The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

| Senator Baker is making pull for night
Sessions.
/ 1t is said that seeds very seldom rot in
| Oklahoma soil.
Oklahoma City is luxurating with an
| impromptu toboggan slide.
The poetical Isenberg of Enid calls that
red sand down in theS trip golden dust -
Ponca City is preparing board of trade
circular showing the advantages of the
city.
Newkirk has been rash enough to claim
Kildare a suburb and somebody is go
! ing TO suffer.
Professor Blair of Enid has taken up
mind reading as a diversion and has be-
come an adept.
The Enid Wave believes that the tide of
negro emigration has turned from Okla
homa to Old Mexico.
The Perry Times avs that Noble county
is able to take care of all it's destitute
That is the way TO talk.
At the last accounts Mr.. Collins was
Spending his time in that part of the ter
ritcry where Isenberg is not
Allan Caruthers and II. NJ. Adams now
have a deed in their pocket for the Capt.
toll bank corner in Guthrie which is val
ued at $4,000
Lewis Hornbeck is out in an official an
nouncement in the Minco Minstrel to the
effect that he is tired of fighting Hoke
Smith and Will quit for while.
OF course the Indians are getting civil
lied. The Sac and Fox lobbyists went
broke in Washington just like any able
statehood advocate from Oklahoma or
Utah.
nasty show was given in Perry the
other night, but it was thought to have
been just common performance from
/ the advertisements and a majority OF the
men in town missed it.
The Newkirk Democrat says that it
doesn't want to create undue alarm,
but If this county seat goes any further 1t
viii be against the legislature. The moral
TO this is that the Democrat is Demo-
cratic and the Legislature is Republican
and the Democrat would be against it
anyway.
Guthrie Leader: The famous and much
Gtigated divorce case of Hill VS.. Hill was
terminated yesterday so far as the dis
! trict court is concerned, Judge Burford
who had been specially assigned 10 try
the case, rendering the decision. The
court reviewed the evidence at length and
found as a matter OF fact that the parties
were actually husband and wife ar the in
Stitution OF the suit. 1t will be remeIn-
bered that the defendant, John T. Hill
denied that he and the plaintiff were ever
married legally, although be admitted
that they had lived together as man and
wife for number of years. There were
about seventy-fve letters introduced in
evidence written by the defendant TO the
plaintiff and preserved by her, OF course.
These were written by him during his
frequent and continued absence from
home and denied yehemently the fact that
he was untrue to her. as she accused him
OF being, but stated that there was
woman of evil deSignes following him and
enieaVoring TO win his affections. The
attempts and assaults OF this siren he
claimed, however, 10 repel and was true
10 no one but his darling Dora, his Law
ful and welded wife. When on the wit
ness stand he testified that as soon as
he learned OF his flrst-the Indian-wifes
death, Dora was number ?. he Immediate
~ entered into contract Of ratrimony
with Fannie Roper, number ., completely
ignoring his relations with Dora ard
holding for naught her affections and
Claims upon him. Dora claimed they
were married in Nevada. Mo. in ISL.
which he streHuously denied. The court
found. however, that their conduct dur
knoweGged Taatrimoay warranted him
in finding that they were man and wife.
and as the defendant did not deny the
abandonment but in fact confessed IL
the divorce was granted with an allow
ance OF sSn alimcny in addition 10 syTo
already paid.