The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-01
She LEFT HER HOME
Mr.. Anderson Believes His Wife Has
ElOped With Another Man.
HER ACTIONS SUSPICIOUS
A Stranger Is Hospitality Cared
For at the Ranch and Soon Y
Finds Himself Encircled itfti
BY Woman's Arms. IH
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard. fs.lA
Livingston. April 81. Mrs. William
Anderson the wife II a well-l;nown
rancher and stockmsn OF Mission
Creek, about 10 miles cast OF this city.
is reported to have clopod with a man
by the name of E;llredgs. who arrived
in Livingston several months ago from
Salt Lake City and assisted in the in
stitution OF a tent of the Order of
Maccabees In this city.
The authority ;or the above s'ete-
ment is no less person than the hus-
band of the woman. Mr.. Anderson
was In the city to-day looking for
some trace of his wife and appeared
TO take his trouble greatly to heart
While he has no positive proof that
his wife has eloped with Eldredge. All
the circumstances surrounding her
disappearance point strongly to the
conclusion and the distracted husband
has no doubt but that his wife and
Eldredge are at the present time en-
joying each others company and their
Illicit love somewhere in the land of
the Dakotas. The story OF his wifes
elopement and the events leading up
thereto was related by Mr.. Anderson
to the proprietor OF one of the hotels
In this city.
1t appears that several months ago
Eldredge went to Anderson's ranch,
stated that he was a cowboy by occu-
patton and asked for the privilege of
remaining and working for his board
until spring. Mr.. Anderson. being ia
vorably impressed with Eidredge's APP
pearance. entertained the proposition
at the earnest solicitation OF his wife
Mr.. Anderson was in blissful ignor-
ance OF the Illicit relations that he
now believes existed between his wife
and Eidredge. until one day about six
weeks ago. when he returned home
Unexpectedly and discovered the
mother of his children and the stran-
ger whom he had kindly provided with
a home for the winter in a rather COM
promising position. He Immediately
demanded an explanation. and al
though IL was not entirely satisfac-
tory. IL was quite plausible, and such
implicit faith did he place in his wife
that his suspicious were ailayed.
Things ran along pleasantly and n
month ago Mrs. Anderson secured her
husbands consent to pay a visit TO
her sister. who resides at Red Lodge.
She left. taking her youngest child.
aged years, with her, and stated that
she would return on Saturday, April
20. IL being arranged that her hus-
band should meet her in this city upon
that date.
A few days after Mrs. Anderson's
departure Eldredge purchased A team
OF horses and a camping outfit and in
formed Anderson that he intended to
start overland for Dakota. In the full
ness or his heart Anderson generously
provided Eldredge with bacon, flour,
potatoes and grain. He even accom-
panied Eldredge a short distance on
his journey. and assisted him i'm ford
ing the Yellowstone. Upon parting.
the two men. one with only kindness
IN his big heart, and the other with no
doubt a cruel purpose in mind, shook
hands and bade each other farewell.
Ion the appointed day Mr.. Anderson
came TO this city to meet his wife. She
did not come. He waited over SUNDAY.
thinking that perhaps she might have
been delayed day in starting. The
next day came. and so did the west
bound train. but his wife did not. Mr..
Anderson tried to persuade himself
that his wife had concluded TO remain
week longer with her sister. but on
the way back home his thoughts re-
verted TO the day he had found his
wife and Eldredge in a compromising
position. Little by little he recalled
several things that now looked sus-
picious. but TO which he had paid no
attention before. The more he thought
about the matter the harder IL was for
him to quiet his fears and reconcile
himself TO the belief that his suspi-
cions were but the vagaries of a