The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-09
WYATT THE BUGLER
TIE Man of Many Medals Suddenly
Leaves the City.
HE CARRIES AT LEAST $50
Some People Are Glad. Others
Sorry That He Has Comedies
the Leader of a Bugler Corps
Officers in Pursuit.

The shrill staccato notes of the mill
tary bugle which have issued from the
armory in the basement of the public
library building almost every evening
for the past month with monotonous
regularity that would have raised the
rents in that vicinity If the conditions
of things had continued much longer,
will be heard no more. j. G. Wyatt, he
of the many medals, the organizer and
instructor of the bugle corps, has left
town and there is a warrant out for
his arrest for the reason that he took
with him $50 which had been sub
scribed for uniforms and bugles. There
will be general rejoicing along West
Broadway over this announcement and
people residing in that part OF the city
will be able to attend church again
without feeling out of place on account
Of their use of profanity during the
week. That the law and its officers
are after Mr.. Wyatt will give people
living within ear shot of the armory
special cause for congratulation.
Wyatt arrived in Butte last fall and
he and his bugle were soon very much
in evidence at the armory and on the
streets. He claimed to have been in
the British regular army for five years
and that he blew his bugle up the Nile
with Chinese" Gordon. He also said
4 IflaI ne ndu DttIl lnG L AAhIN $780,
| army, and when he was on dress pa
rade his breast was covered with med
ais which he had won with the mill
! tary bugle. His performances on the
bugle confirmed the stories that he told
| about his medals, but his other per-
/ formances during his stay in Butte
were not of such a high order. Some
! time during March he organized the
/ first regiment NJ. n. G. bugle corps and
! ,all Cd n
/ members of the corps practice fervent-
| ly wished that the letter "e" could be
| added to the last word of the official
/ title of the new organization.
Some time ago Wyatt decided that
his corps must be furnished with new
uniforms and new bugles and he start
ed a subscription list for that purpose.
! AS there was a general hope That the
new bugles would produce more har-
monious sounds than the old ones, he
met with a ready response, and up to
last Tuesday he had succeeded in rails
ine- $50. on the first of the month he
had himself appointed janitor of the
armory, each company paying him OF
agreeing to pay him $40 a month. Cap
| tain Gardner of Company Il. paid him
in advance, and as result OF this
recklessness the captain is just $40 out
of pocket
on Tuesday Wyatt disappeared and
Yesterday afternoon a warrant was is
sued from Judge Almon's court for his
arrest on a charge of grand larceny
and kilograms have been sent out &c
intercept him. Although there are
great many who contributed to thu
fund which disappeared who feel tha
1t was money well spent If the buglei
will stay away. there are others wht
want 10 see him brought back anc
punished. Wyatt accompanied the dei
eeation to the recent G.. a. r. encalnp
ment at Rozeman in the capacity o.
bugler. and as he became very badl,
srnitten with one Of the Gallatin val
lev bellies, II is thought that he ma,
have gone to that city.