Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-16
Jesse Seward Says His Wife
Attended a Dance
WITH AN UNMARRIED MAN
Two Weeks After Their Marriage.
Accuses Her of Other
Things.

/ Jesse J. Seward has come to the con-
cluslon that if a Silver Bow county jury
is called upon to decide the existing trou-
BILE between his wife, Mabel G. Seward,
and himself, the fact that his opponent
is a woman will not prevent him from
getting a square deal.
A few weeks ago he sued her for a
decree of divorce, and a short time after
wards she filed an aswer and cross-blll
in which she alleged that while they were
living together in St. Pau he deserted
her and failed to provide her with the
necessities of life. She said he was en-
ployed as a nurse at the st. James hos
pital, earned from SIS to 500 per month,
and she thought it would be right if the
court ordered him to pay over to her a
portion of his wages as alimony.
In his complaint. he, too. alleged deser-
ton and made it as weak as compatible
with his own interests. Today he filed
a reply to her answer and couched 1T IN
language, the tenor of which cannot be
mistaken. He admits the marriage ana
the fact that they separated two weeks
afterwards, but alleges that she is the
one that did the deserting; he denies
that he abandoned her and left her IN
distressing circumstances, but alleges
that she left him and before doing so told
him she would not live with him. He has
been willing, he says, to take her BACK
and live with her, and has endeavored to
induce her to return to him, but has
failed to make it stick. He also denies
that he is employed as a nurse at a sal
ary Of SIS or 500 per month, but alleges
that he is only learning to be a nurse
and receives only $50 per month.
Accompanying the answer IS an am
davit by him in which he makes some
strong allegations. Among other things
he says that he was in the employ of the
Street Railway company in st. Paul: that
one evening in February of 1897 Mabel
packed her clothing and said she did not
know why she had married him; she
wanted him to leave her, but he refused
to do so: that she went out about .
O'Clock in the evening, returned about 8,
changed her clothing and went to a dance
with an unmarried man; that by reason
of the fact that the marriage had oc-
CURED in opposition to the wish of her
parents, he did his utmost to provide for
her and make their home what all homes
should be-pleasant. Further, she did not
return the night she attended the dance
with the unmarried man. On the follow
ing morning he went to his work, he says,
and when he returned at night he found
that she had taken her clothing away.
He did not like the humiliation occasioned
by their separation so soon after
marriage and came to Montana to escape
the odium attached thereto. On April !
he wrote her asking her to live with him
again, but her answer was to the effect
that she would not do it. On March / of
this year he further says she commenced
an action against him for divorce in the
courts of Ramsey county, Mimi, and the
first he knew of it was when a summons
v,oc n.tynI IN him Tn hoN nhn Mo INT h0
says she made false accusations against
him. He alleges that in February of 1905
she wrote him a letter asking him to write
her a letter on the contents of which SHE
could get a divorce, but he refused. When
he found that it was all off with them
he applied for a decree of divorce, but not
until then did he do so.
A majority Of the board of trustees OF
the Silver Row Precious Stone Mining
company petitioned the district court to.
day for an order dissolving the company
and Judge Lindsay set the matter fol
hearing on June "a. The trustees are Geo
f. Miller, George A. Cook, Fred Y. Will
son, Edwin S. Booth, Wesley w. Warren
H. o. Weller and John e. Lloyd. The pc.
tition states that the company was or.
ganized for the purpose Of working SOM
placer ground belonging to George E. Mil.
Ter, but the work had not been started;
that the company owns no property what.
ever in the state of Montana.
About seventy-five people residing II
West Centerville have petitioned thu
board of county commissioners for the es'
Establishment of an electric light at or nea1
the crossing of the street railroad IL
North Montana street.
Frank l.. Riley, who for several year
has been the stenOgrapher and type
writing artist in the office of John w
Cotter, has accepted the position made
vacant in the office of the county attor
ney by the resignation of w. w. Johnson
Mr.. Riley is a young man and thorough,
qualified to perform the duties devolvins
upon him in the office Of the public prose
cutor.
The Neary murder trial was resumes
this Afternoon and at $40 a jury was Sc
cured.
Gold fittings. Rinehart. dentist.