The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-12
HIS WIFE DESERTED HIM
Mr.. Davis, Well Known Mining
Engineer, Obtains a Divorce.
CASES IN THE COURTS
j. K. Heslet Secures Default Judgment
of $1,000 Against Hezekiah Roude-
bush-Mrs. Walker Mustn't Cut Mrs.
Robnson's Water Pipes Again.

Chester B. Davis, a well known ard
eminent mining engineer, at present To-
Gated in Butte and formerly with the
Anaconda company and later employed
at ]. 3. Haggin's HOmeStake mine in
South Dakota, yesterday obtained di-
vorce from his wife, Hattie Z. Davis, a
woman physician practcing somewhere
in the East In his testimony before
Judge Lindsay Mr.. Davis said he was
married to the defendant at Rochester,
n. Y, Aug. 10, 1879, and that she de-
serted him at Cilicaso on March 1,
1897. At that time, and for a short
time prior to that datp, Mr.. Davis, his
wife and daughter, We're living with
Mrs. Davis parents. Dnn morning at
the breakfast table he had a disagree
ment with her parents and was ordered
from the house. Mrs. Davis father dis
playing a gun to enforce the order.
Mr. Davis asked his wife and daughter
to accompany him, but they did not
do so. He took up his residence in an
other part of the city and wrote sew
eral letters to his W.T. asking her to
meet him for the purpose of talking
over their future, but the letters were
ignored by her She was at that time
attending a medical college and he
made several attempts tn communicate
with her there by telephone, but she
each time sent word that she was too
busy to talk to him. He sent a friend
to her house several times, but the
friend was refused admittance. She
never communicated with her husband
in any way and had frequently told
him before their separation that she
tod l,n anti rlt iUIB If
him. and with that end in view she
started to. study medicine contrary to
his wishes Mr.. Davis said he did not
know the present Whereabouts of his
wife, as he had been kept in ignorance
of it, but he had heard that she grad
uated. left Chicago and is now prac-
ticing medicine in some other city.
A deposition of Mr. Davis mother,
resident of Troy, n. Y, was read. She
stated that she had received a letter
from her sons wife in which she said
she had left him and hoped she would
never see his face again.
J. *. Heslet yesterday obtained
default judgment for $685. 81 and costs
against Hezekiah Roudebush, the
amount representing $4,000 and inter
est due on a note which was given to
W. A. Clark & Brother on June 6, 1891,
by Roudebush and w. II. Young. The
note was for four months and when it
became due Young had to pay the
whole sum. amounting to S20,214 He
subsequently assigned his claim against
Roudebush to Mr.fHeslet, who brought
the suit and secured yesterdays judg-
ment.
A suit of Margaret A. Robinson
against Ellen Walker for damages and
an injunction was tried yesterday be-
fore Judge Lindsay sitting without
jury. The case grew out of a contro-
versy over lease on the Walker
house on South Main street Mrs. Rob
inson secured the lease in November
1897. and shortly afterWard got INTO
trouble with Mrs, Walker, who, Wo-
man like, made an original and ag-
gressive fight by cutting off the water
pipes leading to the lodging house.
Mrs Robinson repaired them and they
We're cut again and then the court was
appealed to and Mrs Walker was Gu
Joined from further interference with
the pipes. After the trial yesterday
the court made the injunction i2arma-
nent and gave the plaintiff judgment
for $25 as damages. s$@a.,
Judge Lindsay yesterday made an
order authorizing the executor Of the
estate of Frank stephens. deceased to
pay $40 a month to Arthur H. Ste
pneHS, son anu HtIl& VI lie uetciSSb,
in order to pay his expenses at STAN
ford university.
The suit of A. \. Mcmillan and 9th
ers against John r. King and others
was yesterday dismissed without Trej
udice.
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