The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
IT IS LIKE A ROMANCE
How a Butte Lawyer Found a
Young Lady.
BUT HE LOST HIS HEAR 7
Chapter From the Life of an Attor-
ney-A Charming Experience in
the National Park and It's
Happy Denouement.

The Romance of Butte LAWYER
would be an appropriate title for a
rather good story told by well-known
gentleman from the state of Iowa. who
spends much of his time in Butte par
tieularly at the expense of one of
Butte's successful young lawyers, who
it is said, can ride any cayuse that will
stay in it's hide: kill as many birds or
catch as many fish as any man who
does not get up before the sun on a
Sunday morning.
According to the story of the Iowa
gentleman, a few years ago party of
about Is came from a certain town in
Iowa to Bozeman. to there secure a
camping outfit TO go through the Vel
lowstone National park. Among the
party was a young lady from one of
the oldest and best families of the state
of Iowa. At Bozeman one of the regu-
lar park outfits was secured, and after
being joined by half dozen others,
among them the Butte lawyer mounted
on Montana cayuSe, the entire party
set out for the park. For some days
there was mucn speculation among the
Iowans as to whether the gentleman
with the 10. :, hair and solemn featured
visage, was a minister of the gospel,
cowboy or the ghost of Kit Carson.
He finally settled the mooted question
as to his profession, by filing a demur-
larry issued from one of the Iowa
tents
All went We'll until the party reached
the outlet of Yellowstone lake at which
point camp was pitched for some days.
One morning number of the party
had taken a ride on the lake steamer
and in returning to camp. about a mile
from the lake shore. all followed the
stage road except the young lady al
ready mentioned and an elderly lady
friend, who thought they could save
time and distance by taking a pain
that led through the woods in the direc-
ton of camp. Those who stuck to the
road soon reached camp, and after
waiting some time for the two ladies.
became somewhat alarmed for fear
they had lost their way in the
woods.
Search was instituted and number
of soldiers stationed near by We're en-
listed To help find the wanderers Two
hours pasesd and no trace or tidings of
the lost members of the party. Every
woman in camp was wild With excite
ment. At this point the legal gentle
man, who, had been enjoying the morn
ing fishing, returned to camp and
learning the cause of the unusual COM
motion among those left in camp,
mounted his Montana cayuse and rap
idly disappeared in the mountains that
skirt the northern boundary of the yell
lowstone lake After riding through the
wilderness and sea Of fallen timber and
brush for more than four miles. he
found the two lost ladies going in an
opposite direction from camp, just as
they had flushed big silver tip bear.
They were more frightened at the sud
den appearance of the lawyer than at
old bruin, whom they had aroused from
his monday snooze, but when informed
they We're lost, and miles from camp,
quicker than a flash all the horrors of
being lost thousand miles from home.
in a Western forest among wild ami
mails, came to the then thoroughly
frightened women with vivid reality.
They could hear the piercing scream of
the panther they had read about. the
low growl of the bear they had just
seen and imagined an Indian stood be-
hind every tree ready to leap forth
with his scalping knife to divest them
Of their scalps and perhaps their lives.
Then it was that the young lady, for
the first time in her life. realized the
comfort and assurance there is in the
confident tone of lawyers voice, as
the legal gentleman took his stand be-
tween her and the bear. remarking dra-
matically: Before that bear shall
harm you. he will have to walk over
my dead body, and if he attempts that,
I will enjoin' him from doing at
once
In short while. by the assistance of
the lawyer and his cayuse, the two la
some and enyied by others for being
lost in the wilds of the Rocky noun
tains where wild beasts are so plen-
tiful
After this incident it seemed natural
for the young lady to look to the law
Yer as her protector on every occasion
If q snake or a mouse was announced
in camp, in her judgment. no one but
the lawyer was able TO eject the in
truder. The party returned To BoZeman
and there separated. the Iowans return
ing to their home and the lawyer to
pleading the cause of his clients before
judge and jury: but he occasionally
finds time to visit the state of Iowa, and
ii is surmised that some day he will
visit that state and return to Montana
and Butte with the young lady as his
wife. Ii judgment has not already been
rendered in his favor. il is TO be hoped
there will be no motions to quash their
attachment for one another and no de-
murrers to his petition for her hand.
and if there should be. that each will
be promptly overruled and no exceptions
allowed or new hearings granted.
1t may be interesting to know that
the aforesaid legal gentleman is no
other than Attorney r. S. Thresher al
though it may not be especially pleas
ing to him to have his little romance in
real life related,
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