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..f2CUUA,a.rneilrn Pfi .1Loh Monta011. August 4, 1903. 14 '41; 777, BOK IS THE WICKEDEST The Arizona Copper Camp is a Hof Ntirubet. Scenes that gel Id Days eA , the Raw and' West. 1 --A Camp with' i PaTr011. t . , A generation ago Bodie, Cal., was kuown as the wifileetellest town in the United Statee. lt eisetinged three men for breakfast. a week fee two years. Then Dodge City took the palm for cuss- edness. Later there was Tombstone, with its 168 saloone ang . deizene of gam- bling houses, hi a poptilatiOn of 6000. Nowadays there is no dispute that Jer- ome, Arif tk, i t i t r liy,?s , i9kedest town in America. There n'ci'inore et ran4ely sit - tutted town in the country • than Jerome. Long before the traveler on the crooked - eat railroad on the continent readies its eastern terminus the town of Jerome may be seen, plaste:ed, as it were, against the eastern slope of a bleak and desolate mountain. A great cloLd of sulphurous fumes from the enormons smelter always hangs over the t fele Away above the cloud, • some 7000 feet, one may see the peaks of the mountains. From any vantage point in Jerome one may look to the horizon in any direction and an immeuse landecape of desolate mountains, rising one above another, chains the brown hills, sterile valleys, stupendous crags and it measureless area of dun and yel- low desert wastes greet the eye. Am far as the eye can range not it green thing in nature may be seen. Yet there is scarcely any community where the per capita income is larger than in Jer- ome. Some 800 men are employed in the United Verdi wines and coppei smelters. •e s .The weekly payroll ranges from $17,- 000 to $20,000 and 80 pAp cent of it is quickly spent in tIi Ii tie town. The streets of Jerome run up and down the steep mountain. The mines tire farther up the mountain. While there are a few neat, home -like cottages, the town is largely made up of pi imitive, rough board structures, houses %flit canvas sides and shingle robfs and cloth parti- tions. Along the east side. of Main street there was, until the recent fire, a row of big hemlock and pine buildings inter- spersed with tents and board floors, and here were pioneer st re, saloons, dance halls, Chinese restaurants, lottery Itemises and east) houses. \Up bete,\ sail man waving his hand toward the cot- tages scattered over the bleak upper mountain Fide, where decent folk live, but there in Main street is where other folk live at night and share the money's made. Oh, this is the hottest camp in the territory.\ The bleats of 'the steam whietlee at the United Verdi mines mark the beginning of each chapter in the life of lerome. Presently squads of stalwart men come out of the mining tunnels and up from the ehafte, hasten for home or lodging houses, while a small army Of grimy - faced men issues forth from the smelters. The narrow streets which climb up and down the mountain side are congested with noisy miners, and all the eating houses are soon thronged with hungry patrons. By the time the lamps are lighted and the moon is rising over the San Francisco peaks the new chapter in the life okjerome is well under way. night shift of bartenders and gam- blers in the saloons have come on duty, the dancing women are decked in their most fetching finery, the paid musicians have tuned no, and the storekeepers are 3. ready for businese. The saloons are crowded with men and women by eight o'clock. The faro deniers have got out their stacks of chips and coin and have seated themselvea for the night; the poker men have their tables ready for the players; the roulette croupiers are turning the is heels and calling the people to come and woo the Goddess of Fortune, awl the raps men are noieily announcing the result of each throw. The banjo, accordion, piano Aid violin players are in their places ready for their nightly round of music. Th3 young womesi who are hired to keep up the receipts are making friends with the men who have money and like strong drink. From sunset to sunup the seamy side of Jelome booms. The thoroughfares are alive with men from early evening till midni ti lit. The dance hall herders keep the floors of the halls covered with dancers, and the barkeepers lose ito chance to sell drinks to anyone. Every night there is a drunken row of some sort. Gambling, drinks and wo- men cause such dieturbiinces. Once in a a bile the brawl results in a gull play or a stabbing, but this is only occasion- ally, tor Jerome with all its wild ways is singularly free from bloodshed. With the early tinting of the sky over the mountain peaks to the east there comes a rapid decline of the night's rev- elry. The saloons and dives empty of the men and women who have lingered there. The professional gamblers cash up their chips, fill their CalIVAS sacks and quit. The night shift of bartenders count their cash and make ready to turn the money and bar over to the day shift. Presently the stores open and the sweep- ers tool furbishers of the saloons come sleepily forth. An army of men comes down the hillside from the mines and smelters. The 7 o'clock whistle blows and sober men are once more at their toil. “GET HEALTHY -QUICK\ CURES. Auserioams Mahe Their Annual Pil- grimage, to European Se n I tar lame. And now the steamers are bearing away hundreds of Americans to the \get -healthy -quick\ concerns' ef Eu- rope, says Collier's Weekly. Some will go on starving diets, otheis on stuffing diets; some will drink vast quantities of water, others vast quantities of milk; some will take the \perfect -pest\ cures, others the \incessant -exercise\ cures. And all will be vastly improved in appearance and will leave their re- spe2tive \get -healthy -quick\ concerns without a grudging thought about It e money they have been relieied cf by the hordes of bandits that rum \cut es.\ The time is not yet, bnt neither is it far distant, when cynicism will get a bearing on this matter of \cures.\ In days of old a robber went forth to rcb. Nowadays, a robber of the first class has his open habitat precisely like the honest citizen and remains in it and hangs out a sign and has great diffi- culty in attending to the throngs that pour in to beg him to relieve them of their goods. He is usually keeping either a \get -rich -quick\ concern or a \get-Lealthy-qu:ck\ concern. At 13,,t - torn the two industries are the nr.e. f tie,y rest rock -founded upon the uni- versal ,eelitriot that something con be got for nothing. A man whoilisie ob- vioualy atesed his htalth for le weEk3 of the year does well to devote the re- making six weeks to ifitelligent re- pentance for hie physical sins. But he Is not \as wood as new\ , again, and if the \cure\ has wrought any benefif be- yond what fresh air, sensible eat.ing and regularity vvill effect any where, it has wrought it at the eliper.se of his vitality . . Further, instead f having set him in the way of permanent good behavior, the \cure\ has encouraged him to think he can do as he phases and can always return to find the health of youth again. What with ils \pan) killers\ that strangle the kindly if C711t 1 warnings against t:::CEEI , its \el:rts\ ant lull to vi -en the pi vd- C 1 u b 'S a 1 o . o GLINOAN 41k HAMILTON, Proprietors M'IC1NLEr .41; . .ENUE, KEN'DvILL High Grade vte Cigars TRY OUR Cedar Brook Hunter's Bourbon Rye TANA 1 44 16 r R WARE 'Trade MPANY' Lewisthwn Montana - We have on hand and can fill your orders for MINING SUPPLIES, ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES, PROSPECTING OUTFITS In fact everything needed for mining and pros- pecting EXCEPT THE (\UNE Now is the time to beautify your home. Nature is putting a new dress on rlother earth and you should put a new coat of Paint on Your House inside and out. The Montana Hardware Company has a complete line of Devoe's Ready -Mixed Paints that are guaranteed. DON'T buy cheap paints, but send your mail orders to the MONTANA HARDWARE COMPANY and get the best. We also have a Complete Line of Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Steel Ranges, Cooking Stoves, Woven Wire Fencing, Poultry Netting and all other spring goods Screen Doors, Garden Seeds, Lawn Grass Seeds Call in or send your orders by the Kendall Stage Company Montana Hardware Company Telephone sa tni re i ti e * *Kt When in Lewistown Call on Montana Lumber Company Mail Orders Promptly Attended to Everything in the Lumber, Sash, Door and Moulding Line Largest Retail Stock in Montana. Prices Reasonab us a call. Telephone 77 * ence begot of melancholy experierces with bad health, the medical prefes- don seems to be In a fair way to de- serve the worst its critics within tie well as without its ranks are saying of it. The - Composite Filipino. Ethnologists of the Smithsonian in. stitution have investigated the Fil- ipinos, with results that ace of rare Interest to sciefice, says the Scieni.fle American. They have called attention to the fact that in the veins of the tribes of the archipelago flows the blood of all the races and varieties of mankind. Kendall and Confectionery B akery Store cL.4USEN Proprietor Bread, Pies and Cakes Fresh Every Day \ Candies, Tobaccoes and Cigars, Very Choke Local Agent lot Kendall Stages
