The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-22
39TH YEAR
COREY WILL BE
REMARKED
Relative of Steel Magnate Now In
Ely Says His Marital Troubles
are Ended

wv. h. Corey will remarry his di-
vorced wife within another year.
Such was the interesting state
ment made here yesterday by a rel
ativc of the wealthy president of the
steel trust. who is visiting friends
here and who has been here for sew
eral days.
TO avoid unpleasant publicity this
relative refuses to allow the use of
any names in Connection with dis
cussion of the private affairs of the
family of W. e. Corey who was sued
for a legal separation in the district
court at Reno last year by his wife.
Mrs. Corey was granted the decree
and her former husband settled on
her lump sum of $2,000.000. and
upon their only child. Ellis Corey.
$1,000,000 to be held in trust for
him until the attainment of his ma
iority.
Announcements have been repeat
edly made which have linked the
names of the steel trust magnate
and Mabelle Gilman, an actress, as
the figures in prospective marriage
Ia contradiction of these rumors
other statements have been widely
circulated to the effect that Miss Gil
man had refused to marry Corey and
that she was engaged to be married
to Edwin Ely, son of Congressman
Ely of New York, in whose honor the
camp of Ely was named.
THE Corey family would be de-
lighted If Miss Gilman and Mr.. Ely
were married. continued this rela-
tive of Mr.. Corey. II am personal
ly acquainted with Miss Gilman and
have nothing to say against her l
know of my own personal knowledge,
however, that Miss Gilman was never
proposed to by Mr.. Corey, and also
that she has never refused to marry
him,
The statements that have been
published widely throughout the en-
tire country to the effect that Mr..
Corey had purchased palatial resi-
dence in France for Miss Gilman and
that he had presented this residence
that Mr.. Corey has ever presented to
Miss Gilman was simple piece of
jeWelry of trifling value as compared
with the value of the property he is
a 11tppn6 "a buun cyiuop bar
These stories rejecting upon Mr..
Corey were given their first circu-
lation by men who were jealous of
his rapid rise in the business world,
and who were jealous of his attain
ment and phenomenal success. They
were circulated to iniure him. in a
business way
Mrs. Corey is of a jealous dispo-
sition. Mr. Corey is stubborn, and
when they separated he was too stub
born TO attempt to effect reconcile
alton, and they drifted apart.
Mrs. Corey did not want a divorce
and when the court gave her the
freedom she had requested she wept
with genuine grief.
Miss Gilman had never figured in
any way in the domestic troubles of
MIR. and Mrs. Corey. and was not, as
has been intimated in the press of
the country, the cause of their sepa-
ration. 1t was not because of jeal-
ousy for Miss Gilman that Mrs. Corey
In CHI -.
in no wise factor i'll the case. either
or indirectly. She was never
recognized by the Corey family. al
though she is a woman of attainment
and of good character, SO far as we
know. We will be delighted if the
that she is to marry
Mr.. Ely is true and we will he of the
first TO congratulate her.
You may state through the News
that it is the firm conviction of MIR.
Corey's relatives that he and his wife
will be reunited within another year.
The divorce was merely the outcome
of a family jar which could not then
be adjudicated because of the posi-
ton taken by Mrs. Corey and the
of her husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corey have met fire.
quentiy since the decree was granted
to Mrs. Corey and the relations he
tween them are becoming more and
more friendly. A reconciliation is
certain, and their remarriage. am
nc
of the Corey family, will he recorded
within another year