The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-07

Choteau county will nominate Tom
Clary of Fort Benton for sheriff this
year. Mr.. Clary was nominated for the
office two years ago and made a strong
race for the position, being defeated by
small majority. If he canbe induced
to accept the nomination again he will
make IL decidedly interesting, and IL his
republican opponent is not a strong
mana clever and popular candidate
Tom Clary will be the next sheriff of
Choteau county. Mr.. Clary is an old
time resident of Northern Montana
an honest man, of sterling worth, who
is popular wherever known. He is an
old-line democrat, a strong party man
and, IL elected to office, will perform the
duties of his position with credit to
himself and his constituency.
1t is announced that the pay roll at
Belt this month will amount to nearly
$4,000, the largest in the history of the
camp. The employment of a vast army
of men by the Cashier Coal e. Coke
company and the enormous sums paid
out in wages there each month has had
the effect of building up one of the
most important Industrial cities in the
Northwest Belt stands to-day without
a rival as the greatest coal camp in the
West and the city is growing and ex-
banding as the output of the company
is enlarged and increased. 1t is a pros
porous town in every sense of the term
and the people are Industrious. happy
and contented, with an apparently
bright future before them.
The plaintiff has filed notice of inten-
ton to move for a new trial in the suit
of the city of Great Falls against the
bondsmen of the late p. ]. Elliott, city
treasurer in 1898, which Judge Benton
recently decided in favor OF defendants.
The suit involves nearly $4,000, which
was on deposit in the Merchants Ma
tional bank when 1t went into the
hands of a receiver during the panic of
1898.
Old Pat Ferry of Sand Coulee has be-
come a physical wreck from the excess
sive use of liquor and tobacco sand
WICKED together. He was examined in
the district court as to his sanity. He
was not committed to the asylum ow-
ing to the belief that he would conval-
esce under proper medical treatment.
1t is alleged that Hon. Jere Sullivan.
chairman of the board or commission
ers of Choteau county-and a right
good fellow all around-is ambitious
for the republican nomination for coun-
ty treasurer. In modestly abiding to
Jerry's qualifications as a clever poll
tlclan, Cnarley Moore of the Havre
Herald says: Mr.. Sullivan is possessed
of the suave and persuasive language
of the Oriental siren, the soft and vel
vety tread of the Tammany tiger and
the smooth and smiling political cum
ming of such sly old foxes as Matt Quay
and Richard Croker. Jerry Sullivan is
not the cream candy, but the acid of
the republicans of Choteau county He
is the big mogul of their ranks. He is
a daisy; crack-a-jack. a. rip-snorter; the
ring-tailed tooter of Choteau, and in
the days of republican supremacy, 1t is
his to whoop 'em up and his to get
there with both feet, for when the star
of republicanism is on the wane and
the star of democracy is in the ascend
ant, his nest will have been feathered
and he may rest in peace and luxury
on his former honors in the, to his
mind, halcyon days of glorious repub-
licanism. We are told that he is out
for the republican nomination for treas
urer There seems to be no doubt that
he will secure the choice plum, as he is
first in the field and is collasng the
faithful as he gyrates hither and thith-
er through the county. He is doing
business on the ground floor and is
making combinations that cannot be
smashed in the convention. Mr. Sulli-
van is forcible, plausible and debonair.
and is making a systematic and telling
fight"