Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-06
SHEEP SHEARER
SH0RN Of CASH
ORDERED BEER AND RENDERED
A FIFTY DOLLAR BILL IN
IN PAYMENT.
WHO WENT FOR THE
CHANGE Is STILL GOING.
Negroes Who Assaulted Officer Ray
Plead Not G~uilty-Mahoney
Street Offenders Fined.

J.. r. Byrd will fly back to Dillon this
afternoon plucked of the financial feath-
ers he has accumulated by the Industrious
use of sheep shears during the wool season
just ended. He was robbed in the bad
lands last night Of $55. all the money he
had with him. In fact, about the only
asset that he will take back to Dillon
with him will be a crop of sun-cured Whls-
kers and the memory of the money that
is gone. He came in from the south yes
terday morning, ripe for relaxation, and
early in the evening drifted into the Ten
derloin. There was a nameless something
about him which made apparent the fact
p 1nai De al %ns q ace eoun gyms In n the ne last
place at which he called he ordered beer,
and in payment gave the girl a $o Dill;
She went out to get the change ana Is sun
going.
After waiting an hour for her return,
Byrd finally became suspicious and went
out and informed a policeman of the oc-
currence, and when the officer told him ne
had been victimized he was mad. he Drew
a gun and declared himself to the enete
get even. His Horse Prairie hourlshes
with the revolver had a depressing erect
on the bystanders and the officer concluded
This morning in police court he entered a
plea of guilty to the charge OF CARVING
| bles had reached the ear of Judge Sullivan
and he was let off with the minimum Inc
of IS, and Chief LaVeu Oruereu That MS
| gun be restored to him.
Nat Lewis and Thomas Amos were In
police court this morning. They are the
i negroes who assaulted Assistant detective
Charles Ray in the New Orleans dance hall
yesterday. Ray entered the place, and
| him what he wanted. Ray said nothing
and the negro struck him a hard blow on
the jaw. There are bigger men in town
than Charlie Ray, but ne doesn.t need any
nerve tonic and he was doing the pest ne
could when Thomas Amos. another negro,
would have made it interesting for Ray
but for the timely appearance OF Off1cer
Radmilovich, ana the fight became four
cornered. One Of the negroes made a slasn
subdued them and they were taken TO the
city Jail. Lewis was charged with assault
ing an officer and Amos with interfering
with an officer in the performance OF ms
duty. Both entered pleas of not guilty
and the cases against them were continued
until Tuesday.
Tom Barry, George Ennis. Joe Kelly,
John Hurley, William F. Love, Sam Kelly,
I Will Sullivan, Tom Burns and James Ken
nard, members of the growler-rushing
crowd that infests Mahoney street were
entered pleas of guilty and were lined w
each. incidentally his honor remarked
that any of the Mahoney crowd who We're
pect similar treatment; that he was deter
| mined to break up the gang whose con-
duct was such that the entire neighborhood
was annoyed. He gave formal notice thaI
the Mahoney people must keep out or his
court or expect severe punishment.
Frank Borg, who assaulted his sister, en-
tered a plea of not guilty, as did also Mike
Murphy, charged with having assaulted
John Kelly, and both cases were continued
until Tuesday.