The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-19

ciate the part I have to take in this
little drama. for / have to do the pa
thetic, which / feel l am not so well
fitted for as light comedy
Mrs. Letters audience will consist of
not more than 500 people, most of whom
will be her personal friends. Chicagos
upper tendon will be well represented.
II her appearance is regarded as a sue
cess she will go on to greater feats
She states that she will buy a play
that she believes will be fitted to her.
or she will take an adaptation.
Those who thought they knew
Mrs. Letter during her residence in
Butte will find the following from the
Times-Herald especially interesting:
Mrs. Letter is slightly above medium
height and has fine figure. Her eyes
are clear blue, with a merry twinkle.
Her complexion is fair and the color
comes and goes from her cheeks when
she is in animated conversation. Her
hair is brown, with suggestion of the
auburn, and is combed in the stylish
puff straight back from the brow. No
picture can do or does do Mrs. Letter
justice, for it cannot show the color of
the cheek and the flash of the eye that
make certain women attractive.
"Attired in q rich lavender gown that
ed some of her early experiences to a
caller yesterday afternoon. She told
Of her early life in the wild West,
where she was brought up and where
she gathered her first impressions.
These impressions led her to write, and
her work was so good that finally she
was led to pen some short stories.
These stories are called Real Life, and
are published in book form by F. Ten
nyson Nicely, London and New York.
She has written many characteristic
poems and skits of Western life in the
Colorado mining town, of Indians. and
again on the simpler and more childish
topics that appeal to the growing
youngster and miss.
She lived for many years in Como,
Col. Her "reminiscences of this period
of her life are told admirably. She
wrote poem about the place and its
people. 1t is dubbed In Como and
deals with the leading characters of
the village.
Mrs. Letters maiden name was Kath-
eryn Heffner. Her marriage to T. Benton
Letter was her second matrimonial eX-
perience. Her first husband died She
married Mr.. Letter in Cheyenne in 1896.
Both were at a country house not far
from Denver. when they left quietly
and We're welded, and returned to re-
ceive a hearty welcome from their
friends. Soon after that she came to
Chicago. and had not her husband
been taken i'll she would have become
even better known than she is in the
social swing. She stood by him in his
feeblest moments. and is now anxious
to effect his recovery if money can
attain it.
"'His uncle she said has done
nothing for him of late. because my
husband did things when he was i'll
that caused us all some embarrass-
ment, and I think angered the elder
Mr.. Letter. Money was spent freely
by my husband when he hardly knew
what he was doing, and l know the
bills have come in all too fast. There
fore my husbands income is taken to
meet these obligations, and l am sup
porting myself and him."
There are many people in Butte who
are acquainted with a woman who was
known to them as Kate Churchill.
She was the wife of me-
chanical engineer named Churchill,
who is well known in Butte and is now
believed to be employed at Granite, in
this state Churchill and his wife went
to Leiterville, where he had secured a
position in the mine, and she was put
in charge of the mine boarding house.
AS long rs men ana women 1--we rrCn
the same globe stories will pa told
about them. A story got started at
Leiterville arc; grew to sensational
proportions. when Il reached 4 eli
max Chur ,hill resigned his position
and left Icitarville His wife. how
ever, remained and the stories contin-
ued to grow and to circulate.
One day she announced her in
tention of going to Denver for the
purpose of acquiring a residence there
and securing a divorce. She went away,
but returned about the time that Mr..
Letters connection with the mine was
severed, and a short time later they
went away together and never re-
turned. Friends who saw them after
wards at Cheyenne We're Informed that
they had been married.
Il remember Kate Churchill WELL
said a we'll known young Butte attor-
ney yesterday. Il also knew her as
Kate Heffner. I am glad to
hear of her good fortune and advance
ment in society and the literary world.
I also know her mother, who is now,
| I believe, a resident of Colorado. Some
| years ago I had some legal business
| with Mrs. Heffner. Her husband, the
father of Kate Churchill, who was a
| railroad man, had disappeared. He
| had been missing for some years and
| his wife wanted to collect his life IN
surance, believing that he was dead.
She placed the matter in my hands,
but advised her that in the absence
of any evidence of her husbands death
she could not expect to collect the in
surance, and she didn't make any fur
!