The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-26
FAKIRS AND HOBOES.
Just Now Butte Has More Than Her
Share of Them.
THEY ARE BOLD VETERANS
VIII Approach Anyone for a Meal
or the Price = Some Women
Among Them-Bogus Sacred
Document of Old.

beggars in Butte, and between the
two the people outside the business
portion of the city are thoroughly pes
tered. A man can not walk block in
either direction from Main street after
5 o'clock in the evening without being
struck for the price of a meal. West
Broadway, in the vicinity of the Ii
brary building, is a particularly favor
lite place for this kind of hold-ups.
West Granite is another. Some of the
fellows are very impudent about their
demands. too.
See here. pard," said one of them
the other evening. as he slapped a well
known merchant on the back. cant
you help a good American citizen out
a hole?"
He evidently had not been in town
long enough to learn that good Amer
lean citizens" were at a discount. He
got nothing for his familiarity but a
reply that would not look well in print.
During the winter months, while the
snow was falling and drifting, the res
identS on the outskirts were bothered
with men who wanted to clean yards
for two or four bits. These same fell
lows are now making the rounds and
offer to saw some wood after making
sure that there is no wood on the
premises. One ola WHO Is
familiar to almost every one from one
end of the town to the other, is a gray
bearded hop fiend who always has his
hand in sling or his head bandaged,
and goes around telling a story about
being thrown off a bridge by an en-
CINE and injured so badly that he can
not work at his trade. He has told
the same story for several years. and
| raises enough money by it to keep him
alive and supplied with morphine.
In addition to the beggars a lot of
peddling fakirs have swooped down
| upon the town, among them a number
| of women, several of whom are in the
| dangerous business of selling medicine
| for unlawful purposes. They are bold
and do not attempt to disguise their
| business.
During the past week a one-legged
| man. who says he lost his limb in a
| battle that was never fought, has WIS.,
tied nearly every house in Butte with
| the following remarkable production,
| which he sells as the only genuine let
| ter ever written by Jesus Christ and
| found in the sacred tomb of our Lord
in Jerusalem, kept in a silver box by
| their holiness, Christian emperors and
| empresses:"
Desiring st. Elizabeth Hungarian
| Queen ST. Mathilde and st. Bridget to
| know something about the passion of
our Lord Jesus Christ, they offered
| particular prayer by means of which
| Jesus Christ appeared and spoke to
| them thus:
Know We. that the armed soldiers
| were about $50; those that brought me
| tied. %; the executors of Justice, 30;
the blows of the first received upon the
head. $50; on the chest, los; on the
| shoulders, SO: l was dragged by means
of ropes and by the hair % times; spit
! tied in the face. $50; blows on the body,
| $3.50; on the head, 10; they wounded
me fatally i'm the heart; they lifted me
up in the air by the hair p times. Once
| / sighed 129 times; | was dragged by
| the beard % times; / had 20 blisters on
my head, 70 bull-rush thorns, 40 punc>
| lures on the head and three fatal
| thorns on the forehead. After / was
| flogged and dressed in mockery as a
| king 900 wounds were on my body.
| The soldiers who brought me into Cal
| vary were 90S: those who guarded me
3: / shed 3S.325 drops of blood All
| those who will recite every day I Pa
| tiers Ave. and Gloria, for a space of 10
| years to complete the number of drops
| of blood that | shed, and he will fast
| five Fridays of the year in honor of
| the five wounds of Christ, will receive
| by asking me, 5 graces. The first will
| be a remission of all your sins, the sec
ond, you will be free from pains and
| Purgatory: the third, II death occurs
before the said Is years, they shall be
counted as 1ullllleu, lne IOuTlH, you
will be considered a martyr of the
| Christian faith; the fifth, my protec-
| ton from heaven for you. your rela-
tives and sons, until the fourth genera,
| ton.
| "A certain Spanish captain travelling
! by land saw near Barcelona head
severed from the body, which spoke to
| him in this way: Since you are go
| ing to Barcelona, please bring me a.
priest to confess, this being the third
| day 1 am lying here without being
| able to die The captain Immediately
went for the priest and brought him
| to the living head; after the confession
| the spirit exhaled. This letter of pray
| er was found about his body, which on
| that occasion it was approved by the
| tribunals of the st. Inquisition of the
| Queen of Spain. The aforesaid Pater
Ave and Gloria can be recited every
| day in honor of my soul. !.
Another copy of said letter has been
miraculously found in a place called
| Pursit, three leagues. from Marseilles,
| written in letters of gold, and through
divine action it was brought there by
| boy s years old. living in the same
| place.
In additional declaration, dated
| January ., 1850. states that those who
| will work on Sunday will not be con-
sidered faithful, because you must con-
| secrate the Sunday for prayer and you
must go 10 CnuTCn TO CoHltSS NOuTSciI
and pray TO God to forgive your sins;
you have TO work six days and one is
for rest and devotion. And the poor
and your families will be full of Graces.
on the contrary If you don't believe
in this letter. you viii be deprived of
Ny grace, you and your children shall
be continually oppressed by ill-luck,
malignant pests, misery. war and heart
spasms in sign Of My indignation. In
the sky you will see signs of disaster
| ing tempest by thunder. lightning and
| earthquakes.
He who will judge that this letter
was not written by divine action or
| dictated by the sacred mouth of God
and those who keep IL maliciously
| hid. without showing il to other per-
| sons-wiIl be cursed and convicted by
God on Judgment Day. He, who, in
stead. will publish it. be he a sinner.
will receive my pardon, providing he
will repent Of having offended me; and
l Has.fV- h.,