The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-18
He Has ALI Kinds of Money and
q Wife With Diamonds.
HE WENT UP TO ALASKA
After He Made His Stake There He Went
to San Francisco. Where He Mar
ried Barney Barnato's Old Girl.
Now They're In Butte.

veritable Croesus, in the person of Dan
Agon. better known as Dan Egan, the
Montana Kid" who made quite a
reputation some years ago in the prize
ring. He arrived in Butte yesterday
and nearly startled his poor old mother
to death by appearing at her front door
iii an apparition, arrayed in such togs
as she had never seen her son wear
besfore. Egan left Butte about three
years ago. He was considerably short
of being a millionaire then. but he made
his way to Alaska. heard of the rich
hnds in the Klondike, succeeded in
reaching the gold fields. and has come
back with all kinds of money.
Egan came to Butte as a boy, and
has lived the greater part of his life
mere. His father, Dan Agon, and
brother, John, work at the Colusa-
Parrot mine, and have done so for
years. The family lives at 9 East
Woolman street. where the mother and
two unmarried sisters keep a modest
boarding house. Egan was a %strapping
youth, and early took to the prize ring.
He was a good fighter, and acquired
considerable of a name in numerous
battles he fought here and in Califor-
mia. Between 1888 and three years ago
he made numerous trips to Alaska, and
finally. in 1895, returned to that coun-
try. There he fingered for a time, and
finally came the news of Barry's rich
discovery in the Klondike. Egan was
not long making his preparations TO
start. He got in on the ground floor
and located some valuable claims. He
stayed by the country till he got his
slice of the diggings on FL Dorado, Sui
phur, Dominion and All Gold creeks.
M Ii ~ N a nfa
lays" in the meantime. then he sold
a claim for $27, 900 in cold cash and
started back to civilization to paralyze
his friends.
Egan left the Klondike April 16. and
came out by way of st. Michaels.
There, after the fashion of Klondike
bonanza kings, he chartered a steamer
to bring him to the states. He brought
20 returning miners with him, taxing
them $40 apiece for the enjoyment of
his company. Egan headed direct for
San Francisco. the scene of his former
popularity as a pugilist, and arriving
at the bay he proceeded to emulate
the example of Swift Water BILL ex-
cept that he put up at a moderate
priced hoted instead of going to the
Baldwin. In every other respect, how
eve he was Bills equal. and he made
the welkin ring, likewise the bells in
the hotel and other places where there
are a~nnunciators and walters to an
swer the calls of people who have
money to spend and van some one
to help spend 1t. Egan turned his
money loose till Swift Water" had
very little. if any, the best of him on
that score, and then. not to have Ii said
that he had been outdone in any re-
spect. he took unto himself a bride. He
selected his wife from among the same
social circles as swift Water" and
made just as good time, in fact, a
trife better, for his wooing and we'd
ding was a thing of an hour. and in his
connection outdid Swift Water" some
what, as there was quite a little ro-
nance back of the marriage. Nine
years 90, when Egan was making a
reputation putting people to sleep, he
did an act at the old Wigwam in FRS
co. Lettie Levine was doing a turn
at the same time. and their acquaint-
ance became more than a passing one.
but time and pretty nearly the world
eventually separated them. the pretty
dancer going to South Africa, where
she so charmed Barney Barnato and
Sam Levy that she now wears two gor-
geous diamonds from their Kimberly
mines, one a present from each, while
the pugilist went to the other extremity
of the earth.
Egan had well-nigh forgotten his
black-eyed sweetheart when he began
the effort to convince the native son
he was a high roller. but one evening
while strolling up Kearney street In
quest of some new amusement to dispel
the ennui he was already beginning to
feel he espied the sign of the Imperial
concert hall. He remembered 1t had
formerly been the Bella Union when
he was on the turf before, and that
there had always been a good bill. so he
went in. Who should trip on the boards
but his old sweetheart. a trife older, but
as pretty as ever. Egan watched her
dance and heard her sing. Memories
of the old days came back and when her
act was finished he sent for her. She
was delighted to meet him and they
spent the evening talking over the old
times when the Bella Union was in its
heyday of popularity. Before the even
ing was over they had made up their
minds they liked one another as well
as ever. Egan proposed they should get
married. She was agreeable. and a par
son was notified the man from Klondike
wanted to get married. DR.. John Hemp
hill of Calvary Presbyterian church per-
formed the ceremony and Lettie Lee
vines name was taken off the theater
programme. she says, for good.
There remaining nothing Egan could
do to prove himself every inch a swift
Water" the couple left Immediately for
Butte. They arrived yesterday after
noon by way of the Oregon Short Line
and drove at once to the home of Egan's
parents. He had intended giving his
mother a surprise and succeeded.
She scarcely kne whether her son
was on the continent or not. and
he suddenly appeared before her she
nearly tainted from surprise. When the
meeting was over and Egan told of his
marvellous good fortune, his people
could scarcely trust their ears, it was
such a sudden growth of Dan to a mill
ionaire.
After a time the trunk came up and
besides the bag of yellow nuggets al
ready exhibited Dan displayed other evil
dences of his s~ojourn in the Klondike.
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