The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-29

| Quoted by the Revs. T. c. Tiff. G. j.
Stanley. F. A. Riggin and w. w. Van
| Orsdel, the former of whom, says the
chronicler, preached an earnest, in
| teresttng and beautiful sermon, and
when the funeral cortege wendell its
way to the city on the 'hilf 1T was
| joined by hundreds of friends and ac-
| quaintances who accompanied it to
the last resting place of the famous
| deceased" Both, too, breathe the same
spirit of kindly remembrance of his
virtues, and touch gently upon his
failings, which, says one, were rather
the ebullitions of an overgenerous ma
ture than the emanations of an evil dis
position" and concluding with the hope
that in reviewing his career the good
which he had accomplished will
BE remembered long
And all his faults be e'er forgotten"
In the meeting of the pioneers to be
held next Tuesday it is to be hoped
that the state society will adopt some
measures to carry out the project con-
templated in a movement which was
inaugurated at one of the early meet
ings of the society, namely, to place
fitting monument over the grave of
the dead discoverer. At the first or
second meeting of the society COM
mittee consisting of one member from
each county was appointed to solicit
supS1iip'iohS Will liils Gnu III NicN'
and it is presunable that money was
collected for this purpose and turned
into the treasury of the society. The
Standard reporter is certain that this
was done in this region, and that the
Hon. H. II. Mood, the member of the
committee for Madison county, secur-
ed and sent in quite a considerable
sum for this fund For some time it
was that the grave could not be iden-
tilted, but it had been kept track of
by w. j. Norwood, the well known ac-
tor, who was close friend of Fair
weather in his life, and a few years
ago renewed the board which marks
the grave, which is situate about 80
feet southeast from the southeast cor
ner of the Rossiter lot in the Virginia
City cemetery. The matter ought GER
tainly to be looked into by the men,
bership at the forthcoming assembly
of pioneers
Old Antelope.
A sketch of the career of William
Fairweather would be incomplete with
out some notice of "Od Antelope" to
whom allusion has more than once been
made in this letter. Antelope" is the
horse which Bill" Fairweather rode
when he made his first entry into AL
der gulch 1t is believed to be the
animal which Fairweather got from the
Crows when the latter forced the adj
NenturefS 10 an Involuntary swap
ping" Of horses near Bozeman. Be this
as it may, Antelope was a sturdy
4-year-old roam when the party came
to Alder gulch, and was so called be-
cause he was branded with an antel-
ope on the bullock. He was the faith
full companion of Fairweather in all
his travels, and after the latters death
fell into the hands of r. ]. Johnson Of
the firm of o. d. French & Co, Vir-
ginia City. himself pioneer miner,
having sunk the first shaft in Biven's
gulch in 1868. Mr.. Johnson determined
to keep the horse in luxurious old age
for the good he had done, and placed
him on the ranch of Josiah Spencer.
in the Ruby valley. where .he lived
contentedly grazing within sight of the
place where his master died until a
few years ago, when the old horse
became mired in a swamp, and before
he could be rescued, "Old Antelope
had passed over the horse divide into
the happy grazing grounds, and now
lies buried in the field few feet from
where he died. ,.r