The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-06
l.. b. OLDs In CANADA.
without Money. Sick aud cannnsd TO His
He'd In "a Hospital.

without Money, Sick aud Cannnsd to His
lied In "A Hospital.
INDEPENDENT readers will recall the sen
sation the sudden departure from the state
Of l.. b. Olds. formerly state senator from
Madison county, oeoasionsd last spring.
His whereabouts have been unknoWn save
TO few close friends. A Bozsmhn gentle
man. in an interview In the Chronicle OF
that city. says;
Il have Just received a letter from l.. Is.
Olds. 10 Is not the first one have received
since be left the state, but 10 10 the worst
one for he 10 I'll with kidney troubles and
has been informed that he cannot DO per
manently Gu oil unless be goes 10 abe large
eastern hosritals. This lie cannot do for
the very good and sufficient reason that an
inventory Of bic available nssets at the
time he " OTIS resulted in hndinR less than
tl.50 in cAah. AZ soon as Dir. Olds learned
that Jackson, tho man who accused him OF
wronR-doinR. was having himself intsr-
viewed and seemed anxious TO ovsrtaks
him, he went TO British Columbia, where
BIO got work with q bridge building crew
and has been at wo until recently. when
he became unable 10 labor and was taken
10 railraud hospital. When his wife
wsnt TO Boston, he raised Just nine hun
dred dollars for her and sue is now work
ina In that city for three ollars q week.
So you SEE. Odds did not take a g-eat
amount Of money away with him. In fact.
when the truth IL known, and IL will be
some day, Olds was mo sinned against
than SHINING. He Loft the county with
very little money. blame the papers for
their comments at the time and they did
him great In justice"
The gentleman's attention was called.
says the Chronicle, TO the fact that Olcs
bore the respsot OF hund eds of friends and
that his word was considered as good as
b0nds = " n m -
bis constituents In the legislative halls and
WINS In quest among those who valued his
opin ion 90 q miner. He left the country in
haste and mp TO the present time bad con-
cealed his abiding Vlace. He had organ
lied a mining company composed OF old
time friends, each and every one of whom
to-day regard him sB a villain. Among
these mev Is no lees personagl than Con-
gresham Hartman, who less than month
ago informed the writer that in bis opin-
ion. Olds was a blk and nothing short Of
u. Reference was also made to the fact
that Olds al mOrtaaRed his home at Bozs-
man for twioe its value. and according to
general belief had torn leaf from the alb
stract of title in order to borrow more
money from an old time friend. Added TO
this we're the statements of Jackson, who
endeevofed 20 apprshend Olds b. three or
four processes of law, charging him with
fraud In tho management OF a mine at
Basin.
To this the friend replied that Olds, who
was a supersensitivs man, could not stand
criticism. H0 had gone into mining specu-
lation with IA plunge and being unable 20
realize on his schemes ne quickly ~ he
thought he you'd. be found himself with
out funds. About this time the trouble
with Jackson was pTecipItatsd, and a man
named Camp, 10 whom Olds had sub-let a
tunnel contract. could not be found-he
was IN Quebec. With Camp absent Odds
ooull not mako n satisfactory explanation
and fed. This" added our informant,
was just the thing ho should not have
done. for he had friends IN the state Who
would have seen him through his trouble,
and to-day Mr.. Odds would be respected
citizen Of Montana. As 20 mortgages. did
you ever consult the county records and as
certain just how much money NJ. O ds bor-
rowsd on his house, and how be got itY No2
Well, you will find that there was moth
ing criminal in his action, and Pat
LRrFey. OF Butte, will tel yOu SO. As far
az the Kitty Morris deal Is concerned. the
SLUMP In the silver market is the cause OF
that TO a great extent. The price of silver
went down and the mine Was pookety,
hence Old's failure 20 meet bis sanauine
expectations. The books containing all the
entries concerning this mine will prove that
Olds did iust what he was told to do and
no one was robbed. feel extremely sorry
for Odds and as / have seid before IL is his
supoT-sensitiveness which led him TO thwart
the good opinion OF friends, while the press
did the rest."