The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
IN THE C0EUR D'ALENES
Butte Business Man Says Times
Are Better There.
SOLDIERS STILL ON GUARD
But Everything Is Peaceful = Bartlett
Sinclair Issues an Edict Against
Gambling and the Playing
of Slot Machines.

Alfred Jameson, we'll known Butte
business man, returned yesterday from
short visit to the Occur d'Alene dis
trict He was in Anaconda yesterday
afternoon and in conversation with a
Standard reporter, said:
THE soldiers are still in the Occur
d'Alenes, but everything is quiet there
now. The merchants say that business
is picking up every day. During The
months of the trouble business de-
| creased a little, but since peace has
been resumed things are getting bet
| ter every day, and If 1t keeps on in
creasing times will be more Furnishing
than they have ever been.
| IA lot of new people are arriving
daily, and this Is making things hum.
| A business man over there told me
that he bought store for nearly moth
! ing during the strike and he has a
good trade now. That is due to the in
creasing population.
! The business men claim that great
injustice has been done them during
the time of the strike. Many people
told me that at the time of the trouble
not a business man dare express his
opinion or his sympathy for the strik-
ers, under the penalty of being thrown
into the bull pen.
The gambling has been stopped in
the Occur d'Alenes and cards and
games of chance are forbidden there.
The officials are very strict about 1t,
as you can see from the order which
has been issued by Bartlett Sinclair,
state auditor and representative of the
governor, to the sheriff of Shoshone
| county,
The order referred to by Mr.. Jameson
is the following:
"Wardner, Nov. 4, 1sss.-Angus suth-
erland, Sheriff Shoshone County: Sir
Very positive information has been
brought to my attention that the law
of the state prohibiting gambling is
being violated in this county. The law
is very plain one and you and other
peace officers of the county must see
that it is enforced. In the event of
continued violation you and other
peace officers of the county will be ex-
pected to give satisfactory eXplana-
ton of your inability to enforce the
law 1t is the intention of the state
authorities to enforce every law on our
statute books in Shoshone county as
we'll as the other counties and the gam
bling law constitutes no exception.
For your guidance I refer you TIC
the law, which will be found on page
465 of the session laws of 1892 You
will observe that the law is very COM
prehensive in scope and prohibits all
games with cards, dice or other device
for checks, credit or other representa-
| tive OF value. IL is also Hldue d iiiisuS-
meanor for the owner or lessee of any
house to permit such games to go on
| therein.
You are instructed to. inform the
district judge or any justice of the
peace as soon as you have4 information
that the gambling law is being VIC.
lated and take such steps as may be
directed. ~ @,
you will be expected to use the ut
most vigilance to enforce this law. AS
you may be aware games of chance are
and will be attempted not only II
places of public entertainment, but as
we'll in private homes, stores and of.
fees. Offenders in such cases must be
prosecuted as vigorously as other gam
blers So-called slot machines come
within the class of gambling devices
and must not be permitted to operate
You will be expected not only to in
spect saloons with a view OF stopping
gambling, but all other places of traffic
where it is suspected gambling is be-
ing carried on