The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-04
TOWN TOPICS.
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out the CITY.
BUTTE, Aug. a.-There Ia 10 be a special
election on Tuesday to determine whether
| this city shall bond itself for $4,000 for
sewers and $4,000 for a city hall. There
is no doubt In the mind OF any progress
i've citizen that sewers and n city hall are
greatly needed, yet no interest Ii taken In
the election, and even many Of the city
fathers have neglected to register. This
matter IL really Of more importance to
the city than whether the republicans or
city government.
Blu curiously enough the election In
allowed to go by default and no man has
troubled himself 10 find out whether the
300 OF 400 b ave registered intend to
vote for or against the bonds.T Tomorrow
the registry books will be reopened and
Il is the privilege of citizens TO express
themselves on the question. II the voter
Is not registered by o o'clock
evening, he cannot vote Tuesday.
John Curran, Hugh Muidoon, and
George Fitzgibbons enjoyed them-
selves hugely he other day at the
expense OF two or three of the
Michigan editors. The three as usual
were contemplating nature nj Abe
Heyman's corner and as the Michiganders
approached Fitzgibbons gave Curran the
wink and exclaimed:
II tell you / will not sell that mine for
$4,000. You are trying to rob me. Sixty
thousand is nothing TO me. ! can play
that i'm in u night"
at is all the mine is WORTH said Cur
ran, taking the cue. "How do you know
your yarn about the mine is true 2"
"How do i know? Didn't Muldoon here
go down into il with me? Didn't we see
the gold piled up in ingots hundreds of
feet thick, all ready to be taken out?"
"Give $4,000" aid Curran, laconically.
"No, you DON'T" exclaimed Fitzg.bbons,
100000 is my figure and not a cent less"
The bargaining continued for some
time and finally a bargain was struck at
$4,000. The editors listened with wide
open mouths. Their astonishment was
intensified when Curran pulled out n
blank check and coolly wrote n check for
$4,000 on Clark's bank. This was the
great Hop Doodle mine transfer n
glowing accounts of the transaction arc
expected in the Michigan papers.
City Clerk Gilligan was paralyzed yes
terday when a man about 20 years of age
came up TO his desk and said:
81 would like q police badge, please"
The man looked Just about strong
enough TO fall over and make a noise on
the floor, IN Mr.. Gilligan thought ut first
he was shut up with u crazy man. Fur
ther inquiry solicited the statement that
zone of the aldermen" had told him to go
around and get q badge and enter service
as a policeman. From thee description the
alderman" must nave borne "a marked re-
scmblance To Officer Leden.
There was probably never a city of
Butte's size with more building going
on at this time han Butte has.
With all this building there
is urgent demand for a building inspec-
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erected weakly and the chances are good
for n catastrophe in Butte some day. A
competent building inspector should be
placed on the city's salary list Mt once. II
will pay.
Visitors TO Butte always express sur.
prise that SO many little shacks are found
on thee east side of Main, between Park
and Galena, one of the best blocks in the
city. There are several other desirable
locations in Main street which are being
held onto apparently for fabulous prices
bought recently for $1,000 and the pur
chaser has now been offered $4,000, and
is now holding ID for $4,000. Ii would
help Butte's advancement IL owners OF Sc
lect corners would either build themselve.
or sell at good profit TO those who will
build. There are some places, such N
the shacks on the west side OF Main, be
tween broadway and Park streets, which
cannot be sold, owing to the fact tina
they are tied up In an estate, OF which
some OF the heirs are not yet of age
The trouble with the shacks men
toned above, on the east . side oi
Main between Park and Galena, is tina
they are owned by eastern parties, VIII,
do not realize the possibilities To be de
rived from the erection of fine block,
there, and who are getting q magnificent
rental which is entirely satisfactory :,
them.
san Moffett, the regular pitcher of ia,
Butte base ball club, has played profes
sionally. In 1884 he was n regular pitcheI
for the Cleveland league club and las
pear pitched part Of the season for III,
indianapolis league club.