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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
RECORD Of EARLY montana DAYS.
PRESENTED To DILLON LIBRARY

Old Bob" Is now at Twin Bridges.
nearly blind. and very feeble and it Will
not be many years before he, too, will
Join the old timers who have crossed the
Great Divide
The Mechanical bakery was good
customer buying lumber In small lots and
paying from IL to 20 cents per foot for 1t,
one purchase of 1873 feet costing $23.94.
Hugh O'Neal of prize fighting fame.
was also customer of the mill. John
Monhein, who afterwards was engaged
In the brewery business in Virginia City
and who died several years ago on a
ranch near Silver Star. bought bill Of
lumber from the mill on November 8,
1863.
There was only 46 feet of 1t, probably
enough to build a door and table. but
he paid 1920 for It.
September 10. 1863 a man named Mood
bought 1874 feet of lumber at $3.50 per M.
1t cost $343.50. Added to this Is the item,
hauling same to Virginia City at cents
per foot. $lo9.s2." bringing the total cost
OF the thousand feet of lumber up to
$453.42.
December 4, 1863, an entry shows that
the "Dutchman 'Crost the Lumber Road"
bought lumber to the amount of $34.65
and on Christmas day of the same year
the Dutch Carpenter" paid 1910 for a.
bill of lumber.
Entries during 1864 show that lumber
had fallen in price and sold at the rate
of Is cents per foot. Buffalo robes. which
are now almost priceless. were cheap at
that time, an entry showing that one had
been sold for SIT.
Prices for supplies. were pretty stiff in
1864 in Bannack as the following bill Of
goods. which is charged to mill ex-
~. L.. CHI :
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with the Droverbial fondness for chick
en-. He kept a small flock Of fowls, as
blind, I suppose, but the suspiciously
large pile of feathers around his back
door, and the odor Of fried chicken from
bis kitchen, together with the depletion
OF his neighbours hencoops, led to his
being carefully watched. One day he
was taken red-handed, while killing a
neighbours fine Leghorn cockerel that he
had called into the yard by a few grains
OF corn. In the courtroom he put up
the plea of color blindness, saying that
he thought 1t was his own pied dunghill
fowl, and his lawyer. an ingenious fellow,
imported bogus eye specialist II ON a
neighooring town to support the plea.
They succeeded in clearing the old elder
by the novelty of their plea, and the
paintiff narrowly escaped suit for ma
licious prosecution.
when the new series of silver coinage
came out, a friend of mine in a Pacific
coast city got hold of one of them, and
after admiring it sufficiently, put 1t in
his purse with some gold COINS He has
been very successful in business, and in
his Investigations found that he was
color blind; so much, indeed, that as
rule he handled only greenbacks-thath hi
could identify by the touch-steertng
CICdE VI SOlO, LOT ne tel
difference between yellow and silver.
This time he had taken the gold in pay
| ment of an account. Sure enough h.
passed SO gold piece out for the much
admired quarter in payment for a shine
and then came near Being kicked on.
| or a club where he was visiting by ,inr
| sistinS that the remaining silver piece
was one of the yellow boys 1t cost him
| another ten to square himself with The
boys. =,
Some of the antiquated jokes about
| tho troubles Of men who try to match
| goods at the stores. for their wives are
really surpassed i'll reality. knew Of
| one proud OLD fellow who tried it one
| time. just to convince his wife that there
WAS roth!nE tine matter with his vision
| though he had been to me score of
| times to see II couldn't help him some
| way any ~ay-and she. having plenty
| of nerve and a gosd sense of the ridic-
| usous. had the sooty gray that he got
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
AGE OF LITERATURE.

Blind Homer had to beg his way,
And Milton wrote for little pay
The lines that gave him fame;
FITZGERALD took old Omar's thought
And gilded it, but never got
A penny for the same.
We know how Goldsmith and the rest
OF those old fellows did their best
For dribbles here and there;
Poor Poe could write undying verse,
But there was little in his purse,
And people didn't care.
Marie Gorilla grasps her pen
And gets fortune now and then
For what she thinks she'll do;
A million copies sell before
She writes line and millions fore
Are gobbled when she's through.
Go to! Who says this Is an age
When men neglect the printed page,
When art is gone to seed?
Why, any school girl of today
Can beat George Eliot right away
Provided that the printer who
Exploits her knows a thing or two
IT'S glorious. indeed!
s.. f. KISER.
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and they lay awake, hidden in the will
lows, and every sound that came through
the stiffness of the night would fairly
set their hair on end again. Time and
again they cursed themselves for at
tempting horse stealing, something that
was entirely out of their line, and be-
moaning the fact that the Indians did
not send them warning, so that they
could have been in readiness to receive
them.
But daybreak came at last to the boys
who watched for it in the willows, and
one of the watchers afterwards tod
that it was the longest night he ever
put in on earth, and that, should he live
for hundred years, he would never
spend another night as dreary and as
long. The morning brought them litL,e
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The Faulty "WindOWS of the Soul"
sevenyfve Per
of of
Curious 1ncuable Maady-A Stealing

not merely unframed, but who are really
and truly color blind-cant tell the diff
ference between baby blue and orange,
heliotrope and lemon. It's most mys-
ferrous afflictiOn. 1t battles medical
skill as much as perpetual motion does
the mechanic. a man may have eyes
as sharp as hawks, but when it
comes to distinguishing colors he is help
less. A whole medical college faculty
of doctors, with a carload of formida BILE
instruments could not help him.
THE afflictiOn may he dangerous in
some avocations, as more than one ser-
Gus railroad and steamship wreck tes-
titles The use of coiored signal lamps
is supposed to be safeguard, but too
frequently an employe fails to distin-
guish between the red and green and
white through no negligence of his own.
Some railroads require careful exam
ination of all train and signal men on
the point of color blindness, and more
than one otherwise good man has to hunt
a job in some other department.
but there are more laughable than
serious features to the curious malady.
l have made collection of funny stories
from my own experience and that OF
Others" and he pulled down fat scrap
, book Well filled with oculistic lore,
stories of operations. of malformations
and all kind of odd facts about the
window of the SOUL" There were many
alleged jokes about the mythical man
who ends his days in madhouse after
a vain attempt to match a piece of rib
bon or some other goods on the order
of his wife. but there was enough real
stuff to while away many an hour in
bordering over the mystery of vision.
II haven't put into print all the funny
things l have met with in my practice
continued the specialist. Back in In
diana there was a good old darkcy elder
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

The book was originally intended for
use as a coroner's record. 1t is substan-
TALLY bound and the paper Is tinted blue
as was nanny of the record books of that
time.
A number of the leaves, which had been
used by Mr.. Lowell in which to keep
ranch accounts, have been cut out.
Taken all in all the book Is worth a
place in the historical collections of Mon
tana and will be highly priced by the
Dillon library.
1t was Mr.. sturgis' habit to keep a
record of some of the bills Of grub which
he purchased for the mill and at one time
inn March, 1863 an entry shows that flour
was selling at 80 cents per pound.
Unlike modern account books the ito
cash. or "by cash does not appear and
in its place appears the entry Ito dust.
$3.50 or "by DUST some other sum.
Wages for lumber and mill men were
not as high in the eaarly days proper
tionately as the cost of living.
In several places entries are found
which show that $500 per month was
about the average wages PAID laDorers
around the saw mill.
Work oxen was a staple article Of com-
merce at that time but the price of we'll
OIOAcu StcCI 90 yCotS aSO was nv GO
good as the Big Hole basin rancher of to-
day gets for beef steer.
An entry made in October, 1851. shows
that Mr.. Sturgis paid SIS per yoke for
four Jokes of cattle.
Monday, Oct. Is, 1863, was one of the
banner days for the mill as far as cash
sales are concerned, tho total, according
to the book being y779.95, lumber at that
time selling from IS to 20 cents per foot.
Nov. 2, of the same year Bob Demp-
sy is credited with 1900 feet of lumber
from Bannack." at eight cents per foot.
Dempsy is one of the best known Of Nom
tana's pioneers and he fl cured prominent
~ in the escapades of the road agents in
the early days.
His ranch near the mouth of Ruby riv-
er was a rendezvous for the gang and II
is said that many of the bold robberies
committed by Plumme. and his fellow
cutthroats were Matched at the old
Dempsy ranch.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

It'd you know, said a we'll known
Butte eye specialist, one who can fit you
out with windowpane glasses that will
cure any visual alment you may al
lege, il you only have the right degree
of faith or can take out the offending
eye. scrape off the offending trouble,
and replace the organ even better than
new. that Is per cent of the r,en you
meet every day are cOlor-blind? No?
Well, it is a fact. OF course l don't
mean that only one out of four can tell
the difference between red and green,
spanked-baby. crushed strawberry and
steel blue. But nevertheless they are
cO,or- blind to some degree.
Now. one doesn't expect a mere man.
who is busy night and day in earning
the color of money. to know the names
Of all the shades that are sprung on an
innocent public by dress>nakers and
modistes and artists. The names are not
essential But the fact remains. Why.
:flst try picking out the shades of rib
bon as arranged by good ribbon drum
mer. who will have his samples all ar
ranged in order-twO hundred of them.
perhaps-and try to distinguish cetween
two neighboring shades when they are
removed from their case: you will be
surprised at your own inability to be
certain which is the lighter or the dark
e., an expert ribbon salesman or travel
er would sort all of the 200 correctly
while the average man would go wrong
On ona-quarter of the number of the
more pronounced shades. The cashmere
shawl Weavers of central Asia, iii their
marvellous creations. use more han 40(
shades and cOlOrs: the Hawaiian feather
TOss artists use a hundred or more; but
the ordinary civilized hustler FOR the
elusive dollar couldn't arrange three
ecNre in their proper order
''1heV there are those whose eyes arr
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

to complete beautiful pink gown, made
up into a regular harlequin affair. She
wore it out to a party-an Informal
gathering of friends-and told the story
to every one in the room. The husbands
bald head was redder than a postage
stamp before the tale and the laughter
were half ended, and he was so bored
that he insisted on selling out his BUSH
ness and moving to another city. But he
is meeker than a lamb whenever she
takes sly shot at his color-blind hort
comings.
THE oculist who c ould cure this trou-
BILE would be in a fair way for for
tune, and a name that would be imper-
ishabel in medical annals. But he has
NOT appeared. and what's more, ne never
will. II YOU belong to the majority who
are afflicted, let that be your consola-
ton, for it is about all the fraternity can
offer YOU.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

and were given shelter and food by the
old Englishman, to whom they told thar
story.
Early the next morning they secured
some fresh horses and returned to the
West Fork after their camp outfit and
saddles. They did not care to go on up
to Henrys lake to try to take their
horses away from the Nez Perces; they
had all the horse stealing experience
they desired. and the bare mention of
the beautiful Arabian to them was, for
a number Of years. as a red flag is to a
bull.
English George did a good business "
the saddle horse line for few days.
and when the young Ponyites returned
to their homes it was seen and soon
commented upon that they had all
swapped saddle horses during the time
they were away from home. but it soon
leaked out that Josephs braves had
compelled the swap" and that stealing
horses from Indians was not what it was
cracked to be.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

their camp and set them afoot. Best les,
they were too thorough Montanans to
worry much over anything.
So they built fire and secured break
fast and started to walk to the settle
ments, 80 miles down the valley. The
worst part of the trip was the start
The west fork of the Madison hadicto
be crossed at the outset, and it was
nearly 100 feet wide. and the water was
hip deep and cold and swift. No Men
tanan ever did relish taking water. and
these men from Pony were no exception
to the general rule. But this occasion
was an exception, and each one of the
lads slipped into the icy water AMI
waded across as if he relished the job.
Footsore and weary, they arrived at
the English George ranch late that night
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

the effect that the Indians were coming
down the Madison valley, and as the
boys passed through the settlement in
the lower part of the valley the day be
fore they found most of the homes de-
serted, as nearly all of the women ard
children had been taken to Virginia City
for protection.
1t was little sleep that the Pony men
had that night. None of them knew
when the Indians would be upon them.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
Beaten bv Chief Joseph and His Redslir> Band

comfort, save that they We're all, aliv,,
and had their scalps still on the ton
of their heads.
There was little use of bemoaning their
luck. They realized that the tables Mad
been turned on them with a vengeance:
that the Indians had a laugh coming,
and they were grateful in the knowletlge
that it was only prowling lot OF bucks
out on a horse stealing expedition. ann
not the main war party that had visited
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22
Phil Lowell, a Pioneer, Presents the
Institution With an Old Account
Book, Containing Names
Familiar to the Old
Timers Of the State
Especial to Inter MOuntain.)

Especial to Inter MOuntatn.)
Dillon June 22.-Phil Lowell, one OF the
pioneers Of this part of Montana, and
who was one of the first men who reach
ed Bannack after the discovery Of gold
was made in Grasshopper creek, has pre-
an old account book used in 1854 by
William Nturgis, one of the men who
built the first saw mill ever erected in
Montana.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

Il meals ............ 6l.VV
Con Bray. also pioneer of Montana,
and who was sergeant-at-arms of the
house during the last session of the legis-
lature, has the following to say in regard
to the building of the mill in a communi
cation to the Dillon Examiner a few
weeks ago:
ION the second day of December, 1862.
Ard Godfrey, N. p. Langford, Patrick
Doherty, r. c. Knox, my brother, Pat
rick Bray, and your humble servant,
went from Bannack into what is now
known as Bray's canyon, In the West
Mountain, about Is miles west of Ban.
mack. and there built a mill that has
since become known as the Pioneer saw
mill.
I'VE had the mill completed and were
saving lumber by the first day OF May,
1863.
Alder gulch was discovered the fol-
lowing month and the first lumber used
in that section came from our MILL
II sold lumber from the mill to William
Fairweather and Barney Hughes and it
was used to make the rockers" with
which old Alder Gulch was first pros
pected. Later on, with OK teams, hauled
the first load of lumber ever sold in Vlr-
GINA City from the mill.
-Four of my partners in the enter
! prise, including Mr.. Sturgis. are dead;
| the other two are residents of st. Paul.
Mr.. Langford is the author of 'Vigilan-
tes Days and Ways and now resides
in st. Paul.
mr.. odfrey was millwright and the
owner of the Minnehaha Falls near Min
! neapols. He is n ow deceased. Mr..
| Knox (now deceased) was carpenter
| and contractor of st. Paul. Mr.. Doher-
1,rvnyr NHnv M
He is now a resident of st. Paul.
NV brother was a sawmill man by oc-
| cupation and had followed the business
in New oYrk and Minnesota.
He has been dead for number OF
wears. Your humble servant was tim
ner by trade. and of course should know
all about the saw mill business.
How we came to build the mill Illus
trates the ability of the pioneers to utjl-
ize the means at hand. In coming
across the plains it was noticed by Mr..
Godfrey that our wagons. had iron axle"
trees and he at once suggested that they
would make a good crank for a saw
mill shaft.
Acting on that suggestion we organ.
lied a company to build a saw MILL On
our arrival at annack we went into the
mountains as stated above, with Mr..
Godfrey as captain and foreman.
There we toiled away all winter long.
We built dam across the gulch. dis
lance Of 40 feet with bents OF timber
in the same manner as house Is roofeo.
Then we covered it with dry poles split
and dressed on the sides.
"These were spotted and pinned on the
bents or rafters. This gave US dam
with a face of 36 feet from the toe to
the top which insured us a fall OF "a
feet on the water wheel.
THE frame of the mill was 4Ox22 rect.
We hauled all the timbers for both the
mill and dam with block ana tackle
and our shoulders.
1--WE did all the work ourselves except
the making of the cranks and saw. The
saw we got from Salt Lake.
This Is something of history or the
first saw mill ever built In the state
of Montana"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

Nickel furniture for the bathroom Is q
delight. and small pieces can be bought
one at a time and the cost is not mo-
ticed. There are towel hangers which
never become soggy with wet towels. as
the wooden ones are sure to do. ana
which can be wiped off without trouble.
and are always fresh and clean. There
are soap dishes and nickel cups secured
to the wall. into which are set the tooth
brush glasses. which cannot be knocked
to the floor. Those glasses in which are
placed a number of different brushes
have nickel tops perforated into four
or five holes. into which the brushes
may be slipped and held apart.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-22

A pretty material which has been Used
for bridesmaids gowns is white silk with
small flowers upon it, a pretty design
being In ross buds. That rosebud de-
sign on white is a revival of en- old
fashion, and is to be seen in piques.
which are Charming Cor children.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15

We went to war with Spain to free
ourselves from the nuisance which
that country was maintaining at our
very doors. Perhaps the worst part
of this nuisance was to be found in
the yellow fever which always exist
ed there. Now that we have stamp
ed this out, are we to let it recon-
mence-as it will do when the Gu
bans get control?
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15
The Mountain View Route.

This is what the Northern Pacific
Shasta, or Shasta-Northern Pacific
Route-it reads as well backward as
frontward-may we'll be called.
The route takes its name from Mt.
Shasta in Northern California. This
white, snow capped peak, at the foot
of which the railway winds, is IA, $50
feet high. The mountain is in plain
view, for several hours, from the train
and It's distance from the track varies
from 2 to seventy five miles.
The beautiful scenery of the Sacra-
mento river at the base Of Shasta, is
connected with this route only.
Castle Crags, Mossbrae Falls, the nat
ural twin soda fountains at Shasta
Springs, are scenic gems.
The crossing of the Siskiyou range,
furnishes the par excellence OF railway
mountain scenery, and observation
cars are provided there free OF charge.
Then in succession come Mts. Jeffer-
son, Hood-a beautiful mountain
st. Helens, Rainier-14, 532 feet high
and Adams, all former active vol
canoes and now covered with glaciers.
From Portland a steamboat side
trip up the noble Columbia river to
the Cascades and Dalles enables the
tourist to see river palisades water
falls and mountains far surprising
what the Hudson can show.
An opportunity is also given to
visit Tacoma, Seattle and the Puget
Sound region
Then follow the Cascade range and
the Rockies, and stop can be made
at Yellowstone Park.
This line traverses the finest scenic
region of the United States-dont for
get it, and see that your return tickets
home from California read around
this way
A Pullman Tourist Sleeping Car is
run once week in each direction be-
tween San Francisco and st. Paul,
via this route.
Send six cents to Chas. S. Fee. Gen.
Pass. Agent, st. Paul, Mimi, for
Wonderland 1901 and for rates, etc.
0Ss
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15
MAcHINTosHEs for both men and
women at Hirschmans.

MEMS and boys winter underwear
in all grades and shades at Hirsch-
mans.
Our line Of mems and boys under
wear for Fall and Winter is complete
in every detail and prices are low too.
Hirschmans
THE University shoe-all styles-is
the best shoe that can be made Its
wear is only measured by the life of
good leather Hirscr mans.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15

Undoubtedly the most important
question that confronts the United
States is now to furnish sugar
market to Cuba without injury to
the home beet and cane sugar grow
ers Cuban sugar can be landed in
New York, refined. duty free, for two
cents a pound, much less rate than
it can be grown for in the United
States.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15

The White House has Niger"
steward, but it does not necessarily
follow that 'possum and sweet taters
have permanent place on the din
ner menu.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15
Real Estate for Sale.

$3OOO-Buys cnoice lotion Spruce
street, size 43 feet inchesx100.
$25OO-Buys choice lot on High
street, size 45x90.
$1000-Buys a Broom Frame House
and lot 50x100, in Prices addition.
$SOO-Buys choice lot on McLane
avenue, size 40x100.
$6OO-Buys a choice lot on Beech
urst avenue, size 25xl00.
$5OO-Buys choice lot on Beech
urst avenue, size 25x100.
$350-Buys a choice lot in Greenmont
size 51x110.
$400-Buys choice lot on Fife ave-
nue., size 33x70.
$350-Buys choice lot on McLane av-
enue, size 40xl00
S300-Buys choice lot in Green
mont, size 51xt10.
Other valuable pieces of real estate
different prices.
JOSEPH III. MILLS,
Real Estate e ms. Agent.
Otfice--Brock. Reed & Wade Build
ing. opposite Post Office.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15

OF course Alabama ratified the
new constitution adopted by the re-
cent convention, which was merely
the agent of the best interests of the
State.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15

Probably the turkeys and the pa
pers will alike be stuffed with the
same old chestnuts Thanksgiving
dav.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15
Girl Wanted

Good home, good wages. Duties
light. Call at or address,
A. 22l Peasants street or 605 Price
street.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-15

1t now seems that the Democrats
have Is majority on joint ballot in
the Maryland Legislature, good
many more than enough to assure
the election of Democratic Sena-
tor. Yet the Republicans actually
claimed that they had won several
DAYS after the election.