Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-14
Who HAS
MANY VICTIMS
THE QUEEN OF SONORATOWN'
SMILES AS HER PREY
STRUGGLES.

Odiiloi hAdJ poiACNSo Snt 10 III lHe
of death.
Mrs. Selma Ives, still beautiful,
still fascinating after years Of life in
Sonoratown, lives in constant dread
that one of her suitors will drive a
dagger to her heart or send a bullet
into her brain.
Around her throng the wraiths OF
the men who have been hurled from
this world by her jealous sweet
hearts. To her they seem to point
a path that she sooner or later must
take. Among them are two former
husbands, one of whom killed him
self. The other dropped from sight
as completely as though the earth
had opened and swallowed him from
human view.
Once rich beyond the dreams of
avarice, a daughter of the old and
respected Abbott family, well known
throughout California del Sur in the
old days; more beautiful than the
other daughters of the dons who
reigned over the hearts of the hot
tempered youths, Selma Ives still re-
tains a pretty face, a graceful figure,
a voice like a singing bird, and from
her lips there still flow the words of
culture and refinement that she was
taught in the long ago.
But all of these do not take her
out of the Sonoratown district, do not
remove her from the days when men
fought for m and each dragged
away his prize to share his cave with
him. She owns a property, rich in its
returns to her, in the heart of Los
Angeles business section, but this
does not take her from the North
Main street hotel, the revels whereof
are said to be past all believing.
Eight years ago the Queen of So.
noratown had a husband, William
Mcmahon was his name, a good,
whole-souled Irishman. One day he
heard statements regarding his wife,
who had been the beautiful Selma
Abbott, and the next day he cut his
throat with a razor.
This was death No. l for which
her beautiful face was responsible.
After this, only a short time, Mrs
Mcmahon took another husband. His
name was Jasper Ives. One day hi
disappeared. Was he slain by a jeal
GUS rival? Did he, too, hear GOSSIP
about his beautiful bride? OF thest
things no n can say; in any event
he went to the Port of Missing Men
and none have see him since.
Among all his old friends, how
ever, it is believed that Jasper Ivei
was slain. Some of them go so ia,
as to say that a woman took his life
but no one knows. At any rate, thit
is death No. 2.
So far as any n knows-at least
any one outside of the dashing Mrs
Ives herself-this was the last OF he
matrimonial ventures. But five year
ago Francisco Martinez, scion OF on,
of the proudest and wealthiest fam
lilies of Old Mexico, was stabbed t
the heart in Mrs. Ives apartments
: supposedly by a rival for her affec
tons. He died in the ambulance O
the way to the police station and hi
assailant was never captured.
And this is not all. Three year
ago, Elise Lopez, madly in love wit
Mrs. Ives, shot and killed a riva
whom he found in her company. TIC
= day Lopez is in the ~penitentiary, sery
ing a long term for his crime. Til
name of the fourth man to whor
g death came so suddenly because h
: wooed the fatal beauty is forgotten
even Sonoratown knows not VIII
he was or what his station. His Sc
g cret is buried in the heart of the We
man for whom he died.
And last Saturday night Fred RI
bolledo and Valentine Avila met in
shooting ARRAY over the Queen c
Sonoratown,' in which three me
were seriously injured. Possibly on
of them will die.
And Selma Ives, without a teal |
her eyes, without a tremor in ht
well modulated voice, says: Som
e day they will get me; some day on
1t of them will become enraged at m
instead of at another man, and I'll b
d the one to stop the bullet or til
y knife"
e Colby she denies that she has bee
the cause of all these killings, or F,
d any of them. With a sheer, she says
"If they wanted to kill themselv,
for fear I'd like one more than al
IT other, that's their fault; it is II,
& NINE"
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