Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-04-15
DIVORCE SUIT.
Mrs. Herard Wants a Decree Set
Aside and Alimony Given.
4 GIRLS BODY FOUND IN The RIVER.
The Mystery Surrounding Miss Bauer's Dis
appearance Partially Cleared Up-Mrs.
SANKEY'S nsurance-Arrested for
Serving Oleomargarine.

PERRY, Ok, April 1O.-Mrs. NJ. Pau
line Herard, wife Of j. Virgil Herard,
filed suit here to set aside her hus-
bands decree Of divorce which was is
sued six months ago. She alleges
fraud and asks for $4,000 alimony.
Herard is called 1.-THE Cattle King" OF
the Indian territory and is worth ST.
100000. He is Frenchman and lived
in New York and Chicago until II, when
he joined the Sioux Indians and lived
many years with Sitting Bull. When
80 years old he took up his abode in
Kansas City, Mo-, and later mar
ried an Usage Indian girl, who died.
Then he married Mrs. M. p Martin, in
Portsmouth, O. She was of noted
family. Herard has ten cattle ranches
in Usage Indian nation and at one time
was connected with Fisk, Keck 4 Co.,
Kansas City. He obtained divorce
from his wife last October on the
ground OF abandonment, and now his
wife asks to have the decree set aside
on the ground that her husband prom
Used her $4,000 if she would not ap-
pear against him when he obtained his
decree, which she now claims he re-
fuses to pay.
A GIRLS BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER.
ST. LOUIS, April 1O.-The body found
in the Mississippi, Thursday, has been
identified as that Of Pauline Bauer,
who disappeared last November. Miss
Bauer was telegraph operator. just
before her disappearance she COM
planned of continued annoyance from
an unknown man. When, five months
ago, her hat and jacket were found
upon the river bank, the murder theory
was suggested and worked upon, but
no clews were found. The body is too
much decomposed to permit the estab-
lishment of ante-mortem injuries. The
only defnable wound-on the skull
might have been caused by propeller
blade. Miss Bauer was guardian for
her younger brothers and sisters Her
unexplained disappearance has pre-
vented the administration of the estate.
MRS. sTANLEY's INSURANCE.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10. Mrs. Lei
and Stanford Yesterday signed the con-
tract by which her life is now insured
for 81, 900, 900. The policy was, she said,
TO be the largest ever issued, and was
written by the Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of New York. BY the terms of the
contract Mrs. Stanford is to pay an an
nual premium of $l7O,OOO, and upon
her death 81, 100000 will be paid by the
company to the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
university. Should she live ten years,
and continue her annual payment of
premiums, the university will receive
at her death Ss,OOOOOO instead of one.
FOR SERVING oLEoMARGARINE.
DAYTON, O., April 1O.-Col. J. B.
Thomas, governor of the soldiers home,
was arrested yesterday charged with
violating state law by serving cleo
margarine at that institution without
displaying a placard stating the fact
I 1t will be a test case, as it Isl question
whether the law can be enforced in the
home, which is United States reser-
walton. He will have hearing on
Tuesday.
NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE ADJoURNs.
LINCOLN, Neb., April 1O.-The Ne
braska legislature adjourned yester-
day afternoon, after a session extend
ing Is days beyond its allotted time.
The last bill passed was the initiative
and referendum, which went through
the senate just before closing.