Marcus Daly, Orin Onibmgrant

e THE EKALAKA EAGLE WOMAN INFORMS);MONTANA'S FORST CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY FORTUNE AWAITS PEN FOR LOVER SON OF MONTAN ORIN ONIBMGRANT LAD SEVEN MILLIONS ESTIMA SWEET- DALY, LOO'rEB BANK FOR WAS [MARCUS VALUE OF HERITAGE PHIL- HEART WHO INFORMED ON HALF CASTE. Hills IPPINE $ HIM FOR REWARD few days ago occurred the Bars and twenty-fifth anniversary of Then follows names of -placer Father Went to Islands as Soldier Of Tale of John D. Sykes, Who Was the death of Marcus Daly, workers and their production, such Montana Volunteers; Married mad Sad pros- Caught in the Sun River Country father of the copper mining in- as: "Last Chance, average Died There; Meantime 011 Struck Bar, a Short Time Ago, a Fugitive from dustry in Montana. He came to' pect, per pan 10 cents. Iowa on His Land. Justice. this country in his early youth, average pan, 3 cents. Sage Bruch alone, an Irish lad, and fought for 5 cents. Deep Bar, 1 to 3 cents," Press dispatches to the effect that pan Oregano Velasquez Carmichael, 18, "Arms and the man—" so be- his livelihood on the streets of New while "Short Bar" is credited with heir to a ;7,000,000 estate in Okla- gins an ancient classic. This is a York City. He died an empire having produced 10 cents per pan. homa, had been located in an inland tale of arms and the man, dice and builder, master of a great industry. boast was in its village in the Philippine islands, has the woman. The district's served to revive memories in the Ile was the direct cause of a dis- ditches for washing gold. The total It is a tale that begins in a little wages minds of several Spanish-Americau coast city of North Carolina, leads bursement in Montana in cost of ditches had reached the war veterans in Butte. to the wilderness of Sun river can- paid to miners alone, of more than sum of $106,000. The number of Gregario Velasquez Carmichael is yon in the Montana Rockies and $50,000,000, the ransom of a state. gulches in which gold might be the son of Dugal Carmichael, who peni- ends in a cell of the federal' Some achievement for an untaught found was 40, the number of bars died several years ago in the Philip- tentiary at Atlanta, Ga. came to the United pines, unaware that the barren lands youth, who and hills 18. The gulch claims Oklahoma years John D. Sykes, Jr., was the son almost barefoot, and no won- he had inherited in of an old southern family—a fam- States staked numbered 781 while the bar before bore vast oil deposits. ily like many others in North Caro- der that the youth of the old world and hill claims numbered 226, mak- Dugal Carmichael, at the outbreak lina, neither rich nor poor, but cul- dream of this land as a place just ing a total of 1,007 claims in all. of the Spanish-American war, volun- tured and highly respectable. He this side of Paradise. The placers are worked out, teered his services. Thus it was that was born in Elizabeth City and men been Butte men came to know him, for he lived there all his life until Amer- It has been said that great many of the gulches have enlisted from Butte as a member of ica entered the war. Then he en- of every nation become myths in filled and now do duty as city company F, First Montana volun- listed in the navy. two centuries, by reason of their streets. The bars have lost their teers. While in the service, John was just elevation into a sort of saints' cal- identity. He went to the Philippines weher sailor as At the close of the about the same sort of a endar, through the too lavish The silver mines that came into he "did his bit." thousands of others. He drank a lit- admirers who, in troUble, like many another venture- tle, but like any southern gentleman, praise of their being with the discovery of ore on some soldier, he had come to love carried his liquor well. He learned their eagerness to do justice to their the Travona claim just west of the land of palms and decided to how to "shoot craps"—and that was idol, depict him as a sort of superi- received a body stay on the islands. So it was ha Montana streea and reared about the only bad habit he took out man. blow with the repeal of the Sher- married a native woman of the navy with him. Marcus long a family. The achievements of man act and Butte might have Unknown to him, the land back in Honorable War Record .affectionate regard of the When the armistice came, John Daly and the since passed into the ranks Oklahoma, which he had thought was discharged from the navy with in which he is held by those who ghost cities along with dozens of worthless, proved to be a veritable an honorable record. He went back knew him well, might readily lend other once thriving western min- store of wealth. Oil was discovered to his family in the little Carolina a on his place. His land was worth themselves to the creation of ing towns, were it not for that of dollars. Then started the city. He was feted by the townsfolk. a man Com- millions The president of the National & Citi- Daly myth. In dealing with hard-headed miner from the task of locating the owner—if not zens' bank greeted him, then offered who has left a profound impress stock, who, by the force of his per- him, then his heirs. him a job as teller in the bank. John of his personality on a comwon- sonality, and his past record as a His record as a soldier was looked accepted. wealth of the magnitude anrim- miner, kept his associates tied to up. It was learned he had enlisted in Montana volunteers. In an effort For a while he was a model em- portance of Montana, it is well to the task of finding a mine that the ploye of the bank. He was paid only to secure some trace of him, the at- $20 a month to start, but later his confine oneself to historical facts. would last on the Anaconda hill. torneys in charge of the quest re- pay was increased to $85 a month. When it was proposed to erect Birth of Comnanies cently communicated with W. R. Van It was a modest sum, but John was the monument of bronze to his Orden, a detective on the Butte police It has ben said that Daly took the heads of single and lived with his parent's, so memory, where if now stands, in force 'and also one of needs were few. hold of the Alice in 1876. The Alice the United Spanish War Veterans of his front of the federal building in Then he began to gamble—first Mining company was incor- Butte. ex- Gold with his own money, later with Butte, there were men who porated in Feb., 1878, and reorgan- Mr. Van Orden, as did many of money belonging to the bank. Be- claimed harshly, to hide the tears This prop- the other veterans from Butte, re- fore he realized it, he had lost $5,000 ized December 1879. membered the man, but could give that crpt into their voice, "Daly the United States as a penniless of the bank's money. erty which had been bought 'for Marcus Daly, who came from Ireland to no information regarding his where- needs no statute. His monuments who became the father of the copper milling industry in Montana. He started a chicken farm with $25,000 in 1876 had under Daly's boy, and abouts. All they knew was that he over Butte hill in The twenty-fifth anniversary of his death occurred a few days ago, .more of the bank's money, hoping in are scattered the management soon reached a point had received his discharge in the that way to recoup the money lost. the homes he builded for the wid- where it was capitalized at $10,- Philippines and had married a native The chicken farm was not a success. ows and orphans of Butte." means, backed Daly's judgment pany had a plant at Baltimore. woman. 000,000 and had up to 1884 paid members of Then came the bank examiners. In the political life of the state he through thick and thin, kept a They sent a representative to Butte Among the former up the situation hurried- dividends amounting to $550,000. company F, First Montana volun- John sized ranked as the most powerful non- friendly eye on the growth of the with the result that a smelter Site Mr. ly, and decided to kill himself. But It was the first Butte stock to teers, in Butte, who recalled his time In and was a frequent visit- was obtained in 1879. Daly had was Frank Ottis, now he thought of the suffering that office-holder citizen of be placed on the New York property, Carmichael, Hearst and Tevis raised the. output of the Anaconda living at 2006 Phillips avenue. Like would bring to his parents. So he industrial matters he set the pace— The producing miningstockboard. or to this state. stole $19,000 more of the bank's during his lifetime Montana la- old timers say, were never seen in to 500 tons a day.

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