Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-11
BIG DOINGS.

Red Dog Clarion: One morning last
week a calamity overlook this town and
five Of our best citizens persisted in an at
tempt to uphold the majesty of the law.
AS Is we'll known. Maverick Mike was
convicted 10 days g of the helnous
crime of horse stealing. He was tried
and convicted by the most approved
of Judge Lynch's Court. and the
was that he should be taken out
and shot. Mike was placed in Jail during
the interim between the passing Of sem
tence and his execution, and while there
begged as a last favor. that he be shot in
his own cabin. The Vigilance Committee,
after some hesitation, agreed to grant
this request, and arrangements We're
made to have the execution come off ac-
cordingly. Mike, in the meantime, pro-
fessed religion, and was quite fervent in
his exhortations to his guards to lead a
better life. The morning of the execution
all business in Red Dog was suspended,
and the populace wendell its way to Nav
erick Mikes shanty to see the killing.
Arriving at the shack Mike asked per-
mission to seat himself on a key that
stood in one corner. This he did, and the
executioners stood in line, their drawn
III in hand.
Divinity Dave, the minister. preached a
touching sermon, which brought tears to
the eyes of the condemned and the popu-
lace which stood outside the shanty.
Them words v your'n,' remarked
Maverick Mike, lifts me up. I hope also
lifts everybody up that is %attendin' this
yere execootion. Go ahead, boys! FIRE."
The five 44-caliber guns of the execu-
TONERS spoke with one report, and the
next thing we, the editor of the Clarion,
remembers, is waking up in Red Dog
hospital.
The five eXecutioners and Maverick
Mike were dead, and one-half of the
population of Red Dog is in the hospital.
Maverick Mike had sat on a key of nitro
glycerine when he bid good bye to the
citizens and hoped they would be lifted
up and he surely had his wish.
We do not desire to criticise. because
we know that no one, not even the ed
itor of the Clarion IS above criticism. but
we do think that the conduct of Snap
Shot Sam during the recent revival meet
ing held by our minister. Divinity Dave,
in the Red Dog Chapel. is not wholly be-
yond reproach. Divinity Dave was ex-
horting sinners to come to grace and re-
pent and at the same time Snapshot
Sam and Dusty unc Were engaged in
playing a hand of poker in the rear pew.
Sam had succeeded in corraling d bob
tail flush of clubs. He vas about to dis
ard the queen of hearts and draw for a
club flush, when Divinity Dave sang out:
Are there any one in this yere SEM
blage who would like to have a change v
heart this EVENING"
Il would" sang out Snapshot Sam.
I'D k to trade the queen of hearts for
a club a..
The remark drew a laugh from the con-
gfegation, which was unseemingly, to say
the least, and we hope in future that
Snapshot will indulge in no more re-
marks calculated to draw the minds Of
the people from their religious duties.
The Gilt Edge Dramatic Company
played a one-night engagement last week
at the Red Dog Opera house and during
the performance several citizens who
were manifestly under the influence of iig
juice attempted to show their approval
of the performance by stamping vigor-
ously on the floor. Mr.. Cataract Charley,
the owner of the opera house, then APP
peared on the stage and requested these
individuals to cease stamping. They re-
piled with jeers, and stated they intended
to stamp as much as they pleased. IAN
right!' answered Charley, Stamp ahead,
But remember l warned We. Thar's
nearly half a ton of dinymfte stored in
the cellar of this opr'y house,"