The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
John Kennedy Says She Is the
Disturber In His Happy Home.
TREATED HIS WIFE KINDLY
Defendant in q Divorce Case Sets Forth
His Side OF the Trouble-Race
Track in Court-District
Court Matters.

the III WHICH
| charged the defendant, John F. Ken
| nedy, with kicking the plaintiff out Of
| bed and other barbarous acts of cru
| city. The defendant answering, denies
| that he ever treated his wife cruelty
| and in a cross-bill asserts that all his
| troubles with his wife We're due to a
| mother-in-law.
The defendant denies generally the
| acts of cruelty and specifically denies
| that on or about Feb. 90 1899 he kick
ed his wife out of bed or subjected her
| to exposure of any kind; denies that
on or about June 5, 1899, he seized the
| plaintiff by the hair and the throat and
| dragged her about the room or struck
her head against the wall. He alleges
| the facts to be that on or about the
date mentioned the plaintiff and her
| mother assaulted the defendant and
| beat and maltreated him, driving him
| from the house.
The defendant denies that there is
in the possession of the plaintiff and
the defendant any personal property
bought by the PLAINTIFFS money or
money furnished by the plaintiffs
mother, but alleges that all the prop
erty referred to in plaintiffs complaint
was purchased by the defendant with
his own money and money furnished
the plaintiff by friends of the defend
| ant and that all of the property is
now in the possession of the plaintiff
! and the plaintiffs mother. Further,
| the defendant denies that he is in the
employ of the Montana Music COM
pany as alleged or that he has any
| employment at all whereby he is earn
| ing money.
The defendant alleges that he has
| always treated the defendant in a kind
| and loving manner and as a husband
c trnn 60 k,a, f,1
her in conformity with his station in
life; that he and his wife lived happily
| together until the arrival of plaintiffs
mother in Butte to take up her abode
with the defendant and plaintiff; that
thereafter the mother-in-law melted
| the plaintiff to acts of cruelty toward
the defendant and that under the in
fuence of her mother the plaintiff
treated the defendant with contempt
and ridicule and that he was subject
ed to a premeditated and wilful sys-
tenn of persecution and annoyance
| without fault or reason on the part of
| the defendant.
| In his cross-bill the defendant al
leges that the plaintiff, since June 5.
| 1885, has been guilty of extreme cruelty
toward the defendant in this, that the
| plaintiff, melted and assisted by her
| mother, assaulted and beat and bruis-
| ed the defendant and pulled out his
hair and with stick of wood drove
| him from the house; that after the
| birth of the child mentioned in the
plaintiffs complaint the plaintiff, I'M.
| der the Influence of her mother, re-
| fused to allow the defendant to visit
| the house or see the child; that these
acts of cruelty have caused the defend
1 ant great mental and physical suffer-
| ing and that this has all been done
| without any provocation on the part
| of the defendant. The defendant there
fNpA ne.Ir. I.
be dissolved.
Amanda ]. Geddes commenced suit
Yesterday for divorce from Elikiam
| Tupper Geddes, alleging unfaithful-
ness, failure to provide and extreme
cruelty. The plaintiff replies that she
was married to the defendant at Hell
ena on Feb. Is. 1896, and alleges that
on Feb. Z, 1898, the defendant COM
mitted adultery at Helena with an I'M
| known woman; that for the past year
the defendant has failed to provide
| for the plaintiff, though he earns 800
a month; that since the marriage the
| defendant has treated the plaintiff with
extreme cruelty and on Sept. 16, 1899,
| he threatened to blow her brains out
| Later he used abusive, language to-
! wards her in the presence of their chill
| dren. The plaintiff asks for a decree,
| alimony, counsel fees and her maiden
name, which was Amanda ]. Munroe.
The Davis & Wednesday, company
| commenced suit in the district court
| yesterday against John Devlin, W. G.
| Guthrie and the Silver Bow Jockey
club to recover for materials alleged
| to have been furnished for the con-
struction of the buildings and fence at
| the race track known as Ranchero
park. The plaintiff alleges that it fur
| nlshed hardware for the defendants
| mo To hn Hrp1I no
| or S9l75 that no part of the amount
has been paid, and judgment is asked
| for the amount and for 500 attorneys
| fees.
In the suit of Charlotte S. Eager
| against Antoine Strasser a suit to re-
cover on note, the defendant filed an
| answer IN abatement yesterday, set
! ting forth that another suit is pending
! involving the same subject matter.
| The defendant therefore asks that the
| suit be abated and dismissed with
| costs
Judge Clancy signed decree yester-
| day ratifying the appraisement of
| property sought to be condemned by
the city for use as Woolman alley and
condemning the same for the public use.
| The amount of the appraisement is
| 5000
Judge Clancy yesterday signed an
| oruer appointing w. j. NauShten,
| Thomas Stephens and Samuel Null
Vile a commission to appraise prop
erty which the city seeks to condemn
for use for the opening of North Gran
| lite alley. Thursday. Sept. %, at City
| Attorney Lambs Office in the Hen
messy building was set as the time and
place of the first meeting of the com
| mission.
The plaintiff in the case of Jessie
| c. Knox against Mary Mcdonald sub
| mitted her bond on injunction in the
| sum of $500 to Judge Clancy yester-
| day morning. The sureties are w. S.
| Cobban and Edward Lynch The bond
| was approved
In the case of Samuel H. Stewart
| against the Singer Manufacturing COM
| pany Judge Clancy yesterday extended
| the time for the filing of the bill of ex-
| ceptions until Oct. %.