Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 82, 7 May 1908 — Page 1

PAULA AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL.. XXXIII. NO. RICHMOND, IND., Till IISHAY EVENING, MAY 1. l?IOS. kinc.li: copy, 2 CENTS. FOR SPIRIT OF PEACE HOVERS OVER THE HARMON - THE MAN CONVENTIONS ARE ' WORK HAS CEASED jCOUNTY LOSES MUCH lMCTDIIPTiyp COD BY THE DEMAND OF STATE TREASURER Will Lead Democratic Hosts! 1 11 0 1 1 1 U U I ! il U rUli Supply of Conduits for Central Union System Has Given Out. In Ohio in'the Coming nrnnrnnw Tin SECRET CONFERENCE Campaign. d.LHNAH AM

RICHMOND

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1AMPHERE WILL HANG

HIS PARTjN MURDERS Prosecutor says that man accused of setting fire to gunness home has told him enough WHICH WILL WARRANT THIS ACTION ON THE PART OF THE STATE.

SEARCH FOR BODIES

IS BEING POSHED By THE SHERIFF fie Is Confident That He Will Find at Least Twenty More Bodies Before He Has Completed Hideous Work. ESTABLISHED THAT CUPID WAS THE LURE OF WOMAN 'Evidence Also, That Bodies Were Shipped to the ''Horror Farm" From Norwegian Agency in Chicago. Laporte, Ind., May ".Prosecutor Smith acknowledges that Ray Lani.phere has told him enough of the rimes at the. (Junness home to tjang him. Smith refuses to give the details. The starch for bodies continues. A cement floor will be taken up soon. Seven gold watches have been found in the ruins of the house. They may (possibly aid in the identification of the bodies. Many photographs have been found, but the features are effaced. The belief is strengthened that Mrs. dullness lured her victims through the medium of matrimonial advertisements in several papers. Positive evidence is also in the hands of the sheriff which shows that bodies :were shipped to the dimness farm by !a Norwegian agency. 1 Bessie Cnnklln. a friend of Uiniphere is beiug held as an important witness. i?he claims Lamphere said he "Knew though to send Mrs. dimness to the fZ Jlows." dozen soft spots have boon locuioil jeiiv will be excavated. The sheriff ex- , pec 5 to find at least twenty more bodies. A o Mrs. Belle (Junness ami her chih ren alive? A', of the evidence collected so far. nd it is pitifully meaner, indicates ha'.the woman and her accomplices in -Chicago were actuated chiefly by - lite lust for money. Men wore lu red to the Laporte house and disappeared after their money had been secured. If they escaped the Chicago, syndicate killed them there presumably, nd shipped the dismembered bodies to Laporte for disposition. Children. ;it Is intimated, were "adopted" ami killed for a price. Where Were They Killed? Whether all the victims of the death-dealing hand of the suspected voraan were murdered within the brick walls of Mrs. dimness' secluded liome on the McClung road is a question and there is evidence of a suspicious nature relating to trunks secretly dispatched from Chicago and delivered at the (I'lnticss castle of death within the past year that leads the authorities to believe that some of the victims were made way with outside of Indiana and sent here for Imrial. Two trunks, it is reported, have I been held in Chicago. They are said to have been consigned to Mrs. Gunjipps a few days before the fire destroyed her home, and with it. according to the generally accepted conviction, the life of the woman herself. Of the many victims of ihe arch criminal, the last of whom was piobnbly the alleged murderess herself, only the bodies consumed in the fire nnd two disinterred from the murder graveyard have been identified, llelgelein's body was positively identified by his brother, and this evening the body of Mis Jennie Olson, adopted dauahter of Mrs. dimness, was identified by Anton Olson, her father, of Highlands. Ind.. and her sister, Mrs. rthur Olander, of Chicago. The other was so disintegrated because of the use of quicklime that it Is almost impossible to determine what was their sex. Two at least of Ihe bodies, one of Jennie Olson, are believed to be those of women. One taken up late today from the fourth "noft spot." uncovered in the tragic barnyard, appeared from an examination of the pelvic bones to be that of a woman. Question Bothersome. This is the question that confronts the rolice. who are seeking the solution of the many mysteries which envelop the former home of Mrs. dullness, where nine days ago were found four charred and blackened bodies, and where many dismembered bodies

VICTIMS OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MURDERESS.

the 1 han.i Vaii-s. Gunn'. ss ho suspected I murderess and her probable; accomplices is up to date as follows: Mrs. Helle Gunness, the aliened arch murderess, whoso body was found in the ruins of tin- (Junness house after the fire on April L'V Myrtle Soronson, acd 11. daiiiihter of Mrs. Cunness. who also loi her life in the destruction of the residence. Lucy Soronson. aed ?, youngest daughter of Mrs. (liinncss, who liUowise was burned to death in the fire. Philip Soronson, ased son of Mrs. (Junness. whose burned body was found clasped in the arms of the mother after the destnieiion of the Ounness house. Andrew HelLtelem, awed 40, bachelor Aberdeen, S. D.. a suitor for Mrs. dimness' hand, who came to Laporte .i miliary ft, 100X and flisapieared three weeks later, after drawing $:5,niin from bank. .lenni" Olson (lunnes.-;, apod 1". daughter of Antone Olson, of Chicago, whom Mrs. dimness look to raise when S years aid. and whose body is

believed to be one ot tne tour tounu ; ,.jr,.o1 about the heads of the conin one hole yesterday in the dimness . ferees. pausing momentarily above barnyard. j Webster Parry, eity controller awl Unidentified man, believed by an-j chief champion of all tilings, in cont'lorities to be Ole Hudsberg. wlnv nection with the industry of the hotcame here from Iola, Wis., about, a j loin lands. year ago in answer to matrimonial. The rain that poured down outside advertisement, and who was not seen j and resounded most impolitely from after drawing $l,ono from the homtthe tin of adjacent roofs disturbed not bank. ;the ardor of those within the comI'nidentiliod body isex undetermin- j mittee room. The electrics glared in ed whose dismembered bo.lv w as ! a" tnoi" dazzling radiance, fit taken

found in a three-foot hole. Unidentified body (sex undetermined!, whose dismembered body was found in the same hole. Unidentified body (sex undetermined), whose dismembered body was found in the same hole. Unidentified body, dismembered, supposed to be that of a man from Chicago, was lying face downward in box, found this afternoon. Unidentified body, probably man of middle age, removed from barnyard afternoon, in advanced ' grave this state ot disintregat ion. Cn identified body, probably a woman, taken with two others from last crude grave, discovered iulay. Albert Soronson. first husband of the woman, who died under mysterious cirninistanees in Chicago, supposed to have been poisoned, but nothing was ever proved. Joseph dimness, second husband of ihe woman, who died at. "House of Mystery" about, four years ago, as result of skull being fractured with meat chopper. Wife claimed meat chopper fell from shelf. were found buried in the barn lot at the rear of the residence. That Mrs. dimness was a woman versatile in crime, who evidently stopped at nothing in finding victims that she might afterward kill them, and that she may have conspired to find safety in flight, at the same lime leaving evidence which might be considered indisputable as to the fate of herselt and children, is within the range of possibility, though this theory is not given much credence by Sheriff Snmtzer. Prosecutor Smith and Coroner Mack. In the opinion of many, however, f i i 1 1- i,-.a;..- ,. . .v. within the; h this the - I ..mi i-ouim " i 5MiiiiMi oi i lit uome or Mrs. (itinness and placed m the cellar, where they were found in their charred condition, after she had burned the house where she had been the principal in many dark crimes. She could have left the city with her three children under cm cr of darkne and 1 ;i . . . . eeeu many nines trout i.aporte he tore break of daw n, when Ray Lampluue says he saw flames issuing from the roof of ,ho V., CI , v . j.vj.ir-. ci s tKisesseu ot abundance of money, which would have enabled her to have found her way to a laree city, where her identity would he lost. No Motive For Suicide. Th ere was no apparent reason whv Mrs. dullness should wnr-r to l.-oi w.own children or rake her own life, j Her conscience had not preyed upon her. for she had committed murder al itor murder without compunction and j without showing any indication of the 1 burden of crime she carried with her. I She did not live in fear of judgment I of an outraged law. and it would have been natural, in view of Hie fact that Hay Lamphere. whom she feared, had made threats to take her life, for her 1 Continued .ige .'Veil. (THE WEATHER PROPHET. 1 j INDIANA Thursday night, cooler in south portion; Friday fair, brisk north winds. OHIO Rain and cooler Thursday night: fair Friday, warmer, high southeast shifting to northwest winds.

Bearing the Olive Branch Commercial Club Directors Visit Board of Public Works Last Night.

COMMERCIAL CLUB IS IN SYMPATHY WITH PLANT. Investigation of the Municipal Concern Not Looked Kindly Upon by One Member of City's Board. Inasmuch as the board of public works had not deemed it within the confines of its dignity to call upon the board of directors of the Commercial club for a conference in regard to the municipal electric light plant,' the board of directors agreed to bend the knee and last evening called upon the board of works at its room at the city hall. The board of directors made haste to assure t'i representaj lives of the city administration, that, i it is in sympathy with the mnnicipal and; plant, during its long illness doubts not the integrity of the city j officials and others connected with! the luxury. Thereupon t.'ie dove of peace, which hail been cooing softly in the cote in President Staubach's desk, j was released and spreading its wings of the price of the copper connection with the rotating dynamoes in the pressed-brick pow er house. The chan-! delipr was burnished brightly, there! was a sufficient number of chairs and) ..f.n. 1 ,U1 1 i

auei i iic coMiiat greetings naa oeen!,jllul fn(.

exchanged everything was in readiness. It was a private consultation and no reporters were admitted but it may be presumed that one director lifted the olive branch, arose and said: "It. 1K ,in' war t,(,k. peace. You would not conic to so? us, so v have come to see you." ! Tlio board of directors assured the board of works, its members are in' sympathy with the municipal plant. "Ket it be understood we are not fight-: in.g the plain," said one member. "We came to lie told and not. to oriti-1

:..., i. , ,,,,, , :,, . .. ' 11c iiiciigt-ii 111.1; (lie iiuuoi 1 nicies s iso. e came in pursuit, of intornia-, , , . , , lion about this $2.-,n.0un beauty thejh:lvp ll('fn ""Undent and defiant, and

city has placed among the cabba ge patches of the public dump opposite the site of ,he m-oposed magnificent ricrside boul.-vard. We a" stion not the anthemieitv ,.f . h t't.r,,,... i., .i...

report of the Honorable City Com roll-j sal(Hln ln ,,u' 1 niod 'nfc:V or-far be it from us to dare to pre-! Cnder the inspiration of that sentisume so much as even to know there j,nenT members found ir impossible to is discrimination in the rates offered ! '?CP quiet. A storm of handelapping by the city plant. We care not. Is not ' broke off the sentence with a full

one ot our own number among the chosen few? "Might it not be proper to employ an expert accountant to examine the books of the company and an expert mechanical engineer to examine ihe eouinmeiit at rtit nhmr"" o-i-a i o;,H,r director in a tremulous voire 1!ar .,h,M1 , , n i,,f , I,., ,.,;,v t, ,..., j much the sound cau.ved In- the eonntv . 1 sheriff in blowing 'stumps in Greene township. j "A rat. a rat. I smell a rat"' and rob j onius of the yellow delivery wagons ! unsheathed his sword. "Hear with j me friends. If there he those among you who would counsel such, it is to j them I say yoti must have care. Know ! you not the electric trust has more j money behind it than those who tov j with ihe season-; nnd rl..-.il in o r, A . " r- anil coal1 Thiiiit xnu nof thn -:f n ! p,oyed experts; more monev from our ignoble -nmn,ti.ol.mi,H, . ' '""".' limn it- u- me:r eiutnug aespite wnat we might pay?. If you must have experts get local men. who are qualified, else you stand the chance to gPt those in league with the trust and we will not get a square deal." And then the meeting ended. It was an informal affair were not in great demand. The direc-j tors had assured the citv triumvirate! plus the controller that their attitude! ' ,s OIli : terost of fairness ami in the best in- ' of the city plant. The trinm- ; virs had had on claim: "We three. opportunity to e.Kveryone was satist'ied and no harm had been done. Some lingered and by admiring glar- ; displayed their affection for the ('itv plant while the on and off button near the door was turned and the council chamber was clothed again in Srygian darkness. DOCTORS ATTEND. Drs. Townseud and Roades attended the semi-annual meeting of the Indiana Osteopathic Society at Indianapolis yesterday. A number of prominent practitioners of osteopathy was in attendance. The program was of tecluiicai Datur-

PLATFORM FOR THE STATE

Columbus. O.. May 7. In a tumultous convention characterized by the most intense factional feelintr. the democrats of Ohio vestordav nominat

ed .ludson Harmon, of Cincinnati, for-j mer aifornev ueueral of the I'nited States tmder I.esHiet dieveland. for;COrjTEST N KENTUCKY

suvci iiim aim iiiiiiHM'ii v luiain Jennings Bryan and instructed the delegates at larse to the national convention to vote for him for president. A complete s'.-tte ticket was nominated and former dovernor .lames L. damphell, of Butler county, was indorsed for I'nited States senator. Delegates and alternates at large to the' national convention were selected. Na'ional issues were left to the Denver convent Ion and the platform adopted dealt so!elywirh state questions, attacliim the republican administration of various slate officers and indorsing especially referendum. i ho initiative and CONGRESS FAVORS TEMPERANCE IDEA Yesterday Afternoon in the ., i ... .. , , , HOUSe It VVaS VOteCl 10 Abolish Canteen. , LAWMAKERS ARE MOVED. APPLAUSE FOLLOWS LANDIS'S STATEMENT THAT HE HOPES TO SEE DAY WHEN THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SALOONS. Washington. May 7. -One of the most remarkable demonstrations ever witnessed in congress took place when The house of re pros nta; ives. 17 to l'" voted to bar the cnnte us from the national soldiers' homes. For the first ons weeping i niperance senti ment of the country found vent in the national law-making branch and the exciting proceedings of the afternoon, followed bv a vote of nenrlv four to one against the liquor traffic, showed! that congress is in tune with popular j ' opinion on this subject. The climax of emotion was reached j when Uepresentat ive i.andis of Indi-I ana closed the argument against the i canteen. He was in firif form and i spoke to tint benches and crowded gal leries. His excoriation of the whisky ?. v 7 """7" v" - ' "iu couuuci arm si uuieu ini 's"prl n;,v ' "rougni cm a revolution t i PP"r sent iment. expf'( t ,n livo 10 sp? ,hP riaJ'-" ho i i continued, "when there will pot be ai stop, although Mr. Landia had intended to add "except in the large cities." This outburst, showed there is a strong feeling on both sides of ihe house of representatives in favor of orohibit ion. Local Option Is Defeated. The vote was taken first on an amendment, offered by Representative Parsons of New York, giving the old soldiers in each of the homes the local option privilege of deriding by majority vote whether or not they want a canteen. This was voted down by a majority vote of l-pi to All the Indiana congressmen voted against the Parsons amendment except Keprcsentative Poster of the First District. Then the vu'e was taken on the 1 Hiiit'iKiM.em 01 nepiwiiiative iirreu ' of Massachusetts barring canteens from the homes. Representative Bar- ' tholrit of p.t. Louis, who lives in the ' shadow cf one of the biggest breweries j in the world, raised a point of order (gainst the Tirrell amendment, hut Representative Watson, in the chair, over ruled the point. CONFESS TO DYNAMITING BURLINGTON LIMITED Son of Poor But Honest Parents Goes Astray. Butte. Mont.. May 7. Lewis Ferris, aged 24. has confessed to dynamiting the Burlington Overland limited a few days ago. He is the son of poor but honest parents. Xo reason for his act is given. A reward of $.:.e0 was offered for the man's capture. HAS ENTERED SUIT. Isaac Winburn has entered suit in the Wayne circuit court vs. Louis Reich le and others to foreclose me-

Reports From Various State Conventions Show the Big Statesman as an Almost Universal Choice.

ADDS SPICE TO EVENT. Fairbanks Men There Raising A Disturbance of No Mean Proportions Alabama and Connecticut for Him. Washington, May 7. Yesterday ; was a banner day for Seeretar Taft. j He added twenty delegates to his list, the four at large from Alabama, four-' teen ! I'otn Connecticut and two from the first Alabama district. Frank A. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft's manager, said this gives Taft a total of 4."a delegates, already secured, or within forty-one of enough to nomina t e . The feature of the Connecticut convention was the dropping of United States Senators Frank H. Brandogee and Morton d. Huckley. They refused to declare their allegiance for Taft and were turned down, and Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of the Hartford Courant and Charles F. Hooker of Ansonia, a manufacturer and Connecticut national committeeman, were substituted in their places. The delegation is unanimously for Taft. Wyoming will instruct its six delegates for Taft today. Utah's convention is also held today. The sentiment there is against instructions. TAFT IN KENTUCKY. Republican Convention Adjourns Settle Many Contests. to Louisville, Ky.. May 7. With the Taft men in control of the machinery, the slate convention of the Kentucky republicans called to elect four delegates at large 10 the national convention last night took an adjournment until in o'clock this morning pending tiie report of the committee on credentials. The romniitteo h;ts contests from nearly half of the 119 counties in the stare to consider and settled down at :i o'clock ln The- afternoon for a continuous session until the convention reassembled today. The chief friction has developed in ! llP fifth concessional delegation (Louisville), where the Fairbanks men are contesting the entire rielega- ; tion They charge that the Louisville police were used for purposes of intimidation and other acts of fraud were committed. j It is planned to keep Senator-elect j Bradley at home on account of his aej five work for the Fairbanks organizat ion. ALABAMA FOR TAFT. National Administration Indorsed Republicans. by Hirmingha m, Ala., May The state convention of the Thompson or administration wine: of the Republican party was for Taft. Resolution's in dorsing his candidacy for the presidency and commending the national administration were adopted, and The delegates to the national convention were instructed to cast their votes at Chicago for the secretary of war. CONNECTICUT FOR TAFT. j j Twelve Out of Fourteen Delegates I nstructed. Hartford. Conn.. May 7 Twelve of the fourteen delegates from this state to the Republican national convention were instructed to vote for Secretary Taft. The administration of President Roosevelt was indorsed. MANIAC FIRE BUG GETS IN HIS WORK Four Lives Lost in New York Tenement Fire. xew vork. May 7. As th result of ail UieeUUIrti III e III rt irriir-mrrLi l, oil Orchard pie are street, Manhattan, four teodead. Eleven persons were severely injured. Heroic rescues prevented more deaths. There was a panic. It is the second incendiaryfire in the same vicinity this week. It is believed to be the work of a maniac fire bug. The Telephone is a

ycr Classified Ads to the Palladium office with the! least bother to you. Either Phcne-lI2I Automatic, ' I 2! Old. 1

WILL BE RENEWED SOON.

Work on the Centra! I'mon Telephone compan.Cs Mani street conduit 'em lias t 'nr," raril y i ..r-ed b--caue she mi p ply of conduit on band h.t been exl'.auMed The w oi k up utril the Mippiv of progi'esed rapid! from Twent-fsiM conduits gave out being extended Mieet ainioM to Kig.l ! elH h -il reel . Robert ("line, s -; p rin " e udeet "f construction, ha.-, informed local M mater Noah Million that he expect a fresh supply of conduits will be in the citv the latter pari of first of next Week the building of t h this week or the and that work on uudei ground ssI em will I ie renew c i I as i-oon as these conduit.- arrive. EARL HUNTINGTON AGAIN IN CUSTODY Most Jailed Man in County Captured by Police Last Evening. RECENTLY ESCAPED. HE HOWEVER WILL NOW HAVE TO FINISH HIS TERM OF 106 DAYS BEHIND THE BARS HAS HAD A LONG CAREER. Karl Huntington, who has served more time in the Ya no county jail than any other of the numerous police characters, is once more behind the bars. Last June Huntington was sent nil to serve nine months, for a cowardly assault and battery on ex-patrolman Will Golden. After he had served all but 1H days of his s-uitence. Hunt-! ington one day last fall quietly took ' leave of the jail, escaping from t'lat, institution by securing a key and opening a wall caie. ! No tears of sorrow were shot! over j his departure and the ofiieers hoped j that Huntington would never dare re-1 turn again to Richmond. A few days: after he escaped from the jail .Sheriff j Meredith w as notified that. Hiintinaton bad hern arrested in the railroad' yards at Columbus, O. The Columbus authorities wanted to know if he was; wanted here. j Sheriff Meredith wired hack th;H ; Huntington was an escaped prisoner: but that no one was pinintr away for his return. He was then sentenceil to a five months term in the Columbus work lou.-e. He was released from there about two weeks ago and since! that time he has been fliting in and; out of Katon and Richmond. ! I.nst evening a police officer enter-; eil the Sullivan saloon on South Ninth street and there he saw Karl standing! with his foot on t'n- rail drinking. He j was at once placed under arrest audi sent, 10 th--- county jail where lie wiM 1 be obliged to serve out his unexpired j time, lnf, days. j Within a year Huntington has twice; escaped from the county jail. Hi.3 first escape was mr.e bv climbintr , the prison walls. Two other i.inia'e: of the jail escaped with bitn but ai of them wore apprehended a lew dav: i 'ater at Katon. NEGRO IS RANGED BY INFURIATED MOB Committed Assault Upon a! White Man. Trxarkana. Ark.. Mav 7 .Ighn V.'i'lifjms. oi'i;ed. eharaed with assaulting a white man. nas hanged today by a mob. FIFTY LIVES ARE flOW IMPERILED . Ship Is Going to Pieces Near New York. New- York. May 7 The crew- of fifty I men on the sehooner Kickmeyers Is in j peril as the vessel is going to pieces. assistance, owing- to the heavy seas. VHling servant to bring

Interest on S20.000 Forwarded to State Official Cannot Be Secured and State Gets Benefit.

MONEY IS ASKED BEFORE TIME OF SETTLEMENT. All Counties in State Have Been Requested to Forward Money as May Installment Of Taxes. Coiiii'y Tieastner My ink har- seat a heck for ."O'.oj o to the . late treasurer. This :s in partial compliance with the order of th- state iHaMUcr for ill amount of sta'e lunu.- due the stat from Wayne county a tne May installment of taxes. The Mate treasurer asked for S.'io.ooo Treasurer My rick deemed this a little too nun h in view of the fact teere is j.ome doubt of tin lie 111 of ihe stale to ask for any of thi-i money previous to inc semi annual settlement time wha h is in July. The payment means a severe io.-s to tho county ln case it l-e held by the attorney-general and oiler attorneys who nave the mailer under ad isement. that the county is entitled to ictam the entire sum until settlement lime. Interest on sl'o.ihiii Mould look jti.-t a. good in the treasury of the county a a it will in thai of the stale. The stale treasurer has substituted demands to all county t rcasur'is asking for a settlement. In Marion county the treasurer is bucng the request at present and has refused to settle. It is belieed by some legal ant horn i Ihe new depository law obviates lhi necessity for Ihe May settlement which has been customary since P"',l. Tl'.i.-i latter law gave the state treasurer ih right to demand the payment of funds by county treasurers at any time. It is held that the depository law repeal the act of lsr.l. The depositary law pmvhtes for semi annual fpttlrtnent January 1 and July I. If the county treasure! are permitted to retain possession of the tax money until .Inly I. it will mean practically two months" interest to the counties. If it must be paid to the state treasurer on demand. it means the loss of this interest to thn county and iis u;i'.n by the .slate. If the state treasurer can enforce his denianrl in every county in the Male It meai.s a saving: of about cr month in interest to the stuto. It is because of the cpiestion of right that County Treasurer MyricK h;is held u the payment of one-third cf die sum asked for by the state treasurer. Marion county officials are leading th fight against the state treasurer in favor of the retention of the funds by 'h counties. Marion county has lcfo asked for an installment of ?K '.". RAUSH WILL MAKE RACE IH ELEVENTH Renominated by Democrats Today. Indianapolis. Ind.. May T - Congressman George Raush war. re-noni!na'eI today by acclamation :t the eleventh district democratic convention :'.t Locansport. EXPRESS MESSENGER SHOT BY BANDITS Entered Car on Rio Grande And Killed Man. Lenfr. Col,. May 7. Train robber entered an exprera car on th Rio (J ramie railroad this morning and ovei ;.wered the meii.--.tc per and tired .14i. The messenger resisted and was shot dead. The bandits Eped. THIS MAN NOT FOND OF WOMEN Thought He Has Only a Dozen Wives. New-burp. Mo., May 7. Lttcien Plikett was arrested on a warrant from Cook county, Illinois, charged with Zt H" reputed to be a wealthy nnancier. Authorities Jwiieve he has dozen wives in variou3 idacea. .