Arizona republican., 1906-11-09

under the demands of the defendant until at last she suggested that what remained be put into a home. She gave | the defendant a check for $500 which he was to apply with what he could rake together on a house and lot. AL l together he paid $500. They still owed a building and loan association on the property and that debt was to be paid off in installments After a while the defendant quit paying and told the plaintiff that he was going~to let go.
 She then took up the paymens-
 This story was in the main denied by the defendant He admitted recelv- ing tLe $6OO check, but he said he took the money back to his wife and she had given him $500 which he paid on the house. That was the extent of her contributions to the home. His daugh- ter confirmed his story of the real es- tate deal and said that the stepmother had refused to pay any more on the property on the ground that it was the husbands business to furnish the nest.
 The daughter also testified with ref erence to the incorporate habits of her step-mother She mad seen numer- ous tall bottles about the house which had been brought at the instance of the plaiutiff and they had been filled with beer. A great deal of whiskey she said had also been imported frequently through the medium of dark hued Hebe called "Mlindy," who if she had lived when the deities peOpled the earth would have been the official cup bearer to the gods and gOddesses but who in this unheroic age is known as pro- fessionaI chaser of the duck Perhaps if the truth were known. Hebe and her successor. Ganymede, were nothing more. Time hallows all things. Some time "Mlindy" may be a character of poetic interest.
 Mrs Stearns denied that she drank more than was good for her. She drank beer for beers sake but not too much of it. Whiskey she abominated. She had sent "M'lindy" and others for whiskey at times but always for the use of MT Stearns who felt the better for the drinking of it. She said she al- ways tried to make things pleasant for him. She liked to see him feel good.
 There were several other witnesses to whom Mrs. Stearns had shown bodily bruises which she told them had been inflicted by her husband. She denied that she had ever used violence 1 toward him. She had never thrown the vinegar bottle at him and as for that scar. "she had met him with it." That is. he had the scar the first time she ever saw him.
 In reply to the charge that she had | sworn at him and his daughter and ! had called him and his daughter bad l names. Mrs. Stearns said there was l nothing of it. She had never been l trained to use that kind of language, | she never swore in her life except | some times in a spirit of josh I some i times said Oh, Darn A young man i was put on the stand near the close of ] the trial to testify that he had heard l the plaintiff swear at her husband but l he was too late. The great mass of l evidence had been brought out by di- | rect examination, cross examination, | rebuttal. re-rebuttal and re-re- -rebUttal. ! All things on this earth must have ! an end at some place and the line was | drawn at this witness. The evidence 1 had been so contradictory. and as mo- ! body knew anything about the main i facts in the case except the interested ! parties. the court was unable to de- ! eide who had lied. Neither party was ! given a decree and the case was dis | missed.
 Before taking up this case a divorce was granted in the case of Watson ! against Watson.