Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-27
MORE Mine
LITIGATION
The Hickeys and John Stewart
Sue the Anaconda.
PACE MAKES 4 HOT REPLY
He Says His Wife is a Drunkard
---Alderman S%!eoenaler and
Mcmahon Meet.
MAKES 4 HOT REPLY

In the district court today Edward and
Michael Hickey and John NJ. Stewart be-
gan an action against the Anaconda and
Washoe mining companies to determine
the ownership of the ore in the Nipper
claim outside of certain prescribed
bounds
They asked the court to restrain the
defendants from mining ore in the prop
erty pending the trial Of the suit. In the
complaint they say they own thirty-one
thirty-siXths in the property, but the de-
PENDANTS claim an interest and are
threatening to enter the premises and eX-
tract ore.
In the divorce suit of Sarah A. Pace
against Walter G. Pace the defendant
has filed an answer and cross bill. He
denies he has treated ner in a cruel and
inhuman manner or that he ever told her
he wished she would die, as alleged in
her complaints: denies that he ever struck
| her with his clenched fist. He AYERS that
on or about the 18th of October, 1897, in
North Walkerville, while she was drunk,
he said to her he wished, if she could not
keep sober, she would die; and on or
; about November IL, 1898, while she was
in a state of drunkenness, he slapped her
"lNl Lis opCl MANN, tS - NS' "-o-
her condition..
Defendant admits he owns a house
| valued at 81, 900 and that he is a station
airy engineer and can earn S12O per month,
but denies that his wife is in INDECENT
circumstance n wholly dependant
upon her own labor for her support; that
during the last four years he has given
her his earnings and he has been in
formed hat she has money on deposit IN
one of the banks: that on the 10th OF
March she left their home in North
Walkerville and took with her a piano
belonging to him..
In the cross bill the defendant says
that for more than four years the de-
PENDANT has been a d~runkard. ana ne
asks that the decree of divorce be award
ed him.
]. A. Riddell has filed a new complaint
! against George l.. Ramsey, mayor or
! Bozeman. The action is one in which
Riddell seeks to recover judgment for
IS, 200 which he alleges Ramsey as cashier
of a bank at Bozeman and the custodian
of his Riddell's) funds handled in a way
tina did not suit him.
Lille Jane. Richard ]. lane and three
others of the Jane minors have asked the
court to appoint Mrs. Martha Blcknell
their guardian.
c.. II. Coy has commenced an action
against the Combination Mining & Mill
ing for an accounting. In his
complaint he alleges that on the 1st of
February, 1899, the company owed +. II.
Coy $445.S5, and the latter assigned it to
him.
G. n. Rhodes has also instituted a suit
against the same defendant, but the
amount for which he asks Judgment is
greater than that demanded by Coy. be-
ing $9O3. So, which he claims is due him
for services performed for the company.
The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Rail-
road company filed an answer today to
the suit brought against it a few days
ago by Charles Thorn. Gus Nordwell and
four others to recover judgment for a
sum of money alleged to be due them for
labor performed on the hill line of the
defendants road a few months ago. The
admits having contracted with
GuStave w. Hartman and Michael Jen-
nings to have the work done, but alleges
that on the 18th of this month it paid
them in full.
Paddy Mcmahon, a conductor on the
Boulevard line of the street railway sys-
tenn. walked into Justice Nichols court
today and pleaded guilty to a charge of
! assault in the third degree on Alderman
Shoemaker this morning. According to
his story, S~iehenaler abused him last
night, calling him several pet names and
challenging him to fight. Mcmahon de-
clined the invitation then, out when they
met today it was different. He had just
had breakfast arc felt like engaging in
almost any kind Of exercise. Siebenaler
was badly cut about the face. He made
complaint to the county attorney and the
latter issued al order for McMahon's ar
rest Int before an officer could tola tho