Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-10
SA[VAT|ON|STS
WERE IN COURT
THEY PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO
CHARGE OF oBsTRUCTINd
THE STREET.
LIEUT.. GALE SAYS THEY
HAVE VIOLATED NO LAW.
Arrested Last Might and Released on
Bond Furnished by ii. I. Frank
Minor Police Matters.

Lieutenant John 8. Gale, the local conn
mandant Of the Salvation Army; Captain
Putnam, Captain Ziebrath, Lieutenant Ay-
cry. r. J. Pierce, Henry F1uke, Joseph
Robert Brouse, Donald Rule. d. M.
Davidson and Thomas Griffith, members
Of the army, were before Judge Sullivan
this morning on a charge of obstructing
the street at the corner Of Park and Main.
They were arrested last night just as the
evening street meeting had begun. The
song service was in progress and the meet
ing had collected a large crowd. Two po-
licemen went to Lieutenant Gale and told
him that he and his soldiers were under
arrest. The service was stopped and the
lieutenant and his little army, with drums
beating and colors flying and all the HON
ors Of war, marched away to the city bas-
the wake of the bass drum and keeping
step to it's measured beat.
At the Jail there was a parley. In the
H. L. Frank had learned of the
arrest of the army. Mr.. Frank went to
the jail and furnished a $500 cash bond for
the appearance Of the soldiers in court
released, the cased flags were again I'M
furled, the big bass drum attuned and the
liberated army, prisoners Of a few moments
before, marched away will the exultant
tread to resume its evening meeting.
In police court this morning Lieutenant
Gale and his associates entered pleas of
not guilty and the cases We're continued
until next Friday.
Chief Lavell says he does not wish to
impose 2 Sc any hardship on the army. but he
Gale and his associates have been vfo-
lating an agreement entered into with the
city officials about a year ago, by which
the army agreed not to hold any meetings
within 100 feet of Main street, and We're al
lowed the privilege of parading the streets.
Lieutenant Gale says he and his men are
not here to break the laws, but to do what
good they cam: He says he has always
lived up to the police regulations.
that he and his people have violated no law,
and that their arrest was simply a mis-
take.
Hattie Jones and Patsy Bolivar, two col
ored women, who were charged with hav-
ing robbed Andy Blaisanino. an Austrian,
of $40, took "a hours to enter their pleas to
the charge of being inmate of a house Of
prostitution.
B. B. Schneider pleaded guilty to the
charge of creating a. disturbance and was
fined $40. Schneider ate a meal in a Chi
nese restaurant yesterday and refused to
pay his bill. 1t happened that in his youth
the proprietor of the place had been a
member of the celebrated Boxer society of
China and knew something about the solar
pfexus and other weak places of nan. So
him through a window. Schneider fell into
a policeman's arms and was taken to jail.
Gus Davis was charged with malicious
mischief. 1t seems hat he broke open the
door of a cabin yesterday. He entered a
plea of guilty, but said the cabin in uues-
ton was his own property and he believed
he had a right to do what he pleased with
1t: Judge Sullivan took the case under adj
visement.
Dan Gregory, charged with fighting,
pleaded not guilty and the case was con-
tinued until Friday afternoon.
Tommy SVSt who llsad cop,o ,,o ,rJ,Ar