ColHawkins is in the city. Tbe colonel^need* no introduction. He la the tem^^perance lectuter, and lectured for twenty-^five years in Kentucky and one year in^Montana. When be arrived here he was,^he said, the authorized representative of^syndicates representing million* of cspital.^and the colonel ci inbined hi* lecturing^business with bonding mine*, especially at^Butte, for princely fortunes. But that is^about all the colonel did. From Butte he^went to Phllipsburg, and as a generous and^long suffering public grew weary of bis^lectures, the colonel concluded temperance^didn't pay, and yeaterday informed an Is^dependent reporter tbat be bad aban^doned the lecturing business.
Thecolonel was quite an attraction as he^meandered down Main street yesterday,^lie wore tue same hat he used to have in^Helena, tbe same lawny mane and bis^beard ha* grown several Inches. His^apparel consisted of what was once a white^coat and vest, and miner's breeches. At a^glance the colonel presented an ideal^picture of tbe dime novelist's cold miner^of '41*. He carried a Hour sack in his hand^and was wending bis way to the Urand^Central hotel, in a great hurry. Tbere be^took possession of a large desk, exhibiting^bit ores.
Haveyou struck it rich colonel'.' ' asked^tbe reporter.
Well,1 guess I have,^ he replied, with^a triumphant wave of his drooping locks^^^ Vou see tbat ore; well that's from tbe^Vanderbilt Consolidated. 1 own tbat mine^and four others. 1 made an appointment^to meet a g. ntieman here who is anxious^to see tbe ore. 1 have aix men working^for me night and day. ^You see that^piece,^ be said, ^that rock will go a thou^^sand ounces to the ton.
Youmust be on the Granite Mountain^vein/' was suggested.
