e THE EKALAKA EAGLE WOMAN INFORMS);'S FORST CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY FORTUNE AWAITS PEN FOR LOVER SON OF MONTAN LOO'rEB BANK FOR SWEET- WAS [, ORIN ONIBMGRANT LAD SEVEN MILLIONS ESTIMA HEART WHO INFORMED ON VALUE OF HERITAGE PHIL- HIM FOR REWARD few days ago occurred the Bars and Hills IPPINE HALF CASTE. twenty-fifth anniversary of Then follows names of -placer $ Sad Tale of John D. Sykes, Who Was the death of Marcus Daly, workers and their production, such Father Went to Islands as Soldier Of Caught in the Sun River Country father of the copper in- as: "Last Chance, average pros- Montana Volunteers; Married mad a Short Time Ago, a Fugitive from dustry in Montana. He came to' pect, per pan 10 cents. Iowa Bar, Died There; Meantime 011 Struck Justice. this country in his early youth, average pan, 3 cents. Sage Bruch on His Land. alone, an Irish lad, and fought for pan 5 cents. Deep cents," "Arms Bar, 1 to 3 Press and the man—" so be- his livelihood on the streets of New while "Short Bar" is credited with dispatches to the effect that gins an ancient classic. This is a York City. Oregano Velasquez Carmichael, 18, tale of arms He died an empire having produced 10 cents per pan. heir to a ;7,000,000 estate in and the man, dice and builder, master Okla- the woman. of a great industry. The district's boast was in its homa, had been located in an inland Ile was the direct cause of a dis- village in the Philippine islands, has It is a tale that begins in a little ditches for washing . The total served coast city of North Carolina, leads bursement in Montana in wages to revive memories in the cost of ditches had reached the minds of several Spanish-Americau to the wilderness of Sun river can- paid to miners alone, of more than sum of $106,000. The number of war veterans in Butte. yon in the Montana Rockies and $50,000,000, the ransom of a state. ends in a cell of the federal' peni- gulches in which gold might be Gregario Velasquez Carmichael is Some achievement for an untaught tentiary at Atlanta, Ga. found was 40, the number of bars the son of Dugal Carmichael, who youth, died several years ago in Philip- John D. Sykes, Jr., was the son who came to the United the and hills 18. The gulch claims pines, unaware that the barren lands of an old southern family—a fam- States almost barefoot, and no won- staked numbered 781 while the bar he had inherited in Oklahoma years ily like many others in North Caro- der that the youth of the old world and hill claims numbered 226, mak- before bore vast oil deposits. lina, neither rich nor poor, but cul- dream of this land as a place just tured ing a total of all. Dugal Carmichael, at the outbreak and highly respectable. He this side of Paradise. 1,007 claims in was born in Elizabeth City and The placers are worked out, of the Spanish-American war, volun- lived there all his life until Amer- It has been said that great men many of the gulches have been teered his services. Thus it was that ica entered the war. Then he en- of every nation become myths in Butte men came to know him, for he listed in the navy. filled and now do duty as city enlisted from Butte as a member of two centuries, by reason of their streets. The bars have lost their company F, First Montana volun- While in the service, John was just elevation into a sort of saints' cal- teers. about the same sort of a sailor as identity. endar, through the too lavish He went to the Philippines weher thousands of others. He drank a lit- The silver mines that came into tle, but like any southern gentleman, praise of their admirers who, in he "did his bit." At the close of the being with the discovery of ore on troUble, carried his liquor well. He learned their eagerness like many another venture- to do justice to their some soldier, how to "shoot craps"—and that was the Travona claim just west of he had come to love idol, depict him as a sort of superi- the land about the only bad habit he took out Montana streea received a body of palms and decided to man. stay on the islands. of the navy with him. blow with the repeal of the Sher- So it was ha The married a native woman and reared Honorable War Record achievements of Marcus man act and Butte might have long a family. When the Daly and the .affectionate regard armistice came, John since passed into the ranks of the Unknown to him, the land back in was discharged from the navy with in which he is held by those who ghost cities along Oklahoma, which he had thought an honorable record. He with dozens of went back knew him well, might readily lend other once thriving min- worthless, proved to be a veritable to his family in the little Carolina store of wealth. city. themselves to the creation of a Oil was discovered He was feted by the townsfolk. ing towns, were it not for that on his place. His land The president Daly myth. was worth of the National & Citi- In dealing with a man hard-headed miner from the Com- millions of dollars. zens' Then started the bank greeted him, then offered who has left a profound impress task of locating him stock, who, by the force of his per- the owner—if not a job as teller in the bank. John of his personality him, then his accepted. on a comwon- sonality, and his past record as a heirs. wealth of the magnitude anrim- His record as a soldier was looked For a while he was a miner, kept his associates tied to model em- up. It was learned he had enlisted in ploye of the bank. He was paid portance of Montana, it is well to only the task of finding a mine that the Montana volunteers. In an effort $20 a month to start, but later confine oneself to historical his facts. would last on the Anaconda hill. to secure some trace of him, the pay was increased to $85 a month. at- When it was proposed to erect torneys in charge of the quest It was a modest sum, but John was Birth of Comnanies re- the monument of bronze to his cently communicated with W. R. Van single and lived with his parent's, so It has ben said that Daly took his needs were few. memory, where if now stands, in Orden, a detective on the Butte police hold of the Alice in force 'and also one of the heads of Then front of the federal building in 1876. The Alice he began to gamble—first Gold Mining company was incor- the United Spanish War Veterans of with his own money, later with Butte, there were men who ex- Butte. money belonging to the bank. Be- claimed harshly, to hide the tears porated in Feb., 1878, and reorgan- fore he realized it, he had lost $5,000 ized December 1879. This prop- Mr. Van Orden, as did many of of the bank's money. that crpt into their voice, "Daly the other veterans from Butte, re- erty which had been bought 'for Marcus Daly, who came membered the man, but could give He started chicken needs no statute. His monuments from Ireland to the as a penniless a farm with $25,000 in 1876 boy, and who became the no information regarding his where- .more of the bank's money, are scattered over the Butte hill had under Daly's father of the copper milling industry in Montana. hoping in in The twenty-fifth anniversary abouts. All they knew was that that way to recoup the management soon reached a point of his death occurred a few days ago, he money lost. the homes he builded for the wid- had received his discharge in the The chicken farm was not a success. where it was ows and orphans of Butte." capitalized at $10,- Philippines and had married a native Then came the means, backed Daly's judgment pany had a plant bank examiners. In the political life of the state he 000,000 and had up to 1884 paid at Baltimore. woman. John sized up the situation hurried- through thick and thin, kept a They sent a ranked as the most powerful non dividends amounting to $550,000. representative to Butte Among the former members of ly, and decided to kill himself. But - friendly eye on the growth with company F, First Montana volun- he It was the first Butte stock to of the the result that a smelter Site thought of the suffering that office-holder citizen of his time In teers, in Butte, who recalled Mr. would be placed on the property, and was a frequent visit- was obtained in 1879. Daly had bring to his parents. So he industrial matters he set the Carmichael, was Frank Ottis, now stole pace— or to this state. Hearst $19,000 more of the bank's The producing miningstockboard. and Tevis raised the. output of the Anaconda living at 2006 Phillips avenue. money and during his lifetime Montana la- Like 0 and started for the wilds of companies of Butte old timers say, were never seen in to 500 tons a day. lie had erected other members of the company. the Rockies. bor ranked as the highest paid, and post-dated ;he Mr. taking over the Alice by Martus this district. a smelter—the Upper Works in Ottis knew nothing of Carmichael's John came to Great Falls. Here the best treated, in the world. past. The first Daly, The Colusa was incorporat- Haggin, Daly's Friend Anaconda. The plant was becom- time they became ac- he heard of the isolated Sun river When this plain, unaffected, quainted with the man was when he canyon, ax d sifsided upon that loca- ed in, 1879, the Moultpn ing too small for the mine output modest miner visited New York he 1884„khe Harry Gallwey, who enjoyed the I enlisted and became a member of tion for his hiding place. He bought Lexington in 1883, the Original friendship and the Lower Woilcs followed in company F. a cabin, equipped was sought out by the great and the confidence of it with a big store indus- Mining company in 1880, the 1889. Meanwhile he had built thel None of the other members of the of provisions, and lived the life of a trial chieftains of Silver Marcus Daly from boyhood days in company the east and the Bow Mining and Milling B. A. and P. railroad from Butte in Butte knew where he hermit. financiers of the company the Comstock region, once related Idarmeottfiromh. It was the opinion of nation's metropo- in 1881, the Mountain to Anaconda, added to his mineral 1 Later a woman from his home city lis listened to him Con in 1881, a story as told him by Daly in con- 8. owever, that Carmichael joined him. She with respect and the holdings, acquired was known as Mrs. deference. Amy and Silversmith in 1881 nection with Haggin's loyal sup- ranch property,'caMe to Butte for the express pur- Panilpa in Elizabeth City. John, and the Colorado Smelting and port. built irrigating ditches, encouraged pose of enlisting and had not worked who called himself Dave Simpson Marcus Daly came to Montana in stock In the city previous to that time. after his arrival Mining company in 1883. The Anaconda company had raising, bred fast horses, es- in the Sun river 1876, so the story runs, as repre- tablished a The search, however, was kept up country, introduced her to his few There were properties owned by been wrestling with the problem newspaper, founded with the result that the young son friends there as sentative of the Waler Bros. of banks, Mrs. Simpson. individuals on which work had of smelting copper. A plapt was platted townsites, and found was located in an inland village in Salt Lake, who had bought thee the islands, What the dice started the woman been done beyond the silver erected and found wanting. Copper time and inclination to assist his living in a hut to which finished. She grew restless in the Alic mine, $25,000. The claim area, the Filipinos of humble circum- had but although copper was smelting so far as refractory ores less fortunate friends in their strug- mountain retreat. John was friend- been located, according to Gen. C. found, the stances .are accustomed. ly with the girls who came in difficulties of were concerned, was a gle for a recompense. to the S. Warren, by Rolla Butcher, treatment prevented new industry mountains on camping expeditions Jan. developments. Experiments were expensive. In 1899 the Amalgamated was Writes Will on Collar. and perhaps 2, 1875. Joseph R. Walker the woman who posed of Salt formed by a Tearing of his linen collar while as his wife became In 1884, John B. Read, in writing At a meeting of the stockholders consolidation of the jealous. Anyway, Lake made the purchase early in lying under his overturned automo- disagreements finally of the the matter Anaconda Company, the Parrot, led to violent the fall of 1876 and at development of Butte, refers of further expenditures bile recently, suffering from injuries quarrels and the woman's once com- Trenton, Butte and abrupt de- to Clark's Colusa, purchased by W. was discussed. Tevis urged a stock Boston, and the that later proved fatal, Hugo Fullterr parture, bent upon revenge. Back menced the promotion of "The Al- A. Clark assessment. Boston and Montana companies. 45, a rancher, wrote him in the old home town she found that ice Gold and Silver Mining in 1872, and says: "In Daly protested that com- The Amalgamated will on the bit of cloth and also $1,000 had been offered for Sykes' 1872 W. A. Clark sank a shaft on it his funds were exhausted and he also purchased a pany." last message saying that he believed' arrest. She told the authorities where about 50ft. deep could not meet to control of the Washoe Smelting A printed in and shipped a car a stock levy. Tevis himself responsible for the accident. he could be found and claimed the of ore company and the Colorado Mining 1884 says: "There was erected a to Baltimore for treatment. replied that in such case the only money. The ore alternative and Smelting company. Writes to Friends 20-stamp mill, which, in the month was hauled in wagons to would be to sell Daly Corinne out. Daly and his aiecciates, from the lips of those who knew 4 Letters from Sykes to former ac- of December, 1877, commenced and although containing it was to announced, Marcus Daly when he was in the quaintances in the Sun river country reduce ores. The mine is under 35 per cent copper, the excessive Haggin, who }lad sat silent,. in- had disposed of their tell of his imprisonment entire heyday of his life. and pay- the superintendence of Marcus transportation charges prevented terrupted. He drew a check book interest in Butte mine3 and ment of the reward to the woman. further working before him the Anaconda smelter After receiving Daly, who graduated in the Com- of the mine at that and n busily to to the new it, she left for parts time. In sign the company. But unknown and is still missing. stock, and who is undoubtedly the 1882 work was resumed." checks int blank. When the name and the A NEW OIL LAMP FREE Agents of the surety company While looking after the develop- he had signed all of them he tossed influence of Marcus Daly was too ablest mining superintendent in Burns 94% which made good the embezzled Montana." ment of the Alice mine, which was the checkbook to Daly with the valuable an asset to be parted With Air. sums of money came to Great Falls. easily the leading remark, "Here, Mark, lightly. He was induced E. P. Johnson, 609 W. Lake HI, Here they found the local police Such was the tribute of his con- mine of the Butte if you are to remain Chicago, Ill., the inventor at district broke, I'm as a large stockholder. of a won- work on the case, from clues picked temporaries even at that early day. at that time, Mr. Daly had not. You have always derful new oil lamp that burns 94 up Discussing per cent here. When the "clock in the chamber acquired a third interest in the An- stood by me, I am going to stand this return to the air and beats gas or electric- On June 26 last, Sykes was ar- aconda mine. by you. Take that check book and mining field a short while after- ity, is offering to give one free to the of the Omnipotent" toiled the fatal first user in rested at Klick's camp in the Sun pay your assessments with wards, he said. using the language each locality who will river hour and Marcus Daly, with per- In the, venture , it as help introduce it. Write country. The arresting offi- long of the frontier: "I him for par- cers had been disguised as fisher- haps a little sigh of and J. B. Haggin were as I have a dollar in the bank." was ready to ticulars. Agents wanted. relief, laid pack my men. They found that Sykes had down the many and heavy burdens his associates. George Hearst was In 1881 the Anaconda Silver blankets, feeling that made a fortress of his cabin — 16 of a life not born to. the purple, Mining company, as it was then Montana had been very good to me guns, a quantity of ammunition and life crammed full of action, nor was regret at his Tevis nor Haggin. Like called leased the Dexter mill and and here I find myself into it again $600 worth of provisions were found death and admiration Marcus deeper there. of his marvelous talents Daly they were all men who had treated 8,000 tons of oxidized silver than ever." And then he were ex- ore died. John Sykes admitted his guilt pressed by public men and in the builded their own fortunes. from its properties. when confronted by the While the grizzled old giant officers. daily press of the whole nation. George Hearst had been a Stout's history of Montana says: of "In the navy I learned to shoot pros- the mining world lay on These estimates were based on pector accustomed to mixing The outlook was so discouraging his death dice," he said after he was brought his bed in the Amsterdam hotel in to Great Falls. "I hope I never see his achievements during a quarter own sour dough, that Daly's partners might have New frying his own York the entire state another pair of dice as long as I live. of a century of endeavor in Mon- bacon and splitting his pack abandoned the Anaconda bonanza was under Dice caused my troubles." with a the tension of suspense. tana—and with one accord they burro as he tramped the had it not been for his insistance When the The woman who been hills of end was announced, had Sykes' rang in sympathy with the senti- California and and confidence. His belief that even the men companion was paid $1,000 reward . who had fought him politically for his ment expressed by that early-day Fortune they would' strike copper rich in and capture. She has left Eliza- had smiled on him. Ile industrially, heaved a beth City and her present where- historian who dubbed him as had struck it silver, was justified when at a sigh of regret the rich. Daly's acquaint- at his passing and spoke abouts are unknown. ablest man in the state in his line. ance with Hearst depth of 300 feet, a cut was run in praise A few days ago Sykes was sent dated from the of his virtues. to When "Old Marcus," as he was old Comstock days. across the main shaft and laid bare the federal penitentiary at Atlanta a Nor were the words of com- to serve from one to three years. affectionately called by the miners Haggin was an argonaut. vein of copper glance five feet When mendation confined to the locality on the hill went to Silver Bow he landed in he was in thickness. Los Angeles.—Robert or to the state where he McGee, dep- county the mining annals of the quite happy to accept a position While Daly was bringing copper had la-, uty sheriff, was shot and killed by a as bored. His life and deeds were state had been chiefly placer rec- clerk of the district production to the front, silver min- re- burglar whom he surprised in the act court at the viewed by the newspapers all over of ransacking a residence, and a pat- ords. An early register says: "The organization of the ing in Butte was dying. first judicial the country. And the subject of it rolman who came to his assistance. hills and bars of Silver Bow county district in California. In after Dr. Walter H. Weed, was slightly in discuss- all was a plain hard-working citi- wounded.' A young wo- discovered, but not worked, up to years he often spoke ing the man whe jumped from an upper win- of how much decline of silver milling in zen who came, an inexperienced 1869 and to which water was only the salary this dow of the house when the shooting of that position meant district, says: "The period of Irish lad, from County Cavan, an began, was captured supplied in 1870 are to and held for in- named in the him in those days. active silver mining continued up to immigrant without money, position vestigation. following list:" Lloyd Tevis was admitted to 1893, When, in common with other or pull, and who owed the proud practice law in the California silver producers, the Butte mines eminence he attained level were to a courts. He and Haggin became prostrated by the decline in head, an active mind, and close men financial the ap- of importance long price of silver." plication to the task in hand. To )6• rich. When Marcus Daly arrived in these attributes may be added that While Hearst formed the con- Butte there was no smelting plant of a nature who could love, and For years the complete necting link between Daly and in the entire West and the ores likewise hate, with all the vigor milk supply in of Montana Haggin, and was himself a miner, produced by the Anaconda com- a. strong man. "He fought his Homes. SCHOOL the Anaconda mine owes its de- pany later were shipped to Swan- enemies and stood Order from your grocer. by his friends PEANUT BUTTPRI(FilORV+. '1 INTEV'PEP.? 47'1 jifr"--( .'-- velopment to Daly and Haggin, sea, Wales. through thick and thin," was who the had become a man of large The Boston and Colorado corn- estimate most frequently heard