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THE F 4 KALAKA EAGLE. • \AJAX\ NOYES OF THE YESTERYEARS WELL KNOWN MONTANA HIS- TORIAN HAS PASSED INTO THE GREAT BEYOND. Wrote \The Story of Ajax,\ and Brought Out a Revised Edition of Magdales \Vigilantes of Montana;\ Founded the Town of Wisdom in 'Beaverhead Connty. \Ajax\ Noyes, pioneer of the state, historian of note and founder of the town of Wisdom, in Beaverhead county, died last week at his ranch near Harlem, in Blaine county, as a residt of injuries sustained in an at- tack by a vicious bull. He was turn- ing some cattle out of a pasture whe.n the bull turned on him, and forcing \Ajax\ Noyes. him against a fence, gored him in a terrible rnanner. Ile lived less than two days. \Ajax\ watt one of the first white men to go into the Big Hole basin, where he developed the \Ajax\ ranch, a famous property in that dis- trict. On this ranch was a promising lead of _copper ore, known after it had been developed somewhat as the \Ajax\ mine. Noyes devoted a com- petency and most of his life to make this mine a producer, and failed in his later years, after he had expend- ed thousands of dollars on it. Had he confined his efforts to his ranch he would have died a wealthy man. Of Literary Bent. Noyes was of literary bent. and was the author of several books, writ- ing under the name of \Ajax.\ His first effort was entitled \The Story of Ajax.\ It had to do with the his- tory of the earlier times of Beaver- head county, one of the cradles of the state. A year ago he published a revised edition of Dimdales \Vigilan- tes of Montana,\ with numerous foot- notes and stories of his own author- ship. At the time of his death he was gathering data for a history of northern Montana. Until a short time ago Noyes was connected with the historical library of the state, as a gatherer of lore of the pioneer. The archives of the his- torical society have been considerably enriched by his work. Ile was faith- ful as to details in his writings, which added to the value of his work, as on the curtain a picture of an an - modern writers of the historical hap- cient ruin of some noble temple in a penings of the early days of the state grove of trees, crumbling to dust. Be- are much inclined to romance, be- neath the scene of the old ruin was cause of the lack of detail. printed this quotation: \SO PASS THE WOltKS OF MEN: BACK TO THE EAltTil AGAIN AN- •••••••••••••••••••••••••• CIENT AND itom\rniNus FADE LIKE A DREANI.\ • The Banking Corporation MANY WHO WRESTED FORTUNES FROM HILLS OF MONTANA MED BROKEN MEN . On the heft --Working a Prospect. Center—The Big Strike. Right—The Discovery Notice. Painting. by Swale, the Noted Mon- tana Artist. I ('A P I T.t I. $300,000.00 ?4 . 1on (Alia Helena The Jargest ettpttalized blinking Institution tit Montana. Specializes lit ha Illi i illg Niallt II MI farm 11111114 Hells bonds and mortgage Neettrittem to liivestor4; pay% 6 per (PO loiter i eat ott INVEs•rNtENT i'EltTIFI CATES; handles miglugs account4 1 oil 4 per vent InivMst; persomtl elteekhrg itecount4 Oven specla4 at tention; stockholder , ' in 1.%I . I y coati ty In the state null customers all over the Uniteil States. SERVICE Felt EVERY MONTAN.% f ITIZEN. •••••••••••••••••••••••• $250 REWARD Por information leading to the capture and conviction of person or persons who stole from Plowerree Sheep & Horse company's ranch ono bay horse, about 12 years old, branded F on left side of neck; 1 0 on left thigh. Also one new NIiiee City sa(Idle, silver . liorn, swell ferk. Telegraph Flowerroo Sheep & ...Horse c'o., Lowry, Montana. \Safety First\ Great Falls ft geographi cally situated to . give better service to conntry banks than any other city within the state. The First Na- - tional is the big- geet bank in north, Montana and is fully equipped - to render prompt efficient service. Your patronage Is solicited. FIRST NATIONAL BANK • Great Falls Montane. EetablIshed 188G. In no industry does fate play such strange trictics with men as in mining. The history of the quest for treas- ure in the Rocky mountains is filled with the stories of men whom for- tune has lifted in a night front pover- ty to riches undreamed, only after a few months or years of feverish pur- suit of pleasure and more riches, to cast them to the earth again, broker, men. There are some dramatic incidents in these stories. One_ of these has to do with the notorious Tabor of Colo- rado, a miner who became a million- aire over -night and bought his way into the United States Seliate. His mind was turned by his money and his principal thought was to keep in the limelight of publicity. Vain and given to dissipation, he spent money •Iike water. One monument still stapds to his today in Deliver in the old Tabor -Grand theater, in its day the finest place of its kind west of New York. The night of the opening of the Ta- bor -Grand, Tabor, who had deserted his wife, who had worked with him through days of poverty, for a . stage beauty, wits flushed with wine, as lie stalked down the aisle of the theater to his box. an aged woman hobbled along in front of MITI, obstructing his passage. Tabor roughly pushed her aside. In a voice shrill with anger the old woman cursed him and pointed a fin- ger at the handsome cuttain that screened the stage. Tabor looked and saw that the artist had depicted Back to the Earth. _ \Back to the earth again,\ she shrieked, as Tabor cowered before her. \You'll die a pauper.\ During the performance Tabor sat as one in a stupor. From that night misfortune trailed him, and within a year his riches had vansited. Soon the old woman's phopheey WRB ful- , filled and Tabor (lied without a cent. Montana mines have yielded many fortunes, the largest being those of Nlarcus Daly, William A. Clark itn(I Augustua Heinz°. These and many smaller fortunes were taken from the copper mines of Butte. From the placer mines of early days what in the aggregate constituted vast sums of gold were taken. but few individ- uals made what would be considered a great fortunecat the present day. Every noted mine in the state has had an eventful history. Stories of much interest could be written about the beginnings of quartz mining in the territory, at first in the pioneer counties of Beaverhead and Madison, and concerning such great mines as the Granite-iiimetallic in Granite county. the Cable in Deer Lodge, the Alta, Comet and Elkhorn in Jeffer- son, the Keating in Broadwater, the Seotted Horse, Kendall and Barnes - King in Fergus, the Whitlatch-Union, Penobscot and Drumlummon in Lew- is and Clark.. and many others. The hiatory of mining in Montana is a narrative of thrilling events and , teems with accounts of unusual char- ; acters. 1 In no othor industry have fortunes 1 been so suddenly ccquired cr so fre- I quently and rapidly lost. First Mcintana Millionaire. I The first. Montana mIllionaire was Jim Whitlatch. He madellis fortune front the Whitlatch-Union, a gold mine Ile discovered in the fall of 1864: The mine is at Unionville. three miles Routh of Helena, in the park between Oro Fino and Grizzly gulches; -tire forks of Last Chance gulch on which the city of Helena is situated. The thine had, a very large body of rich ore which was easily treated and yielded large quan- tities of gold to its owners before they sold it for a great sum of mon- ey to a company that took out $5,- 000,000 before the vein was lost. • Estimates of the production of the' that lie, too, wouid go to New York stripped from him and when he died, Whitlatch-Union vary greatly in where there was so much money ly- still a comparatively young man. only amount; probably it was not less ing around and show how a man of an insignificant part of the greet for - than $7 000 000 After the sale Mil- nerve and brains could take a Ile of tune he made in the mines of Mon - P a • p lionaire Jim Whitlatch with his for- it away from the boobs of Wall tana was left to his wife and young tune. estimated at not less than a mil- street. child. lion and a half dollars, hotfooted it It was the old story; he was an The Cruse Fortune. to . New York to make as much mon- easy mark who did not last long and normally strongly republican, in There were counties in the state, Thomas Cruse, lived for many ey as Vanderbilt, as he is reported to ' seon returned to Helena, his money which the McKinley electors did not years the'hard life of the prospector have said at the time. His spectacu- all gone. After unsuccessful attempts and miner before fortune smiled on get more than a corporal's guard of lar career attracted the notice of Ju- to get started again in the mining hi Oft h f lian Ralph, the noted writer. and was business in Montana he went away .. tus.zearch for treasure and at his described by him in an article pub- and was reported to have gone to , wit s end to obtain money to buy the lished in Ilarper's Magazine. Alaska on a prospecting trip. simple necessaries of life. When he Easy for Wall Street. 1'. Augustus HeInze had a meteoric' discovered what turned out to De a- \Whitlatch he says, \was a rare career in Butte, the relation of which bonanza he was without the means treat to Wall street which fattened i'Ven in outline, woutd fill a book. Ile! to develop it; but he pushed on on him and in one year let him go, was a bold, skillful and lucky mining, through his sea of disappointments with only the clothes on his back. Ile operator on a great scale, who, atter vereely. He was jeered and hooted and financial troubles and was final - returned to Montana, began prospect- seending large sums in litigation ly raised from poverty to affluence ing again and discovered a mine for , and political fights, extending over by the discovery of the Drumlummon by the miners in Butte, and narrowly which he got $250,000. He went to years, with the Amalgamated Cop-. mine and its development through escaped being mobbed a few days lat- er, when he was speaking at Cripi le Creek. Orie of the spectacular incidents of he would have expressed it.\ ' strom of high finance in New York 'derived the fortune that caused him the campaign was the decision of Broken in hopes and with a mind apparently with the determination to, to be rated as one of the richest real- Charles McClure, then at 'the head of affected by hie excesses the spectacu- ' become a kaiser among the- --- um ne Y I dente of Montana, was sold by him the RI -Metallic mines of Phillipsburg, lar career of Jim Whitlatch, the first : kings. to pay his miners in silver. The min- ' for $2,250,000. Chicago to rival Potter Palmer in lier company, finally sold out to his wealth, and returned just as he did enemy. With a fortune estimated at from New York \flat -strapped'' as $15,000,000, he entered the mael- of a long line of Montana million- His troubles soon began andl i Cruse was the exception to the rule aires, came to an end -when he killed ' he had a tumultuous ffnancial career ; before referred to. Ile held on tight - himself in San Francisco. : for the few years he lasted. He put ; • 1} - • to his money, started a bank of his A few years After Whillatch had up a strong fight against the afore- : own. made profitable investments In made his fortune another Helena : said money kings whose enmities he; lande. livestock and mines, and added man suddenly rose from poverty to i had aroused and who had determined i to his fortune every year. He Wit8 a wealth. The Penobscot. a very rich , to get him. lie was up against all familiar figure in Helena a few yeara mine in the Marysville district. made; combination of men too ntrong for , ago. but his great v ealtn did not a great fortune for Nate Vestel. An , i hint anti was charged with having seem to bring hint happiness. The uneducated man without knowledge, committed financial trregutaritles erection of the stately 'tuna beautiful of the traps that beaet the way of the? that threatened to land him in the cathedral of St. Helena was made Tuccessful miner when he get• away I penitentiary. He was, however, nev- possible by his generous contribu- from familiar grounds, Vestel i! , vided 1 er convicted; but his money v''\\ t ions. Thomas Oruse died two years ..._ __ _ ago and his remarkable career forms CROSS OF GOLD\ DAYS RECALLED SUGGESTION IS . MADE THAT SILVER MAY GO TO • PARITY, $1.20; Would Mean the Materializatiat of the dream of Free Silver Advoc.ates of 20 Years ago; When Bryan Ran for President and Split the Repub. lican Party. The total production of silver in the United States for the past 'year WAS 74 . ,414,802 ounces, of A value of $48,953,000, acc,ord- ing to figures just given out by the United States mint. Montana leads till the states in silver, with a produ.ction of $9,240,110 The nation produced gold to the value of $92,500,800, and in • gold production 'Montana stood 1 thlrd with an output of $14,328.- 1 400. 1 The phenominal rise in the price of silver, which means so much for Mon- ' tana, recalls the days of the slogan ; of the west, \the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of six\ teen to one,\ and the first presiden- tial campaign of William Jennings Bryan, which split the strength of the ; republican party of Montana. and t 'sent 80 per cent of the republicansof ; the state into the party that was or - 1 ganized to meet the emergency, the silver republicans. It watt a red hot campaign, and al- though 20 years have passed, its bleeding scars, in some places re- main. There was much •feeling over is issue, the -silver republicans sun - porting Bryan. The regular republi- cans, who voted for McKinley were branded as traitors td the state. One Of these repubticans who stood out in the open and gloried in his isola- tion, was the late Colonel Wilbur F. Sanders, who never recovered politic- ally from the effect of his loyalty to his old party of which, in former days he had been the leader. Tt required several campaigns for the republicans to forget the silver issue, and become reunited. When Roosevelt Came. timely financial aid furnished by friends. The great Drumlumrnon mine at Marysville from which Cruse COLONEL PROMS EKCOUNTER MTh WYOMING GUN There are a great many peopl , • Montana who will remember C01 J. Price of Beaverhead county, who for many years went up and down the valleys of the state selling things iu such a happy way that the pur- chaser was altvays pleased with Price even though he might have been dis- pleased with the price. Price is now one of the newly made oil magnates of the Casper, Wyomieg, country. There are thousands of people in NIontena who have read \The Virgin- ian.\ that stirring tale of cowboy life in thf old days of Wyothing. onc of the outstanding incidents of Wister's story was the mixing of the babies at a country dance by a cowboy named \Missou Hines. One mother took her darling baby boy to the dance. Another ntother took her sweet little daughter, aboet the sante age. \Missou\ changed dresses on the kiddies while their mothers we're dancing. In the hurry of the departure from the dance the change was not noticed, and the mo- ther who had taken a girl to the dance found in the morning that its sex had been changed in some nue- terious manner during the night. The whole country was aroused, and after about three days of turmoil the children were returned to the bosom of their families. How \Nilsson\ Was Spoiled. , In the meantime it had come out that \Missou\ Hines was the author of the trick, and the women of that section of the country made it so hot for the joke -loving cowboy that he was compelled to leave that section of Wyoming. About this time Owen Whiter, in Aearch of local cohn for his book, \The Virginian,\ came to Wyoming, heard the tale and incor- porated it in his story. Giving ' son\ a national reputation, and mak- ing him an individual who was al- ways pointed out to the - Tenderfoot visitor. This spoiled \Missou.\ 'From a rollicking cowboy he hecame a gunman, and hitt reputation was such that when the stockmen of Wyoming organized a force to go into the wild country around Casper, to clean out the cattle ruhtlers, \Missou\ the Mix- er rode into the north country with ; a striking chapter in the history of I Montana mining men. 1 Bell's Rise and Fall. t' I obert A. Bell never possessed as MAN' his guns blitzing. tool wrote his name large in the annals of the war that followed. Much water has rur, under •the bridge since the old gun fighting days when \Nilsson\ was winning ,his rep- utation and helping to drive out the cattle rustlers. When this feat was accomplished. \Missou\ sat himself down in the Casper country to watch the oil develop. His fame as a fight- er was such that all he had to do to tame a belligerent was to transfix him with the piercing glance of an eye that had oft -times looked over the sights of a six-shooter. The piercing process seemed to kill the desire of the fighter TO 'Wit, al- though they do Hay that \Miesou\ was sometimes inclined to overwork his nerve -killing gouge°. \Recently \Missou\ had a differ- ence with Colonel Price over an oil lease that both desired. Price has the biceps that go with 300 pound', of Montana -made man'. His muscles are as 'firm as they were 20 years ago when he took the contract, to dig the postholes for the 100 -mile fence around the Beaverhead domain of Poindexter_ii Orr. and he dug them all himself. \Missoti\ tried to trans- fix the Colonel with his withering glance the other day. The Beaver- head man, contrary to Wyoming pre- cedent, did not wither. Then Miles made a Virginian motion. Price picked him up by the shoulders and shook him so hard that three gattling guns dropped out of his pockets. This disarmed \Missou\ atid he asked a parley. Mutual friends, acting as mediators, patched up 'a peace, the honore of which were largely on the side of the Montanan. The incident has made of the Beaverhead individu- al a marked man in Casper. and has hurt the prestige of \Missou\ appre- ciably. , Death of Mrs. T. Walsh. Mrs. T. J. Walsh, wife of the sen- ion United Statee senator. died in a Baltimore hospital. following an op- eration a few days ago. Mrs. Walsh was a very estimable' lady, with i a wide acquaintance and many friends in the state, and her demise • will be the occaston of much sincere regret. e'reat a fortune as . Whitlatch br Ileinze or Cruse, but he had a large one at one time and now ha§ the ad- vantage over those who have been mentioned of Ceing alive, in good health and hopeful of again making a big strike. Bob Bell lives in Hel- ena and owns what he says are very valuable mining properties in the neighborhood of that city. His chief reliance. however, for again getting possession of a fortune rests'upon the supposed value as oil land of It large tract lie owns in the oil belt of Texas. Ile was persuaded into buying this land, it is said. during his flush Gime; by a smooth salesman; and although he may aftervvards tve regretted the purchase recent developments in that tion, if not the prediction, that the section of the country give basis for price will reach its old time parity of the hope he entertains that tit will $1.29 per ounce. bring hint another fortune. Montana Production. AB an actual produeer of silver the Anaconda ('opper Niining company the votes cast. Four years later when McKinley ran the second time. Roosevelt, then fresh from his laur- els won at San Juan hill and in the Cuban campaign, came to Montzna in the interest of his candidacy. The west always approved of Roosevelt. but the fact that he was running with McKinley, affected his popularity ad - cific mine for f450,000 and went to New York to take a fling in Wall street. He was not more lucky than Whitlateli or Veatel or Heinze. Ile did not break Wall street but Wall street broke him. Yet he Ravi he will come back, that he has mining prop- erty that may devehip into another East Pacific, and then the— is his Texas land, and you know what oil did for John D. Rockefeller! Bell made hie. fortune out of the East Pacific mine at Winston. Ile had been mining near Clancy with leads all other companies in the Unit - only fair BUCCPSH when he applied to ee States, although the total amount the ownere of the East Pacific for a lethal and bond on the mine. The East received and sold by the American Pacific was owned by men who had smelting and refining company ex - come to Montana as contractors for ceeda the former's yield. The big the construction of the Northern Pa- c y o le n l il t p a c ny r e . d i i i t o e u t1 e t v o er, t e h o e m es t) a u r in ge o n g h t e e i n m_ cific railroad. They opened up the tirely frotn ores handled on a custom mine, operated it for a while and then closed it down because of labor trou. or toll basis, at its various plants. bles and of their own engagements at scattered throughout the country. distant places. -They refused to lease or bond the mine, but astonished Bell be- saying they would sell it for $10.- 000. Even at the stage of develop- ment it wan then in its purchase aeetned a great opportunity to Bell. But Ile did not have the money, nor know where to raise it. He sold for $5,000 his interest in a mine at Clan -I per strikes in various camps. cy and tried to borrow in Helena the additional sum needed. He failed; Ile Was a Good Sheriff. then Ile mortgaged his dwelling Duke Gist was formerly sheriff of house - and, after many disappoint -4 eld Beaverhead county. Also he is merits, got together $10.000 and, a good American. The other day in bought the mine. With further de- the Big Hole basin an I. W. W. made velopment It proved a wonder. Bell an insulting remark about Old Glory. got rich quickly, sold the East Pa- Two blows were struck, one when Duke struck the Wobbly and the oth- er when the Wobblie struck the ground. There Was.no further con- versation . : era, loyal to the white metal which was their bread winner, received the innovation joyously, and silver dol- lars were actually freighted into Phil- ipsburg to pay off the miners. On pay days the paymaster had to comman- deer the services of several robust miners to help him handle the thous- ands of dollars in silver money to take carnet the miners* pay. Good News for Montana. Montana welcomes the tall figures as they relate to silver, and the high- er, the pricea will go the more the people of the state will like R. It means the reopening of many fine silver properties that have been idle for many years. The price of silver is close to 90 centn. the highest It hat been since 1880. In that year the av- erage price quoted was 88 cents and six mills per ounce, while in 1876 it WWI. on an average 96 cents and four mills, so recent New York quotations on the white metal are higher than they have been for 37 yeare. Mining men say that the silver mines of the west are on the eve of the greatest boom in their history; there is development work In proper- ties that have been idle for years. The purpose is to extract all the sil- ver possible, for the operators have reason to believe that the price will go to a dollar within the next year. There may be warrant for the sugges- The silver produced by the Anacon- da company comes largely from the copper oree of Butte. which have el- waya carried high values in silver as well as some gold. It is estimated that 3.000,000 ounces will be cut from the United States yield as the result of the cop - His Motto The slick con man knows no mein& And he said to me: \My son, Better be Up and doing, Than be down and being done.\ ' ••••
