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Girl Wants Divorce.Lawton, Okla., July 29.—Mrs. Mattie Beal Payne, the lucky telephone girl who seven years ago, in the opening of the Kiowa-Com-anchie country, drew claim No. 2 in tho land drawing, and who ha? become extremely wealthy by the sale of the lots, into which she divided her claim and oftered them as an addition to Lawton. Okla., is suing her husband, Charles Payne, for divorce, alleging cruelty and embezzlement.At the time of the opening of the Indian country, in 1901, Miss Mattie Beal was a telephone girl at Wichita, Kan. With the drawing of the number that entitled her to second choice of farms and opened up opportunity for immense wealth, suitors flocked to her side.Among these was Charles Payne, then bookkeeper for a lumber company at Chickasha. Miss Beal became Mrs. Payne and gave her husband the power of attorney to dispose of her property.The claim, a quarter-mlle strip of land, a mile long, extending along the south boundary of Lawton, was platted and sold In town lots. Payne's account swelled.He purchased ‘the lumber yard In which he formerly was bookkeeper established several branch yards in the southwest part of the state and bought large amounts of city property In Lawton and In othei towns.An elegant $2 5,000 residence is constructing.Charging that all of tho property now owned by Payne was purchasedwith her monef' and that he refuses to account to her, Mrs. Payne ask divorce andf has obtained Injunction preventing the sale of any of it pending divorce proceedings.Municipal Improvements at Once.Mayor Lon K. Bennett made aTlseale a sii for 1 appr take ornn tionOldcT!courmenmanBre\lira#• liaold,aasa hadamHe 1as aga rbofteinegibroi►.lavlt;i.ees
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New State Tribune
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1908
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