The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-24
Lawlessness Rampant and MUIR
derers are Abroad.
BUT IT'S ALL IN THE MIND
What Can Be Done by an Amateur In
Yellow Journalism Without Half
Trying-How Butte Gains an
Evil Reputation.

! ally discovered about o'clock last eve
ming by little Willie Jackson, who lives
| with his poor mother at No. 3642 West
| Galena street. Mrs. Jackson is about
! 30 years of age and is the mother of Ia
| children whom she supports in ease and
| comfort by taking in washing and saw
! ing an occasional load of wood for a
| neighbor. This neighbor, whose name
| could not be learned in time for the
| first edition of the Standard, is a shoe
maker by trade, and has long been I'M
der police surveillance because of his
soleless occupation. Mrs. Jackson. be-
sides her IA children, has several dogs
for whom no license has been paid. Last
evening while Willie was going along
the street he saw a man walking slowly
by and muttering incoherently He
might have been drunk, but 1t was not
apparent to Willie. His face. was COW
cred with something, which, in the dark
looked red and might have been blood,
or 1t might have been a short growth
of carmine whiskers. Mortified at the
discovery little Willie ran home and in
formed his mother of what he had seen.
The matter was instantly reported to
the police and they are now exerting
every means to ferret out the mystery
and apprehend the unknown mans
murderous assailant The affair is
shrouded in the deepest mystery and
the object of the attempted murder can
not even be surmised. There is some
talk of calling the committee of one
hundred to the aid of the police, who
seem to be absolutely powerless in the
matter, and stupefied by the holiness
and enormty of the crime. Some are
inclined to believe that the unknown
mans skull was crushed into a shape
less mass when seen by little Willie
Jackson. His identity up to an early
hour this morning had not been estab-
lished.
Four Shots Were Fired-The people
in the neighborhood of No. 1000 North
Main street were aroused from their
peaceful slumbers at an early hour yes
terday morning by numerous alarm
clocks set for that purpose. Their hor-
ror was intensified later in the day
when they learned that while they were
calmly reposing in gentle and refresh
ing sleep frightful tragedy might
have been enacted almost directly in
their midst, and perhaps not more than
mile and a half away. The facts of
the nearly awful affair were first re-
lated by Maggie Moore. a servant girl
employed in one of the several families
in that neighborhood who can afford
such a luxury While several of the
families have for long time employed
servant girls it has been strongly sus-
pected that they are not paying union
wages and compel their servants to eat
and receive company in the kitchens
1t is reported ON good authority that
these rumors are to be investigated by
the labor unions of Butte.
1t seems that Maggie Moore had been
talking with a handsome police officer
who occasionally drops into Maggie's
kitchen for a cup of that famous Jolly
coffee, sold exclusively by Hardup, the
celebrated grocer, and while the two
We're tenderly conversing and discuss
ing the grateful and comforting quail
ties of the cup that pleases and does
not inebriate, the policeman told Mag
gle funny incident which had been
told him by Officer Callahan who had
heard it from his best girl il having
reached her through a rumor circulated
at the recent masquerade ball given by
the Working Womens union. 1t APP
pears that boy, whose name has been
forgotten. and who lives with his par
ents somewhere in the city, had been
presented with a popgun for a Christ
mas present, and he made good use of
it the next day and fired four shots at
neighbours cat. Fortunately no in !
jury was inflicted owing to the harm
less nature of the weapon. If it had |
been Winchester rifle, or even a COM |
mon American bulldog revolver. and |
the boy had fired at his little sister |
another crime might have been added \
TO the long and growing list the papers /
are daily called upon to chronicle
A Thousand Lives in Peril--A fiend /
vi t"o III 10TH TlduP a ulaDOll- /
cal attempt to destroy thousand pre- /
clous lives in Butte. One Lung and
One Lung and a Half. are partners do
ing big general merchandising bust
ness on one of the principal streets in
Butte. 1t is well known that they al
ways carried a $4,000 stock of goods.
Which was insured in the suspicious
sum OF $1,000. At a late hour in the
afternoon the partners were seen leav-
ing the store together and six or seven
hours later smoke was seen issuing
from their store. Some time later fire
was discovered, and after hard fight |
the department succeeded in extin-
gushing the flames; but not until near
~ the entire stock of goods had been !
Owing to the fact that there
has been no serious fire in Butte in sew
eral years and the further fact that the
stock of goods was insured for nearly a
seventh of it's value, is conclusive evil
dence that One Lung and his partner
set fire to their stock. More than a
thousand people live within some dis
lance of the scene of the fire and if the
flames had surrounded them they might
have persisted. The thought is too hor-
rible for contemplation, and the two
fiendS should be summarily dealt with.
They should not even be accorded a trial.
1t is understood that one woman down
at Rocker tainted before she heard of
the fire. If she had died the inhuman
partners who unqueStionably set fire to
their own store, would have had 10 an
swer for her life.
Starving Himself to Death-An in
sane man who has been confined in the
county Jail for several weeks has deter
mined to Starye himself to death, and
II he carries out his present determina-
ton he WILL in the course OF time, be a
mere shadow of his former self and in
the end he must die unless he should
change his mind. Yesterday when the
jailer conveyed the regular noon meal
to the prisoners the insane man. as
usual, was not overlooked. A mess
of the regular allowance. was
handed in to him. He took it and a
few minutes later he threw it upon the
floor. 1t was evident from his action
that he meant to starve himself to
death.
Has Become Dumb-The insane man
az the county, iail. who nada IN his