Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-05
SENSATIONAL DIVORCE SUIT.
j. H. Conrad Makes Charges of Infldsi-
ity Against His Wife. tho Daugh-
ter Of tho Late Mrs. Barnnby,

ity Against His Wife. tho Daugh-
ter of tho Lato Mrs. Barnnby.
A sensation was created at Helena, Mon
tana, when John Howard Conrad, one of the
wealthiest and most prominent men in the
city and state, fled suit for divorce from his
wife, Mabel Barnaby Conrad. The latter 10 a
daughter Of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, said to
have been murdered by DIR. T. Thatcher
Graves at Denver by means Of poisoned
whinky, supposed to have been sent by mail
from Providence, Rhode Island.
Conrad was prominently identified With
the prosecution of DR.. Graves, who Afterwards
claimed that the son-in-law OF the dead
woman had spent 100000 In securing wit
nesses and jurors 10 bring about his convic-
tion. The doctor held to this contention up
to the time he took bis own life in the Denver
jail, rather than stand second trial.
Conrad comes Of . prominent Virginian
family and has spent most Of his life In Mon
tana. Mrs. Conrad is handsome brunette,
whose stylish turnouts always attract atten-
tion on the streets of Helena.
Three correspondents are named in the
complaint. One 10 William s. Hopkins, .
millionaire lumberman of St. Clair Springs,
Michigan; the second correspondent is Rich
ard Bishop Of Denver. and the other core
spondsnt is Joseph A. Baker, of Great Falls,
who is married to Conrad's sister and who
has been his business associate for years.
To Tax Bank Deposits.
Representative Bryan of Nebraska, in ex.
PLANTATION of his bill 10 tax bank deposits at
the rate of u of per cent. for the creation
of fund to pay deposltors in failed national
banks, says:
"The bill has many advantages and, 20 far,
INV attantiOn has mt bean callad IN anv dfa-
advantages. 1t was benefit to depositors In
giving them security for deposits; 1t will
bring TO national banks an advantage which
will far more than balance the small tax be-
cause the greater security will bring to the
banks greater deposits. Then the tax is sus-
pended when the special fund reaches $10,-
100000, and after that the tax will be insig-
nifcant. 1t benefits the community because
when deposits are secure money will not be
boarded. Thus banks will not be crippled
and the worst features of panIcs will be
avoided. 1t will compel states to protect de-
positors In state banks In the same way or
deposItors at once money is put in circulation
and embarrassment to the business community
10 prevented. The issue of greenbacks equal
to the fund prevents contraction of cur
rency."
The Cherokee Strip has been settled week
and things are getting down to business ba-
sic. OF the 200, 900 people who entered the
land on the 18th over half have left. The
population of the new towns is about rs fol-
lows: Pawnee, 1000; Kirk, 5000; Kildare,
100; Poncs, 1000; Enid, 5000; Pond Creek,
10 900. Perry is destined to be the leading
town Of the Strip, and the governor to-day
issued bis proclamation declaring 1t to be a
city of the frst-class. Many capitalists and
town boomers have located there In the last
week and will make an effort to start Sec
ond Wichita BOOM Work was begun to-day
on depot, and over three hundred buildings
are going up. One contractor has contracted
TO put up seventy five buildings, and is I'm.
porting carpenters BY the hundred. Last
night three more dead bodies were found
east Of Perry, two Of them indicating murders.