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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16
AND THE CAT CAME BACK
Made It's Way Underground
Through the Mines.
A DISTANCE OF TWO MILES
Jumped Down Hundred-Foot Shaft
Last Fall in West Butte and Was
Dumped Out With the
Waste in Meadervllle

Great things have been accomplished
in Butte, wonderful achievements have
been recorded here, Butte has made
and unmade men and women The
queer and the curious have stalked the
streets arm in arm. Miners have fallen
hundreds of feet down shafts, drills
have pierced mems bodies and those
| men live to-day to tell of the expert
ences. Last holidays edition of the
| Standard told of the Butte city on
| top of the ground and of the Butte city
| under the ground.
1t remained for a pet cat to make
| the journey from West Butte to Mead
erville underground, a distance of two
miles. This feat has just been con-
cluded, and the cat lives to tell it's tale
Last fall little Annie McGinn lost her
pet cat 1t was last seen in November
in an abandoned shaft house west of
the big Poulin hoist A street car con-
| ductor stepped into the shanty and
| frightened the cat which jumped down
the shaft 100 feet deep. The cat sur
vived and opened up bowling contest
all by itself. Every day some of the
street car men would go over to The
shaft and listen. The cat still owled,
but nothing could be done for it. Little
Annie was heartbroken. Her brother
secured a long rope and lowered it into
the shaft, hoping that the kitten would
catch on and be hoisted out of it's
sad predicament, but the cat only
howled louder. Annie used to carry bits
of meat and bread over to the hole
and throw them down for the cat to
eat.
After couple of weeks the moaning
her pet as lost forever The street car
crew forgot all about the sad affair,
and Christmas at Annie's home was not
as cheerful for the owner of the lost
kitten as it might have been had kittie
not been SO venturesome.
Early in the winter the miners in
the Green Mountain, the Mountain
Con and other shafts in the vicinity
imagined they heard sounds similar to
that made by sick infant. Later tle
same noises were heard in the Ana
| conda, Mountain View, Gray Rock, Mo-
doc, Mountain Chief, Rarus and the
other workings on the Meaderville
slope.
Yesterday afternoon while some chill
dren were playing near the dump of the
Colusa. mine, they were startled upon
heholding a cat tumbling down the pile
of rock with a carload of waste that
had iuste been dumped The kitten
meowed piteously as it rolled over, just
| in time to escape a big chunk that
came bounding past just as the feline
| fell into an old powder can at the base
of the dump. Tie children ran to the
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the roots of tree that had been torn
from its base by a bolt of lightning.
The tree fell down the hill carrying With
it for distance of two or three feet its
roots and the surface dirt caked about
them. These roots and mass of earth
and gravel form step or platform at
the entrance to the cave. The opening
is about three feet square and its course
| is downwards at an incline of about 80
degrees for a distance of So feet; thence
its course is level, but angular. hum
dred feet from the entrance the tun-
mel divides, one opening leading off to
the left with an upraise, while the other
bears a little to the right and dips at a
slight degree. The left arm narrows
down and bars further progress. and
it is here the draught is so strong. The
right arm loses itself in succession of
chutes, through one of which current
of air strong enough to eXtinguish
candle flame passes.
In places the chamber widens out to
40 feet or more and the roof or hang
ing wall cannot be seen with the aid of
a torch held as far above the head as
the arm can reach. The rock is as dry
as sun baked mud cake. Still during
the recent severe cold spell clouds of
steam were seen to issue from the
opening.
There is considerable mystery regard
ing the formation of this mountain,
whose highest peak is known as Red
mountain, the collection being known
as the Highlands. A thousand feet be-
low the contact. where the garnets
spoken OF are found, is lake spreading
over an area of couple of acres, per-
haps less. This body of water is the
source of a beautiful waterfall or cas-
cade which tumbes down an irregular
rocky precipice for 400 to 500 feet and is
one of the feeders of the beautiful
Mammoth creek, the extreme head of
the source of Butte's water supply This
lake is several hundred feet higher
than the mouth of the cave, just over
the hill and between the two there is
evidently a formation of great solidity,
yet the whole country seems to be a
broken, bituminous formation.
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Cloth From Peat.

From New ireland.
Peat has been applied to many useful
purposes. but recently human ingenuity
has surpassed itself in making the prod
uct of the boys available for the weaving
of textile fabrics. Yet this has not mere-
ily been done in Germany, but by the very
irony of fate, trade in the finished arti-
Gle has been established in the capital
city of Ireland-the land of boss. Those
who have examined the Irish and Ger
man peat declare; that the former is much
more suitable for working into cloth than
the latter, possessing more fiber and be-
ing altogether of better quality. Yet the,
enterprise of the German has succeeded
with the inferior article, while the use
of the Irish product has not even reached
the stage of experiment.
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How the.STrouble Began.

From the Chicago Post.
He had been reading the paper and oc-
casionally repeating to her some item that
seemed particularly interesting. Thus il
happened ne finally, ran across an item
about the invention of a machine fol-
washing horses.
They'll have a machine. for washing
babies next he exclaimed.
"Huh!' she exclaimed, Indignantly I'D
just like to see my baby washed by ma
chine
$50 would IT, he returned.
He afterward explained to some one at
the club that it was an exhibition of the
insincerity of women. for while he had
done absolutely nothing but agree with
her. she was so displeased that he found
it impossible to read his paper in COM
fort. ----.-- -
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CURIOUS BIRTH STATISTICS.
Ratio of Male to Female Is Large in War
Times.

g.- Times. AH-
At the next meeting of the Society for
Psyehical Research one of The interesting
subjects that will probably come up. for
discussion. according TO the New York
Press. will be the remarkable increase in
the number of births of boys over girls
which the vital statistics of New York
show in the month Of November and up
to the present time this month. 1t will
have direct bearing on the theory of
prenatal influence in the regulation of sex
as advanced by DR.. Schenck, and which
has been supported and combatted by
eminent psychologists throughout the
word
BY those who indorse the schenck
theory it is maintained that the increase
in the ratio cannot be simply coinci-
dence, confined to one particular section,
because similar ratio of increase of
births of males over females is shown in
the statistics of nearly all the large cities
and it is offered as a proof that in the
grand compensation of nature the mar
tial spirit aroused by the war with Spain
is responsible for the production of mate
rial for future soldiers. ,M !.
Boston, Philadelphia. st. Louis, San
Francisco and Chicago all present the
same proportionate increase as New York.
And it is natural that it should be so,
said Psychologist Yesterday "A thous-
and years before Dr. Schenck was born
1t was observed that after wars the male
births exceeded the female in the ratio of
100 to 10 and 100 to 80 In the AleNandrian
wars this fact was noted and commented
upon by the philosophers of the day, and
the reverse was true in the decline of the
Roman empire. when the people fell into
slothful habits and ennervatng luxuries.
The number of girls increased and the
boys were not robust
HAli peoples who maintained their mar
tial vigor, after losing many men in arm
ed conflict, as the Macedonians did, lived
to see the male population brought up
nearly to the standard that it had before
the natural protectors were slain. The
martial spirit that develops into activity
the destructiveness of man and arouses
the latent heroism and self-sacrifice of wo-
men has unauestionably an influence on
the future race and the division of the
sexes. S
"a people long given to the pursuits of
peace and reaching a plane of civilization
that renders them cffcte become the
mothers and fathers of girls. The nearer
that man reaches the priE1eval condition
of maintaining life by force of arms the
greater the number of male children that
are born. The early American Indian
demonstrated this in the extraordinary
disproportion Of the sexes. the male pre-
dominating in all the warlike tribes.
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Butte Optical Co., AZ w. Park, fits
glasses grinds lenses: examination free.
The Best. way to sample wniskey.


From the Chicago Journal.
One of the best judges of Whiskey in
Chicago is man who never drinks it.
He is Captain Joseph E. g. Ryan. former
ly of the 18th.
Captain Ryan is whiskey expert He
can tell almost to a day the age of any
sample submitted to him. Give him a few
drops of whiskey and he can tell you the
brand, the distiller, where it was made,
when, and detect adulteration If there is
any. Blend two or three kinds of whis-
key and he can tell the blend.
And he never tastes 1t, being strictly
temperate in ali his habits.
1t is all told by the smell. Captain Ry-
ans nose is a very sensitive organ and
he has trained it with the utmost care.
Smelling is by far the most satisfac-
tory method of testing" he says. 'If a
man has a great deal to sample and tastes
each kind he soon gets so that he cannot
distinguish one from the other. The
sense of taste becomes blunted and he
loses all the fine distinctions.
"On tae other hand,t the more man
uses his nose the more acute the sense of
smell becomes, and he is able to detect
the slightest difference between sam
PIES
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16

rescue and found a sorry looking specie
OF the cat family. Its hair was matted
and soiled; its eyes red and it was sore
and lame. The only mark of identifica-
ton was the little ribbon about It's neck,
to which was attached very small
brass bell The ribbon was damp, but
the bell tinkIed as it used to when kit
tie played with Annie last fall in West
Centervilfe. The wonderful feline un-
foreground explorer will be returned to
its owner at once
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16

Paris Of Te-day-the handsomest pre-
MUM book ever offered-now ready for
delivery upon payment of $40 in adj
vance for one years subscription to
the Standard. Can be obtained at
Standard office in Butte, Anaconda,
Missoula or Great Falls.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16

Do you want to buy or sell Boston
& Montana Butte & Boston or Parrot
stocks? We receive quotations from
Boston every so minutes. Thompson
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Mrs. S. E. Flanagan. 1856 West Broal-
way, has been relieved of headaches and
twitching of the muscles by glasses
fitted by DR.. Dodd, rooms 7 and s, Ows-
lev bio n
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purchase price It is alleged the terms
of the lease were violated and the $1,000
sued for is claimed to be due for rent
and taxes paid.
The damage suit of Peter Debernardi
against Peter Schonsberg, an action for
an alleged malicious arrest, was called
for trial before Judge Leslie yesterday,
but there was no appearance for the
plaintiff, and the case was dismissed for
want of prosecution. Schonsberg had
Debernardi arrested on the charge of
attempting to leave the state for the
purpose Of defrauding his creditors. He
wanted $1025 as damages.
Mrs Annie Dooley was yesterday
granted divorce from Lawrence Dool-
ey by Judge Leslie. She testified that
she married the defendant in Butte on
June 20, 1897, and they lived together
less than four months, for on Oct. II he
left her and she has not seen him since.
She thought, however, that he went to
Burke, Idaho. A man named Curley
testified that he heard Dooley say he
intended to quit his wife.
Frank Britt ton, chief legatee and exc
cutor under the will of A. C. White, de-
ceased. yesterday filed demurrer to the
contest of Mrs. White on the ground
that she did not have the legal capacity
to bring the action, as 1t appeared from
her complaint that she was not resi-
dent of this state.
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in all sizes.
The MANHATTAN White Shirts,
Just the same as above, excepting
that they are open all way down
the front and can be put on just
like a coat, which makes it very
popular. All sizes, SIPS each.
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s25 reward to any one proving that r.
F. Mayer, 40 West Park, does not SIT
in the best handspring made for ST.
Watch cleaning, S1.50.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
POINT FRS.

Rooms to rent. See adv.
 Queen Quality shoes at Jackson, Eggleston X Co.'S. store. See adv.
 The annual clearing sale begins at Hawley's store next Monday. See adv.
 Big discounts on holiday goods and jackets, capes, etc. See Fassett < Pull ver's adv.
 Midwinter sale of jackets, capes, and children's coats at the Berkshire Store. See new adv.
 A now lot of jackets and capes at D.. P. Hunt & Co.'S. Gloves at bargain prices. See new adv.
 w. H. Emmons wishes the public 8 Happy New Year and tells of some of the goods he sells. See new adv.
 Cold weather is coming aud G. L.. Parsons & Sons sdv. tells of the goods you will need and where to get them.
 Read what Nisbet's new adv. says about the aftermath of Christmas, and then profit by the inducements offered.
 Benjamin of Winsted has the greatest display of sleighs of every known kind, bobs and runner attachments for all kinds of use ever assem bled together in Litchfeld county. Inspect his stock before placing your order. See adv.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
Editors Notip The Bible.

A school teacher compelled one of her plpils to write an essay on the sub iect of 'rhe Newspaper" and this is tue way he did it:
 II don't know how newspapers can e to be in this world. 1 don't think God does. For he. hsin't got anything to say about them and editors is not in the Bible. I think the editor is one of the missing links you hear about, .snd staid in the brush till after the flood, and then came out and wrote the thing mp and has been here ever since. l don't think he ever dies. never saw d dead 'un and never heard of one get ting licked. Our paper is mighty poor 'un; the editor goes 'thout under clothes all winter. don't wear no socks, and pa hasn't paid his subscription in five years. ."-Exchange.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
A Fatal Accident,

The Rev Vernon D. Carroll, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Amenia, N Y. started from home on Monday, Dec. IS, to visit his sons at Garfield, N. J. In Jersey City the train made stop of few seconds at a block signal. Think ing the train had reached the station MT Carroll attempted to get of. He had one foot on the ground when the train suddenly started again. He tried to climb back to the platform but fell un- der the wheels. His left leg was awful ly crushed. MT Carroll was immediate ly taken to hospital and his leg was amputated at the knee. His wife was immediately summoned. Two days later his daughter received telegram that her father was very weak but con- fortable. Later in the day his condi- ton became worse and he gradually sank until his death on Thursday morn ing, Dec. 21.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28

Rogers "Ten Nights in Bar Room" Go. di,banded in Torrington.
 Navigation on the Hudson river closed for the season last Friday plight.
 Letters advertised at Canaan post office are addressed to 0. W. Buck, Mrs Goderies, Martin Keenin.
 Tt is reported that Frank Johnson of the sash and door firm has bought the Jeffrey Purcell place of MT Hol- comb.
 Christmas tree aud children's carol service in Christ church this evening at o'clock.
 Edward Hawver, ST. and wife have moved into part of A. L. Higgins house on Church street, and Miss Mary J. Peck has taken rooms in the Warner House annex.
 The Social Assembly met at the hall Tuesday evening, the usual pro- gram of tableaux, cards and dancing was followed; the entertain ment being in charge of the East Canaan members. Next meeting on January 9.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
Christmas in the Churches.

All the churches in this village were handsomely decorated with evergreens for the Christmas season. At the Pill grim church wreaths were placed on the walls between the windows, and the window frames, and the chandeliers and the organ were trimmed with running pine. In front of the platform was a bank of eyer greens and branches of red berries while on either side were large Christ mas trees. Sunday morning the service was we'll attended and the chtir sang an anthem and special hymns. The Christmas exercises on Sunday evening were largely attended and passed of very nicely. A responsive service en- titled "The Light of Ages" was used. The children gavo recitations and songs, and the choir sang appropriate selections. The Christmas trees look ed very pretty with their decorations and lighted wax tapers. In the distri- button of presents all the children were rememb bered, as well as the teachers, the pastor and wife, and the organist.
 The usual service was held at St. Joseph's church on Sunday, and on Christmas morning at o'clock Mass and the Holy Communion were celebra- ted and at Il o'clock High Mass was celebrated.3 All of the services on both days were largely attended.
 Christ church was elaborately decora ted. An immense evergreen Christmas bell was suspended from the center arch of the ceiling, and ropes of ever. green were festouned from above the bell to the four corners of the room and | across the gallery. In each window was a bank of laurel, while the fount, | the desks and chancel were also decora- | ted. In front of the chancel was 8 framework of evergreen arches, sur. mounted by an evergreen cross. The services on Sunday were at the usual hours, and on Christmas morning com | muniou services were held at and | 10. 45 o'clock The Christmas tree and shildren's carol service will take place this (Thursday) evening at o'clock.
 Christmas services at the Methodist
 church were hell Monday evening
 Dec 25th. They consisted of specia
 music by the choir and school, and z missionary dialogue introducing fairy queen with her attendants, eight liStlt misses dressed in white. Representa-
 tives of different heather countries ap
 peared in appropriate costume. Afte
 the exercises the beautiful Christma al tree was unladen of it's fruit of doll !
 toys and games to the delight of the mem bers of the primary department The pastor and his wife were remem Der
 ed with gifts from the young men ant | the ladies. The church was trimmed | for the occasion with laurel and pine rehecting credit on the decorating com
 mittee. The audience was one of tn
 largest ever gathered in the church.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
WILLIAM D. CAMP, M. D.

Dr W D. Camp of Millertop, N. Y. was found dead in his room at the Brick Block Hotel in Millerton last Thursday morning. He was last seen alive at noon Wednesday, the day be- fore, when he was apparently in AS good health as usual. During Wednesday afternoon there were several calls for him, and the clerk went to the doctor s room but not seeing him reported him not at home. Thursday morning Land lord Sitzer's mother went into the doc tors room to air tie bedding and was mortified to fiud the doctor lying dead upon the floor at the foot of the bed He had probably lain there, dead, when the clerk was looking for him the day before but could not have seen from the entrance to the room. Dr Camp was 57 years old and had practiced in Millerton since 1883 when he went there from Copake, N. Y. He was an able physician. His funeral was held at the Millerton Presby yterian church Saturday morning. Interment at Nor folk the same day.
 Dr Camp was we'll known in Canaan, having praticed here several years in the seventies and also conducted drug store here at the same time. During his residence here he was married to Miss Marion Platt who survives him and who was visiting in Goshen at the time of the doctors death. He is also survived by son who resides in Pitts field, Mass, and by two brothers, Dr c. W. Camp of Canaan, and Dr Samuel Camp of Great Burlington, and by one sister, Mrs Philip Curtis of Norfolk.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
TWENTIETH CENTURY's DAWN.

The Friendly Iy Islanders will be the!First - People te Hail its Advent.
 "The first people to live in the twen- tieth century will be the Friendly Is- flanders, for the date line, as it may be called, lies in the Pacific Ocean just to the east of their group" writes John Ritchie. Jr, in the January Ladies' Home Journal, of "Where the Next Century will Really begin" At that time, although it will be already Tues day to them, all the rest of the world will be enjoying some phase of Monday the last day of the nineteenth century December 31, 1900). At Melbourne the people will be going to bed, for it will be nearly ten o'clock; at'Manilla it will be two hours earlier in the even ing; at Calcutta the English residents will be sitting at their Monday after noon dinner, for it will be about six o'clock; and in London, Big Ben,' in the tower of the House of Commons, will be striking the hour of noon. In Boston, New York and Washington half the people will be eating breakfast on Monday morning, while Chicago will be barely conscious of the dawn. At the same moment San Francisco will be in the deepest sleep of what is popular ly called Sunday night, though really the early, dark hours of Monday morn ing, and half the Pacific will be wrap ped in the daf fkness of the same morn ing hours, which become earlier to the west, until at Midway or Brooks Island it will be but few minutes past mid- night of Sunday night"
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
NEWS NOTES.

The New York Sun of Dec. 15 says: Practically all the lime kilns in Maine today passed into the control of asyndi- cate backed by New York capital. All the vessels engaged in the transporta- tion of lime will also be controlled by the trust.
 The John P Lowell Arms Company and the John P. Lowell Company, ,Iallied concerns of Boston and dealers in sport ing goods, made an assignment Tuesday for the benefit of their creditors.
Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

The express office at Stock bridge was broken into Saturday night and rided, though only few yards of silk are missing. The burglars have not been located.
 Thomas Wells, 59, committed suicide at his lodgings in Pittsfield last Thurs. day. He took laudanum and hung himself He was an Englishman and a Free Mason.
 Olcott W. Cone of Ssndisfeld, who was found in the woods last Thursday in paralyzed condition, died Monday at II o'clock having suffered another paralytic shock, Dr Oallendsr being of the opinion that he also had a stroke of paralysis on Thursday last. Mir Cone was in his 71st year and was one of the most highly respected citizens in the town of Sandisfeld.