The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-07
Picked Up by
The Wanderer
Little Things of Small Significance OBJ
served by the Average Man ona
Journey About Anaconda.

Wafnle PenulelOn DrlnQIe Dull d0g
| has gone down the line. He was sue
cessful in eluding capture by the man
with the wire loop and portable cage,
and had given the impounded CANNES
| the dog laugh, but the other day he
ran into trap and is there now. When
ever the dog catcher was in evidence
the brindle enigma remained in the
shade, and when the field appeared to
be clear he would trot out on the street
and look wise. He went too far, how
ever, when he visited the pound to con-
sole with his more unfortunate brothers
and sisters. He nosed around the
house until he found an opening in H.
and, thinking that he would drop in
and say farewell to the doomed lot, he
entered. That fixed him. The dog
catcher sat behind partition and when
old Brindle walked in the trap door
dropped and Warnie's dog never came
| back.
James Purcell. linotype conductor,
recently added two new friends TO his
list He was walking home the other
day with a bisque doll in his pocket
and porterhouse steak under his arm
when he was startled by a cry: Hi
mister, stop that runaway" Two
urchins We're running at breakneck
speed to catch up with bakers wagon
that was trundling down the avenue.
Jim looked at the wagon and concluded
from the excited movements of the boys
that probably the horses were stealing
away from their driver. The wagon
was a covered box-lke affair, and the
driver usually sits within the enclosure.
The team was trotting towards James,
who, taking another hint from the
urchins in pursuit rushed out into the
middle of the street yelling: Whoa,
there, whoa." The team came to
sudden halt, so sudden that the back
door of the bread-box flew open and
nr Rf a1lyt IN8s14
spilled out on the ground. The driver
poked his head out of the door and
asked Jim, "Smatter?" While Jim
was explaining matters to the con-
founded driver, the little ragamuffins
were filling their hats with cookies and
buns. When they had stocked up to
their satisfaction, and were on the re-
turn trail, one of them yelled back:
Much obliged. mister, for stoppin the
wagon so quick"
A brief synopsis of the Canadian min
ing laws will be interesting reading to
free American miners in this country
who are privileged to hold 20 acres of
placer ground and not have to work 1t
continually in order to hold it: DRY dig
gings and bench claims are 100 feet
square. Creek and river claims are 500
feet along the stream and extend from
base to base of the hills on each side.
Claims must be recorded with the gold
commissioner within three days after
stalking If within 10 miles of the office:
If over 10 miles an additional day is al
lowed for each additional 10 miles or
fraction. An entrance fee of SIS is
charged for the first year and 500 for
each following year Claims are deemed
to be abandoned and open for second
entry if they have remained unworked
by the holder or some one in his behalf
for Y hours, unless a reasonable cause
can be shown to the gold commissioner
for their not being worked. A miner
can hold only one claim in the same
locality by discovery. but he may hold
any number by purchase, or any num-
Der of miners may combine to work
their claims in common provided their
agreement is registered with the gold
commissioner, fee. So. Entries will only
be received for alternate claims. and
penalties are provided for trespass upon
intervening claims. A royalty of 10 per
cent, is to be levied on all gold Mines
provided the amount taken from a sim
gle claim is not more than $500 a week:
on all taken out over $500 week 20 per
cent. will be levied If claim holder
causes the removal of any of his stakes
after the claim has been recorded his
claim Is forfeited. The season which
mining is generally suspended Is fixed
by the gold commissioner"
The foregoing regulations only apply
north of the Goth parallel and west Of
the Rocky mountains.
These days the newspapers print
large number of Spanish names and
many readers are not familiar with the
pronunciation of them. Prof T. Rede-
ka of this city, an authority on pro-
nunciation of foreign words. offers the
following on the more prominent Span
ish proper nouns:
Vizcaya, With-kia: Havana, Hah-
wah-nah, accent second syllable; Ma
drid, Mah-dree, accent second syllable;
Blanco, Blahng-ko, accent second syl-
liable; Gomez, Go-meth, accent first
syllable; Canoyas, Cah-no-vas, accent
second syllable: Ruiz. Roo-eth; Maceo,
Mah-the-o, accent first syllable; Maria
Rodriguez. Mah-ree-a Ro-dreegeth,
accent second syllable in both words, o
long; Diaz, Dee-ath, accent first syila-
BILE: Cadiz, Kad-eeth accent first syl-
liable; Eulate. Aoo-lah-tee, accent sec
ord syllable; Castillo del Principe,
Kah-steel-yo del Pring- see-pay; Mar
tinez, Martee-neth; Dupuy de LONE.
Doa-pwee du Lohm: Matanzas, Nah
tahn-thas; Azore. Ah-thoh-ray.
On every city editors desk in the
country can be found communications
addressed to him, but not signed by the
sender's name. Usually they are writ
ten by "A Subscriber" Politician"
"Questioner," etc. These communica-
tions and queries cannot always be Sc
riously considered, for the reason that
the signature of the sender does not
appear. If the seeker of information
will always sign his name TO the query,
his chances of receiving answers in the
columns of the paper addressed Will be
increased.
Theatrical performances are becom-
ing more popular every year. Recently
in Anaconda the very small children
have acquired the habit of attending
the shows. Some of them, who are too
young and tender to walk or eat sub
stantial foods, have their nursing bot
ties filled, and. dressed up in their best
clothes and disposition. take their
places in the parQuet and applaud. in
their own peculiar and attractive way.
nearly every movement of the actors.
None Of them ever so to sleep during a
performance, and that makes their
presence all the more noticeable.