The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-03

which is more or less apparent on the
visages OF all communities of the ge-
nus. In plan and construction it was
certainly il nowise individual. The
single main thoroughfare, extending in
a parallel line midway between the
fianking gulch sides, the various short
traverse cuts, the Uttered shaft work
ings and entrances of a number of
mines, the thin sprinklinS Of stores and
semi-disreputabl hotels, the ungov-
ernable fiuX Of wide-open and wholly
diSreputable saloons and faro banks;
these were features of utmost general
ity. But if there was that additional
coloring l have just noted, it was i'm
parted by the enforcing personality of
Dillon, who owned and genially pre-
sided over one OF the biggest and
brightest and most bemirrored of the
combination saloons and gambling re-
sorts.
Conceive, then, his popularity. He
was the patron, the philanthropist, the
benefactor of the town. And thus was
1t that we were called in conference, to
be assistants to him in one of his great
humanitarian functiOns-the mayor
and the sheriff, by reason of their po-
liticaI headship; 1 by some small COM
mercial standing, being at that time
the Galena manager of the M Min
of July was hard upon us, and Dillon
was committee hunting that action
might be taken TO prepare for the ad-
vent of this glorious day. On the pre-
ceding Fourth no such special arrange
mentS had been made, and a series of
wild, deplorable events had come off,
events that were to be remembered
long after Galena had passed into OBJ
security of most boom camps. Only
seven men in the town had not been
hiiariously and rampageously drunk,
and these seven were kept very mis-
cradle and engaged; three of the thirs-
ty majority had died, and it had cost
Dillon and some others the entire re-
fitting Of their establishments. The
westerners are nothing if not essen
TALLY patriotic.
The mayor, the sheriff and I sat in a
back room of the saloon, listening in
tently to Dillon's harangue. After he
had given US every opportunity to Sug-
gest ways and means for the day of
entertainment, fruitlessly, he elucidat-
ed to US his own idea of a programme,
which was voted on and adopted by
unanimous and immediate consent
This narrative deals solely with the
first number Of the programme, so you
will be compelled to Surmise the others
from it.
I'VE wull begin says Dillon, 'in the
VIII NNdI
a tOorymint. This is the way Nv it: We
wull have rounded up a bunch av thin
divils OF broncos, an we Wull also have
rounded up a bunch av jolly bhoys; we
wall beguile the bhoys to the backs av
the brOncos. an wull give the best
busther av thin a foine fat purse
which he wull spind immejutly, wild ex-
coitment enough to kape aft the raw
idge av their timper. Thin we wulr'-
but this is as much as concerns us.
Now that species of rough riding
which is known in the west United
States under the provincialism,
'broncho busting is not, as a bust
ness, nice; it is brutal and violent IN
der any conditions, but when resorted
to on gala occasions as a sport it has
elements of character thatNvould have
endeared it, mildly, at least, to the am
phitheatres of medieval Rome. l have
only once seen it in this aspect, though /
not unfamiliar with the regular $40 |
per-month skirmishes.
Galena was a busy little town. |
Every man in Montana that could dis
tinguiSh pay stuff from pyrites of iron |
extolled it, and it was an actual center
of q vast eXpanse of stock country.
Dillon'S was the extreme inner point
of this centrality, the melting house and
council chamber Of prominent citizens.
the rendezvous of q wide assortment
of the erring human animal Dillon had
need to be splendid whip, and he was
Skittish leaders or sullen wheelers, VI
cious or gentle, all alike, felt the strong
hand on the box.
= goodly purse was collected against
the coming OF the popular event. Dill
IONS ANTE" CHS own word) was a hun
bred, and a number of others came up
handsomely. But in the interval be-
tween the statement of the idea and
The day of fulfiilment there arose the
necessity for some modification in the
plans. Dillon had relied on procuring
/ number of bad and untrozen horses,
md on having the many volunteer rid
.rs break them on time, or something
n that sort. When the trial was made. !
it was found impossible to /
ring together the required number of