The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-10
DR.. FUCKER GONE
PATENT MEDICINE MAN OUTWITS
CITY OFFICIALS.
WOULD NOT PAY $50 LICENSE
Failed to Appear in Court This Morn
ing-Wife Says He Went to Indiana
Manager sutton on His Bond
b Theatrical Company Practically
stranded-Will Play for Expenses.

'Three hundred dollars to the bad and
another show man gone wrong" was
the utterance Uncle Dick" Sutton
Dr. H. D. Rucker had failed to appear
in. police court at 10 o'clock and answer
to the charge of selling medicine with
out a license. Mr.. Sutton, proprietor
of the theater. in which the doctor had
been giving his daily show and dispens-
ing his patent medicine, guaranteed DIR.
Fuckers appearance in court this morn
ing in the sum of $500, hence the sad
expression of the manager.
But Mr.. Sutton is not alone in his
anxiety concerning the patent medicine
mans whereabouts. for there are 9th
ers and they are those who can less af-
ford to loose that which is coming to
them than can Mr.. Sutton.
1t was but yesterday that the city Off
Gals awakened to the fact that the city
was entitled, under the law, to a $50
per day license from the medicine man,
and acting in conjunction with the
thought the city treasurer appeared at
Suttons Family theater last night and
demanded the license money from the
doctor. The latter claimed he was merely
giving show and as the management
of the theater had a license for such
he could not be compelled to pay $50 in
addition thereto.
The doctor, between acts sold his "cure
all medicine, and for that the treas
urer stated he must pay the $50 per
day license as the theater license did
not cover the sale of patent medicines.
A warrant of arrest was sprung but
the willy doctor was equal to the occa-
ND n IN t.
court this morning when the matter
would be settled. In the n\ antime Mr..
Sutton guaranteed his appearance and
the doctor was permitted to go his way
With two-karat diamonds in her ear
rings and dressed in the height of fash
ion, appeared Mrs. Rucker, the wife of
the doctor, at the desk of the McDer-
mott hotel this morning and requested
Manager Taylor to ship the baggage be-
longing to herself and the doctor C. o.
d. to Lafayette, Ind, where they would
gladly pay the amount due the manage
ment of the hotel, aggregating $3.50.
Mr. Taylor knowing nothing of the doc
tors troubles, consented to do so. Be-
fore Mrs. Rucker could get thirty steps
from the hotel door she was stopped by
Chief Reynolds Of the police department.
1t was evidently up to the chief and ap-
'parently the lady knew it as she calm
5ly stated that her husband did not in :
tend to pay $50 per day to do business
in Butte and for that reason had left
for other fields.
When Charles r. Merrill, in charge of
DR.. Fuckers forces at the theater learn
ed that his employe had decamped there
was fur flying. Without a moments
delay Mr.. Merrill made for the depot
looking for Mrs. Rucker, whom he claim
ed had plenty of money. He said he
proposed to get some of it. He said the
doctor had left him an order for the
show receipts for the following two
nights, but said he did mt know the doc
tor was going to leave town.
We have been doing but little in the
show line here" he sad, land our pay
is considerably behind. DR.. Rucker
brought seven of us here from Rich
mond, Ind, and l guess the boys are
all broke, l feel as though Mrs. Rucker
should pay us and for that reason I'll
have an interview with her on the mat
ter, In the meantime we will continue
with the show tonight and tomorrow
and endeavOr to make expenses"
Mrs. Rucker was still in the city this
afternoon, but stated to Manager Tay-
l"r that she would leave on the first
train for the east.