Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-27
Who Has Been Acting as Nurse
Writes a Letter.
ASKING FOR A RAISE
In His Salary-lt Caused a Stampede
In the Court H0use--Boy
Insane.

For a few minutes CONSERVATION pre-
vailed in the clerk and recorders office al
the court house this afternoon, and it all
came about through the righteousness OF
a male nurse at the pest house, who con-
sidered his compensation of IS per day
not equivalent 10 the task he is perform
ing there. He has been demanding $3.50
per day, and with a view to securing the
raise sent q letter to the board of county
commissioners. The clerk opens all mail
addressed to the board. Today when the
letters were delivered he opened the one
mailed by the nurse and began to read it's
contents. AS soon as he encountered the
word pest house. he dropped the letter
and executed a back handspring, bringing
up against the wall at the opposite side
OF the room. Several of the other clerks
present performed similar feats. BY and
by a collection was taken up among the
men and turned over to an immune as an
inducement for him to pick up the epistle
and burn it in the furnace of the base
ment.
The nurse will not get his salary raised
this week, but may get his hair lifted.
The petition of the Butte & Boston Min
ing company for an order giving it the
right to survey the underground workings
of the Cora and Rock Island lode claims
has resulted in the issuance of an order
to the Montana Ore Purchasing ompany
the Heinze Bros and John MacGinnis to
appear in department No. l at 2 o'clock
Monday and show cause why the prayer Of
the petitioner should not be granted.
In the suit of the Anaconda company
against F. Augustus Heinze, a matter con-
corning the working of the Parnell claim,
MIR. Heinze has been cited to appear before
Judge Clancy at 10 o'clock on the 18th of
November and show cause why he should
not be restrained from working the prop
erty pending the determination of the suit
unless he allows the Anaconda to labor in
conjunction with him.
In the divorce suit of Sophronia T.. Smith
against John c. Smith, the plaintiff filed
in court today a motion requesting the
judge to order the defendant to produce
the two children, Ruth and Seth, in court,
and refuse to grant the plaintiff a change
of venue TO another district. She also
asks that Smith be required to pay her 500
with which to recompense her attorney
and give her S75 a month alimony during
the tendency of the suit.
Judge Lindsay and a commission consist
ing of Drs. Bernheim and Donaldson in
vestigated the mental condition of Willie
Maurer, a deaf and dumb boy, aged 7
years, today, and pronounced him a fit
subject for the asylum. The boy is the son
of Mrs. f.. r. Maurer of 603 Colorado street
and has just been returned from the state
school for the deaf and dumb. Several
communications from the manager of the
school were submitted in evidence, and
their contents showed the boys mind to
be anything save normal. They also dem
onstrated that the boy possessed vicious
habits as a result of misunderstanding.
While at the school he threw missiles at
the other pupils at the food table, stoned
his teachers and was guilty of other acts
not sanctioned by the rules of the institu-
ton. While being examined he kept up a
continuous noise with his mouth. His
mother is a bright woman and said she
had four other children, all of whom were
sound in mind. When about a year and a
half old, Willie, she said, had a spell of
sickness, and since then he had never been
right.