The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-16

In the old open gambling days, not
long gone by. drill drivers wearing fan
mel shirts have bet stakes of silver and
gold slugs with the recklessness Of
royal rakes at Monte Carlo.
The people are all plungers. Two
men came UP to a cigar case. Lets
shake the box" said one.
AS they lit their cigar the otherasked.
How much do you want for that mine,
anyway"
"Thirty-f1ve thousand, 2 was the an
swer.
give you twenty-five said the
other.
Wont take twenty-five" replied the
friend. "but I'll just shake dice whether
you give me twenty-five thousand or
fifty
"All right. First flop. o.. horses ~
First flop" came back the answer.
/ They each rolled the dice out only
once. The man who lost wrote his
check for $4,000 with lead pencil.
The mayor of Butte is Patrick Null
Inns. Years ago Pat" as everybody
calls him, ran a boarding house in the
camp. Once the mines shut down.
Some Of Pats boarders got out of
money. He rose up in the dining room
one morning at breakfast time and
made speech.
"By's," said he, they've shut down
the mines and some Of yez is out Of
dough. But, I'll tell yes stuck to
Pat whin we've had the stuff, and now
Pat will sthick to yez. Owe got two
carloads Of pertates and wan CARLOAD
of hams In the cillar. AS long as they's
q spud and pace of matt lift We can
ate wild me. Pay whin We git the coin."
/ So when Pats party were afraid Of
losing the election, they put him up for
mayor. AS one Of the miners said, HE
won, hands down"
Soon after taking his oath of office it
was the duty of the mayor to welcome
President Roosevelt, who visited Butte
1 The mayor put on his first dress suit.
1 AT q banquet, as soon as the guests sat
4 down, the mayor rose, raped on the
/ table and said: "Gintlemin, OF will in
troduce to yez a mon who maids no
4 inthrodooction. He's the hayrow Of
santyago, B'ys Ito the waitersl bring
on the grub
The history Of Butte is the history OF
It's three great mining nen-Daly
J Clark, Heinze. Take the character of
these. men. Daily was playing poker one
night In Butte club. Another IN the
i game was a man of small means. DAILY
Eheld four aces and drew one card. The
3loti1er drew one card also, and made a
king full
i BET $780, said the man with the full.
I'll see the $500 and raise We a white
chip said Daily; s'but. my friend,
don't raise me for I've got We bate"
The other man, who had bet $1,000,
#Iput his checks on the table for 5000.
Had he lost, he would have been a
ruined man. Daily knew this.
4 Seeing the raise.
/ And what have We got?" said DAILY,
! "A king full" replied the other play
er raking in the money.
/ It's good, Jerry" said DAILY, throw
ing down the winning hand, thinking no
one had seen it.
THAT man Heinze," said one gentle
man, is the greatest plunger that
i ever Struck Butte. Why, do you know,
/ saw him playing poker the other night
and he would always flip a $40 gold
i piece to see whether or not he should
call a raise
Born in Ireland, Marcus Daily. when
fifteen years old, came to America,
working first at Brooklyn as dock
hand. Later he went to California,
where he did placer mining. Haggin
and Teyis, mining men Of Frisco, sent
him to Utah. Here he met the Walk
er brothers. who had him go to Butte
in 1876 to inspect the old Alice mine.
.lDaly went into Butte carrying a
blanket on his back; he died worth $15,-
LOCO, 600.
They tell me. after selling his share
in the Alice, DAILY went in with Haggin
and Tevis and bought the Aanacolda.
The Californians sent an expert to look
at the mine. This man said 1t was
worthless, and started back to San
Francisco to make his report. DAILY
was out Of money, but he himself and
a few faithful men kept digging. They
i struck rich ore. Daily borrowed mon
ley and got horse. ~ He sent mes
senger to Frisco with new ore samples.
ride this horse until he drops; then
/ get another" said DAILY. Bate that
Id expert to California. Days man
got there first. Haggin and Tevis put
in more money, Thus they say, was
Istarted the Anaconda mine, which the
DAILY Company sold in 1899 to the
IAmalgamated Company, in which
lRockefeller and Rogers hold large in
lterests, for thirty-three million dollars.
Daly's money came to him easy; it
went the same way. He was broad
lgauged. Anaconda, where he built his
smelter, needed a hotel DAILY built a
fine one and lost on it fifty thousand
dollars a year. He wanted a good
newspaper in the town; he started the
Standard, which went three hundred
4 thousand dollars in the hole the first
four years. He took to horses; on the
Bitter Root stock farm in Montana,
il he spent one million dollars a year. On
this ranch-one Of the most beautiful in
i the World-he raised the famous racers
Ogden, Hamburg and Tammany. Civ
ing away fine horses was one of his