Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06
WyRKALSAND JOURNALISTS.

night was not ar earthquake. neither
was 1t caused by Colonel Daniel Searles
his pocketbook while en- route
home: it simply msant that Samuel Corr
don. Esq. of Miles City and the Yellow
stone Journal, had emerged from this
end of the Bozeman TUNE and was thun-
dering 9own the hill towards Anaconda.
Hurrah for Sam Gordon. the petite. the
poetical, the picturesque. the popular.
the pure! Miles City without Sam Cor
don would be a city of feet and inches.
not miles. Hurrah for every bonepin his
body, every fiber of his being, every hair
that he used to have on his head. There
is only one Sam Gordon. Hurrah for
that, too! ~ q
The Montana hotel, where ~theoState
week, was once the finest in the United
States. 1t opened under the Management
of a man named Harbour. and used to
serve Strawberries in January and oys-
tiers IN July. 1t RECALLED its patrons with
champagne instead of water, and gave
each guest, on leaving the house, a box
of imported perfectos and a bottle of
cocktails for himself and a whole turkey
with truffies for his dog. After Harbour
had managed the hotel for three months.
Mr.. DAILY. acting for the board of direc-
tors, commended his management and
raised his salary n Saturday night and
fired" him early on Monday morning.
A. X. Yerkes of the BoZeman Chronicle
has gone and written a book-"Pieces for
the Paper" 1t is a good book, too. There
is not a mean thought between the
1t tells of the simple joys of the
farmer and tells them in a home1y style
that would do no discredit to james
Whltcomb Riley. There are a few para
graphs and verses that Yerkes might
have sent to the Courier office. with the
request that Major Anderson publish
them over his own signature. but he
didn't send them. and we are glad he
didnt. for they will serve to show very
soon whether Yerkes has any enemies
on earth who have been waiting for him
to write a book. Major Anderson is
threatening to write a book of poems to
be entitled pieces for the Waste Bas-
ket." Such are the amenities Of Boze-
man journalism.
AA ,oAiS ~ IAdil liIcl VI .nOLe-
is said to be arranging to start a
weekly journal and has already selected
a site for a private graveyard where he
will bury those who do not subscribe to
his opinions and his paper. 1t will he
called the Sourdough Pancake. aF
The Livingston Enterprise refers to
as Sou%rdoughville.
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The most modest newSpa per editor in
is Mr.. Harbour of the. N
Press. He spells Harbour with a small
''h." never uses the editorial we" and
even refuses to sign checks with his own
name.
The full name of the chief Of the
Veracity department of the Anaconda
Standard is Walla Walla Walsworth.
The town of Walla Walla, in the state of
it is an all-night town, and the govern
ment is democratic. -
Colonel Daniel Searfes once sued Colo
James Brown of the Butte and Basin
for $1,000 for three days work;
but, to prevent the case going to trial,
1oi'iSi 'io"h save SolOiel otdIleS llG
plant and good will of the Times and
800 to boot. Colonel Searles accepted
the offer and before - o'clock that night
every dollar of the money was gone. But
beer was 70 cents a glass in those days.
Poor old John r. Wilson, erstwhile OF
the Dillon Tribune, is in an e~leemosynary
institution in Denver. He got in before
he heard anybody try to pronounce the
name, and never left for fear some. one
should ask him to pronounce it himself.
The Smithsonian Institute at Washing
ton contains the autograph of the man
who once succeeded in stopping his sub
scription to the Virginia Madisonians when
Tom Degarmon was owner of that paper.
His name was James Smith and he was
reported to be a dead shot. ~
The White Sulphur Springs Rocky
Mountain Husbandman, which boasts the
most ~euphonlous name of any newspaper
in the United States, is reported. to. be
set up only once a year. though IL is
issued weekly. 1t contains all that is
worth knowing about horses, chickens,
pigs, ducks, geese, turkeys, people, etc,
and the editor sees no use in setting. it
over again each week, SO he just changes
the date line and sends the papers out
every Friday. The Husbandman 10 the
most truthful and consistent paper in
the state. as it never lies but once every
twelve months.
The growth of our esteemed cotempo-
rary, the Anaconda Standard, has been
a modern marvel. Copper was discov-
cred in the Anaconda mine in 1883. In
years the property had been ex-
plored to the 12O0-foot level and Melted
rlu T16 0OQ l0N Ii Mac dacidod hu H.