The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
ONE YEAR SUMMED UP
Sketchins the Career Of AOntana'S Press
For the TWelVemopth.
Some of the Changes that have
Taken Place in Newspaper
O~ffices-The States Papers,
Men Who Make Them.

W %, VI h"'
Montana Press association held in Liv-
ingston last week, the following enter
tanning sketch of the changes that the
year has wrought, and the present condi-
ton of the state press, was read by Mr..
John Is. Reed, editor Of the Butte Inter
Mountain:
A single word might suffice to present
the history of the Montana newspapers
during the year ending to-day. That wcrd
Is Progress. The press of no other state
In the union has shown such wonderful
advancement. In size, equipment and
ability the newspapers of Montana are
monuments 10 private enterprise and
public intelligence. Rejecting the pros
perity of the state, they are themselves in
the van OF progress and encourage every
agency Of civilization 10 keep up with the
procession and To advance the interests of
capital and labor, of industry and educa-
ton, of religion, science and of all useful
pursuits. The press Is the spur as well as
the guiding star To individual and public
enterprise, and this is particularly true
ia the state If Montana. And while the
newspapers have improved, the cir
cumstances of the men who conduct
and edit them have also improved.
They nave larger bank accounts,
wear better clothes, smoke better
cigars, and more of them are mar
ried and happy han was the case last
year. They don't care whether the other
millionaires speak to them as they pass
by or not. IL the railroads will not give
them passes they defy corporate inso-
lence and-walk. They buy meal tickets
two At a time in order To get the benefit of
wholesale rates. They do not wear their
linen busters and straw hats as far into
the fall as they used to do, and many of
them are able to take Their winter cloth
ing out of soak as early as September.
When they enter the office Of "a corpora
ton king To collect a 81 bill which has
been standing for three years, ever since
he was a pauper himself, they no longer
take of their hats and shoes and
socks, but they enter as though they
owned the establishment, and de-
mand their pay and get it
every once in "A while. These he glorious
days for the Montana editoraud publisher.
The dawn of financial Independence has,
after a quarter of IA century of toll and
hardship, burst upon them. Major Alder
son, who used to nix his presses with
boot-blacking and black his boots with
sheep dip, and print the irdHt Courier on
straw paper and deliver il himself when
subscribers were away from home. has now
"A journal which is "A credit Ia the town
WIZ b' ~ Wy ~ W IT. VA
ing the past year he has changed the
makeup of the Courier and discontinued
the publication of Mats poems aud 9th
erwise greatly improved every depart
ment of that c1cellent journal.
The personnel of the Chronicle has not
changed, MIR. lerkes continuing To edit
the paper, write up the local and person.
ally conduct every department with the
utmost success for himself and the delight
of "A growing constituency.
The Register, in The cause of temper
ance and reform, is doing a Christian
duty in Gallatin county and * creating
such "a sentiment among the people that
the prohibition party has taken "A firm
root, about twenty feet under the ground,
n is spreading rapidly. Mr.. George Al
dersoD, the publisher, is getting out "A
clean and handsome sheet. Bozeman
SHOULD be proud of its three pap
as the newspapers are of Bozeman.
In Livingston the Enterprise still has its
home in n Of the best equipped offices
in Montana, as It's appearance indicates.
MIR. Wright continues the sole owner,
while MIR. j. 5. Stuff ably attends to its
editorial work.
The Post, though scarcely more than a
year old, is fl~ourishing. IL is under the
control of Mr.. J. ID. Whelpley, who also
has editorial charge of the Lire Stock Jour
nal at Helena.
There has been no change in the Bill
llilRS 'dzffff. lllt ,ltN JthIHtf or tHl'l-
dive Independent, which are respectively
in charge of T.. III. Becker, Rev. sam Cor
don n Mr.. Widmyer. They are doing
much 10 keep eastern Montana at the
front, and reflect the sentiments and i'm
terests of their intelligent constituencies.
The Bomb is a recent journalistic ven
ture at Miles City. IL is "A temperance
journal, and explodes once a week To the
great irritation of eastern Montana men
who occasionally drink a little sagc tea or
elderberry wine. And there are very few
eastern Montana men who don't.
In northern Montana few changes are
to be reported. Colonel Searles and his
millionaire friend, Todd, continue 10 edit
the Rirer Press with great dignity and de-
served success. IL pays regular dividends
and has "a splendid field all TO itself.
Colonel Searles is n of the veterans of
the Montana press, and all his brethren
Will unite with the historian m wishing
him long life and happiness. The sole
ambition OF Colonel Searles is TO publish
the news n spread the doctrines of
democracy, whatever they may be. He is
devoted To his profession, and though he
lives Ia a stock country and has "A brand
ing iron IN his Office, IL may he said Ia his
credit that he does not own a single steer.
In Great Falls some changes ave taken
place. The Tribune. enlarged tn a seven
column paper, Is now "A morning paper
having associated press news and other
metropolitan features. The Louder. also
n morning paper, has increased To "A
quarto, six columns to the page, aud also
has the associated press franchise. The
Tribune and Leadsr are among the strong
apers of the state, and are. mechanically.
well equipped. Mr.. Collins still edits the
former and the latter is written by %. 3.
Warden, who succeeds Colonel Mac
knight.
In Missoula, the Gd-stfs has changed
hands, being now owned by IA corpora
ton. of which Lambert Mollinelli is bust
ness manager. Ii is an eight-page daily.
and politically democratic. The MiSSOu-
Ian has enlarged and now publishes the
full associated press report. Ii is a divi'
dend paying property, and Harrison
SDaulliuU. tho eIitnr IL nua az the rich