The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-06
THEY ARE J0SHERS ALSO
Honderland'S Gateway Raises the Gar
den City One.
AL LEE IN THE BAsTILE
The Victim Starts Out to Joke and
Finds Himself Within the Iron
Grasp OF Solitary Confine-
msnt-Drinks Follow.
Special Correspondence Of the standard.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
LIVINGSTON, April 4.-If Missoula de-
sires to hold the palm as the "Joshville'
OF this state her large army of practical
jokers will have to get down to business.
Recent events in this city make il certain
that Livingston is running neck and neck
with the metropolis of the far-famed Bit
ter Root valley, and unless Missoula looks
well to her laurels they are liable to be
wrested from her by the Gateway City to
Wonderland.
The Livingston joshers wero rather
quiet on ALI Fools day, but they were
wide awake and active to-day, and perpe-
trated q pretty severe joke on AL Lee, the
well-known local turfman and all round
sport.
The incident that created such furore
among the members of the s.Joshing
club" occurred about IL o'clock In the
morning.
A certain well-known gentleman Of this
city was placed in the 'cooler" yesterday
to sober up, and this morning Mr. Lee
and companion prevailed upon Jailer 6.
H. Savage to admit them to the county
bastile to see the prisoner referred to.
Lee went to the Jail for the purpose of
joshing the aforesaid prisoner, but before
many minutes the laugh was on the visit.
ing josher.
The prisoner inveigled Lee into one of
the small cells. The next instant the
door was closed and the cold, metallic
ring which accompanied the turning of
the key Informed the imprisoned josher
Of his peculiar predicament. Lee laughed
heartily with his fellow prisoner, expect.
ing to be liberated in a minute or so. But
such was not the programme, as Lee
found out to his sorrow during the four
long, weary hours that he spent IN the
narrow cell.
As soon as Lee had been securely locked
in, the jailer, accompanied by Lees erst-
while companion, left the Jail, and as the
ponderous iron door swung to and closed
with harsh, grating sound, Lees voice
could be heard crying out in anguish to
be released, but the jailer only laughed at
the request, left the Jail yard and went
down town. The news soon spread that
AL Lee, the joshing jobber, was locked in
Jail. About noon the jailer returned TO
the prison and gave orders to the cook to
serve Lee with the regulation prison
dinner. Lee poixed his head out through
the hole in the iron door of his
cell and attempted to smile, but the grin |
on his face was a sickly one. His ringing. |
boisterous laugh no longer awoke the |
echoes in the Jail corridors and his tone of |
voice clearly indicated that he was a thor |
oughiy subdued man. He meekly petit |
toned the jailer to let him out. In a |
slow, exasperating manner the taller |
said; 'Oh, no. you josher, you'll not get |
out of here to-day; and besides wish TO |
inform you that your sentence calls for
solitary confinement. I'll not talk with
you, sir, at all, for il is an infraction Of |
the rules of this establishment for the
jailer to converse with prisoners
With this the jailer left and leisurely
strolled down town again. Ever and anon |
there would go to the jailyard a crowd of |
bali dozen or so and guy the prisoner
through the iron gratings to his cell. |
After Lee had been kept in Jail for four
mortal hours. large crowd collected at
Sam wilson's sample rooms, and having
arranged it with the taller. an
nounced that the time had come for Lees
ieliverance. Armed with the following
petition the crowd marched in a body 10
the jail. and upon being admitted TO the
reception room" read the document To /
the jailer in the hearing of the prisoner.
The petition was signed by 100 citizens
md was as follows:
PETITION
To q. III. Parker, Jdfler 0f Park County:
we. the undersigned residents OF Livingston.
,aying been creditably informed that Al Lee Is
low confined in-the Park county ljail, having
'een placed therein without due process OF
aw. and without being accorded a public and
peedy trial as guaranteed by the constitution
4 the United Sta.es and laws OF the state OF
dont ma. and believing that ne Is I'm great dan
er OF bodily harm from his cell mate hereby
espectfniiy petition that said unIaw ullv con-