The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-08
He HAD A HEAD ON HIM
A Neat Job Put Up on Colonel BreCk-
inridse at MisSOula.
DRUGGED BY A PHYSICIAN
Then One of the Old Follows Paws
Was ManiCured In the Most
Approved Fashion Known
to Medical Science.


now furnishes the weather for Missoula
and immediate neighborhood independent
of Washington, and whatever the profess
sor says goes. lie predicted the blizzard
and it arrived. lie said ii would be fol-
lowed by warm weather and II Is here.
He makes his forecasts after consulting
instruments manufactured by himself.
His homemade barometer Is Just the
thing for this part of the country, and II
there is moisture, wind or dryness within
the radius of 80 miles he can tell at what
time il will arrive and whether II will be
split I'D and arrive in sections or come
altogether.
The professor, when displayman for the
agricultural department, was not particu-
Iarly fortunate in his predictions, and was
without honor. Ii is different, now that
Professor Fawcett is the recognized pur-
veyor weather for this portion of Mon
tana, and is consulted by all who have to
look out for rain, snow, clear or cold.
Last night DIR. Hanson performed
surgical operation upon a mountain lion
which was witnessed by several men
about town. The lion, Colonel BrecSin-
ridge, is the property of II. w. Myers,
Missoula circulator of the STANDARD, and
is a vicious brute. When he was caught
trap near Nine Mile, two claws on his left
fore foot were torn out by tho roots and
several small bones of the foot fractured.
The wound was an ugly one and would
not heal, and TO save the foot tho services
of a surgeon were required.
While preparations for the operation
were going on the colonel was uneasy.
He snarled like bull dog and Kissed like
an adder. His great yellow eyes shot
flame and his upper lip curled over his
teeth SO cruelty that shvers went up and
down the spine of the onlookers. The
operation is thus described by one who
who witnessed it:
A slip moose was run in a stout rope,
and Keeper Myers, with the aid of a
couple of sticks, succeeded in placing 1t
over the colonels neck. a pull by strong
hands, and the great animal, snarlinG and
splitting, was hauled to the bars. DR..
Hanson quickly extended n paper
funnel upon tho end of
stick in which was cotton and
chloroform to the coloncPs nose.
The dose was repeated time and time
again, an assistant standing by with the
anesthetic. When 1t began TO take effect
the colonel struggled so violently that he
slipped tho moose over his head and had
10 Do Topeu MS Nlile no was
thrown down upon his side and his nose
came just right under the bars. lie
breathed deeper and deeper; the volatile
fluid was taking hold. He Strengthened
out his 1.-the form, stretched out his paws
and lay au inert mass of flesh.
The wounded paw was dragged through
the bars. The assistant still held the
chloroform TO tho animals nose. Natu-
ralist Erlsley watched the beasts breath
ing aud regulated the ancsthctic quickl +.
DIR. Hanson examined tho wounded limb,
and with his instruments removed the
fractured bones which had kept the paw
from healing. Four pieces of bone were
taken out, the wounds scwed up, the
blood sponged away and an antiseptic APP
piled. The nooses around the neck and
paw were cast off, the chloroformed cot
ton Withdrawn, the animal lay on his side
for a moment, and then staggered to his
feet.
He reeled 10 the back of his cage and
sat down silent. evidently nonplused at
what had taken place. lie did not exam-
inc his paw. lie was too dazed TO do that.
His mate bounded over his back and
rubbed against him. He took no notice
of her.
He was n sick lion. lie had head on
him. lie seemed 10 necu q Draccr; a gin
fzz would have done him good. lilo medi-
tated.
Twenty odd members of Laurel lodge
No. IL, X. of p, went to Hamilton this
morning to take part in organizing new
lodge there tonight.
An important meeting of the Woman
Relief corps will be held at their hall to.
morrow afternoon, at which time STANDING
committees for the year arc to be ap
pointed.
Frank Lebeau has taken charge OF thu
Polaris ice rink, having bought out L. p.
Keen.
Major Fuller paid off tho troops at Fort
Missoula to-day.
Miss Mary Roman of tho Flathead
agency is visiting Miss Grace Lambert.
L. L. Wright, a Hamilton merchant, i,
in the city.
II. =. Clark, Missoula agent of the
Northern Pacific, accompanied by hi.
wife, went 10 Butte this morning for q
short visit
w. L. Dowell, baggage master of thC
Northern Pacific al this point, is now il
New York. In letter to a friend he say,
he will return TO Kentucky in about II
days, and will return to Missoula about