The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-18
HOUSTON DREW HIS GUN
His Aim, However. Would Make
Him Out a Spaniard.
COULD NOT HIT ANYTHING
When He Was Put Out Of the Swiss
Home. He Fired on the Proprietor
and His Observation-Disclosures He
Is landed in Jail.

The Swiss home. a saloon and board
ing house run by John G~rosenbacher.
at the corner OF Arizona and Mercury
streets. was the scene of a shooting
scrape last evening. No one was hurt.
but IL was not the fault OF the shoot
err, for the bullet went into a crowd OF
men, and IL was their own good luck
that none of them were hit. The man
who did the shooting was arrested and
taken to the city Jail by a civilian. He
gave the names of Andrew Houston and
III. r. o The shot was fired at
Proprietor ~Grosenbacher and his bar
tender. Joseph Guyenz, as the result
of a petty quarrel growing out OF too
much liquor as a first cause.
The shooter had only been in town
since morning. but he had formerly
ived here. and was known to a num-
Der of the people who witnessed the af-
fair. Houston, as the mans right
name is understood to be. claims to be
a timer. He says he formerly worked
for the Tuttle Hardware company. He
left here two years ago. He returned
yesterday morning and went to the
Swiss home and left his grip. He went
back about s O'Clock last evening with
a friend and had supper. After sup
per he Wen into the barroom and
went behind the bar and got his grip.
Proprietor G~rosenbacher objected to his
going benin the bar. and told him so.
Houston had been drinking, and be-
gan calling Grosenbacher vile m
This he kept up till Bartender Guyenz
came in. when he and G~rosenbacher
put Houston out. AS he reached the
door. It is claimed. he knocked Grosen-
bacher down and pulled a gun and fired
on the two. The bullet went wide OF
both Guyenz and Grosenbacher n
buried itself in the lunch counter, where
a number of men sat eating. and barely
missed Frank Fonkalmayer.
AS soon as the shot was fired Guy
enz ran for an officer, but was unable
to find one. While he was zone John
Rider, on eof the men I'm the saloon. took
Houston in charge and marched him to
the city Jail. At the jail Houston tried
TO dispose of his gun by laying II on
a shelf in the front office, evidently In
the hope II would not be seen till 1t was
too late to prove II was his. but the
action was detected. The gun was an
ordinary bulldog revolver, and had one
chamber empty.
When booked the shooter gave the
name of Andrew Houston. but subse-
ouently informed Jailer Levy that was
not it, but that his name wac II. Il.
Boone. Houston claimed he did not
do the shooting. He said he mad
words with G~rosenbacher over a dice
game. n ~Grosenbacher and Guyen7
assaulted him. He said n or them
truck him in the face. and as he reach
ed the door some one behind him, ht
did not know who, fired past him. Guy
enz and Frank Fonkalmayer, however
claim they saw the gun in Houston
hand and saw the shot fired. Houston
made no resistance when taken II
charge by Rider, but went with hin
10 iail. Houston's friend was arrest
ed and also taken to Jail. and a CUR
was found on him when searched. ou
as all the witnesses agreed that he ha'
nothing to do with the shooting scrape
; he was not held.