The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-01

| 4No4isSi SnoulQ De IN circulation
When forced to change a $40 bill to
reimburse Uncle Sam for seven I-cenf
! stamps II curls his brunette locks and
makes life naught but a weary dream
he crushes his fingers while stamping
letters and soils loving epistles with
crimson gore of his injured hand-all
or which tends to make his official life
nightmare OF horrors, shocking to
contemplate.
! While In Great Falls saloon yes
| teroay morning John Halden notified
ms companions that he was weary of
! life and would end his career by sui
I cue. No attention was paid at what
was considered a bluff" and Halden.
deeply offended at the lack of interest
manifested, meandered to the riyhr
with view of jumping into eternity
ana the Missouri at the same time
While searching for a pleasant SPOT
Tor the task, he fell into the river and
was only saved from being swept over
the dam by his lively exertions to pro-
lohg ms stay on earth. He reached
the shore, returned to the saloon badly
bruised and thoroughly dilapidaJted
ana was gathered in the cooler, where
ne now lies bemoaning his fate
Great Falls will continue as the great
wool shipping point of Montana and
the Northwest, Notwithstanding the
Following excerpt from the Billings
Gazetteer predictions are freely made
by parties thoroughly acquainted with
the situation that the coming wool
season will be the largest in the his
tory Of Billings, it being estimated that
ne receipts on this market will ex-
coed those of last year by at least
100000 pounds. The splendid market
here last season and the excellent ia
to handle the clip have been widely ad-
vertised by the fiockmasters them
selves, and scores of them in the North
ern country who have heretofore gone
to Great Falls have already concluded
to come to Billings. The Magic City
VIII nave no rival as a wool market
after this season"
1T is just possible that David G.
Browne wa misquoted n Ia alleged in
terview on poiltical matters, which has
excited some attention in a few North
ern Montana newspapers. Dave is |
pretty careful in his utterances and at
this time appears to be deeply engaged
in minding his own business and saw
ing wood.
During the celebration incident TO |
the dedication Of their handsome new |
hall at Belt. the Odd Fellows INDUCED |
IN a grand street parade in which |
lodges of the order from Great Falls. |
Sand Coulee, Neihart, Arlington and |
Sun River were conspicuous. 1t was
a gala time and those present report
a general jollification in which all res
idents of Belt took an active part
The members of the First Baptist
church of Great Falls have extended
an invitation to Rev. Henry Van En-
gelen to become pastor of the church.
The reverend gentleman is we'll and
Favorably known here and is an accom-
plished pulpit orator and earnest d.
vine.
If there is truth in the apparently
earnest story told by two alleged
Pennsylvania coal miners, now in
Great Falls, regarding the early mi
grafton of a horde of laiboring men
rom the Keystone state to Montana,
prompt action should be taken to adj
Use the coming immigrants that they
ire being duped and swindled by east
I'm sharpers. Aside from a few men |
needed at this season on sheep ranches |
here is no work in Northern Montana
or either skilled mechanics or COM
non laborers. The supply of labor is | I
n excess of the demand-except occa-
ionally when a few extra men are | :
eeded on ranches for a brief period. :