The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-17

FIR
ming Mining Co., and afterwards worked OF
the Whippoorwill mine, on Carpenter Greek
From there 1 went to Benton, then to Sur
River, and chopped so cords Of wood on ths
to.Helena and went thence to Elkhorn, where
Izboueht q team of Kelley and hauled wood
Tor the mine that summer Then went te
Anaconda and worked for Hoge, DAILY 8 Co.
digging several cellars for them. I kept my
team In Chas. BuBey's stable, and got q jot
for 1t hauling wood on Mill creek for Gideon
Joiner, but being told the pay was uncertain.
! 9 to Butte and sold my team to q man
named Davis, and then went to Glendale,
burnt coal, and Afterwards to Soap Gulch,
where I drove quartz team for John T. Muir
ply, Of Helena. Came back to Butte and
hauled wood there for Chance Fosdick.
While there 1 became acquainted with
Mrs. McCluskey, and in the course of two
months we were married. She was a widow
at the time I married her and has three full
grown sons-John, Henry and Isaac, and a
grown daughter, Annie, all now living at
Grand Falls, New Brunswick. I was mar
ried to her July 9Th, 1886. In August I went
to Granite and worked for John Hickey,
foreman of the Blaine mine. I afterwards
worked for George Lump, hauling wood to
the Granite mine. Winter coming on 1
went to chopping wood for the Granite
mine, as I could make more than miners
wages at such work. Ny wife did not come
to Granite until nearly two months after I
got there. We lived about two miles from
Granite in the timber that winter until June,
when VIZ moved down close to Granite,
where I had built a small house under the
promise of work from Capt. Plummer. I
had been ailing all winter from a hurt 1
received while hauling wood for Mr.. Lump,
which caused enlargement of the liver, and
from my usual weight OF. 22O pounds I had
fallen off to about 40 pounds. I was not
able TO do half the amount of work I had
been accustomed to, and could not rest much
at night. My wife and L were getting along
as we'll as / could wish. I thought a great
deal of her and she seemed to think a great
deal of me, which I did not doubt.
After we moved into the house I had
built Messrs. Scott, Conley, Steward and Ike
Smith put up a tent just a few steps below
my house and were "baching" and sleeping
there. My wife was seen to 60 into their
tent and come out with a box under her arm.
Conley saw her do this and he afterwards
went to the tent and found she had taken a
small clock and a looking glass belonging to
him; also a box containing some "ladies'
cloth" and other small articles belonging to
Smith. Mr.. Smith afterwards, in my alb
sence, came and spoke to her about her TAX
ing the things. She denied it. When /
came home she told me what Conley had said
to her. I then asked her if she had taken
anything out of the boys tent, and she said
she had not. I then told her if Conley came
there again in my absence to throw hot
water on him. In a few days after this Stew
ard and Conley were leaving the camp for
the Flathead country, and as they were
passing my house my wife was standing in
the door. Conley said to her "Mrs. Scott,
when you look in that looking glass of mine,
think of me-" She told me- this when I came
home. 1 then asked her again if she had
taken anything from his tent, and she again
said "No." ] replied 81 wished I had been
at home when Conley was leaving, that I
would have made it hot for him" At that
time I did not believe she had taken any
thing from Conley. He had left that day,
and SO there was no more said about it until
ten days after this, when Mr.. Smith came to
me and told me my wife had taken some
"ladies' CLOTH and other articles of his and
a clock and looking glass of Conley's; that
Conley had seen her coming out of their tent
with the stuff. He said he was going after
the constable to have the house searched.
Says I "No; come right in now and you may
search the house, or l will search it IN your
presence" He went in with me and I asked
my wife then if she had anything belonging
to Smith or Conley and she said MOI
Smith and 1 then went through everything
in the house and when we came to my wife's
valise we found all that belonged to Mr..
Smith, but did not find Conley's clock or
glass. I asked my wife if those things were
Smiths and she said eyes," I sunk into a
chair and said to Smith: "You can say what
you like to her; I have nothing to say" He
gave her a good talking to. After Smith
left 1itold my wife if 1 had $50 I would leave
the camp and her too. Smith left for Helena
anG I have not seen him since. He is an in
surance agent. Several days after this I told
my wife if she had the clock and glass to get
them. She went out and brought them in
She never did tell me why she took them. I
told her everybody would be talking about
her now. She seemed to be sorry then. If I
recollect this was last September.
She never was the same woman to me after
that. She would drink all the whiskey she
could get, and when under the influence of
whiskey was very abusive. While matters
were running along in that way / made up
my mind to sell what little I had and send
her to her folks, seeing I could have no
peace with her. Mr.. Proven and wife were
my near %neighbors. He was working on the
Granite mine. l asked him to see if he could
find me a buyer for my house and what there
was there. This was in November-on Sat-
urday, the 10Th. I was very sick at the time,
in fact, had bad a change of clothes put on
me a few evenings before, not expecting'to
live through the night, and had been sick, as
1 have stated, all summer. On this Saturday
evening my Wife was on one of her sprees and
was talking very loud and using bad Ian
guage. Mrs. Proven, hearing the loud talk,
came in. This made her worse. Says I:
'.You will rouse all the %neighbors." She
called me a name, and I slapped her mouth
with the back of my hand. She went out of
the house cursing and said she would have
me arrested. [ saw no more of her until
morning. John Hickey came up to my house
in the morning, told me my wife had come
to his house the night before drunk, and
had stayed there all night; and neither he nor
his wife wanted her there. told him I
could do nothing with her. He said, "Why
don't you leave her??" I told him I would as
soon as I could settle up what little business
I had. While we were talking she came up
and asked me if she might go in the house to
change her dress. I said, eyes," and she
went in and did so. She was sober then and
told me where she had been. All went
along we'll until Monday, when the constable
came to my house and told me that he want
ed mt to come down to the Justices Office,
as there YVES a complaint there against me
for sssaulting my wife. I said, call right
and went with him. At the trial my wife
and Mrs. Proven swore just as I have stated.
! did not deny the charge and was fined s25,
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