The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-08
TOWN TOPICS IN BUTTE
The Death Rate Decreasing During
the Winter uonthS.
WA.4 Judge NeNklr 1eesn~smb~ru 0f Odd
Time Hardy aouses-The scrip
Etesd-Case~ In the Dts
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aeeeAal Corre.nondence of thc Standard.

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0Uaa1al CorresDondence Of the STANDARD.
BUrTL, Dec. 7.-Health Officer Leavitt
peports n great Improvement i'm the health
of Butte during tire past two months.
During the fall the death rate was quite
high, the deaths numbering nearly SO
eoch month. Lately the city seems tn
have reRained its normal health and all
'uhysicians report much less sickness than
q few months ago. The city will after all
take it's rank again this year among tfte
healthiest cit les of the union. The decline
in the death rate began about the middle
of Octoher The record for October shows
Is deaths I'm that month, including one
death by accident, one suicide and one
sent from Bozeman here for burial. or
he Is deaths. - were under five years
Did. During November the surprisingly
how number of 10 deaths il recorded, and
OF these, six were the result of accidents,
and i've were brought from Jefferson
county. Ten of the So were under five
years OF age.
'If I could have gone ON the Witness
stand to-day" remarked Judge Newkirk
, last night, II might have been able tn tell
something interesting about the hurdy
houses as they were years ago, when the
territory first became settled. The girls
we're fat and stuInpy. not more than -four
noe. and whiis they, hey w "sseft dance sMisi;
believe they were imported from Holland.
direct. The miners would throw their
common thing for them To spend $50 or
>l@1OO n night on the girls. The hours of
Sthe hurdles would he from 8 o'clock at
The men paid 81. for every dance. and Il
vas a poor might when the girls
; SS%:s ~, 81 Tbs ;s.,. miner %'"ss: :. 3 SSs'
~hi6h vynS RyssiuhDSN mt m tha Inr altar
each dance. The proprictors were very
expert i'm weighing out gold dust and fire.
worth of dust for one dollar. some oi
them would have a long nail and i'm pinch
main andotecsed ander the nail. In those
have often paid as hia as $40 by the lib
helped himself to dust"
/ The result of the hurdy trial was quite
, surprising tn most people of Butte, for tho
opinion was prevalent that house OF thai
character could not he closed I'm this city
The police have gained an important steI
now, and the city marshal declares that
he will follow the case to the end. The
night. and the police deciarc they will see
that IL is kept quiet. The proprictors will
be arrested as soon asdancing is csumed
A peculiarly i'm the courts Of Silver Bow
county Is the press..sce Of the nasss, who !,
generally termed the scrip flend." Hs
J ,Suys Witness fees, cashine fees for wit
nesses at each trial at 81 and obtaining
e1.5O from the county treasurer. The bus.
mess is said To he quite lucrative, although
John Bordeaux alone makes II success %
IL. He has been in the business for year
have started in opposition to hin, but have
t ssasssd 70 the m MriSkis H rsn q Nj +. B ssstis1 H.,
present county clerk.
II il noticeable that the country is ge,
ting along quite well without any distric
court i'm session, and ii is a matter for a.
Rument whether the county would not h
) may be hardship in a few cases. but Il
certain that not half so many suits wi
he instituted or cases tried as would he tn
Many cases that are started will be Il.
iayed SO long that they will die a natnru
4 and husbands and wives who want d
the courts are ready to try their cases.
is n fact in two instances where divorC
suits had been instituted, the couples hnv
become reunited while awaiting tria
loser. by the present court muddie
Travellers approaching Butte notice Cd.
On the highest point of the city stands
church.
The matter of taxing the city's houss
OF ill-faWe is receiving much attentic
from the city authorities, and the only d
lay arises tromi 2 "l HI Haiena as ar (" n
tors of houses of ill-farue are taxed 5
y each quarter, and inmates are taxed
each quarter. They always pay prompt
and there Is no difficulty over il.
A person walking along West Par
street these days is met by the probleT
whether tits better i'm the mind to walk Z
the north side of the street and stumb
over a half dozen stoves standing on Il
sidewalk. u pile of fresh fish. three ba
rels of apples and several boxes of chic
ems, or go on the other side and strngR
with the intricacies OF q mortar bed. q
6-foot pile of brick, straw, lumber al
y numerous beer kegs.
A chain gang Is Judge Eddy's solutit
of the problem of rendering prison life
Butte less popular than il now is. III ci
prisoners ref lse to work I'm a chain ga
!. they can he fed ON bread and water.
UTT CITY GOSSIP.
distractions ON tho
and Other Notes.