The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-29

proably the most Undergraduate hap
pening of all was one in which man
barsained off his wife, the considera-
ton being s1OO in gold and two sacks
of flour. The fellow in question was
a. shiftless, ne'er- do-well sort of hon.
bre who lived on the outskirts OF Ne
vada The wife was a patient, INDUS
trious woman, who was the main sup
port of her husband and stepson by
her efforts at the washtub, but de-
spite her efforts, she was the frequent
recipient of charity at the hands OF
kindly neighbors, who repeatedly uTGed
her to leave her worthless husband and
work for herself alone.
The woman, however, bore with him
until patience ceased to be virtue,
when an old sweetheart came alonG,
and it was not long till a quarrel be-
tween him and the husband brought
matters to focus and the affair final
ly wound up by the former threaten
ing personal castigation If the fellow
to the friends establishment, the hus-
band asked him why he didn't take
her away himself If he was so stuck on
her?" This led to negotiations, with
the offer on the part of the husband
to surrender all marital rights on the
terms above named.
The offer was accepted the wife gave
~,
sent, and the services of a friendly
probate judge were secured to grant
a decree, which was obtained with lit
tie formality, dissolving the bonds OF
matrimony between the principals.
The next day the old lover took his re-
covered sweetheart before a justice of
the peace and they We're duly married
according to the statutes in such cases
made and provided" The nurtial knot
was scarcely tied when the newly mar
ried couple got on board a wagon and
started for the Gallatn valley, where
this chronicler. while engaged as re-
porter on a Bozeman paper eight years
later, saw them again, apparently a
supremacy happy couple, and the wife
two boys and girl. Inquiry elicitec
the information that the pair hal sue
ceeded beyond expectation in their ag
ricultural pursuits Oh the Galla.in art
the mother and children were then pre-
pairing for a winters visit to their re
lations in the old home in Iowa. 1t il
cheering to believers in poetic justice
to be able to state that before th
seller could dispose of his flour at tn
ruling figures. it was pounced upon b
the flour committee, and he was com
PEELED to deliver it up at the estat
lished rate of $27 per cwt., receiving 2
iy pounds for himself and son at the sam
#. rate.
is How Other Camps Jared.
ut 1t was not only in Alder gulc.l tina
IN the dire effects of the flour famine wer
IS, felt All the camps in the territor
&c were affected by it in greater or les
7g degree. In most of them the suferin
I'd was greater than in Virginia City an
lis Last Chance, because when shelr ba:
q, of supplies failed them they were u
ed terly without resources. An instance
ne given wherein some Last Chance me
ms chants, discovering that a conslgnnlel
Fir of -four had been dispatched from So
Lake City to Virginia City, in hot has
as sent a messenger to stop the outfit TIL
ne was conveying it and divert its cour
set to Helena, and succeeded in doing S
eet William Rumsey, ex-bailiff Of Il
ne United States court for Lewis al
Id Clarke county was the messenger.
Jet this day, BILLY" Rumsey often relat
TO with great glee the record break,
le- trip which he made from Last Chan
ed to the southern boundary line of t
tie territory when engaged on that erran
M 1t is an interesting fact that Dav
ay Oman, the agent for Bishop Sharl
he trainload of flour, which was the fiji
nd to ''break the famine" after the rio
EAR was one of the victims of the TO
he agents in the great Port Neuf cany
he massacre on July Is, 1865, scarcely t
out months after the date on which tn
nd consignment raised the blockade
lch brought relief to the famine-Strlck
old miners of Alder gulch. Besides his
he delivered to the robbers $l4G00
gold dust, which he was conveying
&C. Salt Lake City as part of the procee
but of the sale of that cargo.