Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-23

KING" WILL NOT DESERT HER.
LGGET ALLEGED TO HAVE
MARRIED A PITTSBURG WO-
MAN AND TO HAVE WOODED
OTHERS.
Special to the Register.
BUCKHANNON, W. Va, September
pa woman who claims to be the
wife OF w. NJ Lgget. better known as
the ''Klondike King" West Virginia
boy who went to the Klondike several
years ago in time to stake good claims
from which he has already realized
over 100000. is at the Valley House,
in this city. awaiting Mr.. Ligget.
This fact is important inasmuch as
Mr.. Ligget spent several weeks here
last fail and posed as a single man.
making love to one OF the pretty wait
ers at the Valley, and engaging himself
to her, and that few weeks after Lig-
get left here a notice appeared in the
Pittsburg papers announcing his mar
riage TO Miss Jessie Mcdonald, OF that
city,
Mrs. Ligget number one. as she
claims to be. says she is a blood rela-
tive to Edward Nelson, of the English
navy, and to Sir Thomas Moore. the
author OF Utopia. In an interview with
your correspondent, she said that prior
to 1898 she resided in Boston Mass.
where she was known as Mrs, l. G.
Moore. Here she kept boarding
house, and had for roomers students at
Harvard College. She has two child
rem. a son. now student at Harvard.
and daughter at Vassar College A
desire for money to complete the edu-
cation of her children seized her and
she gave up the boarding house busi-
ness, and started for the Klondike. She
left Boston on March Is, 1898, and ar
rived at Seattle. Wash. on the 2lst.
After many ups aud downs and a va
ried experience. she reached Dawson
City on May gath, and entered the em-
ploy Of Mr.. Ligget and his partners as
cook and housekeeper at a salary Of
800 a month, going with them to taeip
camp.
Here Cupid played his part. Mrs
Moore and Mr. Ligget fell in love and
an engagement followed which was to
terminate and did terminate at skaga-
way, on October /. 1898. where they
were married by Capt Rltcnie, " the
steaomer Ora in the presence OF j. Hol-
land. Of Victoria, and a Mr. Goodwin.
of San francisco. The captains OF
steamers. according 10 Mrs. Ligget,
have authority to perform the marriage
ceremony, and these marriages are le~
gal in the mining regions Of Alaska.
She returned with Mr. Ligget to Seat
tie on the steamer Ora. Here they reg
istered as Mrs. l.. c. Moore and w NJ.
Ligget, she refusing to become known
as Mrs. Ligget until after she had seen
her children. They parted here, Mr..
Ligget paying all bills and giving her
money TO pay her expenses until they
should meet again. which was to be at
a hotel in New York city on Christmas
day, or in San Francisco March I. She
was to go to Boston to see her children
and friends, and he TO West Virginia
to visit his relatives. On her arrival In
Boston she was apprehended by her
brother and later placed in an insane
hospital at Worcester, where she was
confined for four months lacking eleven
days. During this imprisonment she
was denied al letters and communities
ton with her friends. Her money was
taken from her and she hasn't seen il
since. On the entreaties and proofs %
her daughter she was finally released
and has sued her brother for $50. 600 for
false imprisonment She started al
once for West Virginia, seeking the
whereabouts Of her husband She dis
believes the story that Mr.. Ligget was
married to Miss Mcdonald, and says
that the newspaper report was caused
to be published by him or his friends
to deceive other female friends and to
protect him from probable trouble and
expense.
Since being here she has located Mr..
Ligget al San Francisco and has writ
ten and teiegraphed him that she 10
stranded here until be relieves her.
She expects full and satisfactory re-
port from Mr.. Ligget in few days. and
would not be surprised If be came him
self.
The end of the romance is awaited
with interest.