The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
BUTTE News.
PUT BEHIND The BARS
Five Employees of Captain Brana-
gan Were Arrested.
NOTIFIED NOT TO WORK
It Is Claimed That the Men Are Simply
Making a Bluff at Working-Paul
Kingston Appointed Special
Without Pay.

Yesterday five employees of Captain
Branagan working on the streets were
arrested and placed in the city jail.
The captain still insists that he is street
commissioner, and whenever he can get
any men to work he puts them on. He
had five men on yesterday and all
were landed behind the bars. Will Ma
loney, Louis Freudenstein, Henry Ov-
erley and John DonOhue were arrested
on a charge of obstructins the streets,
the arrest being made by Officer Shea.
They We're at the time engaged in
dumping dirt on East Park street. Dick
Maloney was arrested at the corral the
charge being that he had left his team
unhitched, contrary to city ordinance.
This arrest was made by Officer Neville.
The men We're arraigned before Ponce
Magistrate Sullivan in the afternoon
and, not being able to furnish bonds,
were allowed to go on their own recoG-
niZance.
Mayor Mccarthy said yesterday in
regard to these arrests that he had no.
titled the men not to work and mad told
them that if they did work they would
not be paid. He told them that, even
admitting for the sake OF argument,
Captain Branagan is still street COM
missioner, nevertheless the mayor mas
the undoubted right to prevent work
from being done that he does not APP
prove Of and men being employed If
he does not want them to work. The
men, however, went to work just the
same until arrested by the police. 1t is
claimed by the city authorities that
the men put to work by Branagan are
merely making bluff a working; that
they merely haul dirt and dump it into
East Park street and then come back
after a while and cart it away again.
It is claimed that they have been cart
ing the same dirt back and forth for
several days in order to make pre-
tense of working for the city.
Captain Branagan, on the other
hand, declares that he is filling long
felt want in Park street. He says there
is an awful bad hole there which he IS
trying to fill up, and that he will sue
coed in doing so if he is only left alone.
He SAYS that this arresting is all child's
play and he is getting tired of it. The
captain is not using city teams to carry
dirt for the filling of this alleged hole
the city teams being in the hands Of the
new street commissioner, Mr.. Cotter
The captain has been using three teams,
two of them owned by the Maloneys
and the other by Barney Stranahan.
The mayor made one new appoint
ment yesterday. 1t was that of Paul
Kingston, to serve as special police
man at the corral without pay He
is supposed to prevent the property or
the city from falling into the hands OF
the late administration.
The city clerk received yesterday the
plat and deed of a new addition to the
city. 1t is the Empire addition, COM
prising the territory covered by the En-
pire mining claim. 1t is situated west
of Excelsior avenue and north OF the
Hope addition. 1t is in the northwest
corner of the city. The avenues are
named Western avenue, Emmett ave-
nue. and Henry avenue, and the streets
are named Anthony. street, Lewisohn
street, Waukesha street and Empire
street.