The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.


election as mayor of Perry.
Oklahoma's poet laureate, Mcnamara,
was in Perry the other day.
The first issue of Sam Smaps paper had
poem in it written by himself.
Five-Fiugered Tennessee Bill has been
scooped in by the authorities at Perry.
Mattox is said to be on his way to Mex
leo. He might take Tom King along.
S. IL Foss, who was killed at Guthrie
last week, had his life insured for So. 900
1t looks very much as though Clyde
Mattox had lot Of underground wires
to pull.
Charles Beacon of Oklahoma City has
fallen heir TO 10000. An uncle in Denver
left it to him.
Anyhow. Sam Small is the first Okla
homa editor with grit enough to publish
his own poetry.
Oklahoma will not compromise with
any gang of outlaws. That is too much
after the Missouri style.
Clyde Mattox has made threats that if
he ever got out again there were some peo-
pie in Oklahoma that he would shoot on
sight. He is out.
Colonel Montgomery Bryant command
er at Fort Sill has asked to be put on the
retired list. He has served more than thirty
years in the army.
Mort Bixler and Postmaster johnson
had set-to at Norman last week. We'd
nesday, but it was over before Governor
Renfrow could interfere.
Ell Reno Herald: The regular annual
issue of annuity goods to the Cheyennes
and Arapahoes is in progress at the
agency. Each Indian receives a complete
outfit of clothing. including hats. shirts,
overcoats and suits of clothes for the men
and boys, and gingham, flannels, hose,
sheetings and shawls for the women ard
girls. 1t will take about two weeks work
to supply the g. ,140 Indians, Heretofore
they all received annuities a: Darlington
only, but through the efforts OF Captain
K. A. Woodson, acting Indian agent, the
department has seen the advantage Of
distributing the goods at other points
more accessible to the members of the
tribes that reside from fifty to one hun
dred and fifty miles from the agency, there
fore supplies will also be issued at Seger
colony ald Cantonment this week The
goods will be freighted to these points by
the Indians themselves, who will receive
good rates for hauling same.
New York Evening Post: A Jaw firm of
Perry, Okla, is advertising by letters to
the profession and to the public the un-
usually lax divorce laws of that territory,
which, by the way, is seeking to become a
state. Residence of the person applying
for divorce may be limited to three
months, as in South Dakota
before the code was amended.
The causes for which divorces may be
granted are ten in number, among which
are abandonment for one year and gross
neglect of duty" The other causes obtain
in many of the states. Gross neglect of
duty is the provision relied upon to fit
almost any case of domestic infelicity.
Service upon a nonresident may be made
personally or by publication. There is
said to be no statute requiring corroborat-
i've proof, as in South Dakota. Que clause
in the law is particularly significant. Il
is: "When the parties appear to be in
equal wrong the court may, in its discre-
ton, refuse to grant divorce" from
which 1t may be inferred that the court
could grant divorce where the parties
were both in fault. Altogether. the Okla
homa divorce laws seem to be as disgrace
full AS were those in Dakota in its most
notorious days.