The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-01
Thieves ARE ACTIVE
HObOes and TrampS Giving the Au-
thOritieS Much Trouble.
PASSENGERS LOSE BAGGAGE
A Murder Committed In Boulder
BY Jack White-Three Men In
Jured at the Reflnery-IrwIn
Gets Six Months.

Great Falls, April 30.-Within the las
rev days swarm of buns, vagrant.
ana crooks have swept down on tn,
community and are engaged in work.
ing the town by soliciting contribu.
lions and stealing anything and every.
thlng left carelessly exposed. Thi:
morning, after the train arrived from
the East and before the station men
could get the baggage under cover
thieves nipped a trunk, carrying II
down to the river bank ami robbed II
/ 81 Its contents. Officer johnson dis
covered the empty trunk and had il
taken to the police station, where il
was afterwards claimed by Professor
and Mrs. Young, who were passengers
from the East on the early train. A
| baby carriage was also taken from the
depot about the same time. The police
rounded up the gang tonight and the
hoboes will be given an opportunity to
jump the city or become members of
the chain gang.
This afternoon, Sheriff Dwyer re-
ceived telegram from Sheriff Gillian
Of Jefferson county, asking him to be
on the lookout and arrest a man named
Jack White, who is wanted at Boulder
for murder, alleged to have been COM
mitted at an early hour this morning
No particulars of the crime are given
but the impression exists that White
is trying to get out of the state over
the Great Northern road.
w. /. Irwin was arraigned before
Judge Hawkins this morning on q
charge OF obtaining money under false
pretenses. The prisoner pleaded gull
ty and was sentenced to six months in
the county jail Irwin is an old man,
his form is bent with age and his hair
silvered with time. Considerable pity
was expressed for him but his crime,
the particulars of which appeared in
to-day's Standard, merited punishment
and he was let off with comparative
ly light sentence.
This afternoon at 1870 o'clock, three
men at the Boston & Montana smelter
refinery were badly injured by an ex-
plosion of a lot of molten metal. A
dozen were working near the place at
the time when, for some reason, the vat
toppled over into the varnish vat, caus-
ing an explosion and bursting the vat
into flying fragments. Frank Young
was the most seriously injured, being
scalded nearly all over. Mike WEIGH
was scalded on the arms. head and feet
and Joe Kerschwing was struck in the
back by piece of hot copper. They
were taken to the Columbus hospital.
All will recover.
The case of j. II. Seymour, ex-agent
of the Singer Manufacturing company,
charged Dy the company with emDeZ-
cling funds collected, was called this
for continuation of the pre-
liminary examination before Judge
Race. The defendant waived examina-
ton and was bound over in the district
court in the sum of $500. When the ex-
was commenced one week
ago the company claimed that Sey-
mours shortage amounted to 5000. Since
that time agents for the company have |
up a lot of receipts signed by |
Seymour and for which he made no re- /
turns. These have been filed in court, |
and others will become a matter of rec |
ord as fast as they are found.
County Attorney Freeman has de- |
,ided not to become a candidate before |
he Butte convention for delegate to the
republican convention and the
% delegates from Cascade county will
yote as a unit to send L. CT. Phelps.
Moses Sniffen died at the Columbus
hospital this evening, after an illness
# several weeks. He was young
nan, well and favorably known, and
lad a wide circle of friends. The re-
Mains will be shipped to Long Island
or interment, where the family are
rominent in social and business cir
les.