Show THE W WAR AJ OF THE COPPER KINGS Representative Bill Pace handed me a copy of ot the book of the above title for reading I much enjoyed it It brings up some memories I was in Butte about two fifty years ago ago ago- Butte the wealthy wealthy- Butte the naughty naughty- Butte the center center center cen cen- ter of turmoil wild rampant wide open Marcus Daly was alive My dad owned a string of trotters and feeling his oats and his nags nag theirs he Invaded Marcus Dalys Daly's and flung down his gloves glov glov- es In challenge on the racing circuit circuit circuit cir cir- in Dalys own state The race was pulled off at Butte lads fads little unknown gelding a 4 yr old Faust against Marcus Daly's Dalys Dalys Daly's Dalys Daly's Da Da- lys ly's big stallion Faust won As a kid I saw painted ladies ride up in cabs get a roll of bills out of a First National Bank eyes front please please please- a roll roU that would choke a cow give it to a bookie for betting betting- off Three quarters Watch that damned damned damn damn- ed little geldin Why hes he's winnin He won two out of three And boodle in bucketfuls changed own own- The unexpected had hap hap- Dad and Marcus Daly that night met in the best hotel and when I hit the hay even the guter gut- gut er spouts of the hotel fere v ere running running running run run- ning champagne so near afloat with was the hotel and everybody in it I went over to one of the big mines a gallery for visitors visItor the big engine a beauty so clean could have wiped it with her hanky and never see a afleck afleck aleck fleck leck of dust on the silk My escort took me to famed tamed saloon sa- sa saloon saloon sa sa- loon cards drinks money pictures es behind the bar bar bar- barthe the tale cant can't add Fourteen dead men were tossed out afore mornin but otherwise otherwIse otherwise oth oth- just as lurid as Its been pained ever since Smelter smoke and sulphur fumes fum fum- es so bad that lawns were wem t washed cobblestones and tot ot a blade of grasse In Butte miles to the blatt of ot a cow cow cow- but sin so close It rubbed shoulders with minister minister minister min min- ister or banker Butte the hot one And when the book tells about the election of Senator W. W A. A Clark to the U. U S. S Senate I have other recollections that wont do for print Plummer Daly Clark Heinz Heinz- a along long list that held the attention of the world when metals came from Butte Many years later I again visited Butte Butte Butte- by that time Ume W W. A A. Clark had built the railroad Delta Is now on now U. U P. P but thin caled caled caled cal- cal ed often otten the Clark road for his boodle built it It Yes the book brings up tot long long gotten memories ies |