Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-05
BLAST At HELENA.
The Good and Neither Sides Of the Pros
pects at the Capital.
-5o,nc nf THE MINER,

CORRESPONDENCE of THE MISEE.
HrIES. June 3.-This city is last filling
nm With from every part oil the
country. Men OF capital, brains and energy
are coming in on every train, some 10 e&-
anime promising leads e~reabo with a
view of purchasing them IL everything
nrove satisfactory; some to Dus-
iness houses. and others to practice theif
n-of.esicns. Helena is, indeed, entering on
an era OF prosperity not SURPASSED e'eD.p'
That OF ueerless Butte herself Inc para
sites of society, theprostitute. the ga"o.If,
| the pickpocket, the all-arnund ihan. 1n7
tramp. etc. are also arriving IN horde>'
cd Helena. sanity Helena. will soon bear,
Il they continue to come, the u1envlab Die
notoriety Of being the wiekedest city IN the
Vortbwest There are FOUNDERS here now
who would steal a nickel from a chiid on
;,s way to the shop to buy "s"eetl=s- %
| the nroyerbiai pennie, from dead mems
eyes. If they could get a chance. ltey are
eyervwhers in the hotels, 10 saloons, III
| places Of amusement IN the s'reet7,ese1
| on the alert. ever watchini iof something
to turn up in their line OF business
II a miner comes III from the
mires. o., a laborer from the railroad
| whicb is being built here and some Oh tne-e
ara coming in every day with a Il" noiiafs
i, Ills possession. ana is OF A conV!Vlai cls-
nosi+ion- what miner OF workman on the
he'd Of a railroad is not?l some OF liIs7F
| plau.abIe ~rascals will manage som-h'" 10
worm themselves int" his confidence anu
the upshot OF It all il he awakes IA the
morning to find himself in JAN with d
swelIed head and his pockets empty. Later
he is hauled up before tie JuGg-an q plain
cas- Of drunkenness made out against ftln-
He is fued all the way from So tn so
Bat whether the tine b. 81 or 500. as n@
has lost his money. H. cannot pay the tine.
and so he is sent to wurd II out on the
chain gang. It would not appear quite go
bad ii the thieves were apprehended ana
sent to assist him at that work. but the
iisht-fngered gehtry always manages to
elude the vigilance Of the officers and the
victim Of their wiies is the only one VINO
suffers.
4 w~eilkaOwn mar about town va, out
on the w~ar-path Yesterday. His stamping
ground was ON Bridge near Main street. tie
was after tie scalp ii one al the l~adins
m mbe-s Of the demi Monde. Hr did not
| lift her hair however. but gave her a good
tii-ashirg instead. h filed the air with
profanity while ne was administering tn
| CHI stisenent, which tork up considerable
time, as the giddy dan,sel did rot taxa TIE
punishment as kindly as sha ought. Ese1y-
one in the neishborhood heard the row es-
eeDt the police. 1t is wonderful how deaf
some OF the blue clad guardians Of the
peace 81 Helena are IN certain occasions.
and how keen their hearing is at other
times. They can hear TIE fain'est noise al
a workman out on d iamburee. though be
be blocks away from them. Other may
shoot canons close to their ears and they
are as deaf as millstones.
Jack Dempsey the celebrated pUgllist,
q arrived in town Last eyeplUS- 2cror m ro HE'D
by Tom Clearv and other vptaries 81 the
many art of s-l:-dei-n~e. Tn party visited
several saloons ;uIirc th= eteE.uz AMI
were iol os-tl from place 30 piacr D. (
large crowd Of aGnt-r-. Attic ga hI-
companions drank trs=lE. i we- noticed
that Dempsey dii not touch thu iECo1icar'
ing cup. ThCsa *ho have roEl- il contact
with him here nave aid-si aa.-l=r TIL 20
the ore IL ALREADY b ars with - uCS.
mode>ty- and that i "the Eau+ q z=uc.=
nah. Long may 1t i've 70 w-a.It-