The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-01-16

ties One year after going 70 Port
land he was elected city attorney.
One year more and he was sent 10
the state senate. Another two years
and he wa president Of the state
senate Again a year In 1866. Iud
hr failed by but one vote Of win
ming The republican caucus uomlna
ton FOR United States senator. yet
such WAS his strength that he de
teatsd the caucus nominee. A. e.
Gibbs. and Henry ". Curbett was
elected SlN years later. In 1879. he
wna elected United States senator.
aud Ia March 1878. began hla duties
at Washington.
All this time he was known By
his assumed name Under that
namc he not only entered the Unit
ed States senate. but married Miss
Martha Price. Of a well known Ore
Euu family. by whom he had three
children enc boy whom he
named Hiram. which he said was
his own middle name. aud not Hip.
Pile and who ia nov captain 81
artillery In the army the two 9th
era iauRhtrrH- u whom died
at Washington last winter. the
other 81 whom is marrlce 60 the
French duke Of nochrfAucauld
In the summer aud fail Of 1878
after Mitehell'H election 20 the Unit
ed States senate. the details ~ his
lie and his assumed name began
tu leak out The sensation was i'm
meuse
hut Mitchell had already ar
ranged with hia law partner Puf
FlauHo Ia fenuay tNania. 10 induce
his wife there to obtain n divorce.
and bis marriage here was ieFhlIfsd
secretly bv means ~ his influence
with Judge Upton uf the state elf
cult court ily means ~ HIS influ-
euee With Judge Hamilton ~ the
county court he had had his name
secretly changed from John ~. Hip
pie II John " Mitchell
After hin marriage In Oregon
Mitchell
BECAME INFATUATED
with sister % bis Oregon wife
News reached Mitchell Ia New
York that the sister Vas about %
EINAN q MAHHAA AAAAAAs9aA 7 HHHa#"N anu AaA
wrote 90 her many very lmpaa=
stoned and ardent letters. DECLARING
his affection and pleading against
the marriage lie proposed. though
secretly. 90 hhandou the Oregon
wife and 10 marry the sister. The
letters disclosing this purpose came
into pottcr'a haudH and were pub
Hnhed fac uiniie A. Portland 20
years ago. n number 81 years after
they were written They made
big sensation bat Mitchell denied
their authenticity thought Ia fact
there vas NO doubt 81 u
A political storm eusued The
gale was increased In fury BY
charges that he had taken money
corruptly as a senator. for work
done BY him in connection with sur
veyH 81 public lands In Oregon That
story Was much the same as the
one on which the government now
has had Senator Mitchell Indicted
and will endeavor 20 send him TO
the penitentfnry The prosecution
alleges that Mitchell accepted a
bride of s. 600 IN March. 1909. 20
have Illegal claims 20 land expedited
through tho general land Office.
The aecuser ia s. A. n Putsr con
virted and con fesaed land thief who
SAYS that he paid senator Mitchell
tho money. and Who hopes 90 escape
the penalties 81 his own mlsdeeda
and % get even with those persons
Who have repudlatod him by giving
tho prosecution evidence.
Tho immense prosecuting ma
rhinery Of the government iH In mo-
ton II ls sparing no expense and
no labor Things we're different so
years ago, when charges ~ rnrrup-
ton we're then made against Nit
chell. tho land office paid no at
tontlun to the matter then. though
strenuous efforts were put forth To
get II 10 do 40. The eharges we're
published. and
MITCHELL WAS CHALLENGED
10 sue for libel. but he Ignored
them though they were supported
by most responsible persons In ore
gon.
In 1878 Mitchell came mp FOR re-
election. but democrats controlled
the body. and chose James II. Slater
for the seat I'm the senate. Four
years later Mitchell again tried for
election. but a determined body Of
IS republicans refused 10 vote for
him. and he was compelled 10 give
way 10 ] n. Dolph In 1855 he
tried once more. and succeeded
through the aid Of II democrats.
who hoped TO widen the breach be-
tween the two republican factions
by that procedure. when Mitchell
came forward for third term in
1891 he was elected with little oppo-
Bition. but in 1897. because he had
been a silver exponent. the legisla-
ture refused 90 send him back 10
Washington Such was the in
tensity Of feeling al that time that
the legislature did not even effect
organization.
During the next four years Nit
chells
FORTUNES WERE At a Low
EBB.
His clothes we're shabby. and hls
friends fell away from him. II was
said that he was seen 10 eat even at
lucent lunch counters But his In
fluence. though curtailed, was not