The Anaconda standard., 1899-06-12
WAS A WITCHES BROTH
Dewey Matches Caused an Ex-
plosion.
RESULT WAS BRILLIANT
Look Like Ordinary Matches, but Go Off
With the Detonation Of Bomb.
Kennedy Seriously
Injured.

Great Falls, June 11.-James Ken
nedy made Dewey matches and, as
might be expected of anything which
has the name of Dewey attached, the
result was brilliant. Yesterday after
noon Kennedy, who claims to have
been working his way through the
country, coming here from Butte, ap-
preached Frank Kingsley, the propri-
etor of a street phonograph giving the
last words and testament of A negro
tortured to death in Texas few years
ago for the outrage of little white
girl. He said he had a better graft,
and it was the selling Of what he
called Dewey matches" They could
be made from ordinary orthodox
matches by the addition of a prepar-
alton, the material for which could be
purchased at the drug store at a mini
mum expense of so cents. The matches
could be had at any saloon for the
price of glass of beer and when the
manufacture was complete they could
be sold for 10 cents apiece. Kennedy
lacked the necessary 80 cents and out
of his kind heart Kingsley supplied the
lack.
Kennedy got the necessary stuff at
the drug store. The next need was
fire with which to manufacture the
stuff and Kingsley invited Kennedy to
come over to the west side of the pump
house, where he has to clean up his
phonograph machinery. He first
thought of asking him to his room and
the pump-house suggestion was a sec
ond thought for which he is now pro-
foundly thankful. On the west side
Kennedy started to build a fire near
the pump house, but on Kingsley's sug-
gestion thought it was forbidden by
city ordinance, they walked to a june
tufe of the Sun and Missouri rivers.
Kennedy produced his drug store
supplies and started making his match
broth over an open fire. 1t was COM
pleted and he was wringing the resi-
due out of a handkerchief, when
Kingsley says there was an explosion
which lifted him off his feet and nearly
stunned him. AT the same time Ken
nedy cried: MY God, am killed."
and kinsley came toward him. The
thumb was torn from one hand and a
finger was gone from the other, and his
hands were so covered with blood that
Kingsley could not see whether there
was any shape left to them or not He
took Kennedy and brought him to the
Great Northern round house with diff
ficulty, as the man tainted from loss Of
blood on the way. There he telephoned
the Columbus hospital for an ambu-
lance, and in rough way did his best
to staunch the flow of blood.
Chief Guerin has some of the matches
which Kennedy says he prepared in
Butte. They light like ordinary
matches, burn for some seconds and
then explode with tomb-like force. He
also has the recipe for making them,
and he reads it this way:
Make your will and send for the
priest and any of your friends you can
summon, the ambulance and the coron-
er in plenty of time after the explo-
sion. Mix 10 cents worth of aqua for
It's and 10 cents worth of alcohol in a
glass preserve jar, place Aver fire and
boil Then drop four silver dimes into
the mess and when thoroughly dis
solved strain the mixture through a
clean cloth. Then commend your soul
to heaven and squeeze. During the
process keep all metals and friends at
least five miles away. You squeeze the
rag and the squeeze will do the rest"
James Kennedy is at the Columbia
hospital The surgeons have trimmed
his fingers down until they are mere
stubs, and these, swathed in bandages,
Kennedy has named Jeffries and Fitz-
simmons. However, he will not know
for several weeks which had the better
of the fray, as either hand is badly
mangled He is plucky young fellow
and declares he has had enough expert
mental chemistry.