Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-24
SILVER BOW CoUNTY's CORONER
AND oLD-TIME JOURNALIST
DIED THIS MORNING.
SUFFERED LONG WITH AN
INCURABLE HEART DISEASE.
Served in the Army Of the Potomac
and Was Connected With
Many Papers.

this morning. The hand of death bore
upon him in compassion, and the end
was calm and peaceful. The body was
soon after emoved from the residence,
No. 112 West Granite street, to Sher-
mans, where it lies in a casket exposed
to the multitude who will look upon one
OF Butte's best known citizens for the
last time; not without a sigh, perhaps
goodness of heart recall the story Ut
the samaritan in holy writ.
fnli A. Julien for years had been
.louoled with heart disease, and for the
past SIX. months the dreadful malady
mas o1ten Frustrated him, so that he was
oni g. TO abandon his reportorial desk
on the Miner and conine himself to the
uut!es or coroner. Saturday his friends
notlced something in his face that nre-
saged the end of life, and they advised
nun 10 keep close to home. Although
complalnlng that he felt wretched.
t thet the coroner held an inquest
that night on the cause of death Of Moi
vllie wines, and at it's conclusion re-
nldlned up town at one or two of his
1amillar resorts until a late hour. When
suiIlen retired that night he never rose
- MS ped, although on Sunday.
piopped up on a pillow, he gave some in,
structions to the son of rindsav ~
man round dead in his cabin on Merc,,ry
s.leet saturday. concerning the disnosi.
"a 81 tne property found in the place.
Auout IN the evening of Sunday
oct ber 1 min Darkeeper Of the Mint. to-
5e.ner WIN a friend, called at the resi-
uence on West Granite, and fndinp IN,
asleep and apparently resting olIietlv
took their leave without disturbing him
along ABOUT 4 o'clock. Mrs. Julien. who
aenaa az ms bedside constantly, be-
came alarmed. and going upstairs awak-
ehed Mr.. S. w Schier, a stenoera nher
VINO roomed in the house, Mr.. Srhiar
fastened to the residence of DR.. McIn-
Eyre, a rev doors west. DR.. Mcintyre
gave the patient a hermedetica1 iniaoo
tion of strychnine and left word to call
MN should any change occur.
me change came three hours later.
asaln schler summoned the doctor. In
iien minutes nut n u after his arrival, Phil JUL
at noon by an Inter Mountain reporter
said that Jullien's heart was All IN
pieces. and the wonder is that he SIR.
Vlved the malady SO long.
"a. Holden, who is perhaps the oldest
attache of the Miner in an editorial ca
pocity. gave the reporter what few facts
We're in his possession regarding he ear
~ life OF the old journalist. Phil A. jul
lien was born in Washington, D.. G., about
o. or 90 years ago. He was educated at
the catholic college at Georgetown, at
that time the highest seat of learning of
that faith in the country. Towards the
close of the civil war, he enlisted in one
OF the Two District of Columbia regi-
ments, and saw service in the Army of
the fotomac. Here he got acquainted
with General Thomas Francis Meagher,
VINO was afterwards territorial governor
Of Montana. Returning to his native civ
at the close OF the war, Julien began his
journalistic career. He afterwards went
to Philadelphia and was associated with
two OF the newspapers of that great city.
subsequently he became a descriptive
writer of railroads and made a flying
trip to the Pacific coast in that capacity
for the Northern Pacific. Before coming
to Butte Julien was employed on the
Denver newspapers. The year he came
to Butte could not be ascertained, but it
Is so long ago as to place him among the
honored roll of old-timers.
Jailer Boyle says Julien was in his
army corps, the Ninth, under
OF General Burnsides, and was attached
to the staff Of some %brigadier general in
a CLERICAL capacity in that corps MANY
times" says Boyle, 1--WE talked of Apo
matox and Spottsylvania and Five Forks
and other battlefields in Virginia."
Mr.. Adrian Jones, foreman of the
Miner, remembers Phil Julien when the
latter was a reporter on the Washing
ton Republican,, and Jones was a Mer-
curry or printers devil" Those were the
days when "Boss Shepard" saw his hal
cyon days. %Shepard's brother was city
editor of the Republican and w. J. Muir
laugh was editor in chief. Already Phil
Julien a become well known and his
talents were appreciated by the liter
airy men in the capaital, including such
men as Ben Perley Poole.
In Montana Julien was associated with
various newspapers, principally the
Miner. His connection with this paper,
leaving out different periods at Great
Falls and with other publications in
Butte, spans fourteen years. He was
associate editor of the Mining Journal
when its editor, w. J. Penrose, was as
s~assinated.
Phil Julien was a painstaking writer,
ana although his Journalistic career en-
braced newspaper of every political
complexion, he never lost caste with erst-
them into an enemy. Nothing offensive
appeared in anything he ever wrote. A
kind and gentle man himself, he dealt
leniently with the erring.
N better coroner occupied that posi-
ton in Silver Bow county. ATTORNEYS
summoned at times at inquests bear out
the statement that Julien had one of
those judicial minds which would adj
mirably fit him for the bench.
No man in Butte had less enemies or
more friends than Phil A. Julien. Truly
Fitz Green Halleck had such a character
in mind when he wrote:
"Green be the sod above thy head.
Friend of my youthful days.
None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise"
Phil Julien leaves a widow, but no chill
dren. He has a stepson, Harry Rose, a
pressman n job printer. The deceased
was a member of the Maccabees and car
ried a life insurance of 81, 1000, which he
signed over to his wife.
The Press Association will meet this
evening and present a memorial and
proper resolutions, and perhaps make all
arrangements for the funeral.
Said Thomas F.. Courtney, today:
Phil Julien, All! He is dead. 1 am sor-
ry to hear it. My memory Of Phil runs
bck many years. At all times under all
circumstances during all those years, I
ever found him a gentleman. AS a
newspaper man he was always fair and
g~entlemanly. His fine sense of honor Sc
cured for him a hearing among his poll
teal friends, and opponents alike. None
mistrusted him. He did not spend his