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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-10
Treasury Statement.

Washington, May 9.-To-day's statement
of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash. balance, 1852 So, 1863; gold
reserve, $241, 211, SIT.
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FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

FOR SALE-MILK AND CHICKEN
ranch. we'll stocked and cheap: IL miles
north of Meadervilie: proprietor leaving on
account of i'll health. Alfred Opie Gun
derson's. MeaderviIle.
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Copper Market.

The market has remained firm through
out the week, and it seems as though it
were settling down to a period of steadi-
ness. Values have remained practically
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BUTTE 1. SARATOGA COPPER MIN
ing Co.'S stock 50 cents pershare. OBJ
ject of selling, developing mines. Room
II, Silver Bow block Butte.
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FOR SALE-HAy. GRAIN AND FRUIT
farms In the Bitter Root valley Fos
particulars address Ravallt County Abb
strsct Co.. Hamilton. Mont.
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CONSULT THE GREAT FRENCH
clairvoyant before going elsewhere the
well-known truthful medium. II W. Park
ST.. Butte. Rooms 3-5.
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Live Stock.

Chicago, May 9.-The small receipts of
cattle to-day in connection with a good
demand resulted in advancing prices fully
cents. Fancy grades brought $5.45n5. 80;
choice steers, $5.15@535: mediums, $46O0
4SO; beef steers, $4.10d455; stockers and
feeders, s4d515; bulls, $2.7O54.15 cows and
heifers $3.5004.25; Western fed steers
a.3od5.3O; Texas steers, $3.90@49O; calves,
$4I665.
Hogs were weak and cents lower Fair
to choice $3S0l3.95; heavy packers, $3.50
3W1a; butchers, s3.65@39a1a; lights, So. SEQ
$50; pigs, $3.3Od3. IS.
Sheep We're in active demand and ruled
strong and higher. Colorado wooded
lambs S5.9o@625, largely at S6a6.1O; shorn
lots, Si25@5.6O;. common to good sheep,
S3.5O@51O. chiefly 4.9o@5.10, with export
lots bringing s4.S5d5.
Receipts-Cattle, $500; Hogs, $4,000;
sheep, $4,000.
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FOR sALE-FURNITURE OF s-ROOM
brick at a bargain. Call at % N. At
lantic. Butte.
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Copper Stocks.
San Francisco Wool.

Boston, May 9.-Boston & Montana, $40
Butte & Boston, Sta Parrot, 3d.
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FOR SALE-A FINE FAMILY HORSE
and phaeton buggy. Inquire at Frank
Boucher's. As E. Park St. Butte.
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London Quotations.

London. May 9.-Anaconda, 112: bar sill
yer steady, 29ssd per ounce; money IA per
cent
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TOULOUSE GOOSE EGGS. 81 PER SET
ting, and show case and counter los L,
Park ST.. Butte.
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FOR SALE-CHEAP, GOOD BABY
buggy and high chair. 623 w. Park
Butte.
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$l,500 BUYS NEW BRICK HOUSE,
West side; $4,000 cash. balance monthly
payments: choice lots cheap all parts of
city. Mcmillan & Floyd, AZ e. Broadway,
Butte
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WALL PAPER CLEANING BY EX-
perts; Magic cleaner for sale. w. l..
Hamilton 20 w. Granite St. Butte Mont.
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FOR SALE OR SERVICE-THOROUG
bred Jersey bull. Union Grocery COM
pany Montana and Aluminium SITS, Butte
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MADAM RHEA HAS REMOVED TO
the New Bee Hive blk. where she will
be pleased to receive all her patrons.
Rooms "a and Is. Latest Partisan styles
just received.
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MONEY TO PATENT GOOD IDEAS
may be secured through our aid. The
Patent Record. Baltimore. Md.
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FOR SALE-HORSE. HARNESS AND
spring wagon. Inquire SIS w. Granite,
Butte.
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WE BUY. SELL. EXCHANGE. PACK,
ship. repair. move and store furniture.
Butte Exchange Furniture Co. ]. Chau.
vim, Agent. AZ w. Broadway Butte
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FOR SALE-FIRST-CLASS GROOM
brick veneered house. with bath and
clothes room, on 50x1OO foot nicely filled
and fenced corner lot: nice home at u
bargain. 1,2O1 Talbot ave. Butte.
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New York Mining Stocks.

Chollar. ..... ........ 30
Crown Point. ....... :. ................ II
Con. Cal. & Va. .............. 1.GO
Deadwood. ....... . ...,..,....... 80
Gould & Curry. -. ... "a
Hale & Norcross.. .................. %
Homestake ........ ...... ............. &. 90
Iron Silver. .......... ... go
Mexican........ ...... ..... ... ...... so
Ontario..... ........ ..... 800
Ophir. ...... ...... :. .................. 10
Plymouth ............ 49,. ............ 10
Quicksilver. ... $50. ....... 225
do preferred. ....... .... ........ 500
Sierra Nevada .. ........... 80
Standard. Ill.,. ....... .... .... 2.55
Unfon...... ...... ....... ............... 40
Yellow Jacket. ..... ...... ...... AZ
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DIVORCES OBTAINED FOR PARTIES
from any part of state; advice free; ev-
erything confidential. Box 551, Butte.
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CHIROPODIST.

FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Chiropodist and mancurng; facial,
body massage; mineral vapor baths. New
Beehive Butte. Rooms "a and 80
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FARMS FOR SALE THROUGHOUT
Bitter Root Valley
$S600-320 acres tirst-class bench land,
well improved: 225 acres in hay, balance in
pasture and under plcw; substantial stone
house, good water right. corrals. etc; 35
cows. 80 warnings, good horses. wagons,
harness, buggy and all machinery on the
ranch; brood sows. chickens. 500 bush
els grain Send for list. Geo. w. Dickin-
son, office at c. B. Calkins Law Office
SteVensville. Mont.
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FOR SALE-LOT BLKS. WEST FROM
Main ST., $500. Butte Land & Investment
Co., 10 w. Granite ST., Butte. s. V. KEN
per, president.
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HARVARD MILLINERY AND HAIR
dressing parlors, III West Broadway,
Butte.
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MADAME GUY, THE MOTT NOTED
medium: circles Sunday, Tuesday, Fri
day evenings at 203 Dakota Butte.
NINE. SWEDENBORG CLAIRVOYA.S
and palmist, located at the Durston blk,
parlors % and &c, Anaconda.
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YERS.

NJ K. MAYER. Assayer-Samples by
mail or express will receive prompt and
careful attention. Gold and silver bullion
specially. No. 40 w. Park st., Butte
P. O. Box 516
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MIR. LEON LEMIEUX of AIS SHIELDS
avenue got the suit last Tuesday from
the Distribution Tailoring company.
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FOR SALE-TUFTS SODA FOUNTAIN
at a bargain. No. 20 w. Broadway,
Butte.
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FOR SALE-SODA FOUNTAIN IN
good condition. Drug store. 1923 s. Main,
Butte.
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FOR RENT - NICELY FURNISHED
rooms in private family; modern con-
venences. 316 N. Idaho ST.. Butte.
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NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS WITH
hot and cold water and baths can be
had at Flood blk, Anaconda.
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THOs. BUGGY
CLAIRVOYANTS,


MRS HAZEL EARL. PSYCHIC AND
clairvoyant reader. This gifted lady has
no equal. She reads your entire life gives
accrrate quotations, psychometrizes ore
and gives advice on legitimate business; a
call will convince you of her ability Room
I-wood blk. Butte.
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THE RED BOOT LODGING HOUSE.
refitted and run first-class; rooms $40
and up. SO N. Main ST., suite
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MISCELLANEOUS.

E. SHOBERT HAS OPENED COOPER
shop ins Butte and is ready to do all
kinds of cooperage, such as kegs. barrels,
water tanks and watts of every description
Office and works near Centennial brewery.
P O. Box 1892.
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West Third street, or for sale cheap.
Inquire Standard office, Anaconda.
FOR RENT-THREE-RO HOUSE.
Inquire 124 w. Park ave, Anaconda.
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FOR RENT-ROOMS.

NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS, FREE
BATH modern conveniences, $40 up Tai
ent blk. cor. Park and Wyoming. Butte.
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FOR RENT-ROOMS FOR LIGHT
housekeeping; modern convenlences. s1i
w. Copper. Butte.
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KLONDIKE PLACER CLAIM FOR
sale cheap. Conroy & Co., 81 E. Park,
Butte.
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FOR RENT-HOUSES.

FOR RENT-A 3, 4 OR 5-ROOM HOUSE;
deed given when payments amount to
purchase price and interest. Butte Land
& Investment Co, 10 w. Granite ST.,
Butte. S. V. Kemper, president.
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MINERS WHIMS AND SPRING WAC
ons for sale or rent. R. Rutter, South
Butte.
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STOCK RANCH FOR SALE-250
acres, 7 miles north of Dillon: will cut
LOCO tons of hay. Address Jno. F. Bishop.
Dillon, Mont.
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FOR sALE-CHEAP, A SOLID OAK
counter. Call at Standard Office Butte
FOR SALE-ONE FREIGHT ELEVA-
tor. M. J. FitzFatrick. Anaconda, Mont
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ing house. $3.50; $500 down, balance on
easy terms. 23H East Granite, Butte
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CONF1DEN fIAL-3l7 ARIZONA; HOME
in confinement Mrs. karstedt midwife
JOS. BENEDICT. CARRIAGE PAINT
er, rear 253 E. Park St, Butte.
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.


MlSSOULA PROPERTY
broom house and two 50-foot lots, well
improved, Knowles a ~dition, $1,000.
Groom house and bath, stable, lot 3ox13O
feet. central, $1,000
Groom house. plastered. barn and out
buildings, North side, $3.50.
4-room house, one 50-foot lot, Knowles
addition, $50.
$50 acres, house. barn 36x4v feet, fine out
buildings. so acres plowed, 1875 fruit trees,
l acre garden, 3 small lakes on premises,
ST. miles from Missoula $1,000
Z. A. WINSTANLEY, Missoula, Mont.
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DIVORCES.


DIVORCES OBTAINED; ADVICE
free; no fees unless successful: all BUSH
ness strictly confidential. Box SO, Butte,
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FOR RENT-THREE UNFURNISHED
rooms for housekeeping. 500 North Main
street, Butte.
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BITTER ROOT VALLEY FARMS

lEOOl '
$1,lOO-160 acres. near school, poStoflice
and depot; all fenced, good set log build
ings, ample Water right, farm tools in
cluded
s500-16O acres. government title; 100
acres natural hay land, but unimproved; ,
miles from depot ana postoffice.
$3.00O-160-acre hay ranch l mile from
town cut 100 tons this season; with little
labor will cut $50; bargain; easy terms.
Send for list.
GEO. f. BROOKS. Missoula, Mont
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14

i.iHrS Words Letters. Tempest ......... ,, ,163 16.15S G5.f4f Macbeth .........@, 103 16,5f6 6S,f44 Midsummer NIghts
 Dream ......- .2.I75 1GI77 e5.1-5 Two Gentlemen or
 Verona .s........ .2e93 1s.942 67,454
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It Broke Him Ip.

A certain tragedian was one time playing in provincial town and ob- served in the front TOW an old gentle man in tears. Highly hattered. he seut an attendant to say chat he would like to see the old man after the perform anee When they met, lie was sra eiousness itself
 Sir, he said, T perceived that my acting moved you.
 1t did that. sir said the white haired playgoer. lou see. sir. I've got son myself play-aetin some where, who 1 haven't seen dor a long time. an 1t broke me all I'D 10 think that mebbe he wasn't ID better at it than you. sir Spare Moments
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Busy Animals.


 The fox is q dealer in poultry but he is nothing more nor less than a thief. Eat ducks and chickens are his delight, and plump rabbit comes next best.
 The otter and the heron are fisher mea. The etter Is not often seen. for he carries ou his work mostly under the water but the heron stands with his long. thin legs in the water wait ing till a fish comes by Then | sud den plunge wlbh his long, sharp bils and the poor fish ts brought up and swallowed
 The ants arc the busiest of all. Catch an ant asleep in the daytime if you can. They are always in earnest at their work. buildiag thejr underground homes and laying Wp stores Of food for the long winter.
 The swallow is fly catcher. ana skins low over the sm4ace of the little streams. It takes a great many flies to fesd him four Iil7t one day, and he is fl evei at work
 The beaver is wood cutter. a build CT and mason F. e'tts down the small trees with itA teeth. aud. after it hes built its house. it plasters it with its tail.
 The snail. too. k builder. but il takes the material fer it's house from it's own body II E 50 anxious to begin work that it commences to build it's house before il Is even matched.
 The mole that burrows under the ground makes a little fort under the earth from which it tunnels in every direction, and it makes such clever paths that il can run from one to the other and can scarcely be caught.
 The do not all live in hives or tree trunks rhe mason bee digs hole ii q brick wall and lines il with clay. In lhis nest it lays two eggs and e9oses 1t ID. The miner bee bores long holes in the sandoanks and the car penter bees bore their tunnels in wood The upholstereI bee lines his nest wtfa poppy leaves The rose leaf cutter takes leaf between its jaws. begins near the stalk and cuts out circle of Just the right size and as perfect as as could be marked with compass With these circles Of fragrant rose leaf It divides its round hole in the wall into little cells.
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GREAT IS MEXICO.
so WRITES A CORRESPONDENT
 FROM CAPITAL.
Many Manufacturing Concerns Born Every Week Cigarette Trade Is Ex- pandins Paper muis anti Cotton
 Machinery.

At home and abroad there is plenty Of confidence in Che future of Mexico. h Europe We have seen 1t evidenced the past week n eae adoption ol a paa for the conversion of Mexieos soid debs of ST 0g0900. bearing | per eer. interest. 70 per cent basis
 correspondent from tae Cjt5
 Here we have 5een. in the
 en days inc incorporation of
 4 Dew companies fer aanafae-
 ag purposes. the formation 05 s'saretse makef- league or trust. faf 1t amounts to that. and the putting Uf nearly sl,10D 00D more into a new ei- sarette factory feesh orders for eoe- ton mtfI machinery, and remarkably good showing in customs receipts for this sme Of the year Mextcans have mofe money thaa eyer before to bay foreign goods and ghey are importing heavily Even Wifh all ths new cotton mills and print works the home sup ply of cotton textiles is insufficient gol the demand. and imports in that Iine. both from the United States and E,u- Fope. are increasing. q fact which fn- spires cotton mill people to order more machinery and te BHt TIP new mills. \ large new paper mill backed by Mexican and resident Spanish capital is t0 be built near this city and tae machinery IS already ordered. \ great extent or the streets of this city are 10 be paved with asphalt, and already rhe principal streets are handsomely paved with concrete blocks, which make an ideally smooth pavement The new Banco Central is running Up 3 heavy list Of depositors. and has S3,oGg e06 pad-in capital, and will. in year or two, doHbia that amount. Shares in the new American bank have sold this week al l heavy premium.and the institution is doing large and very profitable business The older banks report good business in 1899, and will soon increase their capital, the National 10 have $22,o00. 0oo effective capital and the London s19,000 900. These are business facts. which show hoB Mexico is booming along under the firm rule of the present adminis- tration. which is business from tho word go to employ an effective colo quiaiism.
 President Diaz Is taking life a little easier. turning over many matters, which he once felt ha must supervise, to his ministers. and yet he puts Tn his fourteen To sixteen hours a day. which is wonderful work for a states man 69 years old
 The federal government has adopted new rules regarding concessions. and people seeking charters must give the best of references and be prompt with their forfeit money. Nero spectators no longer have any chance. either wifh the federal CT city government MeXt co has reached a point where her credit iS first class and can demand the ref erences CT people seeking government
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thal respect as folloWs.
Lines, Words. beitefs
Hamlet

Hamlet ...,......3.9S9 2a,4S2 l2o.05O Comedy of Errors4l.7177 14,4SS 5T5l4
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,--,.' .'e. .sst., nua, ss,5IIsIIly.
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the o8sfon, i, 4ha r, '''.''s''
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Bluff City Lumber Go manufact UT er and dealer in all kinds of lumber also sashes, doors blinds -s all kinds of interior and exterio anish.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14
Ih0mas ". Martln. Cbancellnr :

1ns
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Green AS Grass.

Employer Fer luaeh you wiu have thirty minutes" OToole-oAnd how wisl are taim. sar?" Employer Eat wa ," 08feete "Th' tivs5 miaaets.o
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14

Bluf City Lumber Go. Manufactur CT and dealer in all kinds 0f Lumber. Also Sashes. Doors. Blinds, and all nds of Interior and Exterior finish.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14

Try one can of our Gold Band Baking Pow der at 25c. Pure, good, and fine gold band tun bier in each can. Mccain Grocery Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14
A.rarssas z. csttI. ronnsr.

Asparagus is so plentiful on the Rus sian steppes that the cattle eat it like grass. The seeds are sometimes fried and used as a substitute for coffee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14
Feared What Happened to Alan.

 X Sunday school teacher not long 90 gave her class rather graphic description of how Eve was created rom the rib of Adam. Mamma" !" said the youngest member of the class. hat same evening, pressing his hand 10 his side. I'm afraid I'm going te have a wife"
 UsuatIv outls Numerous.
 "Extraordiuaryt murmured the man who was trying to help form a French cabinet .Yer5 extraordinary.s What is the ditieulty2' Here I am trying to find people who are willing to give advice on how to run the government. anu nobody is willing to say worde Washington Star.
 Indians In tbe United states. The Indian population of the Unit.a States is 24S. .340 In l492 they var- lords of the whole country. now tbeg have reserved for them Ill. 496 square aailaz-.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14

Difference ...s2,15s l5,044 e 2.536 The next longest play to Hamlet is Antony and Cleopatra while the four shortest after tAe Comedy of Errors. are:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-14
Nynr.l. in shakesneare.

The shortest of ShaAespeare's plays is the Comedy of Errors" with the amusing perplexities Of the twin broth- CTS Dromio. which does not contain half as many lines. words or letters az his longest pay, Hamlet, the Dan ish tragedy X correspondent of Notes and Queries gave the statistics of these plays In that respect as follows:
The evening times., 1899-06-06
Cat Tales.

from the Harrisburg (ky.) Sayings.)
DR.. J. B. Kinnaird, one Of the popular
physicians Of Lancaster, says that in 1S49
a European tobacco buyer was in Garrard,
stopping at house near the headwaters
of Sugar Creek, an important shipping
point, and one day an old man from Casey
county, who happened to pass by, asked
the European, whose name was Billy
Walls. what he was buying, when he
laughingly answered: "f am ahere buying
cats to ship to England What are you
paying for them?" "Ted cents apiece"
The Casey county man pursued his jour-
ney, and, going to his native county, he
gathered up every cat within its borders
that the owners would give up, and with
his fourhorse team passed through Lin
coin and Boyle, adding to his stock of
cats till at last wooden cages full of fe-
lines were piled as high upon his old Gov
ernment wagon as they couldibe kept on,
and arriving at Mr.. Walls boarding house
in Garrard, he said: "I have brought you
them there cats we were talking about,
and have in that Wagon eleven hundred
of the best rat catchersGjin Kentucky"
The European gentleman saw the joke
was on him, and he HANDED OVER $110 amid
the great laughter of theocrowd that hap
pened to be present. TK3 cats were lib
Grated at once, and they do'n say there
hasn't been a rat in that portion Of Ken
lucky since.
About twenty-one or twenty-five years
later Judge French Upton. now editor of
the Richmond Paragraph" was running
q paper in Lancaster, and extensively ad-
vertised a cat race. The day for the fun
arrived, thousands Of spectators from all
over Kentucky and other States were pres
ent in the beautiful 2004acre bluegrass
field of Hon. Malcolm Gill, near Lancas-
ter. Red, white, and blue programmes
we're distributed among the throng, 305
cats were in line, and at the tap Of the bell
by President Upton every cat shot out OF
the bag and went down the line. swifter
than any thoroughbreds Of today. and,
to record, the race was won by
q cat the great grandam Of which was one
Of the original felines sold to the European
buyer by the Casey county. man forty years
prior thereto Judge Tipton's cat race was
one Of the biggest and mest laughable
things In the history Of the State. and will
90 down to future generations in the his
tory Of 0arrard county,. it'