The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-09-12
City Attorney Has Advised
Chief of Police to Make
Another Raid on Races.
HOW THE MUNICIPALITY
LOVES THE COUNTY MEN
Pretty Compliments Passed Between a
Deputy and Police in Charge Of Patrel
Wagon Full Of Prisoners-What
Lamb Has to Say on the Situation
Charge Of Contempt Is Nonsense
Trouble Has Probably Just Begun

There is a strong chance that the men
now operating out at the race track will
be arrested again by the city officials ere
the shades of night have fallen.
If Chief of Police Reynolds follows
the advice of City Attorney Lamb, he will
arrest the booksellers today and will keep
on arresting them rs long as they continue
to sell pools on foreign races.
And should Chief Reynolds decide to
again take Eddie Sachs and others into
custody, the county officers may take
hand, in which case some of the hottest
times yet seen in Silver Bow county may
be recorded.
The city wants the poolselling at the
race track to discontinue, and the county
wants it to go on. There's the rub
When the city officers made the arrest
OF the track men several days ago and
were returning with the prisoners to town
in the patrol wagon, two deputy shcriffs
hailed them on South Arizona street and
the following conversation took place be-
tween one of the deputies and the police
man in charge of the wagon:
Exchange Any Persif|aee.
"Where did you get those men 7" asked
the deputy.
IT'S none Of your business" replied
the city officer; but if you want to know
real bad, we got them at the race track"
What are you going to do with them ?"
That's some more of your business,
but maybe you'll find out if you come up
to the city Jail and examine the blotter."
well" remarked the county officer,
"it's good thing you didn't arrest them
while we were at the track, or there would
have been trouble. You are in the city
limits now, where you are protected by
rotten city government, but let us catch
you out of the limits once and we'll show
you something"
I'VE might be out tomorrow" said one
of the policemen, "and if you start trouble
you will find men who can shoot as
crooked as you cam"
This shows the affection that exists be-
tween the sherilf's Office and that of the
chief of police.
Lamb Has His Little Say.
City Attorney Lamb says the charges Of
contempt of court are absurd and that
they will be dismissed at the hearing.
Those people who are operating now
al the track are not representing the Mon
tana Jockey club, in whose favor Judge
IldIHcy HlJuICtlol WAS lsSucu, sdlu INC
city attorney. II have asked the officers
Of the club, and they tell me they know
nothing about the present operations at
the track.
"But even il we had arrested the officers
of the jockey club, what of it? We ar
rested Sachs and the others for violating
the law against pool-seling and not horse
racing. The injunction preventing us from
interfering with the Montana Jockey club
applied to racing and not to pool-sclling.
Could JueeIe, If He Liked.
II have it in my power to allow Sam
Martin to open his poolroom in town
again, and il | did that the race track
people would have to shut up shop, for
It would ruin their business. l want to be
consistent, and for that reason I will not
allow poolrooms in the city limits again
after closing them.
"The best citizens of the town are back
of me in my efforts to stop pool-selling
Over $4,000 used to go out of Butte every
month when the poolrooms we're running
end now almost that much is going out on
account of the pool-selling at the track"