The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-13
Proposition for the Formation of
aNo-Licenss Club.
A GOOD JOKE ON CURRAN
The Federation OF Labor People at Work
on Plans for Labor Day-Coionel
Croutchaeld and His Expert
enoe in Helena.

ganization. but is formed for the pur-
pose of avoiding the payment Of the
prescribed mercantile and professional
licenses. Those who are at work on
the organization have concluded that
the attorneys ought to be able to beat
the license law for others IL they can
avoid h payment OF licenses them
selves. n to hat end the new club
IL to be inaugurated with plenty of
backing and a lot of determination.
II Ia the belief that the payment Of IT,
cerses is good for one IL Ii is for an
other. and II the attorneys are to be
excused from paying their licenses
there are others who want To ,yet into
b same class. The more the merrier.
and the club will be one of the most
popular organizations in the .ity.
U~udersherif Curran has been the
victim of a lot OF good-natured chaf-
ing on account of his experience with
h man McKeever. at the brick yard.
1t will be remembered that 1t was re-
ported at the time that Mr.. Curran
had shot the horse hat McKeever rode.
In order to land the man without
shooting him. Sheriff Mclaughlin and
Joe CREME decided that IL Dennie had
actually shot the horse Ii was n fact
worth preserving. and they proceeded
to investigate the matter. When the
undersherif fired. McKeever's horse
fell and the rider got up and ran.
Curran started after him. not looking
at the horse but supposing that IL was
dead. When he came back with his
prisoner. he saw a horse lying beside
the rack where the road crossed. In
his haste he did not stop to examine
tie carcass but took IL for granted
that ii was the horse that he had shot.
When Joe Grenier and the sh ,.:ff went
out to investigate the matter they
found that there was a dead horse
there all right. but that Il was n that
had been killed by the cars. Their was
no horse around there thai: lat been
shot. 1t is supposed that McKeever's
horse fell over one of the guy lines of
the brick works SIN oke stacks. just as
tho officer fired, ard that when Nc
Keever ran the horse got up anc was
taken away by the friends % the man.
The dead horse was lying at the rail-
road track all the time and Ii was only
natural hat the officers should think
hat 1t was the one that .Dennie shot.
The Federation of labor people are
already hard at work on their plans for
abo day and. although IL is a little
early. the arrangements are far enough
along SO that the are able to
state hat the day will be a little the
hottest time that his old own has
seen since the days when the red men
met on this plain to have their war
daLces. The main feature of the cele-
bration is to be a big barbecue that
will feed all of the hundreds of men
who Will be here to take part i'm the
celebration. In addition to the jollities
there viii be a monster meeting that
will be addressed by prominent speak
ers from all parts of the state. The
parade will be the biggest affair hat
Western Montana ever saw. President
Fer Z says that the Indications are
that there will be one of the largest
crowds In town on Labor day that
Missoula has ever seen.
Reports from the Bitter Root are to
thu effect hat Colonel Charles NJ.
~Crcutchield of the staff of His Excel
leroy Robert V. Smith. governor of
the state of Montana. has recovered
from the effects of his trip to Helena
sufficiently to be able to walk normally.
The colonel went over to Helena TO
participate in the inspection of the 1st
infantry. and In his capacity
OF aide de camp to the governor the
colonel had to rid a horse. Now, the
colonel may have been a good horse
man In his youth. but at present he
resembles Major O'Hara in hat he
al travel fastest when he gets a good
footing on firm ground. He was sup
piled with a good horse at the capital.
that Is, good for Helena. and rods out
to the camp with the rest of the staff.
When h inspection was ended he Sc
lected as honest a boy as he could find
on short notice n handed him a dollar
In consideration OF which the lad was
to ride the horse back to the stable i'm
town. The colonel hunted a street car
and rode to his hotel in hat convey
ance. He took the Copper City flyer
for home. and when he appeared on the
platform OF the station at Missoula.
while h train was waiting here. he
had the appearance of a man who a
been through an awful ordeal. His
knees were abo 16 inches apart, and
he said TO an intimate friend that he
oil not expect to be able to get them
together again for a year or more.
Thanks however, to a good constitu-
ton N to the splendid climate OF the
Bitter Root. the colonel is now able TO
knock his knees together. His Missou-
la friends are glad indeed to barn that
the recovery has taken place SO much
earlier than vas expected.
The Missoula escort of the governor
and his party from Helena TO Missoula.
ON the occasion of the laying of the
corner stone of the university. say that
when the gentlemen from Helena
stepped out of the stub train at Gar
rison and entered the Copper City linn
tied cars. they asked how IL was that
special cars had been furnished for
them. They were entirely unwilling
TO believe when they were told that
those cars We're the ones that ran every
day. The Upper and green train was
a surprise to them. There are other
places in the state than Last Chance
gulch. though IL is hard to make some
people realize the fact.
There has been standing In front of
the Standard once for a day or two a
sheaf OF rye hat came from the ranch
OF William Shafer on the hill south of
town. II IL seven feet tall and vas cut
Friday morning. The sheaf has at
tracted considerable attsati)n :r:m
passersby. n one man stopped this
afternoon m looked carefully at the