The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-29
49, anaconda Meas.
TROUBLE In THE AIR
Fights, QuarrelS and Arrests Reported
From the Four Quarters.
ROSS, RYAN AND A POKER
Drummond Prisoners VIII Be Tried
Here-Some One Hit George
Modini-Cooks Arrested
and Discharged.
ROSS, RYAN AND A POKER

Fights and trouble were In the air
Thursday night. Belligerency was on
the rampage. as the following resume
of the business of the day in court will
show:
In Justice j. NJ Kennedys court yes
terday Con Ryan swore out a warrant
for the arrest of ]. ID. Rose, for an as
sault. The trouble brewed in a dispute
between them till Ross settled the ar
gument with a poker. Ryan, though
not convinced. gave in and has spent
several days in the hospital with a very
sore head developed by a half dozen
scalp wounds. The case will be ad-
justed by Judge Kennedy at IL o'clock
to-day.
A telegram came yesterday to Judge
Kennedy from the station agent at
Drummond. saying that he had three
men there under arrest for stealing a
lot of wood choppers tools from the
depot at Gold creek. Matt Rossman
swore to the complaint. A warrant
was issued and the men will be brought
here for trial
George Washington James Madison
Lincoln Mumford was arraigned before
his honor, charged with disgraclng the
honored name he bears by loafing
about saloons and being an idle and
dissolute person. He was accused by
Constable Pickle, who sustained the
charges and the illustriously named
vag went down below for 80 days.
Nelson Johnson, a cook, was arrest
ed yesterday on a warrant sworn out
by George Modini of the Grand Cafe.
for an assault. The case came up for
trial before Judge T. ID. Fitzgerald and
the prisoner discharged last evening.
Mr.. Modini testified that he was met
about 10 o'clock on Chestnut street by
johnson and two other men. AS he
passed them johnson hit him on the
back of the head and knocked him
down but he got up and ran away
while the three of them followed him
home. He showed officer Nick Bosan-
ich the lump on his head. The only
cause which he knew anything was
about was a disagreement with the
cook some time ago.
johnson and his companions, Charles
Hines and w. A. Brown, all declared
that none of them had struck Mr. Mo-
dini, and had not followed him. The
preponderance of evidence was with
the defense, though how Modini got
that bump as big as fist on the back
OF his head, was not explained.
A switchman whom Yardmaster
Con Nee discharged from the b.. A. &
p. got full and went back to get re-
venge on Mr.. Nee. He was seen COM
ing and when the affair ended he had
the worst of IL, though he swore out
a warrant for Mee's arrest. The case
was set for hearing before Judge Fitz-
gerald yesterday afternoon. The witt
nesses whom the switchman said he
had failed to appear, and Mr.. Nee paid
a nominal fine on his own motion and
departed.
There was an interesting little fra
cas- occurred on Commercial avenue.
near Hickory, which did not get into
court but ended satisfactorily to the
parties concerned. A prominent and
popular bartender mixed UP with n
sporting man. Yesterday the bartend-
er's hat did not fit, but rested on sew
eral knobs which covered his head. The
sport did not show up at all and II Is
supposed he spent the day with raw
beef and oysters on his ewes.