The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-30
A NIGHT FOR MISCHIEF
The Butte Youth Will Turn
Loose Tuesday.
THEY WILL RAISE CAIN
Wise Householders Will Remove Gates
and Other Movable Property
to Place OF ..
Safety.

The volunteers have had their dav.
and now it's the little boys turn-to-
morrow night is Halloween. The lit
tie boy, and maybe the boys and girls
not so young. are supposed to nave
more than the usual amount of leeway,
and whatever they please to do is sup
posed to be all right. They can tear
their neighbours gate off the hinges and
hang it high upon the nearest tele-
graph pole, and no one shall kick. 1t
is their privilege to climb upon the
roof of any old house and stuff gunny
sacks down the stovepipe and HE them
selves to a convenient spot and watch
the irate housekeeper come out ana
make q threatening gesture, and they
can also repeat the performance on the
next nearest neighbor, and if anybody
questions their rights in the premises
let him keep it to himself until The
following day, for if there is one thing
more than another that the mischief
maker delights in 1T is the pleasure OF
informing the straight lacers that the
latchstring on the door of the man IN
red is always hanging outside.
little boy who has not missed
udy IL dteeHuliS SCHOOL SAID yesterday
that he proposed to get out and let
his entire neighborhood know that lie
was out for all there is in it, and that
he IS going to raise all manner of Cain
in mild way. Halloween is our
day, and don't you forget it, either"
said the precocious tot. 'Me and a
lot OF other boys have fixed up whole
lot or good jokes ON our neighbours, and
we are going to do things to the Teller
who said once that we youngsters
dldnt nave any get up about US. We
are laying for lot of them fellers,
and don't you forget it. We are fixing
up big tin horn to blow, and when
we get our josh fixed up on the fam
lily, we will blow the horn and run. !
guess we won't be strictly in It, oh, no;
somebody else is going to beat US out,
maybe, l don't think
Already many heads Of houses have
taken the necessary steps to remove
their gates and other movable chattels
to places of safety out of the way of
the midnight vandals. There is an in
satiable desire in the breasts of young
America about this time of the year 20
do something out of the ordinary. and
Ii some one does not lose his gate CT
his wagon or his OK or his mule ur
something else within his gates it will
be because he has none of these things
to lose.
AASAC navy DCSu SClIlG EXTRAORDINARILY
FRANKS played on the eve of All Saints
day, and probably one of the most con-
spicuous on record in this state was
that perpetrated upon an old prospac-
tor in Grizzly gulch a quarter of a CEN
fury ago by a couple of Scotch friends
OF the eccentric miner.
The story goes that "Old Tinker
Cameron an Industrious Scotchman.
was working his claim back of his
cabin In Grizzly gulch not far from
Helena. He was drifting In deep
ground and taking out some pretty
rich gravel His neighbors were two
countrymen, Tom and Bill Mcleod
VINO often called to pay their respects
to "Old Tinker" The last time thew
called was on one bright Halloween
and they took along with them quart
Of alcohol. The three concocted their
draughts of alcohol, water and brown
sugar, and by 10 o'clock the venerable
most was as mellow and sleepy as he
usually got to be. Bill and rom saw
a me opening for huge joke, a Hal
loWe'en joke, on their old friend. SC
they laid their plans and carried them
INTO execution while the old man slept.
Ihey returned to their wood camp
and hitched up their two teams and
went back to Tinker's cabin. They
grove up each alongside of the little
board shack, and in short order had
'Ai MUST SieStiHS upon the coupling
poles OF the two wagons Away they
drove down the smooth roadway and
deposited the cabin in a dense cl,mr
of saplings.
The next morning bright and early
Ilnker arose and, as was his custom
started out with his pail in hand f.
get bucketful of pure water from his
spring. -'f LIE
'Hoot, mon" wasn't in it comnared
with the expression he uttered when he
peheld the growing saplings all about
ms ms house. Things had changed about
IN. sne place since he fell into a deep SUM.
per from the effects of the alcohol ana
water. He wondered if indeed he had
JUST emerged from a Rip Van Wrinkle
Steep OF 20 years. That was his first
impress To say that he was he.
", M wa upon beholding his surround
lngs would be mildly expressing !,
", compared with his utter and
plank amazement upon seeing at his
YER, yer, door large spring of pure. f1ow-
ng water a veritable fountain Of
mountain nectar. He was thirsty and
ne [r, drank from the newly found snring
men ne started out to survey his new
FARMLAND. After a few minutes 40 Of INV in.
se 81 sae he suddenly recalled the |
TACT thas IT was All Saints dav