The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-27

A Posse Camping ON the Trail Of the
lBandmann Horse Thieves.
Special TO the Standard.
MIssoULA, May @.-The statement in
yesterdays STANDARD that the Anaconda
base ball club Is to he reinforced by some
players from the East does not particu-
larly please the Missoula club, as their
players are all amateurs and citizens of
the town. e.
The last fixtures have been put In the
new Plymouth barber shop, and Mr.. High
warden now prides himself on having the
finest place In town. He has o fine .loca-
ton under the Northwestern National
Bank, has considerable fine furniture.
fine bath rooms and everything first
class. Mr.. Highwarden has built up for
himself one Of h best trades In the city,
and takes just pride In II.
Deputy Sheriff A~bernethy, John Bless
ing and Bob McVeigh started out this
morning after the Bandmann horse
thieves. They took a pack horse and pro-
visions and are ready TO stay as long as
necessary. McVeigh. was a member Of
the former posse and knows b route to
man at Blanchard's whose cabin was
broken into and provisions stolen by the
thieves. They think the thieves have not
left the saltwater country. Sheriff Hous-
ton thinks their plan is To camp there
until about the middle OF June, when the
snow on the mountains, O 30 or 40 feet
deep, will be largely gone and the water
lower, and then go over into British
Columbia.
Judge Evans was busy this morning.
Frank and George Howard, q couple OF
bad boys, who were arrested for fighting
down on the row" a few days since, had
been arrested for sleeping in a box car.
The Judge fined them 81 each and gave
them until 9 o'clock i'm which to leave
town. Lucien and Harry Jinks paid their
fines and costs. amounting to S11.25 each
for the same ffense They were courte-
Gus and honest-looking men, who claimed
to have come from Michigan and did not
know they had been guilty Of any INSIDE
meanor. but paid their fines without any
trouble. Edward Findley and Lincoln
Dubois, two workingmen, had come here
from Spokane Falls, and, having but n
little money, had slept I'm box cars. They
wanted TO go to Butte where they ave
work. His honor dismissed them. An
other man, charged with the same o~ifense,
was sentenced for ten days with the
county road gang, but allowed until to-
morrow evening In which to get work, as
he assured the court that he could had n
job promised him.
The last were two ''dagos," Louis Ross
and John Doe, who were charged with
carrying concealed weapons. Louis was
fined SO and costs, but John was dis
missed. John helped Louis TO pay his
fine and when he went ont, turned To the
court and said GOOD pye, meester." The
above might serve as a sermon on the
pernicious custom of police magistrates
through the state i'm giving real Migrants
time in which to cave town. Nearly all
these men appeared to he honest and in
dustrious, but i'm hard luck and short of
money. Still the town is so full of worth.
less loafers that the judge was not certain
hat these men were not of the same class
and, as they were guilty Of trespassing,
fined them. Regular Migrants ought to
be cinched To the full extent OF the law in
order 10 give men who are industrious
but broke some chance Of acquittal for
petty otrcnses.
c. w. Atwater of the STANDARD came
in from the west yesterday and will leave
this afternoon for the Bitter Root valley.