Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-11-26
COURT LISTENS ID
 FAMILY TROUBLES
Arthur P. Olson And His Wife Disagree As To De-
 tails Of Married Life

Preliminary action to the suit brought by Mrs. Mathilda Olson for seperate maiutainance from Arthur P. Olsonswas this morning begun be- fore Judge Reid, and is progressing this afternoon. Mrs. Olson is asking for $1 1000 attorney fees, $500 for OK penses of getting depositions, wit nesses and the like, and $100 month as maintenance. The action now on trial is for temporary alimony and att torney fees.
 Mrs. Olson asserts that she has for the greater portion of the period since 1898 supported her daughter and her. self, and that she has worked since coming to Valdez last spring. In court Monday it was stated that for three days after coming to Valdez Mrs. Olson went without food because she had no money, and that at the end of that time she asked her daugh- ter if ahe latter and the latter's father were 'roing to let her (Mrs. Olson) starye. After that, so it was stated, the daughter twice'Ia day took the mother to a restaurant, where one order was made to suffice for the two. Olson, in this connection, says that he establish 1d his wife and his daugh- ter,in the 1 9nix hotel shortly after their arriva and provided for them until Mrs. Olson of her own Volition departed from the hotel
 Evpart rap,pls fho F,ot cf marriage in Boston in 1886, the fact that they have a daughter, the fact that Olson came to Alaska, returned home and then came to Alaska again, and that Mrs. Olson is now in Valdez, the Olsons appear to be unable to agree on any statement made in court. Since coming to Valdez, the daughter, Emma Olson, has sided with her father, and makes her home with him.
 Briefly, the story of Mrs. Olson, as told in the af1idavits read this morn ing is that in 1898 Olson joined the rush to Alaska, and was unsuccessful in his quest for fortune, returning to Boston in 1899 and living there with his wife until 1900 when he again went to Alaska. Mrs. Olson asserts that during the period from 1900 until the arrival in Valdez of her daughter and of herself she has with very little assistance from Olson supported her. self and their child.
 Mrs. Olson alleges that Olson has in Valdez property worth $15, ,OOO, and that this property is community pro- perty. She further asserts that the recent sale of part of this property is not bona fide, but was made in an effort to prevent her from obtaining control of any part of it and to pre- vent her success in the present action.
 On his part Olson declares that his married life has never been happy, owing to the nagging habits of Mrs. Olson. He says that when he first departed from Boston he left with Mrs. Olson some $1, 200 and a lot in a suburb. She says the sum was $500 and that of this Olson received $500 the next time he started for Alaska. The lot, according to Mrs. Olson, is yet unimproved, and is assessed for small sum.
 Olson says that he has averaged $500 year sent toward the support of his daughter, while Mrs. Olson says that these contributions did not av craze s25 year during the period in question.
 Olson further affirms that the prop erty valuation is greatly exaggerated and cites the price received for two parcels as evidence of the truth of this statement. The lots in question were sold after the arrival in Valdez of Mrs. Olson, and brought less than S2,- GOO each.
 Olson offers to establish his wife in house here and to give her St5 q month, but she asserts that this offer Is not made in good faith, as since her arrival he has declared to her that she will never get q dollar of his, either in money or property.
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 Charged with adultery, Mrs. Myrtle