Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — DEMAND FOR KANSAS WOMEN [ARTICLE]

DEMAND FOR KANSAS WOMEN

Alberta Man Emissary to That State to Secure Wives for Hunters and Lumbermen. Ottawa. Kan. —“We want marriageable women,” was the substance of a message received here by W. R. Hutchinson, from Alberta, Canada. “We understand that Ottawa has lota of good looking widows and girls of marriageable age, who haye no Immediate prospects or intentions in a matrimonial way.” Oliver Moore, formerly of Ottawa, now of Alberta, who is here on a visit, was the bearer of the message. He was in earnest, too. “There are no women at all up there,” said Mr. Moore. “It has been too cold for them. Why, It has been 60 degrees below zero for a Week now." The hunters and lumbermen of Alberta have organized themselves into a society for the purpose of mutual assistance in a search for wives. Mr. Moore, who came down to Kansas on business, was given full authority to bargain for as many womef as he could get. He agrees to take all who will go under the promise of being married inside of 30 days after they are there. He has gone to counting noses here, with the assistance of his friends, and he has found 82 who could “just as well go as not.” Several women have been interviewed and have given their consent to carry on a correspondence with some of the most likely Canadian nimrods. It is rumored that Ottawa is going to lose some of its feminine population and that a few trunks are being packed with “dainty things” just now. This sudden demand for wives has caused the young men of Ottawa a good deal of nervousness, and Judge Chaffee of the probate court has lowered the price of marriage licenses from |3 to f 2.36. Moore said he would probably extend a similar invitation to other cities shortly in behalf of his brothers in the north. "And,” said he, "Kansas City will likely be next on the list. Of

course Ottawa would be first, as it was my home town. But there are no better looking girls on earth than those in Kansas City.” Moore is a /wealthy land owner and lumber man in Alberta.