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Show HEINZE WELCOMED MINING MAGNATE GIVEN AN OVATIONSELDOM TENDERED PRIVATE CITIZENS. Met at the Depot by Great Crowd Headed by Band, and His Carriage Is Drawn Through Streets of Butte by His Admirers. Butte. On his return to Butte 3unday night after two years' absence, ab-sence, P. Augustus Heinze was given an ovation the equal of which has seldom been tendered a private citizen citi-zen in this city. From the balcony Pf the Butte hotel, known in the days of the factional fights as "Ldb-srty "Ldb-srty Hall," and from which Heinze in years past has often addressed a vast assemblage, he spoke to a crowd of 4,000 people, being frequently interrupted in-terrupted with cheers and shouts of the miners who remained loyal through the adversities and vicissitudes vicissi-tudes of fortune of their former leader. At the depot on the arrival of the train which brought Heinze from New York,- a crowd of 1,500 people had gathered and with the Boston & Montana band assured him of a splendid welcome. The carriage in which he rode up town was drawn by a score of "more of stalwart admirers, ad-mirers, the horses being unhitched soon after the arrival of the train and just before Heinze stepped into the carriage. The main thorough-tares thorough-tares of the city were brilliantly Illuminated. |