The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-01
IN CONTEMPT Of COURT
It Is Alleged That Callahan Has
Left the State.
ORDERS ARE NOT UBEYED
Mrs. Callahan says She Has Been Har-
assed by Petty Persecutious-The
Alimony for July Is
Not Paid.

According to proceedings taken in the
district court yesterday to have Colonel
Callahan adjudged guilty of contempt
of court the defendant in the sensa-
tionaI divorce suit has left the state for
good and has ignored several orders re-
Gently made by Judge Lindsay, and has
taken other steps to harass Mrs. Cal
lahan and make life m .serable for her.
On the 4th of last March the court
made an order that Colonel Callahan
should provide his Wife the plaintiff in
the case, with comfortable and salts
factory home, provisions, fuel wearing
apparel and all reasonable necessaries
of life, in addition to $40 a month in
cash to be paid into court on the first
of each month. On July Is the court
also made an order that the defendant
pay an additional $40 a month for a
servant for Mrs. Callahan, and two
days later another order was made that
he give Mrs. Callahan an order for per-
mission to see their child, who is in the
custody of some one in Salt Lake, and
to pay $40 toward her expenses to Salt
Lake and return. In an affidavit made
by Mrs. Callahan, and filed IN court in
the contempt proceedings yesterday,
she says the defendant mas not paid the
So originally ordered for the month of
July, nor has he paid the $40 for a SER
want, nor the $40 with which to pay
her expenses to Salt Lake. and is there
fore in default and in contempt OF
court The affidavit says the defendant
was present in court in person and by
counsel when the order Of March 4 was
made, and he also appeared by counsel
and filed his affidavit in opposition to
the motion for an order to pay the $40
month for servant, Mrs. Callahan
says she is informed and believes that
the defendant has removed to the city
of Salt Lake and is without the juris-
diction of the court, and that he has
vacated and abandoned his law office in
Butte, and his library and personal
effects have been removed from it. He
has represented to several persons in
the city that he was about to remove
permanently from the city Of Butte. On
the Goth of last February the court
made an order, which was personally
served on the defendant, restraining
and enjoining him from disposing of or
in any manner emcumbering, selling or
otherwise dispOsing Of, his property
real or personal, but Notwithstanding
the courts order he has incurred liabil-
tiles as late as the months of May and
June, and suit has been brought on
such liabilities and the individual prop
for the purpose of liqudating the liabil-
titles of the defendant. Her household
furniture has been attached and levied
upon to satisfy the individual debts Of
the defendant incurred in the month
of May and some of the property has
been forcibly removed from the house.
Under the order of the court Mrs. Cal
lahan is compelled to reside in the
family residence and unless she can
have possession of the household fur
niture the house will be unfit for her to
live in. She says the furniture has been
stripped in part from the residence by
reason of a judgment obtained against
the defendant for an alleged debt he in
CURED in May. Mrs. Callahan says ner
credit has been stopped at the stores
and that she is without means of neces-
sary support, and unless the defendant
complies with the orders of the court
and liquidates his Indebtedness she Will
be left without a home or place of resi-
dence or any means of support. Prior
to the commencement of the divorce
proceedings the defendant never incur
red any Indebtedness of any kind, and
was always solvent and able to pay his
bills. He is at present able to pay all
his liabilities and to obey the orders