Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-25
ASTOUNDS WHOLE WEST.
The Troubles in Matrimony Of Buffalo
Bill.

North Platte, Neb., March 24-.nter-
est excited by the announcement that
divorce proceedings had been insti-
tuted by Col. w. +. Cody against Lou
lisa Cody does not abate. Up in Cody,
Wyo., in Cheyenne, where husband and
wife have many friends, in Denver,
where they are also well known, every
where, in fact, that old-time Western
ers reside. the Cody troubles are an
unending topic of discussion. And
wherever the Wild West shows have
gone are admirers of the famous oil
scout who hesitate to believe that right
is not on his side. But Mrs. Cody,
home loving and quiet, with nothing
of the spectacular in her lii living al
ways outside the light of publicity, has
her friends, and they are warm ones.
One of the things that puzzle those
who hest know Col. Cody is the indf-
ference he has shown to the dying
wishes of his daughter, Mrs. Arta
Cody Thorp. Col. Cody was always
thought to have great love for his chill
dren; in fact, one reason ascribed for
the divorce proceedings is his desire to
have Il male heir. And yet within q
few weeks of his daughters death the
father had instituted proceedings
against the mother, although Mrs.
ThOrp's last prayer was that a recon-
citation might be effected. Indeed.
those who saw her in her last illness
say that though death came just as the
outlook for happy life was most
promising because of her recent mar
riage to a man of thoroughly congeni-
al tastes, her greatest thought was of
her parents rather than her husband
that in the hope of bringing about a
reconciliation she most wanted to live.
During her last illness she wrote to
her mother telling what she hoped to
accomplish. When she heard that her
father was determined to seek di-
vorce she wrote. despairingly asking:
HAS God forsaken u.s." She died tight
ly clasping her fathers picture and
praying that he might give up his de-
termination. Anxious friends believed
that when he learned his daughters
wish he would reconsider his intentions,
but they had no weight.
There are many family friends in
Cheyenne and from there comes the re-
port that Col. Cody has come under the
sway of a woman who has determined
10 hetOIlle tHe vile Ol the Ola scout.
buffalo Bill is now nearly GO years
old, but rumor has it that he is COM
pleteIy infatuated with a young and
extremely beautiful woman. A resident
of Cody, prominent in politics during
the last campaign and q close friend
of the colonel. says the woman is re-
markably attractive.
Concerning Col Cody. a great difference
of opinion as to his true character seems
! to exist among the old settlers who have
known him since the country was Young
Some maintain that he is a sterling char
acter and that he is entitled to the great
credit and honors that have been heape Il
say he has endured much from Mrs Co
dy. who, though n fine woman, has ways
that are unSpcakably trying They say
she has Inundated MIN in the presence
of friends repeatedly. But there are 9TH
ers, and they are men who knew the life
| ton with it, who assert that his early
! life will not bear close investigations Per-
haps Col Cody did not realize that with
! the hl1ng of mere paper in the little
court house at Cody he would spring into
a public notice greater than he ever
ne did not imagine that his wife would
come forward with counter charges But
April her attorneys. Wilcox &, Halligan.
Will file an answer and cross coz plaint
Absolute denial will be made Of the
charge thai the wife tried to poison her
so ridiculous that it is likely little atten-
ton will be paid to it. That the attorneys
intend to make a good fight and detailed
one is evidenced by the work already
done.
John F. Halligan, one of the attorneys