The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-23
Local News.
tFrom Tuesdays Daily.)
ALMOST RIOT.s

ALMOST A gRIOT.YN ~
|.,er 81 sAe warsP.1h and what
Came Or IL.
day evening, after a remarkably quiet
heventful day, Butte, at the drop of a
IS thrown into a,ssats- of angry feyefish
j usspf which traces ate even yet to
acted. The occasion of the excitement
he arrest If MI. Charles H. Carver of
II, and the circumstances attending that
Mr.. Carver is an old settler, a man of
tty, and Of prominence. When sober,
ho him justice we must say he almost
8 is, he is a quiet but energetic business
man;who pushes his W business SO
btly that he finds no time to attend to
II other people. But all this is changed
uor. We will not avail ourselves of the
ent opportunity here presented to de-
q temperance lecture, but will be con-
b say that when In liquor Mr.. Carver
hes unruly and somewhat violent, and
bosed, quarrelsom and dangerous. Like
4 many other sold timers" he seems to
hn idea, when in his cups, that the dis
bn of being a pioneer gives him the right
ln things and that such modern in
bus as the ordinances of an Incorporated
fall altogether short of having any Of
ia al old timer. On Sunday Mr.. Carver.
town with his family and towards
ng he proceeded TO get upon oneNofthe
which, 1t seems, are quite as interest
J rare. As 500 as a good fighting head
Ram was OH he madea movement offthe"
less house Of Coleman d Co., where he
a disturbance BY handling IL Of the
ietors in aaSther SroaghA though playful
her, ut the same time whOoping every
d breath at the top Of hisyoice. MI. D..
powsneA,i deputy city Marshal who hap
to be at hand, requested him 10 cease
Ing a disturbance, a the noise he was
ng was beginning to attract a crowd; but
admonitien only served to make him
/. From whoops and "hooraps'' and a
1t Oh general principles he took upthe
let Of the city goveI nment, applyingto
ty officers epithets anything but COM
butary, and asserting with emphasis most
ed that there was no officer II sch Of otii-
n Butte who could arrest him. At this
Brownell took him in charge, calling Mr..
Is Wartield, brother of the city Marshal,
$ assistance. Those two, aided by one
! party, forcibiy conducted MI. Carver
j Main street, the Intention being, as MI.
Eneil says, to take him down to Owsley's
e where his team was put up and get
! of his friends to take him home. But
programme was no. carried out. The
yner made all the resistance in his power
Ing the advance very slow and difficult,
speedily attracting a large crowd
he scene of the disturbance. If the
ders who came running up had attended
cir own business, M trouble would have
b place, but they saw tit to crowd around,
ng threats aud warning the men having
In charge not to attempt to take the pris-
to the lookup. Mr.. Carver being wide
Down and besides very popular, the sym
h OF his friends was only to be expected
when that sympathy took the form Of
IS inflicted upon all officer in the lawful
barge of his duty, 1t is likely the per-
SO acting may be taught a lesson that will
them to attend strictly to their W af-
hereafter. The three men above men,
ed made their way through the crowd to
intersection of Main street and Broadway,
re Policeman Campbell was met, to
m MIR. Wartield resigned the prisoner,
|pbell, taking WarLeld's place, proceeded,
the help of the others, as far as Hale's
! store, but at that point he was seized
behind, pulled backwards, and struck
it blow of the fist. Campbell's response
to draw his revolver aud strike his as
int twice acros the face, inflicting a very
bus wound at each blow. Here two Other
struck him, but both were knocked
n by a blow each from the loaded cane,
aving thus disposed of his ~assailant, OF
Campbell returned TO his prisoner and
mpanied him as far as the intersectiono
n and Park, where a general melee oc
ed, of which no very straight account il
n. Several agree, though, in stating thai
yer, getting loose for q moment, struct
Apbelia heavy blow in the neck-a blow
eh Campbell returned with a stroke from
loaded cane that laid open Carver's fore
D at the hair line. Then followed severa
e blows promiscuously delivered, and a
a shot from Campbell's pistol. Dit
PIT stories arc told as to how the shot wa
Some say it was fired point blank a
yer. Campbell has no very distinct recol
on Of an event that occurred in the mlds