The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-14
SHE WANTS
A DIVORCE
Mrs. Corinne Bartlett
Brings Suit.
| SAYS HUSBAND WAS CRUEL
Ida Lamb Answers the Bill for Fore
closure Of Moftgage--Court
News.


states that on November Is last she |
was forced, through the cruelty of her
husband, Ward S. Bartlett to leave his
home, and that she is in destitute cir
cumstances and is indebted at this day
for her board and lodging and has no
means with which to pay the same, nor
has the means with which to pay her
necessary counsel fees in this action or
to pay the costs necessary in the pros
ecution of same. She says that her hus
band is engaged as barkeeper for S. j.
Shaw, in this city, and has been so
engaged for number of years at a sal
airy of $120 a month, and has other
ans of income, amounting approx
mately to the sum OF $25 per month.
Libellant says she is 80 years of age
and the libellee 46 years, and has been
rlarried for nearly ten years. She fur
ther alleges that the libellee has been
guilty of extreme cruelty toward her
ard also of habitual intemperance dur
ing the time of their marriage. spe-
cial instance she alleges on the 22d of
November last when, by libellee's vio-
1ence and the use of obscene language,
he forced her to leave libellees home,
and has caused her great mental and
physical suffering. She says she has at
all times been dutiful wife and all
her acts of conformation on her part
have been of no effect. She asked that
libellee be cited to appear at the Febru-
airy, 1901, term of court.
The Judge of the Circuit Court mas
ordered that the libellee appear before
him on Saturday, December Is, ut 10
o'clock, to show cause why the motion
of libellant for alimony, costs and coun-
sci fees should not be granted
SUIT FOR LIBEL.
George b. Kapule has brought suit
for libel against the Hawaiian Gazette
Company, Limited, asking $1,000 for
damages by reason of the publication
of an article in the Advertiser Of Mo-
vember 26.
| IDA E. LAMBS ANSWER.
| Ida E. Lamb, one of the defendants
in the bill for foreclosure of mortgage
brought by Samuel c. Allen against
| George Washington Smith and herseIf.
| has filed her answer to the plantih' 3
petition. She states that OH November
", 1885, one Stephen Spencer. late OF
England, in the Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. since 'deceased, ad-
4
defendants, the SUN OF $3.50 on his
promissory note dated November L.
| 1896, and delivered to said Stephen
Spencer, which was secured by inert
gage of the same date In order to Sc
cure the repayment thereof with in
| terest, Ida E. Lamb conveyed unto
Stephen Spencer certain real estate re-
ferred to inter ALA in plaintiffs bill.
lStephen Spencer died December 21, 1897.
! leaving last will which was admitted
to probate by the Probate Division OF
! the High Court of Justice, London,
England. January 10, 1898, and the ex-
ecutors by their attorney in fact, j. M.
Dowsett, sold and assigned to the de-
| fendant the above mentioned mort
gage. The interest on the note has been
paid up to November II, 1898, but the
principal has not been paid to any per-
son authorized to receive the same, and
both principal and interest are still due
ard owing to the defendant.
She therefore consents to the court
granting the prayer in the bill.
ESTATE OF CHRISTIAN GERTZ.
| Anna GertZ, the surviving wife of
Christian Gertz, deceased, petitions the
| Circuit Court for her appointment as
court that the deceased died testate on
January Is, 1897, in Honolulu, at the
age of 6S years, and was a resident of
Honolulu at the time of his death,
leaving estate, both real and personal.
There survived him the petitioner
who was his second wife, four children
and three children of a. deceased child
by his first wife, and three children by
the petitioner. The names, ages and
residences of the children are as fol-
lows: Christian Gertz 46, Hilo Frank
GertZ, A. Hilo; three children of Hem
rietta Jurs (deceased), Portland, Ore :;
Minnie Phillips. 81, Honolulu; Gussie
Young, 2S, Honolulu; Alexander Gertz,
~. Honolulu; Otto GertZ, L. Honolulu; !;
Gustav Gertz. 16, Honolulu
DEMURRERS FILED.
Demurrers by the score have been fill
ed in the Circuit Court by the defend
ants in the bill for dissolution Of CO.
partnership brought by W. +. c. Has
son VS.. w. II. Pain ct al and the Pala-
wal Valley & Upland Development AS
sociation. Yesterday Defendant Jas
Cowan. of Kailua, Hawaii. by his at
torneys, Kinney, Ballou & McClana-
han, filed his demurrer to the COM
Piaint. alleging the court has no juris-
diction of the person of the defendant
or of the subject matter of the action
ANDRADE DECREE.
Decree in the Andrade case has been
MED, adjudging the matrimonial rela-
ton hitherto existing between John S
Andrade and Adelaide Andrade as alb
solutely dissolved and ended The child
VI tns couple, Margaret Madeline An
GRADE, is entrusted to the care and
custody of the father until further or
der of the court. The divorced wife
VIII be permitted to see the child every
saturday between the hours of 9 and
y. m.
PROBATE OF RABE WILL.
Fred. Harrison has petitioned tha,
letters testamentary be issued to him
self and VIM. Mutch in the matter ci
the estate of Robert Gustave Rabe. who
died last week in Honolulu. The es.
tate is valued at about s4,050. in Homo
luiu, and real estate consisting of a "a
acre ranch situate in Burbank. Los
Angeles, Cal. Otto, Emily. Hedwig
agnes and Bertha Rabe, his nearest
Ireiatlons, are named as his devisees and
iegatees. The matter will come up fol
nearing on Friday, January is. 1901.
Inc sale of the julius Hoting place
on klng street has been confirmed by
the Circuit Court
Lily Josephine Manson SURVIVING
Wioow OF George Manson. deceased. has
peutioned to the Circuit Court. 10 be
appointed administrators of the estate
which she states is valued at about