The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-29
TOWN TATTLE IN BUTTE
ne Rssh Of Crsminal A@Airs In Police
Coart----A Y0ang Mas Who
Thinks He b. 0rowsng .
Pair Of H0Pna.

made to-day by a reporter among Yea y
ing physicians as to whether the Rus
sian influenza had yet struck this town. |
The uniform reply was that no influenza
has yet appeared SO far a. the physicians
know. II is true that several young men
and two or three married women have
told physicians that they believed they
were afflicted with the Russian plague.
They have been sneesing SO much as tn
lead them to believe something unusual Is
the matter. The wife Of q prominent
10 her physician that she had the FIRST case
of influenza I'm town, and was greatly net
tled when the sag doctor told her that she
had nothing worse than n cold and
catarrhi One physician remarked: II
notice from the papers that the scourge
II assuming a serious form in Paris, W where
il ia being complicated with pneumonia I'm
sea"ences II he disease reaches such
places as Granite or even Butte. where
pneumonia il prevalent. IL may be that
the advent OF the plague In to be
II is the general impression that e the
stay "a hours. The smoke will knock il
out.
A young man, engaged i'm professional
life in this city, was distractedly visiting
the offices of physicians yesterday. He
declares tina: horns were growing out of
the top of his head and the devil was to
pay. An examination by physicians
WV ~ Hht'
have been had the young man been "a calf.
The young man claimed that the Jumps
were steadily OWL in size, ana he
thought the tips of the horns would he out
MI &c.,, s,,,,ora ~
p
"You may talk about your fire alarm sys-
tems.' remarked Chief Smith last night.
II am glad we are going to nave a system.
But Tor a rapid notice OF a nre give me n
gun above everything else. A revolver
fred quickly i'm the air until its chambers
ore exhausted will attract attention and
summon a crowd quicker than anything
else on earth; a hre,beh az tne Guy nan
Will teIi peppie .here : Hre' a niosi oa
Ws.I y !, sha @ - ,na a.. g., nS :,
IL disc,vcrctl tells inst wher,. n ia and in
vnr;abiv brings IN. tnwn'
n- Er.u. su, ~oo.;o<, n;s nm,
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"issIo" - P,s,"ste' W, oW' "s III
never,heiess ne'iica'e MS SERVICES "'he
1. II his commission is not at hand then,
he will volunteer to act as q clerk for
Talent ana famiiiarize him-
seit with the duties OF the ONCE.
FINITE toI.orapb o,er,tor NJ many
g. h.. nI,sar,aa ,I,., n;n.
80. m - a., e.,,,.Io 60 .ho so,n5 49,
oronh mcssnocs send tbcm coIlect. Near
r. apI - t,,."s : scr,n,,In,,s;v oiv.rSc 70
nayin9 for the messases before they are
vent; VI men, ABOUT 'hree III h'e "s""iS
p~S u"
c.u.,J.-s hasa n.n... ~ ,h.;- u,
,.."h
into which everybody IN Butte who bucks
the tiger falls invariably. The college,
bred men, the lawyers and business men
who are most careful and preci Sc i'm their
ordinary conversation, and pride them
selves on their faultless grammer, always
fall into the gambling style when talking
OF cards. They are heard to remark. II
plays the ace and I loses. Then l plays
the deuce and 1 wins.'
The tricks sometimes resorted to by pol
iticians was shown i'm the case of the late
s.Do,, Gleason who died from in;,,ries re.
- a.. .In ..a, a. Cinas.
Se'.u W .no .'aNn
aesired AN apPoi,'',ieh' as reeis'rS c,erk'
out vast eilgipie because ne o~ned nc
real estate. So some of his friends pre-
scented him with u half interest in "a lot
near the Parrot sInelter, valued at $50. He
then got the poiutment. II is said that
the lot had a string ON il and was pulled
away from Gleason as soon AS election
The rush OF police business had made
the police court greatly behini IN the
county criminal cases. The city cases
have been kept up well day by day, bu
the county ca SEES have delayed more than
usual. The case of Powers and Brady fol
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