The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-28
THE EXCURSION.

THE EXCURSION.
Over 400 People Visit the Val.
ley City.
And Points Between Garrison
and Butte.
Deer Lodgers and SUNDAY
Sports.
About 200 men, women and child~
rem were seated in the finely
equipped excursion cars at the depot
last Sunday morning when the call
OF the conductor "all aboard" rang
out. The city band, which had
been engaged by Agent Scott for the
occasion. struck up an inspiring strain
and the train rolled out. The crowd
went on the excursion for pleasure
and had it. All care and perplexi-
ties and formalities and sombre
faces e left behind, and light
hearts and smiling countenances were
possessed and worn by all. The low
ers of the grandly beautiful enjoyed
the magnificent scenery which ma
ture lavishly displayed upon every
hand, while the socially inclined
found no lack OF those who were
ready to crack q joke, tell u story or
indulge in pleasant conversation.
Quite q number left the tram at
Stuart and took a spin to
Gregson's Springs or to Ana
conda. Others stopped at Warm
Springs and enjoyed the baths and
quiet repose of that beautiful place.
Among them were Herr. Daniel
Bandmann, the eminent tragedian,
Miss Beaudet and Miss Vernay. At
Lost Creek, Doctors Johnston and
Gleason, enthusiastic disciples of
Isaac Walton. took leave of the
crowd and fretted the waters of the !
stream with hook and line in search
of speckied beauties. Fate and high
water held the best hands and all the
"bite' they got was from q well
stocked lunch basket they carried
along.
Several Of the party went on to
Garrison, among them Mayor and
Mrs. Owsley and Mrs. Carr, but the
larger portion stopped at Deer Lodge
and put in the five hours allotted to
item in good shape. Deer Lodgers
are distinguished for their courtesy
and hospitality to visitors and for be-
ing lovers and raisers of fine horses,
but some of them are miseraoly
faulty judges of race animals. It is q
two to one bet that the goOd-]ooking.
good-natured Tom Strang would
pick out the slow horse for the win
ner in a field of a dozen racers and
put up his last ducat on him.
At Deer Lodge the MINER reporter
was taken under the wing of "Joe
Bush" and shown the sights
of the to vn. The first place
visited was Harry McFarland's
Harry halls from Skowhegan, Maine
where they build lumber drogers by
the mile and cut them off to suit pur-
chasers. Harry is the leading DEM
candidate for Coroner of that
county and will "get there" by a
large majority. He is a genial,
whole-souled gentleman, and like
Harry Peterson, of the "Favorite,"
ana our friend. Tom Strang, is as
good looking as he is courteous, BY
the way, Deer Lodge has more fine
looking men than any other town of
its size we know of.
The walks and drives around the
CITY were next visited. These are
really beautiful. Winding as they
do among the many fine private res
licences in the suburbs, shaded by
overhanging trees crowned with a
wealth of luxurious foliage, and eI>
vironed bv beds of flowers whose In
~toxicatipg fragrance fills the air with
a grateful perfume, the eye of the
entranced pedestrian wand .rs IN
search of the orange and the lemon,
the citron and the pomee ranate of
the tropics. Deer Lodge is now
wearing it's spring attire of flowers
and green and the Butteites whose
ey $ have long rested upon brick
walls and dusty streets enjoyed the
pleasing change which met them
there.
Soon after noon the regular sunday
race, a series of Which have recently
been inaugurated there, came Oft on
the fine track about q half mile from
the city. The race was between Re-
gent Nc. 2 and q mare owned
by Tom Nevada for a stake
of fifty dollars u side. Regent
was the favorite, but the mare proved
the better horse, much to the disgust
of certain Deer Loogers and delight
of the aliens and strangers who had
their last nickel on the result.
It is proposed, we understand. to
have c on the track every suns
day, but prize fights will be barred
off.
While there the MINER reporter
met many old time Deer Lodgers
who came there as pioneers and who
now take life easy under the shade of
their own vine and fig trees. Among
them he saw were DIR. Mitchell,
Judge Robert Kelly, Judge Batter