Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-10
NEWS TOO LATE
MARRIAGE OF ELDERLY COUPLE
INTERESTS SOCIETY.
DESERTS WIFE AND FAMILY.
Sad Tale Of Desertion-Rewards Of
fered for the Murderer Of
Louis Radigan.

It is reported that the marriage of Mr..
Sulphice ROleau and Miss Julia m
chel, of Frenchtown, will take place In
the near future, and the people of that
little burg are looking forward to the
event with a great deal of interest and
pleasure, owing perhaps, to the mature
age of the contracting parties. Mr.. Roleau
has reached the age of ~ years, and Miss
Dumonchel is but 10 years younger,
which according to the rules laid dow
by Fowler and Cowan, is about the right
proportion of difference in the age of
husband n wife; but they at the same
time urge a little quicker action. Mis-
soula is a little more up-to-date in the
matrimonial business, n don't put off
a good thing quite so long as is shown
by the marriage license issued Wednes-
day by the clerk Of the court which au-
thoriZes the marriage of Archie B. Ell
more, Is years old, to Miss Louise Horns
Vile, 10 years old. This shows a great
contrast between F~renchtown and Mis-
soula, and although the age for marriage
in either case is a little in the extreme,
it shows Missoula to be the more pro-
gressive.
Frenchtown has a scandal which is
giving the people there all they want to
talk about, nj it is being discussed with
considerable animosity, and direful
threats of tar and feathers and fence rail
rides are made on all sides. The excite
ment is all over a case of desertion by
one J. B. Marleau, who is an old resident
of Frenchtown, and has lived for the past
two years with a Mrs. Johnson, who left
her husband for him. Marleau and the
woman quarreled some time ago and they
separated. He then sent to Canada for
his wife, who has been anxiously waiting
for several years to come to him, while
he a been living contentedly with IN
,%hap ova Nv NFor1an,r r. nsxyo ~
Frenchtown a short time ago with her
~13-year-old son, n was soon deserted by
her husband whose only reasOn was that
she was old and gray. He has picked up
with the Johnson m again and is
living with her under the eyes of the
dutiful wife he had so cruelty treated.
Maggie Atkinson, who is known to the
police as Bum Mitt," who created con-
! siderable excitement a few weeks ago by
getting notoriously drunk and carrying
her nine-months-old baby along the
street, Keeling and stumbling so that
| those who saw her expected she would
fall in the gutter at every next step,
causd another scene at the depot yester-
day afternoon when No. 4 went through
six hours late. After her ehavior dur
ing the above mentioned spree her hus-
hand, Thomas Atkinson, sued for divorce
which was granted with the custody of
the child. and as he had no way of taxi
ing care of the infant it was being taken
tc, an orphans home in Helena yesterday
by one of the matrons of the institution,
when the mother appeared and attempt
| ed to procure her child. Although the
woman is very low and entirely incapable
of taking care of her baby, she loves it
and was frantic yesterday when 1t was
being taken from her. She gave the babe
away while on her terrible drunk less
than a month ago and seemed to care
nothing for it; out in her sober senses
she appears to have as much motherly
love for her baby as any woman could