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Show WARSAW-BUTTE. Descriptions of the campaign that had a climax in the fall of Warsaw tell of the tactics by which tho enemy, en-emy, approaching from different points, gradually encircled the city. One graphic description of the surrender sur-render pictures the manner in which the Austro-German hosts "coffod themselves" around the doomed stronghold. The words recall a bit of comment printed more than half a century ago which happens to have interesting local lo-cal significance. In the time of our civil war Horace Greeley's words, printed in the New York Tribune, often furnished inspiring phrases for tho defenders of the Union. Once tho Tribune ardently predicted that the federal host would presently "coll itself around Loo's army like an anaconda." ana-conda." Years afterward, the Hickey brothers broth-ers were prospecting in this district. The late Michael Hickey had served in the Union army. To tho writer of these lines he once said that tho words of the Tribune came to his notice no-tice at the time when they wore written writ-ten and that, somehow, they had always al-ways remained with him. 'They were often in my mind," said Mr. Hickey, "and the result was that I gave the name 'Anaconda' to the claim we were working on the hill." That is the story of the christening of the mine. The Hlckeys were New Yorkers. Their home was in St. Lawrence Law-rence county, up In tho northern quarter of that state. Hence the name of the Anaconda mine's famous companion on the world's richest copper cop-per hill. Butto Post oo |