Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-30
TO FISH
And the Painful Lack of Standardization
That Surrounds a Recent Alleged tx
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There are many anglers in Butte, but
few who can lie plausibly when they get
back from the scene of their triumphs.
Among the professional men of this city,
it is understood in advance, when one or
two of them 60 off on Saturday night with
their rods and baskets to m with
nature in the vicinity OF a trout stream on
Sunday, that the individual catch shall
never descend below fifty. In proof OF this,
"messes" nave reached this Office with q
circumstantial t~ally-sheet, showing weight,
age. color and previous condition OF servi-
tude of the monsters caught. The angler
then resumes the daily cares OF life on Mon
day with a clear conscience, and can &C.
renely look his man square in the eye over
q glass of the foamy at Louis Liencmann's
as he ~off-handedly gives the particulars OF
the sport.
1t was left for a gentleman in this city
who, though young in years is one OF the
Oldest business men here, whose store is at
the busiest corner of the city, to try to
/ break the record in the foregoing direction,
last Saturday, and az he chose to go fish.
ing on a week day, the outrage was avenged
| by his attaining signal failure. He had had
his ears tickled with tales OF the millions OF
the finny tribe that were sporting them
selves in innocent glee at the Big Hole dam.
| He went down there and had a big time,
accordingito his own count catching 5
of the innocent beauties. He omitted to
obtain a certificate from a j. P. to this
effect, however, and there is only his un-
supported statement to be credited
course, there was a delayed train,
and, OF course, the gentleman realized
the anxiety that his family would be
afflicted with by separation from him for
more than t~wenty-four hours. So that
| when he arrived in Butte he staggered up
through back alleys and byways to his
store, where he left his fish in a secure"
place unseen by mortal eye SO he says
| and then rushed home to the bosom OF his
family with the joyful news of his safe ar.
rival and his enormou catch. Alter he had
relieved his family Of their suspense, he re
turned to his store to give a friend q mess
| of the previously mentioned haul, and going
to the part of the store where he had
cached his fish found that some evil
| minded wretch had tracked him to his lair
and looted the entire catch, not leav-
ing as much as a fin to show
his extraordinary luck. OF course his we'll
| feigned grief and disnay can be better i'm.
| agined than described, but it is scarcely
necessary to remark that such q yarn won't
20 down in Butte. Almost any professional
man in Butte can give the gentleman point
ers, when he thinks of going down to the
Big Hole again, AZ to the depth, breadth
and thickness OF the statement he shOuld
bring back with him. In fact, the only
trustworthy certificates are those that
appear with circumstantial correctness in
the news columns of The MINER, which has
an established reputation among the
anglers of this city for the faithfula accuracy
with which their exploits receive publica
ton through it's columns, as well as for thu
aptitude of it's editorial force to aeceptevi
dence of said exploits after the o
tithing, as it were.