Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-27
Big Timber, Sept. 26.

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Big Timber has at last afforded a first
class art gallery, the proprietors names
BENG Mr.. A. L. Beal of New York and
MT. ~. Ayres of Minneapolis, and the
nrm being known as the Big Timber
studio. Mr.. Beal bought the entire inter-
est from w. b. Cooper last September
and has since removed into a first class
gallery, with all the latest improve
ments. Finding business rapidly increas-
ing ne sold a half interest to Mr.. Ayres
Nast June. The firm has since added con-
sloerably to their gallery, including a
Microscopic outfit, with which they in
tend making views of Montana scenery.
and placing before the public a class of
work which they are confident will meet
witch success. The firm has also plced a
team continually on the road, eagerly
searching for mountain and game scenes.
They also have a full line of Yellowstone
park scenery,
Mr. Munroe of Hurdland, Missouri, ac-
companied by his daughter Della, who
have been spending a few weeks i'm Mon
tana with his son, departed for their
home last Thursday. Mr.. Munroe says
he Thinks Montana is the garden of
Eden FOR a young man who has strength
and small capital to invest. While here,
Mr.. Munroe, with his daughter, Mrs.
Stillman Hopkins, Miss Florence Hop
kins. his son George and A.. Beal spent
~ ~ GU ShS q blluSe rails
camping. They also visited the Sweet
Grass Canyon and Falls and different
parts OF the Crazy Mountains. Miss
Munroe with her kodak succeeded in
getting some very nice views of the falls,
anyon and mountains, and other
points which her father says he shall al
ways value to a high extent. Mr.. Num-
roe had business in Hurdland Or would
have stayed another month.
Monday evening the Busha & Bailey
hall was roWded to it's seating and
standing capacity with the republican
and democratic intelligence of the COM
munity, to hear the Hon. John w. Gus
ter of Illinois speak a few words in behalf
OF William Mckinley and Theo. Roose-
VeNt. MIR. w. Custer arrived here very
early Monday morning, so early that even
Phil Sheridan, who is generally depended
upon to extend the glad hand to visit
ing strangers, could not meet him.. How
ever, later on he was pacified by the
studied attention of the leading repub-
hcan politicians of the city. Mr.. Custer
dltferS somewhat from his namesake,
Gen. George Custer, to whom he is related
as a cousin i'm that he becomes very much
~dlsgruntled at not having a red hot fire
in his room with plenty of attendants, but
he makes up something by proving to be
a really good stump speaker. In his dis
cussslon he moves through the Philip
pine Island in an easy, familiar sort of
way. casting out problems so deep and
taking that the democrats of this vicinity
viii be kept busy for some time i'm their
e~ndeavors to refute his statements. He
glinds out vast national financial statis-
tics SO glibly and confident that he
makes one feel almost wealthy. During
Ids speech, Mr.. Custer took, perhaps, a
mean advantage of the audience, for di-
rectly behind him was a large and promi-
nent Autograph picture of William Nc
kinley, and every time that he failed to
create applause by his studied political
arguments, he would ring in something
national and accumulative, and anna
caMy turning waving his hand at the
William Mckinley photo, could bring
down the house without fail. MI. Custer
spoke OF wooley considerations, relative
to the interests of Sweet Grass county
and vicinity and rather staggered the
democratic ~freeholders with his figures
on comparisons between the democratic
n republican direction of affairs in the
Sheep and cattle raising industry. Mr..
Custer can crack a joke, tell an interest
ing story and make himself generally
agreeable, and so his audience left him.
feeling that they woul really like to
e him again.