The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-07
DEAN IS ACQUITTED
he Sold the Whiskey Under lnstruc-
tons of Joe Durrett.
sNODDY GOES WRONG AGAIN
Generous Mayor Harvey Turns His
Salary over to the Churches
The Demands of the Min
ers at Horn.

SIecial Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, March 5.-The case Of the
state against Frank Dean for selling
LIQUOR without a license was tried be-
fore Judge Rose and jury to-day ana
resulted in an acquittal for the defend
ant The defense set up was that Dean
had no interest in the saloon but was
simply in the employ of Joseph Durrett.
who, about the first of January, had
become involved in a saloon brawl and,
becoming alarmed at the feeling eXhib-
tied against him, decided to engage
Dean to transact his saloon business
while he took a vacation for the beneht
of his health. On the cross-examina-
ton OF Durrett II was drawn out that
he conducted a saloon and hurdy house
combined, and he found it convenient
several times to shift the burden of re-
sponsibility upon the girls" Durrett
also admitted that he had been tried at
Gardiner before jury for stealing
chickens from a colored man and con-
victed of the crime, although he es-
capped serving out a sentence because of
a technicality in the complaint. He ex-
planned his conviction on the ground
that the jury had to do 1t for self-pro-
lection, as they had helped to eat the
chickens. John I. Smith. the attorney
for Dean to-day. was also the attorney
contrary to every known precedent, the
tall sycamore from Livingston is said
to have got away with nothing but the
feathers.
Professor Snoddy, who last summer
was found one morning trying to drill
an artesian we'll with his head for a
diamond drill, and was sent to the asy-
lum for treatment. where, after few
months he was discharged as cured,
has had another attack of his old mall
ady. This morning he was found wan
dering around the streets In a dement,
ed condition, chanting church anthems
and eXhorting in religious strain an
imaginary audience. He was taken to
the Jail and placed in the bridal cham
Der, where he became as tactiturn and
uncommunicative as a sphynk When
addressed he methodically tears a
newspaper into small particles and ST.
lently passes out the bits piece by piece
to his questioner. He is a man who
frequently drinks to excess, and IL is
this more than anything else that has
superinduced the Authorizations of his
mind
For the second time Mayor Harvey
has donated his salary for five months
to a worthy cause. This time me has
bestowed $50 upon the Sunday schools
of the city. dividing this sum equally
among the five organizations of this
city. 1t goes without saying that the
mayor will have a strong pull with the
Sunday school scholars from this time
on.
Among the officials of the coal COM
pany who came down from Horr to-
night were w. II. Aldridge, ]. E.
Strong. J. L. Parry, Charles Berres-
ford, John Walker and Dr. Allen. The
miners up there make the demand that
Mr. Strong and Mr.. Parry resign their
positions and leave the camp and that
the ringleaders, who are under arrest,
be released without trial. This is their
ultimatum before they will go to work
again and they assert their determine
ton to prevent their places being sup
piled by other workmen. The English
speaking contingent of the camp, Mr.
Strong says, are not in accord with the
foreign element on this proposition, but
they are much in the minority, there
being four foreigners to one of the En-
gllsh-speaking race.
j. III. Conrad. accompanied by his
mother and sister, Mrs ]. II. Conrad
and Mrs. T. ]. Todd, came in from
Horn yesterday and left to-day for
Great Falls. Mr. Conrad laughs TO
ridicule the rumor that he was the
moving spirit in the controversy at
Horn He says the first intimation he
had of any trouble in the camp was on
Monday morning. several hours after
the sheriff's posse had arrived
A Frenchman named TONY" was
thrown from a horse that he was rid
ing to-day and injured quite severely
His head was cut in several places and
he sustained a fracture of his ribs Dr.
Alton attended him.