The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-22
FOR THE BJY5 m BLUE.
kalispel Desires the ocation of a Sol
diers' Unme Within Her LLmIts

| hailspel Desires The Location of Sol
| diers' Home Within Her Limits.
! Special Correspondence of the Standard
HELENA, Jan. 2l.-Hon. Lyman Loring
OF Kalispel is in the city, having been sent
over by the citizens of that fiourishing city
10 look fter the interests of house bill
No. 3. 10 establish, locate and maintain
home for INDECENT soldiers at Kalispel
The bill provides for the appointment of
five directors, who shall be appointed by
the governor and serve for five years each,
except the first appointees, one of whom
is to retire every year. These directors
shall have exclusive charge of the man.
agement of the home and shall serve
without compensation, except for their
actual travelling expenses. An appropria-
ton of $4,000 is asked to erect suitable
buildings for the home, and the expenses
OF the institution are to be borne by the
state. Its benefits are not to be extended
TO any one who has been convicted of a
felony or disgraceful crime. nor shall any
one who has been an habitual drunkard be
received without satisfactory evil
dence of subsequent good con-
duct and reformation of charac-
ter. 1t is provided that the act shall not
take effect until 80 days after the citizens
OF kalispel have donated to the state for
purposes of the home go acres of land in
Flathead county.
AT present Mr.. Loring is the only one
working in the interest of this bill, but he
VIII shortly be assisted by other citizens
OF halispel. Mr.. Loring, himself vet
eran and member of the last legislature.
is enthusiastically in favor of the passage
OF the bill. he makes the following state
ments about it:
II the state will build the home the
United States government will donate 500
per year for each soldier maintained. The
land to be donated will be fine farming
land and the old soldiers could do enough
OF light farming to contribute largely TO |
their own support. The $4,000 asked for
from the state would be sufficient to build
the homo and equip the farm with horses,
cows, etc. The 500 per year would be |
amply sufficient to run the home, as there
are at least 100 old soldiers in the state
who would wish to take advantage of il.
The expense to the st ate would not be |
great, as many of these old soldiers are at |
present supported IN the poor houses of |
the various counties. There are six or seven |
IN the Lewis and larke county poor farm
alone. The Flathead people think that
hey have just claim on the state. as
'''NDA HNiNS VI Ahp tliOSl NdluaDie a2flCul-
ural lands in the county have already
been taken away from them to support tho
various institution of the state. This
has been detriment to them, as it has
Kept out settlers and probably had the
Effect of reducing the assessable valua-
ion of the county 10 per cent. Other
Kings being equal Flathead county con-
'lders itself entitled TO favorable recogni-
ion by the state. No old soldier in the
state has objected to the location, and il
$ conceded by all to be one of the finest
ocations for home of this kind in the
tate. The climate is milder and more
alubrlous than in most parts of the state
md the home could be made a most COM
ortable one for the old soldiers at but
title expense. The youngest of the
eterans must now be fifty years of age,
nd in the present condition of the labor
market they are not able to compete with |
ounger men. The number of those
eeding aid must increase rapidly from
his time on. Many of the old soldiers
re far from the comrades with whom {
ley served, and find it difficult and i'm {
lany cases impossible to obtain the evil
ence necessary TO procure pensions. A
ronG effort will be made for the pas
lge of the bill.