The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
ANACONDA News.
SHE IS STILL IN JAIL
Mrs. Missouri I. Barnhill Fails to
Get Out on Habeas Corpus.
APPLICATION is QUASHED
Famous Lucas Case Up on Motion Once
More-Henry Rode Gets Divorce
From Mrs. Sarah Rode,
I'll Probate Business,

Once more has Mrs. Missouri l. Barn
vain. In place of joyous liberty on q
writ OF habeas corpus she still sits in
her Jail cell and meditates. She has
been through justice of the peace
courts and the district court. There
yet remains for her the supreme court,
and perhaps she will appeal to it with
her tale of woe and explanation Of why
she Is unjustly confined in Jail as an
absconding debtor.
Yesterday when the habeas corpus
proceedings instituted by Mrs Barnhill
to secure her release from Jail came up,
Attorneys Duffy and Casey. represent
ing MacCallun & Cloutier, who brought
the action against Mrs Barnhill in
which her arrest was caused. moved
that application for the habeas corpus
be quashed.
The matter was argued at length and
resulted in the court granting the mo
ton. And hence Mrs. Barnhills hopes
of liberty have been crushed.
The famous case of Charles H. Lu-
cas- against Lydia A. Lucas, in which
the court established the validity of the
common law marriage between the
two, and which r. W. Gillespie is seek
Ing to have reopened to prove he is
the only lawful husband Mrs. Lucas
has. was before the court briefly. 1t
came up on the motion of Lucas attor-
ney to strike from the files the state
ment made by Gillespie on the motion
for new trial. The motion was sub
nitted without argument.
Leave was granted the plaintiff in
the case of the Equitable Manufactur-
ing company against Hugh DAILY to file
an amended complaint.
In the case Of Anna Collier against
John Fitzpatrick, the motion to rein
state the case was dismissed without
prejudice.
BY consent of counsel the demurrer
was withdrawn in the case of Charles
DuBey against A. A. DeKay and 9TH
ers, and the defendant was allowed 80
days in which to answer the complaint.
In the case of Holland against Ken
needy, the motion to strike the plaintiff S
complaint for want of yerification. by
consent of counsel, was submitted to
the court without argument .-
IA large amount of probate business
was transacted at yesterdays session
OF the district court.
IAN order of sale of real estate was
signed and ordered entered in the es-
tate of Margaret A. Swanson.
The application for letters of admins
tration on the estate of Jean Dargent
was granted and the bond of the ad-
n1inistratrix fixed at $500
Il In the matter Of the estate OF Lulu
carson. the claim of Lesser & Rookie
Teller for SIS and the claim of S. Rock
efeller for $3.50. were allowed.
I'm, the matter of the estate of J. "A.
Johnson, the claim of c. ]. Zell was
allowed and approved for 1880. and
the claim of DR.. Snyder for 1922 was
allowed and approved for 1892. ~
The return on account of the sale Of
personal property of the estate of B.
mckinley was filed and the petition
| Saturday. The claim of John McGin-
ley for s11.s0: of Riley brothers. for
s12875: the Crown Distilling company,
for $44950; the Copper City CONNER
cial company for $124.Ss and 1891. and
]. " Collins for S14455 We're allowed
and approved.
The case of z. B. White against Di-
vision No. /, A Q. H.. the trial of which
occupied SO much of the courts time
at the recent term. was argued before
Judge Napton yesterday, occupying the
greater portion of the courts time. 1t
was submitted and taken under advise
ment.
Henry Rode is no longer the hus-
band of Mrs. Sarah Rode. Some time
ago Mr., Rode tired of the manner in
which his wife was conducting herself
she being in Jail as the result of drunk
enness every now and then, and
brought suit for divorce. Yesterday
Judge Napton granted the decree. The
couple were married in New York in
1865.