The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-02
CLOVES FUN IN BUTTE
The Denver Pusilist Who Was Shot Sat-
luFday Fought In the Silver City.
He Whipped Mike Siattery In a
Rough and Tumble Fight and Had
q 90 With McDonaid-Singu-
lar Story by DR.. Tromblay.

by the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, June 1.-The STANDARD on Sat
urday published a dispatch from Denver
which was read with considerable interest
by the sporting fraternity OF Butte. The
dispatch alluded to read as follows:
John j; Glove, ex- pugilist, and Garrett Hughes
guarreled IN Murphy's Exchange AT Io'clock
his morning over money matters, Glove
knocked Hughes down. The latter pulled q re-
yolver and fired Ave times. The last shot took
effect In Cloves groin. The wound Is thought
to be fatal, Hughes, who Is connected with one
himself M, and Is now In the city jail.
Glove is well known in Butte, where he
once posed as n pug of much ability and
prowess. A few years ago he fought Dunk
Mcdonald in this city.
He also had an amusing r~ough-and-
tumble scrap with the late lamentcd
Mike Slattery who left Butte some months
& much 10 the relief Of the respectable
people OF the camp. Slattcry was known
here rs an ovcr-grown bully and often
distinguished himself by whipping in
offensive citizens about half his size.
One day Mike was frothing and spoil
ing for n light. He went into a saloon on
East Park street and announced that he
was prepared 10 whip any two men in the
shack. Clowe was present and accepted
the challenge. A certain police officer
who knew both men and who was fond Of
witnessing n b of n shindy" was pres
| ent and agreed 20 let the fight go ON ii the
door of the saloon was locked and no one
permitted 10 enter during its progress.
This was done. and the two thugs began
humping each other in a most lusty
and after a style not con
femplated by the rules of the illustrious
Queensberry. Slattery did not, at first,
relish going INTO the fight but as he linn.
self had made the bluif and professed Ia
be n fighter, he was unable TO back out in
good grace. So he sought To avoid the
trouble by saying he was a scientific pugi'
list and did not propose to fight rough
and tumble. He did no know who Glow,
was. but assumed that he would fight
| like a bull dog, bite, scratch and kick,
ring rules and insisted upon commencing
at once.
Before the second blow was struck Stat
terry himself found he had run up againsf
the wrong man and began "A yer.
foul fight, which ended by In,
big Denver man pounding thu
Butte bully most numerically. Boil
men were BADLY pounded upbut Glove VOL
the fight ana Slattery spent the mex
eight days in Dillon. Glove left ut once
for Salt Lake and did not return for SOM
weeks. The affair was kept quiet for
long time afterwards.
In connection with this story may b,
recited another, which was told by COUNTY
Physician DIR. Tromblay of Butte, To
STANDARD reporter "A shor time ago
The physician said that h,
was called late one night IL
attend n man who was lying in the bacl
room of a certain East Park street saloo
badly wounded. The mans head ha,
been pounded in "A most brutal mannc
and he was in an apparently serious con
dition. When the physician asked th
injured man how he received his wounds
no satisfactory answer was Forthcoming
Those who were present merely suggcstcl
that as the man was so badly hurt,
might he "a good plan To have him sent I
the county poor farm. The doctor TOO
the matter into consideration. NcXt ia
when he called the injured man vas nc
to he found, and no tidings could he ol
tanned of his whereabouts. lie had M
donbtcdly been spirited ava by thos
who wcr" responsible for his injuries.
Both these incidents occurred In Ill
same saloon.