The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-16
LATE NEWS FROM BUTTE
IN O0cial Who talks q Some Needed
Reforms In the City.


BUTTE, Nov. ls.-s.There are several
changes desirable i'm the conduct of affairs
in this city," said n city official to-day.
'In the flrst place VIC need an assistant
much business for one man 10 handle IL
all. The county attorney Is often COM
Gpelled by force of circumstances to
venter oil the prosecution of an
important case without any preparation.
There are cases i'm point almost every day
i'm the police court. Only yesterday Bush
feager and Savage, men that the police
were SO confident of being guilty of steal
ena after them, were dismissed because
there WAS not evidence enough brought
out 20 convict them. The fact is the pros,
scouting Attorney had not heard n word
about the case, and did not know
| what evidence was To be brought
J out when the trial began. He examined
one witness and another partly, and then
called I'm another attorney to finish the
case, as the county attorney had import
amt business at the court house. The new
att brney knew less about the case than
has predecessor, because he had not heard
was no surprise, therefore. that the prose-
cution utterly failed. Why, there are
cases of men having 500 worth
san and them not being Convicted.
These cases happen every day: There
every day who are as guilty as anybody in
the penitentiary, and they are discharged
AMPLY because of ~ weak prosecution.
~ a. wSabN ko thok
that the prosecuting attorney is not as
\ able aud competent as lawyer as there il
has 80 much to do, so many lif-
m is utterly Impossible for HIM
could take half his work Off his hands aud
the work would all he better done. The
same care and attention that the defend
ing attorneys use. The county might
rather pay for an assistant than pay the
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places after prisoners and then fail to
convict them. When the district court gets
will have more than he can attend to- mp
there, tn say nothing of new work that
comes up in the police court every day.
There is another thing that some have
been working fora year to- bring about,
but thus far without success. Many
y pay u large sun into the city treasury.
The gambling houses arc taxed and
the saloons are taxed; numbers of
other kinds of business are taxed. But
this elias Of business pays nothing in this
city. they are taxed one way or another
!Tb other r.y s,,lesi nHx nit f'o ,ne ihs are w .xsIiP p..
u material lifting of taxes from other pep
pie, and it would he proper. since they arr,
poverty which make the taxes So high, as
are the saloons and gambling places.
.i would also like tn have il explained
= why the houses of prostitution are not
limited to the area described in the city
limited To certain parts of certain streets.
Hut thr~ce-fourths of these places are out.
side Of the limits.
~ wish that n city ordinance might TIC
passed to compel the erection of n brick
chimney OH every building i'm the city,
whether il he u block or u howell. That
would lessen destruction by fire more
than would any fire alarm system in ex.
istence.
~ would mildly suggest thai the streets
of Butte are Uttered up and obstructet
, more than the streets of any other city in
Afthe world. If / dared 1 would like also Il
" record my kick against the fee SYSTEM