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4 .14 TTTE AXACOXDA STANDARD: SUNDAY MORXIXG, AUGUST 19, 1906. WALSH QUARRY H-AS BEST QUALITY BUILDING STONE J'X fit? i "i i 4 1N the granite that is in sight tt the quarries. The owner is James WelcV who gives personal supervision to the cutting of -the granite blocks and the removal of the blocks to the place where they are to be used for foundations. Mr. Welch is the best equipped contractor in the state, for all kinds of cut stone work.

He is fully supplied with pneumatic tools, surfaces, rock crushers, polishers and steam derricks. One crusher is in his equipment which has a crushing capacity of 300 a day. CHARMED BY SIDE SHOW KIDS ARE GLASS EATERS "'Omaha, Aug. 18. Dr.

and Mrs. H'ch gentlemen, and see the human glass eater." That is the way Superintendent Ed Brown of Miami children's will be able to "bark" now, for he has the original 7-year-old glass eater at his institution, little Charlie Lowe. Mr. Brown wasat the courthouse today, and said that when his boys went to a circus again he'd have to have a guardian for each one, as they insist on doing every stunt they saw in the circus. A short time since all the boys and girls went to the Casino to see Colonel Mackey's show.

They saw everything, even to the. side show, and since then have had a-circus every day. One of the youngsters got a garter snake, and did snake charming feats, such as putting it down the backs of unsuspecting girls and terrifying his teachers. There has been all sorts of tumbling and bareback racts until Brown feared the kids -would break their necks. The' climax came yesterday, When Charlie Lowe was discovered eating glass.

had seen the side show man do the interesting stunt, so he and little; Dannie Damon, also but-7 years old, broke up a bottle, and while Dannie did the act in front of an imaginary tent, Charlie ate the glass with an evident relish. Then Charlie took his place in front of the tent and used his voice, while -Dannie ate a lot of cotton, just the same as the man in the side show did it. The boys were quickly taken to the hospital and an examination made, but so far no 111 effects are noticeable. A stomach pump has been used, but the unusual food seems to have been assimilated in the cast-iron stomacha. If any trouble is noticeable the X-rajr machine will be used, and the boys ar being watched carefully.

TRUE. Persistency thou art a Jewel; A man will find it pays he Will always win If he persists But not in being lazy. Milwaukee Sentinel. 1 depth. Above that, and still below the.

street level, will be another floor Where the machinery will be installed. The foundation stone for the viaducts now in course of construction over the Butte, Anaconda Pacific tracks at Nevada avenue is also being supplied from the Welch quarry. The same stone is used in the foundations of many other important building operations of Butte and other cities. The spur is a romantic spot. For everything connected with the Custer battle, and he made up his mind that he would paint it some day.

The picture Is full canvas size, 7x10 feet, and it is undoubtedly a great work of art. WBen it was exhibited in the East old hardened soldiers stood before it and wept, co vividly does it portray the spirit 'of war and so splendid-an illustration is it of that tragic scene in Indian warfare. The picture is now in Chicago. Mr. Paxson has never set a price upon 't; in fact, he hopes to keep it always for his family, his chil.lren and their children.

Those who know the real value of art have pronounced it worth When the Spanish-American war broke out Mr. Paxson went to the Philippines with the first Montana regimerft. On his return he finished the Custer picture. Finding that he was falling in health, he gave up all other work, and since then has devoted himself to painting pictures and Illustrating. He has never studied under a teacher; he has never had a lesson, excepting that which nature and experience have given him.

He is classed among the colorists and his pictures are full of action and are true to life. He has arrived at his present position by hard work and the putting to use the good which the gods have provided. His pictures have found their way into many states and several foreign and there is very good authority for the statement that one is in the possession of King Edward. of Mr. Paxson says, however, that he has no proof that King Edward has one of his pictures, Just as he modestly affirms that he does not know whether he is a colonist or whether action and life Is a distinguishing feature of his' work.

His first public exhibition of pictures of any magnitude was at the St. Louis fair, and their reception was flattering in the extreme. French and German artists wer generous admirers of his pictures and took delight In coming to the Montana building, arranging the curtains so as to get the best light, and going over all. the details. Several of the pictures exhibited at St.

Louis were sold and bought a good price. Mr. Paxson's Indian heads are in great demand, and he Is progressing rapidly as an illustrator. His latest work is called "Custer Hill." It is an illustration for a pioneer history noW in press of the times and life of the Rev. L.

B. Statelar, one of the earliest among the Protestant clergymen In this territory. The book Is the work of Rev. E. J.

Stanley, another early-day Methodist tric company, in the alley south of Broadway and between Mam and Wyoming streets, is being supplied from this quarry. This is one of the deepest excavations ever mad in the Northwest. It is to be 60 feet square and when completed will be 40 feet deep. There will be the equivalent of two stories below the street level. This depth is in order that, the boilers of the company may be Installed on the lowest floor, which will be 25 feet in in Butte, and worked there for 10 years under the veteran play-actor John Ma-guire, who was the manager.

He had his studio in the theater, and painted stock sets for traveling companies, many of the companies being headed by famous actors and actresses. He painted two pieces for Thomas' Jefferson In "Rip Van Winkle," and they' were carried away and used in other places hy that famous actor. Charles. Schatzlein had the contract for painting the present Grand opera house when it replaced the first. Paxson painted the scenery.

He quit the theater and next ctarted a shop at 17 East Broadway, stayed there a year, and then had to move to make way for the building of city hall. The shop was a log building. From temporary quarters on East Granite street he then moved, to Main street, where the federal building now stands, doing sign work and painting pictures. Each year he painted more pictures and did less sign work. He started the famous Custer picture, said to be the most realistic battle picture in America.

He painted that picture in the parlor of his home, at 30 East Montana street. He worked on with a change to others, at intervals for four years, meantime visiting the Custer battlefield several 4lmes(-Sometimes on these visits he was accompanied by Indians who were in the battle. Two Moons, fighting chief of the Cheyennes, was one of them. The chief's plpe is one of the treasures in Mr. Paxson's co)-.

lection of Indian curios. He met and conversed and held correspondence with officers that were with Reno. For more than 20 years Mr, Paxson studied 1 v- if OWING to the work now In hand in laying the foundation for the Marcus Daly monument on North Main street, jit above the government 'building, more than usual interest to Welch's the quarrx "frorn which the granite blocks have beenVat for the foundation amj the, I pedestal 'Recently a committee of the, Marcus -Daly Memorial association. Including John Gillie, William. Scallon ind' John Wdame, visited the quarry, (Continued from Page Nine.) in charge.

Painting and decorating the new church, also painting the new residence of Judge O'Bannon, made the' remaining -months of the winter buey ones. When he arrived in Deer Lodge Mr. Paxson had not a dollar in bis pocket. but'Robinson of the E. TU Bonner store, told him to take all toe wanted.

He, purchased a $25 pair of California four-point blankets, slept on a board' bunk in a deserted log cabin and batched it. Deer Lodge was then the. most important town in the state, with the possible exception of Helena. Freight-trains, two deep, often extended from. the point where the penitentiary now gtands to Captain Higglns' store distributing freight.

They were lively times and prosperous. During the summer of 1878 there were several Indian scares. Some few men were found dead and others were missing, and in each case it was supposed that the "Indians had been out with their tomahawks. Mr. PaxBon coured the country' round on hunting and fishing trips, going into the mountains and remaining for several days at a time.

Notwithstanding he was frequently warned by his friends that ome day he would his hair," he ot through it all with only anxiety and several pretty close calls to record. On one Occasion he' spent several hours dodging band of Indians who, he found when he got Into town, had murdered Jak' Hay's "party of placer miners on Rock creek. One of the Hay party escaped and is said to be now reading Pbillpsburg. He wa shot A' -i tunnel, a spur runs up to the quarry, a distance of about one mile. Here the cars are loaded with the building Htone which is now used In many places through the state, and particularly in Butte.

In ract, the splendid, solid granite from Welch's spur is ued almost entirely for the foundations of the many buildings now in process of erection ih Butte. The foundation stone for the marvelous excavation for the Phoenix Elec jerky telegraph line that connected Salt Lake, Virginia City and Helena. There were no Indians in sight. -Paxson's' sketch of the Incident was put In the treasure box of the stage coaches and passed around from stage station to station, and it always creuted a laugh. That was the picture which Mr.

Paxson calls hi first artistic He painted pictures for the first state fair held in Helena, and was awarded $1.50 as a prize, which he recelyed about a year afterward. He rode on horseback to the fair and back to Deer Lodge. In the spring of 1879 Mr. Paxson rented a- house of Peter Valiton and sent for his wife and little Custer Paxson. They came in May overland by the Gilmore Salisbury Salt Lake route, and were accompanied by R.

H. Paxson, the Butte druggist and a brother of the artist. Mr. Paxson came to Butte in the early winter of 1879 to paint a panorama entitled "Around the World." That was when Butte first began to put on theatrical airs. The town had grown and all along Main street wee a row of log buildings, and almost every one.

of. them was built so that they were entered by a flight of steps. Park and Granite streets sported scattering buildings, and Main street wound around the hill opposite the federal building. David Melklejohn was chief of police: Henry Jacobs was mayor. Mr.

Paxson was drawn on the jury of Dee? Lodge, but In he moved to Butte, bought a sign shop and did scenic work. He painted all over thestate, In every town where there was a theater. He painted ana decorated the first grand opera house miles in every direction the rockiest rocks in the Rocky mountains are to be seen, tumbled about in all kinds of fantastic shapes. The granite at Welch's spur is the finest material for building stone to be found in the West. It much resembles the famous Quincy granite in New Hampshire.

Northern Pacific engineers who have examined the quarry have declared it would take, that road 50 years of constant hauling with available equipment to haul away all minister, now living in Whitehall, and another of "Wonderland," the first book written on the Yellowstone park. Mr. Paxson has Illustrated several other books, and everywhere people are getting to know him as an artist of exceptional talent. His everyday life has been an unbroken education for the profession, and the special subjects to which he has devoted himself in: earnest for the last seven or eight years. Mr.

Paxson is one of the' vice presidents of the National Society of Artists and member of the Society of. Illustrators and Artists of Philadelphia and New York. It is customary when' a man of western birth, or "western training, distinguishes himself to paint his personality In glaring tones, with a touch, perhaps, of the grotesque or the bravado or the brute. Mr. Paxson cannot lay claim tq any of these supposedly western attributes.

He is a plain gentleman of the old school, rather- below the medium In stature and frail. His dress does not in a single feature attract attention, neither do his manners. Nevertheless he is a man of distinct personality, a man in whose bearing there is conveyed the impression that an inner-light is struggling for expression. A modest, gentlemanly man, whose every action refutes' the thousrht thajt to have lived the life of the wilderness and on the frontier one must be coarse and swaggering and to have done something worth while one must- display all maner of eccentricities. In speaking of his work.

Mr. Paxson never fails to mention that his wife has always encouraged him, and if any measure of fame is his.it must be her's also. THEY HOLD PRIZE CONTEST TO GET ft NAME FOR BABY Louisville. Aug. 18.

"Walk right up. of Grand Island, offered a liberal cash prize for the most acceptable name for their seventh daughter, born last week, and the prize was awarded to-day to Mrs. Eaton, proprietor of the Pauline hotel, who suggested the name Maxine. Dr. and Mrs.

Rich inserted in the local papers a notice to the effect that they would pay J15 to the person who should send them the most acceptable name for their litle daughter within one week. Nearly 200 person's entered the examined carefully the stone which has been cut for this purpose and pronounced it excellent and suitable In every particular. The work on the foundation has now begun. When com -pleted that monument, which has arrived, will be placed 'on the pedestal with suitable ceremonies. Welch's spur Is located close to the Northern Pacific tracks, 16 miles from Butte.

From the Northern Pacific tracks, a little beyond the, Homestake in the elbow, and Dr. J. C. Johnstone, 'of called and performed one of the first, if not the first, surglfal 'operation' in the state. The Indians were renegades for a number of years afterward, but some of them were supposed to be among the 'hanged in Missoula in the early eighties.

A close watch was kept on the, Indians for several years, and every one who went through the country, carried guns. When any fresh scare came up parties would be sent out Into the hay fields or on the range to bring into town the men who were working there. Every phase of frontier life was known to Mr. Paxson. and many in rough pencil sketch told the every-day stories to those who came afterward.

One of the artist' first victories in pencil sketching was an event of 1877 during the Nea Perce war. it snowea Governor PollinKer: who was then su perlntendent of the southern division of the Gilmore Salisbury stage line, up a pole on the lookout for Indians. The poles were usually to look after stock running at large. Away on the distant road, he saw a little dust arising. "The Injuns are coming! The Injuns are coming!" he cried.

Frank Polllnger, his brother, who was loading. some things into a wagon. Jumped into the wagon, as quick ae he could, bent on making a good get away. "Come back, you blankety blank fool," shouted the governor, who was up the pole. "I ain't no more blankety blank fool than you are," shouted back his as he kept on The dust was caused by some men whom Paxson had happened to Join and who had been sent put to repair the little.