The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-22
DEFENDED HIS COUNTRY
Thomas Ivers Resents an Insult
to the American Navy.
ANTON PULLED HIS GUN
He Has the Pleasure OF Paying $50 for
the Pastime-Fierce Three-Cor-
nered Fight-Cases in
Police Court.


gave audience to a large crowd of Of
tenders yesterday morning and listen
ed to pleas and incidentally imposed
a few fines. The most interesting fea-
ture of the event was the speech" of
Thomas Ivers, arrested for making too
much noisv on the street. He was
charged with loud and boisterous con-
duct. In defense of his acts, Thomas
said:
Your honor, it was just like this: A
fellow and 1 were talking about stand
ing armies, navies and fighting qualities
of the respective nations. The debate
resolved itself into a discussion of the
relative merits of the United States
and English navies. My opponent fin
ally broke out with vehemence and said
that the United States navy was not
much anyway; that it never COPIED with
strength that anyway England could
send two warships over here and clean
out the entire fleet of Uncle Sam, and
that made me warm, your honor.
Il resented the insult by calling that
fellow a liar. 1 know what the Amer
lean navy is. 1t was in that navy for
six years. l know the men at the. head
of the navy. l have fought with George
Dewey. l know the navy of my country
like book. l say. and say it again,
that that man lies who dares to say
that our navy is so inferior that two
English boats can clean it out. l called
him a liar, your honor, and that is
where the trouble began"
Did that man say that to your"
asked the judge.
He did, your honor"
a ~
Il did that, your honor"
Il think you did right. You upheld
the honor of your country and navy,
and a man who does that under any
and all circumstances is entitled to the
praises of this and every other court.
You are discharged, sir
Tony Anton called on Marguerite
early yesterday morning and together
they had some beer. A crowd of men
came in and Tony objected, and it is
alleged ordered the men out at the
point of a gun. He pleaded guilty to
disturbance and carrying concealed
weapons and paid an aggregate of $50
in fines.
Kate Dooley, Josie Palmer and May
Williams fought a dozen fierce three
cornered rounds in the Walker house.
Josie, by the evidence, was the bub-
sprang, and she was sent to Jail to
serve $50 fine. The other two paid IS
each.
Celia Decker, John Duffy and a man
booked as Tony Acles, but who it is
claimed on the outside is not Tony but
Tonys cousin were up for disturbing
the peace, quiet and odor of the Hes
perus plantation. They were arrested
late Saturday night and charged with
making night hideous in that particular
spot. Their cases will be heard this af-
ternoon, and the public is cordially in
vited to not crowd in too thick.
The case of Barney Shanahan, the
young hack driver, who claimed that
w. r. Mcfarland owed him so cents
and who sought to shake it out of the
latter and was arrested, will be heard
this afternoon. as will also those of
John O'Hara, for striking Don Lou, a
Chinaman, and w. l.. McElester, dis
turbance.
Nels Finberg and 81 Hobson, for
fighting in South Butte, were fined $40
each, and Hobson paid, but Nels was
sent to Jail. Jim Moran, Pete Olson,
John Olson and Miss McCune, drunks
fined IS each. Andrew Anderson, dis
turbance, paid $40. George Wilson and
William Stinson, for hawking jewelry
fined $40 each. S. S. Dixon, disturbance,
SO.
Ellsworth and Milton, the constables
convicted in the police court last Tues
day for assault in the third degree upon
the person of Miss Suhr, the landlady
of a South Main street lodging house
and fined $25 each on the courts verdict
of it being case of know no BETTER
appealed, and yesterday they filed their
bonds on appeal in the sum of $50 each
with Lou Gunderson and Robert Orms-
by as sureties.