The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-22
SMITH REVERSES IT.
An Important Land Contest Carried
to the Secretary Of the Interior.
TWO RACY DIVORCE SUITS
A Baseball Player Said to Have
Captured the Affections of a
Mother-To Vote on Special
School Tax-Diphtheria.
Special Correspondence of the standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, jan 2O.-Elisha Dodson,
formerly of this city, has just been in
formed that the decision of the Boze-
man land office and the affirmation
thereof by the commissioner of the
general land office in his land contest
case against Mrs. Abigail Hustled of
Livingston, has been reversed, his min
, eral application rejected and the land
passed to Mrs. Hustled for homestead
patent. This does not necessarily set
tle the long controversy, however, for
Dodson has applied for a rehearing of
thee ase.
The land in dispute is situated in the
canyon, five miles south of this city.
and was purchased 10 years ago by
Mr.. Dodson as a limestone placer claim
from Major Pease. Three years later,
Mrs. Hustled, sister of Major Pease,
fled on the land under the homestead
laws, claiming settlement in 1884. On
the same day Dodson preempted the
land, and when Mrs. Hustled offered
final proof, Dodson entered protest,
which was dismissed. Dodson appeal
ed and the local office was sustained.
He then relocated the land as a lime
stone placer and applied for patent. A
hearing was had in the Bozeman office
TO determine whether the land was
mineral or agricultural, the decision
being in favor of Dodson. Mrs. Hustled
appealed, but the local Office was sus-
tanned again. She then took the case
70 the secretary of the interior, and
Hoke Smith has just reversed the local
Office on the ground that the land is
more valuable for agricultural than for
mineral purposes.
Park county is making somewhat Of
a record as a divorce mecca There
are more divorce cases on the docket
of the present term of the district court
than there have been on that of any
single term in the past. On Saturday
Mrs. William Oakley, formerly of Red
Lodge, but recently of Cokedale, and
Mrs. Harry T. Bingham of this city.
related their marital troubles to Judge
Henry. In the Oakley case the defend
ant was on hand to contest, but in the
case of Mrs. Bingham her once loving
but now Disguised and departed spouse
was conspicuous for his absence, haV-
ing broken up the household furniture
several months ago and ''vamoosed the
ranch" Both cases were quite racy.
Mrs. Oakley said her husband was a
brute; that he licked her, was insanely
jealous of one John Cody, the Coke
dale ball player, and had called her a
common prostitute in front of their six
little children. She was granted a di-
vorce and the custody of the two
youngest children. Mrs. Bingham said
her husband loved a bad woman and
had contracted a private disease. She,
too, was released from her matrimonial
alliance, but no children went with the
decree.
The trustees of the Livingston school
district have decided to call an cleo
tion on Saturday, Feb s. for the pur-
pose of submitting a special school tax
proposition The amount of the special
no 70 no &c 60 TTnlaCC
the proposition carries the public
schools of this city will be closed early
next month, making the term for the
present school year between three and
four months shorter than usual.
petition signed by several resi-
dents of Cokedale was presented to the
county commissioners to-day, asking
that a county board of health be APP
pointed with instructions to take the
necessary steps in an effort to prevent
the further spread of diphtheria and
scarlet fever in that camp.
The county commissioners have re-
ecinded the order accepting the Gill
lette- Herzog company's proposition to
replace the wrecked Carter bridge
across the Yellowstone in double span
for $1,000. and will meet in adjourned
special session next Thursday to con-
slider the more recent proposition of
Messsrs. Jensen and Reese, ranchers of
the upper Yellowstone, VINO want 10
replace the bridge in triple span for
$1,750.
DR.. ]. E Ferte was seriously injured
Sunday afternoon by falling from the
gang plank leading TO the masons
landing at the new court house. He
was picked up in an unconscious con-
dition and carried to a neighboring
house, where he was brought to.
Though no bones were broken, still he
was badly injured and is now confined
10 his bed. He is IS years of age.