The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-17
BUTTE News.
SHORT, NOT VERY SWEET
Mabel Seward Tired of Married
Life in a Hurry.
HER EXPERIENCE ID DAYS
She's III st. Paul and Her Husband in
Butte-Two Actions, and the Lat
ters Allegations Are Full
OF Meaning.
HER EXPERIENCE ID DAYS

It took just two weeks of married life
to satisfy Mabel Seward, and then she
cried enough and now both she and her
husband Jesse j. Seward are suing
for divorce She has an action pend
ing in St. Paul. where she lives, and he
has suit in the district court in Butte.
A few days ago she made an answer
and filed a cross bill to his suit and
asked that he be compelled to pay her
alimony and counsel fees, alleging that
he had deserted her two weeks after
their marriage in st. Paul in February
1897, since which time she had been
supporting herself by clerking in
store for S. a week, Yesterday Seward
filed his reply to her cross bill and pre-
scented a number of affidavits in oppo-
sition to her demand for alimony. He
says they lived together in ST. Paul for
two weeks after their marriage, during
which time he provided her with
home and supported her the best he
could. He tried to make it as pleas
ant as possible for her, for the reason
that they were married contrary to the
parents will and consent. At the time
he was employed by the ST. Paul Street
Railway company, and he did not in
had lived together for two weeks she
told him she had had enough of mar
ried life and would quit it.
In his affidavit in opposition to his
wife's demand for alimony Seward
says that one evening in February.
1897, being the evening before she went
away and left him, she packed UP her
clothing and told him that she would
not live with him, and said she did not
see why she had married him. for it
was against her parents will. She told
him to leave her, but he refused to go
and then she left, but came back sew
eral hours later, changed her clothing
and went away with an unmarried man
to dance Seward says she did not
get dinner or supper for him that day.
although there was plenty and a va
riety of food in the house for her to get
meals with. He says she left the house
and went off with the unmarried man
against his wishes, and she remained
away and told him she would not live
with him again. because she would not
live with any man she did not love
And she never came back to bed that
night. The next morning Seward says,
he went away to his daily occupation,
and when he returned home in the
evening he found that his wife had
gone and he found none of her clothes
in the house. He says he always treat
ed her as well as he could and tried his
best to induce her to live with him. On
account of the feeling of disgrace at
her leaving and deserving him so soon
after their marriage, and believing that
if he could get his wife away from her
people she might become reconciled to
live with him, he came to Montana,
where he has resided ever since On
the list of April, 1897. he wrote her a
letter telling that he was at work and
that if she would come and live with
him he would send her money to come,
She answered the letter and said she
had gone to her folks and they were
going to take care of her, and she did
not want him to ever write to her
again. In August of last year he wrote
to her again, telling her he thought 1t
would be better for them to live to-
gether, and she did not answer the let
ter About the list of last March he
wrote her another letter, asking her
again to come and live with him, but
the only answer he got was a summons
notifying him that she had commenced
an action for divorce against him n
Ramsey county, Minnesota, on lie
ground of desertion. Then. when he
found that she was determined not tC
live with him, and alleging grounds
that We're false. he filed an answer to
her complaint, denying the allegations
On the 9th of February he got letter
from his wife asking him to write her
a lei ter that would be evidence upon
which to commence the suit for divorce
but instead of writing such a letter he
wrote to her asking her to come and
live with him.
Seward says he has no property or
money whatever. He is in debt for
borrowed money and is now engaged
in learning to be nurse and gets only
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