Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-09-20

|, WALTER E. TAYLOR

WALTER E. TAYLOR
AS lust n few years before the
Of the nineteenth century
here arrived at the port Of
Ireland, vOyager from
who carried as part of his
ID a sack of potatoes. Nobody
I'D TO record the name of the
Imam but history does relate
The unsung hero carried a
ure for which the Irish will
RIVER grateful-he carried the
otatoes residents of the En-
Isle ever laid eyes on. Now,
ntato, discovered in South
ia by Spaniards, was long
being accepted as a staple
by the people of continental
q, but the Irish knew a good
when they saw it.
r!sh made the potato their own
Ielded a large amount of food
rall acreage and within a dec
farmers of Erin had given
heir land to potato culture, to
tlusion of almost all other crops.
.ey learned by bitter lesson, was
Ew in Judgment, and although
lists went through the fields and
every planting, there was sure
h occasional crop failure. When
ruined the potato crops for
I years in succession in the
18th century, there resulted one
greatest famines in Irish his
I'M Irish had long since stopped
Etng other food crops and when
pato fields failed to produce,
was without food. Peasants
Em starvation by the hundreds
escape the famine thousands OF
ksn migrated to America.
Il Twain said all these migrating
ben came to Boston and joined
kice force, but at least one came
h York. His name was Marcus
md he arrived in the summer
h Like thousands of other young
la he had tired of starving on
Id farm and had resolved to try
Ii in the land OF the free and
kne Of the brave. His luck was
Exc better than that of most
|nmigrants, for he was destined
i star role in the development
! mineral riches of the Pacific
K. the Rocky mountains. He was
|zt TO become one OF Montana
/ kings.
The Gypsy's Prediction
| h.er years Marcus Daily liked
l about the gypsy fortune teller
|.ippsned to be one OF the first
Is be spoke to in New York city.
gypsy told the young immigrant
|ne saw great riches coming to
md il he would only cross her
With silver coin she could tell
tlch more. Young Marcus did not
the gypSy's palm with silver be-
he needed the few pieces OF
he had 10 get meal before he
I out TO look for a job. If he
sen able to cross the gypsy S
With coin, and If her crystal
ny good at all. she might have
hin that he would build cities
!ir wilderness, that he would be-
the father-in -law of a Hun
! count and an American am
dor to Germany, and that his
. in bronze would one day look
upon a Montana city that would
lCTn, at various stages OF its ca
IS Perch of the Devil" Jewel
the Rockies" and The Vaca-
apita! of the Old West"
0ns who have troubled them
to delve into the story of Mar
hlys rise find that while there
ast amount of material available,
difficult to separate the fiction
the facts. An excursion to the
OF Butte old-timers reveals
Marcus DAILY, like Elsa Maxwell,
have had about 500 most init
friends" and practically anyone
lite who has passed his 4Oth
ay will tell you that he knew
s DAILY well and then launch
vivid account of adventures he
it'll old Mark" The DAILY legend
50 been enhanced by the writ
the many reporters who worked
pers controlled by Marcus in his
for power. Although it Is doubt
at Marcus DAILY cared what the
on his papers said about him
ally, many of his employees did
some rather wonderful tales
the big boss, probably in the
that there might be a salary
IN the offing. And OF all the
he praise the writers turned out.
the most magnificent tales was
all one which made him a de-
Mt of the ancient royalty of Ire
This fantastic bit of nonsense
,tually included in a widely cir
booklet written by one of Days
. Marcus DAILY, said the writer OF
,w rare bit Of Montaniana, was
endant of the fighting princes
dent Corcea Adam! But then,
riShman can't find a bit of blue
yal blood somewhere in his back
2
us didn't change any after that
cement regarding the contents
bloodstream, and to his friends
S still a bluff and red-faced
an with more than the usual
Of the luck Of the Irish. But
Marcus sisters took the royal