Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-09-14

Opinion by Bartholomew, chief justice.
Miller & Resser and Newman, Spalding
& Phelps for plaintiff. R. NJ. Pollock
and Chas. A. Pollock for defendants.
Accidental Shooting. =
Charles Bell, q young man 20 years Of
age, who has been employed at the
Campbell ranch in Emmons county, was
brought in to the hospital Tuesday
suffering from q shot gun wound in the
foot. The boy had been out hunting
near the ranch, and had laid his gun
down on the ground. In picking it up,
the weapon was discharged, and the
charge of shot entered his foot. DR..
Smyth is attending the injury and has
taken off three of the toes, and a part of
the foot, which was badly mangled by
the injury. The greater part of the in
jured member will be- saved, and the
doctor will have the boy in shape again
in the course of a few weeks.
Accepts Conditionally.
1t is said that E.. D. Wallace, indie
pendent candidate for governor, has re-
ceived a letter from Hon. Roger Allin,
the republican candidate for the same
Office, saying that he would be willing
to accept MI. Wallace's invitation to a
joint discussion of the issues that enter
into the North Dakota state campaign,
but that such acceptance must be sub
mitted to the wishes and decision of the
republican state central committee and
associates on the ticket.
Separated.
Their friends in this city will regret to
learn of the separation and marital in
felicity of Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Williams,
of Butte, Mont, formerly of this city.
The separation occurred some Gays ago,
when Mr.. Williams, it Is said, voluntarily
abandoned his home, and Mrs. Williams
and her daughter Anna, both we'll and
favorably known to Bismarck people,
appeared in court last Saturday, and
asked for separate maintenance. The
Butte Miner Of Sunday says:
Testimony was heard by Judge Nc.
Hatton yesterday in the case of Ida G.
Williams vs.. G. R. Williams. The plain.
tiff alleges abandonment and is suing fol-
separate maintenance. The testimony
adduced was quite extensive and the
nature of it aroused much sympathy
with the spectators for the complainant
and her adopted daughter.
"Both Mrs. Williams and her daughte,
testified that the defendant had aban
doned them without good or sufficient
cause and had also notified the merch
ants and other tradesmen with whom
the family had been in the habit of trad
ing not to trust them with goods on hi!
account. Although needing medicine
food and clothing they had been unabl,
to obtain them, owing to the defendant's
orders and by reason of those orders
they said, they had been deprived fol
some time of the n~ecessaries of life
The defendant, they said owned consid
cradle property in North Dakota ane
was also engaged in business in this cit,
from which he derived an income ampl!
sufficient to enable him to support then
in the manner in which they had beer
accustomed to live. Since his abandon
ment of them, Miss Williams testified
her father had given her $40, all tn
money she had received from him sine
he had deserted her and her mother.
"The defendant testified that he own
ed property as alleged, but claimed tina
it was the source Of very little income
in fact so little revenue did it afford tina
it barely suficed to pay taxes and tn
necessary expenses for repairs, etc.
Gas to his business IN this city he sal
he war engaged as a saloonkeepe,
While the gross receipts Of the salool
ranged from 5000 to $1,000 per month h
was unable to clear more than from SIS
500 per month.
"Several receipted bill for provision
clothing and household goods whic]
the defendant had paid were submitte'
in evidence. Williams said his reason
for notifying the various merchants an
traders not to credit his family any NOR
on his account was that he though hi
family was becoming unduly extrava
giant and that he was unable to longe
bear the expense imposed upon him.
"This concluded the testimony an
the attorneys, Haldron for the plaintiff
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