Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-11
Hotel Gossip

Mckinley prosperity was what car
ried Utah for the republican tickle in the
recent election said G.. S: Holmes at the
Butte today. Mr.. Holnres was formerly
chairman of the republican county CEN
trail committee of Salt Lake county,
Utah. the county (which polls fully a
fourth of the vote of the state and is one
of Utah's best known politicians.
The state had been strongly demo-
cratic since the day of admission" said
Mr.. Holmes and 1 attribute the success
of the republican party in the state SOLE
Jy to the good times that have prevailed
during the Mckinley administration. The
people, 1 think. simply came to the con-
clusion that the kind of prosperity they
had enjoyed during the past four years
was good enough for them, and that they
We're willing to let well enough alone.
The legislature is republican for the
first time since the first state legislature,
which means, of course, that the suc-
cessor to Frank j.. Cannon will be a re-
republican, the last democratic legisla-
ture having failed to elect because Of
the deadlock on McCune.
'EWho is most likely to be the choice OF
the legislature for senator? Oh, that is
a hard thing to tell, for it is a free fight
and there is no telling this far in ad-
vance who is the most popular candidate.
The men most prominently mentioned
are O. ]. Salisbury, Ex-Governor Arthur
Thomas, Thomas kearns, Reed Smoot
and George @. Cannon. l think that the
senator will undoubtedly be one of these
men," .
Mr.. Holmes, aside from being a promi-
nent politician in Zion, is proprietor of
the Knutsford hotel, and one of the most
widely known hotel men of the Pacific
slope. He has been offered the Brown
Palace in Denver, and the Antlers at
Colorado Springs and is at present think
ing of extending his hotel business by
taking in these famous hostelries. It is
surmised that his visit to B~utte-though
he declined to acknowledge that such was
the case-was in connection with the pos
sible management of the new Thornton
motel, now nearing completion. Mr..
Holmes has a host of friends among the
people here n among the travelling men
who would be greatly pleased to see
Butte's new hotel under his management.
Mr.. Holmes left for Salt Lake this
afternoon.
IT think Cripple Greek is the most out
of the ordinary mining camp l have ever
had anything to do WITH said Arthur
A. Brownlee at the Butte today. MI.
BrOwnlee, though a young man is one
of the largest mining operators of
Colorado. He is president or the Colo
RADIO Ore Reduction company of Cripple
Creek, president of the McCullagh-'
Brownlee Mining company of Joplin, Mo-.
and is interested in a large number of
other mining enterprises in Colorado and
other parts of the country. Mr.. Brown
lee is visiting Butte for a few days by
reason of the fact that he had started
for Alaska to look into some copper de-
posits at White Horse rapids but was
hung up by the quarantine against
smallpox. at present imposed on the
Alaska steamers, and he decided to come
to Butte to spend the interval that must
elapse befor he can sail for the north.
by my reference to Cripple Creek as
an out of the ordinary sort of a minins
camp" Mr.. Brownlee continued, Il
mean that I have never been in a camp
where there were SO many people inter-
ested in mining in a small way as there
are there.
You can scarcely meet a man in any
kind of business who is not dabbling in
mining on the side. Nearly every man
engaged in business, it does not matter
much what 1t lS-barberlng, a mercan-
tile business or a saloon, almost any,
thing in fact-has either got a lease or is
interested in one.
of course. this all makes times good
in Cripple Creek. for the business people
are all leagued together to keep the
money in. the town. and when you come
to consider that there are over 300 work.
ing shafts in the immediate vicinity of
Cripple Creek you may imagine 1t is a
pretty thriving sort of a district. The