The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-12
NOTHING NEW ABOUT IT.

There In no way To satisfy nervous
people who are constantly asking what
the outlook in as tn the fire in the Ana
conda mine. The full story of what
happened last Saturday has been given
Ia the public. and there the matter must
rest, nm no conclusion has yet been
reached regarding further steps and it
has not been settled when d property
will again he opened for inspection.
Very sOOn after the bulkheads were
first put in. Superintendent Carroll was
constantly importuned by trends of the
unfortunate victims to rescue the bodies
with all possible haste. IL in quite
probable that this circumstance prompt
ed the superintendent to make the test
IAN early AN Saturday Of asst week.
The result in that the bodies cOuld
not lie reached and that the flames were
found Ia he still eating their way in the
levels. knowing this. the public has
all the information that anybody u
give. Meanwhile this city has no
cause for alarm. IL il known that or-
ders have been issued To make avail
able all the Butte properties in order
that the smelters may he kept busy.
Ample supplies of ore are coming daily
into Anaconda, the quantity of concen-
trates ON hand il large and there in
every rcason why Anaconda should
take 10 cheerful view of the situation.
MORE LIGHT ON IT.
How about this Here in u para
graph from the Boston Gfobe which
reads: 1t il said that the western
votes which made Reed speaker were
obtained for him i'm this city i'm the
office of banking houses which have
great railroad connections i'm Kansas
and other western states" That might
he the santa Fee. hui the Butte Inter
Mountain leads ms tn infer that the
election of Mr.. Reed was the triumph
of the Manitoba road over the Northern
Pacific. Of President Hill who has IA
friend i'm Carter over President Oakes
who is represented tn be- close tn Mr..
llauser.
.Evidently il WAS u big corporation
racket anyway. and Mr.. Carriers rela-
lions tn il are thus made clear by the
republican press. Up here in the can
yon We were surprising all the time that
Carter WAS quite outside the corpora-
ton influence and that he voted for
Reed simply because that 81. Louis
telegram cached him just one day too
late. We throw aside that illusion an
willingly because il was more comfort
ing than the new suggestion about the
rising influence of another big railway
corporation i'm Montana politics. It's
bad enough Ia have one of these mons
ters Ia fight. What are the people tn
do when two ar three get after them?
People who are fond of tracing ~
incident events will note the fact hat
the newspaper relating to the
funeral of jefferson Davis were fol
lowed by the news of the death of
Oliver Johnson, last of the men who
figured c~onspicuously among the lead
ers of the abolitionists. For many
years MIR. Johnson. with William Lloyd
Garrison, samuel j. May. and Gerrit
Smith. was n of the best hated men
in America. lie lived long after the
magnificent triumph of the cause which
was less than n forlorn hope when il
started out to make it's way in the
world. During the years of struggle
Gerrit Smith vas largely the financial
hope of the movement. and he contrib
uted generously: Garrison was it's plat
form chief. johnson its newspaper adj
vocate and nr. May its cool counselor
and constant friend
II ever n city seemed tn have more
than its share of misfortune. that place
is .lohnstown. Pa. Among the build.
ings which escaped the fury of the
great flood WAS the heater i'm which
occurred the disaster of Tuesday night
The building was known tn be unsafe
and the alarm of fire outside proved
hat il WAS II death-trap OF the worst
description. The terrible Hood Of last
June m the disaster Of Tuesday
night will serve their purpose in teach
ing the citizens of .Johnstown that an
ounce st prevention is worth more
than u pound of cure. Both the Con
nemaugh dan and Parke's opera hous.
were known to be unsafe. and yet. with
h list of the Hood still fresh in thei,
minds. IL innocent lives were sacriticet
in a city whose residents so recent,
suffered the terrible result of careless
hess and neglect.
The language of President uarrison'
message ON the question of pension
makes the dismissal 1T Tanner unac
countable. The President is dispose,
to lengthen the list of pensioners on
wholesale plan by giving bounties l.
those who. though they may have bee
in sound health when mustered on,
"have since been overcome by disease Il
casualty" That's about where Tame
drew the line. This being the case. tn
conclusion s.,nfrnnfs ms that 1sapp.r'