Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-30
A NEW BEIRUT AFFAIR
A Warship However Will Not Likely
Be Sent to Phoenix.

The United States warship which
was sent to Beirut at the time of the
reported attempt to assassinate Vice
Consul Maggelssen, had better be sent
to Phoenix since the scene CT the Bel
rut disturbance has been transferred
to this point and now exists in a more
acute form th~n as it was afterward
found out It I'D at Beirut.
Not long ago Katie Sabra brought
suit against her hush ~ Shaheen
Sabre for divorce CT the ground of
g ell worthlessness and failure to
support Yesterday he fed 4 de-
muIre- to the complaint and he also
put in a cross bill which may be de-
scribe1 in the language of the poets as
a corker. He says that he aud his
wife were married at Beirut in 1888 and
lived happily ever after until about
tt, ~ years ago. They came to Phoe-
nix with nothing but homesickness
and an imperfect knowledge of the
English language and by their joint
industry soon found themselves in
possession of a small mercantile bust
ness in the southern part of the city.
They bought some property and put
house on it. They had beside ac-
cumulated Il wagon, a couple Of horses
and some othsr property
The store was doing very well but
Sabra said that II did not need the at
ton of both of them and he therefore
proposed to his wife that she take
/ charge OF the store and he would so
! to Congress and earn money b. work
Ing in the mine.
He says he sent home his earnings
from time TO time and the letters
which passed between them were
| freighted with love as they ought to
have been. The husband made occas-
| ioSal visits to Phoenix and found
things running smoothly and he be
lieved that he and his wife were on
I the road to wealth.
| Then he got sick or got a broken
I leg. Anyway he was incapacitated
for labor and he wrote u his wife
words of encoura cement assuring her
that the store would provide for their
wants until he should be able TO work
iegain. He received in reply an en-
velope containing a piece % blank
paper. To an American that would
! have meant nothing more than that
I the wife in a fit Of absent mindness
/ had made a mistake but as . Turkish
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meant that Shaheen should not write
I to his wife anymore; that he should
not speak to her and that they each
should be TO the other as If they never
/ had been.
| Shaheen reasoned that his wife was
angry because he could not send her
any money. He wrote no more and
did not go TO see her. he did not in
/ tend that their relations should b.
broken off hut he knew that deeds are
more eloquent than words. He would
/ save his money for a long time after
+ Re got Wen and then he would take il
all to her and lay it at her feet and
she would be propitiated.
/ When he had accumulated $3.50 h
thought that would be enough for a
! peace Offering and he came to Phoe-
nix his heart bullying with hope ever
as his pockets were sticking out with
cash. When he reached home and be
| fore he had time to mark his money
as exhibit "A" his wife ordered him
away. struck at him with q stick and
/ called the police and told the Officer
| that he was q hummer"
Her conduct was ineXplicable; III
could not imagine that she would
hold his sickness and misfortun,
against him 50 long: there must be
some ether cause. He says that IL
/ looking about for il he unearthed {
| certain William Fox who is now a CO
! respondent in the cross suit He says
/ that the relations between Fox and
his wife began not long after ne wen
TO Congress and that they have beer
maintained up 10 the time of the filing
of the cross bill. The bill is very
1 definite as to the times and places OF
/ the offenses charged against his wife
. and Fox who is described as the PRO
prietor or manager of a small hotel
II is also charged that Mrs. Sabra's
whole nature became changed; thai
she began consorting with the mos
abandoned women In the city ans
brought her children into the sam,
kind of society. There arc three OF tn.
children, the custody of which is asked
for as well as for an equitable shar,
Of the community property which II Is
said is worth now about $500.
Some men are so generous they Civ,
their wives liberal allowances and the.
win it back from them at poker-Nev