The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
INDIANS AND WH|SKEY MIX
Two Negroes Arrested Charged
With Violating the Law.
SELLING TO AB0RIGINES
Too Many Drunken Indians About Ana
conda Caused Chief White to In
vestgate - The Arrests
Were the Result.

Montana Indians and Montana whiskey,
separately, have individual merits. Com
bined they are awful. Mixing them is as
bad as thawing dynamite over cook
stove.
OF late a number of Indians in and
about Anaconda have been assimilating
considerable amount of whiskey to the
detriment of the peace and order of the
community. Chief of Police White thinks
he has now removed the medium by which
the assimilation has been made posi-
BILE
Yesterday Chief White and Officer Card
ner arrested two negroes who have been
living in a cabin back of the Leadvile
house, on the charge of selling liquor to
Indians. They will be turned over to the
United States authorities. The negroes
are known as John Smith and Ben Bolt
Smith is said to be the principal in the
selling. Whether Smith entertained a
grudge against the noble red men for
soaring his distinguished namesake out of
10 years growth and then landing POGO
hontas on him. or whether he was simply
selling the bad whiskey to the natives for
what there was in it, remains to be
brought out at the trial.
Il amt been selling no whiskey.' said
Ben Bolt. who don't look a bit like the
song yesterday. He was reclining on a
| mattress in cell at the city Jail. 81 m
jess held as a sorter witness | guess John
Smith, he's the man that's been selling
whiskey. ] amt been selling none
Whiskey and pure alcohol are the fluids
in which it is alleged Smith has dealt
successfully for several weeks past. A
Flathead Indian wanting to purchase a
jag that would make him a Bghead next
day would go to Mr.. Smiths cabin, give
him a dollar and wait. so the officers say.
Mr. Smith would go to a convenient dis
pensary, purchase a half-dolar bottle of
whiskey or alcohol, as desired return to
the cabin, give the Indian the bottle and
pocket the profit.
Alcohol, slightly diluted, is considered a
fashionable drink among the Indians. In
their social life a jolt of alcohol occupies
about the same position as a high ball
does in that of their white brethren. An
Indian who drinks many alcohols in the
course of the day is accorded the same
| reputation for real badness that is given
| a white club man who gets outside OF
| numerous high balls. The only difference
is that the Indian lives up to his reputa-
| ton and the white man makes a bluff
| at it. Four or five alcohols will trans
| form the ordinary, greasy, lazy Indian
| into as much concentrated energy bent or
being misdirected as could be found ir
| three runaway electric motors. vel
| alcoholized Indian usually starts some
| thing.
| Several Indian tepees have appeared il
! the gulches and valleys of Anaconda late.
| ly and the crop of drunken Indians has
| been larger than usuel. The police believe
| Smiths cabin has been the attraction tina
has brought the banketed brethren hert
| as to a summer health resort. Like The
| aristocratic Britons at European spas
| they have come to take the waters" bu
the waters are of the fire and not tn,
medcated variety. The police say thu
spring has now run dry.