The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-04
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HISTORIC OLD FLAG POLE
1t Was Erected at the Time Gem
eral Grant Died.
TALES OF PHILIPSBURG
A Cow That Eats Up Everything Loose,
Including Lumber Piles-The Burg
Thinks Its Railway Service
Might Be Improved.

she,AA AAttat
addition to the county's equipment,
ana shouid nave been raised last spring.
The old one. which was blown down in
the big wind storm last year. had been
IN the corner of the court yard ever
since the time that General Grant died.
III was erected at thai time in order
that the county might have a proper
place to put a flag at half-mast in hon
or or the departed hero of the nation.
AI.er mat II was used on many import
ant occasions. The flag has fioated from
its peak and at half-mast. II has
waved In triumph and dropped in
mourning. 1t has beer displayed on
occasions OF joy and sorrow. When
the pole blew down last fall a landmark
disappeared. and County Clerk Dick
inson deserves the thanks of the COM
munity for his energy in replacing the
historic pole. Its first use will be the
celebration OF Independence day to-
morrow, and the stars and stripes will
once more float among the green foliage
OF the court square trees.
The chilly Weather of the middle OF
the week made some hearts weaken as
10 the success of the Fourth's celebra-
non, but they have recovered their
normal condition. and the prospects of
pleasant weather are now good. Mr..
Alllson, n or the oldest residents of
Phllipsburg in conversation with a
standard reporter during the storm of
Thursday. told of a July storm wears
ago that knocked the spots out of the
one TINS week. The reporter had Just
returned from a drive up the mountain
10 Granite, n was complaining of the
TACT that IL showed in June. when Mr..
Allison said: In 1876 we had ar
ranged Tor a big celebration here. and
We sent over to Butte and Deer Lodge
Tor a band to help us out. The must
Clans drove over on July 2. That after
noon a storm came up much like this
one. only II was worse. The band drove
over cable in a heavy snow
storm, and all of them were frozen
about the ears n noses. One of them.
his name was Moore. had both of mis-
rect frozen. That was the worst July
storm that i have seen in this sec
ton"
There is a COW in Philipsburg that
VIII have to be Killed before sure
enough prosperity can hold SWAY in
mat town. She is stabbed in the rear
OF the Kaiser hotel. and Joe Menard
had an experience with her the other
night that he says was the toughest
that he has had in many days. Joe
''N SUM cNtI lIbh nlSSOula on Dngi-
ness. and was trying to sleep in the
hotel. He had gotten a good start M
1t when he was interrupted by the COW,
who started up a solo concert about |
O'Clock in the morning. and did not
finish 1t till breakfast time. The COW
was not i'm distress. Her lowing was
not OF the mouTnful sort. Her moos
came out In sharp, quick snorts. She
would say "B-r-r-r-a-rrr," and then
there NnIIln RnVaA N na,,-ga "a - -
that told that she was kicking at her
stable wall. This thing continued tin
some n went out n MIXED the
beast. Then the dodgers went to sleep
missed their breakfast. Judge
Durfee of the Burg told a Standard re-
porter that this cow has been i'm Phil
ipsburg for many years He says that
years ago, when the town was young.
the animal belonged to Mother Hynes,
She distinguished herself by eating
everything in town hat was left lying
and one spring her owner was
sued by a lumber dealer for a pile OF
inch boards that he claimed the COW
had eaten. At any rate. the COW is a
menace to the prosperity of Granite
county.
But ~Philipsburg has another and
greater, III possible. menace To her adj
vance. Her railway service is calcu-
lated to make a man grow gray and be-
an expert i'm the use OF cuss
words. The train comes in whenever
crew can get IL up the hill from
Sometimes they are not
able to get IL up at all. The other
day some grass got under the wheels
and stopped the thing entirely. Then.
when IL gets in. there is more uncer-
as to when IL will go out. The
crew has all of the switching to do at
mill. and when the rails are wet
this k all the way from six hours
to a week. A man who wants to go
away from Philipsburg must go to the
on tim and camp there any,
where from one to six hours. one day
last week a party of men, anxious to
get away on business, went to the sta
lion and waited three hours. They sat
around the station and watched the en-
CINE come and go about its switching,
and had become so accustomed to see
IL pass and repass that. when IL
down with the train. they paid no
attention To IL. The train Vent away
and left them. The weather i'm the inn
mediate vicinity of Philipsburg station
very warm at hat time. The
snow melted away up on Granite noun
lain as the current OF sulphurous air
arose from the depot. 1t is not alto
sether cas- to get into Philipsburg at
present. but IL is infinitely harder to get
)ut. There are hopes Of an improve
nent, but IL is coming slowly. Maybe
L is coming in on the train.
All over Western Montana tomorrow
here will be the warmest celebration of
Fourth tina I this end of the state
has ever seen. Philipsburg. Drummond.
Missoula. Hamilton, Plains and Thomp-
'on Falls will all have their holiday
on, and there will be speeches
fireworks and red. white and blue
III over the country. The people from
he country have begun to come into
he towns. n by noon tomorrow they
win all be taking part in the hurrah.
Took a shot at HirS.