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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-25
TOBOGGANING ON A VOLCANO.

A writer in the October pearson's de-
scrihes the lively sensation of ~tcbogSan-
ing down the sides Of Fopocatapetl, the
great volcano of Mexico which rears it
self in gaunt majesty 1876 feet above
sea level.
Having reached the summit, he says,
the Indian guides look coinplacenlly
around and pull conDlacently at their
eternal cigarettes as they begin TO M
roll their "petates' on the snow. These
petates ara Indian mats of strong, tough
fiber, which the guides have carried up
on their backs. You realize that they
are, also, to5oggans. Now the guilds
make this toboggan trip, the most re-
n~larkable one in the world and the only
ona Down the side OF a great volcano,
week in and week out whenever the sides
of the volcano are not SO frozen over as
to prevent it,. 1t is nothing to them.
But for you it is a different matter-and
the more you look at the fraii petates
and at the long, glittering dscent, the
less YOU like the idea. Nervously you
watch the preparations-the smoothing
dow of the petates, when they Will per-
sist in curling up at the corners, and the
testing OF the heavy palos or alperstOcks,
of which each guide carries two. with eX-
ira ones strapped on his back in case
of loss.
Quakingly you seat yourself on the
rear ends of the mats. Complacently the
guides brace themselves firmly i'll front
of you, push the ragged old sombreros
over their eyes, light a fresh cigarette
for the down trip, caution you to sit still
and nave care. take a steady grip on the
alpenstocks, which serve them as steer
ing poles-and you are off. Perhaps. on
your way up, it has been you intentions
to race each other doWn-you have no
~jocular thoughts now, and as the mats
slip over the snow, slowly at first, then
faster, gathering momentum at every
inch, you grab desperately at the guides
waist and hold on for dear life.
The speed quickens until you are going
faster than express train rate. Clouds
of soft snow fly by. at times almost blind
ing you, and calling forth much Indian
profanity from the guides. The sensa-
ton, when you take it quietly, with CLOS
ed eyes %(supposing you can bring your
self to do this), is not unpleasant. There
is a sense of extraordinary exhilaration.
of mad recklessness. But if you dare to
look up or about, the sense of seasick-
ness becomes most overpoWering.
BY the time you have lone half the
trip the breath has completely left your
body-your mouth and yes are wide
open, you can neither see nor hear. Then
the end comes, with a bang and a shock,
at the very edge of the snow. and you roll
helter-skelter through the stiff, vacation
grass-bruised wrecks. People take the
end differently. Some sit up, rub their
heads and laugh; others relieve their
oyerstrung nerves with copious tears
for my part. 1 lay still and gasped.
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soc. and $500. all druggists.
SCOTT 4 BOW NE. Chemists New York,

Ger, receiving in tu27 a burial permit.
they shall not bury their dead. If they
do the coroner will disinter, and hold an
inquest. and any person who violates
the law in addition will be arrested and
fined
I'm regard to the four deaths which
have already occurred. we advise that
you proceed to this settlement. carrying
with you blank death certificates. Sc
cure ali the data you possibly can of the
four dead persons and make a regular
record. as should be lone. If you find
trouble in discovering he facts desired
there will be nothing left for you to do
but to inform the coroner and tell him
his duty is to disinter and secure the
data which you are unable to secure.
II necessary. he will be supported by all
the soldiers in the state. but. of course.
crawford county is sufficiently powerful
to enforce the laws for herself"
There is no telling how this many ter
inmate. as the Amounted Saints are
firm believers in their faith.
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All Kinds OF PrivdtiOnS on
a Voyage.
FROM CAPE NOME MINES
Vessel Had Not Sufficient Provisions
and Two Men Died of Hunger
The Other Passengers Came Near
Meeting a Like Fate.

Seattle. Wash. Oct. 24.-After a voy-
age of % days from Cape Nome, during
which time two men died of starvation
and others were half crazed from want
of food and water the schooner Hera
arrived in port this morning with nearly
200 passengers on board. News of the
Wretched plight of the Hera's passen-
gers was brought here Sunday night by
the steamer Lainke. The revenue cutter
Grant and the tug Sea Lion Immediately
started after the schooner. They sue
ceeded IN finding the schooner yesterday
about SO miles off Cape Flattery. The
two deaths reported are those of j. ;.
Ryan, who came on board a we'll man,
but through bad food and lack of atten-
ton gradually grew worse until he died
on Oct. 16. The other case is much the
same. George Lamby, through van of
nourishment and confinement in ill-yen-
tilated quarters, was taken with typhoid
fever II died on Oct. 81. While he was
sick he had absolutely no medical at
tention. Both men were buried at sea.
From the statements of other passen-
gers it is learned thai the agent of the
ship at Nome guaranteed them plenty of
good provisions on the way down.. They
We're charged $50 for their passage.
When they We're a few days out meat,
sugar and butter ran out. The meat
consisted of salt horse and a small sup
ply of AIMED mutton. There was a little
dried fruit on board. but only enough to
supply the table three times with dried
peaches and twice with dried prunes.
From that time on for nearly "a days
their food consisted of f,our and coffee.
There was plenty of our but the water
was short. Four days ago the last of the
unpalatable salt horse was consumed.
Had it not been for rain storms which
fell for a few days they would have been
without water also.
When the Hera anchored out in the
stream the majority of the men were so
! weak that they could not carry their gold
dust ashore without assistance. Several
OF the passengers We're craZed from their
terrible experiences and had to be carried
ashore II taken care of. Even taking
their terrible voyage alto consideration
the passengers unite in declaring Nome
to be the greatest camp on earth and
many of them will return in the spring.
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Apple Shipping Town.

Leavenworth, Kan, stands at the head
of American cities in the shipment of
apples. Indeed, more apples are ship
ped from Leavenworth than from any
other point on either side of the Atlantic
ocean. In addition to the large number
of local packers engaged In the business
at that place, hundreds of packers flock
to Leavenworth annually from other
parts of the country fer the purpose of
shipping away fruit. There are two
immense cold storage plants in Leaven
worth, one of which is built to accom-
modate 1900 bushels of apples.
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To Lift a Mortgage.

Morris, Mimi, Oct. ~25.-Joseph Haigh,
a farmer, living five miles west of Dom
nelly, shot his twenty-one-year-old son,
Russ, blowing his head completely off.
He then shot himself through the heart.
There was a 1000 mortgage on his farm,
and It is thought he killed his son to get
s., 900 insurance from the Modern Wool
men. of which order the latter was a
member, and then killed himself to es-
cane legal punishment. In this way he
expected to leave his family with the
farm clear of incumbrance.
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sALE-BITTER ROOT VALLEY.
No 1O--1eo ceres; all fenced; 100 acres
under CIVILIZATIONS: 20 acres in saleable
timber; A l water right: orchard of SOD
bearing trees: also SINAI fruit, SIS acres
seeded to hay: a two-story. six-room
dwelling, good barn and out buildings.
ore and one-half miles from town and
good school. No. 1890 acres. 2 miles
from depot. 4 miles from town, all
fenced. good water right. 200 acres un-
der cultivation, 40 acres meadow, can
culti1ate 500 acres. 20 acres timber.
small bearing orchard. log house and
barn Price $4,000. A bargain. En-
ouire of Ravalli County Abstract Co.
Hamilton, Mont.
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FOR SALE-16O ACRES, ALL WE'LL
fenced, 3 room cottage. g~ranaries, STAB
ling, etc. 5 horses, wagon. harness,
farm tools, machinery, IS lows, 6 young
cattle, so OF of hay. straw stacks,
all belongings outside of the house.
Fine irrigating and stock water privl-
lege. Good location, good schoo Az
miles from town. Price 50 $500. Imme-
date possession. G.. w. Dickinson,
real estate, Stevensville, Mont
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MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-TEAM OF HORSES ABOUT
LOO weight in exchange for team
weighing about 1900 weight. Willing
to pay consideration. Address P. O..
Box 500.
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COOKS

A store that buys for cash and sells
for cash every time-who says it does
not pay?
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REAL ESTATE WANTED-WE HAVE
more customers than property and are
in position to sell any property that
will show up as d good investment. a
few desirable houses wanted. Reid &
Kennedy, 8 West Broadway.
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FOR SALE-GOOD PAYING RESTAU-
ant in good location for $17o. Case u
Holmes. IS f. Broadway.
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TYPEWRITER FOR SALE-STAND-
ard make. good as new, cheap for cash.
Gail or address A. r. Laird. $50 Frank
lin street, Butte. don't.
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FOR SALE-TEN ROOM BOARDING
and lodging house near the mines, 80
boarders, rent only S45; price $675. Hall
Bros, 46 East Broadway.
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FOR SALE-FURNITURE OF A VERY
desirable boarding house, paying 70
per cent on money invested. One IL
room house, full of boarders, $3.50. We
also have a number of lodging houses.
Information cheerfully given. jack
son & Cox, II West Granite street.
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FOR SALE-NEW GROOM BRICK
full lot. on install1nents. Reid Il Ken
needy, 3 West Broadway.
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FOR sALE-EUPNITURE OF A s6
room house, desirable location, 81. 900. 90
$3.50 buys furniture Of 8 rooms Rent
only S3O.O {. Jackson & Co., II West
Granite.
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ROOMS FOR RENT-UNION BLOCK,
West Mercury opposite Union Laundry,
newly furnished front room with bath.
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FOR SALE-CIGAR AND CONFEC-
tioEary store doing nice business for
$3.50. Case & Holmes, 2G E. Broadway.
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1 3-pound pail Apple Eutter........ zoe
1 h-pound can Baking Powder.... 1Oc
5 pounds NJ. & J. Coffee ............Sl.0O
3 packages Cocoa .................. 5Uc
Imported Chow Chow. glass quarts. Zoe
u gallons soc
Catsup, pfnts 15c: quarts ............ 25c
French Mustard. quarts soc
10 hounds Cooking Figs .....,,...... 81. 90
II pounds Pure Whole Cod Fish......$1.O 90
I gallon Honey 81 %
l gallon Honey Drips Syrup ........ 4oc
1 gallon Finest Maple Syrup........$1.2o
5 pounds Gloss Starch ............. 2Sc
Commission House Eggs zoe; ranch 2oc
2 Jars Preserves .................. Ioc
5 pound glass jar Preserves ........ S5c
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house six rooms and bath. Call at IS w.
Park.
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FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ROOMS
we'll furnished. also furnished rooms,
with modern conveniences, reasonable
INQUIRE 633 up stairs Utah avenue.
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$25 CASH AND $40 FER MONTH BUYS
lot, 2ox100, in city. See this. Mcmillan
&. Floyd, Al East Broadway.
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FURNISHED ROOMS AT 24 WEST
Granite street.
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FOR S~ALE-GOOD HOUSE AND LOT,
on the East Side, for 5000. lot alone
worth $500. Case & Holmes, 26 East
Broadway.
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FOR SALE-s1.3 800 BUYS PROPERTY
that rents for $52 a month; close in;
clear title; city water; $500 cash, ball
ance on time. See this for an invest
ment. Room so, Silver Bow block.
S M. Wade.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-25

FOR RENT-FuRNISHED HOUSE
keeping rooms, also single rooms, prices
reasonable, we'll heated at 619 Utah
ave.
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wANTED-ALL KINDS OF SECOND
hand goods, highest cash prices paid at
Morgan's, 342 East Park street.
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FURNISHED ROOMS, WITH STEAM
heat, 81 a week. Fernell house, 6l3
South Utah.
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FOR SALE-A HORSE AND WAGON.
124 West Park. Would lease to proper
parties.
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wANTED-OLD IRON. BRASS. COP.
per, rubber and T rats at highest cash
prices. Correct weight guaranteed
Zeeye Junk Co.. a3e South Arlaor.a
street. p. @. Boz ESQ. Butte.
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WORKING GIRLS HOME, LODGINGS
s1.oO per week. meals 10c each at 700
Utah avenue
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TT ELITE CAFE HAS REOPENED
under new management at IL N. Wyom
ing street. Mrs. A. Slams, proprietor.
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w ANTED-TWENTY TIE CHOPPERS
100 first class; Sc second class. Good
timber. ST. Paul Employment Office. II
West Granite.
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HAS YOUR ADV.
ROOMS or HOUSES FOR RENT, BOA
OTIS FOR SALE. and many other "
this want column? 10. Is or 25 cents will
YOUNG MEN. OUR CATALOGUE Ex-
plains how to teach barber trade IN
eight weeks, mailed free. Mcller Barber
College, Minneapolis. MINI.
BUSINESS
FOR SALE-GOOD PAYING 2 CHAIR
barber shop, centrally located. Address
S. S., General Delivery, Butte, Mont.
FOR sALE-FURNITURE OF A VERY
desirable boarding house, paying "a
per cent on honey invested. One ~
room house, full of boarders, $3.50. We
also have a number of lodging houses.
Information cheerfully given. Jack
son & Cox, II West Granite street.
FOR sALE-GoOD HOUSE AND LOT,
on the East Side, for $500. lot alone
worth $500. Case & Holmes, 26 East
Broadway.
FOR SALE-CIGAR AND CONFICC-
tioEary store doing nice business for
$3.50. Case & Holmes, 26 E. Broadway.
FOR SALE-GOOD PAYING REsTAu-
rant in good location for $17o. Case u
Holmes, rs E. Broadway.
REAL ESTATE WANTED-WE HAVE
more customers than property and are
in position to sell any property that
will show UP as d good investment. \
few desirable houses wanted. Reid q
Kennedy. 5 West Broadway.
FOR SALE-NEW GROOM BRICK.
full lot. on installnents. Reid & Ken
nedy, West Broadway.
FOR SALE-16O ACRES, ALL WE'LL
fenced, 3 room cottage Eranarles, stap-
ling, etc. 5 horses, wagon. harness,
farm tools, machinery, IS COWS, 6 young
cattle, so tons of hay. straw stacks,
all belongings outside of the house.
Fin irrigating and stock water prlvl-
lege. Good locat lion, good school Az
miles from town. Price So, 600. Imme-
date possession. G. w. Dickinson,
real estate, Stevensville, Mont.
\ ~ l,t Do % "A ok Ian
room hard finished house in good con-
dit;on. Rents for $500 a month. Lot
35N1OO. City water. abstract title. n
cash. Room 80 Silver Bow block, S. M.
Wade.
FOR SALE-TEN ROOM BOARDING
and lodging house near the mines, 80
boarders, rent only s45; price s675. Hall
Bros, 46 East Broadway.
FOR SALE-s1. 800 BUYS PROPERTY
that rents for $52 a month; close in;
clear title; city water; $500 cash, bal
ance on time. See this for an invest
nlen,. Room so, Silver Bow block.
S M. Wade.
s25 CASH AND $40 PER MONTH BUYS
lot, 2nx100, in city. See this. Mcmillan
e. Floyd, Al East Broadway.
! FOR SAIE-A HORSE AND WAGON.
124 West Park. Would lease to proper
parties.
FOR SALE-EUPNITURE OF A Sc
room house, desirable location, 81. 600. 90
$45n buys furniture of 8 rooms. Rent
only $1,000 (. Jackson & Co., II West
Granite.
TYPEWRITER FOR SALl-sTAND-
ard make. good as new, cheap for cash.
Gail or address A. f. Laird. $50 Frank
lin street, Butte, Mont.
j FOR sALE-HITTER ROOT VALLEY.
No 1O--1eo ceres; all fenced; 100 acres
under cultivation: 20 acres in saleable
t;mber; A l water right: orchard of c11
bearing trees: also small fruit, SIS acres
seeded to hay: a two-story. six-room
dwelling, good barn and out buildings
ora and one-half miles from town and
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FURNISHED ROOMS CENTRAL
part Of city, steam heat, baths free,
16 West Broadway.
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BARBER SHOP FORMERLY OCCU-
pied by w. D. Finn, at 236 East Park.
is now run by H. L. Mead.
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MONEY TO LOAN

MONEY TO LOAN-ON REAL ESTATE
at 10 per cent. Also money to loan on
chattels. Chas. l.. Smith. % WesE
Granite street.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24
GENERAL MILES HUNTS
WITH BUFFALO BILL

While Butte was welcoming home the
eral Miles of the JJnit2d States army
and Colonel William r. Cody, the ia
nous Buffalo Bill" were hunting elk
in the eastern part of the state. An eff
fort was made by the Butte rec option
committee to obtain the presence CT
General Miles in Butte at that time,
but he could not be reached.
General Miles. accompanied by his
wife and daughter and Miss Hoyt, his
niece, were the guests Of Colonel Cody
on his Montana ranch. With the party
were DR.. DAILY of Pittsburg, one OF the
chief defenders of General Miles ddring
the attack made before the beef invc.ti-
eating committee. Colonies Black and
Michler, personal friends of the gem
eral; Major Cooper. who served with
honor in the Porto Rican campaign; Or.
Jacobus, a leading physician of New
York city, and Captain Hegeman.
In telling of the entertainment OF the
Miles party to an Omaha reporter, Col
onel Cody said:
THE party of General Miles went as
far as Red Lodge in its special tram,
where our wagon train was in waiting.
The equipment consisted of a stage
coach, mules and drivers and wagons
for the transfer of baggage. We then
Travelled by coach SO miles north to
Cody, where General Miles and family
were entertained at ranch I sci ecsed
for their use. The general became at
tached to the property and has since
purchased it and ordered it stocked in
readiness for his future visits.
1.-THE women then returned to Bill
the mountains for elk. We proceeded
with mules IS miles north to one of my
upper ranches and found game IN
abundance The visitors shot all the
elk they wanted and then We went
down to the plains for antelope, which
we found very plentiful. General Miles
was obliged to return before the other
male members Of his PARTY, who spent
several weeks hunting in the noun
tains.
"At Billings the women Of General
Miles party were entertained in an
agreeable way, Prominent women OF
that city. together with my own family,
planned number Of excursions which,
with other entertainment, consumed
most Of the visitors leisure. One par
ticularly interesting expedition was to
the Custer battlefield, where the Sew
enth cavalry made its final stand.
after my guests had returned East
I found an accumula ton of work, which
has occupied me until this time. The
Irritating plant connecting the various
Cody ranches is being constructed and
the bitches are now completed. My por-
ton of the work has just been finished
and I am on the way to New York to
reorga nize the show, which Is scattered
all over the world. Agents in Europe
and various parts of America. however,
are rapidly getting the material into
shape"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24
MONTANA ENGINEERS
WILL MEET AT BOHEMIAN

The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Montana Society of Engineers will be
held at Bozeman on January IL and IS.
The committee of arrangements in
cludes William Fl. Williams and G. NJ.
Thorpe Of Bozeman and Frank L. Sizer
Of Butte. The following programme
has been arranged:
January 12--Excursion In the morn
ing to the Chestnut coal washer and the
Chestnut and Trail creek coal mines. IN
the afternoon there will be an excur-
sion to the United States fish hatchery
in Bridger canyon. In the evening pa
pers will be read.
January 13-In the forenoon there
will be visit to the Montana College
of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts,
In the afternoon there viii be held the
annual business session of the society,
with the reports OF officers and COM
mittees, election of officers, election of
new members and presidential address.
In the evening there will be banquet
at Hotel Bozeman.
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footmen were following to the new FL
Dorado across the bleak and inhospit-
aole plateau of the Little Belt range.
Many OF them never returned and
scores OF others went back MANNED and
crippled in limb or deformed in feature
by cruel frost bites. It is pity that
no authentic record was kept Of the
casualties on that perilous journey.
But there was not even newspaper
within 200 miles of the locality to report
them The good fathers of the Sun
river mission, who carefully tended
large numbers of the injured and
dying, are the only ones who could
make an intelligent estimate of the
number who suffered and succumbed
to the raging of the fearful blizzard.
Although the stage coaches and grape
vine telegraph were the only means OF
conveying intelligence. the news of the
alleged find spread with marvellous
rapidity, and soon the restless and
reckless elements of the distant camps
were on the way to the supposed dig
gings. Some found out the true state
of affairs before reaching their destina-
ton. Deer Lodge, Silver Bow ana
other west side camps were largely
represented on the road; Diamond City
was nearly depleted of its mining men,
and even far away Virginia City and
still more distant Bannaek furnished
respectable contingents to join the
crazy throng
Scarcely one year ago staid old Vir-
ginia City was thrown into the
spasms of one of these oldtime stam-
pede excitements by young Joker who
had bought about 50 worth of gold dust
and exhibited it around town as the
product of few pans of gravel which
he had washed out from ground in
Moran creek. On that occasion. July,
1898, business men, miners, buns and
FOUNDERS crowded each other in g. wild
race over the rugged Madison divide to
get choice locations, even stalking
claims on patented agricultural land
in their insane craze to "get in on The
ground floor" just as their prototypes
did 81 years ago on the Stinkingwater
stampede.
So history repeats itself, and will
continue the repetition until the fool
killer has finished his task. Then the
gold-seeking world will have seen the
last of fake stampedes and fool stam-
peders. TOM BAKER.