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MARRIED.

SMART CIARY-At the Lakeside parsonage, Thursday night, July 30, 1896, at o'clock, Mir. J. I. SMART to Miss LOLA CLARY, Rev. J. F. Carr officiating.
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Mitchell is the only summer drinks man on Second avenue. If you don't believe it, call and be con yinced. No. 205 West Second.
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Cheap Rates to huntsville

National meet of League of Aneri- can Wheelmen at Louisville. Ky. Aug. 10 to 15. 1896. For the above oe- casion the Cotton Belt Route will sell round trip tickets from Pine Bluff to Louisville at Sl6.l0. Tickets on sale Aug. Sth and 9th; limited for return to Aug. IT, 1896.
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The ever popular Miss Carrie Greenfield went to Little Rock yesterday afternoon and will remain in the Capital city for several weeks as the guest of friends.
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FOR RENT-A 5-room cottage, nicely fitted, \ No. 1405 West Sixth avenue. near Cherry street. Hydrant and well water. with all Mention this paper and for further informa- tlon call on A. B. Niven. Main street, near Fourth avenue. 65dtf
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Mir. Bruce Street., prominent young at torney of Little Rock, and brother of Mir. ". G. Street. of this city, passed through en route to Chicot county today.
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The case against Joe I. Altschul, charged with embezzlement. was continued until August r on account of the absence of a State witness.
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Notice.

Miss Nora B. Andrews will return from Oxford, New York, about August lst. Those desiring lessons in either piano or vocal music, please notify Dr. D. S. Mills. d5t
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Quite large crowd of Pine Bluff gentle men are attending the barbecue at Segar's wagon yard. near town.
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All the late newspapers. maga- zines, books and periodicals and stationery at Mitchell's. No. 205 Second avenue. 5 r dtf
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MT. ]. T. Murphy, the prominent insurance adjuster of Dallas. Texas is in the city on business.
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Mir. Jeff Hicks, who has been quite sick for the past few weeks, is sojourning at Sulphur Springs.
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Mir. D. c. Gideon, hustler for the St. Louis 6lobe-Democrat, is in the city.
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A II Eye Opener to Thinking Clothing Buyers.~u>
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We have selected from our vast stock a nun suits sizes from 34 to A aad marked them
 low figure of $5. These Suits are warrarss wool, fairly heavy weight, suitable for early were our regular $7.5O and $lO suits We advise prospective buyers to look at these as splendid iVestment.
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Messrs. Philpot, Greenfield and Alexander want their friends to know that their sum mer fishing trip is postponed until it rains. that Is to say, indefinitely.
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Chief senyard. of the Pine Bluff Fire De- partment, returned from Little Rock this morning.
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The funeral of Mir. Frank NJ. Pendleton took place this moruing at 9 o'clock from the residence of his brother Dr. P II. Pendleton N. lI0l South Laurel street
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Mir. Fred woodcock prominent citizen of Malvern, is in the city.
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The Hicks prediction as to the earthquake has quite number of Pine Bluffs colored population guessing.
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pr. E. T. pry. of Douglass. came up yester- day to attend the funeral of Mir. Frank NJ pendleton.
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Mir. s. A. Hammond is convalesoent after a brief spell of sickness.
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Miss Annie Robinson. of London, Ont, wilt arrive in a few days on visit to her brothers.
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Mir. ". H. Rowland left today for Memphis on the steamer J. N. Harbin. He will return on the next trip ofathat boat.
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Mir. J. G. Garrett. of sarrassa. is in the city, guest of the Trulock.
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The case Of the State vs. Aaron Smith WAS continged until Monday.
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Mir. J. M. Lee, of Douglass, is registered at the Trulock.
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DIR. A. w. TROUPE
PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Office hours-2 to D. m.
 Office with Anderson-Meyer Drug Co. Telephone No. 64 Residence, No. 917 West Fifth avenue.
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Mir. Joe l. Altschal came down from Little Book this morning in the Iron Mountain train.
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Col John M. Oracle came down from Little Rock this morning. He left for New Gascony this afternoon on the Altheimer train.
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Mir. R. D. Davies returned this afternoon from a protracted visit to his old home al Huntington, W. Va.
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Mir. T. j. Collier, of Altheimer is among his Pine Bluff friends today. He is register ed at the Arlington.
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Mrs. k. L. Byrd and daughter left yester- day on u months visit to Faye tteville.
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Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick head ache, indigestion, billiousness. All druggists. 25c.
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Mir. Ed. Wertheimer left last night foI business trip down the Cotton Belt.
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Misses Bab and Mary Talliferro left today after brief visit to relatives in this city.
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MT. Julius Schloss is able to be out again after brief spell of sickness.
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Mir, ". N. Carpenter. Of Dewitt is paying Pine Bluff visit today
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All kinds of summer drinks at Mitchell's. 51T dtf
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I OST-A little gold heart. Has Annie s''
 L. engraved on it. Finder will be literally rewarded by returning same to Gillespie Bro. X Co. 729d6t
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MT. c. II. Fowler, of Fordyce, is registered at the Arlington
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FOR RENT Four room house So, also for sale cheap a No. s Cook stove and four corner gasoline stove. Apply 521 ". Second avenue. 924 d6
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I OST-Civil Service examination papers - on West Sixth avenue. Finder will be suitably rewarded by returning to the post office. sGHAS. MILLER.
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Mrs. D. c. Burord IS quite III.
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Mir. Jer Nathan is in the city on business.
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EoR SALE. CHEAP-One second hand A Rambler Bicycle and one combination mare. thoroughbred Apply to o. F. Brew ster, Pine street. 9 d2w
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U ave your laundry done by the Star Steam Laundry. Little RoclS Best of work Telephone R. NJ. Knox Co.,
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THEAP >OLUrIN
 Advertise Your Wants.

FOR RENT-A fve-room cottage on Laurel street, with water and Bath connection. Apply to W. H. Rowland. 29d6t
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bling block go, in which they are set
ND on or composed side by side in a
line OF row as represented in Figs .
and 6. A stationary box CID contains
a series of spaces %. and a delivery
device connected with finger bar CD by
which the spaces are discharged and
permitted to fall into the line at their
proper places. Thus it is that, by Op-
Grating the keys. the required matrices
and spaces are delivered one after an
other and assembled in line in the
block GO, until it contains all the
characters necessary to complete one
line of print. After the line of matrices
is thus composed it is transferred, as
shown by the arrows in Fig. and in
Fig. Z, to the face of vertical mold
wheel *, through which a slot or mold
proper extends from the front to the
rear face, as shown in Figs. and 8.
The entire row Of characters in the
matrix line is presented directly Oppo
site the face of the mold or slot, as
shown in Fig. Z, so that when the mold
is filed with metal to produce slug
or linotype, the metal will flow into the
matrices, which produce their respec-
tive type characters in relief on the
edge of the casting.
Behind the mold wheel there is ar
ranged a pot (NG), in which type metal
is maintained in a molten condition by
a fame from the gas burner (N) there
under. The pot has a delivery mouth or
channel adapted to fit against and
close the rear face of the mold. With
in the pot there is mounted a mechan-
ically operated pump plunger (O). Aft
er the line of matrices is presented and
locked against and across the face of
the mold, the mouth of the pot is closed
against the rear side of the mold, and
the plunger then operated to force the
molten metal from the mouth of the
pot into the mold, in which it solidhes.
completing the slug or linotype.
After the linotype is thus produced
the mold wheel makes a partial revo-
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each sheet touch each other there win
be a continuous line of paper, three feet
wide, over eight miles long. If the
sides were placed together there will be
a connected line of paper two feet
wide and over eleven miles in length.
The circulation of the State Journal
at this season of the year was never so
large as it is in the city of Topeka and
over the state. Some idea of the ex-
tent Of the Journals home circulation
may be gathered when it is learned that
over 5000 copies are sold daily in this
city and suburbs and that the delivery
to regular subscribers in Topeka and
suburbs requires forty-three carriers.
The expense of thus circulating The
Journal in this community alone
amounted to over $4,000 during the last
year. This is at the rate of $33 per day,
or very nearly $1,000 a month.
1t will be seen that The Journals
enormous home and state circulation
could not be printed except with just
such a press as is described above
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containing channels in which the as
sorted matrices are stored The mat
rices tend to slide downward out of the
magazine by reason of their gravity,
but they are held in check
by escapements OBJ. one at the
mouth of each channel. From these es-
opponents. rods (C)are extended down
wards to a series of finger keys Cd
There is special key for each charac-
ter or letter The keys are depressed
by the operator in the order in which
the corresponding characters are to ap-
pear in the print.
Each time key is touched it permits
a single matrix, bearing the correspond
ing character, to fall out of the mouth
of the magazine and downward through
the channels CE), to an incline travel
ing belt Cd, by which the matrices are
carried downward one after another.
and delivered into the slotted assem-
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the Indian Territory, furnishes a cor
respondent the following:
L have interviewed a number of
merchants, cotton buyers and planters,
and s1nners during this week in north
Texas and the southern part of the
ChickasaW and Choctaw nations in ref
erence to this years yield OF cotton.
The general opinion of merchants
and buyers is that the crop is already
one half marketed. The ginners ana
farmers tell us that their crops are fuI-
~ two thirds gathered and the gins
have put up from so per cent to IS per
cent of the total amount they expected
to receive The crop is unprecedented
ly light. The early cotton is complete
" gathered and cattle are turned into
the fields to pasture. In adjoining
counties the boil worms are destroying
the remnant of late cotton
"A fair estimate of the yield in north
Texas would not exceed a bale to five
and one half or six acres. In 1894 the
yield exceeded three quarters of a bale
per acre In but very limited areas
will the yield in any part of the state
greatly exceed the above estimate ac-
cording to most trustworthy reports.
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Machinery and Appliances That Act Move Like
Human Beings.

notwithstanding the marvellous oper-
ations of the linotypes. or typesetting
machines, used on the State Journal
and described elsewhere, the mammoth
printing press used in this office is in
many respects even more wonderful.
This machine takes the white paper
in the huge roll as it comes from the
paper mill, unwinds it, prints the en-
tire eight pages, cuts the sheets apart
folds them ready for the carrier or mail,
counts the papers individually and
also in packages of f1fties.
The press which does all Of this work
at the rate of from two to three COM
plete eight-page papers a second 6, 900
TO 10000 an hour is placed on the
ground floor Of the new building df-
rectly in the center of the Eighth street
front. The machine is known as a web
perfecting press. 1t was built by John
J. Clause OF Chicago, III. Mr.. Clause
has been in the business of press build
ing for nearly a lifetime and constructs
the very best of web presses.
The machine weighs about fourteen
tons and stands on a foundation of its
own, entirely independent of the build
ing. The operation of the press is seen
from the sidewalk through two plate
glass windows, each nine feet in width.
A balcony in the press room also provides
an excellent point of view. When the pa
pers are printed they are taken from
the folder end Of the press in lots of
200 and placed in a counter balanced
box running in a chute which delivers
the papers directly into the carriers
room in the basement.
This press consumes for the daily edi-
ton of the State Journal alone a car
load of paper each month. The average
number of papers printed each day for
the first six months of this year was
1O,625.
Some conception of what this enor-
nous number of papers means may be
learned from the following statements:
If the papers printed for any one
single day were opened out and
placed so that the tops and bottoms of
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be used in the same manner. After be-
ing used the inotypes are returned to
the melting pot to be recast into other
lines, thus doing away with distribu-
ton.
The production of the lines" is eft
fected as follows:
The machine contains as it's leading
members a large number of small
brass matrices. The cut of one of these
matrices looks like a big letter ~, -
and it is used for that letter at the be-
ginning of this article.
These matrices consist each of a fat
brass plate, having in it's vertical edge
a female letter or matrix ca, and in
the upper end series of teeth (b).
There are a number of matrices for
each letter or character represented in
the keyboard.
The machine is organized to select
matrices bearing the required charac-
tiers, and set them up in line side by
side, with intervening spaces, in the or
der in which they are to appear in
print, as shown in Fig. s, and thereaf-
ter to present the line to a mold so that
the hnotypes or slugs may be cast
against or into the entire line of mat
rices at one operation.
The operations are effected by a me-
chanism such as shown in Fig. 6.
which represents in outline the princi-
pal parts of the machine. "a is an in
elined stationary magazine or holder,
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They are in operation all day and at
tract a crowd of people to the sidewalk
directly in front of the windows.
The Mergenthaler Linotype machine
IS pronounced by the London Engineer
ing to be the most remarkable ma
chine of this century, It's invention
and introduction are enecting a revO-
luton in the business of printing news
papers and books which is scarcely sec
ond in Importance to the wonders
wrought by electricity
1t marks one of the first and few sue
cessful departures from the long-es-
tablished forms of type composition.
This last great Improvement was the
production of a machine in which the
types We're produced instantly and
ready for use on the press by the mere
lingering of keys like those of a type
writer, the keys serving to assemble
temporarily in line brass matrices bear
ing individual letters, against which
slugs or hnotypes are cast in type metal
The machine is now extensively made
in two factories in the United States.
one in England and another in Canada.
giving employment to many hundreds
OF men
Each machine produces and assem-
bles nnotypes Dimes of type ready for
the press or sterotyping table at the
rate of from one column to a column
and half OF news matter an hour.
The Mergenthaler machine produces
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blankets thereon is kept for about six
minutes until the matrix is thoroughly
dried. 1t then peels of from the face
of the page, is hard, smooth and 1rs
proof.
This matrix is then placed in a cast
ing box shaped like a half cylinder.
Into this box is then poured hot stereo-
type metal. This gives a plate the size
of one page Of the paper and about one
inch in thickness. Before it is ready
however, for the press it is placed in a
saving machine which cuts the leaden
plate to the exact length desired, then
the plate goes to a shaving machine
which takes from the inside surface a
thin shaving to make the thickness Of
the plate exact. By the use of chisels
any irregularities or raised places are
quickly cut from the face of the plate.
which is then ready for the press, fit
ting exactly on the form cylinders of
this machine.
This process is repeated each day for
each page in the paper. When the
matrix is taken from the form the lat
ter is rolled back into the composing
room; the advertising matter type and
the type used for headings is distribut-
ed in the cases to be used over again
and the reading matter slugs and what
advertising may have been set by the
machines are thrown into a box and
placed in the metal pots to be recast in
to lines of reading matter or pages Of
plates.
The stereOtyping machinery, as well
as the press, is driven by an eight-horse
power electric motor, the shaftine and
betting being concealed in the base
ment beneath.
The building is so arranged that the
process of stereOtyping can also be
seen from the sidewalk
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finished matter of the highest quality.
II permits the operator to read and cor
rect his matter as he proceeds, thus
avoiding the usual errors in correction.
The action Of the machines was care
fully watched for months the require
ments of the printing office studied.
ana the advice of skilled printers
sought in all directions In the light of
the Information thus gained the ma
chine was modified improved. in
creased in capacity and made adfusta-
BILE or convertible to meet evarvr de-
mand- New shops were built new
tools and machinery devised and the
manufacture iRauguEated on the in
Interchangeable" system, which has Civ
en- American watches their great repu-
ratien- The result is the present stand
ara Linotype, a machine marvellous in
speed. in the quality Of its product. and
IN the perfection and action of its parts.
The principal factory is located On Rv-
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erson street. Brooklyn, n. z, and the
offices OF the company are located in
the Tribune building, New York City.
The Linotype machine is not q. type
setting machine in the ordinary sense
of the word On the contrary, it is a
machine which, being operated by fin
ger keys like a typewriter, creates or
produces type matter ready for use on
the press or sterOtyping tables.
The machine shown in Fig. 1 pro-
duces and assemblies side by side met
al bars or slugs as shown in Fig 2, each
the length and width of a line of type,
and having on the upper edge the type
characters to print an entire line. These
bars, having the appearance of solid
lines of type and answering the same
purpose, are called 'linotypes." When
assembled side by side, as shown inFig-
3. they constitute jointly form COM
posed of ordinary type, and adapted to
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sTEREoTxPINe DEPARTMENTS
Something of the Process of MoIding
the Pages Into Metal


the Pages Into Metal
The facilities for publishing modern
daily newspaper demand in the me-
chanical department E well equipped
foundry, known as the stereotyping
room.
In printing the State Journal the type
itself never touches the press.
The stereotyping department. is the
connection between the composing
room and the press room.
When the page of newsmatter, or ad-
vertisements, or a combination of both,
as is usually the case, is made ready in
the composing room it is wheeled on
an iron top table, or turtle, into the
stereotyping room Here a sheet OF
specially prepared paper, similar to
PAPER mache, moistened, is beaten
with large stiff brushes into the page
of type and linotype slugs, as the form
comes from the composing room.
BY this beating process, a Tnatrix, or
mold, is formed, giving the exact i'm
preston of every letter and character
on the page The form or page is then
pushed upon the steam table, several
thicknesses of blankets are placed
thereon and the whole put under a.
press, similar to a huge letter press.
The steam table is hollow and con-
tains dry steam with a pressure Of
about ninety pounds to the square inch.
Here the form with the matrix and
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The machine operators are all jour
neymen compositors. In addition to
the operators a machinist is employed
to keep the machines in first class
working order.
The power to drive the linotype ma
chimes is furnished by an electric mo-
tor almost nOiseless in operation. The
shafting is placed beneath the floor
thus doing away with unsightly belts
and pulleys.
In the new State Journal building
these machines are so placed that they
are in plain view from the sidewalk
just back of the plate glass of that por-
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laterally until the teeth engage the
teeth of the plate CR). This plate then
rises as indicated by dotted lines, lift
ing the entire line of matrices to the
distributing mechanism at the top of
the magazine. The spaces remain be-
hind when the matrices are lifted to the
distributor and are transferred lateral
ly to the box or holder CID, to be used
again.
The distribution Of the matrices to
their proper places is automatically
effected by mechanism of extreme sim
pIicity, as follows:
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OFFERS GOLD ZOE STLVER.
A Proposition by a Montana Man
Which N. z. World Suppressed.

Butte. Mont, Sept. 25.-R. H. Klein
schmidt, the Helena banker, today
made public the following interesting
letter sent to the New York World
about a month ago. but which was not
published:
Helena. Mont, Aug. p. 1s9s.-To the
New York World :-Gentlemen:- 1
hereby authorize you to publish that I
viii make a contract for one hundred
thousand dollars ($1OO, 000) worth Of sill
yer for which 1 will agree to pay one
dollar and ten cents (S11o) per ounce in
United States gold coin, and to be taken
as soon as W. J. Bryan, as president
of the United States, has signed a coin
age bill, which will provide Ter the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at a
ratio compared with gold at Is to Land
il any of those who are talking about
so cent dollars desires this contract,
and are willing to put UP forfeiture.
! am prepared to secure this offer by
forfeiture of twenty thousand dollars
(S20, 000). I feel confident that can ar
range similar contracts among my cir
Gle of business acquaintances for tWen-
ty million of dollars csc. 600, 0O0) to be
taken, one million a month for twenty
months after the signature Of such a
bill. Yours truly,
r.. II. KLEINSCHMIDT."
Mr. Kleinschmidt is owner of the
American National bank of Helena and
one Of the richest and most responsible
men in the state.