The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-28
MONTANA COMMENT.


Dawson county is all right when it
comes to dealing with murderers and the
example it has furnished by fixing the
death penalty for one and % years i'm
prisonment for another at a single term
OF court should be followed by every
county in the state. If we remember
rightly Dawson has not suffered from
shocking murders to the same extent as
other counties in Montana, and evidently
she does not propose to. If Dawson
county would just agree to lend one of her
jures to Yellowstone probably full justice
might be melted out to some of the muir
derers in this county.-Billings Gazette.
Helena people were delighted and in
structed by the very fine rendition of the
opera Patience" by tho Butte Opera
company. The artists from the west
side city are entitled to congratulations
on the rare good work they are capable of
doing. They reflect credit on Montana
Helena Independent.
Attorney General Haskell beat Attorney
Ella Knowles in the last state election,
but the little populist has played even
with him by sharing him in the matri-
monial net. and they have gone TO San
Francisco to get married. This is another
illustration of the adage that politics
make strange bedfellows. Twin Bridges
Monitor.
Miss Ella Knowles, the we'll known Hell
ena lawyer and able populist politician, is
to be married to Henri j. Haskell, the at
torney general of the state. This is n po-
litical, official and social fusion that is
moro republican than populistic, but the
News extends most cordial congratula-
tions.-Great Falls News.
That these two should marry, not only
each other, but anybody, is the greatest
surprise of all. IL ever there was pair
Voluntarily committed to celibacy, these
are they. To slightly paraphrase Pima
fore:
Our amazement, our surprise
Can be gathered from the expression of our
eyes.
And though we do not furnish cut
showing the said expression" we affirm
| that il is there. Miss Knowles went to
California several months ago to build up
her health which W as sadly broken by the
severe accident she met with IN Helena
more than a year ago. She is a woman
| of exceedingly broad mentality and it is
safe to say, she will not allow the mere
| incident of marriage to divert her from
the active life she has chosen. The Jour
nal hastens TO congratulate Mr.. and Mrs.
Attorney General Haskell and trusts that
the ethics of their chosen profession viii
always keep them on the same side of n
case.-Miles City journal.
Talk about special legislation, the Butte
police commission is n candidate for the
! highest honors in that direction. At a re-
| cent meeting one OF the commission
! nominated n candidate who was ineligible
because he had served a portion of a term
| in the penitentiary though he had been
pardoned and restored to citizenship.
| The rules provide among other qualiiica-
tons that a candidate "shall never have
been convicted of a crime" This looked
like an insurmountable obstacle, but 1T
wasn't. To meet the emergency the
board promptly amended tho ru.cs, strik-
ing out the words 'shall never have been
convicted of a crime" Men who can
summary surmount legal obstacles in
that manner are worthy of positions on
the supreme bench. They are dandics.-
Great Falls Tribune.
4
the press gang at Billings on June 3. An
excursion TO the Custer battle field, hunt
ing and fishing on the reservation and a
trip to tho National park will end the out
ing season, when all will return TO their
home ranch marked and branded as the
law dlrects.-Billings Times.
The bids for land for the capitol site a
| Helena have been handed in and will bo
opened tomorrow. Quite n number OF
property owners in that city think they
have just tho ground that is suitable for
that purpose and are willing TO dispose o
| II to the state for a consideration. In
| making the selection the question OF To-
cality as well as price will have some con
sidera,ion with the commission in whose
hands the question rests. Ii is safe e
say that all the bids will he high enough,
and this being tho case, il is TO be hope
the commission will get the best it car
for tho money. The sum Of 100000 ouch
| TO purchase considerable outside prop
| erty in Helena. IL would have done 81
less than one year ago.-Great Fall'
| Tribune.