The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29
HOB0ES MUST HUSTLE
Livingston Has No Use for the
Wanderers.
EXAMPLES WILL BE MADE
The Brakebeam Artists Will Be Kept on
the Move-An Important Cues
ton in the Waterworks
Litigation.

Livingston, April 25.-The way the
city authorities have things fixed up
for the hoboes who visit Livingston
this summer will make the knights of
the road think they have struck pref
ty hard proposition Should they tarry
long enough in town to go up against
the court presided over by his honor,
Judge Bender. During the past year
the city has been convenient stopping
place for the Weary Willies" who rode
the blind baggage from place to place
and eked out precarious existence by
winning sympathy and an occasional
two-bit piece on the strength of hard
luck story. All this, the authorities
say, must be changed and the grafters
who linger long in the Gateway City
without visible means of support will be
introduced to a cell in the county bas-
tile. The first victim to come to grief at
the hands of the law under the new de-
parture is now serving time in the
county Jail and it will be 60 days before
he will have an opportunity to work
his graft again. This initial example
of the laws severity was hauled up
Saturday for robbing man who was
asleep in a asloon and who parted COM
pany with $40 bill, a knife and hand
kerchief before his siesta was finished.
William Grief was the name of the man
arrested for the larceny of the money
and the person robbed gave his name
as Charles Williams. Grief was ar
raigned Monday and the testimony
went to show that he was about as lazy
as they make them. His graft was
unique. He rubbed his leg with carbolic
acid and told a pathetic tale about the
rheumatism breaking out on his limb
and Of his long confinement in the hos
pital and this story. supported by a
display of the suffering member, usual
ly won him the price Of meal wher-
ever told. The knife was found on his
person, together with the handkerchief
and $2.35 of the $40 stolen. He told the
judge a piteous tale. but the court was
obdurate and sent him to Jail for two
months and ordered the sheriff to give
the prisoner a diet of bread and water
for the first and last Is days of his i'm
prisonment. This, the judge says, is
only the beginning, and the incoming
mayor, who will take office the first of
next month, says that crowds of hoboes
on the street corners of Livingston must
be a thing of the past. and the city
police will be notified to keep the brake
beam artists on the move. Work is
plentiful in the city now and man
with an inclination to work will find
plenty to do and get fair treatment and
meals if he needs them, but the profess
sional hobo with the hard luck story
will get no sympathy from the city
government and will have to hustle or
sample the bread and water diet at the
city prison.
Monday Judge Henry decided a ques-
tion of law in the case Of the water
works company against the city, and
the case will likely be taken to the SUI
preme court on the point decided. The
case arose over the passage of an ordi-
nance by the city council reducing the
rate of interest paid on outstanding
city warrants. The water works COM
pany demanded the same rate of inter-
est paid in former years, and this the
city treasurer refused to pay. Suit
was brought and the city attorney
plead the ordinance passed by the
council as defense Ito the action, ana
the question decided by Judge Henry
Monday was a motion to strike out the
pleading, because it did not state
sufficient defense. The court decided
that the defense was sufficient, and to
this ruling the plaintiffs, by their at
torney, duly excepted, and the matter
will be taken to the supreme court for
adjudication. The rate of interest
named in the ordinance is per cent,
and the rate formerly paid was l.
" llldH ~. Mdlltllali, WIZ ioi Aiit
past IL years has been round-house
foreman at this place. has accepted
position with the Northern Pacific in
Butte, and will leave in a few days to
take up the duties of his new position.
Mr.. Mallahan has been a prominent
figure in politics while here and has
held the office of alderman from the
Third ward for several consecutive
terms, and is well liked by the men
employed in his department. His re-
moval to Butte is in the nature of
promotion, and is generally considered
to be we'll deserved, for Mr.. Mallahan
is just finishing up his 31st year of
railroading, and is still young man
as far as usefulness in his official ca
pacity goes. He will be succeeded by
a man named Haskell from Tacoma.
Mrs. Mallahan and family will join her
husband in Butte in a couple of
months.
Saturday the county sold the proper
ty of the Independence mine, which
was taken for taxes some time ago. TO
the Milwaukee, Montana and Boulder
Gold and Copper Mining company. The
outfit consists of a 10-stamp mill and
the machinery necessary to operate it.
and brought the company $500. the
amount of the delinquent taxes on the
mine and machinery. The company
which made the purchase is composed
of U. D. Fry, p. J. Donnelly and A. D.
McNulty, who have both gold and
silver interests in the Boulder country.
Mr.. Fry is superintendent of telegraph
for the Milwaukee road; McNulty is
business man from Contact, who inter-
ested the other two in the mines at
Independence, and persuaded them to
invest with him in the old Independ-
ence property. The three men were in
the city last week negotiating with the
county commissioners for the purchase
of the property, and all but Donnelly
will return to the East, while the latter
remains to operate the mines at INDIE
pendence.
John r. King, manager of the electric
light plant, sold a dynamo belonging
to the outfit to the city corporation of
Miles City Monday, and the machine
was taken the same day. In Miles City
the city operates it's own plant and
operates a light system With good sue
cess. A representative of the Miles
City council was in the city the first
of the week conducting the deal for