| Show g I Must bust Pay for Widows Widow s 's Cow ow t Adjustment of Famous Port Arthur Siege Case Milk Case Milk Given to the Wounded d St St. Petersburg Russia's Indomitable indomitable indomitable table business woman Mme Stoessel has Just been ordered by the Moscow civil court to hand over rubles or about 62 to Mme widow of a Russian officer The case began begau in 1906 It proved to turn upon the prowess of General Stoessel's wife as aR queen of the Port Arthur provision trust during the Japanese of I that place Mme Stoessel had already al al- already S ready withstood the attacks of beleaguered be be- F 1 civilians who complained to the government that after she had r reaID 1 worked a corner In fowls she got her husband as commandant of the forn foroi fortress for for- n oi tress to fix the selling price of eggs 4 In Port Arthur t Mme informed the court courteen wen een that at the outbreak of the war she owned a cow and two calves When the tho siege began she left lett Port Arthur 1 and handed over her dairy business W to her husband who died soon afterward after after- ward Mme Stoessel thereupon appropriated appropriated ap ap- her cow The plaintiff estimated es es- 1 that Mme Stoessel sold a rS 1 thousand rubles' rubles worth of milk before I r se selling the animal for tor rubles Mme Stoessel admitted selling the I cow but red she had given all an the milk to o the wounded Moreover the cow she said was injured when she found it The court decided that she must refund refund re re- re- re I fund und the price of the cow rubles but Mme had to pay the costs of the suit She did not receive judgment for her milk claim |
