The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-02
THINGS THEYTALK ABOUT
This and That Out Of Everyday Life
In Butte.
Special Correspondence Of the standard.

a fact that he pays more tn the uppor
of the city government than any three
men In town. Ii is said Mr.. and Mrs.
Godchaux can't put their heads inside the
door of the court room without II costing
them $40. County Clerk Booth says that
i'm one year when he was clerk of The
police court. the Godchaux paid into the
city treasury, i'm fines. not less than Sl,1OO.
The past year they have not done 50 well,
owing tn thef fact that they were i'm Cali
fornia much Of the time. OF late years
they have not figured OH the records quite
so frequently, and consequently the city
treasury has suffered, Tor they always pay
cash.
The Denver Republican, of January IL,
contains n complete and interesting arti-
Gle on the Denver police force. Al the
start the article says: 1.-THE police depart
ment of Denver to-day is unexcelled by
that of any metropolitan city. A year
ago IL was the worst of any i'm the country
and the thugs and thieves had full sway.
An order to arrest a person or pull "a GER
tain place was the venting of u personal
spite or meant a shake down. when il
was a gambling house or house of prosti-
tuition. The heads of the police depart
ments were, il is now believed. i'm league
with thieves, and the property and lives
of residents were hardly safe after hight.
The people demanded "a change, hut there
was no one to- detect these sup
posed o-be-guardians of the peace
until a fearless reporter tackled the job.
That he made a success of il, although he
was beaten and left for dead by the gang,
is truly evinccd by the fact that two of the
most notorious of the department are now
under sentence i'm the county prison and
their chief has left the country"
The fearless reporter referred tn is Mr..
Albert Moore, now u reporter on the Butte
Miner.
found IA paying business i'm peddling
horse raddish To restaurants, markets,
etc. He ships the commodity from Chi
cago, and clears about 81 per day at his
work.
Johnny Bordeaux, the script ficnd, Is
ALWAYS Messing around Tor an inquest or "a
fat trial i'm order to buy witness fees. II
is related of him that he reached the
scene of last Mondays suicide some time
before the coroner, and found "a ncighbor
i'm tho act of cutting down the hanging
body of Paul Stern. "ron't do that ~
cried Mr.. Bordeaux. at is against the
law. Besides he may he alive yet, and
then there would he no inquest"
That same evening "a young man at
tempted suicide at the ST. Nicholas hotel
Mr.. Bordeaux was on deck promptly and
anxiously inquired of the clerk IL the man
was dead yet.
"No he isn't dead yet" said the clerk.
SHOW is he getting along?"
1.-THE minister ia praying with hin
now."
Il Ue pray luG ~ b"s' :" ~" w ~
well 2" asked the fiend.
ITO get well, l suppose"
The story is that Bordeaux called tns
minister out and offered him S25 tai pra!
for the young man To die.
Chauncey West, the Iong-whiskered AM
astute conductor who punches tickets al
the way from Butte to Garrison. has 10
Gated another fire clay claim within
mile of Garrison, OF Willow Greek. nea
the claim which he and a %
capitalists have been working for som
months. 1t seems that about two year
ago Mr.. West had n ranch at this poin
where he has now located his fire ella.
claim. A anchman who had n rancl
adjoining that of West waited one da
until West and his train wer
, well on tine way toward Butte
and then with IA team q
;. over oulled his own shack over onto In
: ranch of West, and hauled VESTS shac
> on to the 9th er ranch. Mr.. West had n
. redress. Recently, however. he disco,
: cred a bed Of fire clay ON the ranch whic
was formerly his, and, under the miners
law, located the ranch as "a mining claim
The land agent of the Northern Pacitl
. will fight the claim, hut Mr.. West believe
4 he has the law on his side aud will han
8 tn II.
Ii is likely that Butte coal consumer
h will be much benefited by IN opening
the new Homestake route OF tho Nofther
n Pacific. 1t is stated that ~ soon as ii
road is i'm running order coal i'm Butte wi
be $3.50 less per tor.
The Migrants who have been i'm Il
habit of sleeping nightly curled up i'm Il
:, warm corners of the Combination hou
!. are being cleaned out. Where. there we.
formerly from ~ to 40 tranps sleepii
!, there nightly. there are now scarcely
:. half dozen. The police seem to have r
= the city of most of them.
=. An estimable lady residing in Dubl
m Gulch said tn a reporter I
al other day: II wish you would advocate
'e your paper the taxation of bachelo
~ There are X or 10 bachelors boarding
my house, and il makes me mad To thil
they have to give up nothing for the s,
port of the women and al
"f dren. while we poor widows have
support ourselves. The bachelors e
'r- save mp their money or blow il i'm. VIII
y. poor married folks have to struggle alo
RS with just enough to live ON. Now VT
oil up "A good strong editorial on this subjc
Ill / think the city council or h legislatt
~ might turn their attention to such matte
er as these, and stop their quarreiing. \
er let me see how strong you can put II
ek print"
~ An ex-city marshal of Butte said tod.
~ "When ] was marshal l had the power
"a appointing my own policemen. Blu
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