Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-02

worth of shining yellow metal wCrc wash cd out in the days of placer mining. The great strikes did not come, however, un- til placer work was displaCgd by tho sCien- tific mining Of quartz from grCat depths and the crushing of the orc in the modern stamp mills. BCforc that it was believed that all the gold In Last Chance gulch had been found by means of the rocker and the pan, but moro than once the yellow metal has been discovered since then in considerable quantities when excavations have been made for strCCts, sewers and gas mains.
 More than once. too, has 1t been tclc- graphcd away that the find of gold has been so great as to mako 1t probable that streets and buildings would bC destroyed In order to take advantage Cf tho finds, but thcsc items have b,Cn tine product Of tho imagination, either of men who wrr' new to Helena or wCrc willing tu flleify facts in order to mako A sensation ar ''spacc" Once, when n sewer was hcing laid on Main stTCCt and the earth thrown out of tho trCnCh looked like Day dirt" tho washing showed half dollars worth of color in one painful, and an old timer gravcly measured and stak"i of n claim in tho very heart uf the town. His action was rCally joke. but sonl,' people hvrr even wcrc fooled hy it, and throughout the cast it was generally believed that thousands of dollars worth of buildings wcrC tO hC removed to make rom fur the pick and shovel and rr'k"r. Th"rc wIs nothing in it, in fact. and tar and feathers might hs the portion of my who should seriously consider such n thing.
 Today Helena k an orderly town. in habtCd by well disposed people, hut in its carly days 1t was noted for it's shooting scrapcs its dance halls, it~ gambling hells, and, after a timc its han.luas. Th.~~r wCr" ConduCtCd hy the rGUiaturs. who spranE up in Helena, a~ in other western towns, when matters got tu hC sO bId aS to be unbCarnblc. Many thrilling sturi -S arc told of those early days, Hnd hCrc iS one of the first hanging.
 The executed man was one Jim Daily. and his taking off occurred in lSiI, when Helena was still a mining camp at Last Chance gulCh. \ band uf r,,id agents had done n great deal uf damage, and one night thCTc was pitched battle ECtwcvu them and the regulators.
 Several of the agents wCrr hurt, but only one, Jim Daily, was caught. He WAS shot through both thighs and fell from his horse, SO badly wounded that il was feared that Inc would bleed to death before he could bc executed. Against his bitter pro tests the wounds were bound up to stop tho flow of blood, 30 that he might not cheat tho moose. and in duo time, After he had once savarcly torn tho handaTcs away. hc was strung up. Death did not Come from strangUlatiun, however. for spec tator, ns soon as Daly's writhirE pcrson had been suspended between heaven and earth, drew Il bend on il and shot Inc road agent between tho Cyc~, killing him in stantly. ThCrc was talk of lynching tho man who shot. but he drew himself up and said:
 ''1f yer committee objects to what I done. why I'm here. and you kin take me But Jim Daily was . brave man, if he was thief and l couldn't stand it to sec him die like n dog"
 The speakers way of putting his views saved him from any disaGrccable consc- quenccs of his impulsivc act.
 CHARLES APPLEBER