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Show HUSBAND GRANTED DIVORCE BEGUN BY HIS WIFE Judge Nathan J Harris of the dis trict court has filed his statement of facts and conclusions of law on which are based a decree of divorce in the case of Melvina Mower against Ezra Mower The divorce is awarded award-ed to the defendant on his counter claim of desertion and truelty. The court states that it found that the parties married December 27. 1899, and that they now have five children. He states that the defendant defend-ant was not guilty of cruelty, as alleged al-leged in the complaJnt; that he did not threaten to kill the plaintiff nor did he compel her to leave home, but that the plaintiff left home of her own accord. The court also sayj? that the defendant did not fall to provide the necessities of life for the family. On the other hand, the court states that the plaintiff was guilty of desertion deser-tion and that she was cruel to her husband in that she left him to take care of all the children by himself, also saying that the plaintiff was guilty of improper conduct. It Is decreed that the mother shall keep the young child and that the father fa-ther shall keep the other four. The husband shall pay $45 attorney fees and costs of suit but the plaintiff shall take nothing on her pleadings. After a lapse of more than two years, Gussie Dixon has filed a petition peti-tion in the district court asking for a final decree of divorce from Samuel E. Dixon. The petition relates that the interlocutory docree was issued Jul 9, 1912. In the divorce case of Maud Jordan Jor-dan against John M Jordan the default de-fault of the defendant has been entered en-tered in the district court and Judge Nathan J. Harris has granted a decree de-cree of divorce. |