The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06
HIM TALK TOO MUCH
50 the Lean and the Fat Chinaman
Fall in a Heap.
DEALING A SNAP FARO GAME
A Few Dollars Change Hands
Hoards of Vags Floating Into
Town, and they May Ee
Put to Work.
DEALING A SNAP FARO GAME

Missoula. Feb. 5.-The night shift has
become perniCiously active again alter
a post-holiday rest of several weeks
and there is plenty of amusement on
deck now for those who stay awake
o. nights Last night there was live
ly row between two Cinnamon that
drew a big crowd for a few minutes.
It started nobody knows how but the
Mongolians were scratching ana claw
ing like a couple Of irate females in an
instant. Both were very short but one
was fat and one was thin. The thin
one had the better staying powers and
finally gave his adversary shove tht-
rolled him over. Then the fat one
picked himself up and fled across the
street. He took a position on the side
dalk directly opposite his late antagon-
list and hurled what seemed to be fierce
invectives back at the lean fellow, who
promptly sent them back. There was
a racket that would make a boiler shop
feel ashamed of itself until the police
made the belligerents move on. 1t was
a genuine Corbett- FitZsimmons fight
The lean heather. when asked what the
trouble was about, said: Him talk
too heap smart"
King Faro seems to be having more
prosperous reign just now than he has
enjoyed for some time. The regular
games seem TO be getting plenty of
play. and for a week or more there has
been a mania for snap games" Some
times these games work well but more
frequently they do not. Not many
nights ago a well known local citizen.
after making a winning at poker, had
the fever so strongly that he opened
"snap" with S45 in the drawer. one of
his poker victims sized him up and bet
s45 on the jack-nine He won on the
first turn and the amateur sport was
- L. l. n .1.1 10
Brown" started a game last night with
So so in the drawer. At one time the
players had S25 in chips out against
him, but the old fellow kept the deal
going, and when he quit the boys
around the table were all broke. 1t
doesn't often work that way, though.
The police have determined to re-
duce the present oveTproduCtion of
vaEs. Many are of the opinion that the
present influx of Wandering Wilnes is
a sure harbinger of spring. BE that
as IL may, they are coming in bands,
droves, squads and battalions. until
the tramp element has become a drug
on the market. During the past few
days IL has developed into the proper
lions of a public nuisance. Not a few
of these Migrants belong here. but the
majority of them hail from Butte. SpO-
kane and other outside points. No
uepIeudllOnS as tne result OF their
presence have yet been reported. 1t is
more than probable that they have
been preparing FOR a grand coup d'etat.
II this be true. their plans have met
a premature fate, for last night no less
than dozen were rounded up by the
police.
This morning III. =. Bailey, William
Chapman, c. F. Taylor and Ed Smith
were arraigned in Judge Ross court
and each given 10 hours in Jail for va
grancy. The cases against John Lar
son and John Williams on similar
charges were dismissed.
1t is the intention of the authorities
20 rid this community Of this unde-
sirable class. They are acting upon
the theory that a nuisance can more
easily be abated by heroic treatment
at its inception. There will be no let
UP. The vags must so.
The season is fast approaching when
the city will be able TO derive some
material benefit from the wanderers
who drift in here. The municipal Off
GERS expect 10 do even better work on
the streets this year than was done
last season. This work will be done by
the strangers within our gates who
have no visible means Of support The
system that operated so satisfactorily
last summer and fall viii be employed
this year but Will be started earlier in
the season and continued until the adj
Vent Of winter or failure In the sun
ply of vags renders furthcrs work i'm
possible.
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