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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26

tana. designated as Survey No. 6424. in
Township north. Range Z west. being
more particularly described as follows.
to-wit:
Beginning at the northeast corner.
a pine stump. with mound Of earth
and stone alongside. ana marked
1-6424 for Corner No. 1. from which
the southeast corner Of Section -,
Township 1 north. Range west. bears
north degrees. Is minutes and 81
seconds east 6s1s.l feet. and running
thence north 80 degrees g minutes west
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26
VACCINATION LAW
DIR. KELLY APPEARS BEFORE
CITY SCHOOL BOARD.
EXAMINES SCHOOL CHILDREN
Compulsory Statute on Small
pox in the City
Schools.
Especial to Inter Mountain, }

Especial to Inter Mountain.)
Red Lodge, Oct. 26.-The city school
board sat in regular session in this city
recently, at which time DR.. B. B. Kelly
appeared before the board and explained
the Interpretation Of the compulsory
vaccination law, and inasmuch as case
OF smallpox had been taken from the
schools to the pest house, he demanded
that all children who had not previously
been vaccinated should be compelled to
have the operation performed. The doc
tors demands were taken under advise
Inent and the board adjourned to meet
on the evening of the 18th.
Upon receiving legal advice the board
decided to have all the school children
examined, and set apart Thursday fore
noon as the time.
Board Adopts Resolution.
Following is the resolution adopted
Whereas, The board of health of Car
hon county, through it's medical adviser
and representation has directed and
urged the trustees Of this district to en-
force the suggestions Of the state board
Of health regarding the vaccination of
teachers and pupils. and whereas the
medical representative of the county
met we'll defined cases of smallpox
amongst the children of this district,
and that there is serious danger of an
epidemic of that disease; be 1t herebs'
Reolved, That in accordance with the
advice Of the state board Of health and
the directions Of the county board Of
health, all teachers employed in this
district and all pupils attending this
schools of this district shall be required
to show evidence Of having been success
fully vaccinated within the past five
years; and that the principal of the
schools be, and he hereby is, directed
and empowered to enforce the provisions
Of this resolution to take effect at once,
with the aid and advice of the county
physician.
Examines School Children.
In the forenoon Of the 18th Drs. Kelly
and Doty made an examination of all
school children who did not possess GER
tificates Of vaccination, and discovered
40 pupils who had not been vaccinated.
Drs. Kelly and Butler vaccinated all
those pupils Thursday afternoon whose
parents were willing and 80 notified the
PARENTS by Eote.
During the examination of the pupils
three children, all members of one fam
lily, whose parents had strenuously OBJ
1ected to their being vaccinated, were
found suffering from the disease known
as seven years itch, and were Pre- mptly
sent home with instructions not to re-
turn to school until they were cured
and brought with them physicians
certificate to that effect.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26
SALOON HELD UP.
Unmasked Man Robb Little Dewey
Cash Register.
Especial to Inter Mountain.)

Especial to Inter Mountain)
Helena. Mont. Oct. 26.-An unmasked
man entered the Little Dewey saloon, on
Main street. shortly after O'Clock last
night. bought a drink, held up the bar
tender and rifled the till of $31.
There were six men in the place drink
ing at the time. The robber gave the
'shands- up order to all of them, and he
then coolly opened the cash register and
took all except the small change. He
then stepped out into the darkness and
disappeared. Several of the bystanders
were arrested, as the police believed they
might have stood in with the play.
There is absolutely no clew to the
identity Of the robbers. and the police
have made no arrests in the sSfe-crack-
ing case
1t is believed that both jobs We're the
work of gang of cracksmen and
"hold-up' artists who are making head
quarters in Helena.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26

Ivan, whose postoffice address is Butte.
Montana. and Thomas Welsh. whose
postoffice address is Crookston. Polk
county. Minnesota. have this day filed
their application for a patent for 1865
linear feet. being 2ss feet westerly and
1o60.5 feet easterly from the discovery
shaft Of the White Cloud Lode Mining
claim, upon which a notice Of intention
to apply for a patent was posted on the
Sth day Of October. 1901. situated in Sum-
NIT Valley (unorganizedD Mining dis
trict. Silver Bow county, State Of Mon
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26
BURLINGTON MEN ARRIVE.
Engineer Ensign Will Push Grea
Falls Line Extension.
Especial to Inter Mountain.)

Billings, Oct. 26.-M. w. Ensign, a
civil engineer of the Burlington. arrived
this morning from Lincoln. Neb.. with
force of men and teams and complete
camping outfit. Mr.. Ensign, has been
with the Burlington for many years and
laid out nearly every one Of its western
extensions and branches.
The fact that Mr.. Ensign came pre-
pared for field work is evidence that he
will join the party already in the field
few miles from this city and push the
survey of the Great Falls line through
to a rapid finish.
AS usua! with engineers engaged in
new work Mr.. Ensign would say moth
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26
Open Tonight Until 10 O'clock
Mems Suits and Overcoats at $O.85
That worth $500 and $1,000
The Suits

dozen distinct lines-each possessing particu
lar points Of goodness
The Melton garments think, deserve first place:
they're really the substantial of ALL besides being
and dressy.
Next the fancy cheviots always warranted always
desirable always to give good SERVICE quite few
styles of these shown
Then there fancy worseds and Clay worsteds and
serges and cassmeres. Mostly find the
suit he desires in this lot. and instead taxing
finances to the extent Of SIS $16 he buys his choice
The OVercOats
line varied. extensive and particularly worthy They're
the boulevard box and yoke box Styles graceful
fitting long and medium long; materials handsome
wool cheviots, in dark and Oxford shadngs,
kerseys. gray friezes and smooth fancy-back covert
cloths in fashionable hues the
being made with silk sleeves yokes and ppings Innings
and serges Italian cloths tailoring is skfu careful
and finished. Plenty of splendid coats for
here and the price, Saturday is SIS
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26

ing for publication. 1t is very certain.
however, that the Burlington is making
a more decisive move than ever before
towards extending the linel to Great
Falls. the consummation OF a hope long
desired by the business interests of
Billings
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26
Dummy" Is Discharged.

Especial to Inter Mountain)
Billings. Oct. 26.-The case against c..
Dunning for burglary in the first degree
was dismissed yesterday afternoon in
Justice Frazer's court. Dunning is the
man who recently fleeced several citizens
with the deaf and dumb racket. While
acting as such he is alleged to have
stolen an overcoat belonging to the cook
of the Grand hotel. The evidence was
insufficient to warrant continuing the
case.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26

OF Lode Locations. on Page III.
The adjoining claims to these premises
are Survey No. 1881. Jetteau Lode. Lot
81. on the north: Survey No. 2419. Eme-
line Lode. Lot 35.. on the southeast: Sur
yey No. 6423. ST. James Lode on the,
SOUTH and Survey No. 3673 Stumbling
Block Lode. on the west.
GEORGE D. GREENE,
Register.
SAMUEL BARKER. JR.. Attorney fog
Applicants.
First publication October Is. 1901
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26
Feminine Gambling.

It is generally known in society, says
The Woman at Home, that more than
one man of note has had to sell part OF
his estate to pay his wife's debts at
bridge! Everything connected with the
requirement of money has become of
absorbing interest to a large section of
society. and whereas some 20 or 30
years ago it was considered distinctly
ill-bred to discuss financial matters in
public. 1t Is now done by all and sun
dry. For the first time in the history
of England young women have been
touched with the gambling fever.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-26

MINING APPLICATION NO. 1850.
United States Land Office. Helena. Mon
tana, October IA. 1901.
Notice is hereby given that Jerry Sui
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29
Work Resumed.
Mayor

The Florence Elmo Mining
company has resumed work on its
mine southwest of Buena Vista
after a shut down during the win
ter. The property was secured by
this company last fall, too late to
prepare for work during the win
ter. From this time on the mine
will be rapidly opened up and put
in shipping condition The prin-
cipal values of the ores of this
mine are silver and lead which
runs from $50 10 SIS per ton, The
officers and stockholders of the
company are all Florence people.
and they believe that their proper
ty will soon be developed into a
large paying proposition, and their
judgement seems to be borne out
by the great mines of Leadville
which are in the same formation
and possess the same character
istics as this property.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29
Proclamation by the Mayor.

In accordance with resolutions
passed by the city council May
2Sth, 1901, | earnestly request that
for a proper observance of Decora-
ton Day, May 30th, 1901, the
merchants and business men of
Florence close their respective
places of business as early in the
day as they can. would also re-
quest that no sports or games be
arranged for that day, and that all
should join in the exercises ar
ranged for the day.
JOHN JACOBS,
Mavor
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29
WITH THE EDITORS.
They See Wonders in the Great
est Valley in the World.

The editor of The TRIBUNE has
just returned from two days visit
in the Arkansas valley below Pu-
eblo, as guest of the Pueblo
Press club, and he returns believ-
ing more strongly than ever that
the Arkansas valley is the greatest
in he world
The objective point of the trip
was Lamar, and on arriving there
Sunday night the party was met
by a committee of citizens who at
once assured us of a hearty well
come aud we were conducted to
one of the finest little hotels in
eastern Colorado Early in the
morning public spirited citizens
were at the hotel with carriages
and big tally-ho, to convey the
editors out to the reservoirs of the
Great Plains Irrigation company,
which comprise the greatest sys-
TEN of storage reservoirs for irri-
eating purposes in the world
Here are a few tigu-es in connection
with the system, that should be
known by every inhabitant of the
valley;
Twelve big canals, the shortest
seven miles aud the longest lib
miles, supply the reservoirs which
are five in number. These lakes
have ashore line of sixty miles,
and have a capacity equal to 264,-
600 aches one foot deep. This irri-
gates or is capable of irrigating at
least 100000 acres of land. We
would have been glad to have few
congressman with us just to give
them few practical lessons in ir-
rigation
This vast system of storage re-
servoirs open up an area ample TO
maintain popultion of from 30
600 to 25,000 farming population.
The people of Lamar are hustlers,
and they are going to make theirs
II big city.
After spending the day in the
country the party returned to-
Lamar, where luncheon was en-
joyed after which the tired scribes
hastened to their private car which
was soon picked up by through
freight and hurried on to La Junta
Lamar is town of great posi-
bilities and more enterprising,
pushing, aggressive people would
be hard to find They know how
to entertain, TOO, and the stranger
that is within their gates is royalty
provided for
At La .Junta which is the county
seat of Otero county, pleasant
surprise awaited the press people.
They were escorted by a com
mittee direct to the magnificent
home of DR. Finney, where an in-
mense reception was held by the
mem bers of the Woman's club and
the Fortnightly club Nothing in
the Finney mansion was too good
for the editors Gorgeously
dressed ladies, splendid orchestra
an immense bowl of frappe, a
magnificent spread and all this
for lot of unsophisticated editors.
In the morning the party break
fasted ut the Harvey hotel Then
came drive over the city under
direction of the board of trade, a
visit to the public library of TO-
Continued ON fourth page.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29

When the liver fails to secrete
bile, the blood becomes loaded
with bilious properties, the dlges-
ton becomes impaired and the
bowels constipated. Herbine has
a direct action on the liver and ex-
cretory organs, and few doses
will cure any case of bihousness.
Price, 80 cents, Cafky & Brown.
Twelve expressions for % cents
at kautimans. I3-tf
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29
More Beers Captured.

Cape Town, May 29-Two hun
dred armed Beers with forty
wagons and hundreds of women
and children surrended to the
British in Northern Cape Colony
this morning.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29

All veterans of the late war are
requested to meet at the city hall
at s o'clock this evening to make
arrangements for participating in
memorial exercises tomorrow.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-05-29
Officers Elected.

The lodge of Knights of Pythias
last night at its meeting elected
the following officers to preside
over the destinies of the lodge for
the next six months:
p Z McGuire, G. c.: j. b Cor
don, V. G.; J f. Somerville. p /;
Harry Frueauif, NJ \ Fred Gehr-
ing, |. G., and Charles Rogers. O.
q. They will be installed in office
the first meeting night in July
The Unif, rm Rank, beginning
Monday night vii commence drill
ing on The street to perfect the
drill work All members of the
Rank are requested % cali at the
office of j p Fl Callahan and get
their suits
Mrs. Lee Burhorn gops to Salida
tomorrow, but will return to or
ganize a lodge of Knights and
Indies of Security in McCandless
hall Friday al 80 y. m Bene-
fciaries forming the charter lodge
of Florence are requested TO be
present promptlyat that hour,
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RoMgA Southwest.

gambling house, seat himself at a tahla
ana appropriate what chips he plea sed
from the stacks Of the players and ann,v
n1nnsef unmolested TO the game Such .
state Of affairs finally became unend,r.,-
pie to the sporting fraternity, and e was
Y resolved 70 put him out of the wav
5# one night, while he was sitting a. I,
vllnst-et-un table, in the back part of tbe
= Apache saloon III Ming street three 49,, ~
with records as black as his own h,,+
not possessed Of his strength or fearless
ness shook dice at the bar in front "a d..
eide Which OF them should kill him nv
sot Tell to Dan West, as reptflian an aa-
oassin as ever lived. a
The arrangements were made o,,,cl,v
West Withdrew and provided himself with
double-barreled shotgun. When he was
prepared and had stationed himself out
side the rear Of the saloon, one of his
confederates fired a fpistol in front. But
mean as Howard was, he had friends, and
he was told of the plan to do away with
him. He was therefore on his guard In
the general rush of men from the saloon
to the front door to learn the cause of
the shot, West opened the back door a
little, thrust his shotgun into the aper-
ture and instantly fired at the place
where he had seen Howard sitting mo-
ment before. Howard had, however,
shifted his seat, and so escaped heavy
charge of buckshot.: In a moment he
leaped from his hasty concealment be-
hind the bar and, revolver in hand ran
out of the rear: door in the darkness.
West, who no doubt thought he had killed
Howard, was caught on the run a block
away. Howard ran plump up against
him, wrenched the shot gun from his
hands, and, throwing him to the ground,
held him there with one foot while he
enpt1ed his two ;.revolVers into wesr-s
head a~S oboesf T7-sg4
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Continued from 9Th. Col.

were shot. Two Of them were killed in
stantly. "A half dozen shots went toward
the robbers. Elkins and Wilbur ran to the
corral at the back OF their adobe, ari
each having thrown a bride across a
horse, they were off at terrific speed.
When the excitement was over vain
search was made for many miles out
across the sand for the course taken by
the men. "A heavy windstorm came up
the next day, and IT was absolutely i'm
possible to trail the bandits on the SHIFT
ing sands The adobe was ransacked
and sufficient evidence was found con-
Meeting the two men with the highway
robberfes
Dan Elkins is remembered as the origf-
nal lone bandit Of the Southwest, because
single-handed and alone. he once held up
stsge load Of eight passengers besides
the driver, when all were armed. 1t was q
most daring and rockies thing to do. For
weeks it was the talk of the men in and
about Tombstone. For some reason VIII
bur was not along with Elkins on raid
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-07-20

That night Bill Howard fed to the
mountains, and the next heard Of him he
was at Guaymas, Mexico: Bob Wilcox,
who had been at enmity with Howard,
and had killed two men at the Shaeffelin
mine, heard how the vigilantes were after
his half-brother Bill, and he started for
Tucson and never went back to Arizona
when he once got away Bill, however,
could not keep away. He got back to the
territory in May, 1881. He was shot and
ca ptured in an attempt to hold up the
Maricopa stage, and was sent to Yuma
prison for life. 80 b I'D
A more sudden change probably never
came over a man than came over Bill
Howard in the first months of his con-
finenent. He was "a broken down mar
when he went to the territorial prison
His long dissipation and his exposure tc
various climates, and his long disrega7
Of health all told suddenly upon him
He was from the first one of the most
tractabIe prisoners at Yuma. He never
referred to his tombstone experiences, al.
though all the old time residents of zArl.
iona whenever they visited the prison
invariably. asked to see Bill Howard, the
bad man Of Tombstone. He was an as
sistant to the prison physician, and his
carly common school education in Be-
ton came into good use among the rough.
ignorant criminals in the institution. He
usedtto sit at the bedside of sick prison.
ers and read to them by the hour. He
was a methodcal and painst aking nurse
| and many a nan IN Yuma prison oweo
his recovery Of health much to the care
and tenderness that the ex-robber anc
all-round bad man gave to him. After
two years Bill Howard might possibly
have had pardon, but he said that he
was broken down in mind and body, a;lo
did not know how to provide good liv-
ing for himself, so he preferred to re
main at Yuma prison, where he had extra
friends. E
Dan Elkins and George " ilbur, VINO
went to Tombstone with Howard. became
the boIdest highway robbers ever known
In Arizona. They went from the mining
town to Tucson, about sixty miles north
west from Tombstone, in the spring OF
1919 TEcy engaged themselves as work
ers about the livery stables OF Ialcson,
where the teams that drew The coaches
from the mines across the alkali deserts
to Los Angeles, rested and were replaced
by fresh teams and drivers The two men
afterward said they went to- work there
lc learn about horses, and especially to
know the habits and dispositions Of stage
drivers. After an apprenticeship Of sew
eraI months E,lkins and Wilbur quit. os-
|tensibly to so into the stable business on
their own account. It was remembered
later that in their pprenticeship they
used to get up impronptu snootfrg
matches back Of the stage barns and
|rracticed, apparasfly for fun, at pistol
shooting several purs eve cry week BY
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-07-20

!, various articles they used to get the
stage drivers to show how good marks
n en- they were, and what dexterous hand
iers they were of rifles and pistols. When
Elkins and Wilbur left the employment
at the stables they bought two fine horses
for saddle use, and while pretending to
be looking about the country for other
horses for their stable, they were really
earning the lay of the country.
In the fall of 1879 highway robberies be-
gan to occur along the lines Of the stages
rom Tombstone to Ell Paso They always
were done by two men who wore white
masks. The mode Of attack was varied.
They stopped the stage to California three
times near Florence, and then the next
week the Ell Paso stage was robbed $50
miles away in another direction. The
driver was killed in two instances. and
another time a miner from Tombstone
who was slow in getting out of the coach
with his bags of gold dust was shot dead.
One attack was at night, and others at
different hours in daylight. s,% - =
once one of the robbers took passage ~,
the stage at some little Mexican pueblo
near Maricopa. He was well disguised
ana said he was on his way to Los an
geles. At a certain spot on the way he
drew two pistols and compelled the pas
sengers, who were lolling back on the
cushioned seats inside the coach, to rouse
suddenly with the cold mrzzle of q re-
VolVer pressed against their faces. Then
In a few words in an undertone, so that
the driver outside could not hear he com.
manded each of the five passengers to-
Keep silent and put his watch, money
and gold in his (the robbers capacious
overcooat pocket. One young man.. who
seemed dexterous, he ordered, with
cooked pistols against his back, to search
each OF the other passengers, to throw
all OF the fire arms he found outside the
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in Arizona last week has started a train
of "reminiscences among all the old-timers
in the Southwest concerning your Yam
KEGS whose crimes and desperate outlaw
ry made them the most notorious in the
territories twenty years back. Five years
ago some one came out to Phoenix, Ariz. i,
from Pittsfield, Mass, and had the bones
of Dan Elkins, the bandit, dug up and
sent to the dead outlaws 4 home near
Pittsfeld for burial in the rural grave
yard alongside his soldier brothers.. And
now Nestor B. Carroll of the village Of
Haydenville, near Northampton, Mass.
for reasons of his own has caused the re-
moval of the body of Bob Wilcox-still
another of the Elkins quartet of bandits
to the locality in Western Massac husetts
where Outlaw Bob was born and reared
In an old fashioned pious home fifty odd
years ago. Further than to say that the
Wilcox family has instructed him to have
Bob's bones exhumed, coftined and sent
back in Haydenville, Carroll declines to
speak. ~ =. E'r< ~. '~.. .ts..:~
It is doubtful If there ever was a gang
more notorious than the four New Eng
land fellows who composed the Elkins
gang. Everybody who lived in the terri
tories twenty years ago dreaded the gang,
and everybody in the Southwest during
the last few years has heard of Yankee
Dan, as Elkins was known, and his fol-
lowers. There were in the gang Bob Will
cox and his half-brother, Bill Howard;
George Wilbur and Dan Elkins. Wilcox
and Howard came from Haydenville,
Mass; Wilbur came either from Lowell
or Lynn, Mass, and Elkins from farm
er's family amid the Berkshire Hills, near