The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-07

Ames, for the fourth time mayor OF
Minneapolis-and always more or less
of "sport"-gave his sanction to a
proposed prize fight at the exposition
building in that city. when the news
came to the ears of the governor, who
had previously announced that he
would not permit prize fighting in the
state during his term of Office, he was
angry clear through.
He and Mayor Ames had always been
friends, in spite of the fact that the
doctor had been rabid democrat up to
within a few months of his election as
mayor of Minneapolis on the republican
ticket, and that the mayor should set
about to deliberately defy his authority
was too much for the governor, who
sent word to the Minneapolis executive
that the fight must not take place.
Mayor Ames, who is something of a
fighter himself, promptly replied that
the fight would take place as per sched-
ule. Governor Van SAINT lost no more
time comforting with Mayor Ames. In
stead, he sent to him a short message
saying that the fight WOULD NOT
take place, and that if an attempt was
made to hold it someone would get hurt,
as the militia would be instructed to
load with ball cartridge and to shoot to
kill.
This brief but decidedly emphatic
message was followed by an order to the
militia companies of St. Paul and
Minneapolis to hold themselves in read
mess for action on the night that the
fight was to have occurred.
Mayor Ames endeavored to bluff out
the matter, but when he saw that the
governor was determined he instructed
his police to see that the battle did not
take place, in an endeavor to have it
appear that he himself was instru-
mental in preventing the contest.
The upshot of the whole matter was
that there was no fight, that none has
taken place in the state since Captain
Van SAINT went into office, and that the
governor and the mayor of Minneapolis
are once more warm friends.
Captain Van SAINT, while not a mill
lionaire, is we'll off SO far as this world S
goods are concerned; up to the time of
his election to the governorship-and
perhaps at this time-he was a large
employer of labor. His reputation for
fairness has never been questioned and
the better the people know him the bet
ter they like him and his methods, which
have always been above suspicion.
In the early days, While Captain Van
SAINT was engaged in the steamer packet
line on the Mississippi river, one of his
employees had the misfortune to receive
severe: injuries one day, through his
own carelessness, as it afterward ap-
peared.
A lawyer, with keener sense for
fee than for duty, lost no time in calling
upon the victim of the accident, in the
hope of inducing him to bring a sui;
for damages against Captain Van SAINT
The injured man received the attorney
civilly enough and listened patiently un-
til he began to talk of suing the captain
Then his anger arose, and the only thing
that prevented him from throwing the
limb of the law from the house was the
fact that he was unable to get out of
bed.
"sue Sam Van SAINT" cried the injured
man; well, not in a thousand years
The accident was due to my own care
lessness. but in spite of that the cap
tain has fixed me out In good shape,
and my wages go on just the same. all
the time I am laid up. Say. get out of
here"
This little incident was and is char