The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-02
Seen and Heard
Mere and There

John Cuhno, we-known Main street
barber, has the prize winning hard luck
story of the year to tell. John is an liz
veterate at playing the ponies and what
time he isn't actually engaged at scrap
ing his customers chops he spends scam
ming the blackboard and form charts of
a nearby pool room. His great hobby is
making combinations and, as is generally
the case with people who stay by it, it
keeps him hustling to keep money enough
on hand to indulge his inclination. He
could tell a lot of hard luck stories of
how he just missed winning big combi-
nations, but the latest caps them all. One
day last week business quiet and
John strolled into the NJ. & NJ. He liked
the looks of the card that day and pro-
ceeded to select two four-horse combina
tions. 1t SO happened that among his
selections. he picked the old campaigner
Abuse and the good horse st. Clair. Abuse
was the last horse on one of the combina-
tons and the name of st. Clair was at
the bottom of the other. Both combina-
tons went through. till it came to the
last two horses. They looked like lead
pipe and John was laying his plans to
break the pool room with the money, for
he regarded it as all over but cashing in.
Followers of racing will recall how one
of the horses named fell dead on the
track and the other broke a leg and had
hard luck story than that John would
like to hear 1t.
A good one is told on Major Klemm Of
Dillon, who was foreman Of the United
States grand jury, which was in session
here last week. While the story is told
on Major Klemm, the joke appears to be
on the other fellow. There were several
cases of selling liquor to Indians before
the jury for investigation and the serv-
ices of an interpreter had to be employed
When witness would be called Major
Klemm's first question would be, do you
speak English? '-that is If the witness
had dusky skin and looked like an In
dian. Major Klemm's eyesignt Is not as
| good as it was once and when Agent
| Shaw of Fort Belknap agency was called
| the major, either because of his near
| sightedness he did not observe the witness
| was a white man or else it was from force
| of habit, put the regular question. do
you speak English?" Agent Shaw looked
| at the major inquiringly. He did not
know whether his aged questioner was
| testing or in earnest but, perceiving he
was in earnest, Agent Shaw replied.
"Well, major, didn't know 1 had come
to look so much like an Indian from liv-
| ing among them that you couldn't tell
| the difference"
The following anonymous communica-
| one day last week:
tSir: Being a ellison of Butte I wish
to call atsenshun to disgraseful sene or
! Arizona and End street last Monday whe r
a gun was drawn on man there was
| woman and to man in the fit there ou1
to be some one arrested as it was ir
| front of the school an all the peple nc
| police one was called Frank and the
| other Met 1t went a little to far to lei
it stop here there out to be something
| done to stop it from going any further II
would have been a murder if his merry
didn't fail hoping you will do this for 9
| ellison of Butte and you paiper.'
For the benefit of he, she or it who
wrote the letter, it should be STATED
something has been done about it. One
of the parties was arrested Saturday.
Colonel George Walker, whoever HI
may be, but who is said to be a Texas
theatrical manager, has been telling tht
New York Telegraph a new story OF