The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-17
TOWNS In THE NORTH
Some Of the Most Important Happen
ingS of Recent Date.
COMMENT AND PURE FACTS
There is Some Item of Interest
~ From Nearly Every Settle
ment, City. Ranch or Cou-
lee In That Section.

Great Falls, May 16-The Times
says that within the past few DAYS
there have been no less than half a
dozen cases of a criminal nature re-
ported at Belt, which, had the parties
implicated been taken before a justice
of the peace, would no doubt have in
sured their incarceration in the county
bastile for time. One of the cases
was an attempt to hold up a man, and
the other incidents were in the nature
OF attempts made to appropriate cloth
ing ana other personal property of diff
terent parties. In the former case the
would-be highwayman was discovered
in the act by an officer and made the
excuse that he mistook his victim for
friend whom he was trying to scare.
In the other case the perpetrators were
also discovered before they had made
away with their plumber, and they all
mad the same excuse-playing joke on
an acquaintance. These fellows may
have been joking, or they may have
been deeply in earnest, and ii is pretty
safe to assume that the latter PROPOSE
ton Is the correct one. Jokes of this
character are of rather a serious ma
ture and are likely to result in the al
legged funny man spending a term at
Deer Lodge. The perpetrators should
be taken before the justice and be
made to prove their case. The latter
gentleman is also a good hand at jok-
ans. After a few of these jokers have
paid for their fun there would undoubt-
.edly be less of it in the future.
Arrangements are nearly completed
for the entertainment to be given by
the scholars of the Belt public schools
aon Friday evening, May %, on which
day the schools will finish their work
Tor the summer. The programme is
elaborate, the teachers and scholars
sparing no pains to make it excel any
thing of a like character ever given
here. AS it is but a few days before
Memorial day the exercises will be of a
character appropriate for that occa-
sion.
The Lewistown Democrat says that
Colonel Hobson came in the other
day feeling as gay as a bridegroom and
as risky as 2-year-old. The colonel
is out for the nomination of state treas
urer on the republican ticket, and says
so He is not in the hands of his
friends but is out for the place and is
making the race with the boys in good
shape. In fact he scores up to theswire
in fine form and is entered by his man
ayers in the 2:15 class. The 2:15 is a
free-for-all purse $1,000, with no con-
ISOLATION money to the second. Ringers
barred" Later advices are to the eff
feet that the colonel is not in track
condition since the Butte convention,
and will be turned out to grass for two
or more years, rather than risk being
distanced in the race for state treas
urer.
There is "a well-defined rumor abroad
in the land TO The effect that Brother
John will sidetrack Jerry Sullivan
who has been a faithful henchhlan for
20 years-by having him nominated for
treasurer of Choteau county this year.
If Sullivan should happen to be elected
he will not be in a position to demand
a ripe and juicy federal plum-if Nc
Kinley gets there-and If Jerry is de-
feated, by a stilleuto in the back, he
VIII be tossed in the political garnet
or drummed out of the ranks of his
party as unworthy of recognition. And
Jerry obeyed orders at Butte, too, with
Tom Cummings, another Power man.
1T Is said ITO be a case of double edged
knife either way and Sullivan, a royal
good fellow, is being led to the slaugh-
ter pen with his eyes open, his heart
in his mouth. and his lamb alike orbs
looking pleadingly into Johns
The Times says that Mark Amsden
of Belt was fined 800 or the alterna-
tive of 80 days on the county rock pile.
had been rooming at the Park hotel
and refused to pay the rent when re-
quested to do so by the landlady, Mrs |
Higgins. Instead, he caught hold of |
the lady and threw her down,
her knee being badly injured by the |
fall He then attempted to clean out |
The house, but a well-directed blow /
from an axe-handle in the hands of a |
lady who was near at hand laid him |
out. warrant was sworn out and he l
was arrested and taken before his /
honor with the result that he will /
strengthen the stone-pile gang at Great |
Falls for the next so days. 1t is hoped |
that his enforced abstinence from liq- |
uor for the above period will be the |
means of causing him to turn over a
new leaf Amsden has a nice wife and /
one child, but the appetite for strong /
drink has such hold on him that his |
little family is entirely neglected.
Andrew Woyma of Belt was buried
beneath a fall of coal the other day
and received very severe injuries about
his back and chest. No bones were |
broken, but the attending physicians
consider the poor fellow in a very citi-
cal condition.
Editor Sheridan. a bright. clever, dis
corning young man, expresses the
opinion that Tom Power may as well
cease to aspire to the chair now occu-
pied by Hon. ]. E. Richards. Tom put
a nail in his own coffin at the state
convention and any others that may
be needed will be supplied and driven
by Cascade county Ell al in the next
state convention"
The Fergus County Argus says that.
According TO the latest opinion of the
attorney general you can fish during
every month of the year. He was
forced to this conclusion by the action
of supreme and district court judges
in going on a hunt last fall. at a sea-
son when hunting was prohibited by
thel aw of 1898. which the attorney gen
eral had decided 10 be in force IL was
evident that the judges would hold the
law OF 1895 to be in force, which law
permitted hunting at the season they
chs for their vacation and made no