The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-01
TOPICS OF The TOWN
One Of the Peculiar Documents DiscoV-
cred In the County Clerks once.
Prisoners Should be Dressed In
Striped Suits-An Incident at
Bozeman-A Miners SEN
timent.


ments as they are recorded are filed, Is a
large Understanding enyelope with the
words written on Il I'm n large hand.
..D,n,, r,,LIish This labeI il meant ms
a mn. 70 .ne repor.ers WIG ,oos uIoush
the pigeon hole daiy Tor rear estate rams
fcrs and other matters recorded. In this
envelope are placed those things which IL
is desired shall not be known to the pub
lie at present for u reason or another.
The reporters occasionally through
curiosity glance through the contents of
this envelope. One OF the documents
which II contained the past week was a
"swear Off" duly drawn up by a notary
public, signed by q prominent man about
Town anu TWO OF ulree wlulesses. inhs
pape, ~ % 1t;ua m,;,h az ,n ~
Clerks seal were On the hacL and 81 had
been charged for the service. The docu-
ment has now been placed safely AWAY i'm
the vault and the Mint has lost n OF its
best customers.
II wouldn't be any more expensive for
the county commissioners to furnish the
prisoners nj the county jail with striped
s,;,s aud 4, u,o,,Id Greatly lessan tho
ahanaa. &c AL, rrhor. v,as
' " /" ~ -, ~
nearly a successful escape u night this
willy jail bird may successfully elude .he
vigilance OF the sheriff,s officers. The
walls that surround the jail ohce passed
with little chance OF re-capture. But the
striped sulss w9liu reIaer s.cc les
h;nnd b;a,o,,s, roa,sar Shar;T 7 iord h
anr;ons 10 have strined suits for his pris-
oners, and il would pay i'm the end. Fur
thermore in the matter OF cleanliness
and pests. the striped suits would be an
advantage. Each prisoner on entering
could be given q thorough cieanifiR ana u
brand new outfit OF clothing.
-
Frank lngersoll, the man who was ac-
week, is one of the most inyeterate cigar
cite smokers the state contains. He must
be not far from 30 years old, and has
three small children. But he is n more
confirmed cigarette flend than any boy in
the streets of Butte. When deprived Of
the seductive cigarette paper for an hour
or two he ecomcs so restless that life is
aponizing to him. During his trial he had
to sit i'm the court room for three hours at
a stretch. and this was too much for him.
So about the middle of each afternoon he
obtained from the Judge leave of absence
for a few minutes. The instant he passed
through the doors of the district court
room he placed n cigarette between his
was up. He seemed more interested in
getting a smoke than in his acquittal.
Anaconda need not think II mas a cor
ner on the Montana hotel enterprise.
Butte can also boast its Montana hotel,
although this fact may not be generally
ever there is n neat. wood-colored build
;,a v,h;oh ho,rS tho sion ..Non,ana
ms sfn., IaSh.. :.
Iio.ei; has no'a pa. na. 'uo'',p'
nns No "sa ~ nn. 7, las NO cnI.
.auae1J' n,na.s anS nor,.rs R", \, IL
ho'e'' "'u III Nhoh'"ii"'
4, n,.., ,,;,,
hPeeuiiar 'heiueh' W conio" WIN
the recent "Trip 10 bozemah was the place
to which the Butte visitors were taken I'M
mediately on their arrival. They were
taken up on a high hill from which
there was an admirable view of the
nointed out by this hospitable Bozeman
committee, and the e were some i'm the
party who fancied they detected n sig
nifcance ~ the act. Blu whether the
ACT was n,n.o Una ihigu, ehsue u tne
peopie nu'e nv ~ uop.,Ih1,
RRoznnan; h r, S f the ca2;toi 10 the Ieath'
has not heen d~etermined.
There is probably no class of people OH
o,r,h amono w,hom sen,imont rms 90
- III -. : ,"nn ns a.. ,'i,ars
ueep anu ias's 80 'o"g "s tue ,i'hers
OF Butte. Ihere Is TO DE a
grand parade on June IL In COM
memoration Of the anniversary OF
b founding OF the union in this city.
Yet there is one warm-hearted miner who
declares That he Will not TAXI part IN the
narale. SlmnIy because his comrades still
lie unburied in the bottom OF the Ana
conda mine. He does not think IL In the
least out of place for the parade to take
place and or everybody else to turn out.
But he avs that he was peculiarly related
TO the boys in the shaft, for he was down
there himself with them, and narrowly es-
the memory of his comrades he will not