The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-11
ARE G0OO COUN1ERFE|TS
Many Bogus Halves and Quarters
in Circulation.
PULLED DOWN THE POLE
staff-A Peculiar Charge Lodged
Against Him-Robinson
Robbed.

The counterfeiter OF Uncle Sans
coins is again abroad in the land, and
it will be necessary for people taking
quarters and half dollars in change to
look closely, or they will get bogus
money on their hands. For some days
the spurious quarters and halves have
been circulating and numerous in
stances are reported of their having
been passed on merchants and saloon
keepers, principally the latter, as they
are generally considered legitimate VIC
tins byt the circulators of counterfeit
money. The police have been on the
alert for some days to trap the peddlers
of the bogus coins, but thus far with
out success. The coins that have come
to. notice are all of the date of 1898 and
are very good counterfeits.
Charles Dierer, as the name appears
on the police register, hitched his team
to the fiagpole in front of the Chinese
joss house in West Galena street yes.
terday. The team got frightened and
pulled down the pole. A policeman
anxious to make an arrest took him to
Jail and the incident furnished Day
Jailer Thomas Boyle an opportunity to
exercise his patriotism little unneces-
sarily, so the man arrested thought. A
Chinese flag f1oated from the pole ana
over it was just enough of an American
flag to show that the Mongolians. APP
preciated the fact that the proper place
for their dragon was underneath Old
Glory. Jailer Boyle learned that the
American flag had been pulled down.
He Is an old soldier and his patriotism
was instantly aroused to such pitch
that he placed the bond of the owner
of the offending cayuses at $780, Dierer
protested and tried to explain that he
was in no manner to blame, that his
team got frightened while he was not
near and pulled the pole down; but it
made no difference--the flag had been
insulted and the bond stayed at 500.
By good deal of rustling Dierer raised
the amount and got out of jail.
The charge on the book against
Dierer reads: Arrested for tieing his
team to the f1agpole in front of the
Chinese joss house on West Galena
street. The team pulled down the pole
and tore up the emblem of Confucius.'
There is some talk of sending to Phil
adelphia for lawyer to interpret the
charge in order to ascertain what kind
of crime was committed.
]. Robinson, proprietor of an express
and truck line, complained to the police
that he had been robbed of $110 in
wine room Of Steve Parker's saloon, at
the corner of Main and Galena streets.
a few nights ago. Robinson said he was
drinking in the wine room with wo-
man of the row, together with couple
of other men. He had his money care
fully slowed away in his inside pocket.
After he left the place he had occasion
to pay bill and discovered he had
been touched. He could not recall any
circumstance to indicate how or when
1t was done, but he knew he was
robbed in the wine room, for the reason
that $40 bill had been torn in two
whenever it occurred, half of which
remained in his possession, and he had
since learned that one of the two men
who We're in the room had taken the
other half to a bank and tried to get
good bill for it.
Among the arrests made by the po-
lice yesterday were May Stone who,
actuated by liquid enthusiasm, created
a disturbance in the bad lands; James
Jennings, who INDUCED in fight in
the California brewery, and Molly Muir
ray, the notorious, who, as usual had
taken too much gin and sugar.