The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-30
HER MIND IS CLEAR
Frank Guile Openly Declares That
His Wife Is Insane.
THE CHARGE DOESN'T HOLD
Soorching on a Bike and Cenerat-
Ing Your Own hleotricity-Land
Shields River-Persona
Notes and Briefs.
Special Correspondence of the Standard

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Livingston, May 2S.-Frank Guile,
an engineer running between here and
Butte, swore out a complaint to-day
charging his wife, Maggie, with in
sanity In the examination conducted
before Judge Henry and a commission
consisting of Drs. Alton and Campbell
he testified that his wife was subject
: to Authorizations that unknown par
ties were conspiring for her death and
that recently she had made threats to
kill herself and children.
Other witnesses were examined, and
while some of them expressed the
opinion that Mrs. Guile was at times
a little fiighty, yet but few if any,
facts were brought out which would
sustain such an opinion.
Mrs. Guile, who is an intelligent
looking woman of perhaps 80 years of
age and of comedy appearance, lis
tened attentively to the testimony, be-
traying at times a little nervousness,
and once or twice breaking into
smile of ridicule. When she went ON
the stand and related her story there
was completely swept from the minds
of everyone present all doubts con-
corning her sanity.
She said they owned a house in
Riverside, where her husband wanted
her to reside. But because his busi-
ness kept him on the road and away
from home every night, she very
strongly disliked to live alone in that
remote part of town. They had lived
there last summer and several times
she had been so frightened at night
that she could not sleep a wink. Her
fear was caused by the fact that the
house had more than once been broken
into. Her husband pooh poohed at her
fears and said she must go back there.
They owned a house in Butte and she
wanted to go there, but he said nit :"
He did all the marketing and never al
lowed her to have a dollar to spend for
anything, nor gave her even a pleas
ant look or civil word. She admitted
having said once that she wished she
was dead, and her children with her;
this was what her husband character
lied as a threat to kill herself and
children. She was dismissed. Now 1t
is her turn to make complaint against
her husband.
Harry Masters scorches along the
boulevards of an evening now with a
headlight upon his bicycle, having Just
received an incandescent electric lamp
the first of the kind in town. The
electricity is furnished from a small
storage battery and the whole ar
rangement weighs but one pound.
When charged the light will burn four
hours. The rider can easily carry
along a supply of electric sand for re-
charging, which will last several
days.
L. S. Taylor, manager of the COM
pany store at Horr, is in the city. He
will remain for some time to receive
treatment for his eyes, which, for sew
eral weeks, have troubled him so much
that he has been incapaciated for the
performance of his customary duties.
w. II. Proffitt has just perfected
homestead title to as fine a piece of
land up Shields river as ever lay out
of doors.
A. =. McAnelly, who is engaged in
the practice of law at Belt, stopped
over in Livingston to-day on his way
TO Red Lodge. He says that j. j.
Burns, the one-armed eloquent cham
pion of the cause of labor during the
strike of 1894, has his law shingle hung
out in Belt now.
James +. Gowen. representing the
Bitter Root Development company.
was in town to-day and will make up
TO the park.
]. X Stark of Midland. Mich. ar
rived here the first of the week and
will spend the summer with his son,
Attorney A. p. Stark, of the firm of
Campbell and Stark.