The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-01
APPLICANTS FOR OFFICE.

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Gov.-Eiect Richards Gives tho Names oil
some of the Gentieme
So large ia tho corresr ondencs of Gov.
Elect Richards, says the Butte Inter Noun
tain. that he has found it necessary to en-
| ploy a secretary to help him attend to IT,. A
great portion of the letters como from gem
tlemen who are DESTROYS of serving the
state for a salary, In talking to the Inter
Mountain man about the appointments he
will make, the governor elect said:
II desire to say to all applicants that no
office, for which ! have the appointment,
has been promised or pledged. ! will not
permit my mind to settle upon any choice
until all have been heard from. and no mat
tes what portion of the state the applicants
como from. And in this connection il
would be we'll for all applicants to present
their claims in writing or by petition.
place ali these applications on
flo and when the proper time
comes l will consider them all. 1t is only
fair to the applicants for Office that they
should know this. ] have had quite q num-
Der call upon me personally, men probably
hat / am not we'll acquainted with. Where
there are go many it is nothing more than
natural that l might forget some of them.
So l say, let all applicants present their
claims in writing, so that | can have some
thing to file. and they will not be over
looked. So far l have received applications
for the positions of penitentia,y warden,
state mining inspector and assistant, stats
lane commissioner, law librarian and min
sral land commissioner. Thus far / have
not received any applications for appoint
ment on the labor arbitration commission.
In response to a request to give the names
OF some OF the applicants, Mr.. Richards
gave from memory the following:
For MINING ingDaCtOr-COl. CharlnH =.
Shoemaker. Dan Hastings, ]. B. Trevar-
then, William H. Roberts. Richard Ed
wards. Richard Dunstan, Richard Martin,
W. h. Tonkin. ID. Perier, Myron j. Rogers,
John Williams, john Nichols. all of Silver
Bow county; i. F. Fisher, Of Granite; j. Il.
Gilbert, of Beaverhead; Ed. J. Long, Of
Red Lodge, snd John Darbis, of Marys-
vile.
For boiler inspector-Georqe Blinn, E. L.
Mahoney, of Butte. and s. M. Nye, of Liy-
inRston, besides others whom the governor
could not recall. For assistant boiler IN
spector James Donovan has been recon-
mended. Both he and Mr.. Blinn are en-
dorsed by the Brotherhood of Stationary
Engineers.
For state land commissioner-Robt. H.
Howey, M. A. M~eyendorff, Frank p. Ster-
ling and Tom B. Miller, of Helena. have
applied; also NJ. B. Hendticks, Of M%issoula;
Fred Foster, of Billings; Matt Anderson. of
Bozeman, and Thomas Cummings, of Fort
Benton.
For warden-Capt. Jas. Fl. Mills. @. j.
Reek, of Granite; J. b. Gallagher, of Butte,
and s. Deutsch, of Livingston.
For mine,al land commissioner-No for
NAL applications have been made for this
position yet, but those mentioned in this
connection are Maj. Geo. o. Eaton, Geo.
w. Irwin II, and II. O. Hickman.
Miss Lou Guthrie has applied to be con-
tinued in the office of librarian of the state
law library.
Besides these there are a number of ap-
plicants for the position of private secretary
and for positions on the governors staff.
Gov. Richards states, also. that he has re-
ceived letters of application from a number
Of people who are satisfied to accept any
office; they have no preference.