The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-16
HE IS BELLAMY'S OWN
Jesse Lyons Wants to Sell Out and
Go to Tennessee.
A GREAT CHANGE COMING
Before He Could Tell About All His
Socialistic Plans, Some Josher
Crowded in and Ended
His Story-Notes.
\ GREAT CHANGE COMING

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, March 14-"Just as soon
as 1 can dispose OF my property here
I am going down to Tennessee to join
the Bellamy colony there" III Sc words
spoken within the reporters hearing
yesterday attracted his attention and
he looked around to see who the speak
er might be. His gaze fell upon young
man of perhaps 80 years of age, in
whose eyes shone that peculiar light
characteristic of people mentally unbal-
anced. His name was Jesse Lyons and
in reply to interrogatorles the following
story was drawn out:
II have been reading the Coming Ma
ton and other papers of that class for
several years and am a thorough be-
lever in the socialistic ideas advanced
by them. 1t has been about a year
since / determined to join the Ballamy
colony, since which time / have sought
to gather together means enough to
take me and my wife and child to Ten
nessee and have $500 left to put into
the general fund. But the amount
necessary have been unable to secure
and so l am now going to sell my
ranch and all my personal property
and use the proceeds in getting to Ten
neSsee so that / may have a hand in
the coming socialistic conquest.
might as well get what 1 can for my
property now, for in a years time our
ideas will be so commonly accepted
that those who are not WITH us will
see the values on their possession go
down, down to nothing, and then they
too will put their property into the
common fund, but they will not be en-
titled to the same privileges as those
who join now. and they will have to
begin at the bottom and work for the
COLONY until fn1nN cEO0 n into
the general fund. ! expect to see one
more president elected before we get
control, and this will be Mckinley. But
he will never serve his term out, for If
he don't resign we will throw him out
and put i'm somebody we want. OF
course we don't want to be compelled
TO use such an extreme measure. but
the dawn of the 20th century must
mark our complete domination of the
earth. We will advise Mckinley that
we cannot allow him to serve his term
out, so he need not run if he objects
to a short term. My wife and all our
folks think the same as / do. You have
heard of my fathers rain machine?
Well, the old man has given the gov
eminent the FIRST right to utilize the
invention. otherwise the colony would
be given the right and thus would con-
troll the clouds above as well as the
earth beneath"
Just here some of the town joshers
interrupted Lyons and cut off any fur
Their exposition of his peculiar ideas,
but for which 1t might have been
chronicled that the entire heavenly
constellation as well as the earth was
10 be subject to their control In re-
gard to the rain making achievements
of the father, it may be stated that
he is the man who has a scheme for
erecting central power house, con-
nected with which will be negative and
positive stations. placed at q maximum
distance of 20 miles apart Electricity
is TO be generated at the central sta
ton and being freed from the point
of one will pass through space, Zip,
zip, zip" ITO the other wire, and thus
create either n cold or warm current
of air, and so cause rain to fall. The
family could make a fortune in the BIZ
cycle business at the present price of
wheels.
George Reed. who. for several months
has been employed in the county treas
urer's office, has taken a lease of the
Holiday ranch adjacent to town and
viii put in his time there this summer.
David Gard, Al Hockett and David
Boerum, who are Interested in prop
critics at Crevasse. are spending a few
days in the city. Mr.. Hockett intends
to put in the summer in the northern
part OF the state.
The Cooke City property of the Cen
eral Office Mining and Reduction COM
pany was bought in to-day at sheriffs
sale by II. ]. Miller for $2S5.6O, in be-
half of the creditors. John Flanagan
and Floyd Harper.
The family of r. c. Smith arrived
yesterday from Springfield. Mo. Mr..
Smith is brother of Attorney John +.
Smith and is manager of the old Barry
ranch on Shields river. now owned by
Nolan Bros and Smith & Wilson.
Col. W. G. Roland OF Washington,
general organizer of the endowment
rank of the knights of Pythias is
putting in a few days in Livingston in
the interest of that order. He will
make a canvass of the state for the !
purpose Of building up his particular
branch of the above order.
John T. Smith and r. G Day were
over at Bozeman this week in the case |
of the state VS.. Jane Craig. This is an
action brought TO set aside an entry
by the defendant OF 50 acres OF coal
land at Horn. The action is brought
by the state because the land in ques-
ton is part of a school section. but
the coal company at Horn is really the
interested party. for the Craig fling
takes in che ground upon which the
washer and many OF the miners cabins
are situated. Mr.. Day appeared for /
the state and Mr.. Smith for the de-
PENDANT.