East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-03-29
NEW YORK LETTER

New York, March 2e.-Certainly, II
ever a man was badly deceived II was
millionaire Kiley. of Brooklyn. His
wife gave every indication that she
was going to die, and relying confl-
IDENTIFY upon the out givings OF her
physical condition, Mr.. Kiley went OIL
and married another woman. But ne
no sooner secured a second wife, be
ing married to her with all the forms
of law and with due ceremony, than
first wife starts in to recover, and 10.
when Mr.. Kiley returns to Brooklyn,
in time as he expected to bury her.
as he supposed, he is confronted with
the disagreeable fact that she is alive
and WELL and quite as hearty as his
latest wife.
Clearly Mrs. Kiley the first was en-
tirely in the wrong in not departing
as she gave every indication of doing.
Mr.. Kiley didn't do much about 1t,
only kept It a secret, and telling his
first wife all about it gave her
handsome house to live in, and
straightway ensconsed his second wife
in residence equally as good, only
short distance away. He didn't di-
vide himself, however, but took up his
residence with his second wife. on the
ground that she was a playmate of his
boyhood. for which reason, of course,
he knew her better than he did his
first wife. Overcome by the public
ity the affair acquired by the unex-
pected action of the newspapers, the
millionaire has retired to some seclud-
ed nook.
Mr.. Kiley's reflections upon the af-
fair coincide with those of a Norfolk
undertaken, who, being solicited to
take an advertisement in a periodical,
said business was bad. "The fact is, ''
he said, people are not dying as they
should" "whw" said the solicitor,
.'that is very strange. I was told
down the street that people died this
year that never were known to have
nonplussed, but after stroking his
heart while, said, 'Why, that is sor
I will take that advertisement"
That most detestible animal
Scriggs, the negro enslaver of white
women right under the noses Of the
police, got slnArt shrift in court. The
jury took only few minutes to reach
n verdict. and he was sent to prisor
in q whirl,. where they will have tC
erect an annex out of reach of tn,
other conwiets, in order that they ma,
maintain n slight feeling of self-re
spect.
What a terrible crime his was-en
snaring pure women into vile dens
where once confined they We're doom
ed to stay as surely as slaves in ;
slave pen in darkest Africa. The win
, dows were barred and locked and tn
I women were under the strictest guar,
= and had to go through the horrid lif
to which he condemned them, wit
q not a chance to appeal to any huma
r being, and the government right neal
/, and yet for purpose of release or res
q cue, as far away as the north pole
h Their story has made the blood of cit
g izens boil, but the women's lives wer
n wrecked.
, One nest of these vipers has bee
e discovered, Its walls torn apart, II
/, secrets revealed to the public. Ho
l. many more such places are here
h Probably dozens. The city must 81
about destroying them, also citizer
will not sleep nights. But in tn
ly case, as in>many others, the myste
t. les that hover about large cities, a
< throw their sheltering arms about Il
or scoundrels and hide the cancer fro
the public ken.