102 ^ e State* a paper published in Helena, said to-day that all the 

 so-called "experts" are hirelings of Amalgamated Copper 

 ready to perjure themselves at a moment's notice. I suppose 

 that makes it so, but as I am not an expert and am not expected 

 to qualify as such but simply as a bacteriologist, that lets me 

 out. It calls Anaconda "the city of whispers where one's soul 

 is not his own, where no one dares to speak his mind openly 

 for fear of Company spies." I only hope that they don't read 

 my love letters. I can't say whether I am on the right or the 

 wrong side of this case and as it is for the United States Court 

 to decide, I shan't worry, for all the evidence I shall present, 

 will be simply a matter of fact. 



A letter dated January 29, 1906, made casual record of the 

 painstaking methods pursued by him all his life in the prose- 

 cution of his scientific studies. 



We have a lot of media ready and to-morrow we'll have Percy 

 throw and tie that sorrel cayuse and then we'll go back of that 

 ulcer in his nose in real surgical fashion. When we get some 

 pieces which are presumably free from surface contamination, 

 we'll make aerobic and anaerobic cultures in Loffler's serum, 

 glucose bouillon containing unaltered horse serum and some 

 containing horse serum heated to fifty degrees for an hour, and 

 in plain glucose agar. Then we must make a sterile salt solu- 

 tion suspension of some of the tissue and inject it into the nasal 

 submucosa of a normal horse. You see we don't even know 

 yet that the disease is contagious or inoculable. If it is 

 inoculable we must find the cause. 



With such thoroughness he did everything that needed 

 doing. On Sundays his assistant was likely to take the day 

 off. Wherry would then "play char in the laboratory, feed- 

 ing the animals and scrubbing and sterilizing the floors." He 

 reported upon another horse, supposedly dead of smelter effects 

 but really dead of an infectious disease, February 14, 1906: 



Along with the veterinarian, Dr Gardner, I posted another 

 crazy horse yesterday — a case of strangles with multiple ab- 

 scesses in the cerebellum. I have so many cultures going that 

 I often work after supper. But now that I have all past and 

 present specimens systematized in my note books, side cabinet 

 and specimen bottles, it is a pleasure. To show you how much 



