Show j > z r I I l iflAL idF1 ii j Dis Jour i s About A Montana JPattcr < BoilerJoIinstouJ H A IttHiiro nttcrobJ8totu Trib Dillon A few weeks ago says the Dion I short article under tills We published a sl0rt artce stat thebeading of Ua real life romance Munro of H A ing that the discovery ButlerJohnstone in the capacity of a a somewhat romantic tramp in Turkey was mantic incident and added to the article is well known to the ButlerJohnstone wel kown of Montana Idaho and mining men loiltana Utah The article credited to the Tribune Trib-une was copied quite extensively by 1 Rocky Mountain journals I fell under the eyes of Captain John W Plummcr superintendent of the Granite Mountain superntendent of Phihpsburg who Mining Company Phipsb1rg desiresto correction of the desireBto see a proper ButlerJohnstone is not a matter made ButerJohnstone I tramp mater in Turkey and he never tramped around from harem to harem in the SICK Sultans empire The absurd story that Sulans ButlerJohnstone had reached so low a level as to become a common tramp is a canard of the whole cloth The story once started gained wide circulation but who invented it wile difficult for any fellow to find out Through the courtesy t fnd out of Capt Plummer a letter from Butler Johnstone to the Captain is before us The letter is dated at Nice Aples Man times France The letter is mostly of a personal and private character but in it the writer makes an inquiry about mines and mining matters in Montana showing that he is still interested in mining enterprises enter-prises II A Munro ButlerJohnstone will be remembered by all the prominent mining men of Montana He is a polished and cultured gentleman an exmember of the English Parliament and with other English capitalists invested heavily in Montana and Utah mining properties One of their mining investments that did not pan out was the purchase of the Broadway mine at Silver Star in Madison county In the purchase of that mine the building of a largo gold mill and I placing machinery on the mine about I 500000 oi English money went where the woodbine huneth or where the j whang oodle niourneth for its firstborn The ore in the mine turned so base and j refractory that it could not be worked I and the company virtually abandoned the property Of ButlerJohnstones mining min-ing experiences in Utah we know little and have read less Having coriected j the statement that ButlerJohnstone is a tramp in Turkey our conscience is easy Our cotemporaries who published the j real life romance can right the matter I by tion giving publicity to the needed correc i |