The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-01
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lha's the Question Bothers Sheriff
Young-Livingston's Latest Gossip.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.
LIVINGSTON, Dec. 3O.-The recently
elected county offices will assume charge
of their respective officers on Monday,
the 9TH inst, except the treasurer, whose
term of Office will commence the first
Monday in March. There is considerable
speculation rife in this city as to whom
George L. Young, tho coming sheriff, will
appoint as his deputies. Tho gentleman
maintains n reticence on the subject that
is very annoying to n number of aspirants
as well as to the newspaper reporter. The
average reporter, however, seldom fails to
accomplish that which he sets himself to
do. The more mystery there is about any
affair the greater is the desire to unravel
II. The more person tries to thwart n
reporter in his attempt to find out some
thing that tho individual wants kept
secret tho greater chances he runs, as u
usual thing, of a full and correct dis
closure. About the only way to success
fully cope with reporter is to bride him,
and in most cases this can be done with
$1,000 TO $4,000, according to the exegen-
cies of the occasion. Some reporters, II
is true, have a consuming and uncontrol-
liable appetite for Mumm's extra dry, or
some other brand of equally delicious
efferscent amber fluid. and can be effec-
tualiy silenced with one or two "small
bottles" but as the STANDARDS report,
III this city never was known to worsh p
at the shrine of Bacchus, and as he has
not been properly approached by the
sheriff-elect, he set himself diligently to
work TO obtain the desired information
and success has at last crowned his
efforts.
As death and taxes are sure" so also
is it equally certain that Sheriff-elect
Young on next Monday will appoint NJ.
j. Fleming of Red Lodge under sheriff. ID.
n. Ely of Cascade deputy sheriff, and c.
II. Savage of this city jailor.
The delinquent tax list for Park county,
as published by County Treasurer Dyer,
amounts to between $4,000 and $ll 900
Included in the delinquent list is the
Rocky Fork Coal company's assessment
of 81 ,674 on coal lands at Red Lodge. The
company takes the ground that the 20 per
cent. raise made last August by the state
board of equalization on all coal lands is
illegal and will contest the matter in the
courts. The treasurer has not advertised
any Northern Pacific land for sale, al
though the company is delinquent in the
sum of S6,224 and refuses to pay the same.
This is in accordance with an agreement
entered into by tho state and the COM
pany. The company claims that it is not
liable for taxes on lands, as il
has not yet been granted patent there
for. In order to bring the matter before
tho courts the treasurer of jefferson
county has advertised the company's land
in that county for sale. Tho company
will apply for an injunction restraining
the county treasurer from selling the land
and in this way the case will come before
tho proper court. Should IT be decided
that tho company owns the land then the
company will pay the taxes, together with
the delinquent penalty. The agreement
entered into between the company and
the several counties of tho state binds all
parties to abide by the decision of the
courts in the test case soon to DO COM
menced. The agreement for Park county
has been received by County Treasurer
Dyer through Campbell d Stark, local at
torneys for the Northern Pacific, and has
been signed as REQUIRED by the county
treasurer and the chairman OF the board |
OF county commissioners.