The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
DIVORCE In DANGER
HOUSE AT WASHINGTON HOVE
AGAINST OKLAHOMA.

fore a Divorce eau be Secured-People
at Guthrie are Indignant and Declare
That Dakota Lawyers are at the Bottom
of It-Mr and Mrs. Price Have a Big
lime Settling Up Their Matrimonial
Difficulties.
Guthrie. o. T, March 10.-A dispatch
from Washington tonight says that to-
day. on motion of Gillett (Rep. Mass),
a bill passed in the house making it one
years continuous residence" in the ter
titory for those desiring TO obtain d.
vorce in the territory. The bill is aim
ed at Oklahoma territory.
There is great Indignation over the
matter. It is known that Dakota law
yers are at the bottom of the scheme 70
knock Oklahoma out of the divorce
trade, and the lawyers here resent it.
Oklahoma will send on lobby to
Washington and try to hold the bill up
| in the senate.
HAVING MUCH TROUBLE.
James G. Price, formerly OF Perry,
where ne was chairman Of the RepuDA-
can central committee, a lawyer and
real estate man, and who now resides at
Cleveland has sued his wife, Mrs. Purdy
| Price, for divorce.
Mr.. Price and Miss Seeds were mar
ried about one year ago, and on the
14th of January, Mr.. Price separated
and that day filed a suit for divorce
alleging incompatibility of temper. The
next day Mr.. and Mrs. Price met and
spent the night trying to settle their dill
! ferences, and really during the night
! they became as loving as two cooling
doves, but the next day they fell out
again; the suit for divorce was pushed.
| Mr.. Price employed the we!l-known at
! torney, Charles Stewart, TO defend her
| case and Charley Immediately applied
| for alimony against Price, and Mrs.
Price and Attorney Stewart then went
| to Cleveland to serve the papers. Price
| became apprised of his old spouse com
| ing and the object of her visit and he
| left Perry and came to Guthrie. Law
{ yer Stewart was not to be outdone, so
I he and his client followed. They went
! to Perry and then came to Guthrie, but
| Price eluded them and went back 10
| Cleveland. Price knew of the visit OF
/ his wife and Stewart and on his return
! TO Pawnee he filed an amended petition
| to his divorce suit charging adultry OF
| Mrs. Price and her attorney, claiming
they occupied the same room at the
same hotel in uGthrie. Charlie Stew
4 art was too good a lawyer to be caught
that way, so he filed an amended ans
wer, denying the false accusations and
exhibited an AFFIDAVIT from Frank kress
a deputy marshal, that ne slept in the
| same room and in the same bed and in
different hotel in this city from that of
Mrs. Price.
VANDERPOOR FREE.
| In the district court yesterday the
| jury in the case of Ed Vanderpool, who
| is charged with the murder of Luke G..
Ballard, at Langston. last year, return
I ed verdict of acquittal The jury was
out but twenty minutes. The whole
day was consumed in hearing argu-
ments of counsel, Attorneys Herod, Ov-
erstreet and Thurston, for the defense,
and Gardner and Foster for the prose
cution. Gardner made a strong speech
| which seemed to make a great impress
! sion on the jury. The leading plea,
/ however, was made by Judge Herod in
| the behalf Of the defendant. At all
| time a fluent and fOrceful speaker, the
! judge exceeded the expectations of the
most sanguine yesterday in pleading for
/ the life of the Defendant. His argu-
ment was logical and convincing, his
/ delivery impressive. and the facts cited
! in line with the evidence, doubtless did
much towards influencing the jury in its
decision. The outc6me Of the case is
a decided victory for Mr.. Herod's firm.
CONCERT BLOWN UP.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal
has the following: Mr.. Kalbrenner,
| director of school district in the south
west corner of Cass township, was in
! the city today andireported that on Fri
day night while the colored school was
/ giving a concert, their school house was
wrecked by an explosion OF dynamite
cartridges placed under it. BY the mer-
est change no one was hurt.
'sThe colored school house in the dis
trict is very small, and Lille Austin.
| the colored teacher, got permission of
| the board to hold an exhibition in the
white school house. The exhibition was
| held Friday night, there being in at
! tendance about forty colored people and
twenty white.
/ THE teacher had Just stepped off the
platform when an explosion occurred
| that shattered the side Of the house and
/ the platform where the teacher had
stood ten seconds before. Following
| the first explosion was a slight explosion
| on the other side and right under a half
! dozen children.
! Great excitement prevailed, and eX-
| ecrat ton upon the Williams who perpe-
! trated the hellish deed were heard on all
| sides, but nothing could be doRe0<o run
| down the perpetrators that night, ow-
/ ing to the darkness
THE folfNtisa ttay II was discovered
| that two dynamite ca tridges had been
Z I l.Fafo
/ side of the platform on which the chill
! dren recited. The one exploded with
/ fearful effect previously stated. but the
other one was not placed far enough
! under the house 70 do much damage,
! the large, open space under the house a,
! that point also saving the building from
] the force of the shock. Had the sec0nd
I cartridge done the work il was meant
/ 10 do, six children would have been kill
ed or seriously injured.
'sThe people of the district are very
much wrought up over the outrage, and
| will use every endeavor 10 discover the
! perpetrators. who are liable 10 peni-
! Tertiary sentence Of ten years.
NORTHWEST Is FOR nI'KINLEY
As in the Southwest His Name is the signal
for Cheers.
Minneapolis. Mimi, March 10. - The
! northwest Is solid for Mckinley. There
| Is no doubt about that. Wisconsin,
Minnesota. both the Dakotas. and Mon
tana are all TO be relied on 10 be IN line
| for the Ohio leader at the proper time.
/ Thisis an unbiased view. ard taken by
one who has had the best opportunities
1 for reviewing the field, from c0Eversa-
| tons with leading men, from the eN-
! pressed opinions OF the country and city
press, from the moves made IN locas
/ politics and conventions, and from ar
/ uOiurarS