The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-28
Town Topics.

One can form his own conclusion
about the matter. 1t Is a curious thing
and the facts are herewith laid before
the public without coloring or m
The other day Alderman Ljubibratich,
who represents the intelligent voters OF
the Sixth ward in the city council,
called at the Standard office and said
TO a reporter:
Just put it i'm the paper in the morn
ing that Alderman MuntZer Is soon 10
be married to a very beautiful Slav girl.
Just put hat in sure, but don't tell
them 4 told you. VIII you do it?"
Not more than an hour afterwards
Alderman Muntzer called in the Stand
ard office and aid
I've got an item for you. Just say
that Alderman Ljubibratich Is to be
married next week to a well-known
Irish lady. Don't say l told you, but
put 1t in just that way It's all right.
Have a cigar?'
Now those are the facts in the case.
What there is back of II we don't pro-
fess to know. Perhaps some of the nu-
merous detectives left here since the
mining suit began might be put TO work
to solve the mystery.
Speaking of the mining suit, Attorney
Bob Lindsay OF Nevada, one of the at
torneys for the %plaintin, tells a good
story on Lee Hayes of Colorado, one of
the experts for the plaintiff. Hayes =
an excessively careful man on the
stand and carefully weighed every
question before he ventured an answer.
He was eldom very positive in his
statements and il is said that he Is pref
ty high up in the Baptist church some
where in Colorado. Bob Lindsay says
he was trying a mining case in Colo
a d a few years and was cross
examining Hayes. He inquired as to
the distance from one certain point to
another, and the examination proceeded
something like this:
II think IL was % feet four inches
and seven-tenths."
well, 1 don't a what you think.
Was that the distance or wasn't it,"
Il am inclined to believe that was the
distance" repeated Hayes, after some
hesitation.
Didn't you measure itg"
Yes"
Did 1t show on the tape the figures
you have given?"
Yes"
Then don't you know positively that
such was the ~distance?"
IF the man at the other end of the
tape held it correctly. n If the tape
was accurate, l will swear hat such
was the distance"
The Butte barber shop lost 81, 900 the
other day. Miles Finlen was being
shaved in one of the chairs when w. M.
Twohy, who had scented a good thing,
came i'm breathless from the pool room
to borrow some cash. Finlen took a
great big wad of bills out of his pocket,
gave Twohy the required amount and
returned the wad to his pocket.
About 10 minutes after he had left
the BARRIERS chair Finlen returned To
the barber shop very much agitated.
did you pick up n money here!
he demanded.
Not a nickel" said Jahreiss.
Finlen began looking o on the
foor close to the chair where he had
been shaved, and there. in plain sight
on the floor, was a $1,000 bill. He lost
no time in picking il up and restoring
IL TO his pocket and John Jahreiss kicked
himself in IA different languages.
There is a man named A. w. Buse
who should be given a steady job in
Butte to serve as a juror In mining
trials. He is the man we long have
sought and he Oils a long-felt want.
Back in August. 1889, he was on the
Jury which found Roberts guilty OF
murder i'm the first degree. and as a con-
sequence Butte had the first and the
last hanging in its history thu far.
Last week Mr.. Buse served on the
Gil u oilt 'AAs 'N
victed of murder in the first degree and
has a hanging due him.. Mr.. Buse has
done well and it is to be hoped he will
serve on many more murder trials in
Butte. He should be unanimously ac-
corded the title, THE Hon. Mr.. Buse."
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This Is to be a great coursing season
i'm Butte. and this sport is bound to
rank among the most attractive or the
amusements of this section of n
r.. Ii. Mulcaster, an Englishman, mas
been engaged to act as judge in the
Butte coursing matches throughout the
season. He will be here April / and is
said to be eminently qualified TO fill sat
isfactorily this most important position.
George MacDougall sold last week to
II. c. Ghormley his dog Billy Walker
by Sorrento. out of Cricket. from the
kennel of DIR. Moore. Billy Walker is a
small dog. very neat, and Is a litter
brother to Moore's Prescription. now
running in California. The sire and dam
are both w~ell-known He mas
also sold to Mr.. Ghormley the brindle
white dog Bombshell. by the famous
Boomerang. who is brother to Twister,
out of Princess Marie. This is a slash
ing big dog. very muscular and fast.
but has been beaten here much because
ne couldn't turn. 1t is thought he Will
get over this defect this year. Mr.. Mac
Dougall has received from the same
kennel the family dog Bohemian, by
Border Rufian. out of Carmen; the
black bitch Blackbird, a litter sister to
Ben Hur: Border Rueian, out of imp.
Olicana. and the black dog Barrister.
by Boomerang. out or imp. Buenretiro.