The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-27
SHE BROKE UP THE GAME
Irate Wife at Deer Lodge Scat
tered the Chips.
CAUGHT HER HUSBAND
And Took Him From the Room - He
Had Been Playing With
Money She Had
Given Him.

According to the stories told by Ana
conda people who visited Deer Lodge
Sunday, the Bucket of Blood saloon at
that place was the scene of a sensa-
tional gun play on the Sabbath. An
irate wife armed with a 40 Colts
cleared out a gambling game in one of
the rear rooms of the saloon, terrorized
the players and led her erring husband
from the scene.
There is one important detail lack
ing in the story, and that is the nervy
womans name None who returned
from Deer Lodge yesterday knew it.
The woman formerly kept a railway
mems boarding house at Missoula,
where, because of the general excel
lence of the board she furnished, she
was immensely popular. When the
Northern Pacific started construction
work near Dempsey's creek about eight
miles from Mssoula she was prevailed
upon by the railroad men to go there
to board them. Accordingly she has
been running boarding tent at Demp-
sey's creek, doing all her own work and
striving hard to make her boarders
comfortable.
Saturday. SO the story goes, her hus-
band was going to Deer Lodge. She
entrusted him with $40 of money she
had earned in the boarding tent, telling
him to use it in purchasing certain
supplies Sunday the husband had
failed to return. His wife, knowing her
husbands love for gambling, harnessed
a horse to a cart and drove to Deer
Lodge
There she made inquiries to the
u-h prar m
Someone told her a poker game was in
progress in the Bucket of Blood saloon,
kept by one Miller. Thither she di-
rected her footsteps.
Entering the saloon she drew a re-
volver from small hand bag and
walked swiftly to the back room, where
she found five or six men playing
poker Among them was her husband.
Chips We're piled high upon the table.
With one sweep of gun and arm she
scattered them broadcast. A startled
player fell over backwards, but she
paid no attention to him.
Walking back to the bar she pointed
her revolver at the head of Proprietor
Miller and said:
Il gave my husband $40 to buy goods
with. He has spent it here. I want it
back and / want it quick
Mr.. Miller gave her sic. He is re-
ported as saying he never saw a gun
barrel look so long or its muzzle look
SO big before.
While the woman was pocketing the
money a bystander remarked soto
voice: "By c.. if I had a woman
you bet I'd train her different
She wheeled upon him instantly and
with resounding crash struck him on
the cheek with the side of the revolver,
| then swung again on the other cheek.
1T depends on the kind of woman,
| mister" said she.
Then she took her husband by the
arm and led him away
Later the husband escaped her and
| returned to the saloon. Instead of los
ing it appears he had been winning and
| stood about $35 to the good when his
| rious players estimated their respec-
tive holdings and the money was divid-
ed accordingly. AS the husband was
! leaving a man in the saloon said:
eff T had - of a wife like
that you bet she wouldn't play tricks
like that on me-
| The husband promptly knocked the
man down and when he got up knocked
| him down again. That's my wife,
said he, land I allow no man to speak
disrespectfully of her"
The woman is reported to have gone
to Justice of the Peace Emerson and
| attempted to secure a warrant for the
arrest of the saloons proprietor on the
| charge of gambling. The justice re-
| ferred her to the county attorney.
County Attorney Duffy said last
night that While he had heard of the
occurrence no application had yet been
made to him for a warrant.