The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-25
WH|SKEY AND |. ". ".
KEEP OFFICERS BUSY
Con Maher Runs Amuck and
Attacks Mattresses
in Hotel.
jim KAY ARRESTED
Charged With Introducing
Liquor on Flathead
Reservation.

Tales of riot caused by the illegal
introduction Of booze in the supposedly
Sahara like regions of the Fiathsad
reservation were told last night by
Federal OFFICERS John Ramsey ana
Rasmus Petersen. who brought IN Ivy"
alleged bootleggers from the reser-
walton to Missoula yesterday. Cor
Maher proprietor of hotel at Cainas,
two domestics employed by him, ana
Wade Parks. county attorney OF san
aers county and a valiant half-score
of !. W. WIS are also mentioned
prominently by the officers.
According to the story told by OF
ficer Ramsey, a man travelling under
the name of Jim Kay, came from
Plains to Camas Hot Springs Tuesday
evening loaded to the guards with bad
whiskey. He stopped off for some
time with Con Maher, proprietor OF
the Camas hotel, and, according to the
officers, left considerable OF his load
of booze with Mahcr. the customary
amount of coin of the realm figuring
in the barter.
Trouble Commences.
Mahcr il is said, imhibed the ma
iority Of the red-eye during the night,
and when he came down to breakfast
the following morning, was ready FOR
trouble. He sat down at the break
fast table in his own dining room, but
when the waitress brought him food
he refused to touch ii, instead reviling
her and making a pass at her.
The girl, whose name is Mary Gag
nier, reached for the cane which
Maher carried, in order to protect her
self from the attack of the drink
maddened man. Maher knocked hei
down, and in the scufflt the cane was
broken in two, the girl retaining the
larger piece, which she used effeC-
lively, a well-aimcd blow cutting :
cash over Makers eye. The other
waitress, Sarah Clark, then rushed il
to Miss Gagner's assistance, bu
Maher rallied and after scoring {
knock down against each of the won.
en-, seized Miss Gagner by the nccl
and commenced to choke her. At tina
time Jack Pierce, a well-known reser
walton man, and Fred Gilman, a Mis-
soula travelling man, appeared on tn
scene and interviewed in the battl,
ipoth are tlS men anu Sbpl Suttut
Maher who released the girl, and re
tired into the hotel to drink nor
whiskey.
A couple hours later Maher agai
ran amuck and routed everybody on
of the hotel, when he appeared with
butcher knife of sword-like dmen
sions, and announc ed his intention O
carving the entire population of tn
Flathead into small bits. Major Moi
gan, the Indian agent. was notified
and he wired Federal Officer Ramse
to came and take charge of Mahel
ON the way over Ramsey. who wa
accompanied by Officer Petersen, ar
rested Kay. the man who had fur
nished Maher with the whiSkey an
left him in the custody Of an India
policeman. Ramsey and Petersen ar
rested Maher on their arrival :,
Camas, and brought him to Plains.
Assault Charged.
complaint of assault was file
against Maher. and Ramsey notific
County Attorney Wade Parks of san
ders county. at Thompson Falls, ask
ing him to come to Plains and TAX
charge of the case Parks answer.
.ii.il ne NDuiu come down IN time 10
the trial. In the meanwhile. Maize
asked the court for a change of venu,
but failed to make it in writing
When the hour Set for the trial G
the case which was held before Jus
tlce BlllmeNer of Plains, arrived, Park
failed to show up, and Ramsey wa
forced to take charge of the prose
cution himself. The change of venu
beng denied, the trial proceeded, an
Mah"r was found guilty on the chnrg
OF assault, and was sentenced to fou
months in the county jail, which sen
tence he began serving Yesterday.
!. W. VS. Like the Jail.
Yesterday Petersen and RtmSc
took part in a raid at Plains, not o
booticsgers, but on the jail. a mum
h"r Of The /. ". w, nine or ten ,
them, had chosen tn" jail as a tempo
1ary' boarding house, and refused
tt elected, according 10 the fodci:
officers Ramsey and Petersen +,
cruitcd III" city officers, and using 81
flcI"r; methods, speedily chased II
whole crew of Aelf-iut"rn"d ptisnn,r
down the railroad.