The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-17
BUTTE NEWS.
FUNERAL OF P. A. LARGEY
1t Will Take Place This Morning
From the Residence.
COMMENT ON THE CRIME
Adherence and Regret Is Expressed
by the Entire State = Mr. Lar
gey's Death Deplored-Law-
lessness in Butte.

The funeral Of p. A Largey will take
place at 0:30 o'clock this morning from
the residence, at the corner OF WASH
ington and Broadway, followed by re-
QUEEN high mass at St. Patricks
church. Many leading citizens of Mon
tana arrived in Butte yesterday to at
tend the funeral. The grocery houses
end most other stores in Butte have
agreed to close from 8 a. IN. to p. m.
out of respect to Mr.. Largey's memory,
and the banks viii be closed all day.
Throughout the state the crime Of
Tuesday is regarded with the greatest
adherence and the death OF Mr.. Largey
with deepest regret The Madsonian
published where Mr.. Largey spent many
years of his life, says:
THE tragic death Of Patrick A. Lar
cey. which occurred in Butte Tuesday,
will be greatly deplored in Madison
county where Mr.. Largely spent his best
years. made his best friends and by hon
est application and industry built up the
hest portion of splendid fortune, The
Madison county friends of T. A. Largey
are the friends of his youth, whom, no
matter what new ties he may have
formed, he never forgot, ana VINO VIII
ever cherish his memory.
while Mr. Largely was resident or
Butte his Madison county interests ana
acauaintances were such that ne was IN
spirit, if not in fact, citizen OF Mad
ison county.
THE Madisonian trusts that Silver
Row county. famed for her laxity of
law. and the ease with which Violators
Of the statutes escape their just deserts,
will mete out TO the assassin of this man
who helped to blaze the trail for pro-
gress and civilization in Montana, the
punishment which he so richly de-
serves.
The Yellowstone. Miles City, Journal
says:
THE news that comes from Butte OF
the cold FLOODED murder of l.. A. Lar
gey. one of the foremost and wealthy
citizens of that place, and the disclos-
ure of a conspiracy to murder TWO olhef
prominent citizens Messrs. Kenyon ana
Cornell, is appalling in its studied ma
lightly Largely, Kenyon and Connell
were each connected with the lll-fated
business enterprises whose supply OF
dynamite stored III warehouses wrought
death and desolation among SO many In
the dreadful calamity of January, 1899.
Suits for damage We're begun by the
manned living and relatives OF dead
which have dragged along through the
three years that have passed without
tangible result to the suitors, the de-
PENDANT corporations having placed
themselves beyond the reach Of law
and the individual members thereof de
nylng individual liability. Riley, th'
murderer of Largey. lost leg by tbs
explosion. He never commenced SUI
for damages because-as he says-of tht
worthlessness of a judgment If secured
but he has been a pensioner on tht
bounty of the three individuals namee
and has received considerable money
from them-$1 500 at one time-which M
expended in futile mining operations
OF late he has been broke" and ugly
and has made threats and some demon
4fgr,r thsA
ing in the cold-blooded murder of Mi
Largely because he would not aecede Il
his continuous demands for money
Such is the story IN brief which bring
the prosperous city of Butte to-day fac
to face with the problem, who governs
the law or the mob? II seems now tina
this conspiracy to murder was so wei
known in Butte that one of the mel
marked for assassination-Mr. kenyon
has within a week left Butte for good
Another, Mr.. Council. has kept ava
as much as he could, and Is absent nov
The third victim refused To believe tina
assassination by conspiracy was poss
BILE in an American city and he is deae
Murdered in pursuance OF long con
ceiyed and scarcely disguised plot.
is infamous, outrageous, that this stat
of affairs should exist, but Butte Ia
sowed the wind for many years and
would be strange If 1t did not sometim
reap the whirlwind.
the government OF Butte Is ana a.
ways has been a farce. The pull
supreme. and whether it is exercised b
labor unions, gamblers or thugs, its ei
feet is seen in the warped quality {
justice that ii turned out. That tn
should operate TO encourage crime Is nj
10 be wondered at, but not such Grim
as robbed Largey of his life. That
directly traceahle 10 wholly indefens
BILE methods pursued by the mercanti
corporations through whose crimini
violation of the law the dreadful G,
plosion was brought about. 1t is la
law or worse administration of IL tn;
permitted these wealthy corporations
make themselves execution proof viii
the claims for damages We're pendin
and TO eyade the punishment for erin
inal violation of the law by wearisun
technicalities. However much the a
Of Riley may be condemned, and viii
ii may be justly claimed that he pc
sonally had been equitably recompens,
for his injuries. the fact remains III
two wealthy corporations have been all
TO evade the lawful consequences of
criminal act that resulted IN the insta
death of 81 individuals. The best thil
Tor Butte 10 do Is TO admit its rotte
ness, it's cuIpability and its utter IA
IRE, wipe of the slate clean. and try al
be an American city, maintaining I
law supreme and the rights OF the pc
pie under the law. Then Montana W
be proud of il instead Of as now para
ing II as a miracle Of wiekedness al
the paradise of the iawbreaker."
Mr.. j. II. Heilbronner says he h
recently been fitted with glasses by |
Dodd Of the ONsley block, which IA