Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-29
THE PIONEERS
Virginia City Thronged With
PathfinderS.
MANY MORE ARE COMING
Brief Business Session TOday-Re-
ceptiOn TOnight-C0lOnel San
ders Will Crate.

Virginia City, Mont, Aug. 29.-Th van
guard Of the veteran trail blazers of
| Montana is here to live over the scenes
and stirring incidents which So years Of
progression have relegated to ancient
history. The streets of the old town
are crowded with men, grizzled and gray,
men with records as v%igilantes who took
their lives in their hands in days agone,
and too infrequently remembered by the
pepole of Montana, and made a gallant
stand for the right when law and riot
trembled in the balance.
This reunion of the Montana Society of
Pioneers on the banks of Alder gulcn
promises to be a great event in the his
tory of the society. No reunion in re-
cent years has been so we'll attended.
Distance and inconvenient methods of
travel have not been considered, even by
men whose age makes arbitrary rulings
in the matter of overland journeys for
pleasure. The spirit of the occasion is
buOyant and youthful. and some of the
earlier omer even seemed disappointed
when told that they could be accommo-
dated at the hotels. APPARENTLY they
wanted to go up against the real thing OF
pioneer days, and camp out. as they did
when they came to Alder gulch thirty
five ears ago.
While a large number Of the members
of the society are here many more are
expected tonight n very little has been
done today. At 10 O'Clock this morning
Major Henry Filing. state president Of
the society. called the pioneer meeting to
order. and Mayor emmett went through
the formality of handing the keys of the
city over to the SOciety'S president. the
session lasted only a few minutes. when
an adjournment was k until this
evening, VIXEN many more pioneers will
be here to participate in the proceedings.
Tonight a reception will be given the
pioneers at the auditorium.
Mayor "A. j. Bennett will deliver an ad-
dress Of welcome and Colonel w. r.
Sanders, who has been here several days,
will talk of earlier days. Others are eX-
pected to speak in reminiscent vein. To-
morrow will be devoted to the business
meeting of the society. Officers will be
elected for the ensuing year, and the old
fight will be fought over again in an eff
fort to admit individuals to membership
who came to Montana later than 1864.
This matter has been brought up in many
of the later sessions Of the society and
! year after year has gone down to defeat.
! Tomorrow evening the pioneers will be
banqueted by the Elks, Knights Tenn
! plar and Royal Arch Masons.
An enterprising business concern of
Dillon whose advertising agent is evil
| IDENTIFY away above the ordinary has for
warded to a number Of pioneers advertis-
ing matter. enclosing in each package
samples of MANILA rope. and quoting
I! prices. The shades of sslade and his cut
throat associates will probably fail to APP
preciate the jOcular method of adver-
Using, but eX-vigilantes are enjoying the
cOnceit.
A matter that has been discussed at
| former meetings of the society will prob
| ably be brought up in tomorrow's session
the erection of a statue of Bill Fair
| weather. the d~iscoverer of the gulch, at
the point of discovery about a mile above
the city. The society has taken some
! steps in this direction in the past. but
; nothing substantial has been done. as
yet, to p~erpetuate the memory of the
great discoverer. An excellent likeness
| of F~airweather in miner costume, done
in crayon, hangs in the court house, and
his remains lie in a neglected grove in
the Adobetown cemetery, where they
| were inferred at the expense of his
friends, as poor FairWeather.
| standing the fact that he discovered a
| section which produced more than $780,
DOC, 900 in gold dust. died a pauper.
Among the recent arrivals are l.. ).
| Briggs of Ennis, John H. Curtis and J.
X. Clark Of Butte, G. X. Cannon of Hell
| ena, Otto Haskell and John Sewell of
Carbondale, Henry r. Edgar of Plains,
| Mrs. A. r. Mcdonald of Whitehall, Will
liam Perks and NJ. D.. Leadbetter of Man
haitian. w. J. McDougal. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Fl. Lyons of Lyons, MIR. and Mrs.
W. II. Tracy. MIR. and Mrs. john Nc
Govern of Bozeman. S. r. Smith of En-
| mis-. William Smith and family Of Home
Park. Joe A. Brown of Melrose. w. j.
/ = = I - ~, ~:11l yHy,ll;ar- n ~ .t,l
| err and Juhn Vanderbilt of Norris, DR.. I.
S. Stafford of Pony, George Fl. Sparrell
of Pony, Judge Barrel and William
Thompson of Butte. Don O.. Spalding OF
meadow; Creek. Peter Albright of Lau-
rim, J. c. sloss and wife of Junction, Dr..
and Mrs. o. b.. Whitford of Butte. T. r.
Hun of Pony. Miss Maude Williamson
of Pony, A. w. Noyes of the Pony SEN
tinel, Miss Hammond of Butte. NJ. Cleve-
land of Bozeman and w. w. Conrey of
Butte.
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