The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-21
MILES NEW SCHEME
: b. Colonel Sellers of the Flathead
Sees a Fortune.
A LITTLE MONEY is NEEDED
As Soon as He Can ecure Back
Ing. He viii Arrange a buffalo
and Indian show for the
Paris Exposition.

Missoula, May 20.-Every one in
Western Montana knows Frank Miles
AS a promoter he has made a record
that would make Colonel Sellers envi-
Gus and he has had an experience that
would have discouraged any one but
the most dauntless of men. He has
seen some of the most promising en-
terprises fizzle and has seen fortuntes
disappear. but he is still the same san
guine, hopeful fellow that he was when
he inaugurated his first venture and
went into the lumber business in the
Big Hole country. Time has not dulled
the bright aspect of the future for him
and reverses have not weakened his
faith i'm the world and its people He
is still promoting and to a friend at
Kalispell the other day he outlined his
latest scheme, for the success of which
all that he needs is the backing of a
man with some money" That man is
what he is looking for at the present,
and If he finds him, his fortune is Sc
cure.
This new plan is in an entirely differ
ent line from any of the former ven
lures of Mr.. Miles, and he is confident
that he has at last struck a thing that
cannot fail to win out. All that he
wants is to find hacker and the rest
viii take care of itself. So sure is the
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fancy sees his portrait with its long
mustaches and its swell goatee in all
of the journals of Europe and imag-
ines himself feted by princes and po-
tentates. He is eloquent in his descrip-
lions of the operation of the plan that
he purposes to employ to startle all
Europe. and If he can find
listener he never fails to impress him
with the feasibility of the plan. To lis
ten to his description is to believe in
spite of previous skeptcism.
The plan is this: II have the great
est scheme that you ever heard of. 1t
is bound to win and If can get a lit
tie money to start the thing off right
will have all the money that l want. l
am going to take to the Paris exposi-
ton in 1900 the greatest show that the
Frenchmen ever saw. 1t will discount
anything that ever crossed the water
and will be better than gold mine.
/ am going to take over there so of
Charlie Allard's buffalo, and one In
dian from every tribe from South
America to the North Pole. 1 will have
a representative of everything from
the equator to the Arctic ocean, and
when we get to Paris you can't keep
the crowds out with club. They will
rush to our show when they will not
go to see anything else, and we will
have the world all to ourselves. Ex-
pensive? Why not bit of it. IT will
be the cheapest thing that ever tack
led. All the expense will be in getting
the show over there. When we get
through we will sell the buffalo to
some Of them geological gardens and
we will poison the Indians, so that all
we will have to bring back will be the
sack. And ii will be big one. .t
IF we find the business getting quiet
we will kill one of the Indians and
then have a funeral of the real old In
dian kind. We will have a procession
with all of the noise that the Indians
can make, and we will plant the Indian
in a tree as the reds used to do here.
1t will be a great thing. When we have
these funerals, there won't he a
man or woman left in Paris. We will
have the funeral on the bench land
outside of the city and when we set
through we will have Paris surround
ed with dead Indians in trees. 1t will
be something that none of them folks
over there ever saw and they will come
from all over Europe to see the show.
/ have been thinking that we may have
to have a regular funeral day, say
every Sunday. If we do, we will have
to take a few more Indians, that's all.
We can't get all of them that we want.
But l tell you that the scheme is
winner You can't beat 1t in the
world. Now II you know of any good
man that wants to put in with me,
send him to me and we will get the
thing started right off. l can handle
1t all right IL / can get the money to
run us to Paris"
Like all of his kind, Frank Miles has
his ups and downs For a few years
there have been more downs than ups,
but these periods have only served to
develop all the more strongly the inf
mite resources of the man. He is al
ways ready with a new scheme. Two
years ago he came into kalispell to
celebrate the Fourth of July. and he
was not very flush. 1t is not easy for
a man who has had a lot OF money 20
have a good Independence day celebra-
ton without funds. Miles realized this
keenly and so he went to a friend of his
who is a banker. and said: George,
they have sent for me to come in here
and be the marshal of this
Fourth of July parade. l am going to
wear a red sash two feet wide and l
am going to ride Frank Jones stud
horse Now he is a bad horse, and /
am apt to be thrown off and killed. For
Gods sake, can't you let me have $40
so that when they pick me up | will
have a Jingle in my pockets and they
will know that l am for free silver?'
Such an appeal was irresistible. and
Frank got his twenty.