Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-26
Unless Reconciliation Can Be
Brought About Judge Threat
ems Judicial Spanking.
TOO MUCH MOTHER -IN-LAW
Wife. Accuses. Mother-in-Law OF
Making Things so Tropical That
She Cannot live in the Same
House With Her-second Time
Case Has Been Ina Court.

Unless the parties to this case
can arra~se matters so that they
can become reconciled 1 shall have
to let this case go to issue and give
them judicial spanking" said
Judge Galloway this morning in COM
menting on the case of Olive I.
Pierce against her husabnd, LaRon-
da NJ. Pierce. The case was argued
at length yesterday afternoon on a
demurrer interposed to the complaint
of the wife by the defendant hus-
band and the Judge delivered his
remarks in rendering decision in
which he overruled the demurrer
thereby allowing the husband the
right to answer and bring the case
to an issue.
Too Much Mother-in-Law.
The case has been in the court
before and the cause of the domestic
troubles of the parties according to
the remarks of the judge this morn
Ing and the complaint filed by the
parties seems to he the Important
part the mother of the husband Is
playing in the case In controlling
the actions of the husband towards
the wife. At some prior term or
the court the husband brought suit
or divorce against the wife ana
Judge Galloway then after investi-
eating the case dismissed It and adj
monished the husband to not insist
on having his wife reside with his
mother, Mrs Matte Parish but %
take her to home OF his own even
though 1t be but tent. The hus-
pand, according to the complaint ~
the wife, who is now suing for di-
Vorce' seems to have paid but little
r heed TO the advice of the Judge as
: the wife now says that her bps-
bands mother is dominating him to
such an extent that life with him A.
) no longer bearable and asks for a
! dissolution Of the marriage bopJ
ana her share OF the property
scolded for Whispering.
ne hst OF grievances alleged bv
the wife in her complaint Is lon,,
ana diverse in character. Her bus
Dahds mother, Mrs. Matte Parish
siie says is OF an ungovernabIa tom
per and on one occasion her motber.
> ,n-iaw' she says, protested against
her mother coming to visit her ana
also Informed her that IL cost TO-
'huch 70 Keep her-that is the wife
that she was useless expense ana
look up the husbands time. Unon
another occasion the mother-in-Iaw
fushed into the room after the bn,
oand ana wife had returne from q
buggy ride and humbly pettine.
uo"h on her knees before the vito
"ssed her IL she might take a rida
WIN ner own horse and buggy; and
On sun another occasion she alleges
"niie her husband was reading ono
evening she whispered 10 him thar
she was tired and was going ~ 80
IRE and this so angered the mother.
in-iaw that she scolded her ana ae-
euSed her OF being m hammered
Ihe husband evidently coineided
"l'n the mother-in-law IN his views
OF the matter as the wife saws that
ne wanted her % go ana apolol.lze
10 the mother-in-law for having
whispered 70 him and Il Is because
OF these and many other thingst hat
she wants legal separation and
( "ahts her share OF the property
r winch consists Of talIorshop In the
ei'y and some real property.
Mrs Pierce Is represented By At
torney Mcmahon and Mr.. Pierce by
attorneys Kaiser P0gue aud Hart
eel