The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-09
WANTS TO KILL A MAN
He Would Be Pleased to Do the
Business in Butte.
is SURE OF ACQUITTAL
The County Commissioners Are Request
ed to Send Him Ticket--Auditor
Davies Submits His Report for
the Month of February.

a rather startling communication
was yesterday submitted to the county
commissioners. the writer of which was
either g. crank or the possessor of a
very blunt and coarse sense of humor.
The communication. written on postal
card. reads as follows:
"Bozeman, Mon. March 1.-Will you
please hand this card to some one OF
the county commissioners and have
them send me a ticket to Butte? /
don't know the address of any of the
county commissioners or would write
to them for this request. / want to kill
a man over there. and / know L can get
out Of 1t afterward. for j know they
don't convict anybody in your county.
| can easily pay for the ticket with In
tarest the first week in April. You got
a good county over there, and l want
to do my work in your county Re
specially yours, Isaac b. Hayes.
The commissioners turned the card
over to Sheriff Regain with the sug-
gestion that he communicate with Mr..
Hayes and learn from him the name of
the person ne wants to kill.
The board also received from Auditor
Davies a statement of the business of
his office and the condition of the coun-
ty poor for the month of February
The number of people. heads of fam
ines, on the poor Tolls, at the emu Oh
the month, was 1856; disbursements for
groceries, $1,05o.5o; for rent, $5e5.57;
merchandise, $29; total disbursements,
s1,645.07. Transportation issued James
Dee. $19.15; James Lefoy, $3.50 Mrs
Mary Neft, $50. NJ. Howard $40; total,
$S2.65. OF the number reported as re-
ceiving aid in January the following
received no aid in February: Henry
Jancleau. Mrs. /. McGregor. Mrs. l..
Doran, Mary v. Lowney Mrs. Jacob
Harp, Mrs J. Mohan. Mrs. Herman,
Mary Harrington. Mary Neeley, Mary
G. Sullivan. Anna Hansen, Mrs. j. A.
Ashton, Anna Collins, Jones Mcdonald
and Nora Holiday. Thirty-five and a
half loads of wood We're delivered
Seven persons received small increases
over the amounts they received in jan
uary. There were 81 applications for
aid and 10 persons, or heads of families
were added to the list of people receiv-
ing aid. The 10 represent ~ people, of
whom 10 are children. One woman,
Mrs. John Sullivan of las West Ruby
street. IL credited with 10 children, and
she got $40 from the county Other
women with five. six and seven chit
dren are also on the list. With the re-
port was filed a detailed statement of
fuel delivered to various county charg-
es during February.
communication was received from
transmitting an account against the
county as it's proportion of the expense
Of cleaning up about the city and rum
ming the city dump The county was
assessed for $40. The commissioners
did not decide to- pay 1t, but sent an
invitation to DR.. Schultz to meet with
the board discuss the matter The
commissioners expressed themselves in
favor of paying a stipulated sum
monthly, if anything, instead of per
centage.
County Physician p. J. Sheeran filed
his monthly report, showing that on
Feb. | there We're rs inmates in the
poor house and county hospital, and on
Feb. rs there We're "a. During the
month there Were Is admitted and IS
were discharged. Three cases of diph-
liberia were reported All cases admit
ted to the poor house were cases OF
acute illness and injuries.
John NJ. Kelly. the county sanitary
officer, also submitted his report for
February