The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-12-10
STATE NEWS

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The labor organizations of Butte
have decided to build one of the
inest opera houses in the state.
They propose to build and own it.
fhey propose to raise the money
by subscription and estimate that
IS from each member OF the order
in Butte will be all that will be
required. aei4 s
The Anaconda Copper Mining
company paid its employees at Belt
in November s114, 900 for October
wages. OF this total $50, 600 was
paid to the employees of the coal
and coke departments. In October
the company shipped from Belt
81, 900 tons of lump coal, $4,000
tons of coke and IA, 900 tons OF
slack and nut coal. aag .la.f
Adviccs from Glasgow state that
Sheriff Sid Willis had a close call a
couple of days ago. He mistook a
bottle of carbolic acid for syrup:
with which he doctored a glsss of
whisky, and swallowed the dose
before he discovered what he had
done. 1t took two hours of medical
effort to rescue him from the effects
of the polson.-Rlver Press.
The Montana mines yielded about
S4S, 900, 900 worth Of minerals last
year including IS per cent. OF the
whole copper production of the
United States. The state will
make a grander showing this year.
The copper. output will be lar ger,
the gold output will be increased a
couple of millions and the silver
output will also show a gratifying
increase.
Several weeks ago two expert
cracksmen swept through northern
Montana on their way east and by
way Of diversion, robbed two safes
in Great Falls, n at Arlington,
one at Benton and another at
Havre. Last week Detective
Broslin, of the Great Northern,
captured them at Dresden. North
Dakota: where they had Just crack
ed another safe.
A correspondent asks Us whether
etiquette requires n to knock at
the door Of an editors stnctum be-
fore entering. We hasten to reply.
If you are coming to pay your
subscription or bring in a nice,
JUICY item of news, don't stop to
knock. but just walk right in as if
you owned the place. But If you
are, on the other hand, on a col
lecting tour you should shake the
window and then knock at the door
until the editor opens. You may
sink down with exhau,ton before
be does, but then you will. be adj
herring TO the printing office Ell.
qdette that is bound to please the
average editor. Elk.
An exchanges says that a 300
acre rancho in California has bsen
given to the Salvation Army that
it may try the experiment of re-
claiming ex%>convicts by teaching
them methods of honest industry.
The plan is by M NEAR a new one,
nor have similar experiments prov
ed a bowling But the
Stlvationists are certainly well
qualified to carry out a project of
this kind, and if they succeed they
will undoubtedly be able to secure
Land for similar purposes in every
state in the union. The expert
ment will be watched with interest
by the people of the country at
large.
The Cree Indians are drifting
back into Montana and the govern
ment will make no more efforts tc
remove them. These renegades
from Canada are p~ilferers, violators
of The game law and destroy not
only the Wild game with which the
country is stocked, but 60 into
domestic herds often for q mess of
CUTS. There should be some way
10 which summary justice could be
dealt out to them. These pets of
the government cannot be coerced
by the law that is a terror to the
white evil.doer because the govern
men5 will interfere. They should
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