The Holbrook news., 1922-06-23
Respondent All That Was Left of Moiave Indian After Mix
 Up With Dynamite.
JOHNS JOKES FELL FLAT
Flapper Named Starlight Was Co., respondent and Jury Included Such Prominent Citizens as Rattlesnake
 Charlie and Gold Tooth Nellie.

Oatman, Ariz.-This town is just
 luieting down after the decision in the divorce case of Oatman vs. Oatman.
 John Oatman, Mojave Indian, was sued by his wife Estelle. They were married in 1903 and have ten chill dren. Six years ago John used dyna- mite in working a claim in the Oat- man gold mining district. Through some misunderstanding with the dy- namite John lost one eye and most of his scalp and was obliged to call in Doc Hoag Hoag"-to pull out all that were left of his teeth and give him a set of artificial ones.
 These, with a glass eye and lux urious wig, made John practically as good as new. But Estelle seemed to feel from that time on that some thing was missing from the husband she once knew.
 Johns Little Jokes.
 Something little less than love seemed to fill Johns heart too as the years rolled by. Bootleg peddlers found John a willing customer, and he tasted deeply, as Estelle said after ward, of coffin varnish, forty rod and sheepherder'S delight. BuOyed up by these, John tried to make Estelle's life less humdrum by sneaking up be- hind her in the dark after he had stripped and rubbed phosphorus over his body. Instead of being pleased, she screamed. He then tried to amuse her by doing the old tribal dances of the Mojaves. This also fell fiat. Noth- ing seemed to please her.
 The ten children were little better. From time to time John would sud- denly remove his glass eye and snatch off his wig, exposing his dynamited scalp. but they only bawled. Even this harmless amusement was denied him at last, for he had been in the habit of putting up his glass eye in poker game. If he lost he simply ordered another by mail. But event ually the firm that sent them to him refused to give him any more credit and he was obliged to go about with no glass eye at all.
 While he was in this pathetic con- dition his wife cooked up dinner of jack rabbit for him one day and he ate thunder the impression it was fish, What made this truly serious was the fact that the Yavapai tribe, to which EStelle belongs, always eat jack rabbit. but the Mojaves never do. This has been understood for hundreds of years by both tribes and never To- lated until Estelle's act. The substi- tuition preyed on John frightfully, and he worked late at night making home brew from cactus.
 About this time John and his wife's father, the old gentleman known as George Forest-of-C Cattle, sat down on the dirt floor one night during Es- telle's absence to stage a friendly lit tie battle between tarantulas and vim agrones, which bite like tarantulas or worse, cooping the contestants in Es- telle's best sugar bowl. John alleged afterward that the old gentleman se- cretly sprinkled ant powder all over Johns tarantulas, thereby causing them to curl up and die at critical in the fight, and that as a re- suit of this underhand work he lost to his father-in-law all the money he made banning gold during the previ- OuS summer.
 Aversion to Wife's Mother.
 When Mrs. Oatman returned home John annoyed her by scratching on the soles of his bare feet. She wanted him to be nice to her Mary Forest-of- Cattle, but he replied that no orthodox Mojave Indian ever looked at a mother-in- law, pointing out that he hadn't looked at the old girl since their in 1903, and stated further that he didn't intend to look at her till the Colorado river froZe over.
 Shortly after this Estelle began to