Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-01-14

ple-the latter his motheTs hip
name-which he DOTTED WIN maiden
donned the new country. ,rbaSo n he
came out in 1873 when he was , o".l
PEELED to defend himself against NUN rUla
paper attacks during his candidso mes VS.
the United States senate. His nyon ior
for the change was that at tbe A t,u
he sought only obscurity. and 70 ''I le
forever separated from nnn,oo,o oe
memories of the past. Other cboa ail
that he had had money trouhleS e 60
well as domestic tangles in tho oos 40
he CLOSED over by the declaration tho,
he had left property in the hands O'ias
his former law partner in put,o VI
Colonel John M. Thompson. to oona,
them. But at that point the forsaken
wife had something to say, and S aSa
said it through a Pittsburg newsno
per. "op@
She was a poor girl, as Hinn,o
Mitchell was a poor man, and but AZ
teen when he led her astray prior 70
1860. After a child was born he mor
ried her at the somewhat urgent No
quest OF her father. They lived han.
PLY Tor year or so, and then the
husbands love grew cold in an at.
tachment for a woman who appears in
the records of the case only as "Marv
j." When he went away and "Marv
j. disappeared at the same time. tbe
papers round about called it an
elopement. He took with him his cid.
est child, Jessie, whom the mother has
never since seen or heard Of Then
the wife was induced by Colonel
Thompson to apply for divorce. Five
hundred dollars were offered for the
freedom of her husband and she ac
cepted it, taking up afterward the
hard road of domestic service for the
support of her remaining children and
assuming her maiden name of Sadie
Hoon.
In the meantime the man prospered
grew rich and honored in the west
About the time of his getting to Port
land the movement was on foot to es
tablish Pacific Coast Republic"
Mitchell, far-seeing, espoused the side
of the government, took the stump
against the movement, and largy
through his eloquence the secession.
lists were defeated. His reward was
seat in the state senate. From then
on honors came to him often and with
lavish hand. He married, according to
the chronicles, Matte E. Price in
1862. What became of Mary j." is
a mystery. He went to the United
States senate in 1878. He was nom
mated by the Republican caucus in
1882 for reelection to the United
States senate but was defeated by
bolt" He was again nominated by
the Republican caucus in 1897, but
twenty-eight members of the house re,
fused to take the oath of office ana
defeated his election by breaking the
quorum. The seat remained vacant
two years. In 1901 he had more trou'
BILE and was elected after fifty-tnree
ballots.
It. was during the period that sue.
ceeded the election of 1885 that the
Mitchells rose to their greatest soclai
heights. They went to washington
with their beautiful daughter VINO
queened it in the diplomatic set Oh tIe
the capital and was very popular ~
February, 1892, she was married 70 lne
Due de La Rochefoucauld, son Oh oIS
of the most aristocratic houses OF olu
France. 1t was a love match and tnei1
has never been a breath OF scanIa,
in her household, at least, LOT sav
COMFORTS herself with great uisnlS
and is much thought of in smart bod