Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-14
THE COLOR LINE
Not Drawn BY Mrs. Emma
Dugay
IF A COMPLAINT MADE
By Her Husband Today is True
Sophia Tucker Smith Seeks
a Divorce.

torney's office today and told a story
dripping with the essence of degradation,
and on the strength of what he said a
complaint charging his wife, Emma, and
a black man, called r. E. Dennie. with
| adultery. was issued and sent to Justice
| Smiths court at South Butte. Among
other things, Dugay said he had been
away several months, returning only a
short time ago. After spending a few
days here he discovered that ali was not
right between his wife and Dennie. He
accused her of wrongdoing and she had
him arrested on a charge of assault. by
and by he repeated the accusation and he
says she admitted * was all right. He
then confronted her black paramour n
he, too, answered.. Yes, sab; it am true
Dennie is a musician and has been en-
ployed at one of the road houses, his duty
being to call the attention OF bicyclers
and other road warmers to the fact that
liquid refreshments could be had at the
bar in exchange for coin.
A complaint charging Edward Roach
with the crime of petit larceny was is
sued from the county attorneys office to-
day and filed in Justice Nichols court.
On the 18th of August Roach is alleged to
have gone to the store of NJ. j. Connell
and represented himself as being an en-
ploye of the Boston and Montana Min
ing company. To give his asser-
ton a semblance of truthfulness he
bought SO worth of goods and as
signed $40 worth Of time to pay for them,
taking so in cash to make up the differ
ence. When the tim check was present.
ed to the company it was learned that
Roach had not been an employe OF the
company; hence the complaint against
him.
Sophronia Tucker Smith has concluded
to possess herself of a legal separation
from John c. Smith and with this object
in view has commenced divorce proceed
ings against him. In her complaint she
alleges that John and herself We're united
in marriage in Park City. Utah, April Ia,
1892, but ave lived in Montana about
four years. After making this statement
she further alleges that the defendant
drinks more intoxicating liquor than is
good for him; that in Helena, on or about
Feb. l of this year, he broke the seventh
commandment o Clore street and for
thirty-six months has associated with
lewd women in hat section: that last
January in the same village, he publish
ed false statements about plaintiff, ac-
cusing her of being a meretricious object
in Butte: that two children ave been
born to them and she would like to awe
their custody.
On complaint Of Louis Dupius, the
county attorney issued q complaint to-
day accusing Fred Dion with the crime
of taking a horse that did not belong to
him. Dupius said he was in camp near
Divide on July Is and while the sun vas
doing duty at the opposite side of the
globe one of his horses was stolen. He
claimed that Dion belonged to a gang
of ~rustlers that made a living taking
horses from campers and others and then
Offering to return them for so much
money, and was sure Dion had taken his
animal.
In the matter of the estate of A. J.
Marchand, the executors, S. Marchesseau
and Eugene Fontaine, filed a supplement
to their final account today. In 1t they
state thai since the final account was
rendered they have received nearly $500
more, making a total Of 81, ASS 10 in cash
on hand
A warrant charging a man named
Floyd with assault in the second degree
on Henry Lynch vas issued by Justice
Bliss today. Lynch and Floyd board at
the Florence hotel. Last night they be-
AIN lINOlNtu III q luallCI Gin lS I
says Floyd attacked him with a miners
candlestick. The bridge of his nose was
cut.
Jailer Pishkur and Deputy Sheriff
O'Neill had a tussle with a prisoner
named Henry Kelly in the county Jail
yesterday afternoon and it resulted in
the former getting a severe cut over the
right eye. Pishkur heard that Kelly had
:, l,,;ro o,1 oalal n'Nain fn holm him,
take it. Kelly, who is serving a term
for alleged vagrancy, refused to surren-
der the knife and, picking up a galvan-
lied iron pan, defied the two men. He
in his cell and O'Neill went in after
him, but received a crack across the
knuckles with the pan. Kelly then swung
again and caught Pishkur over the eye,
but before he could do any further dam
age he was ~overpowered and placed in
the dungeon. The knife was of the
kitchen case brand and was found in
Kelly's cell.
Mat Bookman and Warner E. Jansen
are suing II. II. Horst to quiet title to
the Copper Crown lode mining claim, sit
uated in this county. Plaintiffs allege
they have owned the ground since March
I of this year, deriving title by location.
They further allege that the defendant
claims an interest in the property under
the name Francesca; that on June IA he
applied for a patent: hat the Francesca
is in conflict with the Copper Crown
Josie L. Talbot, as Administrative of the
estate of Clarisa Ramsdell, has filed the
final account Of her stewardship and
asked for the distribution of the estate.
The report shows that all the one re-
ceived has been paid out to justify claims
against the estate: that there is nothing
with which to pay other costs of admin
istration, but the Administrative will pay