The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-22
TOPICS OF The TOWN
Spicy Gossip About Various Subjects To-
terestinS to Butte People.
Hackmen Who Need Official Atten-
tion-The Mayors Worthy ct
How a Bozemanite Got a Good
Wife-Butte City vs.. Butte Camp.


blIIt, Jttlt .l.-No t1oTt biSts ulrTtD-
utable or mercenary act was ever per
formed in Butte han was performed on
the evening of the Bozeman excursion, |
with some of the bus drivers and hack
men as the guilty parties. As early as &
O'Clock that evening, the hackmen and
busdrivers, were crying out, "All aboard
for the Bozeman train! going right
DOWN.
The Bozeman people didn't want to get
left, so many OF them paid a half dollar
and were driven to the Northern Pacific
depot. Finding that III train would not
start in three or four hours yet they
walked TO town. IL is too bad that
a few mercenary men can 70 n large ex-
tent utterly spoil the heartiness of a well
come extended by the citizens of one city
to the citizens OF another.
More worthy of Butte by far was an act
performed by Mayor Walton late the
same night. A cattle man from Pony,
whose name is withheld from publication
because he was an invited guest Of this
city, became too utterly full of Butte
drinks. and raised a disturbance mt the
Comique. Jack Mcdonald arrested him
in spite of a gun which was drawn, and
four policemen took the Pony man TO the
cooler. The mayor learned Of the affair
and remembered nj the depot that norm
ing he had told the excursionists TO take
the town and run IL to suit themselves. So
the mayor ordered a hack, took the re-
sponsibility of freeing the prisoner and
bundled the man of TO the depot, which
was reached just in time for the train. The
act might have been irregular. but IL was
worthy of Mayor Walton, worthy of Butte.
Yesterday afternoon five Of the st. Paul
business men and one escort. i'm walking
about the town, halted at the corncr of
Main and Park streets.
"This is the center of the town." said
the escort, 1.-THE corner of Main and Park
streets"
(which is Main and which is Park
street ?" inquired a st. Paul man.
When informed, the visitor observed,
"Neverthless, Park street is the main
street of the city, or soon will be. As an
investment of five years, i would rather
have property in Park than in Main
street. l would pay more for II rer foot.
The principal business street of "A city
never runs up hill. Ii may do so in a
mining camp, but in n city, never"
The Bozeman excursion gave Butte
quite a boom for the capital. The major
ity Of the visitors had never been to Butte
and had always looked on Helena as the
only important town i'm Montana. This
is changed now. The people Of the Gal
latin valley have learned Butte's claims
and very many OF them were heard to say
that this city is entitled to be in name as
well as in fact the head city of the state.
Daniel Maxey of Bozeman met a good
many old friends in Butte, some Of whom
he had not seen in a quarter of a century.
Since then he has been married and has
raised a large family. ~ have the best
wife in Montana" said Mr.. Maxey to his
old friends, ''and the way got her was
like this: After l left you back in Nevada,
| went home To Illinois. In a village
there l happened to go TO
church n Sunday night. They were sing
ing "Old C~oronation," and one female
voice struck me all i'm a heap. Jimminy!
how that voice did soa up into the high
notes! | prospected around the church
until | located that voice / then camped
on its trail, follered il home. and afore
the week was out | marched the owner of
that voice To the altar, had my claim re-
corded by the preacher and the papers all
drawn mp. signed N paid for. | struck
"A gold mine that time.
There is more sublimated, concentrated
essence of humor in the street sprinkler
than i'm anybody else i'm Butte. There is
never "A shower in Butte but that the
sprinkler is seen i'm the streets, pouring
forth the copious shower. But no reward
could find the street sprinkler when the
streets are dusty.
j. NJ. F-ancoeur, the clever young actor
who SO admirably took the part of Tale
rand in the Rhea engagement, was a pu.
pill of John Mcguire. He learned his pro.
fession I'm MIR. Maguire's stock company
i'm Portland many years ago. MIR. Fran.
occur learned his trade well and is n ris,
ing actor.
The Rhea engagement closed the theat
rical season i'm Butte. There will be
three or four scattering shots during the
ummcr one of which will be the en-
gagement of a specially company In,
coming week. But the season is owe nm
I'll the latter part of August. The new
season will hen be opened by the appear
anc of Clara Morris.
Butte City is rapidly replacing
the old mining camp, whose sole am
bition was to be the greatest camp. The
new Butte has IN ambition to he &c
knowledged the greatest city in Montana
and to become the capital. The new
Butte City has awakened to the necessit,
of better buildings, Of "A fire system
of fire limits, of an active board oi
trade, OF proper sanitary regulations
OF sewers, OF graded streets, OF electric
roads and electric lights. The old Butte
was never troubled about any of these
things. Its sole ambition was To make
money as fast as possible, regardless OF
health. morality or humanity. In th.
new Butte. which is so rapidly taking the
place of the old mining camp, a feeling
of pride is being aroused among its citi
zens. Ii will take time to completely
change the camp into the city,
but the advancement in the
past year has been marvellous
There are ~innumerable directions for
Improvement yet. Vice is TO he regulated
the general moral condition is 10 be ele
waited, individual gain must be made sec
ondary TO the general good. No move
mcnt is more significant in the direction
of general good than the measures nov
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