The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-15
ON THE SIDE.

ON THE SIDE.
Three Cree Indians have been In town for
the past few days selling buffalo horns ON
the streets. They were dressed in the garb
Of their tribe in gaily colored blankets and
each carried bad-look;ug knife in a brass
scabbard. Anyone Watching them for I'VE
minutes would certainly realize what a
child of nature the Indian is. For instance
was waiting for q street car at the North
ern Pacific depot the other day when one of
the chiefs came along and stopped for
moment IN front Of big stand covered
with colored circus posters. He took cur
sorry look at the gaudy chromos and then
walked away. In few minutes he re-
turned, accompanied by his companions.
The three Indians stood in front of that
board for twenty minutes, and more inter-
ested spectators never saw. They seemed
lost to everything else. When one Of them
pointed to the roaring lion in the act Of
tho earth, the other fellow
shook his head to express his doubts as to
the existence OF such an animal. The next
day I was coming down Edwards
street when the same Indians turned
the corner and stopped in front
of Chinese laundry. It was noon
and the celestials were gathered around the
table eating rice with their native chop
sticks. The Indians edged up to the door
and began to initiate the Chinese style of
eating and the Cinnamon in turn gathered
around the Indians and began jabbering to
m nh ~ how I1o,,k <ho Trdio, 1raaa nation
atty, occupation, etc. This little incident
impressed me as au excellent illustration of
the cosmopolitan character Of the Queen
City of the Rockies.
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But speaking of Cinnamon I learn that
the census enumerator has very little trouble
collecting statistics from them. He goes
around with an interpreter and asks the
usual questions as to age, nationality, time
of residence in this country, etc. The
Chinese consul sometime ago issued a circu-
lar explaining to his countrymen the object
of the census and requesting prompt assist
tor tells ME he had less difficulty with the
Cinnamon than the Americans. It is esti-
mated that the population of Chinatown is
between $50 and $50.
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I was down in Russian bath the other
day when a jockey came in for his semi
weekly sweat. He weighs 40 pounds and
expects to get down to get down to 125 by
the July races. He says he will have little
difficulty in doing this, though he does not
depend altogether on the sweats for his
decrease. He eats light meals of vegetable
food and drinks nothing but water, and
very little of that. He says that by this
means alone he has decreased his weight
several pounds since winter. He will take
two sweats week until the races, and each
time he knocks off several pounds. The
bath master does large business on the
night before the races, when several jockeys
sweat at the same time. On the night be-
fore the last meeting he took five pounds
off from one fellow. The jockey instead OF
going to bed took in the town and eat a big
supper. Before morning he had regained
the five pounds and two more besides.
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A we'll known, as we'll as the best dressed
gambler in town was talking the other even.
ing about numerous ingenious devices to
OCaV uA4O ShlA0s LAC nuAA UAC bO5V o0ACAAAS
he ever knew was gotten up by two Ameri.
cans and worked few years ago at Monte
Carlo, the greatest gambling centre in the
world. The great game there is roulette
which, as every one knows, is betting that a
whirlinR ball will drop in a red or black
compartment in round dish. At Monte
Carlo this dish Is covered by a big drum like
cover when the ball starts so that bets can
be made after the ball stops and before the
cover is lifted. Our American friends first
ascertained that the gambling house pur.
chased all tools from Chicago manutac-
turer. One of them returned to America
and by the use of liberal bride induced q
workman to place two different kinds Of
wood in the compartments of ts.e wheel, one
kind for the black and the Other for the red
When this was done the wheel was sent te
Monte Carlo and put in motion. The
Americans began playing against the game
and the way they made winnings paralyzed
the proprietors. They made thousands Of
dollars and would have broken the banl
had not the proprietors discovered that thu
winners could tell by the sound of the mar
BILE against the wood which compartment il
was in.
Nv
Tom King, who was recently executed a
Boulder, was talking about dreams on tn
night before the moose was adjusted. HI
said that he had the greatest faith il
dreams and could tell exactly what woul,
happen to people after he had followed
their adventures in his sleep. He said tina
one evening he dreamed that he would b
executed and that jackson would receive
Communication Of sentence. So great wa
his faith that he never afterward enter
tanned the slightest hope of escaping dealt
by the gallows. Whether this is q matter
matter of consolation to jackson is nc
: known. King certainly had excellent res
, sons aside from dreams for thinking b
would be executed. By the way, curiou
sensation comes over one when talkin
calmly to live, healthy man about hi
death on the following day. During tn
, conversation King would show considerabl
interest until at times terrible realizatio
of his fate seemed to strike his brain like
thunderbolt. Then his eyes would fall
the floor and his whole conntenance wan