The 'Beastly Indian Country' Divorce

Yesterday, a wandering fresco painter who resides in Seattle filed for divorce from his wife, Dorothy. They lived in Hamburg, Germany, for five years in happiness until the husband lost his business. He set sail for Brazil, then later for America, asking his wife to come and start life anew in the United States. Dorothy flatly refused, claiming she was not going to come out to America to be scalped by Indians. Wickman then took their three children and came across the ocean. Years later, he sent his eldest son and a friend to offer her a home in America. She slammed the door in the boy’s face and told him that she would see herself dashed alive before she would set foot on the steamer. In a letter introduced as evidence, Mrs. Wickman informed her husband that she wanted to hear no more 'of that beastly Indian country' and thanked him to quit writing letters. Judge Humes gave the unfortunate fresco painter an absolute divorce and the custody of his three grown sons.