Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-11
CHICAGO GOSSIP
NEWS OF MONTANIANS IN THE
ILLINOIS METROPOLIS.
DEWEY'S GREAT RECEPTION,
As An Admiral, Not AS a Candidate
Montana Men Buy Cattle-Ru-
mored Rockefeller Quarrel.

Chicago, May s, 1900.
Chicago is an interesting place for q
Montanian. Here are to be met ever!
day. leading citizens of the state en- route
east or west.
Hugh Wilson left today for a two
weeks visit to his home, near Canton
Ohio. Hugh has just undergone a sue
cessful operation for appendicitis. He
had q close call, and is still carrying
around a hole in his right side large
enough to hold a box of cigars; but he
is pronounced out of danger, as his many
friends in Butte will be glad to hear
Mrs. Wilson, who has been his faithful
companion during the great crisis of his
life, is with him and together they will
soon return home.
John T. Murphy and his two daugh-
ters of Helena are spending a few weeks
here having just returned from a so
.iourn in Florida. beginning last Deem
Der. Mr. Murphy is a typical Montan-
ian, an old timer and a successful bust
ness man. He keeps out of politics, but
what he doesn't know about Montana
and it's people is not worth knowing,
He has cattle on a thousand hills and in
several valleys
Thomas A. Marlowe, his banking part
ner, together with ex-senator Nc
Namara, were here last week watching
the sale of an Indiana herd of thor
oughbred cattle, of which they bought
twenty head for about a thousand dol
lars a head. These men WI the largest
cattle ranch in Montana and believe in
improving the strain of their stock.
Montana beef steers average in weight
about two hundred pounds more than
those of the southwestern states and
territories. Marlowe had his eye on one
Hereford bull that sold for IS, 900 last
week and wanted to buy it, but while he
was lighting a cigarette an Illinois
farmer raised the bid 800 and secured
the prize.
Major Maginnis has just left for home
after a visit to Washington. The major
has more old friends in Washington,
perhaps, than any other citizen of Mon
tana. He left a clean record there and
is remembered as a cultured gentleman,
whose RELOCATION to private life is a
mystery to Washingtonians. But no
man who doesn't stand higher in Ana
conda than Major Maginnis need expect
to go to Washington except at his own
expense and upon his own suggestion.
Mr.. JOIN Case, formerly manager of
the Great Falls s1nelter and now man.
ager Of the Bigelow smelling interests
in the Lake Superior copper region, is in
the city. He has a warm place in his
heart for Montana. He is spending a
few days here with Mr.. O'Grady. chief
accountant for the Boston & Montana
at Great Falls, who expects soon to be
transferred to Anaconda under Mr..
Klepetko.
Ex-State Senator f. D Mats spent a
couple of weeks here before returning to
Montana to re-enter the political arena.
His recent trip to the Philippines made
an enthusiastic eXpansionist of the
u orator, and some of his real
friends entertained hopes of his political
regeneration. The passage OF the Porto
Rican bill, however, aroused within him
a volcano Of Jeffersonian wrath: he saw
the constitution imperilled, he took
alarm at the imperialistic tendencies of
the republican party (Whatever that may
mean) and he now presents the worst
case of political backsliding ever wit
messed by this chronicler. It's too bad
Laurence Harris and wife passed
through the city, westward bound, yes
terday. He is going to Cape Nome ia
wash a fortune out of the tundra. Mr.
Bush, a skillful young metallurgist, well
known in Montana, will accompany aim.
A letter from San Francisco states thai
Hon. r. j. Watson is due to leave there
on the 10th instant with a complete min
ing and pumping outfit to operate on the
golden beach. His Montana friends will
all indulge in the hope that gold dust
will prove more negotiable than the gold
bricks he has been working for during
the past ten years. He is backed by a
company of capitalists organized in
Washington, where he spent the winter
watching the proceedings of the senate
committee on privileges n elections.
Senator Dubois of Idaho is here. 1t is
believed that his prospect of being elect
ed again to the senate is very bright
unless his anti-expansion views shall
shatter them. He was a capable and
popular senator and Idaho car do no
better than send him back to Washing
ton ii he will return to his old party
affiliations and continue his fight for
protection and bimetallism.
In proof of the Inter Mountains edi-
torial contention that the democratic
party is getting ready to abandon silver
Or relegate it to 'fourthly' or .sffthly,'
plenty of evidence has been adduced
Charles Towne's treaehery to the white
metal. as manifested in his recent rec
menda to the silver republicans
is fresh in the minds of the people. Now
comes the Michigan democratic conven.
ton, which contents itself with endors,
ing the movement "for the historic union