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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09
SHARKEY IN THE NAVY.
He Was Not Much Liked by
His Shipmates.
CALLED %RUBBERNECK"
He Put in One Cruise as a BLU
Jacket on an American Man OF
war-was Considered to Have
Shown Lack OF Nerve.

Sharkey. the pr1zefghter. Is often
inc" He was never a sea soldier. but
he did put in n cruise as a blue jack
ct ON an American man-of-war. He
shipped as a landsman at the Mare ISL
and navy yard on the receiving ship
Independence at a time when Vallejo
and San Francisco were SO crowded
with cheap pugilists that there was
nothing doing for any but the best
among them. A naval officer who had
seen him in a couple of sparring con-
tests, and had a leaning towards fight
ers. told Sharkey. before the latter
held up his hand on board the indie
pendence, that he'd see to il that he
got a rating as a petty officer after he
had served a little while as a swab
hndsman at the monthly pay of SIG.
So Sharkey donned the blue jacket
clothes on the receiving ship, did such
policing jobs AROUND the navy yard
with squads of recruits as shovelling
o a whitewashing n digging gravel,
and then, after a month or So. Was
assigned TO the cruiser Philadelphia
along with a punch of newly enlisted
men. He had something of a reputa-
ton among the sailors Of the fleet
hanging up at Mare island as a scrap
per. but he got none the best OF IL on
board the Philadelphia. He plugged
around the decks OF the PHILADELPHIA
for a few months as a $i6-a-month
landsman, about two-thirds Of the
batch of recruits that were sent TO the
ship along with him having meanwhile
deserted. Then the naval officer who
had told Sharkey that he would fix
him out with n rating when the right
time came around got in his work. and
Sharkey received a Grow" that is.
an eagle rating badge on his s~tarboa-d
arm. He was created a master-at-arms.
second class.
Now, a chief master-at-arms on
board an American warship is some
considerable pumpkins up forward
among the enlisted men. He is chief
of police Of all that part OF the ship
lying for'ard Of the mainmast. lie is
called the Jimmy Legs. on account of
the reputation for righteousness
which chief masters-at-arms achieve.
and VIA the Jimmy Legs says about
anything whatsoever, In so far as the
enlisted men are concerned. comes
pretty near going. Sharkey never got
this chief master-at-arms rate. He
stuck at the billet OF second class mas
ter-at-arms. who is a blue Jacket, and
does not wear a brass buttoned blouse
n peaked al When the boss Legs
IL too tired To get up at all hands in
the morning. the second class master
alarms r. the man to go around the
ship and prod overtime sleepers from
beneath their hammocks. lie picks
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BUTTE News.
THE SIDEWALK MIDDLE
The City IL Holding Back the
Warrants.
NOT PROPERLY REPAIRED
Tho Property Owners Refuse to Pay
the Assessments-Hinds and Com
pany Had the Contract-The
City Engineers Report.

There is a muddle in the city hall
of +. Kinds & Co. in consequence of
which the city is still holding back a
warrant due the firm and some prop
erty owners are declaring hat they
will not pay the assessment for the
walks placed I'm front of their proper
ties. F. Kinds e. Co. had the contract
10 lay all the permanent walks ordered
during 1897. Some of the walks were
laid late in the season and were not
, satisfactory. going TO pieces before
spring. The property owners demand
ed that these walks be repaired or they
wouldn't pay for them. The city made
that demand on the firm. but only a
few were repaired.
City Engineer B~ickenbach has sent
a communication to the council in re-
gard to this matter and the whole
/, trouble has been referred to the street
and alley committee. IL is now too late
in the season 10 repair the walks. The
communication OF the city engineer is
as follows:
"On June s I received orders from
the city council to notify +. Kinds a
Co. permanent sidewalk contractors. TO
repair all walks built by them during
the year 1897. which were in need of
repair. ! at that time notified them,
bu nothing was done outside OF re-
pairing the walks i'm front of the old
city hall. in front OF A. W. Barnard's
place on West Granite street and in
front OF Siegers and Calkins' places
pm Main street. The latter walk is very
near as bad as before being re
paired.
TO the council stating the above con-
ditions and ! was then ordered by the
council 70 have the walks repaired and
10 charge the cost of the same 10 r.
Kinds a. Co. / notified Joh Rafferty,.
the sidewalk contractor for 1885. To re-
pair the walks. but he refused 20 do
the work., stating that cement work
put in at that time OF the year would
not give satisfaction and that h would
not guarantee any work done after
Oct. Is.
''On the day after the council made
the order for me TO repair the walks.
I had a call from Mr.. Dugan. who 7
believe IL a member of the firm OF
Kinds & Co. and he stated that he
would repair the walks and place them
In good condition. but 80 far nothing
has been o m
Il have not presented The final esti-
mate Of r. Kinds g. cNZso the city
council On account OF the walks not
being repaired.
Now I would sueges that this ne
referred TO h street and alley CON-
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he made of McKnew. inc pulled the
bottle out n held it up to the view
OF the officer of the deck.
You're a fine fellow. amt your"
said McKnew, and he again slammed
Sharkey straight in the face with both
his right n his left. McKnew LANDED
Immediately in the brig, and he got a
general court-martial for striking a
master-at-arms a while later. but his
good name in the service stood him in
hand and he wasn't severely punished.
The job hurt Sharkey more than 1t did
the fireman, for IL was plainly a case
OF Sharkey's carrying ashore spite
aboard the ship. A few months later
another fireman Of the Philadelphia got
suddenly hot over some imposition
Sharkey had put on him, and, with a
knife about a foot long In his hand.
chased Sharkey all over the ship. This
man. too, got a general court-martial.
Sharkey stood in with the apprentice
boys of the Philadelphia, for the reason
that he taught them how to box. Every
night he would clear a space down on
the berth deck amidships n put on
the gloves with the lads. He made
fighters out Of a number OF them. but
he also put some OF them so much on
their muscle hat they got into contin-
ual trouble. The apprentice boys,
under Sharkey's tuition. got to slam
banging each other all over the ship
upon the most trivial pretexts, and IL
was an uncommon thing for the Phila-
delphia's lads to appear at an inspec-
tion without five or six of them having
black eyes or raped noses.
When the Philadelphia was lying in
the harbor OF Honolulu the bluejackets.
after a good deal of coaxing got a big,
sea soldier named Lennon to put on
the gloves with Sharkey one night.
Lennon was a squat 200-pounder, a
man as solid as a rock-he had been in
the piano-moving business back east
but he looked clumsy and unwieldy. He
put on the gloves with Sharkey and
gave the ships corporal the fight of
his career i'm the navy. He only looked
slow and clumsy. but ne wasn't the
least hat way. On the contrary. he
was as fast as a whip-thong and as
light on his feet as his cat. and he
wasn't a man who could be put out by
anything short OF a blow from a pile
driver. So he did a heap of polishing
OF of Sharkey. At the finish of the
tenth round Sharkey hurriedly cast off
his gloves. saying that he had to at
tend to his 8 O'Clock round of the ship:
but this excuse didn't satisfy many of
the ships company. Sharkey didn't
put on the gloves with Lennon any
more after that. and there are a lot of
sailors now scattered all over the
world who confidently believe that Len
non could ave made a monkey Of
Sharkey as Sharkey was at that per-
iod of his life.
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HAD A HARD TIME.
Private Jack Dempsey, of the Rough
Riders, Has Returned.

hsashrf hs~
Jack Dempsey. one of the rough rid
ers of Capt. D'Gay Stivers' cavalry
troop, returned home last evening. Pri-
vate Dempsey had a very hard time Of
Il at Chickamauga with sickness and
was two or three times reported dead,
but as he said his physicians told him
he was too stubborn to die he Is home.
looking very little the worst for his cx-
p~erience. He Is a little thinner than
when he went away. but looks in excel
lent health. Mi. Dempsey was first TIA
ken with malaria, then typhoid v
oped and he went from 100 pounds down
To a skeleton before "A change for the
better set in. When he was able TO be
up and around again he weighed IS
pounds. No one expected him to live,
but he pulled through.
Mr.. Dempsey was taken i'll u the
anne time as Clarence Langley. who
died. and connecting their illness was a
singular circumstance. Langley had a
premonition that he was going to die.
one day he met Dempsey in the COM
pany street and putting out his hand
To shake hands, said: Dempsey. were
o going TO die in this hole" Two or
three days later both were taken to the
hospital in the same ambulance. Lang
ley seems to have had the least heart.
for he died in a very short time. 81
had forgotten all about the incident"
said Dempsey last evening" until they
told me Langley was dead, then I re-
called his gloomy prediction and l must
confess IL made me feel a little squeam-
ish. but / made up my mind I you not
die. and the doctors told me that was
what saved me-
Mr.. Dempsey praises Captain Stivers
very highly for his treatment OF the
troop and has no complaint to make be-
.aAV.l akA GaAs Nlaa H. - ~ -
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Union Pacific. the standard Line.

The Union Pacific II. II. beyond the
shadow of a doubt runs the finest trains
in the West. The buffet, library and
drawing rooms cars on the popular
Overland Limited are now equipped
with barber service and run through
from Chicago to San Francisco and
vice versa without change Free re-
Ginning chair car. Pullman palace sleep
ers, dining cars. and in fact everything
necessary for comfort.
Only 80 hours Butte to Denver: ~
hours to Omaha: So hours TO Chicago.
Direct connection at all terminals for
Eastern and Southern points. Before
purchasing your ticket see
G. A. u. p. r. r. CO.
Corner Main and Broadway, Butte.
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low at an early hour. and quietly lying
still. with closed eyes and relaxed
limbs. until sleep. gently wooed, comes
with its healing touch n softly
weaves its spell of balm.
The good doctor probably meant by
early bedtime any hour between s and
$50. and regarded the latter period as
between $50 and midnight.
Growing children cannot too careful
~ be enjoined TO get plenty Of sleep.
The boy or girl who has lessons to
learn must waken early after a good
nights rest. and this is insured only
by punctuality in retiring. Eight
o'clock is a good bedtime for all young
people under 8 and should be insisted
upon by parents.
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The Biggest and Best in Butte

OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT
Is showing some pretty things for
presents, and more new things are
coming in every day.
SILK DUST RUFF, made of Taf-
feta Silk, colored. changeable and
black, for the bottom of dresses
and understands, featherbone cord
ing. ready for adjustment, 15c
yard.
CARRIERS OF Silk Frilled Elastic.
plain and embroidered, with Rib
hon bows Of all colorings and fancy
sterling silver and gilt teweled
buckles, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 pair.
CARRIERS of Fancy Embroidered
and Friiled Elastic. in all colors,
with metal buckle, only Soc each.
STOCK COLLARS Of Colored
Satin, Corded Velvet and Mouseline
de Sole bows and Satin. with cut
steel. Soc to sl.25 each.
BELTS Of Black Velvet. with jew
eled and enameied buckles in gold.
silver and oxidized. SOC TO $3.50
each.
BAGS. Chatelaine Bags of Real
Seal and Real Alligator. Shopping
Bags OF Imitation Seal. with SILK
lining, Hand Bags Of Imitation Seal.
with leather covered frames. all at
low prices.
PURSES for Ladies in all the
latest styles and feathers. including
Plain and Silver Mounted. Seal and
ligator.
KID GLOVES-The Royal. a fine
s 100 glove. in three clasp and four
button styles. in maize and all the
street shades. stitched with black,
every pair entirely new and perfect.
only 75c pair.
JEwELRY-Jeweled Hat Pins.
all stones In new settings. zoe to
$3.50 each.
Rolled Gold Cum Pins, from
l5c up. 40 MI
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09

Is pairs of Tapestry Curtains,
somewhat soiled in moving. must
go this week. Those regularly
priced $500 to 500. are marked at
$3.50; others worth 500 to $500 go
at $3.50 pair.
so pair Of Chenille Curtains. three
yards long, have fringe top and
bottom, extra wide dado on bot
tom. narrower at top. clean. fresh
goods. worth from $500 to $3.50 per
pair; this weeks figure only $500
pair.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09

A Tribute to Peace Commissioner Day.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
In the present yea of great events
for the United States, involving new
and difficult questions. Judge William
r. Day. late secretary Of state. and
now chairman of the peace commits
sion in Paris. has made a record, prov
ing that a man of singularly high sbil-
ity in craftsmanship has been discov-
cred. The ervices he has rendered
the people have won their admiring
appreciation and he will be a histori-
cal figure in the annals OF the con-
h!ct with Spain
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mittee e try and get this matter
Strengthened out. as l wish To get to
work on the assessment of these
ak
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09
Carpets

You know what we have been do
ing in Carpets? Selling as we
sold before. consequently a lot of
Remnants to go at low figures.
Bring the size OF your room or
rooms. look through u stock,
make your selection. and IL there's
enough in the piece. Wen name a
low price for Il.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09

Examination of the eye and glasses
fitted free OF charge by DIR. Norcross
by use of his new electric opthalmo-
meter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09

A complete line of choice holiday
goods. Lowest prices in the city. Towle
a. Winterhalter. 2s w. ark st.
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bedtime.

From arper Bazaar
A physician of courtly old-school
used to give prescriptions
marked respectively for early bedtime
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09
Sofa Pillows

$50 Sateen Sofa Pillows, 1s-inch.
corded or RULED edges, Oriental
and Floral designs and Filings of
Half Down, only 65c each.
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total amount due I'm taxes Is on accoun
Of an increase i'm the levy needed for
school purposes. There is M increase
whatever in the tax for county pur-
poses.
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Boys'Clothing
Stylish Suits at
StiIted Figures

1850
unfinished Worsted. military collar.
trimmed with Cardinal Braid, this
seasons novelty. sizes 4 to IL, with
Knee pants. $3.50; with long pants,
$500 a suit.
NAVAL CADET SUITS of all
wool navy blue cloth. extra weight,
double breasted. gold trimmings,
another OF this seasons latest, long
pants, sizes Z, s and ?, for $3.50
suit.
KNEE PANT SUITS. all wool
navy blue Cheviots. good Serge lin
ings, well tailored. good filters.
hobby and up to date styles. sizes
S to IL. $500 suit.
FANCY WORSTED SUITS. the
latest effects in new weaves. invis-
ible plaids and checks. stylishly
made and finely finished, equal in
every respect to custom work, sizes
s to IA. $1,000 suit.
KNEE PANT SUITS. extra
weight. in plsids and checks, ex-
ira pants and cap with each suit,
sizes s to IA and extra good values,
complete outfit only s2.75.
KNEE PANT SUITS of domestic
all wool Cheviot, extra heavy, dark
colors i'm invisible plaids. well made.
nicely lined and good filters. sizes
5 to IA, with extra pair of pants,
$500 suit.
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Amos Turkish baths. 81. COT. d. & N.
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SILVER BOW lakes.
The Amount Collected This Year Larger
by $4,000.

While the total amount OF taxes to
be collected this year Is larger by about
$50. 200 than IL was last year. the delin-
quent amount is $4,000 less. The fol-
lowing figures from the county treas
urer's books show the collections. de-
~linquencies and comparisons:
Taxes 1897 1regular) .... >. 49,. $500. 6l3
Markeiy a Armstrong list... 1887
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09
Art NeedlewOrk

Everything here necessary for Art
Needlework, new designs in
Stamped Linens. and on the best
Linens, too. Free instruction given
in the japanese embroidery stitch
and other Needlework.
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Millinery

Everybody was charmed with
what they saw in our stylish up-to-
date hats for women's wear ii v
sans dire, that Madam Bishop
knows how to please her customers
whether the hat costs 1896 or
$4,000.
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re always welcome to use our reception room for res
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-03-19

Committee Report of the Interstate Cotton
Growers Association ON the jackson
African Limbless Cotton, That Met
In Atlanta, Ga, Dec. IA, 1897.
We, the undersigned Committee, appointed
by the Interstate Cotton Growers Association,
held In Atlanta, Ga, December 18th, 1897. to
Investigate and report on tho jackson Ltmbless
Cotton, beg leave tosubmit the following report:
After thorough and careful examination and
investi cation made Of the cotton IN the field,
which we visited in person, and carefully looking
into the matter, wo unhesitatfngly pronounce 10
tho best variety Of cotton ever grown in the
South From what the Committee learned from a
conversation with Mr.. jackson, It seems that
the cotton, with careful cultivation. will yield
three = bales per acre easily. & and a tho @ evidence
investigation The cotton itself is absolutely
without limbs, the bolls maturing on little
prongs two or three inches long, known as fruit
spur, with no other limbs; there being from two
to i've bolls on each spur The stalks in the field,
examined by us, arc from four TO ten feet tall,
accord ng to the fertility of the soil. as fruitcd
stalks bolls which contain five and six pods,
which we consider very unusual, the sizo Of the
bolls being very fine average; the lint and staple
and a half inches 1t is the opinion CT your Com.
mittee that no cotton of this variety has over
been grown in the South before, and is OF supe-
grown. The land upon which the cotton examfn.
cd was grown, is ordinary red gravelly upland.
we'll manured. WM.P CALHOUN, Chairman, Ga.
RICHARD CHEATHAM, Committee. Miss.
When your Committee visited the jackson
farm, the following gentlemen. members Of
the Atlanta Convention from the States desig-
mated under their Names accompanied your
Committee, all being practical farmers, and
endorse the above report, as evidenced by their
signatures. NJ 7. fGACH North Carolina
JOHN e. BRADLEY, w. j. BRADLEY, s. q.
The seed from this wonderful cotton are put
up 200 select seed to each package for 81 90. 6fI
packages IS 90; one pound 81. 90. For sale by
j. c. MAYFIELD, MANAGER. Atlanta. Ga.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-03-19

Iue queen Oh belgium mllKeu Gov
at farmhouse recently, because the
old woman in charge was paralyzed
and the Queen was thirsty.
Nine. Diaz, wife of the Mexican
President, has founded home where
girls can always find employment, &
nursery where children of working
women are cared for, and MaSdaler
home for repentant sinners.
The venerable English actress, Mrs
Kelley, whose ninetieth birthday was
publicly celebrated at the Lyceum
Theatre on November %, 1895, still
enjoys general good health. She
resides in Pelham Crescent, Bromp.
ton, where she has lived for over hall
century.
Miss Estelle Peel has been success.
full as Superintendent of Public In.
struction in Wyoming. She has charge
of the leasing and selling of all the
school lands, and, under her admins
tratioD, the income of the State from
this source has grown from 500 tc
$1,000 week.
The amateur photographer who has
not a ruby lamp for use in the develop
ing room or closet may envaop the
bulb of an electric light with red
bag shade, with the same result as to
workmanship, an entire freedom from
smoke and also o much stronger and
steadier light.
Mrs. Annie Abbott, the electrical
woman wonder" of Georgia, has had
her fourteen year-old son arrested in
Columbia. s. c., for stealing some Of
the gems presented to her by the
royalties of Europe. She tainted like
an ordinary woman when she con-
fronted her boy in court the other
day.
There are special costumes for al
most every sort of amusement nova.
days, but bowling has apparently been
neglected. That is fault easily
remedied, however. A pretty girl who
belongs to a suburban bowling club
attends its meetings whenever the
weather will permit on her bicycle.
"And it is so much easier to play in
short skirts" she says.
California has added many to the
list Of renowned women, but not al
ways with such wholesomely famous
names as those of the Klumpke sisters.
There are four of them-Dorothea,
who is one Of the chief workers of the
Paris Observatory; Anna, a portrait
painter in Boston; Augusta; q physi-
clan in Paris, and Julia, one of the
most brilliant pupils of Ysaye, the
violinist.
Mrs. j. l.. Brandt, wife of the Rev.
Mr.. Brandt, pastor of the Christian
Church'at Valparaiso, Ind. is the owner
of q cradle known TO be LOG years old.
1t was brought to Indiana at an early
day, and Mordecai Hardesty, the first
white child born in indianapolis, an
uncle of Mrs. Brandt, was rocked
therein. Altogether forty native
Hoosiers have been rocked in the
cradle, and it is still doing service in
Mrs. Brandt's home.
The Banner-Democrat., 1898-03-19
Fashion Notes.

For older women there are some
very stunning combinations in net and
lace.
Belts of fancy ribbon are passed
once or twice about the waist-line and
tied in short loops and ends at the left
side, using two and one-fourth to
three yards of plain or fancy striped
ribbon, two to four inches wide.
Miroir velvet, gay ribbons, flowers
and foliage are manipulated skillfully
in the decoration of both velvet and
felt hats. Jet and steel ornaments
follow in size and device the rhine
stone and gilt novelties SO highly ia
-vored.
Gloves in cherry red, salmon pink
and bright blue are out-in the shops.
They are not to be seen in prodigious
numbers. There are not many women
who care to have such an air of busi-
ness about them as to be taken for
dyers' apprentices.
Polished copper for large pieces Of
bric-a-brac, such as lamp standards,
candelabra, urns and so on. is more
satisfactory for general use in the
home than much wrought iron, which
is rather funereal in appearance, un-
less it is very discreetly disposed.
A half-worn light silk waist may be
very satisfactorily refurbished by
stripping it crosswise with black velvet
ribbon, putting velvet ribbon around
the plain collar band as previously de.
scribed, and adding a new chemisette
neck of lace and a velvet belt.
Some new silks show white ground
with colored garter snakes and earth
worms gliding along and casting queer,
long, colored shadows. Other grounds
are strewn with ears of corn, the
natural size, great tufts of grass,
punches and trails of ivy, all giving
the most bizarre effect. One will
need to train ones self up to them.
In Paris fur is being slightly gath
cred into deep frills and flounces and
placed on the hens of heavy winter
gowns, cloth capes and wraps. The
effect is novel and pleasing. OF
ter, beaver and gray astrakhan are
are among the fashionable furs, and
grebe is also being much used,
though it has been out Of favor for
several years.