The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15
IT WAS ALL A BLUFF
The Present City Administration Will
Hear From the People.
LOOKING FOR THAT COMET
Those In Authority Are Held Re-
sponsible for the Non-Appear-
ance of PERKINS, Long Un-
measured Tall

Up 10 a ldte nOuT last night there
were no symptoms of a comet around
Butte, and it is the general impression
here that the comet story is merely an
other untitled promise of the present
city administration. People were
watching for the comet all last evening
and a good many grew dizzy from gaz-
ing up in the sky so long in the vain
hope of seeing the comet heave in sight.
All these dizzy individuals were gath
cred in by the police hirelings OF he
administration and the Jail filled up
with them. This lends color to the be-
lief that 1t is merely another scheme of
Mayor Thompson to Increase the rev.
enues of the city by imposing a lot of
fines Monday morning on those who
were out last night trying to find the
administrators comet.
Mayor Thompson placed Colonel
jerks with spy glass up in the city
hall tower yesterday with instructions
to let him know the moment the comet
hove in sight. This was probably all a
bluff, and the mayor had no expecta-
ton whatever of comet coming, as the
sky was clear and bright all day and
unruffied all last night, so that there
was not the slightest chance of the
comet getting by without being seen or
of hitting the earth below the belt una
wares. Colonel jerks was watching all
day and declares there was not even a
small comet that passed while he was
on guard. What the mayors idea was
in watching for the comet Is not def
nitely known, and 1t is supposed he in
tended to lasso 1t and add it to his al
ready very enjoyable Wednesday night
shows.
The reporters of the Standard who
were sent to the various parts of the
city last night all failed to find the
a. Aa. h. tvto
tration must be saving 1t for the official
organs. The people, however. have
about concluded that they have been
deceived once more and the administra-
ton will hear from ii at the coming
election. The comet issue alone is
enough to knock out this deceitful and
promise forgetting administration. 1t
was promised that the comet would
have a tail 900, 000, 900 miles in length or
more. This is ridiculous on the face of
ii. How could anything have tail that
long, and If 1t had, where would Mayor
Thompson find a tape measure long
enough to measure 1t with? And how
could he get to 1t to measure 1t, any
way? No self-respecting comet would
stand still long enough to let the pres
ent administration measure its tail. 1t
would be afraid that the administration
would want to build a plank sidewalk
on 1t and charge the lumber up to the
abutting property.
There has been some wonderment
expressed as to how the mayor happen
ed to name his comet PERKINS, comet
The only Perrin known here is not here
any more. 1t is supposed that this des-
ignation is given the comet on account
of the similarity which the comets
fight through the heavens bore to the
fight of the late city clerk about the
time that the Butte police force was
letting him have three or four weeks
start on his way towards China. 1t is
not strange that the members of the
police force are unable to find anything
which bears the name of Perrin, even
though it have a tail 00,000,000 miles
long or more.
There were a number of rumors about
the streets last night respecting the
comet. One was that IL sheered off
from the earth a week ago last Wednes-
day night directly after the council
meeting and has been running away
ever since at the rate of 100000 miles
per day. II this is true, the comet Is
probably a good ways off by this time
and there is no danger of its coming
back II IL got within hearing distance
| of the council meeting. Another rumor
| is that the comet Is postponed until
the 18th of March. which is st. Pat
rick's day. II the comet should arrive
on that day II would facilitate the
painting of things red.
$4,000 worth of new dress goods, new
| silks, new trimmings, on display and
| sale at o. K. Lewis & Co.'S this week.
No well regulated household is COM
plete without Newbro's Witch Hazel
/ Cream