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Show In Wicked Montana. ,- Insido Stories as to the Legislature Contest for the U, S. Senate How Volts Mete JloughtThtrly-Saen One-Thousand- Dollar Kotes and a Table Leaded Uith Gitenbaeks and Cold The I'cudof Tito Montana Millionaires, or the rnmify of dart and Daly Something About Montana .Vines and Their Profits A Look at the Gambling Houses and a Sloiy of a J.if Game at theSiher llou.' Club Mont ma Saffhites anllloj) the fngllsh Are htcstmg jHK Millions in Themi I Baal i i Ifptclat ttJrrMpWffirt of l tuitrtl Atvu ' Heli-na, Mont, April 19, & ' utile this Utter on the golden rocl of the American continent. The clear blue ley of heaven fits close down over me, nnd on every tide stand the snow capped Rockies, the sentinels of Cod, watching over this wicked Montana capital. As et the ruin of Sodom has not been let loose and the legislators and the gamblers go on their evil way rejoicing. Tho stories ol tho recent scmtorial fight still fill the air, and no M one pretends to say that money by the K tens of thousands of dollars was not IE spent In the contest. As to Just how this money was given out Is not known, 1 but I am told that thlrt)-sevcn f 1,000 notes were presented at a single I leleni I bink for cxclnngo on the day following the adjournment of the Montani leglsla- Iture, and another story Is that 200 jj 1,000 notes were sent front Helena tu the east shortly after the 4th of March A tingle legislator Is said to have received ns high at 15,000 for his vote, nnd It Is stated that one ol the candidates, after spending what would be a fortune In any other city ol the United States, lost It oil bj rcluslng to give something like $ 10 000 because he thought he could buy the man for f 7,joo. The story ol this scmtoriil contest may come out In a future investlgitlon before the United Slates Senile. The writing of It from its origin toils conclusion would fill a book, and 1 can only glvo It In a few lines It lnd its origin In a feud between two of the richest men In the United States. These were Marcus Dal), the Ifi 1 1 rich copper miner, and W. A. Clark, the I noted Milliontlro of lltille City. Doth ! Cl-irk and Daly came to this country ' comparatively poor, and both hae I made enormous fortunes. Clirk was born In l'cnnsjivanla about fifty four Sjcirs ago, and he drove a yoke of cattle . across the plains to Colorado when lie was Just twenty-three jcars old. He I worked In the mines near Denver for I wages, then drifted north toUutteCily and began to Invest In all sorts of things In Monnna. Ho peddled good to the miners, going about w ilh a wagon from I c-imp to enmn, and after he had saved n I little money founded a store, which p-ild him w ell. I le got hold of sex ctal unde-1 unde-1 v eloped mines, and before working I them went luck cast to Columbii I College and studied mineralogy and I I chemistry. With his Increned knowl- I 1 edge ho came Lick to Montana and I I began to imke money hand over 1 fist. Hesiwthat there was millions in I copper, ns well as In gold and siher, nnd he shipped the fust copper from I Montana to tho seaboard. 1 roni n f single mine he took out over thirty I million noundsof Conner In twovcirs I nnd he now owns silver mines copper I mines, bink stock and other property V said to be worth at least n dozen mill- ions of dollars He has a private bink V in Iluttc City, the deposits of which run I Into several million dollars, and when 1 one of the corporations with which he was connected was temporarily embar- , rasscd nnd was about to be thrown Into W the hinds of a receiver he giv e a single K Chech for $130,000 and thus tided It L over. lt TUP FRUU OK CLARK AND DAIA. 11 No one knows how much Mircus' Daly Is worth He owns, I am told, a lburlli Interest in the big Anaconda iiloppcr mine, which produces millions m cry ) cir, and he has electric rallro ids, hrnks, silver mines nnd rold galore I hiyye nut him during my stay In Mon- tat a and I will sneak of hlm further In an J ither letter. 1 o coino to the senitor- I1I1 contest It was a number of yenrs BgcH that Clark und Daly owned silver mities which were close to one another, anf 1 1 am told lint tho trouble between tin, m came from a dispute as to whether Chiirk hid the right to a certain pirt nf llife property Daly thou.ht that Clark I hfxii injured hlm In his case, and he his I mcver forgiven him He Is 1 democrat, I nr . Is also Mr. Clark. I think Clark's I Culm adiolned Daly's and tint he 1 I 'ollou cd the lead into the ground of the ', latter. This brought 011 n liw suit between the two, nnd the lawjers are I pilling bitlledore nnd shuttlecock. t with that suit yet. It has been appealed V nnd still undecided The trouble start-I start-I Ing In this way w is lanned by injudicious ( friends until the campaign of 1888, when Clirk wanted to go to Congress. He V had made millions and he wintcd n Jsodal position for his dmily lie got iaa,?-, the democratic nomination, which was f-SJp-smii suppose! 10 lie cqulv alent to an election, fnd the republican nomination went MI begging Mr Thomas Carter, the head m of the national reiublicin colnmlltee H during tho late presldenihl cinipalgn, W was ollercd It and refused to run. lie 1 was hmlly persuaded to tike It. Daly BBjBH thaw his strength to the Republicans BBB ! and the result was that Carter was elect- BBaaBu cd bj morethaii4ouomalorit. It was sl ' ,ll,nk.' ,,le '!" 'J"10 la Republican hici - LI been elected for fifteen jears, and only BBaaHU the second time in the history of the - 9 state In 1890 another election occurred JIJIJU and Carter ran lor a second term, but Clirk wis not In this contest and V, W 1 Dixon, Marcus Dily 11 friend, was elected' J' I hen came the admission of the tcrri- H ; lory, with two sets of senators and with H ; Clark as one of the dcmocrillc 110ml. i nees. The seats were giicn to the JIJB, Republicans, howe-ver, and thus Sanders H and lower became United St ites Sena- M tors In 1591 hrk still winted to goto H! the Senile, nnd he decided to lit ever) - Hfl thing into tho contest and mikn It go. f As the story goes here, he pulled wires H In every legUlatlve district, and when B the election was over he thought ho had H a sure tiling, Daly had apparently made no fight apalnst him anil lie expected to sail in like a bird. When the legislature was polled, howeicr, It was found that thero were twentj'Scvcn Democrat-., three Populists nnd twenty five Republicans Republi-cans The Democrats hid a caucus and in this ciucuta Clark received sistcen otcs, Hauler, another millionaire, cleicn, and Congressman Dixon nine Clirk had a majority of the ciucusnnd by riejit he should have been the emeus nominee. Had he been so In rcaht) he would haic surely been elected, but here comes In Dan. 'a fine work The men who voted for Dixon were his men and they withdrew from the caucus nnd refused to be liound by the result. To mike a long story short, eight of these men held out during one of the longest scnatoriil contests on record, and they finally compelled an adjournment without with-out a senator being elected The result was lint the governor, n Republican, appointed Lee Mantle, the cnndlditc who had received the republican votes during the latter pirt of the contest, and Clark Is going about with fire in his c)cand his hitclict at his belt, longing tor the lime w hen he can get a chnnce nt Daly, As to just who spent the money and ns to how much of It was spent must be left to the senatorial im estimation MOW SENATORS ARE MADE IN MONTANA. All sorts of rumors and stories concerning con-cerning It are floating about through the pure uzonc of Montinn. One Is that n certiln candldne had rooms in the Heleni Hotel which were occupied by his friends and that tho- tibles In these rooms were filled with ft.ooo notes, fioa notes, floo greenbacks and x gold pieces. A supposedlj corruptible legislator was led by Ihccippers Into this room and was talked with somewhat some-what as follows 'Now.scmtor, we know that this contest con-test Is a disgraceful one. uu feel t nt our man oucht to liu rl.rlr.l mimn see that that is the logic of the situation Npwwc want to make It eisy forjou iie ,rf kolng out of the room and if In thinking about this matter ou can see your way clear to throw us your support jou are at liberty to take just as much Irom those tables ns ou think jour senices are worth" This lor a poor man was a greit temptation mil If the story Is true it probably led many men to change! their minds HOW DALY WOULH PURIFV SENATORIAL 1 LLCTIONS The worst feature about this whole election Is, it seems to me, the unblush-ng unblush-ng way In w Inch the matter Is Hiked of here In Monliin. I mc jet to meet me lint mm who questions the fact that money wis used, and the poliliclms seem to tike It as n milter of course. The Rev. J Wesley Hill the Sam Jones or the Rockies, openly charged the fact from his pulpit here. The better classes or tlie state consider It a disgrace, of course, but there ore more laughs oer it thin frowns, and Marcus Dali is reported to haie said the other day that Ills part In the election hid been that of a pan at. Said he- I propose to mike It possible for n poor mm to be elected to the United btatcs Senate from Monliin by making It soexperuUe that theticli man can't afford to run " Dalyscmplojcs must number In the neighborhood of 5,000 He is vcr popular with them nnd he Is one of the bosses ol Montana. Mr, Leo Mantle, the republican who was appointed by the governor, is one of the brightest young men of the state and he would be the joungest mm 111 the Senate. He Is only thlrti eight nnd he Is worth n small fortune. lie was a candid He for the United Stiles Senate In the first stile legislature and he has been one of the leading rcpubli-cans rcpubli-cans for the last twelio years. He wis bom In I ngland nnd moed from there to Utah, At the age of twenty four he wis driving an ox team, nnd two years later he had learned telcgnphy and hid uomeoneol the telegraph operators of the Rocky moiintiins. It was thli, I think, tint brought hlm to Montani He now owns one ol the best pipers Intho stile, the Iluttc Lily fnter-Mjunlaw, and he is Interested in neirly all the leading enterprises of Mentina He Is a mm of ability, can make a good speech, is fond ol fast horses and Is not nverse to a good game of poker. The stakes played for here nro hrge and. according to one of Mantle's friends, he w is at last accounts about fyiooo ahead of the game. OAMBLtrCl III MONTANA. Card pliying and gimbllng are more open in Montani than they are In the east This country Is full of speculitors and miners and tho whole atmosphere of life here has for some j cars been tint ol chance. Within the last decade great corporations haio sprung un ri cities of Ilutto and Heleni (md very substnitlil cities they are) have been built and there Is now ns much business done here as anywhere In the country, bull the old habits cling lo the people nnd gambling goes on as openly in Montana today as It did when the mines were first discovered Ihu cities arc hone) combed with gamblers ondoier nearly ciery saloon you see Ihu sign "I Icenscd Oimbllng." The games are authorized by liw and there ire a scoro of libit s In ilutte and Heleni where jou may drop In at any hour of the day and see a crowd around Ilia dillercnt firo tables, betting with white, red and blue chips, and this goes on from morning morn-ing till night, week day nnd bundiy. There Is no placo hi the world where wages are compirathcly so great ns here, and there Is no city that has so many unmirned men In proportion to its populitlon as Iluttc. The lowest wages paid to any one Is 1 50 n day, and it docs not take an extraordinary mm to getjsailiy for his lihor the month throuL.li, Tile mines and the smelting works run day and night, oud the men work in cUit hour shilis The result is that jou find llio city of Iluttc filled wllh men at any hour of the diy or night, mid this irrcgularlly of life conduces con-duces to drinking nnd gambling. Gambling Gam-bling in stocks nnd mines ahd rcil estate goes on the simc w iy. A mail may be worth nothing today nnd lie ricli tomorrow, and the result Is tint fickle Dime Iortune is eier whirling her wheel before theejes of these people. A true history of the big poker games of Montani would be more Interesting thin Ihu Ariblin Nights Dig gimes arcplijcd lodiy, but the moit famous weru those of the past The gambling which you see on the ground Moor and In the siloons Is done wllh chips, tho lowest of which represents repre-sents a eahic of twclie nnd one hilf cents, nnd with these quirtcr.halfdollir and dollar chips the games go on. On tho floors above greater stikes are plajcd, nnd jou do not find the belter clisses on the ground floor rhegamb linghousts are owned by men whose credit is ,ood, and there arc a number of sporting men in Monlini today who, if they lost f jo.ouo tonight upon their tables, could gu to any bank of Ilutte or Monlmi and borrow- n like sunt lo begin business with tomorrow CUD MIC IN MONTANA I am surprised ot the club life of these western cities. Heleni Ins one of the richest clubs in tliu world. It Is now building a club bouse which will compare com-pare fnorably In Its Interior furnishings with uny in the coit. I found a Nery comfortable club nt Great I alls, nnd Ilutte City has a club called the ' Silver Dow Club," the members of which re present ns much money nsanuclubln the United States. I'll esc clubs ore migniriceiitiy furnished and jou meet in them the cream of this western counlrj. Their members nro more ensmopohtm thin those of any other clubs of the w-orld, for these Montana men come from all ojer the world, and they arc, as n rule, broid gauged men, lull of energy and pluck. The most of them are col-lege col-lege bred and jou will find as well dressed dres-sed and ns well rod men here ns In rcwork. I he majority oflhemorc joungmen lhcv arc men wlm h.ivn made and ire miking money rapidly and It Is n nrc dij tint you do not find a hilf dozen millionaires In the Silver Mow The club has a line llbrarj, a good billiard room and pirlors and reception room It Ins n c ird room as well, and around the tibles of this some of these plucky millionaires and others now and then tike a hind at poker. 1 he stakes art often large, and they tell a story hereof ntrnellng drummer who came into the Silver How Clubuue day Inn rather blustering waj. He sawn group of men plijlng poker about one of the tables. He considered himself n good poker plaj er, and he thought he would like- to take 1 hand. I llnnL h was Introduced lo some of tho pitly Among them was, ns I understand it, Marcus Dalj, Lee Mamie and M C. Conncll, a vciy rich mm of this region As he greeted them the drummer said, as he rubbed his r inds together. "Ah, gentlemen, jou are plijlng poker, I see. I play somcwlnt mjsell nnd I venture jou would not object to have me come Into the game." ' Oh, no." replied one of the men, jou cm plaj if jou wish, but you had better get some chips" "All right," said the drummer, and Willi this he nulled out some bills and said with a bluster, 'Well, I guess you maygivo me 5ioo worth of chips " A sly look passed around the tnble. The men w ere too polite to laugh, but one of them said niter half a moment, "Oh let him come In, give him n chip," nnd, to the surprise of the drummer, he was nnded one chip for his ioo. As he looked from it to those on the tiblc, representing thousmds, he concluded that he'd better stay out of the game, and he shrank perceptibly and apologized and retired oenui r on colii dust. This city of Heleni contains about 30,ao people and It Is founded on gold dust It hasns flue buildings is jou wil find In any city of a hundred thousand thous-and in the cist and they ore built along the cde.e of the mountains lining cich side ol greit gullies. 1 he main street or Helena runs down a ravine known as the ' Last Chance Gulch," and from under Its payed sidewalk thirty million dollars w ortli of gold w as taken The city Is built on what was oncu the most fimous placer diggings of the United Slates, and all about It you see the Lrivel which had been thrown up md wished out for gold Lvcn today it is not uncommon in building n house or 11 business block to find enough gold in the foundations to erect a great part of the building, and not long ago a tmn round-n thous md-elollar pocket while he wis excavating a ccihr, The country coun-try about hero for miles In every direction direc-tion contains gold, and soma of the most Tamous mines In the United Stiles nro within n short distance from Heleni New mines nro being discovered every now and then and old ones nro being re-worked with profit. I visited the government assiy ol'ica here this afternoon after-noon anil saw there a block of gold about as big as a 5 cent loaf of brcid, which Is worth fnoco It had Just come in from the Old l'enobsllot mine, which his been Ijing Idle for jeirs, but which his been reopened nnd is now paying w ell It Is located about tw enty miles north of Heleni and was discovered discov-ered by an old fellow by tho name of Nathaniel Vestal j ears ngo He sold It for 400,000, took his money to Wall street to tcich Ihu bulls und beirs how to speculate Of course he failed The mine was aaln sold later on for fS,ooo, as tho lead seemed tu bo phved out, and becime the property of a mm named L.ongmaiu. 1 lu 0111 noiiiing v. 1th it, but his two sons urged hint tu work it lie would not do it nnd ttiey bought tho mine of hlm This was about four months ago and this week they have brought In this 12 000 biscuit. It Is the simc with other mines and though Mon-tina Mon-tina turns out millions upon millions of dollars' worth of precious metals every sear tho mountains are believed to be full of undeveloped mines and prospectors prospec-tors by the hundreds will stirt out this spring. I ORTUNES IN NUOQETS Right here about Heleni some of the most fimous pheer mining of the past w as done Along about tho close or tho wirmany men made fortunes, and one nugget was taken out which was worth tS9 and another) so I am told, wis worth more than ft 000 One of the banks here ins a half peck of gold nug-gets nug-gets and n collection of tl em will be sent from here 10 the World's I olr 1 he chief mining now done in Montani is cpiartz mining, and it take.) fortunes to get the met d out and to reduce it, I here arc bctw cen thirty and forty great quarts mills in Montana and some of the largest mills of the kind In the world nrc found In this slate. A great deal of the mining properly and tm mills are owned by 1 ngllsh cipitihsM I his is tho cisc of the Drumlunnn n mine, not fir from Hclcm, out f uhih more thin $9 000,000 worth of ore h is been taken This mine was riicnerrd by Thomis Cruse, a plicer miner who was pinning out from f 5 to fi K.adiywhi be discovered it. Thli wis .1, ut 18-6 He sold it In I881 to an I nilmh com pmy for f 1,500 000, of wlueh lie got f 1,500,000 in cuh MONTANA Miliums, It Is not fir from th Dnimluinmon mine that tho famous 1 lorido Inr Is locitcd where Hie sapi inn mines nrc now being worked 1 lr,m here tint these mines ore to I c pushed during the coming seison, and th 11 tin ir gems will be placed upon the n irUtncxt jcar About f4o,ooo worth o 11, ni were sent to London list j car anlwue there set with other precious slom and pliced on exhibition They w u pronounced by experts to be stoms of the finest quilllv, nnd I have met n number of men here wearing stoms which thej told mc were worth Irm 1 f w to Jico apiece These mines ire ow ned by the Sipphire nnd Kuby Compiny, I til It Is an I ngllsh corpontlon which his n cipitil pi oyer U , and it Is thought here that the property Is a valuable valu-able one Pcrsonallj 1 know lutlo about tills, nor as to the truth of the stitcment that several dnmonds ot tho first w iter have been found In this pirt of the counlrj I RN1. 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