The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-01
MRS. YERKES WILL NOT
 ADMIT BEING MARRIED
DECLARES IN AN INTERVIEW THAT THE STORY IS
 RIDICULOUS.

Despite Admission of Clergyman and
 Statement by Witness She Says She
 Has Not Been Married and Has No
 Intention of Being-CeremOny Per-
 formed by Rev Mir. GilIies Tuesday
 Evening-Mrs. Yerkes Fifty and the
 Groom, Wilson Mlzner, If California,
 TWenty-nine
 New York, Jan. 31. - That, Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, widow for just a month, and heir to $7,5O0O00 from her husbands estate, is again bride, was the announcement made to-day by friends of the bridegroom, Wilson Mig ner.
 The witnesses to the marriage, it is said, were J. l.. Eastland and Emile Brugere, both of San Francisco, and Mrs. Koolsall also of California.
 Mr& Yerkes who was Miss More, of Philadelphia, was the second wife of Mir. Yerkes, and had been estranged from him for two years prior to his death which occurred at the Waldorf Astoria on December 29. She is about fifty years old, but looks much young er
 MT. Mizner is the son of the late Lansing B. Mizner, former minister to Mexico and Guatemala, and for years a prominent lawyer at Benicia, Cal. He Is twenty-nine years old, and has been engaged in mining in California and Alaska. Recently he has resided in the Hotel Astor in this city.
 The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Andrew lilies of 120 West Sixteenth street.
 Rev. MT. Gillies said tonight: q was called upon at my home by man who said he was Wilson Mizner yes terday afternoon. He came to me like a man, and said he was about to be married. He asked me to be in Mrs. Yerkes' home last night at 7:30 o'clock to perform the ceremony, and I prom ised to be there.
 Why he came to me do not know, and did not ask him. It was enough for me that there was no objection to tliCll DelHS IIeIIlSu. welt LO MFS Yerkes' home, as requested and about s o'clock MT. Mizner and his friends arrived. Mrs. Goodsell was already there. The only witnesses of the cere- lnony were Mir. Brugere, Mir. Eastland and Mrs. Goodsell.
 ''As to the filing of the certificate of marriage, I shall certainly attend to tbo+ tyftbip Inc +ap daVn ,,,,oeor;hod Inv law, and, in view of the publicity of the affair, l shall try to see that the cer- tificate is filed tomorrow or next day"
 Mrs. Yerkes tonight in an interview would not admit that the marriage had taken place. Even after representa- tive of MT. Mizner had made known the name of the clergyman, and the latter had confirmed the. marriage, Mrs. Yerkes said:
 "The story is ridiculous. I do not know how it originated. If I intended to get married I should announce it to my friends, although I should not con sider it matter in which the public need be interested. But I have not been married since MT. Yerkes' death, and I have no intention of marrying again. I shall devote myself to plan- ming and building the hospital for which my husband made provision in his will and I expect that my interests in the hospital and in the convales- cents home, which I shall found, will occupy me for the remainder of my days"
 Mrs. Yerkes, when seen for sec ond time just before midnight, practice ally reiterated what she had said ear- Her When told of the statement by Dr. Gillies she exclaimed: Ridiculous. [ I don't believe he said such a thing. Even if I did marry Mfr Mizner it would be nobodys business but my own. But I am still Mrs. Yerkes."
 J. L. Eastland of San Francisco this afternoon confirmed the report of the marriage of Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes to Wilson Mizner of San Francisco. MT. Eastland was witness to the ceremo- | ny, which took place last evening at the Yerkes residence in Fifth avenue The other witnesses were Emile Bru- gere, also of San Francisco, and Mrs. Goo6sell, woman champion of Mrs. Yerkes.