The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-22
MATRON WHITES BILL
II Is for The Care of Paupers and
Amounts to 1854 81.
SOME OF HER PATIENTS
She Administered to Their Wants
Faithfully he Auditor Has Not
Passed on the Amount-Trans-
fer OF the Children.

Mrs. White, matron of the debt-rid
aen Women & Children's home, yes
terday presented a bill against the
county for $56457, claimed to be due
her for keeping county charges. Thai
Is about the amount OF the homes out
standing Indebtedness which the com
missioners wanted to pay, but which
they discovered they had no Legal
right TO assume. Mrs. Whites bill is
made up of the following items: Care
OF Mrs. Roth from May 6. 1895. to July
IL, 1895. nine weeks and a half, at sass
q week. 1861: three Gill children, 10
days, one 127 days, one 1913 days and
one 96 days, or 2S months and half
at IS a month each. $22S: Jane Hall, IL
weeks at $25 a week, 5000. In a letter
accompanying. her bill Mrs. White ex-
plains that Mrs. Roth was sent TO the
home by orders of the assistant county
attorney that she might have an OPP
portunity to obtain work TO support
herself which IL was impossible for her
to do while staying at the poor farm,
where she had been living, the charge
for her at the home being the same as
for county charges at the poor farm.
The six Gill children were also sent to
the home by the assistant auditor.
There were at that time 22 county
charges ahead OF them. 20 being paid
for by the county. The charge for
their care was the same as for other
county charges kept at the home. Mrs
White said good homes had been found
for three of the Gill children. Jennie
Hall was brought to the home from
the county Jail and about 10 days later
was tried for insanity before Judge
Mediation. but her insanity was not
proved at that time and the court or
dered her removed to the home and
cared for The county furnished day
and night attendants for the woman
for time. When the day attendant
was obliged to leave, Mrs. White took
her place and also took the place Of
the night attendant and had often to
remain locked In the room with her for
days at a time to prevent her doing
herself personal violence This lasted
until the Hall woman left the home.
She has since been sent to the asy-
lum. Mrs. White says in her letter that
when Miss Hall was sent to the home
there were 40 persons there and she
was obliged to give up her own quar-
tiers to her. The auditor has not vet
passed on Mrs. Whites bill.
Eight OF the children at the home
who have been county charges will to-
day be taken to the state orphans
home at Twin Bridges by Assistant
County Auditor Wynne, provided the
weather is favorable. The entire dis
lance will have to be made by team.
Willie O'Tiearne. a 14-year-old Vir-
ginia City boy. who wandered away
from home, will also be taken as far
as Twin ridges on his return home. He
appealed to the commissioners yester-
day for assistance and said he had
been away from home for two years |
and had worked for IS months near
Deer Lodge, but quit and came to Butte |
TO see part OF the world. After he |
had gone hungry for several days he |
concluded he had seen enough and was |
anxious to get back to Virginia City |
where his father lives