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The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27

deavour to exemplify them by prac-
ISOLATION to the afflicted and caring for
tie orphan and widow. Eaving these
I.nciples in view we viii endeavor
to eNempl.y them by practical
tests; and If, by the grace of God,
il shall successfully carry out this OBJ
ject. they will feel that their mission
has not been in vain.''
The order of Knights of Pythias, as is
well known, is founded upon the rare
friendship which existed between Da-
mon and Pythias; friendship which
not even the threat of death itself
could sever. And I think it is not too
much to say that nowhere in history or
literature is there anything to be
found more unselfish, more elevating or
enobling than the loyalty and devotion
existing between Pythias, the brave
cilivalrous soldier, and Damon, the pure
patriot and statesman.
an no constitution or creed of which
have knowledge, can be found a plat
form of principles broader in it's hui
manity. loftier in its aims, or contain
ns more exalted sentiments than in ours
NO man can be true Knight of Pyth-
ias without becoming a more loyal cit
zen OF his country and a better man
1H every relation of life.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
MAGUIRE's OPENS TONIGHT
"Old Kentucky" Will Hold the Boards
For Three Performances-Delig
full Combinations Blended.

Tonight Maguire's Grand Opera house
VIII open with I'm Old Kentucky" as the
attraction. This evening is the formal
opening of the playhouse under the new
management, and it is expected that
play goers will welcome John Mcguire
BACK to the ranks Of manager with en-
thusium. The advance sale Of seats in
dlcates that the house will be packed to-
night.
The play Of I'm Old Kentucky" is too
wen known and holds too high a place
in the esteem of play goers to need ex :
tended mention to the people of Butte
It's wholesome play and its tragic sit
uations are made vivid and realistic by
contrast with the bright background of
comedy. Few better plays. as far as
lasting qualities are concerned, have
taken the road in years than I'm Old
kentucky" The themes with which ii
deals are as old as the hills in which the
scenes are laid, Yet by the subtle witch
cry of the playwright they are made at
tractive, fresh and new.
lin Old Kentucky" will be at Ma
CURES Grand tonight and tomorrow 70,
a matinee and evening performance.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
TWO PETRIFIED BONES FOUND
They Were in Tale Twelve Feet Be-
meath the Surface Of the Ground
in German Gulch.

F. X. Giard Jr., Of the Giard Bros,
store in East Park street and G. N Boy
en- made a strike a few days ago, in a
shaft they are sinking on the Bear
claim in German gulch, about eighteen
miles southwest of Butte, and two of the
specimens are now on exhibition at the
Gard store.
The strike, however, was not mineral.
At depth of y feet below the surface
the workmen uncovered two pieces OF
petrified bone, one of which Is about II
inches long and resembles a straight
horn, while the other appears to have
been a portion Of an animals skull The
base of the horn shows the point of june
ton with the head. They were found
in tale and both are as hard as stone.
The shaft is being sunk $50 or 200 feet
above the creek. The horn was broken
as a result of contact with the point OF
one of the miners picks, but both pieces
were preserved. An effort was made to
find more parts of what was undoubted-
ly the skeleton of some animal, but
without success.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
POUNDS GIRLS HEAD
PAT HARRINGTON BRINGS A
BRICK INTO PLAY.
JESSIE WOOD MAKES $50 TOUCH
Mamie Supernant Enters Novel Plea
in Her Defense-Sampson-Schley
Controversy Results in
Fight.

The diurnal parade of the prisoners
before Judge Royle's bench was an
unusually lengthy one this morning.
The session was much prolonged owing
to the prolixity OF reasons offered by
the majority why sentence of the court
should not be passed upon them.
Among the first to appear before the
justice dispenser was Pat Harrington.
Harrington was arrested on the ac-
cusation of May st. Lawrence, that
while drunk he had amused himself
by pounding her head with a brick. The
defendant AYERS that Mays eyesight is
POOR. that it wasn't he who did the dark
deed at all. but one Jerry Robinson, who
was with him at the time. The case
was set for 3 o'clock Tuesday.
Jessie Wood. alleged to be men,
Der of the light fingered fraternity,
found that Barney Carr had $50 about
his person. and later Barney found that
he hadn't. In consequence Jessie had to
put up $40 security to appear Tuesday
and make good her plea of not guilty.
Mike Doyle said he wasn't guilty Of
Vagrancy, and the judge told him to
come again on the first.
Mamie Supernant offered her gray
hairs in evidence that she was not
guilty of the charge against her, street
walking. The judge took the matter
under advisement. and had her placed
in custody again until Tuesay. when the
case will be heard anew.
John Doe started to defend the cause
Of Sampson in an argument at Park
and Main streets last night. His vo-
cabulary being inadequate for the ex-
preston Of his ideas in on the subject,
he took to his fists and mimic battle
on land resulted. He pleaded guilty and
was fined $40.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
PERSONALS.

John Noyes left yesterday for Seattle
to look after his extensive business in
terests in that city.
Mrs. Samuel Roberts and Eugene
ROBBERS, wife and son of County Clerk
Roberts, today returned from visit or
some duration to tn former home OF
Mrs, Roberts in Northern New oYrk
Major r. L. Hornbrook. who has been
operating the Shamrock mine near Car
net, Granite county, for several years, IS
in the city. He will return to Garnet in
a day or two settle up his affairs there
and then come to Butte to spend the
winter.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27

Especial to the Inter Mountain from
Payne. Webber & Co.. Brokerso
Boston, Sept. 27.-Tne market con-
tinues to be we'll bought and we think
is going higher. All pressure on
Amalgamated is removed for the mo-
ment. All Vanderbilt issues we be-
lieve are a big purchase on their
merits. Copper range stocks, the Bal
tic and Trimountain, are very cheap
and later on we expect to see them
selling at much higher figures. We
believe copper and the metal situation
will be maintained and that there has
been inside buying Of Anaconda and
Amalgamated on this decline.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
COPPER MINING QUOTATIONS

Especial to Inter Mountain.)
Boston, Mass, Sept. 27.-The copper
mining shares closed today as follows:
A.l.aa4ad $3.50
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
Something in a Name.

That rose by any other name would
smell more sweetly has been demon
strated in the village of Oss!ning. where
the value Of real estate has Increased
ereatly since the name of the lace WAS
hanged from Sing Sing.-New York
Press.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
BrOCkpOrt Corn

An extra fancy, tender, sweet,
small baby corn-considered by
many as fine as any packed. It's
a big bargain at this price.
Brockport Corn, worth 1925 case,
$1.65 dozen; special, case 1915,
dozen $1.40, can 80. ...12hc
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
Croker Not Apt to Resign.

There is not much prospect of Dick
cocker becoming a citizen of England as
,orp as he can control the New York
judiciary. Post.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
Dainty Peas

Small, sweet, sifted, fine favored,
dainty Peas, worth 1915 case,
$3.50 dozen-we're selling them
special at $500 case, $3.50 dozen,
can .................. .12hc
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Divergent Views.

There are more subscribers to Mr.. Car
,opia's theory that wealth is a & cd thirg
,o have and to get rid Of in benevolent
,,..ys than there are to Mr.. Vanderbilt's
a;o,rm that it is not to be desired.
The times., 1901-06-09

years probably would realize his position
and wait the end calmly. perhaps for
hours. But in that supreme moment OF
passing, each would find the peace Of
leaving life.
Right there IS one of the great myster-
les of death. Even when the mind has
become completely recOnCiied to death We
ma the whole physical framework fight
ing ii. There is the muscular struggle for
breath, sometimes to the last Even when
man has been dead for hours his m IS
cles viii twitch and react from the irrita-
ton OF the electrical currents. Yet the
mind of the dying one may have weicon-
ed death as a boon Long sickness and
intense sufferings may have much TO do
Win recOnctling person to death long
before IT comes. Then many persons in
normal health tire of living Not for any
one reason. but because they have figured
out that life isn't worth the trouble. Two
remarkable cases Of the kind are under
my observation now. They are a widow
and her daughter-in-law. They would
never commit suicide. but they would not
care If death should come tOnnorrovT
There IS every reason for their living. too
Ihey are wealthy, move in good society,
and are unusually Intelligent Take those
two women, and their conditions being
equal they VIII die much more easily than
one who has never thought Of death No
acute disease either. could shake them in
their desire for death. The mind is dorni-
nant over the body"
Dr. Stringfeld believes that a person
may be In full possession of his facul-
ties up to within one minute or less of
final dissolution.
In the case of the man Rigby who died
in the Grand Pacific Hotel "A short time
ago. he was conscious to the last mo-
ment. He talked of Yorkshire of his
wife and of half a dozen other things He
could have been asked a question con-
cerning any period of his life and he
would have been able TO answer it FIVE
minutes before he died. His was no un-
usual example either. Sometimes it looks
as II there was a clearing up of the brain
OF man until his faculties are keener
than normal when he is on the threshold
of life
No doubt there are visions and haIlu-
cinations Just at the point of death.
Things get far away. They see trees and
streams and meadows. ] recall the case
of a-.woman who was dying. Her hus-
band was at the foot of the bed, crying.
when l spoke to him, telling him If he
wished to have a minister present ne
would better send fOr-one.
But the woman heard me. She start
ed up in fright, exclaiming that she was
not going to die; that l had no right to
frighten her 50. She was shaking with
the fright of the suggestion. 1 tried to
sOOthe her. but she kept crying out that
she was not going to die. But suddenly
she lay back with closing eyes, signing
that she had found such peace. Only she
was uneasy that AlphOnse, at the foot of
the bed. was getting so far away She
saw beautiful meadows and flowers and
birds, but she was uneasy that AlphOnse
would not come. SO far-away,' she com
planned with her last breath, and was
dead at the instant
The times., 1901-06-09
RED MEN ON THE PENSION ROLL
Indians Who Were Hard Fighters
During the Civil War.
(From the Milwaukee sentinel.)

Il read with a great deal of interest.
said q Wisconsin veteran. AN article IN
the Sentinel regarding Indians who are
on the pension roll The names printed
are nearly all familiar to me, for 1 serv-
ed year and a half with those red sol
diers in the Thirty-Seventh Wisconsin.
They all came from the reservation in
ShawanO county, and were enlisted in the
spring OF 1864 by James w. Hitchcock,
who was later commissioned captain of
the company. the first captain of Compa-
ny *. = 4. Burnett, having been killed
at the charge before Petersburg
''HitchcOck's Indians were good sol
diers. especially on the picket line. They
did not take very kindly to the drill and
strict discipline Of the army, but they
were good shots and hard fighters There
was not a coward among them. and some
were regular dare-devils-
Il remember seeing one young Indian
get ball through his cap. Just grazing
his scalp. He felt of his head. looked at
his cap, raised his war whOop and kept
on shooting. 1t was in Fort MahOne. at
Petersburg. which We had charged and
captured. \ sharpshOOJrr mad got range
of the young Indian. and the latter was
bullet barely missed killing him and he
then took better cover.
THE Indians were all right as long as
whisky was kept from them, but some OF
them were very ugly when drunk, and
Wh-e we We're waiting Al Washington to
be mustered out one big fellow tried to
kill Captain Hitchcock. They have a
Grand Army post on the reservation, and
are as proud Of their record as any OF us
There were a few other Indians scattered
through other Wisconsin regiments. but
the Thirty-seVeuth had the only consider
able body of them, fC-ty-ffve at the out
set in one company, and one, an Oneida,
in another company. Twelve or thirteen
of them We're killed or died of wounds,
nearly one-third of their number, five of
them dying in rebel prison pens.
The times., 1901-06-09

were the rusty gate oDened some friChtfuI
shapes might meet the gaze.
The brown gravel walks are overgrown
with siCkly green: all the vegetable
growth seems putrid and poisonous; the
presence of death appears to have
bEShtGd everything around and the pc
destrfan gives a sigh of relief when he
finds himself free of the oppression of
the place and once more in the fresh and
wholesome air.
This sad relic Of the departed may well
be said to be lost and forgotten. No one
seems to be informed as to its origin. its
history. or the reason for it's present con-
dition.
Enquiries at the District Building fail
ed To throw any light upon the matter.
Nobody seemed TO know anything about
it. or indeed, II care. Old plots of the
city and its euVirOnS were consulted, rec
ords examined. but nothing which could
serve to identify the old burying
ground was disclosed There il remains
dank and ugly, and depressing by day as
well as by night, in fair weather and foul,
in view of the gay eXcursiOnists to
Chevy, Chase, and so close to the cars
that the headlights in front of the lat
ter fash mOmentaTily upon the nearest
tonbstOnes as the vehicles round the
curve OF the loop.
As in the midst of life we are in
death" this deserted buryfng ground may
al least, from its peculiar position, serve
to symbolic the fact that in the midst
of pleasure and revelry the grim con-
GucrOr is always at cur elbow, as is so
trUthfully and quantity depicted in the
masterpiece of old Hans Holbein.
The times., 1901-06-09
DEATH ALWAYS PAINLESS.
Ever Accompanied With Peace of
Body and Mind.
(From the Chicago Tribune.) )

More material than was the Psalmist
who asked: "Oh, Death, where is thy
stiug?' the physician Of today not only
asks the same question, but answers it.
1t has none. says DR.. c. Pruyn
Stringfield who has made extended Oh
servations OF the phenomena Of death in
its many forms. DR.. Struggled holds
that dissolution not only is painless. but
that the dyinE-f conscious at all-be-
come reconciled to the approach of it.
This welcome to the destroyer may be
extended only minute before he PnaS
out. or the patient may nave Deey
awaiting his coming for weeks and
months.
Il have found that most. persons under
thirty-fiye years make a fight for life to
almost the last moments said Dr.
Struggled.
Beyond thirty-six and forty years
something in the contemplation of death
recOnciles them to it, or else they wei
come il as a release from cares and re-
spOusibilities. The strong young nature.
making its instructive fight against death,
may be in mental protest almost to the
last moment, whereas a man of fifty
The times., 1901-06-09

There was money enough in it, I'm
thinkin', but twas near the indin' av
both av US, far the conthrack took the
Ffne right through the heart av the
country av Thunder Burd, the most
hathen- -souIed and fractions Iniin
among all the Crees. Twas Thunder
Burd's land, too, by threaty rights: but,
as I said, the conpny had their frinds
wild the Cover mint, and, as Little Jake
minuons it To me, IT'S not for US, Tim,
10 lose the likes av a good job says he,
for the growlin' av dog-eatin' Cree
But there's divH an Injin iver con-
sumed the mysteries av the ilictric till
graph. It's beyaut the haitian mind,
I'm thinkin', for many an hour me
frind, I've worked wild that Injin Joe
av mine, trim TO show him the simple
ity av the thing. which a Dublin school
boy can swallow like a doughnut But
It's ali beyond the comprehension av
the ridskin. An what an Injn can't
understand he's iverlastin' afraid av.
An what he's afraid av he's goin' to
hate. An what he hates he's goin' to
do away wild whin the time comes.
Still, Little Jake and mesilf put on
a bould face and Nint diggin' our till
graph holes up into this Thunder
Burds territory as aisy as diggin'
bitches through the streets av New
York. But we made no sDicial noise
over it. Little Jake would have nothin'
but tin-foot poles, such being most un-
likely 20 attract the attintiou av the
Crees, and more aisy-like 10 handle.
All our conthrack called for, mind you,
was the construction av the line. If
the follies and superstitions av the un-
comprehindin ridskin was drivin' him
TO tear it down after US 'twa no doin's
az ours. Therefore, by the same, twas
a most secretiJus line we put up, the
two av us, hopin' and Drayin each
mornin' we'd git our hundred and
twinty poles strung that day without
drawin' the attintion av our frind
Thunder Burd.
80 when we got a chance 10 build
under cover twas under we built, the
giniTil result bein that our wire wint
wanderin' up through that sivinty mile
av broken country like a man g0in
home from a wake. Whin We came 10 a
stretch aV timber we carried the wire
the whole length av il, though it took
twinty more blissed poles to the mile
Whin we came 10 a bit av d valley, out
aV a giniril bashfulness and a hunger
in for privacy, we'd tack three and
four miles av our natcheraI course be-
fore decidin' to turn up into open coun-
try again. Never did you see more
distant-minded and backward construc-
ton gang. In fact, whin we got fur
ther up country, / must cOntiss we did
q powerful lot av work by the light av
the moon.
But tbs no aisy thing to secrete siv-
inty miles Of tiligraph line! And manys
the time Little Jake said he'd give one
hundred dollars If that conthrack had
called for an underground system.
Twas good halfway up the Gap
we'd carried our line whin wan mornin'
we discovered some twinty av our poles
cut off close to the ground and three
The times., 1901-06-09
THE INVENTION OF AN INVALID
He DeVises Trolley and Elevator
for His own Use.
(From the Springfield Republican, }


When James Coghiu. who lives at 10
Newton Street, Holyoke discovered that
he was paralyzed from the hips down and
likely 10 be helpless for some time. he set
to work to devise something to assist his
wife in caring for him. He was a plas-
teTer by trade, and a slipping plank in
the McAuslan & Wakelin building in Feb
TuIry. 1909, landed him on his back and
feet. and he is now paralyzed from his
waist down. The change from an active
to an indoor life gave him plenty Of time
for reflection.
Being of an inventive turn he studied
the problem as disDasSionately as any
man deprived of The use of his legs and
suffering as such man suffers could
He finally hil upon little trolley system
of his own as being the best solution Of
the heayy-lftinS that was necessary to
get him out of bed and into a chair.
He outlined his scheme and it was ac-
COTdingly carried into effect Strong ash
uprights were placed, one close to his bed
and the other ut the further side Of the
bedroom connected with an ash beam on
for the track. An iron trolley was placed
on the beam, strong, but easy running.
TO it was fastened pair Of small tackle
blocks or pulleys-' 'takle-blocks' as they
are called in the country.
He then had a broad waiStband made OF
strong duck about eighteen or twenty
four inches broad. and the tops of each
end sewed over so as to allow of the in
serti0n Of two strong sticks, made from
once useful broom handles. By placing
this band around him and placing the
sticks in position and adjusting a shorter
cord 50 that the strain should come on
these strong sticks, he found that by
pulling at the pulley rope he could easily
lift himself up by the arms above the
bed. Then by further horizontal pull
he rode suspended by the trolley until
he was over his wheel chair. He could
then let himself down into the chair and
wheel about as he pleased. With a
little help from his wife to steady him, he
is able 20 get up and go to bed when he
pleases By aid of this contrivance, of
which he is naturally little proud
The times., 1901-06-09
The Medicine Wire

I had ridden down through twenty
miles Of muslleg and coUlee to send a
ten-word message back 10 civilization
But 1 might as well have asked to talk
TO Mars. for the wire was down, and
till Timothy Macarthur operator and
general manager Of the northern termi-
nal Of the 'I<Iondike Overland" should
see fit TO bestir himself and patch up
his line, Poxsput Gap was doomed u
lie beyond all ken Of the world.
'Tis this way, sorr, If it's reasons
you're lookin for" said Timothy,
stretching his six feet Of bacon-fed lazi-
ness and filling the four walls Of the
Terminal Office with the most foul
smelling tobacco smoke. Three days
back, sorr, a wisp av a wind came up,
and down wlnt the wire, most nacheral
and expicted. You mayn't know, syrr,
twas Giver strung for the sindlu' av
dispatches. The truth IS, It's little more
thin row av hsain' poles hid up by
stOYepipe wire and constructed that
fraii a heavy dew brings it down av
night"
But why hasn't it been repaired?"
paired. sint me trusted assistant, a
breed you may know by the name Of
Injin Joe, down the line wild t~inty feet
ay new wire and instructions to mind
that break TO wanst. But the haitian
mind av the ridskin viii niyer compre-
hend the mysterious secrets av the till
graph,"
Why"
why! Why. because. sorr. that cop
per-colored consumer of FIRE water Sc
creted that twinty feet av wire for the
giniraI repairin' av his dog harness. and
put the line up wild eight feet av haltar-
shank, thlnkin', by the same, Ia niver
be pinny the wiser!"
Timothy settled himself more com
fortably on a sack Of evaporated apples.
and then went on:
"Ah, lis a heap av trouble this line
has been to me in its ume. But It's
past troublin me now. Twas me and
me frind Little Jake got the c0nthrack
from the comp'ny for putin it up. and
twas a nice time we had av it In the
first place, twas d soap-bubble conp'ny
wild a trayelin' agin misguidin' three
hundred stockholders into the belief
twas but q three weeks trip from here
clean up 10 Dawson city. And twas to
be done wild horse and carriage, mind
you. aisy and comfortable The wire
was to mark the first sivinty miles av
the route. for. mind ye, twas TO be a
coach route. goin' by the name av The
Klondike Overland The comp'ny had
their frinds wild the Govern min, but be-
fore they could get hold av charter
they were told to show good faith by
putin up this bit av wire from Napi-
Okla 10 the Cap.
That's how Little Jake and mesiIf
got the conthrack for our sIyinty miles
ay line to be done as cheap as the con-
sumin' greed ay man could devise.
The times., 1901-06-09
BREAD TO HIS CHEESE.
Retort of a Wife to Her husbands
Boasts of Conquests.
lFrom London TIt-B.tsll

a couple advanced in years got married
lately. The husband had room IN the
house securely locked, the inside OF I.l Wnlcn
j1ie wife had never seen and. being curious
as to its contents. she begged again ana
gain to see the room At last ne CONSENT
81. and. 10 and behold. the room was tulI
If whole cheesesl He explained matters
nv telling her that for every sweetheart
he had in his young days he bought a
cheese His wife began to cry Don [
cry, dear" he continued i We had no
that" she replied, still sobbing- 1 only
yvish I had been as thoughtful as you ana
bought a loaf of bread for every man that
Isissed me We could have had bread ana
cheese enough to last US all our days.
The times., 1901-06-09

Cloudy skies DO Not Always Give
Certain Promises of Rain-Nind
Not SO Prophetic as NapOr Com
dTtIons-Lnnd and Ocean Breczes.