The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-03
FIRST UNION MEETING
Crittenton Is Arousing Enthusi-
asm in Livingston.
SINS OF HIS PARENTS.
A Five-Year-Old Boy Detained Upon a
Writ of Habeas Corpus Northern
Pacific Men Put Through
an Examination.


loist, Mrs. Moffat, have captured the
town this week They came on the car
Good News Saturday evening and
the same evening opened the first Of
their series of meetings here. The Sat
urday evening meeting was held at the
NJ. e. church and during the week the
opera house has been rented and even
this commodious building was unable
to contain the crowds which came to
hear the noted evangelist. These are
the first union meetings which have
been held here in a long time and the
churches are working together in per-
feet harmony and with a zeal that
promises much for the good of the cause
which has enlisted their efforts. The
evangelistic party will be here all week
and much good is expected to come
from their efforts in this city. People
are particularly enthusiastic over the
singing of Mrs. Moffat and her WON
derful vocal power is a constant theme
of conversation among the musically
inclined, while the purity and melting
pathos of her tones is an Irresistible at
traction to those who might not other
wise come near the meetings The
party will leave here the latter part of
the week, and Mr.. Crittenton told the
Standard reporter to-day that they ex-
pected to take in nearly every town
along the line between here and St.
Paul, reaching that city somewhere
near the first of December.
Saturday Under Sheriff Bellar went
to Fridley and arrested a five-year-old
boy named Herne, whom he brought
back to this city and detained under a
writ of habeas corpus. This child of
tender years was guiltless of any crime
and is atoning vicariously for the sins
OF his parents who, actuated more by
crankiness than by conjugal affection,
have divided all the household goods
and chattels except the child, and now
the courts are appealed to for the pur-
pose of deciding who shall have pos
session of the fruit Of their ill-starred
union. Herne, er, lives near Fridley On
a ranch and the mother of the child re-
sides in Butte. Some time ago a petit
ton for divorce was filed in Judge
Lindsay's court in Butte by Mrs, Herne
and when the case was filed the court
made the usual order restraining
Herne from dispensing of his property
or OF having possession of the child I'M
til the court should settle the conten-
ton between the parties and determine
who should have possession of the boy.
In the face of this order Herne took the
child away and a writ of habea6 cor
pus, similar to the one under which
the sheriff here detained the boy, was
sworn out in Judge Clancy's court but
the boy was discharged from custody
at the hearing which followed and al
lowed to go with his fathers. Attorney
Miles Cavanaugh of Butte came over
Friday and started the case and the
matter comes up tomorrow in the dis
trict court here before Judge Henry. A.
p. Stark Us the resident attorney for
the plaintiff and other legal talent will
be here from Butte.
The middle of the week Chief Dis
patcher Mcleod and Trainmaster
Boyle finished up the work of putting
the train and motive power crews
through a course of sprouts on the
rules of the company regarding train
orders and transportation. The first of
the week the twain went to Billings
and attended to the examination of the
men there and on the branches tribu-
tary to the town. Some important
changes are about to be made in the
rules OF the road and the officials de-
sire that all men should be thoroughly
posted on the old rules before the new
ones go into effect in order that the
changes may be Ineligible to them.
Chief Dispatcher Mcleod says the men
in the train and engine service on this
division are as good a lot of railroad
men as can be found on any road in the
United States, and personally he is
proud of the complete understanding
they have of the rules of the road.
The mines at Trail Creek closed down
Saturday for an indefinite period the
men were paid off and only the work
of pumping will be done at the mines.
This news will be read with regret by
many people in Park county, who have
looked to the opening of the splendid
coal mines at Trail Creek as the har-
binger of an era of prosperity for labor
md do IN, HI
were closed pending the settlement of
the question of building railroad to
the mines, and as the men who own
the property, Messrs. Cook and Bell of
Helena, and the manager, George
White. are energetic and progressive
men, it is likely that they will bring
about more favorable condition of
things before many weeks and arrange
matters so that the mines will be run
ming again.
A letter was received by County
Commissioner Kelley from Hunters
Hot Springs Saturday notifying him of
the fact that Seigmund Deutsch had
become insane at that place and Land
lord Mendenhall of the Springs hotel
recommended his removal. Deutsch
was at one time the county clerk and
recorder of this county and was
leader in politics but of late years he
has been going down hill and finally
landed IN the county poor farm. Some
time ago he was taken to Hunters Hot
Springs, the county paying the poor
farm rate for his board and friends of
Deutsch supplying the balance. Mr..
Kelley sent a conveyance to the
Springs Sunday and had the unfortu-
nate man removed to the poor farm. 1t
is thought that Deutsch will have to be
taken to the Warm Springs hospital for
the insane, as his mind is totally un-
balanced and he is unable to help him.
self in any way. He is not an old man.
but is terribly crippled with rheuma-
t1sm and has been unable to support
himself for nearly three years.
John H. Cornwell returned to this
city Friday from Alaska, where he has
spent the past year. He has seen most
of the gold country in the frozen North
and says a man without a goedly
amount of capital must rely on phen-
omenal luck to make anything. He
stated that plenty of men with means
were in the gold country and speedily
took advantage of everything thai