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V. r. KAISBALL, 1*f r *ai Pr»prirt»r. VOL. XXV. BUTTK. A BOX Oil BA1TH. Unrivalled Mining City. When Nn Vegetable Will Orew. PfalUfelpbU lUcocd. There ia a hell on earth; it ia Bntte, Montana. Since four prospectors from Nevada struck this little town morn than lorty years ago miners have dug from the mountain aide on which Bntte atanda nearly one-half a billion dollars worth of gold, silver and copper—more than has come from any other camp in the world. It ia not strange then, that John D. Rockefeller and Henry H. . Rogers have their names linked with this city of riches. In Bntte three mining magnates have made their fortunes—Mar cus Daly, Senator W. A. Clark sod August Hcinze. But why do they call Bntte the earth realm of Satan? Chiefly because roasting ores gives ofi fumes of sulphur. This smoke—the color of watered milk—sometimes gets as thick as a London fog. It kills all vegetation, not one green teat flutters in Butte; nor does a sprig of grass grow there. Bleak indeed, are the tolling masses of sand and rock over which Mary Me Lane trod while waiting for tbe coming of the devil. To tbla place* so barren of verdure yet so fruitful in rich materials, tbe winds of fortune have blown people from every clime. Stand any hour of the day or night on a street corner in Bntte and there will brash against yon Bagpipers. Sham rocks, Cousin Jacks, I-tank-sos, Windmillers, Parle z-v o a a, Wacht-amRbeios, Rag-old-Iroo Rags, Vodkas, Bohemians, Rou manians, Wallachians, Turks, some from the Piraeus, banana peddlers, bull fighters, Arabs, Armenians, Persians, Indians— both Bast and American—Cing alese, Portugese, Chinese, Jap anese. PKOPLK AU ALL PLUNGB&5. Not one of the 13,000 miners of Bntte earns less than $3.30 a day, and they all spend their money like prodigal sons. In the old open gambling days, not long gone by, drill-drivers wear ing flannel shirts have bet stacks of silver and gold sings with tbe recklessness of royal rakea at Monte Carlo. Tbe people are all plungers. Two men came up to a cigar case. "Let’s shake the box," said one. As they lit their cigars tbe other asked: "How much do yon want for that mine any "Thirty-five thousand/ was the answer. "Give you twenty-five/ said the other. "Won't take twetfty-five/ re plied the friend, "bat I'll just shake dice whether you give me twenty-five thousand or fifty." "All right. Fim flop or horses?” "First flop/ came bock the answer. They each rolled the dire out only once. The men who lost wrote oat his check for $50,000 with a lead pencil. The mayor of Batte is Patrick Mullins. Years ago "Pat" as everybody calls him, ran a boarding house in the camp. Once the mines shnt down. Some of Pat's boarders got out of money. He rose np in the dining room one morning at breakfast time end made a speech: THK WINNING Of A MAYORALTY. "B’rs/ said he," "they’ve shnt down the mines and some of yes is oat of donah. But, I'll tell yes, ye’ve stbuck to Pst whin ye've bed the stuff and now Pat will stbick to yes. Oive got two csir loads of pcrta* tea and wan coir load of hams in the cillar. Aa long as tbey’s a •par and a pace of malt lift ye ate wld me. Pay whin ye get the coin.” , 0V WHCU IM • afraid of loting the election they pot him op for mayor. A* one of the miners arid to me: "He woo hands down." Soon after taking the oath of office ft was the duty of the mayor to welcome President Roosevelt, who visited Untie. The mayor not on bia first dress suit. At a banquet, aa soon as the guests sat down, the mayor ■rose, rapped on the table and said: 'Mjintlemin, Ot will intrhodoce to ye* a moo who nsld» no intbrodooctinn, He’s the hay row of Santiago. B’vi (to the waiter*,) bring on the Wi*.* Tuna* obiat cmaiactiu. The history of Bntte is the history of it* three pest raining men — D*iy, Clark. Heinse. Take the characters of these other in the game was a man of imall meant. Daly held four aces and drew one card. Tbs other drew one card also, and made a king foil. "Bet $500," said the man with the fall. "I'll see the $500 and raiae ye a white chip," said Daly, "bat my friend, don't raise me, for I've got ye bait." The other man, who had lost $1,500 put his checks on the ta bic for $3,000. Had he lost he would have been a rained man. Daly knew this. "And what have ye got?" said : Daly, seeing the raiae. "A king full," replied the oth er player, raking in the money. "It’a good, Jerry," said Daly, throwing down bis winning hand, think no one bad seen it. "That man Heioxc," said one gentleman, "is the greatest plunger that ever struck Butte. Why. do you know, I saw him playing poker the other night and he would always flip a $20 gold piece to see whether or not he should call a raise." Bora in Ireland, Marcus Daly, when 15, came to America, working first at Brooklyn as a dock hand. Later he went to California, where he did placer mining. Hagin and Texis, min ing men of ’Frisco, sent him to Utah. Here be met tbe Walker brothers, who had him go to Butt* in 1876 to inspect tbe old Alice mine. Daly went into Butte carrying a blanket on his Vick; he died worth $15,000,000. THB VICTOXV OF THB ANACONDA They tell that after selling his share in the Alice, Daly went in with Haggin and Texis and bought the Anaconda. The Cal ifornian sent an expert to look at tbe mine. Thia man said it was worthless and started back to San Francisco to make bis re port. Daly was out of motley, but be himself and a few faithful men kept digging. They struck rich ore. Daly borrowed money sod got a horse. He sent a messenger to 'Frisco with new ore samples. "Ride thia horse until he drops; then get anoth er," said Daly. "Bait .that d-d expert to California.” Daly's man got there first. Haggin and Texis put iu more money. Thus, they say, eras started the Anaconda mine which tbe Daly company sold in 1899 to the Amalgated company, in which Rockefeller and Rog ers hold large interests, for $33,000,000. Daly's money came to him easy; it went the same way. He was broad-ganged. Anaconda, where be built bis smelter, needed a Hotel, uaiy built a one one aad lost on it $50,000 a year. He wanted a good newspaper in the town; he started the Stand ard. which went $300,000 in the hole the first four years. He took to horses; on the Bitter Root Stock Farm, in Montana, he spent $1,000,000 a year. On this ranch—one of the moat beantifnl in the world—be raised the famous racers Ogden, Har burg and Tammany. Giving away fine horses wai one of hts fads. Should a friend take a fancy to a horse Daly would say: "Take him: he is yours.” CLARKE MKT DIS FORTI/WR. "Clarke must be a bright man to have come out here with nothing and cleaned up • hun dred. millions.” was a remark made to an old Montana miner. "Nothing so very bright about it," answered the miner. "He was here; it was here; they got together. Somebody bad to do "Do yon know the Senator?” was asked. "Know him? Well, I guest yes. 1 panned in the same placer digein's with him down hare fa* Jen Davis’s Gnlcb, close to Dillon. He was bora in Pronaylvany, and tcached school la Missouri. This made him close-fisted, 1 guess. He ____ A. A. _ _ « .. m « . we wiviwT, inn iocs up here to MouUny. In '63. H« held on u> the Am thousand be got snd wont down to Salt Lake hnd bought stuff and freighted it in and sold it to the hoys. Floor got scarce, and be sold it tor a dollar and a half a pound. Then be got a littla log store, then a bank; thea be got a lot of copper claim*, and now, if it hadn't been foi Marcus Daly, he’d have the whole damned country." "Bat didn’t yon have just at good a chance as he did?" "Sure; bnt I argyed. what’i the use of bavin’ It unless you git somethin’ ant of ft. Ukc most of the hoy*. I Mowed J* .<OT bo<** and chips. Still, alnt t got uo kick coinin’. Montany ■ been pretty square w<**‘«•; * »e hade good Kmc —better n Clark, I expect." maos usx or Mia cwa»cr. Clark aada use of hie chance He was in the richest mining camp in the world. Aa can be done in many placet—even in Butte—lor small amounts be got interests in claims. He went to Colombia university and studied metallurgy. He ex amined mines lor himself. He did bis own assaying. Others could have done what Clark did; but Clark did It. Clarke is one rich man wbo knows wbat he is worth. He pays strict attention to every detail of bis business. He is one of the busiest men in Am erica. He owns many mines outside of Butte. Of the United Verde at Jerome, Arir., the rich est of copper mines be is the sole owner. He has sugar beet farms in California, eoftee plan tations in Mexico, lumber camps, coal mines, stock ranches, business property, sod inst recently has built a railroad from Salt lake City to Los Angeles. Aside from this be hat found time to study Freoch and German and to collect fine paintings. HKJKZK, THK WIZARD. Heinze ia a wizard. * He ia the brightest man Butte baa pro duced. In the last few years he has made millions. He struck Butte at the age of 20 in '89. He was first engineer in the Boston and Montana mine, con trolled by Lewiaaohn Brothers of New York. It ia said that they turned Heinze off. He organized a company to smelt ores for independent mines. He made money out of this. Then he filed claims right in the midst of the big working mines. A law of Montana allows the one who owns the apex ot a vein to have the ore wherever it may drift. Heinze knew the ground. He got a valuable apex, nod brought suit for n property worked by others. He woo. This brought on between Heinze and Rockefeller the great fight which is not yet finished. THB KHUD Of DALY AND CI.ABK. But Butte without rivals in it would not be Butte. The great est feud which existed there was that between Daly and Clark. Although they were brothers-in-law, it lasted until Daly's death. This fend, ou account of which Daly and Clnrk squandered millions, began, they say, over a horse race. In one race Daly'a horse beat Clark’a. Clark ran in a racer and skinned Daiy. Then war was on. When Daly had spent n great deal on bis Anaconda smelter, Clark corn ered the right on the only Sla ter nearby. Daly had to dsy him a bonus of over $100,000. This was the dearest $100,000 that Clark ever made. In ’87 Clark ran for congress against Thomas Carter. Clark thought that Daly would support him. They were both Democrats. This would mean bis election. Bat early on the morning of the election Daly went to bis fore men and to his men in the mines and to the boys in Dublin Gulch and said: "By’a, your old frind Marcos wants ye to bait Clark. Air ye with me?” Tom Carter won. MOKE THAU $40 A VOTE. Clark came back at Daly. In ’89 Daly wanted the state capital moved from Helena to Anaconda. Clark was for Helena because Daly was for Anaconda. The fight was the bitterest political battle ever fought in the United State*. There were about 50. 000 voters in the state, and the campaign coat Clark and Daly oyer $2,000,000—more than $40 a vote. Concert troupes tooted the state singing the praises of Anaconda. Nothing was too good for those who favorvd Helena. "Vy,” said a German, "talk about a champagne! Eei a man vented vine he would make him take a bat1 in it.” Clark won. Clark wanted to be senator in ’98 Daly said he should not . "ripresint Montana in the senate.■ The legislature met at Helena. In the Hotel Helena $10,000 bills flitted through the balls like green bats. One morning three of them flew over tbc transom of a legislator’s room and lit upon the floor. The representative said they came from Daly. No one claiming the $30,000, it became a part of the state’s school fnnd. WON WHEN PALV WAS DRAD. Clark got a majority of tbc votes, but Daly contested the election. Clark resigned and the same day got a mysterious appointment. Clark waa finally elected to the senate without protest, but not ontil his old rival, Daly, was dead. They dag from the mines of Battc more mineral wealth than from any other place of earth. The total on tost of one year waa nearly $55,000,000—almoot three times as orach as the whole state of California produced. Just one of the mining companies, the Anaconda, got for oae year's products $23,000,000; its profit was over $5,000,000. The com. pany worked more than 6,000 men and paid them in wages over $7,000,000 —$600,000 a month. The coat of coal for tbe Auscooda wit $1,400,000 and its Mil for candies for 12 months amounted to over $50, 000. 1— ME m A WBCOL Two Crowded Psaaeagsr Can •ads Baggage Car EngnHad la Um Tarrant Thai Ton oat a Trastls Soanafog a Pratria Crash Hear Pnahli. CaL, tha Last al Lila PrahaMy leach ing IM. CMMa OUtmt.M Pueblo, Col.. Aug. 8.—Tbe wreck of tbe World’s Pair Flyer on tbe Denver & Rio Grande, near Eden, seven miles north of Ppeblo, last evening, proves to have been one of tbe greatest railroad disasters in the history of the country. Two crowded passenger cars and a baggage car were engulfed in tbe torrent that tore out a trestle spanninir Steel and Hollow, otherwise known as Dry creek, and so far as known to-night, only three of the occupants of these cars es caped death. Fortunately, tbe sleeping cars and a diner, com pleting tbe train, remained on tbe track at the edge of the abyss, and none of their occu pant* eras kiHed or injured. how many peris bed probably never will be definitely ascer tained, for the treacherous sands are drifting over the bodies. At 8 o’clock this evening 76 bodies had been recovered, sod of these, SO bed been identified. Doling the day bodies were re covered all the way along Foun tain river front the scene of the wreck to this city. Two car loads of human freight plunged- into the raging torrent that destroyed the trestle over the usually dry avroyo, known aa Steel and Hollow, near Eden, about 8 o'clock last evening. Two sleeping cars and the dining car stopped at the brink of the hungry chasm filled with e boiling, teething current that quickly snnfied out probably 100 lives. So quietly bed the catastrophe been enac ted that the occupants of the three cara remaining on the track did not realise that ea ac cident bad occurred until they alighted from the train. The baggage car, smoking car and chair car followed the loco motive into the stream sad were swept away. All th« occupants of these cara except three men perished, and had aot the roof of the chair car burst asunder, none would have escaped. Relief train* with physicians, wrack aod pile driving outfits sod scores of workmen were hur ried from the city. * nera was a mg rally Weduce day at Sbaron la Mecklenburg conntv. Hem*. R. B. Glean, W. W. Kltcbln, and others ware the speakers. Congressman B. Y. Webb was unable to bo pres ent on account of the continued illness of Mrs. Webb, who i* now in a hospital at Wilmington. Asad accident happened Tnea day alter noon in the village ol the Lenoir Cotton mills, says i dispatch to the Charlotte OWr ver. John Queen, son of Mrs M. A. Queen, shot and killer kit brother, Malcolm Queen, ac ciden tally. It aeetns that Job* was playing with an old pistol thinking it anloaded, but it con tained one cartridge end proem fatal, the shot entering just be low the heart, and causing daatl in lata than lire mlnntea. When la aea4 at printing. emit A . Not many street car drivers have become peers of the Bn* Clish realm; bat perhaps it la more exact to aay, in the eaae of Baron Lyvedea, that he lathe only peer ie England who held the job of driver of a street car, drawn by a male at that, alone the streets of Charlotte. As be, as Courteney Percy Robert Ver non. who is now Baron Lyvedea. ased to say when he lived in Charlotte in the year 1187, "It’s not a congenial employ meat foe a fcl lab who's to be a baron to drive a blawstcd tonic, don’t yon know,* but that is exactly what the Honorable Percy did for a part of the time be made bis home in Charlotte. There arc many people bow in Char lotte who remember" Lad Percy* as they called him. me j j_. A uv MICIUUT vi OWUU AwjTW* den with the Percy Vernon who lived in Charlotte bu been re called by the tonr he has recent ly completed of some of the priocipu American cities, ns chairman of a municipal com mittee of London, lor tbc pur pose of stodying oar municipal government, lie is said to be mk of tbc mom popular peers in England, having ■nrrerdrd to the titles and catatcn of bio no f1* . *he second Lord Lyvcden. in 1901. It was a very interesting ca reer that the young Englishman had in America, la 1884 he came to America, with scarce enough funds to last him till he coukf get employment. He was a waiter in a restaurant on the Bowery, New York city, end punned various jobs for several years. Then, in 1887, he came to Cbariotte in company with Mr. Henry L. Vanderlfp and started the first dairy farm in Mecklenburg. He did not pros per in this venture, and be soon after took a job aa street t driver. The street can, palled by mules, had been started in Charlotte the first port of 1887. Mr. John S. Canon and Mr. J. B. Canon remember "Led Percy” quite well. Mr. J. B. Canon spoke entertainingly yes terday about him. "He was a tell, fair, broad shouldered En glishman. and be lacked appre ciation of a Joke, just as any real Englishman lacks it,” said Mr. Canon. "Some oftbeyonng men arranged to have him pres ent at a mock duel, in which one man was supposed to be badly shot np. When the pistol was fired, the Englishman want away to more congenial dimes, on a fast mo. When k was ex plained to him that it was all a boax, bei was very much dis gusted. and said be couldn’t ace any fan in it at ell. He always said that ha would one day come into a lordship, but no one paid much attention to .Us claim, al though then was little fun made j of him about it. "He was a wtiHng worker, bat bed no conception of bow to work. He showed strongly the evidence of Ids early training and education. He made few intimate friends, if any, bat was acquainted with a number of people. The town was about the third its prenent sixe, and almost everybody knew Mr. Vernon by sight, at least. Ha had no money, nod was on bis 'uppers' most of the time. It seems that he had failed to paw examinations lor entrance to tha English army, and had been rather wild in hi* habits. He tried to get np a number of aqtn tear theatricals, and coached them, bat made an success of them.” • After shoot six months stay here, the Englishman went away shipped on a sailing vessel and St to ha its steward, which was t job he had when be got news of hit elevation, by inheri tance, to the peerage. Mr. H. B. Worth, of Raleigh, has been elected teller of the | First National Bank of Lumber ton. Rev. J W. Lee. tha wall known Irish evangelist, died in Oreenuboro Sunday night. Abont tea years ago he was an active evangelist and held meet ings in Gastonia. A ruddy, portly man, hale and strong, weighing perhaps over 209 pounds, he contracted consum ption and when brought ban to Greensboro s few days before his death he weighed only D9 poundi. A widow and throw children survive him. *jtM s^wJk "WwM____ tejti^tsurs: EMBROIDERIES AND rar. WUUudcobn. bw Out Use of cmbraUtriM, Ucn, ^ h—7* * aad white rood*, ooaatete. *•**• u BabcoJ&io. from 3Xc md WALKING SKIRTS. *1.00 CORSETS AT «7c. 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