The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-24
FIGHTING THE WRONG
First Step Toward Making Hig-
gins Ave. What It Should Be.
M'GREGOR AS A SPRINTER
Demonstrated That He Does Not Care
Whether the Roads Are Good or Bad.
Hunting Petty Larceny Thieves.
a Peace Conference.

Missoula. June 23.-The posting of
the notice of the intention of the city
council to improve Higgins avenue and
its publication by the city clerk in the
local papers mark the beginning of the
actual proceedings toward the righting
of the wrong that has been imposed
upon the property owners and business
men of Higgins avenue. The previous
work that the city council has done has
been merely preliminary but now the
first step toward the realization of the
hopes of those who have suffered from
mud and water and dust for all this
long time will soon be accomplished.
There are two weeks in which those
who object to the improvement may
file their protest with the city clerk,
and if there are enough of them, the
work will be stopped, but there is no in
dication at present of the intention of
any owner of property on the avenue
to formally object to the work that will
be undertaken by the council, under the
resolution that was passed by the coun-
Gil Thursday night. It has taken some
time to bring around all of the owners,
but they seem to all agree now that
there is nothing unreasonable in the
demands that have been made for a
good street. The council will probably
at an early meeting, prescribe some
uniform style of wooden walks to be
built on the avenue and as soon as the
present walks need to be replaced all
walks built will have to be according
to the pattern that the council will de-
eide upon. When this is done and the
work that the council has outlined for'
this summer is completed, the avenue
will be much more presentable than it
has ever been yet. And the cost to
owners and to the city will be insignif-
cant when compared with the benefit
that will result 1t will be easy travel
ing on the avenue then for wheels and
for buggies, and if the repairs are kept
up as they should be the street will
never again get into the dsplorable
condition that it has been in this
year.
There are some men who can travel
well over any sort of a road and who
need no grading to be done for them
One of these is Officer Joe McGregor
who demonstrated the other night his
abilities as sprinteT and his staying
qualities as well. He had detected two
or three men in the act of committing
petty theft and he at once got after
them. The fugitives stuck together in
| stead of separating and the result was
that, after a stern chase, the officer
nailed them all. They led him from the
| Northern Pacific station to the Rat
| tlesnake and then disappeared over a
| high fence. The officer took the fence
| like hurdle horse and landed upon his
| men in a back yard so suddenly and
! Unexpectedly that they surrendered
without a struggle. Joe caught the
thieves. but he didn't catch his breath
/ for "a hours.
The officers are making a strong eff
| fort to detect and capture the thieves
who are committing so many petty
depredations this month. but they have
not been altogether successful thus far
| The city officers and constableS round
ed up the gang Of boys that has made
life miserable across the Rattlesnake
| for some time, and these lads will
| probably not make much trouble for a
while. They are scared. But these are
not the only ones who are sneak-thievh
| ing around town this summer. There
| is somebody at work who knows this
business and he is doing a land office
amount of trade at it, too. The officers
have not been able to make any othel
| captures than the one that Officer Nc.
| Gregor made the other night, but they
| are keeping their eyes open. They have
| been more successful, however, with
the genus secretary" and he has beer
! well represented in the justices courts
lately. Chief Angevine and his mer
have rounded IN a lot of these fellows
and they will not trouble Missoula 70,
a while at least.
There is a host of strangers in toWr
this month. Many of them are miners
on their way out of the Occur d'Alent
country, and mixed in with these are
the toughs that have been doing al
this work. They claim to be homes
men, when they are approached by The
officers and take advantage of th'
presence of so many of these miner
in town TO assert their claim to beinE
workingmen. There are none of TIL
miners who are cumming for anything
AS soon as the Stereotyped request fo
1.-The price of a bed is proffered. it i
pretty certain that the haggar is no
| all right. One fellow with d battered
arm did a good business down Higgin
| avenue the other night, showing 70
sympathy's sake, his manned membe
to everybody that he thought woul,
stand his work He did well enough
until he ran up against Justice of tn
| Peace Houtchens. The judge gave hin
some good advice and recommended
him to quit begging or leave town.
There was peace congress in 10
| DiXon's Office Thursday night If til
cars meeting at The Hague is half a
! successful Is this one, there viii be III
more war or strife but the gentl
arbitrator will get in his pacific worl
| forever and forever. This peace meet
ing was the result of the arrest of thre'
Italians at Bonita. which was reported
in the Standard to-day | appear
that the sons of Garibaldi meant NJ
real harm to the man, Morrison, whei
they went after him with knives and
gun. They simply wanted to let hin
know that he must stop crossing thei
land. Their knowledge of English i:
imperfect and they could not under,
stand what Morrison wanted The,
thought that he had designs agains
their claim. SO they organized an act
i've posse and Went after him. The,
failed to understand his English, bu
when Morrison hit one of them in Thu
pit of the stomach with big rock
they understood him perfectly. TIL,
man who was hit dropped his knife ant
the Garibaldian army retired in bat
/ order. But the peace congress dit