Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-03-28

April %, $780, that he came from
Idaho in 1864 and was butcher by
trade" There followed the names Of
men and women long since forgotten
but who once held a place in the life
of the young mining camp.
1t is set down in one paragraph that
Pete Mcmahon, or 'Seven-up Pete
Sisters hospital He was an old bache-
lor and prospector and gambler and
that is why he Is called 'Seven-up
Pete.'"
Whether Seven-up Pete was a good
or bad man is not disclosed. He was
character and as such engaged the
pen of the old record-keeper.
Good to Poor
Colonel Thornton died Sept. 15,"
says the record. He was a lawyer by
profession and mine owner. He was
very charitable and good to the poor"
Butte was, in those days, a town
of single men. After many death rec
ords Walker entered He was bache-
lor."
Where the Acoma hotel now stands
Is the mining location known on the
maps as the Smokehouse lode"
Walker records the passing of its dis
coverer as follows:
Charles Savage, found dead Sunday,
March IA, 1887. He was frozen to the
ground near his cabin. An old bachelor
and the discoverer of the Smokehouse
lode. His cabin was back from the poor
farm. Age 60 years."
So persisted the dream of wealth
that lured on pioneer to battle with
nature in the raw in the Butte of so
years ago.
The passing Of soldier of the war
with Mexico is recorded thus: Judge
Irwin died Feb. 7, 1891, In Anaconda.
He lived in Deer Lodge in the early
days and was one of the old Mexican
soldiers in 1896"
Charley Savage was not the only
old-time prospector who lived to see
his location become important in the
public mind. Witness:
Jimmy Fowley died in a lodging
house at South Butte Aug. 30, 1898
Jimmy lived in a dugout near the
Parrot smelter. He had a good deal
of money. He worked a placer claim
in Dublin gulch in 1868 and was the
discoverer Of the Wake Up jim"
March in Sad Review
The grizzled veterans of Montana s
pioneering days, who have made their
last stampede and sunk their last To-
gates, march again in sad review
across the pages Of old Tom Walkers
diary.
He sat in his cabin on Woolman
street, like an image of Fate, noting
the passing Of each comrade of the
pick and pan days. each trailblaZer
who added to the development of the
state.
The names, the date of death, origi-
nal trade or occupation, with some bit
Of family history sandwiched in be-
tween, are set down. Fred Gamer
Dennis Driscoll, Sam Marchesseau
Dave Upton, Tommy Cruise, Hiram
Hirschfield, Cornelius Hedges, Hiram
Knowles and dozens Of others are re-
| corded, as are dozens OF men and
women whose names are unknown to
the modern Butte.
The men who died in the poor farm
received the same attention as he who
achieved fame and fortune. In some
instances the writer gave the poor man
more attention.
OF one well-to-do old-timer he
writes: He died and left 10000 be-
hind him" The ups and downs Of the
mining industry are reflected IN many
paragraph which records the potl
Of gold that fell To the hands Of the
rainbow chasing prospector who spent
1t In pursuit Of more wealth. only e
die In poverty At last. In many such
cases ths entry reads. He was buried
through ths kindness Of Mn. John
Noyea."
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