The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-11
HERE'S A PRETTY MESS
Treason Stalks Boldly Through the
Streets Of Butte.
AND VICE WlNKS AT HER
While Blasphemy Looks on With
Smiles-M Mlsprison. CAL
umny. Falsehood and lnfamy
All Have a Hand in the Pie.

BUTTE, March 10.-A matter of serious
import has been laid before County At
torney Wines for investigation by one
John Hagan, who charges ex-Judge Col
man and a weli-known young attorney
with treason, sedition and malicious
blasphemy." The charges are contained
in printed pamphlet of 10 pages and a
large stack of closely written letter
sheets in which many items of alleged
proof are given. All tho Butte newspa-
pers, and the STANDARD in particular, the
Molly Maguires, priestcraft and the A. p.
AS are made accessories in the charges.
About two years ago Mr.. Hagan was
employed as n Waterman at the Colorado
smeltcr, and he had several men arrested
for stealing wood. The men were tried in
Judge Colman's court and defended by
Attorney Dan Yancey, who secured their
discharge, At tho time it was stated and
published in the papers that Hagan had
fired at several squaws who were stealing
wood and sho; pony belonging to one of
the Indian women. The troubles arising
from the affair seem to have weighed
upon Hagan TO such n degree that he has
devoted much of his time since to pub
fishing pamphlets about IL and has come
to the conclusion that it is a highly proper
matter for investigation by the county
attorney.
IL his printed pamphlet he relates the
story of his life under the title of IAN
Atheist VS.. Molly McGuires." He relates
that for some time ''there has been a hid
don chain of the most dastardly blasphe-
mics that ever could be enacted or
thought of 10y any combination from the
most savage to the greatest intellectual
cripple that religious bigotry could geneT-
ate by enfeeblIng the minds OF man, and
fitting him out for serfdom carried OH
against my existence" He tells of three
women at his boarding house who each
gave him a dose of poison. about n waiter
girl who put jalap in his lunch basket, and
about another who put I've in his wash
water for the purpose of binding HIM.
AT another time boarding house woman
gave him n dose of poison that would have
killed him, but he happened TO have some
bi-carbonate. of soda in his room, some of
which he dissolved in water and drank
and thereby destroyed the effects OF tho
other poison, las soda is an ak ali which
neutralizes the effects of both poisons,
which saved me from going up"
At another time a family, whom he had
befriended, tried to blacknail him
through their 7-year-old girl. There was
ring IN Butte which put them up TO the
plan" he sad.
July 8, 1898, a reasonable combination
of the Anaconda STANDARD concocted n
plan in Butte, Montana" says section
of the printed charges, "by sending a
dark Completed man (something like
halt breed Cree IndIau) with n humane
society mans badge on his breast, down
TO the Colorado smelter TO precipitate a
disturbance by encouraging five Indian
squaws to steal cordwood. ran those
two squaws off and arrested two Indians
that appeared on the grounds"
Instances of other reasonable acts are
related and the names of number of
s1H1, g.
sonable purposes" are given. Ha0an
tells about a Gllena street girl swiping IA
large pocket book from his inside vest
pocket, but she was fooled on its contents
which were nothing but newspaper clip
pings.
Colman's blasphemous words are
quoted in shockinHly plain language aud
then there is moro evidence of attempts
on the part OF waiter girls to poison Ha-
gan. II received so much poison into my
system, which weakened 1t so much that
was compelled to use distilled water
with dill. phosporic acid for a while. One
quart distilled water with 80 or 60 drops
OF dill. phos. acid.
THE precedent are examples of what
Molly McGuireism can descend to in tue
chain of blasphemy against any one that
is not of their type of intellectual degra-
dation. The last is the most blasphemous:
IL uses the waiter girls in boarding houses
as an auxiliary in their type of trcasona-
bic warefare by a method of administer
ing poison in the food. This element was
wiped out of Pennsylvania about 20 years
ago for similar chain of hidden treason
that they carried on against other Amer
can citizens"
Mr.. Colman is charged with being "a
fair representation of Darwin's type of
dIsapated manhood" and then Hagan
proceeds TO offer what he considers proof
of this fact.
In long letter to the county attorney,
Mr.. Hagan gives the names of witnesses
TO all the acts of treason and blasphemies
charged by hum. He also says the papers
did not treat him fairly in his trouble with
the squaws aud wood thieves and charges
that the Miner taxed him $3.50 for publish
ing hrs side of the affair. In the STAND
ARDS account of it there we're - lies, ac-
cordlng to Hagan's letter, and he enumcr-
ates them and supplements each with an
able argument and recapitulates as fol-
lows, about Lies published in the
STANDARD" July 8. 1898. contains IL
lies; July IL, 8 lies; July -, u lies; total,
81 lies"
The county attorney is making n rigor-
Gus investigation into the charges, and ii
is probable that informations for treason,
blasphcmy aud sedition will
be preferred against the parties Impll-
Gated.