The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-06
THE CRY FOR WIVES.
Ranchers Appealing TO Easter,

James Creal. a wealthy cattleman
and ranchman from Wyoming, came to
| Omaha and occurred the services OF
| Rev. Charles Savidge. Mr.. Savidge
announced from his pulpit that a
wealthy ranchman wanted a wife, The
newspapers got hold of the story and
printed it. Within three months Creel
received more than 10000 letters from
women in every civilized country. All
wanted to marry him. And he mar
ried girl from Indiana.
Over in the Big Horn basin in Wyo-
| ming there is a long, fertile valley
called Gray Bull Valley, from Gray
Bull river. All the ranchers were
wealthy, but there were only half a
dozen who had wives. Cinnamon were
| hired to take care of the houses But
these ranchers one day got together
and 500 Of them formed the Gray Bull
Matrimonial Club. They advertised In
Eastern papers for wives, telling of the
| advantages of being a ranchman's wife
and describing the country. In two
weeks the government had to send ex-
| ira help to that postoffice.-T The post
master was fairly swamped with mail.
| And all of it was addressed to the sec
rotary of the matr. monial club That
was nearly two years ago, and since
| that time there have been more than
400 marriages in the BIZ. Horn Basin.
Up at Chadron, Neo., the Northwest
ern Railroad has had an eating house
at the depot. A dozen girls are EN-
ployed there 1t is in the heart of the
great cattle country and there are hun
dreds of cowboys and ranchers in that
section. The manager of that eating
| house changes forces about once every
month The girls don't leave the coun-
| try-they simply marry and become
queen OF some big ranch--or settle
on a homestead with their husbands.
| Out at Laramie, WyO., the young men
formed a matrimonial club and placed
advertisements in Eastern papers, ask.
| ing for wives. There are number of
| girls in Laramie, and these -eld meet
ing to express their indignation that
/ TIT DOJo cnOuAu 81 t4otW ttAt WHICH,
| there were unmarried girls III their
| own toyn The result was that the
| girls organized club to cnc-,urage the
local young men to choose wives nearer
home. At the same time they placed
counter advertisements wherever the
men had advertised, advising girls to
stay at home and calling attention to
| the fact that there were plenty of I'm.
married girls in Laramie.
Sometimes the matrimonial hunt IL
old Jim Dickinson, living near Huron,
$. ID. Old Jim is wealthy-and he had
| four daughters. Something seemed the
matter that his girls could not get
married. So old Jim inserted an lad"
calling attention to his ghls, and prom
ised to do the right thing for the young
men who married them-provided the
men themselves were all right. One
stipulation was that the applicant was
to prove his worth by working on the
| old mans farm for six months before
he should declare himself TO either of
the girls.
The first applicant was a graduate of
an agricultural college, and before old
Jim knew what had happened he had
planned so many improved methods OF
farming that the old man relented and
let him marry when he had been on the
farm only three months And he was
| given 800 acres of land as a wedding
present.
The next one was a civil engineer in
search OF health, and when his thine"
was up he had put in so many mechan-
zeal conveniences that the old man
scarcerly had any work at all to do.
But the standard had become so high
on ole Dickinson's farm that none of
the II .ver men were considered "e igi-
ble.' and there are yet two good-loolling
girls, with lots of money, waiting for
husbands<fo come along and claim
| them. ~
When girl or woman gets out
among the ranchers and cowboys in the
sparsely settled districts of the West
ern States, if she doesn't get married
within rhree months it's not because
she has not had a dozen opportunities
to do so, but simply because she doesn't
want to marry-or that the right man
has not yet arrived.-Omaha Dispatch
to the New York Press,