The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-14
T own 7 opics.

Probably there has not in ten years
been period when the Butte mining
district has been so free from mining
accidents as it has been during the past
two months. This is particularly graf
flying inasmuch as there are. now as
many miners employed as there ever
were. The accidents are the sad feature
of mining life, but it is inevitable that
they occur.
There has not been fatal mining
accident in Butte since jan s, when
Benjamin Saner was killed in the Penn
sylvania mine. Previous to that this
year was the accident in the Never
Sweat and as following it came the
murder of p. A. Largey and other
crimes 1t began to look as though the
year 1898 would be a bloody year in
Butte. But more than two months have
passed since. there was a fatal mining
accident here, a period of immunity
which probably has not been equaled in
Butte before since it became great
mining camp. During the month of
February there were only two inquests
held, both being cases of homicide. The
coroner's office has not been very luc-
rative since early in January. 1t Is
indeed matter for congratulation that
Butte should have had but twoi nquests
during the month of February, when 1t
was only last fall that rs induests were
crowded into one month.
There is another subject for congratu-
lation in Butte and that is the une-
qualed mildness of the weather the past
winter. Only once during the winter
has the thermometer gone below zero,
and that was early in December. Butte
can't really call weather cold as long as
the thermometer keeps above the zero
mark. A Helena observer in a recent
interview in the Independent stated
that while the present winter has been
remarkably mild, yet there have been
other winters just as mild. and he men
lions the years 1856, 1887 and 1896 as
examples. Over here, however, 1t is
the consensus of opinion that no winter
has been as mild as the one now clos
ing. Judge George w. Newkirk, one of
Buttes very oldest inhabitants, re-
marked the other day:
II have passed "a winters in Mon
tana, all but four of them in Butte.
This is without doubt the mildest of
them all and l think ought to know"
Some other Butte old-timers were
talking about the weather the other
day. They We're Charles S. Warren and
X. d. Leggat. and they agreed that on
March II, 1867, this portion of Montana
had a storm which has never been
equaled here since. 1t started on the
evening of March ~, and lasted 10 days.
The thermometers all burst and no
one could tell just how cold it did get.
Mr.. Leggat says he was over in the
Highlands at the time and for ten days
the thermometer didn't get warmer
than 40 degrees below zero.
Some people living up in Dublin gulch
noticed a very peculiar incident the
other day. which is certainly some thing
novel in stories of animal life. Roam
ing about the gulch is COW which fur
nishes milk for many of the residents
of that section. For months past it's
daily companions in roaming about the
gulch have been three little dogs, who
also belong to people of that vicinity.
The COW and the dogs seemed to have
a genuine affection for each other ana
they would trot close to the heels of the
cow wherever she might go
The other day two big strange dogs
came into the gulch and began to an
noy the little dogs They would bite
them and chase them and evidently
took great delight in tormenting them
The old cow however. didn't stand that
very long, and while the three little
dogs were at bay and trying to stand
off the two big dogs. the COW entered
the contest, tossed first one dog and
then the other with her horns and they
left the guleh never to reutrn. Then
she licked the little dogs with her
tongue and couldn't have manifested
more affection had they been her calves
There is proposition now on foot to
turn the Standards mule fund over TO
the Dublin guleh COW.