo, has not been apprehended.
 But the woman in tie case has beer toul d, and she has a very different story to tell from that gwen by the doctor. She Is working in the Clancy variety theater. She says Harding Is a blackmailer, that she doubts fl she has ever been his wife, that she has been compelled to support the doctor and the family in a way not fit to mention in polite society, that they were all in destitute circumstances in Seattle, PortIand and Spokane and that the Salva. ton Army took care of them for a time.
 The doctor emphatIeally eontradits the statements of the woman, and says posi- lively and uneqOlvoealIy that she is liar as we'll as the iegimate mother of his babies and author of numerous dire do. nestle woes that must be ehronced as a part of his unhappy experience Cn earth.
 Without the least hesitaney the doctor proelalms his policy, saying he will make It warm for Chapelle and will bring him to justice lf he has to follow to icebOund Klondke or any other mundane extremity.
 "All 1 wlsh." says the doctor, "if we cannot arrest Chappelle, Is to meet him face to face. Would use violence We'll, should say. Pm not to be trlfled with. understand ChapDele has threat ened my life. lf lt will be bloody, let 1t be bloody. mean to get even. Wouldn't YOU ?"
 "Pll not make it bloody," says the woman, Out before | get through with the ease lIwlll make il muddy i"s'e plenty of ml lud al the bottom As RFs. s5srdlns s9olSe she sal DO 0o& upon her flaxen half and glIstenlng in her gold-hlled teeth as she smiled, and she gave a coquettish toss of the head.
 A friend of Chaprelle, who came north on the City of Topeka with him and the woman and others of the party, had lead the way to the theater and made the ln- troducllon to the woman
 "Mrs. Harding," sad he in the form oi introduction. m
 "No, sir" said she, Interupting. Not Mrs Harding, but, if you please sir MISS Ferguson"
 "Ferguson," she continued, twas my maiden name"
 Scarcely had she begun to explain her case when a messenger was announced The woman left the ro"m and after una returned. She wore the same elTeless air. and flnglng herself in the ehalr' sa'd she had at least gotten a drink out of the Vls- ltor and secured her first check for the evening. which she displayed Passing this point hastily, she produced a letteI written only a few minutes before by DT Harding, and offering to compromise ih' case. It read as follows:
 ".f you will sign an affidavit agreeing never to see Chappelle or have any com
 nun cation with him | will drop every thing and proceed no further in this matter
 Let me know at once. This paper mus
 remain in my possession"
 "No, sir, pll not sign it." she sale . "Mr. Chappelle has treated me as ladY
 He not only treated me as ladv but h' also supported me. He has not only SUI ported me, but has also supported U Harding and the two children. "Harding and and the children arTlv, in Seattle from Portland on tickets oougI } by the Salvation Army of the Oreg' metropolis. We put up at first at the Ne