The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-11
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easy when you see how it is done. 1t il
great place for our paper, and all tn
people read it because it voices thei
political sentiments. We have her,
Flemmings and Flemmings and Elem
mings, all in different lines of business
and all subscribers There are also T
F. Shelly. Miles McCune, Golden Bros.
Barney Hart, Hugh Smith, NJ. ]. Ker
rigan, James McGinnis, and lots more
Here is Livingston, a good, solid
city, built on big scale. 1t has a
roundhouse, railroad shops and fine
river runs through the town. There are
fine hotels. nice Catholic church, and
very nice people. as follows: Mr.. and
Mrs. Morrison. P. j. Nolan, John Ora
ham. Mrs. McInerny, P. Taugher, P. c.
Donovan and many more.
Next is Bozeman, one of the old
stand-by's, strictly farming country;
there are some mines and ranch men,
and prospectors galore. 1t is a busy
town on Saturdays. Every merchant is
kept on the jump waiting on the people
all day and away into the night They
have street cars here and one OF the fin,
est breweries in the West The town
lies away from the railroad, with its
back up against the hills. Here l made
new friends in the following gentlemen,
who subscribed for the Irish Standard:
James Forrestal, Robt. Burns, Ward g.
Shears, John Walsh, Pat Walsh, James
Kelly, w. c. Latta, Mr.. Pease, and
twice as many more.
Then comes the town OF Logan,
which is junction OF the N. P. r. R.,
having daily feeder here from the main
line to Butte and Anaconda. Here l
met Messrs. johnson, Gilhooly, Devan,
Emmerson, and James Lee from St.
Paul, who are all Standard readers.
Here is Helena. city built OF solid
granite, brick and iron, fine city in
every way with its cathedral, academies
and hospitals. its bishop. ex-United
States Senators Powers and Carpen-
ter, and United States Senator Banks.
Cinnamon everywhere and engaged in
all kinds OF business, street cars, smelt
ers, shops and mines, miners and ranch
men. Among Irish Standard subscrib-
ers are County Auditor Sweeney, ]. ].
Clarke, NJ. Murphy, 7. F. Gaven, D. T.
Shea, M. Turley, Con Kelly, Mrs Nc
Kelvey, NJ. ]. Haley, J. Cuskelly, Thos.
E. Gleason, R. R. Purcell, General c.
B. Curtis, Gen. C. B. Nolan, P. Duffy,
Postmaster Hayes, Chief O'Connell, NJ.
J. DAILY, and many more, who are sub
scribers for several years.
Next is Marysvillc. This is another
mining town. Your agent never will
forget his trip to the top OF the Rockies
at this place. Here | saw the water
running on to the Atlantic on one side
and to the Pacific on the other. This
is not such a high place-only $500 feet
above the sea level. Here | met lone
cowboy, or ranchman, or prospcctor, or
mountaineer. or whatever he may be
called, of whom asked the way to Bald
Butte A nicer man than Mr. Archi-
bald would be hard to find Later
met Mr.. Cullen from Glencoe, Mimi,
who is getting rich and who gave me {.
lift This Marysville is a vcritablc min,
ing camp. 1t is all steep, almost per-
pendicular, hills or mountains and to
climb one OF them will kill or cure. 1t
seems so strange to inllale the cold
pure, light air. saw some ice there
on the ed Of August, and plenty OF snow
in the distance. Here is found the Irish
Standard am told that it was tho
adventurous Ed O'Bricn who staged i,
here away back in the Sos. I found old
and new friends Of the paper in ]. G.
O'Bricn, j. p. Mcdonald, T. D. Sulli-
van. J. Deegan, Jerry Lawler, M. II.
Toughey, M. Hurley. John ]. Barrett.
Thos. Cassidy, II. P. Dunno, Matt Dor,
itty, ]. p. Cullen and others. Farewell,
Marysvile. Bald Butte, Gloster, Empire
and Cruise until we see you again
Last, but not least, in Montana is the
very town I am writing this letter from
Missoula is a most beautiful place, just
over the mountains. far enough to be
pleasant and ba1my. There is fruit here
in plenty. Apples everywhere, falling
off the trees. This is the very incest
place have struck so far in climate.
find beautiful and large Catholic
church, fine ST Patrick's hospital and
magnificent college and academy in
course Of construction The stores here
are as fine as in the city of Chicago or
Minneapolis, not to mention St. Paul
1t seems to me a person would like to
live here forever. The plateau or basin
valley, on which the city is built. has
land enough to give each person in it
about five acres OF as fine land as lies out
doors. Here the Standard has friends in
P. M. Reilly, John Maloney. P. Hogan,
M. Flyn, J. Osborne, P. ]. Callaghan, P.
Hanrahan and others. Now l am
through with Montana and off for Cali
fornia in the morning. My next letter
may be from Portland, Ore. Until then,
farewell everybody J. B. P.
Missoula, Mont. Aug. S, 1900.