Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-13

But NO
SALT
Indian Maiden's Spirit TangIes a
CIalryOyant and a Millionaire

The recent marriage of Edward
Ward Vanderbilt has stirred up the
Vanderbilt family. 1t Is not because
the guardian of old Cornelius Van
derbilt who started in life as a boat
man and ended it as a railroad pirate
simply married, but rather for the
reason that the female he tied to,
li5 not up in the social scale high
enough to suit the Vanderbilt fam
lily. Cornelius, who founded the
family, had good red, everyday
blood in his veins, and was not above
earning an honest penny by his la
Dor, until he discovered he could ac-
cumulate dishonest dollars with
greater rapidity, by manipulating the
stock market. This business which
the old man understood thoroughly
for those days, soon resulted in his
transferring some millions Of dol
lars from the pockets OF the public
at large to his own. This gave him
great respectability. 1t also caused
the blood of his children to take on
a slightly cerulean hue, which in
his grandchildren became decidedly
blue and in the last generation a
royal purple. Now Edward Ward,
being married once, is at the pres
ent time the father of young fe-
male Vanderbilt, who is appropriate
ly named Minerva. II seems that
death, being no rospector OF persons,
even though that person was Van
derbilt, removed Mrs. V. from the
contaminations OF Gotham's social
whirl, and transplanted her--where
It does not matter. This Is whyre
the trouble began. Edward Ward In
the course OF time felt that he was
lonesome. He needed some one to
turn to, where he could forget the
cold, cold world The right person
showed up TO assist him In forget
lting, in the person OF one Mrs. Pep
per. Mrs. Pepper was a clairvoyant,
also red headed, a sort OF Cayenne
Pepper as Il were, and as subsequent
events showed, she was the true ar
lticle, being In tho somewhat vulgar,
but delightfully."- expressive language
of the Bowory. "a hot tamale,"
l"Chili con carne" or words to that
effect. Mrs. Pepper invaded the
spiritual world in Edward Wards
behalf, and there she found the
lspirit OF a beautiful Indian maiden,
called Bright Eyes" in the spirit
world, but who, ere she left this,
I"Cultus nlihee" for the other side.
Iprobably dug eamas along with the
lother "Klootchmen" under the less
Ieuphonious name of "Tar Face Liz"
Be that as II may, Bright Eyes"
with a knowledge of finance never
Learned at a native "potlath" sug-
gested that Edward sign up few
lchecks for her sweet sake, and get
Mrs. Pepper to cash them. This Ed
ward did. Then Bright Eyes" who
lby the way, after her demise, had
Learned to write English In the vertl-
cal style, wrote Edward a spiritual
letter on Just common earthly paper,
Suggesting that what he needed was
more Pepper, and so induced Edward
Ito marry that warm one. Then
when tho family learned of 1t, they
individually and collectively threw
To- 10
sister Sarah L., and his daughter, the
lproud Minerva, asserted he was in
lsane, and today a commission in
Iquired into his sanity. The learned
alienists making the examination
are decidedly up against IL, with a
Iproblem TO which the Thaw case was
like shooting fish. The proposition
lresolves itself into this; II Edward
was sane when no married Mrs. Pep
lper, he was certainly insane or he
would not have married her. II he
was insane when he married her he
didn't marry her at all because he
was unable to give assent TO the con-
tract. In the meanwhile Mrs. Pep
Iper seems TO be holding her own,
land from all accounts pretty much
lof everything that was Edwards.
Just what Bright Eyes" is doing
isn't stated, but she is probably
Laughing in her spiritual sleeve as
she notes the amount Of trouble her
ghostly letters have stirred up.