Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-25
Hotel Gossip

o.Ao dI tnc N1CD6TllOll HOlcl lHlS
morning as he blew a Whit of smoke into
the air and looked out into the sunny
street. well" continued the drummer
as he threw his thumbs into the side
pockets of his trousers, you know 1 am
not a politician and l am scarcely in the
game when it comes to discussing the
philippine question and a few other
thlngs which are supposed to run along
with the so-called paramount issue, but
l notice a few things as I go along. I
have my partisan leanings and all that,
of course, but I am not so biased for
either side as to fail to observe the gen.
e3'al trend of affairs.
Ell think 1 have been about as much
impressed with the new voter as any
thing which l have noticed in connec-
ton with the campaign. l mean the man
who is going to vote this fall for the first
time. He is not necessarily a man who
has come into the rights of an elector
through reaching his majority. There is
nothing especially new about the young
men who are registering because they
are twenty-one y" ars old or will be be-
fore election day. Boys are becoming
men every day and l don't suppose they
are any different in this campaign from
what they have been in other campaigns
for years. 1t is the men who are be-
coming citizens on the representation
that they came to this country before
they We're eighteen years of age, who
have attracted my attention. They
seem to be very plentiful and vary in
years from = beardless youths to gray
haired men. By swearing before a court
that they came to America before they
were eighteen, as l understand it, they
are granted what are called minors pa
nGrS a nd n ~ ahIa fn vote without ha wing
to wait to take u any second papers. l
have dropped into courts and watched
them in several cities and it is amusing
to me to see how certain they are that
they reached this country before they
We're eighteen. When the judge asks
them how old they We're when they ar
rived on this side the answer always
makes the applicant at least as young
as seventeen and a half years when he
arrived here.
Men well advanced in years, who
rave worked in the United States ~,
over twenty years, come onward and
testify that they nave suddenly taken it
into their heads that they want to vote
for Bryan or Mckinley. Just why they
have this sudden awakening, and why
they have failed to learn the language of
the country well during their long resi-
dence here does not always clearly APP
pear. Perhaps they always tell the truth
and perhaps the men who go into court
to swear that they ave known the ap-
plicant for long terms of years always
leave the judge without committing per-
jury. But for a common every day man
who knows nothing about the way politi-
cal ends are sought by a certain class of
men the proceedings sometimes look a
little odd.
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city where a man who certainly was not
a day under forty-five, came into court
to seek minors naturalization papers.
One of the witnesses who appeared 4,
swear that he had known the applicant
ever since he was sixteen years of age,
was a young man scarcely twenty-five.
The court noted the inconsistency of the
situation and took occasion to ask the
applicant a few questions about his
residence in this country. The result
was hat the man who wanted his min
ors' papers did not get them.
II want it understood that 7 am not
talking about the way the things are
done here in Montana. I have no doubt
that everything is perfectly consistent
when it comes to naturalizing men out in
this country. l presume that every man
is so anxious to vote out here that he
los es no time in becoming a citizen as
soon as he can. You probably AVE no
old men in this state who AVE lived
here to see boys grow up around them
without sparring for a chance to get to
the ballot box themselves"
6. D. b.. Turner, who is manager of the
Red Bluff mine, at Red Bluff, Madison
county, was in the city last evening and
left for the east this morning. Mr.. Turn
err will visit Montreal, the home OF many
cf 1.-the principal stockholders in the COM
pany operating the Red Bluff mine
I'VE struck a splendid body of ore this
week. said Mr.. Turner, before his de-
parture for the east, ;" and I think we
have one of the biggest and best gold
mines in Montana. We opened UP a big
vein, the richness of which may be judged
from the fact that two feet of it will
average about 5000 to the ton. At the
same time We struck a big body of wa
ter which has taxed the capacity Of our
boilers. hut we are now engaged in in
stating an extra boiler for such emer-
gencies. Red Bluff will yet be heard
from quoth Mr.. Turner as he FASTENED
away to atch the train.
R. d. Grant. former manage of the
Parrot properties in this district, came
up from Salt Lak last evening. Mr..
Grant is here to wind up the business
venture of the Peck experimental plant
for the treatment of the lOw-grade ores
of Butte. The machinery installed at the
plant at the old Centennial mill opposite
the Butte reduction Works will probably
be, sold at an early date.
Franklin Farrell, whom Mr.. Grant rep
resents, has been Mr.. Peck's financial
backer, and is out several Thousand dol
lars on the experimental plant. Mr..
Farrel was willing to continue operations
and erect a larger plant to fully demon
strate the merits of the process invent
ed by Mr.. Peck, but owing to the Tissue
cess of the former venture and upon the
advice of practical m%etallurgists he
will probably not make any further ex-
pendi!ures this year.