Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

$50 copies of the paper at night and of
making LOCO friedrich by day, was put
in at the Standard office. In 1892 a big
strike was made in the Mountain Console
dated and five steam stamps for the
smelter We're purchased. simultaneously
the old Standard press was sent over to
the b%rickyard; a new one, with double
the capacity was bought Of the Miner
Publishing company Cor which it was
too smalD and a new mahogany side
board was set up between the business
office and the editorial rooms, with the
chairman of the Deer Lodge county DEM
ocratic central committee as barkeeper.
In 1893 Otto Stallman was fired and his
salary utilized to pay for an extra re-
porter in the Butte local department of
the paper. In 1894 the electrolytic plant
was started on one side of the creek and
four M~ergenthaler printing machines were
put in place in the Standard composing
room. but We're never paid, for as copper
was low that year.. In 1896 the mining
company began to pay dividends of 3d.
Cc0,OCO a year.. n it was announced in
March thai for the first time the news
paper department also was on a paying
basis. the business manager having for
gotten to pay salaries for that month.
A report spread in Europe that the 3d.
000,G0 dividend came out Of the paper
and not out of the mine-and this was
generally believed because the Standard
denied it. In 1897 all the mines and
smelters of the company were thrown
into one concern. and stock sold at the
rate of $50, 900. 900. At the same time. not
to he nnt7Onp tha Sta pia ri W. canifo1.
lied, 40 per cent of the stock being sub
scribed by w. w. Walsworth. C. II.
Eggleston and j. H. Durstan. who have
made the Standard what it is today and
have never yet been arrested or held to a
legal accountability for their operations.
John Mcguire. who is about to start a
monthly magazine. will be welcomed to
the sacred circle of the press gang. There
has always been an appearance of inno-
cence n responsibility about John Ma
guire that frequently caused him to be
mistaken for a newspaper man, and the
fact that he would always cross a street
even in the mud rather than pass the
door of a saloon. and regardless of the
fact that there might be two saloons on
the other side. has served to endear him
to the journalists of Montana as a man
of undertaking moral principles.
The representatives of the Helena press
in attendance at the Anaconda news
paper convention are reported to have
purchased railroad passes only as far as
Stuart. where they left the train and
hired a wagon to take them to the Smell
ter City, being wholly unaware of it's
having railroad connection.
A few years ago, during the panic of
'93, the Helena Herald struck a payday
with only 500 in the safe. Jack Fisk was
then doing the work of foreman in the
composing room. He heard Of the trou-
said: Brother Bob, let me take that
500 for a few minutes Being given the
money he disappeared through the back
door. hatless and coatless. In 20 min
utes he was back, a little red in the face.
and laid 1920 on the table in coin of
the realm. Jack said Bob. II know
you got this money up at you house, but
how did that yellow check happen to get
mixed up with those gold pieces??' Il
know said Jack; 'but | suppose
some one passed a bone counterfeit on
me-
1t was not until a year after that Her
aid payday that Bob found out that
Jack could play faro.