The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-21
DIPHTHERIA RAGING
Belt, Sand Coulee and Great Fall
Are Afflicted.
MRS. REEDS HALLUClNATION
A Notorious Female Box Rustler
From the Casino Is In Trouble
and Siefred Is Out Several
Hard Earned Dollars.

Great Falls, Dec. 20.-Five cases OF
diphtheria are reported from Belt to-
day, and II is feared the disease will
become epidemic in that camp. Dr.
and county, has ordered the schools
closed and a rigid quarantine is being
enforced against the spread of the d.
sease. There are also three cases OF
diphtheria at Sand Coulee. and the
schools remain closed indefinitely.
In Great Falls two new cases were
reported yesterday. both being children
Of Mrs. Martin, a washerwoman resid-
ing on the river front, near the pump
house of the water company. One of
these died early this morning and was
buried this afternoon. Fears were en-
tertained by some that the contagion
would be spread through the clothes
which Mrs. Martin has washed for pa
irons. but the investigation OF the
board of health showed that Mrs. Mar
tin had done only one washing within
the period in which Ii is possible for
contagion to be carried in the clothes,
and that washing has not been return
ed to the owner. who does not want 1t
any way.
James Ryan has started serving a six
months term In the county Jail for
stealing a valuable beaver overcoat
from Joseph Hawson of Belt and SELL
ing the same to a denizen of Little Chi
cago.
Mrs. Rose Reed. a colored woman,
was examined this morning as to her
sanity: She is laboring under a strange
hallucination, believing the house in
which she resides, with her husband
and two children, is about to fall on her
and the babes. She is particularly
averse to residing on the north side of
the city. and fears that any one who
resides on the north side will injure
her. After rigid examination the
board decided that she was suffering
from melancholia, and was not danger
Gus or insane enough to be committed
to the asylum.
The following officers were elected
last night at a meeting of the Black
Eagle commandary No. s, knights
Templar: r. McDougal. e. c.; w. p.
Beachly, G.; r. w. Hanson, c. G.; w.
III. Race, p; F. A. Weehner, s. W.; w.
f. Brown, j. W.; Joseph Hamilton,
treasurer; w. E. Chamberlain, secre-
tary; William c. McBratney, ST. B.;
w. r. Dwyer, Sw. B.; M. N. Race, w
Hattie Shaw. notorious box rustler
at the Casino theater, was before Judge
Hawkins to-day charged with relieving
James Siefred of $105. Siefred is from
Belt and is not conspicuous for bril-
nary common sense. He claims he was
enticed in a box at the Casino and
while there flashed two $50 bills and
IS silver certificate. Hattie got sight of
them and later got possession of them
and kept the stuff" claiming that
Siefred spent the money for wine.
champagne, cigars, beer, cigarettes and
the like. There was a crowd of wit
nesses from the theater that sustained
the story of the woman. County At
torney Freeman is giving the matter a
good deal of attention, inasmuch as he
mas determined to suppress this meth
cd of robbery. and the case was finally
adjourned until tomorrow. This is
the third complaint of a similar char
acter made against the Shaw woman
within few weeks, but in the other
two cases the complainants were too
drunk to make their testimony worth
much as to what occurred. and no pros
ecution followed