The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-06
Stories Of the Town

Saturday h heroic achievement of the
seven American sailors who went to al
most certain death In the haTbor Of
Santiago. and one OF the party made
the remark that the heroism Of these
men was without parallel in history.
II don't agree with you" satd an
other Of the party. without in the
least disparaging the splendid achieve
ment of the American sailors. 1 believe
greater heroism has been exhibited
oftentimes right here IN Butte. l think
the miners who volunteered at the time
of the Anaconda mine fire to go down
in the smoke and endeavor to rescue
the men imprisoned down there showed
greater heroism. 1 think Hale. the shift
boss at the Lexington mine. who went
down into the mine to rescue two OF his
fellow miners and lost his life in the at
tempt, showed greater heroism. 1
think the miners who volunteered to
enter the burning Hope mine at Basin
were greater heroes. The difference Is
this. While death was about equally
certain in all these cases, the sailors
performed their courageous act with the
whole world looking on. Whether they
lived or died they were sure OF glory I'M
ending. 1t was a desperate chance. but
the reward was a big one. But the
miners who rlsked their lives to save
their fellow men had no such incentive.
There was no glory, no splendid reward
in sight. They had TO go down in the
smoke and the darkness with none to
watch them, no world to praise their
heroism- What they did was for hui
manity, not for glory. and l know OF no
greater heroism than that which 10 often
displayed by Montana miners!'
While on the subject of Santiago har-
- H. - 49,. hA haDa
that Johnny Hollands submarine boat
may be given a chance to clear the San
tiago harbor OF mines and torpedoes.
Mr.. Hollands friends in this city are
very confident that II given a chance the
BOAT will make Butte's affable city clerk
famous the world over. Mr.. Holland
has his agent in Washington trying to
secur the approval of the government
for a trial, and he is ready to leave at
a minutes notice to take charge of the
boat and go fishing for torpedoes. Mr..
Holland, with becoming modesty, has
aid little about the boat to his Butte
friends. but IL is significant that he has
never yet denied that he invented and
constructed II. He first made a small
model of 1t which was used with effect
in the waters OF Silver Bow creek. al
though the shallowness OF the creek
waters left a doubt in Mr.. Hollands
own mind as to whether his boat really
went under water or crawled along ON
the bed Of the creek. So he let a con-
tract for a larger boat. which was built
in the East under his plans and specif-
cations and II 1t is only given a chance
IL will solve the problem of submarine
mines and make Butte more proud thar
ever OF IT'S city clerk.
The Inter Mountain has had a good
lea to say about fax bulletin boards,
but it hasn't as yet explained the fake
extra 1t got out Thursday night about
10 o'clock. There was no news in IL
which did not appear in the regular edi-
ton or in fact which the Standard did
not nave the preceding morning. But
the newsboys sold thousands of copies.
not only in the business part of town.
but ia all the resident parts. People who
heard the boys yelling Thirty thousand
Spaniards Killed got up out Of bed and
went to the door to buy papers. II is but
fair to the Inter Mountain to say, how
ever, that the management has agreed
to refund a nickel to everybody who
will present himself at the business Of
flee to-day and say that he was fooled
into buying one of the fake extras.
Scores of people have already been
given their nickels back. The Inter
Mountain office will De open at 3 o'clock
this morning and the management de-
sires that all be on hand promptly. so
that there may be no delay in giving
out the nickels. The offer is good for
to-day only.
The first news direct from Butte's
cavalry boys 10 a letter received by At
torney George b. Dygert yesterday
from Captain D'Gay Stlvers. The let
eter is very brief. 1t cad
'Chickamauga Park. May 90.
snnanrpf fnn hay Inst arrival hora
dirty and ugly. Haven't heard from
game yet. Let me know amount real
lied and any interesting features. Hope
all are we'll. See Chief Mulholland and
see IL he has found any trace of my sad
die. stolen the morning we left Butte. II
is hotter than Spain here. So long,
GAY"
Marion Vroom Carson. one of Butte's
bright school girls. has written the
following very creditable essay:
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY.
The green sepals were just unfolding
and / could see the beauties of nature,
and could feel the beautiful sunshine
come down upon me. and I was happy
by the side Of my beautiful. full blown
mother.
1 listened to her while she was telling
me what a lovely Rose I would be IL I
was not disturbed by people, bugs or
wind.
She aid my color would be like hers,
and told he how the N pistils
would o o be exposed TO the sun. how
| the little ball of pollen would ripen on
the end of the stems and fall into the
pistile. This would form seeds and the
calyx would burst in due time and scat
ter them. / counted o. having some
roses grow from these seeds, when I
grew strong enough to hold myself up.
but one sad day the Florist came up
to the bed Of American Beauties, and.
after looking at US very carefully. said:
These are the kind i want" So he
went away and after a little while came
ack with something very bright: he
| opened IL and lay one OF my companions
between two sharp ~points-snap went
the thing together and she fell to the
ground. He did this to IL others. then
came TO me-clip. and I fell down with
the rest. j expected to see my mother
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