The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-05
LONG WAIT OF AN ANXIOUS
I, GROOM.
A new IRRIGATION IDEA
Coloradoan Proposes to Revolutions
ize Existing Methods-Loss to
Montana Newspaper World.

man, has been walking the streets Of
Billings impatiently awaiting the arrival
of the day that is tt witness the crown
of his earthly happiness. Mr.. Henke is
be married and the lady who is to
share his happiness and sorrow is Miss
Sarah Cassidy of Eden Valley, Mimi.
By an agreement she was to meet him
here last Monday when the ceremony
was to be performed. In order that
there might be no delay, the groom-ex-
pectant secured the necessary license
Monday afternoon and also engaged the
services of a minister and then began to
count the hours that would have to
pass with leaden wings before the train
bearing his future happiness and JOY
would arrive. Slowly the time sped and
at last the train for which he had been
waiting SO eagerly appeared, but Mrs.
Henke, that was to be, was not among
those who got off. Of course, he was
sorely disappointed and his mind filled
with dismay and he pictured all sorts
of disaster that might have befallen the
loved one.
The next day passed and with it
arrived trains from the east, but they
brought no JOY for him. The lady, for
whom he was watching and longing
was on none of them. Then he received
a letter from her. She had been unable
to get ready to leave on the day fixed,
in fact she found that several days
would have to pass before she would be
prepared to begin the momentous
journey. But the tax on his patience
has about ended. This morning he Joy
ously informed the gentleman from
whom he obtained the license that to-
night the young lady would surely ar
rive and the ceremony would be per-
formed Immediately afterward. He
hopes that the lesson he has received in
cultivating patience will come in good
stead later when the serious side of
married life begins to present itself.
Butte is about to lose one Of it's most
picturesque characters and the state one
ofits most unique and highly original
newspapers said Frank Anderson of
the big mining camp this morning.
"Colonel Jim Brown, who for many
years has been publishing and editing
the Butte Times, has decided to leave,
and is packing up his plant preparatory
tc shipping it to Nampa, a small town
ove1 i'll Idaho.
"Just why the colonel has concluded to
make the nov one of his friends seem
to know, for he has been doing well and
during the time he has been publishing
his paper has accumulated a considerable
amount of good property and also is
supposed to have a generous bank ac-
count to his credit. Both he and his
Times will be missed, for they have been
among the landmarks of Butte. While
many will regret their departure, many
more will be pleased, for the colonel,
while not a brilliant writer, has made
the Times an object q terror to acertain
class on whom he has been waging a
merciless war for years. He has shown
himself a bitter and relentless foe of the
agitator, the walking delegate and the
promoter of wildcat mining schemes. At
times his attacks were sc fierce that
some of his friends were alarmed for his
safety, but he never weakened, and al
though repeatedly threatened and warn
ed, he continued to hurl anathema and
invective at the objects of his wrath.
Jim's long suit was not in the use of
classic or even fairly good English, for
his III and webs were we at outs
and he occasionally got mixed up in
the use of words, but for all that he
made himself felt. 1t was not his man
ner of saying things, but the things
that he said that made him the power
he was and which made him so cordially
hated and detested by the men against
whom he directed his batteries. Butte
will miss the colonel and the city will
lose its only really independent and fear
less newspaper
The man who has something new to
offer is always bound to get a hearing,
but it is doubtful whether the Colorado
genius who intends to revolutionize all
existing methods of irrigation by put
ting into practice a discovery he claims
to have made will be accorded respectful
audience by the men who must employ
art in supplying their acres with the
moisture necessary for the production Of
crops. Capillary attraction is the idea
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