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Show MITCHELL OF OREGON. Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon, who has been indicted in the federal courts for fraud against tho United States government, has somo other chapters in his life's history that have been hidden and darkly gathering force, while he was reaping wealth, forensic honors and position in the world. These go back to his early days when ho was a struggling school teacher and then lawyer in the little town of Butler in western Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. There lie closed the first episode epi-sode when in I860 he went out to tho now world of California. In Butler ho was known as John Mltchnli t. M '' ple-tho latter his mothw's i,S,p- I name-which ho doffed when If donned tho now country. Tlinql f1e If came out In 1873 when ho wa 8 If , pelled to defend himself agaln?" II paper atacks during his candldacv T' II the United States senate mTZ " II for tho change was that at the S II ho sought only obscurity an to ? II forever separated from mill II memories of the past. Other (H1 18 i that ho had had money roufc If well as domestic tangles in tho '7 ho glossed over by the declaration that II hp had left property in tho hanil o 1 1 ' his former law partner in C,r II Colonel John M. Thompson, to cavil 1-1 them But at that point the forsaken II wife had something to say, and III U Bald it through a Pittsburg newj She was a poor girl, as HInnie. H Mitchell was a poor man, and but fif H teen when ho led her astray prior tn H 18G0. After a child was born he mar. I rlod her at the somewhat urgent re mm quest of her father. They lived ban- pily for a year or so, and then the H husband's love grew cold in an at- H tachment for a woman who appears in H the records of the case only as "Man- H J." When ho went away and "Mary Q J." disappeared at tho same time the H papers 'round about called It an H elopement. Ho took with him his eld- M est child, Jessie, whom the mother has H nover since seen or heard of. Then lt the wife was induced by Colonel ! Thompson to apply for a divorce. Five H hundred dollars were offered for the (H freedom of her husband and she ac- II copted it, taking up afterward the U hard road of domestic service for the H support of her remaining children and H assuming her maiden name of Sadie H Hoon. H In the meantime the man prospered, jB grew rich and honored in the west. About tho time of his getting to Fort- H land the movement was on foot to es- mm tablish a "Pacific Coast Republic." Mitchell, far-seeing, espoused the side of the government, took the stump against tho movement, and largly through his eloquence the secession- H ists were defeated. His reward was a seat in tho state senate. From then Wm on honors camo to him often and with HJ lavish hand. He married, according to H tho chronicles, Mattle E. Prlco in K 1862. What became of "Mary J." Is K a mystery. He went to tho United H States senate in 1873. Ho was nom- H inated by the Republican caucus In H 1882 for re-election to tho United B States senate but was defeated by a mm "bolt." Ho was again nominated by mm the Republican caucus in 1897, but H twenty-eight members of tho house re- BH fused to take tho oath of office and BH defeated his election by breaking the BB quorum. The seat remained vacant BH two years. In 1901 ho had more trou- Hi bio and was elected after fifty-three BH ballots. H It was during tho period that sue- BH ceeded the election of 1885 that the mm Mitchells roso to their greatest social ma heights. They went to Washington mm with their beautiful daughter, who- w queened it In tho diplomatic set of tne tho capital and was very popular, id February, 1892, she was married tx tne Due do La Rochefoucauld, son of one of the most aristocratic houses of ow France. It was a lovo match and tnere i has never been a breath of scandai n in her household, nt least, Jor W H comports herself with great d gnw H and is much thought of in sinart JWJ H is. When they woro married shonau mm known tho Due fully six years. Thougn mm ho had proposed early In their at mm quaintance the pnternal fortune, w mm not yet big enough to afford a au mm sufficiently ample to re-gi d a mica mm house. Six years later when he mm newed his suit it was different west had then yielded of its wealtn. hs Town Topics. II |