The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-23

police dare not arrest them. They have got
more influence than we have, and if we take
them up 10 the station they get out and are
back on the beat before we are. That's straight.
whats that fellow doing there against the
post with piece of paper in his hand?' in
quired Officer Linville, as he caught sight OF q
CALL artist eying him critically.
Making a sketch OF you, guess"
"Well, WELL don't like that" and the rufied
officer pulled down his vest, smoothed out his
mustache and retied his neckerchief, assuring
the reporter, after the manner OF a society
man, that such audacity was not in good form,
but that ii il was unavoidable he would like to
have it done up il good style.
Gust leave off little of the stomach and
tone down these pants, and slick me up little.
used to be good-looking man when l was a
few years younger"
"Just from Arizona, eh?" queried ex-Sheriff
A. f. Ross of Shasta County OF an acquaintance
in the lobby OF the Baldwin Hotel last night.
"Then you must know Major Hank Martin.
No? That's too bad, for not to know him
argues yourself unknown.
"Major Martin is one OF the best-known char
acters in the Territory. TALL straight and
broad-shouldered, blonde and bronzed, he
looks the typical fronuersm that he is.
Though graduate of Harvard, he has been in
Arizona ever since "a man for breakfast was
part OF the daily routine, and some of his ex-
periences have been most exciting.
zone night in Clifton-that copper mining
camp in the Mogollon Mountains near the San
Carlos reServation-the major sat down to
little game OF stud poker. A woman was pres
ent, and the major had her tiny dog on his
knee for mascot On his left sat an 1S-year-
old boy, son of the United States Marshal
"The major was winning and paying but
little attention to anything except the game,
when suddenly there was sound as of cane
passed rapidly through the air. Blood spurted
upon the table and over his clothes, and the
boy sitting alongside fell backward to the floor
A glance over his shoulder revealed an Indian
backing rapidly out of the door, at the same
time covering the crowd with couple of forty
tours.
"Who was it? The celebrated renegade.
Apache Kid. He had entered the town and cut
that boys throat because the lads father, the
Marshal, had pressed the Kid uncomfortably
close some time before. Trust an Indian to
get revengei
tThe boy? Oh, he recovered. His wound
lett an ugly scar and he is known to this day
by the sobriquet of 'Cutthroat Kid
"Washington's birthday is periodically OBJ
served in Montana said John Mcguire the
veteran theatrical manager and proprietor of
Magulre's Opera-house at Butte, as he reclined
in an armchair in the corridor of the Baldwin
last evening
land when we celebrate in Montana we do
SO on an elaborate and princely scale, for, as
the newcomer from Missouri remarked after
quenching his thirst in our State, there are
no flies here. That expression was first applied
to Montana. The person who coined it wanted
TO pay US compliment. Now philosophers
discuss us, and poets write OF us as the f1yless
people,"
Montana is indeed great State, producing
over $4,000, 900 annually in minerals. Some
Zo,ooo men are employed in the mines and
mills in and about Butte and Anaconda. Butte,
win It's thrifty and progressive population of
10000 souls, is the greatest mining center in
the world to-day. Despite the financial de-
preston that has swept over the country and
the low price OF silver, we have not felt the
nara times to any extent. There is plenty of
money In circulation in our town. Why
shouldn't there be, with 10000 men drawing
from 20 90 to So and some as high as $40 q
day J.?
our people are great theater-goers. We only
play the best attractions, such as Warde and
James, who will make the Northwestern circuit
from mere To give you an idea OF the business
we do matinee and night performance lately
netted $4,000.
res Montana is a great State, one OF the
greatest and most prosperous in the Union, and
NJ. washington has any concern in the things
OF this earth he must feel very much elated
over the progress made by the fortieth State in
the little Union started some years ago., and
the Montanlan went off to make astronomical
observations before the mahogany.
Charies Blagburn, an engineer from London,
mas peep here some time looking into the Cali
fornla Water and Mining Com pany's ditch
property In Ell Dorado County for London cap
1talists with view to taking and developing it.
The Dropertv is owned bv the estate OF William