The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-19
John LYNCH'S BIRD
It Is q Game Cock and a CATER he Is,
So They Say.
THEY DRANK BY THE BROOK
A Man Who VIII Drink Water Here
after Uncle Bill Is a Sport
Waddy Waddied Into Town
Alone and Footsore.

man. The colonels special weakness
Is game fowls and that he has some
good ones any number of Missoula's
fanciers will testify. for nearly all of
them have seen their best birds go
down before the gaffs on the cocks
from Lynchs Spur. There are all sorts
of extravaganza stories in circulation
as to the methods employed by the
colonel in training his birds. but they
are all pure speculation. as nobody
has ever seen any of his preliminary
work One story which is vouched for
by a man who ought to know. has 1t
that no bird of the colonel's ever en-
ters the pit until he has been given a
few rounds with a bald eagle which Is
fed on raw beef. This may or may
not be true. 1t has nothing to do with
the present story. anyway. Colonel
Lynch has for some time been DESTROYS
OF improving the strain of his birds
and about three weeks ago he sent
draft for $13 to Philadelphia to pay
for a new Irish Red bird whose breed
ing dated back to the days of the early
kings of the Emerald Isle. The bird
arrived the other day and John paid
the express charges and took the new
champion down to his camp. 1t was
magnificent bird. Proud. naughty and
handsome. the other fowls OF the colo
nels pen skunk away at the very sight
Of him as he strutted about. After a
few days rest the Irish Red was fitted
with gaffs and put into the pit against
a bird that had whipped everything
A crowd of the owners friends had
assembled to witness the sport and
excitement ran high. The new bird
str7ltted and craked about the ring.
burt wouldn't fight. No amount of
urging could induce him to go in. At
length an examination was made and
IL was found that the colonel had paid
S13 for a capon He wrote to the ship
pers, who expressed regret at the mis-
take and offered to send him a bird
that would fight "for the unusually
low price OF So" Anyone desiring a
fine capon will please communicate
with Col. John Lynch of Lynch's Spur.
Local sportsmen have had considera-
BILE fun over the signs and notices
which some of the farmers of the wall
1eys have posted upon their premises.
Bitter Root and Grass Valley farmers
are all right at raising oats and pota-
toes. but IL becomes at once apparent
to even the most casual observer that
they cannot paint signs with any de-
gree of artistic merit. One worthy
agriculturist sought to make his no
tice emphatic by its size and upon a
huge board in crude but immense let
tiers painted the legend: mo shooting
when a we'll known Muscular went
hunting in his fields with an air gun.
There Is another story told of a local
sport who was zealously fishing not
long ago In a stream whose banks
were generously placarded with signs
reading: mo Fishing Here" when the
owner of the ranch and the signs came
upon him and demanded angrily II he
hadn't read the signs The fisherman
made another cast and said: Yes, I've
read them and l believe that the man
who put them up is id liar. There
is fishing here and good fishing, too.
Then the irate farmer asked the MIN
rod n he had a bottle and they took
drink together.
While the city sports in the country
have been having fun. II has not gons
so well with the country sports whc
have come to town. One man from Z
town not 80 miles up the Bitter Roo
has this morning a clear comprehen
sion of the old fable of the city ant
the country mouse. He came dowr
the valley yesterday and late las
night Tom Corbett found him asleeI
ON the sidewalk near the Bad Lands
Officer Larson and Marshal Angevinl
took him In charge and found som,
papers and a little money in hi
clothes. He was given bed in tn
county jail and when he walked thi
He said he remembered nothing abte
taking a few drinks last night. Whel
asked IL he had any money, he sal.
he believed that he had spent It al
Then he was given his papers and hi
roll OF bills and told TO drink waite
hereafter. He hasn't yet recovere
from his amazement and Will probabl
spend his leisure time this week 4
figuring out how the whole thing hap
pened
Your Uncle Bill Berry Is somethin
of a sport. himself. but he wishes I
state in confidence that he doesn
want TO get the upper hand OF any
body by foul means. 1t will be remem
bered that. a couple OF weeks ago,
quarter mile race was arranged be
tween Mr.. Berry and Bob Mentrun
After the forfeit money had been pos
ed, Bob got to thinking the matte
over and when he considered the wa
Bill ran in last falls election. he cot
cluded that II was useless to try
beat him. 50 ne forfeited the none
posted. But the veteran OF many
race refused to accept II unless I
could win IL suuarely and the stalk,
holder will probably turn II over
some deserving charity.
Judge Sloane Is responsible for az
other expose of Uncle Bits generosit
Yesterday he showed to a Standar
man I'm the assessors Office. a COZ
and a pair OF shoes that had been lie
in Uncle BINS room by some unknow
person. The overcoat Is of blue clot
deliberately trimmed with patches ar
the shoes are about number sever
and are brightly polished with du
and mud. Uncle Bill refused to accel
them and Is making strenuous effor
10 find the owner that he may retul
the articles and. incidentally. have q
fellow arrested for taking a new Il
coat and a pair OF patent leather ga
ers in exchange for what he left.
Mans innumanity to man Is =