The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-10
PAID BY THE COUNTY
A Large Number of PauperS and
hOre Prisoners.
APPEALS OF THE DESTITUTE
The Children's Home In Financial
Straits-Th here Are 1O6 Occu-
pants in the Jail-Cost of
Their Keeping.
APPEALS OF THE DESTITUTE

There were yesterday log prisoners in
! the county Jail, the largest number.
| with one exception, that has ever been
] in the prison at one time. The excep-
| ton was last Thursday night after the
| fan tan raid, when there were about
a dozen more. Among the inmates are
nine women and the remainder are
mostly petty offenders who are servina,
| OUT justice court sentences. There is
| an unusually small number of felony
| cases in Jail. most Of the defendants
| in state cases being out on bail. The
sherln's bill for boarding prisoners
| during January was S1,5l1.5O, and will
probably be more this month.
The number of paupers supported by
the county is also larger than It has
been in a long while. and the superin-
tendent OF the poor receives new appl-
cations for assistance almost every
day. There are 60 inmates i'm the poor
house, and the cost for maintaining
them in January was $3.50. The county
supports or partly supports about a
score of families outside the poor
house, mostly deserted wives and wild
owS with a lot of children. An exam
pie of this class of unfOrtunates is
Mrs. Richley woman who applied for
help a few days ago. She came to
Butte with her husband and children
about three months ago. A few weeks
ago the husband died, leaving his wild
ow with seven small children and not
q dollar between them and want
Nothing has yet been done in her case
but the commissioners are considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of sending her back
from where she came, but she prefers
to remain in Butte, where she has
son'o relatives. Her youngest child is
only a few weeks old.
If the commissioners were to respond
TO all appeals that are made by pey-
sons who have no claim on the coEnty
as residents It would sake every dollar
that is paid into the coIr1tS treasury.
Some of the best investments that the
commissioners make In the cause of
charity is by the purchase Of railroad
tickets and sending persons out of the
state or returning them to friends and
relatives on the outside. Sometimes,
but not very often, investments OF
that character are lost and the parties
shipped Out are sent back by commits
sioners Of other counties equally as
enterprisins as the Silver Bow county
commissioners. one such was that Of
the noted Two Bit Billy" Billy took
notion q few days ago that he would
like to take a trip and the commission
ers thought II would be a good thing
for Billy and a good thing for others
70 furnish MN win One-trtp, long,
distance railroad ticket to carry him
to some relatives In a southern state.
Billy left Butte after bidding every
body I'm town goodbye -Four days
later he was back again His relative
started him on his return trip on The
next trip out Billy has an idea that
he will tarly I'm Butte yet little while
The county is paying for the keep
Ing of about n dozen or so children at
the WOman's and Children's home, but
ii is possible that unless something is
soon done to relieve the financial dis
treSs of that institution that other
places will have N be found for those
children. The commissioners regard
the home as a very good thing and IL
Is possible that some way may be
found TO 10y OF It's debts and keep II
running. II is the intention of a num-
Der Of Butte ladies TO hold a fair or
bazaar sometime during this month and
attempt 10 raise enough money to re-
lieVe the home