Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1911 — “Busted” Cupid Kicked Out In Cold [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“Busted” Cupid Kicked Out In Cold

MUSKOGEE, OKLA.—A sleepy and “busted” Dan Cupid, kicked out into the world because of his poverty, one morning recently wearily “hoofed" it along the ties to Oktaha, whence he had corne a few short hours before. Little Jenny Hosmer, an Indian maiden of sixteen years, who had eloped from Oktaha with Wesley Moran, about her own age, was not long in deciding that a couple cannot live on love alone, and ten hours after the elopment had begun the young lover, tired and dejected, was returning to the plow he had hurriedly left standing in the field, having been given his dismissal by his little sweetheart Jenny Hosmer, although only sixteen, is heiress to a thousand acres of land near Oktaha. The entire town site of Wiebert belongs to her, having been given it in a will by a relative. When she grows up Jenny will be rich, but riches could not compare with her love for Wesley Moran. To

wait several years was out of the question. And so Moran left his plow standing in the furrow, the team still unhitched, and in.his shirt sleeves eloped with Jenny Hosmer, who wore nothing but a little dress of cheap calico. Being without a penny, the two walked along the railroad ties to Muskogee. When this city was reached at four o’clock In the morning Jenny had already tired of a poverty-strick-en love, and she “sent Wesley back to Oktaha.” Taking the maiden at her word, back to Oktaha Moran walked. The girl’s aunt and guardian, Mrs. John Newberry, who came to the city look-, ing for the girl, found her at the home of J. R. Redding on Oak street. When the aunt rode up before the house in the police patrol, Jenny climbed in, smiling, but said not a word. On the long ride back to headquarters she refused to answer questions, but later told a reporter that she had sent Wesley home. In the same little calico dress in which she eloped, Jenny was taken back to her home In Oktaha. The two came to Muskogee, the girl said, because she liked to see a big city, and Wesley did, too. Jenny says she is sixteen, but she looks not more than thirteen.