The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-24
1T COULD NOT LIVE
The "New ISSUE" q Prohibition
Weekly, has Expired.
MlSSOULA MEN PURCHASED 1T
Owing to a Lack of Support the
Publishers Are Forced to Let u
oo-The "Avant Courier" is
24 Years Old-Notes.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Nov. 23.-The Bozeman New
Issue, the organ of the state prohibition
party and the only prohibition paper In
Montana, expired this week. the last
number of this weekly being published
here to-day. There has been quite debt
to bother the publishers during the last
three years and this had much to DO
with the selling of the plant this week.
as the present editor and manager, Thos.
p. Street, found he could not stand the
work which he-had TO do acting as he has
been the part of editor. business manager
and typo for the sheet.
The paper was started In Miles City IN
1859 as the Bomb. and after running one
year there was moved to Bozeman.
stock company being formed here ana
Wilder Nutting took hold of the paper.
which was rechristened the New Issue"
as editor. with M. ]. Hall as business
manager. At the end of two years. how
ever, the paper. which had started here
with quite a reserve fund. was deeply In
debt, and in Sept 1894 A. H. McKeighan
OF Yates City. ILL.,, became manager. he
| cut on all delinquent subscribers ana
turned the paper over to the present
manager. Mr.. Street. with less than one
| third its former subscription list out
| slightly improved in other respects from
what 1t was when he had taken charge
| just one year before.
Mr.. Street took charge Of the plant in
| Sept. 1898, and had built up the paper IN
| many ways, clearing of 5000 OF its IN
| debtedness and making 1t much more
| readable and useful than ever before In
| it's short life, as we'll as more than dou-
| bling its subscription list Mr.. Street was
handicapped In many ways. subscribers
/ would not remit promptly. times were
| hard and 1t was decided to give up the
| struggle.
| The stockholders nearly all donated
| their share at this crisis and with the
money thus obtained from the sale OF the
| plant and with such subscriptions as can
be counted upon, the paper will leave this
| world free from debt, but with no sur
| plus to will to any of its supporters OF
| benefactors.
The panlt was bought by Mitchell q
Nisbitt of the Missoula Evening Republi'
can, and will be packed for shipment &c
Missoula on Monday.
This week has also marked another
epoch in the newspaper world of "Boze
man the Beautiful" but Of somewhat
| different character, the weekly Avan
| Courier's oath birthday having just pass
ed. There are but three older papers II
| the state and none more alive Majo
| Anderson. who has been at the head o
| this pioneer sheet for 10 years. says tina
he will pilot II to the close of this cen
tury at least, and may take 1t with hin
when he goes to join the Legislative bod
of the next world. and he is engaged y
perfecting an asbestos sheet which WI
meet any of the climatic condition
! 1 there.
Yankee Jim, whose name has repeated
ly appeared in print In this state, unit
he needs no Introduction, whose foot
: prints have been left in every valley an
upon every mountain and the imprint
whose many years of toll in Yanke
Jim's canyon will remain to be spoken {
by many coming generations, was
Bozeman Friday. 1t has been some tim
since he experienced the pleasures OF III
in a big CITY, and at 1880 a. m. he route
| out the night clerk In the postofice an
wanted to get lodging for the night.
| was told that that was not hotel, bt
the postoffice. and asking IL II was th
only postoffice in the city. as II was ver
| dark out and he didn't wish TO take al
| other one for a lodging house, he wa
pointed to a hotel and left talking demo'
racy to the obliging night clerk there.