The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-13
ANACONDA NEWS.
LOVED THE BAKERS BOY
So Minnie Walker Elopes With
Him and Is Welded.
BEAT OUT THE TELEPHONE
Romance OF Deer Lodge Girl and Her
Sweetheart-Ma Before the Girls
Protesting Mother Knew of the
Elopement.

MY bonny 1assie. Minnie, has run
off with the bakers boy" shouted Mrs.
Walker of Deer Lodge over the phone,
tearfully, late Monday night to Under
Sheriff Morgan. shes ouer young
to marry yet, and the bakers boy is
now't but lad, and he smokes Gig
arettes. Don't let them get married
/ don't want him to have her.
Then Colonel Tom McTague, whose
sympa1hies Mrs. Walker had enlisted,
roared advice and suggestions into
the phone and managed, slyly, TO con-
yey the impression that perhaps, after
all, there would be no tragedy If the
wedding were not averted
But the urgent request of Mrs. Walk
er was too late in coming. While she
had been chatting over the tea table
at the home of Deputy Sheriff and Mrs.
Jcnn Robinson her buXom daughter,
Minnie had slipped away. When Mrs.
Walker began to jingle the telephone
bell and invoke the strong arm of the
law Minnie was already married, and
with her husband and two young
friends, was driving placidly back to
Deer Lodge.
Randall Washington is the youth
who won the heart and hand Of Minnie
Walker. He is a young baker in Deer
Lodge and has been paying attentions
TO Minnie for some time.
The motherly soul of Mrs. Walker,
mother of Minnie and widow, who,
years ago. came from her Scottish
home to America, was made uneasy by
these attentions. She did not approve
Of Randall and. moreover, considered
him too young to marry. Randall says
he is 81, but there are those who say
h. lie Tic rt1 To- q Oh
is between IS and 20. Mrs. Walker told
Minnie not to receive ,Randal's atten-
tons.
But pretty Minnie had set her heart
on Randall and was not to be dissuad-
ed from mating with the lad of her
choice.
Matters came to a crisis when the
Walker family began to prepare for a
removal from Deer Lodge. Mrs.
Walkers son and Minnie's brother is
the Rev. A. NJ. Walker who has been
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Deer Lodge. He was trans
ferred recently to East Helena. Mother.
son and daughter have been living with
him and all three prepared to remove
to the pastors new station. But Min
MES preparations were not in earn
est. She determined to stay In Deer
Lodge.
Monday Randall Waddington came to
Anaconda alone. Wnlle mere ne pro-
. vided himself with a license to wed
Minnie Walker, as told in the Stand
ard yesterday. 1t just so happened
that Mrs. Walker was to take tea and
spend the evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Robinson that evening.
When Mrs. Walker had unsuspi-
ciously started to that home Minnie
slipped out and climbed into a carriag e
in which sat Randall, together with
young Mr.. McDaniels and Miss Lear
They reached Anaconda early in the
evening and about o'clock Rev Mr..
Cattermole of the First M. e. church
performed the ceremony that made
Minnie Mrs. Waddington.
Then the young people started home,
reaching there about a. m. In the
meantime Mrs. Walker had about
1880 p. m, discovered the absence of
her daughter. A little investigation
and feminine intuition made it plain
to her the young people had flown to-
gether toward Anaconda. She routed
out the telephone operator, met Col
onel McTague. who offered his assist
ance, and rang up the sheriff's office.
The sheriff and the under sheriff con-
suited and then a search was started.
Presently Mr. Morgan discovered the
wedding had taken place. sent word
to that effect to Mrs. Walker, and the
arm of the law ceased to reach in the
direction of the young people.