The Nome nugget., 1927-11-26

at 50 per cent of it's real value.
 "Oh, no!" expostulated the mill lionaire, that's theoretical only. In many instances the taxes are for the full value of the land. That 50 per cent stuff is pure theory"
 Previously. Mrs. Haller, who broke down on the stand Monday. had been recalled. She testified that she had '"called his blun" in suing her husband for divorce.
 'I told him this spring I had lived 10 years in his house and felt we should get a better place. He told me to go ahead and move out-told me to start proceedings get a divorce, and that's just what did. In other words, I call ed his bluff!"
 Her complaint about the ances- tral mansion of the Hallers, at 6O6 Minor avenue. known as the Bleak House" and by one witness Tues day called the "Ghost House." gave rise to the divorce suit.
 By stipulationt he deposition of Dr. Otis Lamson of Seattle was read Tuesday, saying that in 1922 Mrs. Haller had such grave hyster- ical attacks that he feared for her mind. His deposition said that Mrs Haller was detained from harming herself only by the force of the husband and the physician, Mime. Louise Thiry. French dress maker, popular with fashionable Seattle women, with her piquant , English after the manner of Par isienne, was bright spot in the mcrnig session of the court. Her testimony was introduced to show how Mrs. Haller, with limited funds had Mime. Thiry cut out her dress es. then made them herself.
 It was she who puckered her lips and said that friends of Mrs. Hal Ter had referred to the mansion as the ghost house." She testified that Mrs. Haller never complained to her of her domestic troubles,
 but it was very easy to see, yes :. | She also said that when. Mrs. Haller when accompanied to New York by her husband, did not stay in a very stylish hotel" 'But then, person very prom inent in Seattle might not cut much figure in New York, you know." and the petite Parisienne shrug- ged her shoulders.
 Asked by Haller's attorney, L. B. Steadman, if it wasn't true that she made as fine gowns as anybody in Seattle, she beamed. but said in her most precise French way, Well, :. I believe do." Tn fact, Mme. Thiry, you make the very finest in Seattle, don't ycu?" Steadman asked.
 Well, now. I would very much like to think so," and the madame beamed on the fiattering attorney. Steadman smiled and crowded courtroom without vacant seat, beamed with the little French dressmaker.
 Mark Reed Goes On Stand
 Mrs. Haller. apparently greatly l refreshed after her near-collapse Monday, when she grew distraught and screamed and wept on the
 witness stand. Tuesday she wore the same blue tailored dress and
 stunning purple felt hat. The trial is expected to last through Wednesday.
 | Mrs. Haller's Uncle, Mark Reed. wealthy lumberman and state leg islator, was called as witness be-
 fore Judge Ronald Tuesday. He failed to shed any definite light on Haller's holdings.
 $2OO.OOO Is Part Of Fortune He testified, however, that dur
 ing the past session of the legis-
 lasure Haller went on the floor of the house and said that he would
 sell his real estate and buy non | taxable securities. This was dur
 ing an attempt to pass the bill lim- iting the tax on real estate. The non-taxable securities esti-
 mated at more than $200.0O0, are part of the fortune of which Mrs.
 Haller asks half. She also wants
 a share of her husbands third in-