Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-08
Tells a New York Paper Of a
WOrd--SanderS Fued.
RINK SPEECH
The Colonel Would Fight a Duel With
an Iudian Warhoop-Re-
asOn Explained.

A. H. Tarbet of Salt Lake City spent a
number of years in Montana, and yes
terday, when seen at the Waldorf-Asto-
ria, told the following incident which he
had witnessed there. I'm the earlier
days of Montana" said Mr.. Tarbet.
when civilization was not and the saw
age was: when wofen were a rarity and
the hard and lonely life of the frontiers
man was the rule; when the courts were
few in number, crude in their methods
and inadequate to meet the conditions
which they had been called into being to
confront: in brief. when Montana was in
it's beginning, Samuel Word and Col. w.
F. sanders We're friends. Together they
had served on the same vigilance COM
committee; with hands clasped upon the
same rope they had taught the desperate
and the hOrSethief the dance on nothing
that ends in death. In those earlier
days they had been stanch friends and
boon companions, but with the advance of
civilization and the Introduction Of poll
tics, Word took the democratic and Sand
ers the republican side. Their ways di-
verged and drew further and further
apart as Montana marched steadily on to
the goal of her high destiny. When the
campaign was on that resulted in the
election of Thomas H. Carter to congress
over w. A. Clark these differences of
opinion had reached that stage of person
al ill-will that is marked by bitter and
acrimonious comment. Sanders, who will
be remembered as United States senator
from Montana, possessed a peculiar abil-
lty OF seeing the weakness of peon)e
which he called attention to in friend and
enemy alike. The Carter-Clark campaign
was a lively one. and during it's progress
Sander took it upon himself. in the
course OF a speech, to make some very
sarcastic and bitter remarks anent Word
which, when the latter became aware of
them, he as bitterly and publicly resent
ed, announcing that he should hold Sen
ator Sander personally accountable fol-
what he had said. These words had an
ominous ring, and put the community or
the oui vtve to learn what notice OF
action Sanders would take regarding
/ them.
Shortly afterward," went on Mr.. Tar.
bet, Col. and made a speech at thu
old skating rink in Butte, and the tow
turned out en- masse to hear what hi
might say, but greatly to it's collectiv.
disappointment he finished his speech ant
started off the stage without in any wa,
touching on the controversy with Word
A second later. however, just as quietly
he returned, n after placidly pourins
out and drinking a glass of water from
the regulation stump-speech pitcher
said: Gentlemen, there was one minol
matter which I wished to touch upon
but which. on account of it's unimport
ance, I came near forgetting. One Wore
has recently seen fit to take umbrage a
some remark of mine; has denounced m,
from the stump and, to al lintents an,
purposes. has challenged me to morta
combat. Under the code, I believe, I hav
the right to nam the time, place an,
weapons to be used in the coming duel.
accordingly name Beaver canyon as tn
place, daybreak as the time and an In
dian war whoop as the weapon While !
was all Greek to me-" said Mr.. Tarbet
"every old timer was on his feet in an in
slant, fairly yelling with delight, tn
cause for which one of them later ex
| planned to me as follows:
When the Me- Perez Indian cam