The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-14
Butte Department.
CURLY" H. D. BROWN
He has Succeeded in Getting His His
tory Into Print.
HIS RECORD IS ASKED FOR
The welI-Known Race Horse Ad-
mirer and General Aii-Arouno
Paddock Enthusiast Has RAD
a Little Trouble Lately.

a Little Trouble Lately.
A letter was received al police heau
quarters yesterday from cle" cIese',.s N',','..i
~ 81 Louis, inquiring into tne .eSe
r.nsral regulation Of H. d.. better |
Lnovn as s,Curly" Brown, IN buIue
prown Is weli known In sporting circles
here and his recent trouble with ctsN
snr over horse racing matters is OIL io'a'
interest An t,,,tte
six or seven years ago. anu - .,.rs
remembered by many old-ume ea"p
whose memories recall nothing very gooo
or startlingly bad about him. lie aeit mere
ahout ave years ago and went 70 opo-
kane. where he was reported 10 nave iaii-
en- into the good graces OF sporuns W.
man. who gave him permission 10 maH
himself at home with her pahk accouns
,..,.si f,,rtber orders However this may
he. n Is a fact that things came pretty
easv for him in a financial way AT spo
lane and AZ was not long until ne nau
collected a racing stable which embraced
one good horse, Malcolm. ana se'elai
skates He campaigned the Montana Oh
cuit in 1891 with Malcolm. Later on "a
role and one or two others, and was pack
asain I'm 1892 with about the same string.
Ills turf reputation In Montana Is not
such as the average horseman envies. IL
seemed to be the height OF his ambition
20 have full charge Of all the JOBS tnat
were engineered and the result was ina.
he was in an almost continual quarrei
with the other horsemen, VINO ooJecteo "
mis- way of doing business and TO his de-
sire to hog everything. At the lssS
meeting he approached one OF the Judges
of the West Side Racing association ana
offered him $500 to take a boy down from
his horse after they left the paddock anu
substitute another one who would De
named by him. The official did not care
10 create any trouble at the track. so ne
merely told Curly to go TO the region
in which Harry Hayward is now sup
posed to be sizzling. II was the SUPPOSE
ton that he intended to run sure thing
out with his one horse and that he want
ed to have the boy who came out on the
horse taken down by the judge so that
the horsemen would not suspect him OF
giving them the double cross.
Brown was always known as great
bluffer in Butte, but me was never re-
garded even by the newsboys as being
bad man in the western sense OF the
term. He was never known to draw
gun or make any other raw" plays, but
this may have been due to knowledge
that he could not get away with them. AT
Portland, two years ago, he run up
against Nick Hale, who Is only about
half his size and half dead with con-
sumption, and received a terrible beat
ing.
He went from Montana to California
and started a few races at the Bay Dis
trict track, afterwards going to San Jose
and some Of the inland towns, where he
officiated occasionally as starter. He
seemed 10 want to pose there as bad
man from Montana, and made few gun
plays that were more amusing than trag-
ic He was one of the officials at the
Kansas City meeting this year. and that
Is where he got into trouble with Crevel-
ing. Brown was starter and Creveline
was associate Judge. There was more
than a suspicion of wholesale jobbery ano
charges of crookedness were entered
against Brown and his brother. who wa'
his assistant. Brown entered counter
charges against Creveling and when th'
two met in st. Louis a few days ag'
there was a great deal of loud and fas
talking. Brown pulled a gun and invited
his enemy to go somewhere and fight 1
out at the end of a handkerchief. Creve
ling declined the proposition, but Offers
to settle the trouble in the good old fash
ioned way with natures weapons. Then
was where Creveling showed limite'
acquaintance with Brown. IL he had &C
cepted the latters six-shooter proposition
Brown would have weakened before tn
ground was reached unless he ha
changed greatly since he left Butte.
The St. Louis Republic has the follow
dng story of the trouble:
"A new and decidedly sensational phas
has been given the trouble between Start
er ii. d. Brown. better known as Cur
iy," and Judge Glen Creveling. 1t wi
be remembered that a few weeks ago IN
two came together on two occasions an
that there was considerable gun play G
rather talk of Il. each time. The troubl
originated in Kansas City, where a ratf
er malodorous race meeting of grea
length kept the sports guessing all th
past summer There was much talk
fraud at the meeting and finally charge
were preferred against Starter Brow
and his brother for having demande
from horsemen money. pool tickets an
other things. on pain, in case OF refusa
that the victims horses would be left
the post or sent away so badly that as
have no chance to win. A horsema
named Al Shores made the charges. L
TO this point the narratives of Mr.. Brow
and Mr.. Creveling agree. but from the
on there Is a wide divergence in their st
ries. The upshot of IL all was. howeve
that when the two men met In st. Lou
they had a rough and tumble fight. al
Creveiing. IN his explanation of the a
fair. told the story of the preferment
charges against Brown. This greatly !
censed Brown. and after thinking q
matter over, ne decided to call on q
Turf congress. as the governing body
all Western tracks. including that
Kansas City, to investigate the matte