The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-24
TOWN TALK IN BUTTE
Some Abuses Which tho City Authorities
Should Attend to.


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Special correspondence of the standard.
BUTTE, Nov. @.-Scarcely a day passes
in Butte without the arrest OF one or more
wife heaters. Three have been arrested
In the past two days. Somehow ar other
there seems to be more cruel husbands i'm
Butte than elsewhere, or else wives ara
more agQravating. At my rate the num-
her of men arrested for beating their
wives Is becoming larger each month.
There are a number or probes
sional wife heaters who are arrested
every three weeks and then dis
charged because they go around
and make up with their wives To induce
them not tn appear against them. A
Butte. 1t would he effective and would
speedily put an end to that species of
mans cruelty. Perhaps il would he ~
gosd idea for the ~ewspape to keep i'm
type from day to day the names of those
who have been arrested the past month
for beating their wives.
A law should Inc passed prohibiting any
lawyers from practising ina Butte who
have not licenses. As it is now
any man i'm Montana can
step into n Justice or police court and
defend n case. There are n half
nave never been admitted tn the bar and
have never studied law tn amount tn any,
thing: These lawyers quite frequently IL
In said, induce prisoners to plead HOT
guilty for the sake of n fec, when there IL
mo prospect i'm the world of avoiding con-
viction. This piles up the costs for the
people to pay.
, For some time the has beer
limiting that the Instructions in the strncts
of Butte are worse than in any other city
of the land, and ought not to he permitted,
now u number of streets which are SO
blockaded that IL Is impossible to pass
yithont going into the middle OF the r9ad;
and Colonel Dawson went to the city au-
thorities and to Winters d McSherrie,
sewer contractors, and complained that
piles of dirt from one to four feet i'm
height had bcen standing Ou the sidewalk
nas sfo and C ,h . : t. ms nrnsncct of t1c enms
tractors removing the dirt until they get
ready. The city needs and ought to have
n city marshal.
The board OF county commissioners will
meet on Monday, and the question about
town is, will they, as a. democratic body.
afford any relief to- "a democratic court
and democratic sheriff :. 1t is within their
authority to examine the locks OH the
doors of the jail, condemn them. have
new locks put on with new keys, and de-
liver the keys into the hands of the new
sheriff.
A pound has been provided for stray
dogs, but the question now is, will the
stray ours about the streets of Butte bc
taken care of? A citizen said to-day:
blessing instead of a curse. They con
sumo all the garbage that Is left about the
~streets. The garbage would de- otherwise be
protection to health: and they should never
be put i'm tho pound"
1t is rumored that Charley Jones is GO
ing to let his case against Chief of Police
Smith drop.
The thrilling. car-splitting whistle which
has so long announced unerringly tho APP
Of the past, il is said. A new whistle Is tai
he substituted of IL mild. everyday char
acter, similar i'm tone to the whistle of the
The ..script fiend." who makes quite a
stake IN percentage daily by casling wit
ness fees i'm police court, is said to he
booming business Ivy inducing prisoners
70 plead not guilty i'm order to insure "a
The people who arc all the time talking
era whom they find in the streets don't
know how many cases there are wle.rt
the p1.ice save few the eis drsn ssn y mS Sr,,a ar1.,,
man was arrested who loudly claimed
that some saloon men in whose,
him of *l.14O. Two policemen took him
to the police station and found the SHAN
~i,ieI the money. and then ii,e victim,
would always have claimed that the
saloon men robbcd him.
There are three full bands running IN
Butte nightly now. The ladies' orchestra
IL running AT the sllf1ornta brewery, inc
Vienna orchestra at Clarendon hall, and
the Alice band mt the Elite.
A. j. Davis. who has accompanied judge
Dixon and Judge Knowles to Victoria
British Columbia. is said tn he building 4
fine block mt Victoria.
w. Mccoy was arrested Tonight on &
charge of completely with w. II. TupISe
ina stealing silk dresses from the house ot
Chief Smith.
Notes from Deer Lodge.
Special Corresponde nee of the standard.
DEER LODGE, Nov. On. j.. Bielcn
berg and family left Thursday for 81
Paul. They will spend the winter there
and in st. Louis. Mr.. Bielcnberg viii
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