The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-15
CAUGHT HERE AND THERE
The Helena Athletic Club Arranges
for Two Glove Contests
for Money.
Authorship OF the Expression
"By tho Skin OF Fills
Teeth"
The Severe Penalty Provided for Holding
Back County teturns-Some Other
Post Election Incidents.

The Severe Penalty Provided for Holding
Post Election Incidents.
The Helena Athletic club has started into
business ma n thoroughgoinR patron OF the
nrt of self-defonse Turner hall has been
engaged AZ n gymnasium and training
quarters, and IL 10 proposed TO have some
scientific encounters there between vol
known fighters. The fitss affair will come
will be q glove contest between Ike Hayes.
of Helena, and Jack Freeman. Of Butte.
The fight will be for a purse Of $3.50 offered
by the club and a side bet of $500 each,
making the total value of the stake 81. $50.
The match will last twenty rounds or more.
unless one or the other of the men has TO
quit earlier. Hayes 10 backed by two Hell
ena sports, and has deposited a TO foit Of
$50 as an earnest of good faith. While
Hayes has not had any very formidable
antagonists to meet in regular battle since
he has ranked as a Montana man, what he
has had to do he has lone with credit to
hASsb0its ~ wa " uuto DGCIs
matched to fight La Blanche for a pu Sc
and q $1,000 aside bet at the California Ath-
letic club, but the Marine could not get the
backing. Hayes and Freeman
are both what might be called light heavy
weights. Tho noxt fight will be between
Burns, of Missoula, and Dick Johnson, of
Pc tland, both weller weights. II will take
place about two weeks after the Hayes
Freeman 90. Burns it considered a pretty
good man, having stood off Jim DAILY. the
spatrinR companion of Jim Corbett, when
New Orleans fight. Johnson has quite a
rel utation, too, and the contest will be nm
interesting one. Both fights will be pre-
coded bv preliminary goes between smaller
men, while the stars are getting ready.
just one week age to-day numerous gen.
tlemen willing to sacrifice themselves on
the altar of p1blic duty escaped 'by the
skin of their teeth" This expression has
doubtless been heard many times since
election, and those who have heard it very
likely thought it an expressive piece Of
If it was slang then there ia the
very best authority for using il, for its
is dob, the man whose book is
to be the masterpiece OF litara-
turo of the Bible. In the nineteenth chap
ter OF this great book Job said in tho on
part of the twentieth verse: "And
am escaped with the skin of my teeth"
Allowing for tho somewhat stil.ed manner
of speech that prevailed in the days of Job,
and in the days of the translators of the
King James version of the Bible, it is easy
to see how such a classic expression as II
am escaped with the skin of my tseth''
HE escaped by the skin of his
Several candidates are still on the anx-
ious seat because the returns from Dear
born canyon precinct are missing. All the
other precincts in the county have sent in
their returns to the county clerk. Chief
County Clerk Combs, who fell out
side the breastworks, has been at the post
Office every day since last Wednesday look
ing for returns from Dea born canyon, but
not with any expectation that he may pull
There were twenty-five voters
registered at Dearborn canyon, and as some
of the candidates for the legislature are
close, there is good cause for anxiety. Yes
terday afternoon the county clerk tele-
Dearborn canyon for the returns, and to
bring them to Helena at once. The mes
senger is expected here to-day. If he ar
rivos in time the county %canvassing board
will proceed with the count. Neglect to
in returns is a serious offence. The
law provides for a fine of $500 and
three years imprisonment in the county
jail If the returns are not taken to the
nearest postoffice and mailed to the county
clerk within three days after election. The
canvassing board is required to meet
days after election.
IF every man votes for me who said he
would there will not be over ton votes
me-" This was the rema, k of one
of the candidates for tho legislature in
Lewis and Clarke county a few days before
election. He had made a personal canvass
of the county and had interviewed about
!, 500 people, more or less, taking care to
see mostly those who belonged to the oppo-
party, believing that the members of
hia w party would vete for aim Any way.
ex candidate says sufficient returns are
now in to justify him in rsmarking that
there are some 1900 men in Lewis and
county whose bond he would rather
have than their word, provided the bond
accompanied by approved security.
Richard Jockey has resigned both as
president and as trustee of the New Issue
Publishing company, of Bozeman, because
Of the unjust attacks made by that paper
upon Helena during the campaign for the
He says these attacks were in vio-
lation of an understanding between the
officers and trustees of the publishing COM
pany, to the effect that the payer might
support Bozeman for the capital, but that
10 should not attack any of the other cities
that were candidates for that honor. How
The understanding was kept 10 a matter of