Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-22
MISS0ULA news
TROUBLES
REDSKINS HAVE A CELEBRATION
OF THEIR OWN.
THE WORWHoOP WAS SOUNDED
When the Officers Caught Them-Pa-
trolmen McGregor Arrests a Lively
Drunk-Bothwell in Custody.
Missoula, May Il.

NlIS0ouIdy VIC 80
Saturday night a report came to the
sheriff's Office that several Indians were
on a big drunk up Rattlesnake, and were
| having a hot time. The sheriff prompt
ly secured a bus, and with two deputies
and two civilians. making a party of five,
drove up to where the Indians were sup
posed to be. They We're not found, as
they had gone into the brush along the
river. The Indians watched the officers
pass by, and supposing. them. gone for
! good, came out OF the brush and began a
game of cards. Loud and angry words
were frequent, and the officers, returning
down the creek located the whole lot, and
made a sortie. Two or three indians got
away: two We're too drunk to move, and
five others were captured, so that seven
We're taken into custody. The Indians re-
fused to go with the officers and force
was resorted to by the white men. One
old buck. a %strapping big fellow made a
hard fight; one of the officers broke his
cane in the scrap, and it was only when
one of the civilian had planted a stiff
blow under the bucks chin that he was
reduced to submission.
They We're all placed in the bus, with
an officer and a civilian to guard the door.
After a short ride, the big buck jumped
through the glass window and made q
dive for liberty. He had fifty yards the
start, but Charlie Davis Of the fire de-
paI't,nent, brought him down. They are
safely lodged in Jail now, and will be tried
before one of the justices Of the peace.
For the past six weeks Or two months,
the Indians have been getting a great
quantity of whisky from some sources,
and the officers are having their hands
full. Who is furnishing the red men with
A the stuff is q very difficult thing to trace;
but it is evident that something hOuld
hn Anpa and HOna rlipk1v RI 1atapt tha
guilty parties. 1t has been not such a
long time since a young buck, Ambrose,
was killed in a drunken braWl up Rattle
snake, near the site where these Indians
Were arrested Saturday. Had not the Of
ficers cleaned up the gang, it is highly
probable that serious trouble would have
been the result of this spree.
Several Indians have come before the
Justices to answer to the charge of being
drunk and disorderly, but without excep-
ton every recent offender has been dis
charged. Why this is true it is not a mat
ter plain to everyone; it would seem that
punishment should be inflicted. Why not
send the Indians up to jail, for, say thirty
days and let them work a bit on the
streets. 1t would be a wholesome lesson.
and might have a good effect. At least.
no harm could come of it, and the dis
grace of having to work would unques-
tionably teach the Indians to be more
careful in their hurrahs.
Perhaps the reservation authorities
might be of some assistance. The gov
eminent has reserved for the Flatheads
a remarkably fertile and beautiful coun-
try, teeming with game and With many
streams supplying great quantities of
fish. 1t the white men are to be denied
the privilege of occupying any of this
ground and are also obliged to be placed
in danger of life and property through
drunken, murderous Indians that roam
/ a r NTH l,nNyvrh tln rln1n str ~, no ,t
of the state, we ask where is the justice.
If civil authorities are required to take
care of the Indians, and If our country
is obliged to pay salaries to the sheriff
for the purpose of looking after indian
why, then, let us have the reservation
thrown open to white settlement in order
that we may derive a reasonable income
for the care of these ~marauders. The
reservation is for the Indians, and as it
is the most fertile section of the state,
and is sWarming with fish and game, we
see no reason why these redskins should
not be required to stay where they be-
long. Let them travel along our high
ways, but do not let them do as they
have recently done. Within a radius of
two miles, your reporter having made a
special trip to investigate, are to be
found near Missoula more than $50
Indians. The town is full of them, the
woods are full of them, and so are the
hills. They are a pest and a nuisance:
their camps are filthy and obnoxious,
and they render it absolutely unsafe for
our women and children, and even for q
solitary white man, to wander about our
streams and hooks Either insist upon
their using the reservation which has
been assigned to them, or else give it to
a people who will appreciate the advan-
tages and richness of it.
"Quo Vadis'' at the Union opera house
Co .l,1. ~ 1yr "a ,r-a- =. n {I.k
Used. The house was packed. and al
though the curtain did not go up until
9 O'clock, being purposely delayed to ae-
rcommodate business men. and the play
was not over until midnight, there was
not a murmur of dissatisfaction The
audience was spell-bound throughout.
Lygia, the Christian girl; Vinicius, the
lover, and Petronius captured the hearts
of those present. Such plays as this pro-
duce a deep impression and have a tend
ency to make one think of better things.
While the low, travelling vaudeville may
draw good houses, it is a real pleasure to
note that our largest audiences are those
which greet such productions as ..Quo
Vadis." "Faus and Sag Harbor.' The
American theater-goers have sown their
wild oats and are returning to the legiti-
mate and moral.
Missoula is rejoicing in a manner. We
have ben so unfortunate as to get a
soodly number of Japanese, and the
number is being increased weekly. But
Saturday we ceased to feel badly about
it. Awhole carload passed through his
city. en- route from Seattle to Butte.
Cousins, you are welcome to them all.
Miss Wheatley of Livingston came over
Sunday. She will visit for several weeks
with her brother. Lew Wheatley, who is
we'll known in Missoula and is something
of an old-timer.
Rev. r. T.. Dunlap. who has been con-