The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-20

MANS WIVES
IN QUARREL
Anna Catherine Denies lOuIsa's
Right to Live In The
House

Fiiisoufg, kas, June 20-The two
NlYes of Peter G, Sharp have g,lar
ttled and each is contending that she
Acne Is the legal wife ana Is demand
ting that The other 10 away. Peter
has tried hard to Keep Mis- wives from
qqafreliug He wishes to keep them
both and has not taken sides vita
either one openly But, behind an
ample tree In his earaen today, where
neither wife could see or hear he
whispered 70 reporter that ii the
two had to part he would choose the
younger wife.
Sharp lost hls first wife. Anna
Catherine, forty years ago. She was
Visiting In Chicago then and when
tPe great FIRE burned tne city he went
there 10 search for her but could not
find her For forty years, she. like
r.Yangeline. hunted the country IN
Iana down looking for him, and he
Nas travelling around looking for her
Al last, after forty years of search,
size found him through the pension
Office and she came from California
lo bis home here Sharp had another
and younger wife be had married nine
Years ago, Imposing bis first one To
re dead. but he said he was happy
70 have restored to him the wife oi
his youth and he hoped the two
Nires would get along well together
The Wives Differed
Ait arst Il seemed that the tive
wives would be good comrades. But
Anna Catherine was 10 years old;
her hair was as white as cardec
wool
Louisa on the other hand was 2l
years younger. and she was spry ant
always busy about the house, but i
was a little irving to have to wait
on the other wife all the time, espec
ially when the first wife was lnclin
cd 70 Dut on airs as ii she was thu
legal wife and Louisa was not.
AT last the storm broke. just few
DAYS ago, and the neiehbors heari
the wives snapping at each other.
You get out; you're not his wifi,
anyway
Get out yourself; I'm his wife ans
| YOU are not.
When q reporter went to the Sharl
home today the screen door was open
cd by Anna Catherine, the wife O
forty years ago.
Only One Wife, She Said
Where Is the other Mrs. Sharp?
asked the reporter innocentIy enough
g be sure. but with a sore lack 0
diplomacy as he quickly discovered
You see the only Mrs. sharp be
fore y0u." said Anna Catherine. An,
lher black eyes snapped.
7 mean Mrs Louisa" corrected tn,
Qporter
oh, ii YOU mean that woman VIII,
has been staying with my husband il
my absence. she Is In the kitchei
washing dishes"
Anna Catherine went on TO sa.
lhat she had consulted lawyers an,
they had told her that as she hai
never been divorced she was the law
ful welded wife of Peter G. Shari
and could enforce her claim any tim
she chose to do SO.
Must Show Respect, enc said
'0f course. / am not going to max,
tronble right now. she said 'Thi
other woman does the housowork ant
am willing that She should stay s,
long as she deports herself with be
ccming respect TO the head OF thii
household, which Is myself, But un
ldouhtediy the time must come whel
shall have TO mt my foot down anC
assert my rights, because she N be
ginning 10 show disposition TO usurl
lny rights
Sharp sides With Mo. 2
Peter was digging potatoes in th'
garden When he was consulted b,
Looked first around the edge OF tl'
apple tree that bid the house iron
View ana then be said
That woman hasn't the same dis
position she had when | married hel
fifty years ago She had a sweet dis
position then Now She is crank
SHE Ii trying to boss Louisa aronnt
as If she was the only wife BY gum
I've seen lawyer and he tells me
that irst wife Is not nay wife at all
When she disappeared forty years
ap0 and was gone for seven years
without me hearing a word from her
She WAS the same IS dead Legally
and lawfully dead, is what the law
says That's her standing.
Il want 'em to get along together
because I've got enough for both, and
I'd like for EN- to both live under
this root B,st II they can't agree 1T
have to build Anna Catherine a house
and let her live by herself, for I'm moi
going to give I'D Louisa II Anna
Catherine won't do that she'll have
to pack and 20. that's all"
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