The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-14
I own 7 opics.

One OF the funniest things that has
1 happened at the city Jail, where anus
ing incidents are very common, &C.
Cured one night last week. The ad-
vance agent of a certain theatrical
company came to town and proceeded
to celebrate in what he considered true
Western fashion. He attempted to
/ carry package" considerably larger
than he was equal to- and as a result
got himself into jail. He was very
drunk. but not so much so that he was
not able to realize that his position
was in jeopardy, If the management of
the company heard of his escapade,
and he pleaded earnestly with Jailer
Sol Levy to be allowed to go. 1t is a
| haDit prisoners at the city Jail have
of doing, in most cases, knowing their
onense to have been petty, and it not
lnfrequently occurs that they get to be
very annoying by keeping Sol running
To answer their importunings. When
he has stood it as long as can be ex-
pected of ordinary patience, he does
something To put a stop to the nom
sense, usually by making them feel
foolish. If they are not too drunk to
be capable of little comprehension.
me aforesaid advance agent annoyed
Sol excessively until he concluded to
make monkey of him." Sol told the
young man, who has taken pains to let
II be known he was from the East, that
the only way man coming from the
East and getting in Jail in the West for
getting drunk, could get out of Jail
without going before the police court
was to take the pledge never to drink
again. He told the fellow that if he de-
sired to take the pledge he would see
what he could do for him. The young
man was willing to take a pledge or
do anything else that would get him
out of Jail and Sol, calling in a num-
Der OF gentlemen, who happened to be
sitting in the office, to act as witnesses
proceeded to read an oath from the
city directory. AS most people who
know him are aware. Sol has Won
derful vocabulary. and he drew on it
to the limit in framing that oath. He
asked the penitent, who stood dazed at
a How OF language the like of which he
mad never heard before, if he could
subscribe to that oath. He thought it
a pretty hard proposition, but to get
out of Jail he said he thought he could
and the master of ceremonies command
ed him to kneel down and hold up his
right hand. The Snowman obeyed and
sol commanded him to repeat the oath
OTTER him. Such a jafgon of meaning
less and impossible words no one ever
heard anywhere else. and an attempt
to repeat it would be futile. But the
man was swearing for his liberty and
he made "a great effort to master SoPs
vocabulary and if he lives up to the
oath he took he will have to wear a
straight jacket the rest of his life, for
it would be difficult to think of a
human action that was not forbid
den.
While the ceremony was taking place.
Soils friends literally choked them
selves to keep from laughing, and when
II was finished the New York Snowman
was given such horse laugh" as he
never got before. He realized that he
was being made fool of and he skunk
off TO bed and didn't bother the ialer
again that night. And it is safe to
say the young Fastener will remem-
Der the incident longer than he would
a $50 fine.
One instance. at least of the rule
being reversed which has ii that
dreams go by contraries. is on record
The other night certain young gem
tleman who is given TO playing the
races. dreamed of seeing a race in
which one of the entries was Harry S.
He saw the horses go at the post, saw
them get away and saw them come
tearing down the stretch, Harry S. fin
ishing second. He had never heard of
the horse before, but he remembered
the dream so wildly the next morning,
and from the fact that Harry S. was
the only horse in the race whose name
appeared to him. he was so impressed
that the first he did after getting
breakfast was to start for a pool room.
Sure enough. there was the name of
Harry $. ON the board. Young Mr.. -
played him for place and show to the
extent of his fill and made a big clean
up for the race was run exactly as he
had seen il in his dream. the only var
Dtian being that in tho ~ ,aa
was run at San Francisco. whereas it
really took place at New Orleans.
The Helena Herald gives the follow
ing interesting description of Buttes
biggest boarding house:
The most considerable building
erected at Butte in recent years is one
projected by Marcus DAILY and COM
pleted a year or so ago. 1t goes by
the name of the Hale house and is
mainly a hosiery for Anaconda en-
ployes without Il family or home place
of their own-that is, single men. In
Guiding basement, il is of four floors, |
with broad frontage. depth to cor
respond. and a lodging and boarding
capacity of 450 persons, not counting
the large staff of people required to |
operate the house The host is j. J. |
Haggerty, genial Milesian Yankee. |
whose birthplace was the granite hills |
of New Hampshire. and whose man |
agement of the house seems in every |
way practical and successful. He is |
the lessee of the property, and he pays I
for il the largest hotel rental in the |
state-$20 600 a year The full accom-
mediation of the big house is all the
time occupied. the average number
housed and fed being 450 men. These
boarders consume n big lot of food, as
the sioreroom, butcher shop. etc. in
dicate by the supplies kept on hand
enough of eatables in sight to stock a
first-class grocery store. The food ar
ticles are bought in carload lots. and |
they have To be replenished often. In