Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-22
MISSED BY "a SCRATCH"
Two Women OF the Scarlet Engage In
4 Dangerous Row-BlO0d
Flows Freely.

/ On a prominent street in Butte City live
two rather handsome scarlet women, -
known to the world as Ivy Howard and
Ursa Collins. OF course these names are
assumed, and it is noteven possible, if Ivy s
good Ohio friends were to hear her called
by that poetic name they would recognize
it as applying to their fair 16-year-old girl
who loved not wisely but too well. Nor is
it probable, if the good old family whose
name is connected with the highest and
best in the great city of Chihuahua, and
whose deeds are written in the records of
statecraft in the Montezuman land of rev.
olutions, were to hear the daughter whose
stepmother stole her away from Mexico
and took her to Leadville. Colorado, in its
widest days OF boom, to be married to a
gambler. and then deserted, called Ursa
Collins in police court to answer to a
charge of felony, they would recognize the
child of that deceased daughter lying
asleep in the great, silent cemtery down
happen and exist all around us to-day.
Yesterday morning, at SO o'clock, the 1.-TWO
handsome scarlet women" first spoken Of,
alter nights debauch, got into
q wordy dispute about what neither
one knows to-day. Words, Infamous
words, led to violence when "Ursa"
sprang upon her antagonist with a
knife and stabbed her four times in the face,
two Immediately beneath the eyes and SO
close to the very center of each eye as to
make one shudder to behold them. The
knife was taken from her, and then with
scissors she attacked and cut the scalp,
making an ugly wound some three inches in
I3s sgth. These Wounds hled 40 nrnfuaely
that Tor one hour or more they defied the
skill of the physician to stop the flow. The
''Spanish" girl was found and put in Jail.
The Ohio girl was put to bed and cared for.
During the afternoon she appeared accom-
panied by friend before Judge Mediation.
and on her complaint case was made
against the other. TIE MINER man had a
full conversation with all the parties, and
while in the cell with the one who did the
cutting learned who she is. OF course that
confidence is inviolable, but the place, the
charge, the surroundings, and the other
woman's story, added to the gaudy apparel
which the girl still wore in that pen of Grim.
nails, formed q mighty commentary upon the
home of her childhood in which the reporter
has often been. An uncle of hers has several
times been State Senator OF Colorado, and
her family stand high in the civil and military
history OF Mexico, one at least being a gen.
eral of brigade and another a member ol
Congress from Chihuahua. She admits the
act charged, but repentent as she is, swears
she was wild from drink. The other de
clares she is afraid OF her life being takeE
and asks for her continued incarceration
The court fixed upon 10 O'Clock to-day fol
the hearing. This is the same girl who was
arrested few nights ago for attending the
| Sullivan exhibition dressed in male attire
in the Opera House in company with a
young man who likewise has had his
''sweat" in jail for assaulting ali officer
They were both in Jail late yesterday wher
the reporter went in to see the woman
Friends got the man out by settling hit
fine of $25 and costs, and he promises tc
be decent man hereafter, but his sweet
heart will probably need some friend te
help her for it is said to he almost certain
that she will be held over. Ivy will get we'll
but her pretty dimpled chin is spoiled for
ever, and she may thank her stars thai
both eyes are not out, for the knife ''misset
each only by a scratch"