Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1885-01-15

rich its people, without its mines; lis
mines would support and make rich
its people without its pastures: rs it
is, it will be n mighty purchaser of
the goods OF other States and Terri |
tories, and its payments will always
be in gold. 1t is peopled by strong
and brave race; the habits of the
people, coupled with the climate, make
conditions, which, in all countries
where they abound, result in IN in
tense love of home and country, and
in the strength and courage to be II
country's defense. No land on earth
has brighter prospects before it than
Montana; no people are more sure to
guard with schools their children; the
whole future Of the Territory stretches
out in thought strangely favored
land. It is Territory where the
) boys do chores before they go to
school, and have to work fast lest
their ears and fingers got nippcd with
tho frost. That is the kind OF country
that boys expand into groat men in;
that is the kind of country where the
home fire is bright through the long
winter evenings. In such homes girls
mature until, when the sacred mantle
OF wifehood is drawn around them.
and they step into homes of their
. own, they go Us real queens and are
worthy TO wear tho title. Montana is
q mighty land"
As the lute Governor John Schuyler
Crosby, Acting Postmaster General,
has many friends in Montana who
would not like to mortify him by
. !, emitting any mark of respect or in
any way hurt his feelings, we publish
the following special to the Chicago
Times, which gives Il peculiarly Of
= the ex- Governor which some OF our
people may not have discovered: "The
new First Assistant Postmaster .Genl
is not satisfied with that long title
= alone, but, like the Missouri patent
'. medicine doctor, who was member
= of the Forty SO zenith Congress, wants
, his name ornamcnted with titles be-
~ fore and behind. Mr.. John Schuyler
= Crosby, having held the Office Of Gov
Il crnor of Montana Territory before he
became First Assistant Postmaster
: General, insists upon retaining the
!. title of governor" Tho earnestncss
- with which he clings to it has afford
:, cd " great deal Of amusement to the
y whole department. Last week hand
some memmorandum-book was sent
up from tho stationery room, labeled,
a John Schuyler Crosby First-Assist-
: ant Postmaster General Of the United
u States" Governor Crosby returned
" the book With q request that the word
governor be eprclixcd TO his name on
!" the label. On another occasion when
tho official directory was being pre-
y pared II proof-sheet was sent to hin
o. for correction of his city address. II.
' told the clerk to insert governor be
fore his name, and it WIS done, bu
- when the proof went to Postmaster
~ General Hatton, he drew his per
:. =, through tho snperAuous title with th'
!" remark that he would not allow sucl
nonsense. While Mr.. Hatton was ab
- sent in the south recently Mr.. Crosb!
=, acted as chief of tho department, IN,
- it is said that he drew up III orde
40 ready for issue prohibiting smoking
y in the building and signed himsel
- "Gov. John Schuyler Crosby, actin'
~ postmaster, general" The officers an'
- and employees Of the department ha'
W much fun in u sly way at tho expens
. Of the governor, and have got +
addressing each other by that title n
they pass by, when it can DO don
without reaching the ears Of that dig
IN nitary.
ke Assistant Secretary Joslyn, OF til
'a Interior Department, says that depar'
tn mcnt did not make any lease OF Ind
40 an lands, but simply authorized III
ka Indians to make them if they SAW ii
us He further says that he thinks it IT,
p best policy for the Indians to leas
all their lands that they do not nee
's- for their own use; that it gives thcr
" some employment and means of SUI
~ port; that they will learn how to car
81 for stock, and will have stock OF the
III own to take care of at the end of th
ph leases. lie further says that bot
es Senators Vest and Cockrell Wcl
'll among those who applied fl
ca leases for thcir friends. II woul
l% seem from this that tho fears of on
~ people had some good ground for e,
W iHtcnco. Our position is that tho land
IN not needed for the use of the Indian
le for themselves should be taken by tn
e' government and thrown open to Sc
u, tlemcnt We do most decidedly oil