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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-15

Joplin. Mo, Aug. ii-Kil Mccoy knock.
ed out Jim Garter, heavy weight cham
pion OF Alabama, = the NTH round tl-
night Garter was 20 stand before Nc
Coy ten rounds but the KID was entirev
too clever for him. Garter was knock
down hve time ana was savel ~ ,he
gong IN the third round In tne hfth he
was Knocked down twice. the ,ast one be.
ins d Knockout
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-15
0TARK BROs. PAY CASH

every week ID you sen STARK TREEs. Out
dt free STARK NURSERY, Louisisna, MO
First Published IN Guthrie Daily Leader
July 2l 1879.
LIQUOR NOTICE
10 Whom it May Concern
N0tict. IS hereby given thst Jas Archer
has this day nled his petition 40 sell al re-
taif splriIuous vinnus and matt liquors IN
ore cent logan count y Oklahoma and that
,ufess direction be hled on or before the 4th
uav 0f August, A. ID lssa, sald petition viii
be granted y r. NORTON,
NJ III rie Okla, July a. 1883 CouL y ca
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-15
'ILIItU ROOT.

GRUGER REpLlEs TO CHAMBER
LAIN.
london, Aug. lt-President Kruger, at-
cordng 10 q dispatch from johannes.
burg, has sent reply accepting the pro-
posal OF the secretary OF state for the
colonies, Joseph Chamberlain 20 submit
the franchise controversy 20 a Joint COM
mission of inquiry on condition that
the Independence OF .he Transvaal shan
not be impugued.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-15
Great Haste Is Not go
ALzpaps Good Speed. =

ManD people truSt to luck
TO ppR them through, and are
often disappointed. Do not
dZiy-daHy in matters of
health. With it you can
accomplish miracles. With
cut 1t you are no good.
Keep the mar. kidneys bowels and
blood healthy hv thcusc of Hood sar-
saparilia. the iaultIess blood purifier.
Dyspepsia- -"I know 8 positive relief
for dyspepsia and that is Hood Is Snrsapa-
ruia. It cured me. My neuralgia also
stopped" w. b. BtIpWIN. lti OAK street,
puebamtou New York.
Tired Feeling N.Y. appetite, was
c.9riciS1s uE IIrtr dIsordercd and / was
tired Hoods sarsapariha relieved it al.
It cured IA friend of mine OF female weak
ness Mas, JESSIE A NfARNs, clayton, Del
Jlood3 Szlgqb0I@
%IlZl1.lkfl2Il1ES
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
THIS WAS THE PIONEER FLAG
AND MONTANA WOMEN MADE It
The Men Folk Planted the Flag Pole and on the Morning
Of the Glorious Fourth the Stars and Stripes
Were Flung to the Rocky Mountains Breeze.

D.
n backn
Mrs John Stevens
sisted by Col W. Sanders
attempted
dmke efrfa
tana.
above the The
and myself old will
t
and raised it at
cut
dfredh shot
beer in
delivered
the flag raised and there she stayed That
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
TOO MUCH WH|SKEY MIXED WITH GOLD

From the sale of the meat market,
my share of what was taken out of the
claims and what got for my interest.
| cleaned up little more than $26, 900
in dust. l sold out in April, 1854 I
didn't work in the ground much after
the first few weeks. / started and ran
the meat market, which was owned by
the party on equal shares"
What was your reason for selling
out?"
We'll, to be plain about the matter,
there was too much whiskey drank to
suit me. l didn't drink myself and |
didn't like the way the dust was being
squandered. l used to go around Mon
day morning to the saloons and stores
and pay the bills contracted by the
party Sometimes 1 had to pay a
whskey bill of 100 ounces. In one week
alone they fined Bill Fairweather $3.50
for drunkenness"
After selling out, Edgar started for
Salt Lake with his $4,000. He stayed
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

The Fairweather party had worked
in common and shared alike up to the
time that they returned to Alder gulch.
Then they divided Sweeney and Rog
er3 became partners and worked their
claims on shares, while the other four
continued as in the original party and
worked in common. These four after
ward took in George Orr as a partner
for the reason that when the Fair
weather party had first started on it's
prospecting tour he stayed behind at
Bannack and told them he would have
a stake for them if they came back
hungry.
THE best day we had" said Edgar,
1--WE took out $3.50 with four of US
shoveling. Claim No. l we sold for SIS
after we had taken out all we thought
was in it. But it proved to be false
bedrock and subsequently there was
$50, 900 more taken out of that claim"
What did you make from the
gulch?" asked the reporter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
Back to the Famous Spot
Where in the Early Six
ties the Young State
Got It's Start.
CHANGES TIME HAS MADE
They Are Many But at Every
Turn One Comes Upon Some
Monument of the Lively
Days OF Yore.

There was a strange mingllng of the
to-day with the yesterday at Virginia
City last week when the pioneers of
Montana revisited the old town on the
occasion of their annual meeting. The
men who first dug gold from the banks
of Alder creek, who founded Virginia
City, who made the beginnings of Mon
tana, went back after the lapse of a
third of a century to see what changes
time had wrought in the old town.
They visited once more the claims they
used to work in the gulch. Instead of
busy miners panning out the gold to
pay for another nights spree they saw
steam dredges and enormous dredging
boats with their powerful machinery
and modern appliances working over
the dirt again and saving what had
been left behind in the early DAYS.
They looked into the old theater, rot
ten now and abandoned, with falling
rafters and tattered draperies, where
crowds of men paid from 81 to SIS a head
to see the acting of C. w. Couldock
and Julia, Dean Howe and Jack Lam
grishe and Tony Ward and John Ma
guire. They visited the stores they
used to keep or where they used to
trade the restaurants where they used
houses they used to patronize. They
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

1oiicSiHeu. IIelly early the next
morning, however, the stamped
ers began to scatter. They had an
idea they were near the gulch in which
gold had been found and they wanted
to get in first for fear there would not
be enough ground to go around Some
went up Bevins' gulch, others into Cal
ifornia gulch and into adjacent gulches
Probably 200 came right to Alder gulch
that day All the locators were anx-
ious to get close to the discovery bar
and many rode. right over better
ground to get near to the original
claims The best gold found, so far
as ready money is concerned. was not
taken up until late in that day or aft
erward. On the trip. while camped on
the Beaverhead, the discoveries claim
ed and were allowed claims of 200 feet,
while other locators were to have 100
feet. The claim l got was right below
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

far-off mining camp with scarcely
money enough to reach the old town,
but loath to allow the reunion to pass
without their presence. Others who. in
the old days, struggled for their first
stake and who seemed never able to
get ahead, went back last week in COM
Portable circumstances or, in some
cases, millionaires. The town of the
old days has changed and the men of
the old days have changed, too.
On this page the Standard shows
the features of some of those upright,
fearless pioneers who lived in Vir-
ginia City third Of century ago.
1t gives also view of Alder gulch as
1t appears to-day, and a view of the
city taken from the hill, where are
buried the outlaws who met their fate
at the hands of the ,vigiIantes.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
When the Postal
Service Started.

The first deputy postmaster of Viz
ginia City was Bob Menefee, now of
Bozeman, whose features are shown on
this page.
There were gentlemen in those
days" said Menefee, as he stood last
week in front of the old shack where
he used to hand out the letters. when
the mail came in there would be a long
line of men in waiting for their turn
at the window to ask for mail Those
who could afford it, or had urgent bust
ness, would give half a dollar to ex-
change places with some one near the
head of the line. But many is the time
1 have seen miners yield their places
free of charge to some one who mad a
wife or other loved ones back in the
East somewhere and We're suffering
with anxiety to hear from them.
1--WE have no friends they would
say, and there is no hurry about u.s.
Il remember how mad A. NJ Hotter
got one day. 1t seems that we used to
post on the wall of the postof1ice the
names of those for whom letters had
arrived. Hotter came along in a great
hurry one day and found his name
posted as having letter coming. H
was in too great a hurry to take h
splace at the end of the line, so he gave
a half dollar to a man near the top
He got his letter. and maybe he wasn't
mad when he found it to be a notice
for him to come up to the office and
pay his taxes!"
The first postoffice was located in
frame shack nearly opposite the thea
ter and beside the little store where
John Caplice made his first stake The
shack has disappeared and it's site is
vacant.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
One on Curtis.

The picture which the Standard pre-
sents on this page of Colonel John H.
Curtis of Butte was snapped just after
Charley Cannon of Helena had told
an old time story about him.
Didn't you ever hear that story"
asked Mr.. Cannon. You see it was
just after Curtis got married and he
looked just as little as he does now
and more boyish. He had engaged the
rear seat of the old stage coach, and
when the coach drove up he began to
climb into the back seat. The driver
caught hold of him and pulled him
out, saying:
Get out of there, hubby, That seat
is reserved for Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis!"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
MON TANAS 0LD-TIMERS MAKE TBE 1OIR OR
M0NTANAS FAMOUS OLDT[NE MINING TOWN

visited Bob Hales old drug store, now
used as an assay office, from the raft
ers of which, while the building was
not yet completed five men were hung
in those vigilante days. They visited
the spot where Slade was hung and the
house where Mrs. Slade lived after her
husbands death. They climbed the
nil to the gruesome cemetery where
the outlaws lie buried. They went to
Adobetown and Nevada and Junction
City and Highlands, the once lively SUI
burbs, now quite deserted They Wis
TIED the old Jail which still shows the
hole in the ground from which a MUIR
derer escaped. They visited all the old
scenes and they talked over the old
times.
''The old town isn't what she used
to. ber'
That was the universal verdict of
the old timers. The old town has in
deed changed. Silence reigns where
gambling houses and hurdy houses
once made night more noisy than day
The crack of the revolvers-the music
of the early days-is never heard now
No more do the boys come tearing up
the street from their camps, ride their
horses into the saloons, fire a shot at
the lights by way of emphasis and call
everybody up to have a drink.
The old town has indeed changed,
but the old boys have changed, too,
and who can say whether time has
wrought greater changes with the town
or with the men? Those active, ener-
getic, fearless men-the men who
founded Montana-the sturdy men who
vowed that, if the rope only held out,
they would make Montana honest and
square, went back to the old camp
grizzled and gray and bent with years.
They went back to meet old friends as
changed as themselves-so changed
that in many instances bosom friends
of old times had to be introduced over
again. Men who used to throw their
sacks of gold dust on the bar, call
everybody up, and. like a true gentle
man of the old days, turn their backs
while the bartender. weighed out the
dust to pay for the drinks. came back
from their poor cabins in the gulches,
or their scanty ranches, or from some
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
He Just Walked
In On the Folks,

A family in Virginia City was some
what startled one morning last week
when a rollieking, merry, jovial old
chap, without knocking, opened the
door, walked in and began looking
around.
isn't this the place where Griffith
& Thompson used to keep store?"
YES,
well, l used to clerk it here So
years ago. Can't l look around?"
The permission was granted and
Charles w. Cannon of Helena looked
at the rooms where he used to sell
goods and where he used to sleep with
revolver under .his pillow.
Ex-Mayor William Thompson of
Butte was one of the proprietors of the
store. Cannon afterwards opened a
pie and cake shop of his own and there
made his first stake.
Il remember that store WELL" said
Judge A. H. Barrett of Butte. AT that
time the Missouri Republican cost so
cents a copy. Few could afford a
copy, but Cannon used to make the
under crusts of his pie out of the pa
per. So his patrons, by paying 25 cents,
could eat quarter of pie and read
a slice of the Missouri Republican at
the same time!"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
Two Stanpeders
Living at Alder.

OF all the men who came into Alder
gulch in that first stampede, when the
Fairweather party told a story which
caused Bannack to be deserted only
two are now living in Virginia City.
Some are to be found in other parts
OF Madison county and in adjoining
counties, but the rest have scattered
over the face of the globe
The two original stampeders now in
Virginia City are George Gohn and f.
f. Johnson. In telling of the stam-
pede Mr. Johnson said the other day:
Il think there were about $50 who
went on the first stampede from Ban
mack to Alder gulch. We camped the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
When Money Came Easy.

They used to make money fast In
Virginia City in the old days
There was an old fellow named
Cider Nick" said DR. Whitford in tell
ing about the old times. He had a
barrel of dried apples and he made
cider from them and sold the cider at
80 cents drink. He used acetic acid
and water with the apples. At the end
of the summer he had cleared $40. 900,
and he had nearly as many dried APP
Piles left as when he started"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

there four months and then went down
into Arizona, where he remained year
on the ella river and at Fort Yuma
He then returned to Virginia City for
few days and after a time opened a
meat market in ophir gulch. He sold
that and started a market in Pioneer
and afterwards ran one in Philipsburg
THAT busted me-" said Edgar. My
dust from Alder gulch was all gone and
all l had to show for it was a lot of
bills receivable that 1 never received
anything for l then started a brick
yard in Philipsburg and afterwards one
in Missoula, and now l am ranchins
and have a good home"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

that of hummer Dan. That bar was
immensely rich at the time.
There wasn't a wickiup here to
shelter one when we arrived. 1t was
several days, or weeks, in fact, before
anything was done toward making a
town. Not one in 10 had a tent. Those
who had tents let others in as far as
possible, while the balance rolled
themselves up in blankets in the open
air. Little real mining was done for
quite awhile. With the exception of
the bars the ground had to be drained
before it could be worked. According
ly, it was fall before much was really
done in the way of taking out gold.
Meanwhile the town was springing
up. The first store was started by Fred
Root and Nat Davis. About this time
Dodson, King and l went into Bevins
gulch and made the lower discovery in
that gulch.''
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

first night on the Rattle
snake, the second night on
this side of the Beaver
head, about where NAL
denis ground was, and the
third night nearly opposite
the Silver Spring mill on
what. is now the Ruby.
Everything was kept Sc
cret as to the location so
far as the crowd was
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-09
Under FOURFEET OF WATER.
Unprecedented Flood at Charleston,
Capital Of West Virginia.
KANAWHA RIVER ON A BOOM,

CnARLEsrowN. W. Va, March O.
The Kanawha valley was visited yes
terday by one OF the worst floods In
local history. After several days OF
heavy rainfall the Kanawha river in
nm unprecedentedly short time has
covered almost the entire valley.
Charleston IL almost entirely under
water. -Four feet surround the state
capitol, The mayor and leading cit
icons have opened relief station and
are distributing provisions and cloth
Ing among the suffering Consider
able damage has been caused TO the
coal property along the Kanewha
river The Winlfred coal tipple, docks
and u dozen bargcs were swept away
about ton miles above Charleston. The
Black Cat coal tipple, near the east
bank, was destroyed, The water
works, both gus plants and electric
light works were shut down and the
city was in darkness Hundreds OF
families are quNrtcred In the city
building, capitol, courthouse and other
buildings. Much distress prevails, A
considerable distance OF the Kanawha
g. Michigan railway between here and
Point Pleasant is under water, and 1t
will be four or five days before traffic
is resumed, The indications, however,
arc that the food has reached its
height.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-09
MAY CAUSE EUROPEAN WAR.
China Refuses ItaIy'A DoE,and for n Coal
Ing station.


ing station.
PFKINd, March 0-The Chinese for
eign Office has returned TO tho Italian
charge d'aifaires, Marquis Salvage
Ragg, his dispatch containing the de-
mand OF the Italian government for a
lease OF San.Mun bay on the same
conditions as those under which Ger
many holds Klao-Chou bay, accom-
panying 1t with a letter declaring that
the Chinese government Is unable to
grant the request,
ROME, March 0, Little attention Is
paid here TO the refusal OF the Chinese
government to grant the requested
lease Of San Nun bay, TO be used as
naval and coaling station No doubt
Is entertained that tho concession will
be made after further negotiations,
Rear Admiral Grenet embarked to-
day on the Italian cruiser Stromboli
at Naples, to take command of the
Italian squadron In Chipcse waters
LONDON, March 6.-Thc Rome corre-
spondent Of the Daily Mail says; 1.-THE
Italian warshlps have landed marines
ut San Nun bay, thus virtually taking
possession, Italy will pay nearly
ESQ, 900 for the concession. Tho tsung-
li-yamen wishes to reduce the lease TO
fifty years"
The Pcking correspondent OF the
Times says; at Is asserted since the
tsung-lI-yamen returned Italy's de
patch Sir Claude Macdonald British
minister to China has presented a
note supporting Italy's demand, and
1t is probable that Italy will now take
possession Of San Nun bay, encoun-
tering practically no resistance"
According to the Picking correspond
emit Of the Times, tho tsung-li-yamen
supports Great Britain against the
protest Of the Russian government re.
garding the terms OF the Niu Chwang
railway extension loan, recently sub.
scribed in London, the gLound Of Rus
sian objection being that the clause
appointing British subject chief en-
gineer Of the line is in conflict with
the Russo Chinese agreement.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-09
SWEPT BY A CYCLONE.

Southern stntoi sunor From u Terrible
Wind storm-sovoral Lives Lost
ATHENS, Tenn, March GA terrific
cyclone passed over n portion Of Madi-
sonville and Monroe county last night
with disastrous results. Early In the
evening n strong wind arose and sew
eral hours later cyclone about sew
enty yards wide struck portion Of
jacksonville, killing three persons,
woundlng ten or twelve others and
completely destroying twelve or If
teen houses and several barns,
DECATUR, Ala, March GA terrific
storm OF wind, hail and lightning
struck this place last night, doing
great damage and causing the loss Of
four lives, The huge tower of the
Long Distance Telephone company,
l4O feet high, which carried the wires
spanning the Tennessee river, was
snapped like reed
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-09
AWFUL POWDER EXPLOSION
Deals Death and Destruction at
Naval Station In France,
FORTY BODIES ARE RECOVERED

ToULoN, March 0. The naval pow.
der magazine Of In Goubran, between
La Seyne and Toulon, In the depart
mont OF Var, Southern France, OK
plodcd at $3.50 o'clock yesterday morn
Ing, All OF the soldiers on duty at
the magazine were killed, and a NUM-
Der OF the inhabitants OF the sur
rounding district, tho buildings in
which were razed, also fell Victims
Forty corpses have already been re-
covered, The cause Of the explosion
ID not known.
Fifty thousand kilograms Of black
powder exploded, II looks as though
u volcanic eruption had occurred, the
country being swept almost bare wi H.
In radius OF two miles, houses DO
stroyed, trees overturned and dis
tortcd, fields devastated and covered
with stones, and impalpable blt.Jk
dust
Some Of the stones are enormous
One weighing ffty Kilograms fell in
tho suburb OF Ponce dc Las Signs OF
the explosion are evident in all the
suburbs Of Toulon and in the city It,
self, Even at 81, Jean dc Var, Ave
miles distant, windows were shattered
and doors battered In. Later reporss
show that Of the seven sentrlos, four
were killed outright and the others
severely injured, the corporal being
literally scalped and the scalp over.
hanging his face like veil,
Although 1t was u clear night the
explosion was so terrific as to produce
Il slight rainfall
A vehicle moving along road near
the sea was lifted bodily into the
water by the force Of the explosion,
two Of It's occupants being drowned.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-09
GILBERT IN baud.
Accused Of Wandering Hl' Family Near
Industry, Kan,

Industry, Kan.
EMPoRIA, Kan, March 0,--Sheriff
0'Connor arrested John Gilbert yester-
day afternoon, Gilbert Is supposed 10
have murdered his wife and four chill.
dren on the night Of February 20, on
his farm near Industry, Clay county,
Kansas
Gilbert was walking up Commercial
street when Sheriff oConnor, who had
been on the watch, accosted him! "Ars
you John Gilbert9"
yea
"I'rom Clay county,"
yes
"You are my prisoner,
Gilbert made no resistance and did
not seem surprised at the arrest. lie
was taken to the county jail, was
searched and a large revolver was
found on his person,
After being put in cell tho first re-
mark he made TO tho sheriff was;
s'You will see that get fair play,
won't your
When asked why he left homo Gil.
bert stated that he thought the fam
lily could get along better without
him, and that he wanted TO go away
for time Us business troubles were
worrying him,
He seemed in very good humor and
smiled continually when being ques-
toned, until asked II he had killed his
wife and children,
why" no said, they are not
dead
well, that's what the papers say"
saio the sheriff.
Gilbert then clasped his hands be-
fore his face and moAued. In few
minutes he said; "Why should any
one hurt them, and then blame me"
IIo denied ever having had any
trouble with his wife. He stated that
after leaving his homo he rode south
and turned tho horse loose. He then
walked for two days and caught n
Santa Fe train south Of Abilene, went
to Strong City and beat his way to
Emporia.
He said that the family was in good
health when he left lie was very
nervous and seemed afraid that he
would need the protection of tho
sheriff. His actions and speech are
moro like those of an insane man than
a criminal.
lie gave as reason for turning the
horse loose; ut was mortgaged and
| did not want the man TO loose any
money"