The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-11
THE JAPS SET THE PACE
Butte 0ilcialS Determined to Place a
Tax on Houses Of Ill Fame.
The Town viii he Kid ut % Dangerous
Element-More ARRESTS VIII Follow
How the Nefariou~ Traffic
Has lB~en Carried DIN

Special Correspondence Of the standard.
BUTTE, Jan. lot will he rcmcInbe red
that about three, weeks ago three Japan
ese women of ill-fame, keeping places i'm
East Galena street. were arrested for sell
ing beer without IA license. They were
following the custom of Galena street
women buying beer at "a ncighboring sa-
loon for % cents and retailing il To visit
ors at 81 per bottle. Two officers played
detective work and arrested them. They
were tried in police court about "A week
ago. Judge Newkirk withheld his de-
cision until to-day. when he decided the
Jap who had been tried. guilty, and fined
her 81 and costs i'm the city ease, and SO
and costs i'm the county ease. The other
two laps who were arrested will probably
plead gui ty.
1t was remarked rs singular that Japan
ese women who might lie supposed not to
he conversant with the laws of the country
should be made the victims of u prosccu-
ton for selling without license, when the
same oifense has been committed every
day for years. 10y more than 1D other
women of Butte. That they break the law
each time is not disputed 10y anyone con-
cerncd. But the city government does
not propose to discriminate against the
Japanese. or any other race. All women
who sell liquor without a license will now
he placed in the same boat with the Jap
anesc. and must either take out IA regular
license or stop selling liquor altogether.
City Treasurer Jacobs to-day served
notices on l25 women who keep houses of
ill-fame,, notifying them that they must
either TAX ont u license FOR selling intoXi-
eating liquors or stop furnishing drinks to
their guests. Five of the more important
houses of ill-faine in Butte pay regular
licenses to retail all kinds of liquors. But
the great majority of women of this class
have no license. and for years have not
been disturbed i'm retailing beer or wine to
their visitors.
This step ON the part of thc city govern
ment is likely to rid Butte of a great
many of the women of the lower
class. Many of them have depend
ed on the amount of beer
they might sell as the principal part of
their income. To buy beer at % cents a
bottle and retail il AT 81. is "a comfortable
profit, and by shutting off that source of
profit the city il sure To rid itself OF a
portion of its populotion.
The city has also in the natural course
of things become rid of two Of the CON
cert halls which infested the city. IN il
true that the hnrty house has not yet been
closed. But the other concert halls,
where girls are employed as Mattresses.
are just as injurious. One of these. the
Newport. was closed to-day. Mrs. Miller,
the proprictrcSs. selling ont. The place
will he opened as an eating house, by
HAIRS Whitley. formerly of the Antelope
Doc Mills place is also closed. Mills hav.
ing skipped the country and left his cred
itors in the lurch 1t issaid that the place
will he occupied by Cal Wilson. who now
runs a concert saloon i'm South Main
street. This will, in any event, leave tho
city with two less concert halls.