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Show ABILITY TO PAY 18 QUESTION IN DIVORCE Court Seeks Light Upon Daniel MacMillan's Financial Finan-cial Circumstances. HOLM MUST HELP WIFE Bingham Man Ordered to Turn Over $20 a Month; Interlocutory Decrees. Tn the Third district court yestor-day yestor-day at thn wcokly divorce matinee Daniel MacMillan was summoned to show why lie had neglected to pay his wife, Marv Jane MucMillau about $900 back nlimony for her separate maintenance. One year ago MacMillan was ordered by Judge Mor&o to keep an account of his earnings and submit them to the court- On the stand yes-torday yes-torday he said that ho had kept this account from December till last Juno when he discontinued it. In Juno hi? wife had gono east and he frankly confessed con-fessed to the court that he did not thinly that it would be necessary to contribute further to her support. "During "Dur-ing the timo ho had kept account his earnings were very small and at this time he had no money or property, he said. When tho opposing attorney began to question him MacMilkm was very indefinite in his answers. He denied that a Mary C. Madsen held title to forty acres of land in Davis county valued at $4000 as his trustee. Tie sai'd he had no property in the name of a third person. He admitted that he might have said to others that be could not hold propert.y in his own name on account ot his wife's claim upon him. He had offered to mako a settlement with his wife provided be were released from further- obligation, obliga-tion, he said. Real Estate Figures. Charles B. Eaciener, who had a roal estate deal with MacMillan. testified that he bad boen told by him that lie. could own no property on account of his strained relations "with his wife. Mrs. MacMillan -'s attorney stated to the court that an effort had beon made to summon Mrs. Madsen, who had evaded service tho past ten davg. Tho court ordered the case continued one week and issued an order restraining restrain-ing Mrs. Madsen from transferring title to the Davis county land. Jacob Holm, a miner from Bingham, waa called upon to show cause why ho should not make a liberal allowance to his wife, Mary Holm, and their four children,, while the wifo's suit for divorco di-vorco was pending. Ho told the court that ho earned only $:i per day and did not always work every day m the month. His health was riot the vcrv best, as he was troubled a great deal with the rheumatism, ho said. Ho had to uay $30 a month for his board and he had dobts amounting to about $600. The most of this indebtedness was on his homo in Bingham, whero his wife koops boarders. when asked by his wife's 'lawyer if he were not addictod to intoxicants and that ho lost a great deal of labor on this account, ho confossed that probably prob-ably ono day in the month ho was incapacitated in-capacitated for work from this cause. Drink Is Obstacle. Mrs. Holm testified that she thought sho could, in addition to the revenue derived from her boarders, get along with $30 a month from her husband. When asked how often her husband was intoxicated she replied, "two days in. tho month." Mr. Holm, who was seated in the rear of the court room, interrupted at this point: "I said two." The court ordered Holm to -pny his wife $20 per month. The following interlocutory docroes of divorco were grantod: Veda Gran-dall Gran-dall from Joseph Crandall; May Asher Jensen from Earl 73. Jensen. |