The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-24
BUTTE News.
MUST PAY YOUR LICENSE
The County commissioners Are
Determined to Collect It.
REIMBURSEMENT IN ORDER
I. j. OLeary Has Been Appointed Special
Collector : Business Men Must Ante
According to Volume Of Their
Business Constable Row.

The county commissioners and Treas
urer Holland are determined to force
the license collections in Butte if there
is any law by which it can be DONE
With the approval of the commission
ers the treasurer yesterday appointed
L. j. O'Leary special license collector
for one month. 1t will be his duty to
call on all business firms and require
them to make new affidavits as to the
amount of business being transacted
by them, so that the amount of license
1or which they are liable can be de-
termined. Many business houses are at
present paying license on affidavits Of
business done 10 or Is years ago, while
IN fact the volume of their business has
since then doubled many times. Here
tofore business houses have been re-
CURED to furnish but one affidavit and
that was when they started out and
applied for their first license.
Inc special collector will also be au-
thorized to arrest all business and pro-
1essional men who are doing business
without license, and there are a large
number of the latter class.
we are going to collect the Licensees
SAID Chairman Clark of the board Of
county commissioners yesterday, eff
we nave to put every person in Jail who
IS avoiding payment. If the Jail is 1ot
large enough to hold them we will build
an addition ITO it, for the law is going
to be enforced
According to the monthly report fiIad
with the county aduitor by County
PHYSICIAN Sheeran there were on the
1lfst OF April 81 inmates of the county
poor house and hospital, and 10 at the
END OF the month. During April, 20
We're admitted, Is were discharged and
three died. There was also one birth
The county commissioners Yesterday
went on record as declining to take
hand in the fight over the consta ble's
JOB in Justice Nichols court. When
Constable Volker was boycotted SINE
time ago a deputy constable for Mich
ois court was appointed by Constable
benJamln IWttehell of German town
snip, and yesterday a bill from Twi+ch-
81 for S1s.95 for services performed N
Nichols, court in state cases was pre-
scented. The bill had been allowed by the
auditor, but was disallowed by the
board.
The commissioners yesterday heard
number of appeals from indipent
persons. One old lady who had spent
several months at the poor house on
account of illness, asked for slight aid
70 start herself and another inmate of
the home in business as canyassers.
AS the proposition seemed to be a rea-
sonabie one and held out the prospect
OF relieving the country of the further
support of the two women, the COM
mlssioners agreed to advance them suf
nclent aid to pay months room rent
and a months order of groceries.
An applicatlon was sent to the State
orphans Home for the admission to
that institution of Gerald Clark, a 10
year-old boy, whose mother is a. charge
on the county. AT the same time re-
quest was made for the discharge of
Two children, whose father represented
10 the board that he was now in posi-
ton to support them.