The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14
SHE is THE FAM|LY'S HEAD
Mrs. Burton Claims in Court She's
"It" and Not Her Husband.
THE SUIT Is DISMISSED
John Westgate Sues the Northern Pa
cific for $4,000 Damages-The Hole
in-the- Wall Bandits Said to Be
Heading for Montana.

Mrs. Catherine Burtons injunction
from dispossessing her of her property
on the famous Hesperus lode was dis
missed by her last evening after the
case had been partially heard. The suit
for possession in which the sheriff at
tempted to enforce an execution had
been brought against her husband,
William Burton, and she resisted be-
cause she was not made party to the
action and claimed that she was the
man and head of the family and that
her husband had no interest in the
property and never contributed to the
support of the family.
Mrs. Burton said her husband was
mot the head of the family because he
did not support it.
rs that why you say he is not the
head of the family, because he does not
support you?" asked Attorney Me-
Bride.
He is not and does not claim to be-
said Mrs. Burton. i've been the man
and the woman both in the family"
She said her husband had left the
house and taken up his residence in an
.
against him in the Haupt case, but she
remained in possession of the disputed
property because she thought she had
some rights. She did not want him to
night the Haupt case and told him to
let it drop and said she would have it
out with them If they came after her.
She denied that she went to her hus-
bands lawyers to consult them about
the case and said she called on them
only to tell her own troubles. Other
witnesses testified that they rented
cabins from Mrs. Burton and always
recognized her as the owner of the
ground occupied by them.
On the other hand the owners of the
ground had evidence that Mrs. Bur-
toms husband not only exercised own
ership of the ground but that whatever
title they laid claim to was in his name.
At the conclusion of the evidence Mrs
BurtonS attorney dismissed the case,
the suit having been Abandoned for
some reason or an agreement of some
kind reached with the other side.
John Westgate has brought an action
IN the district court against the North
ern Pacific company for 50 500 damages.
In his complaint he alleges that ON the
LIST of May he was employed in putting
a corrugated iron side on building be-
longing to the Butte Sampling works,
situated on the side of the defendant s
tIdCkS OH DelaWaTe street. lie had TO
use ladder, one end of which rested on
the railroad track, and an engine came
along and Knocked him off, breaking
his. left ankle and several. fingers. He
claims that before the men went to
work on the building they had an un-
Outstanding with the railroad company
that they should be given notice of the
approach of any cars.
Deputy Sheriff Aware has gone to
Miles City with Mike Driscoll, one of
the Centerville kid burglars, who will
serve two years in the reform school,
Sheriff Regain yesterday received a
message from the United States mar
shall at Helena repeating a MESA e re-
ceiyed from the marshal of Wyoming
relative to the Union Pacific train rob-
bers. Tt states that the three men are
supposed to be George Curry, aged SO,
and the Roberts brothers, aged 2S and
80. Curry is supposed to be a leader
among the Hole-in- the Wall outlaws. 1t
is stated that the robbers were headed
toward the eastern part of Montana
and would probably try to enter the
state along the Powder river or by the
way of Red Lodge.