St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-11
ROCKY MOUNTAIN RELICS.
A Cabinet of Curiosities at Butte
City, Mont.


City, Mont.
| Special to the Globe.
BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 10-A view of
the Rocky mountains from the ap-
preaching plains in Montana places
your correspondent where a realiza-
ton Of distance can be understood,
;; for we voyaged an entire day in an en-
deavor to reach the base of a snowy
peak, at the Alaska Basin, Centennial
Valley, Madison county, and camped
there only at the end of the second
day, and found the place inhabited by
one persistent cowboy, and a thou
sand horses and cattle. The question
of distance brings one to realize the
grand opportunities of the state of
Montana, for the return journey,
made overland at the base of snow
capped mountains and an hours ride
on the Union Pacific, brought the party
to Butte City. The purpose of this ar
ticle is to notice a very remarkable,
unique and valuable collection which
has been made by Emil Weinberger,
of Butte.
1 had the good fortune to examine
the cabinet containing this collection,
and spent portion of the day in go
ing through the innumerable articles
exhibited, consisting of probably more
than 5000 miscellaneous and curious
selections of ineStimable value to
those who enjoy ancient and modern
relics Of such a varied character
Preparations are under way to place
this accumulation of gold, silver cop
per, iron, wood, quartz tin, money,
centipedes, snakes, guns, revolvers,
pistols and a thousand and one diff
ferent and curious things in a more
convenient space for inspection and
examination. The following gives but
quaint and too hasty description of
relics and articles which I noted as
of a more valuable character and in
terest:
Greenback No. 1, series A, U. S. A.,
$40; one gold slug, solid and compact,
$40; one solid silver. sledge hammer,
g $2V SGo pure and solid gold nuggets,
per ores; numerous lead, zinc, cinnabar
and tin ores; all forms of crystallized
quartz; one remarkable solid piece of
gold, copper PIP and silver combined, as
savage-looking bowie knives and dirks:
the pistols and revolvers of dead
horse thieves; the ropes which strung
up outlaws in Montana; relics of noun
taineers, rangers and robbers; bark
two feet thick, from the largest known
tree in the world; photo of Lillian
Russell when she was playing at Nib
los at SIS per week; photo of 1.-The
ever known in the West; photo of
French George" hanged at Helena in
October, 1868, for the murder of three
persons; vlgilants' nooses used in Mon
tana for the good of the territory in
its earliest days; rattles, rattlesnakes.
centipedes, horned toadS, a rabbit with
tusks, prehistoric relics and pottery,
the money Of many nations, including
japanese, Chinese and Italian gold sill
yer and copper pieces, shells, medals.
curiously carved wood curiosities. sill
yer dollars of very rare and old coin
age, tusks, Indian hand-worked arti-
cleS, pipes, tomahawks and curiosities,
ana large quantity of coralS, crude
ores, comedians, stones of many dif-
ferent varieties and forms; in fact,
articles from all parts of the world,
from Egypt to Sebastopol, Sedan,
America and Montana.
This cabinet is believed to be the
finest in the West if not in the world,
considering its age, having been start
ed in July, 1891, by 81 paper bill,
Republic of Texas, which reads as fol-
lows:
One. The Treasurer of No. $685.
4. The Republic of Texas 1.
will pay One Dollar III
promissory notes OF the One
Government, when pre-
sented at the Treasurer's
Office, in Accordance i
With an Act of Con-
gresS.
Austin, July 1st, 1871. 1.
Jas. Allen, comp. j. H. Ramona, treas.
This old note Of the republic OF San,
Houston's time is worn, defaced and
faded; yet it forms the nucleus around
which is growing Z. curiosity shop