The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-05

Peop!e with DOmestlc Olmculties fOurihS
into the Territory in order to Get the
Matrimonial Yoke Taken from Their
Necks-Oklahoma City Appears to be in
the Lead as q Divorce Cornerstone Of
the New Cases-Russian's Long Hunt
for a Relatiye-General News of Okla
hOma Territory.
Guthrie, OF, Sep. 4.-Oklahoma City
at present leads all other cities in the
territory as divorce center. That
city reaps most of the profits from the
divorce law, now famous from one end
of the land to the other. 1t is argued
that Oklahoma City will become so
wellknown in the matter that people
with domestic differences to patch will
eventually swing over to some town less
known in this direction.
But at present Oklahoma City carries
off the palm, several divorces being
filed every day in the week,
Four suits for divorce were filed yes
terday in the district court there.
Nellie Rains wants TO be separated
from Joseph E. TO whom she was mar
ried at Vernon, Neb. She claims that
he is guilty of neglect of duty in fail
ing to furnish her with proper support
and afterward he cruelty abandoned
her.
w. r. Houcher was married to Rebec
ca j., in Johnson county, Missouri, in
1884. He claims that while in Califor-
MIA She deserted him while ne was sick
and among strangers, and that he has
since known her not, and wants the
court to cut the marriage bond short
off.
At Detroit, Mich, in 1865. George
Prentiss and Mary f. PrentisS were
wed. Since that time as per th1 formers
complaint, Mary has become very ex-
travagant in her ways, and has reduc-
ed him to poverty and then refused to
live with him. AS a further cause he
believes his wife, aided and abetted by
her two daughters, have circulated
scdndalous statements about him.
Frank B. Earl VS.. Lura Earl; plain
abandonment; divorce wanted.
THREE RAPES REPORTED.
Three rapes are reported from the
Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw Nations
A Uche Indian, while drunk, assault
ed a white woman, the wife of we'll
to-do farmer living on Tiger creek,
northeast of Muskogee. He was cap
tured by mob Of neighbors and would
have been treated to Lynch justice
had not the marshals arrived in the
nick of time. The Indian, Fish Hawk.
by name, was taken to Fort Smith for
trial. Joe Moore, living near Vinita,
between fifty and sixty years of age
was arrested by Deputy Heck Bruner
for assaulting a nine year old girl.
Arthur Holt, the last of the Infamous
trio, assaulted a fifteen year old girl
near Lehigh and was bound over to
Paris by the Commissioner at Atoka.
CAME A LONG WAY.
At Ell Reno the Caddo hotel register
bears the name of ]. Paugle, as nearly
as it can be translated into English.
Mr.. Paugle accompanied by his wife
and four children, came direct frcE st.
Petersburg, Russia, and none of the
family can speak q. word Of English.
Through an interpreter it was learned
that while in Russia the gentleman re-
ceiVed a letter from his brother asking
him to meet him in the Indian terrific
~. He started, and upon arriving in
New York was surprised to learn that
the Indian Territory was larger than
the average European nation The au-
thoritieS at Castle Garden, however,
We're all right, and told them that the
city of the two territories was
FL Reno. To this city he came, and,
has succeeded in locating
his brother, about one hundred miles
west of Ell Reno.