The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-15
LOVES HIM ALL RIGHT
But Her Affection Is Vulgarly
Demonstrative.
USED A SMITH & WESSON
Mrs. Dixon, Colored, and With Alleged
Irish Blood, Takes Two Flying
Shots at Her Husband as
Matter of Discipline.

Missoula, July 1i-"You bet dat wo-
mans loves me all right, but l don't
want to be loved SO id hard"
That was the remark that Jim Dixon,
colored, made this morning after he
had successfully lodged two bullets
from 3S-caliber Smith & Wesson re-
volver in the hands Of his irate wife.
Mrs. Dixon believes that she has good
grounds for her suspicious that James
is trif1ing and she took this means to
check his mad career. When the gay
Mr.. Dixon went home last night he
found the door to his room locked and
he was compelled to sleep in the hail
on the floor and no amount of per-
suasion would induce his wife to let
him bring his Clothes back home,' and
he spent a most uncomfortable night
on the hard floor of the hallway.
This morning he got no breakfast at
home and came down to his work,
which includes the duties OF porter at
the Board of Trade saloon. He was
busy with his work a the Board or
Trade when the bartender advised him
to make. a quick getaway out of the
with a gun. The back door Of the
saloon opens into the area way of the
Florence hotel and as the fugitive nus
band entered this open yard his an
gered spouse was there waiting FOR
him. She had thanked him and met him
in full retreat. AS Dixon told the
story, while his color was coming back,
it was a close call.
when Mister Fred tole me dat ma
wife was comm to de front do he tole
me to get out o. de back do. l was
doin' dat fas' as | could, but l run
right into de firm line. When l got
into de back yawd | see her comm
through de gate, and befo' I could get
out O. den way, bang went dat gun.
l made jes two jumps down de back
stairs. One jump took me to de bot
tom and the second jump took me to
de laundry. While l was making de
first jump l heard dat gun go bang
again, an I thought | was shot. Dat
woman loves me, but | don't want to
be loved so id hard dat l gets shot
at. Dat woman is all right, but she's
about three-thirds Irish and dat makes
her bad" -
The shots went just over Dixon's
head as he ducked down the stairs and
went through a window in the rear of
the hotel basement. 1t was the luckiest
dodge that Dixon ever made. Mrs.
Dixon was promptly arrested by Chief
of Police Angeyine and placed in the
county jail. gEK
Dixon says that somebody has been
telling her stories that aye not true and
she has believed some of them. He in
sists that he has given her no cause for
her anger, butt that he has always
treated her we4s He blames her Irish
blood--which is qleverly concealed from
the average observer by several shades
of black-for the trouble, and says that
it is it that made her so troublesome.
1t is fortunate for Dixon that his wife
is not a good wing shot, or he would
not be in shape to tell of the deep love
| that she bears for him. Mrs Dixon is
| a comedy mulatto and says that she has
| had ample cause for her desperate ac-
| ton. She accuses her James of all the
| crimes in the category, from trifiing
| with her affections and looking upon
| sundry other bellies, to spending her
| money for the cup that cheers and inc
briates and further of sporting over the
| green cloth. She says that these things
have been going on for so long time
that she could endure the situation no
| longer and she thinks that James will
| now be more circumspect. He certainly
| ought to. Mrs. Dixon was released this
| afternoon on bonds. She seems to have
the sympathy of the colored population.