The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-17

Great Northern train this evening. He
Immediately discharged the jury which
the cornner had impaneled and declared
that he would have a new jury of Butte's
representative business men. Tho new
jury will be summoned at o'clock in the
morning.
NO PROFESSIONAL JURYMEN.
Mr.. Wines declares that the investiga-
ton will be most thorough. He will not
have professional jurymen decide this
case. A criminal prosecution will follow
at once If the facts at the inquest are as
expected. Ordinance No. 3oi, section l,
of the ordinances of Butte says:
Section THAT hereafter it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons, company or corpora
ton, TO store or keep any gun powdar, blasting
powder, dynamite or other explosive material
in any store. warehouse. or in any other build.
ing within the city of Butte I'm greater quantities
than $50 pounds, or more than 1900 giant pow
der caps at any one time.
The violation of this ordinance is direct.
Whatever may be said or denied, it was
not $50 pounds of powder that caused last
nights appalling disaster. 1t was not
fire crackers that killed 30 men and
wounded hundreds OF people.
WHOSE Is THE GUILT?
The explosion has been variously as
crlbed to the Kenyon-Connell warehouse,
to the Butte Hardware company's ware
house. and to the cars on the Great North
ern tracks. While the inquest may fur
nish different evidence, the bulk of the
testimony heard about town is that tho
explosions came from tho Kenyon-Con-
nell warehouse, but there is a difference
as to whether one or all of the three ex-
plosions were from this place.
W. r. Kenyon of the Kenyon-Connell
Hardware company was asked by a
STANDARD reporter this evening how
much powder he had stored in the ware
house.
KENYON DENIES II.
Mr.. Kenyon said: I'VE did not have on
hand more than one or two boxes of giant
powder, not to exceed $50 pounds, so Mr..
Orcutt, the warehouseman, informs me.
The railroad companies, you know, only
take giant powder on ono day a week,
and We brought in from the magazine,
which is three miles out of town, ID boxes
of giant powder, and we shipped % boxes.
/ don't know if il was in the cars by the
house, but think not, because the rail-
roads do not take small lots from the
warehouse; we have 10 ship from the
depots.
ut has been customary for all dealers
who retail powder to keep a small supply
in the warehouse. We could hardly send
a team three miles to magazine to get a
box of powder. The authorities have
known of this custom and all dealers
have followed it. We never had in town
more than five or seven boxes, and that
many only over night to fill orders in the
morning. We have been retailing powder
for good many years, but am going out
of it. The margins are small and the
risk is too great. Our pecuniary loss is
slight compared with this terrible loss of
life
NOT MUCH POWDER on HAND,
Secretary /. f. Kirby of the Butte Hard
ware company said that the company had
but one or two boxes of giant powder on
hand in the warehouse.
Major Dawson, of the Great Northern
road. stated tonight that positively there
was no giant powder in any amount in
any of the Great Northern cars or any
where about the premises OF their depot.
and all reports 10 the contrary arc abso-
lutely false. He stated that there were no
powder cars on the tracks at all and no
cars except wood cars anywhere near.
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