Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-17
VERY WICKED CITY.
a Montana Town That Has Distanced All com
petitors
New York World
New York world

b. a Montana Town That Has Dislanced All ton
n pettors
n New York World
n Butte City Montana. is conceded no,
y to be the wickedest CITY in the uo-ld
writes Eli Perkins in The World. n \
y far surpasses Dodge City, Cheyenne. an,
4 Leadville in pure and unalloved wicked
3 ness that il is a shame to mention then
: IN connection with Butte CITY. Butt,
, acknowledges no rival but Miles Civ
/ eow-town over the mountains on the
. Northern Pacific. Miles City tries hard
to be the wickedest city, but. being a sim.
pie coE-town, it can not compete with
Butte City, which has both mines and cat
Tie ranges. Helena, Montana, situated
between Butte and Miles. Is proud of its
Wlckeduess, too. It has its myriads of
gambling saloons, where the Cinnamon
and cowboys buck the tiger at the same
table. ID has its concert saloons. its
frenck demi-monde quarter, its African
demi-mondi street and its Chinese bad
( houses, with their burning candles IN
!. front but HeIeda has to acknowledge
I City.
have seen the wickedest city move
west many times. | have seen Abilene
ran. with its cowboy dance-houses and
gambling palaces. move up to CHEYENNE
Cheyenne was proud in 1874, to be called
the wicked city but good people came in
there and the y. NJ. G. A. broke them M
remember how they had the woman
suffrage there in 1875. and ninety wicked
women came out in body, took the polls T
and elected the Larkeepers and gamblers
to the highest offices. But alas! CHEYENNE
degenerated into an ordinary Chris.
tan town Wickedress then went
over to Dodge City. Dodge CITY
then had but one song street.
every house saloon. Bullets whistled
down 1t and dead men were hauled out Or
II rom morning till night She flung the
devils red-Hag at all Kansas. She defed
Jhe !. NJ G. A. and the prohibitionist. but
lhaily the dreadful Y.M. G. a, came up
ma eamped on her bloody street. her dey-
l-destroylng prohibitionist cleaned out
lef saloons, and her gamblers and demi
monde for Butte City. Poor Dodge CITY. !
The mines about Butte are very rich /
ne Anaconda mines have norival. Money S
$ cheap and flies like chat in the wind. 7
ne bootblack VIII not look al your boots
or less than - cents. aud the newsbov o
els the one-sheet Miner for 10 cents. Nh G
lngerfest, the editor of the Miner. ad a
lltted to me that he was christian ana II
iember of the Methodist church in Ober- n
2, o., but Oh, he said don't mention a
IN Butte. If you do no one win read p
~ paper II was a cHse where an editor II
4a to pray in his closet and then 90 ont p
ld play roulette to gain the respect of Sc
Is subscribers. A sad, sad case Il
q night Butte assumes it's most scarlet nj
le' The town is red all the time but at ii
ght the electric lights reflect through IN
AIMED glass thousand cardinal ana el
aeth5st -trays. The houses of the at
mi-monde are now all open Il. and at
Z surge the people, chatting the low W,
cked, short-sleved. scantiIy dressed den A,
ems. Whole streets are given up to at
csc sirens, who sit at the windows dressed tit
drawing room decollete. When Won LEI
me 10 the gambling saloons the front nd
'm 10 be removed and the dozens Of ron an
te tables seem to be even with the street. y
ere they SIT, women, cinnamon, COW eli
VI miners, and christians in disguise. pa
e clergyman does not play but come in sci
snow MS democracy to the bows and san
eve donation from the man who BIO
AXIS the bank, ana suddenly becomes at
ferrous. an,
me Butte concert saloons are usually me
foreground. The saloon is square. alb,
row of private boxes all around oue
top The orchestra is occupied by ose
7boys and miners, who guzzle beer at SIN
cents per glass with tlabby barmaids, of
boxes are occupied by bank presi- iuit
~. merchants, and wealthy citizens. Won
SIT behind lace curtains and drink als(
souri cider-champagne al 50 a bottle roo
b -prighty girls in gauze dresses or I
ats The gambling tables and the thai
ken voiced singers make pandemon- larg
OF the place. The weird electric recC
T, make the room look like hades il be /
mated. AZ IL o'clock the singing is will
and then disturbed by pistol shots chez
n the cowboys, who shoot down into com
ground, unless they have an especial Pile
Ike 10 the singer; then the ball whisps fooC
'ugn the curtain Sometimes the be t
boys chat the merchants behind the bein
aims in the boxes and make them hot
II whiskey for the orchestra. Every ting
calls everybody else by his first usef
81 and there is perfect democracy to b.
ughout the saloon, There is no con tory
ment of wickedness but each one have
all he can to make the concert saloon othe
Flckedest place in the wickedest civ conv
ne world, The next morning every- sible
e i forgotten, and the merchants tion.
u their storesi the miners in their Bost
r. and the pistoled cowboy punch ana
MS cattle ten miles away day.
Economical Living Proposed. cost
g recent paper on economy inliving, year,