The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-28
THEY ALL WEAKENED
-Four Boys Who Started Out to MAKE
a Large Mark.
CROSSED THE YELLOWSTONE
Then Concluded to Work on a
Ranch One of the Truant's Ac-
companied his Father Home
The Others Followed.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Livingston, May 26-On Sunday last
four boys, the oldest not more than Is
years old, crossed the Yellowstone in a
row boat, and when night came on
three of them, in spirit of adventure,
decided to stay on the other side of the
river and camp out for the night with
out food, shelter or blankets. The old
est boy returned with the boat and
promised to explain to the parents of
the other boys why they were not at
home, but this promise he did not
keep.
The ones who did not come back were
Earl Kirby, Earl Geer and Arthur Es-
penback. The fourth lad was Charles
Espenback, and as he failed to notify
the Geer and Kirby families why the
boys did not come home, there was con-
siderable apprehension the following
day that they had met with some dis
aster-perhaps drowned by the capsiz-
ing of their boat. Along in the after
noon Henry Rowland, who lives on the
south side of the Yellowstone, brought
word to the anxious parents that the
boys had stopped at his place the pre-
vious night, having been induced by
Mr.. Rowland to alter their intention
of sleeping by a camp fire. accepting,
after a good deal of persuasion, the
shelter of Rowland's roof.
AS soon as their parents learned of
the whereabouts of the boys they sent
them word not to attempt to row over
the river in the boat, because the
water was rising rapidly, but to go
around to the bridge and cross there.
The boys started for the bridge but
on the way they discussed the proba-
bility of receiving a tanning for their
truancy when they got home, with the
result that they decided not to return
home at all. So when they reached the
bridge they kept right on going. After
tramp of four or five miles they came
across w. A. Rittenour, whom they
told they were from st. Paul and want
ed to get work. Mr.. Rittenour took
them to his ranch at Mission, and
learning whom they were, sent word to
Mr.. Kirby. The latter drove out there
and when he met his boy, handed him
a valise containing some clothing, and
in an off-hand manner, as though it
was the most natural thing in the
world to do, told the boy he had
brought him some buds which would
be handy to take along if he was going
away
Take your satchel and go IL you
want to-" said the father, but remem-
Der If you go that l now forbid you to
ever return to my door"
The lad replied he guessed he
wouldn't take the clothes and climbed
into the wagon. Mr.. Kirby also brought
home the Geer boy, but Espenback had
been taken sick and was too i'll to stand
the ride home.
This writer acknowledges the receipt
of a number of copies of the speech of
Hon. Lee Mantle in the United States
senate. made in support Of the position
of western republicans in their opposi-
ton to the unjust. unequal and dis
eliminating provisions of the Dingley
revenue bill. The trainers of the bill
had no expectation of its ever becoming
lou Ittt la tie nfI Cd Of
surfing the eastern manufacturer that
he would be well provided for in the
event that the republican party should
be returned to power in the next presi-
dental campaign. Yet the purpose of
the bill as a revenue measure was ac-
complished without its passage, as the
republican fiat fryers" can testify.
At this time it is interesting to specu-
late upon the prospects of the manufac-
turers who are being relieved of the
fat" being able to enforce their de-
mands for protective tariff upon the
lines of the Dingley bill. even in the
event of republican success this fall.
The stand taken by the senators from
the silver states is an assurance that |
the West will not consent to any such |
measure, and this fact is causing con- |
siderable uneasiness in the ranks of /
the monopolists who are clamoring for |
restrictive duties upon imported manu-
features
Senator Mantle, while heretofore al (
ways an ardent advocate of protection, /
virtually declared in his senate speech /
that the West could get along very /
well without protection if the East per-
sisted in giving silver the "icy eye"
Said the senator;
There is probably no section of our |
country that derives so little direct /
benefit from the protective system as |
the silver states. They are producers /
solely of what are called raw mate
rails and purchasers of finished pro-
ducts. They are also large and in
creasing producers of gold, and as gold
is constantly appreciating in purchas-
ing power it may be openly questioned |
whether they would not be the great
est gamers by a policy which would
permit them to buy their manufac-
tured commodities in the open markets
of the world, unrestricted by tariff or
other legislation"
The entire speech makes interesting
reading for the people of Montana. con-
tanning as il does mastery arguments
in support of the position taken, and in
addition a defense of the people of the
West, from the attacks that through
ignorance or malevolence have been
made upon them. Anyone desiring a
copy of Senator Nantes speech may /
obtain it by calling at the Office OF the
Standard correspondent in the Eetfer-
lin block.
Somebody borrowed Hector McDon-
AIDS bicycle the other night without
the owners knowledge or consent; later
il was Just as secretly returned. What
Mac" would like 10 know now is what
particular make of wheel the fellow
wanted. for it is evident that the Ge-
neva did not suit the requirements Of
the borrower.
Programmes have been received here
Of the High school commencement eX-
ercises at Albion. Neb., which occurred
MAY q. The principal Of the schools