The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-20

senator IaNorS return TO the sei-ate--
| Butte Tribune.
Judge Brantly has called grand jury
| at Anaconda to Investigate alleged vio-
lation of the gambling law. He seems
to be playing the high card.-Iielena In
| dependent.
The president got around TO Montana
| yesterday In good shape Though il was
a little over a week before Christmas the
| gifts Will serve to cheer several Montana
firesides.-Butte Miner
Faro games, square or crooked, are
against the law of the state. Even when
! gambling was licensed there was a heavy
penalty for running crooked games. Now
| the law applies to all and the authorit es
are not supposed to discriminate.-Butte
Miner
| The Republican does not care to edi-
| torially discuss the commissioner matter.
] 1t is a question for the courts to deter
mine and this paper will cheerfully ac-
| quiesce in the decision whichever way 1T
is Saskatchewan Republican.
| Rumor has it that Attorney Pigott is
| one of the leading aspirants for the SUI
| preme bench. to succeed the late Judge
Buck. 1t is further rumored that Gov
ernor Smith may not make the appoint
ment of associate justice without the
aid or consent of certain prominent
democrat.-For Benton River Press.
There is no class of people in our state
that has passed along the period of d.
preston that has prevailed since 1893 so
evenly and with such little distress as the
farmers of our state These people have
not had 1t so very easy, but they ha e
had 1t much easier than the rest of the
community.-Roeky Mountain Husband
man.
DIR. Shawk boasts the possession of the
finest fishing rod in these parts. The rod
is made out of wood imported from Syria,
bertha bara is the name of the wood,
which has very great strength and is at
the same time extremely light. The cary
ing of the rod was done here and the doc
tor put on the silk finish himself.-Liv-
ingston Post.
j. c. Robinson, an eminent attorney of
Deer Lodge, has departed this life and
carried with him the good will of every
man acquainted with him. He was a fine
lawyer and enjoyed the respect and conf
dence of every member of the bar. He
was of a modest nature. though friendly
to all, and society has lost man of S en-
ling worth. May he rest i'll peace.-Boul-
der Sentinel.
For some time it has been talked in
Great Falls that w. l. Pgott was more
than likely to be appointed to the
cancy on the supreme bench caused by
the death of Judge Buck, and now the
story comes from the outside. The APP
pointment of Mr. Pigott would be par
ticularly gratifying to the people of Great
Falls and would be one which the gov
ernor would never have cause to feel
ashamed of.-Great Falls Leader.
It's an i'll wind that blows no one any
good The washouts and land slides
along the Great Northern railway have
caused great loss to the company but
hundreds of men have had to be en-
ployed TO repair the breaks, and these
men have spent most of their earnings
near the scene of the damages, making
fairly good times for the present at least.
Butte Mining and Railway Review.
Ho, no, The legislature has no legal
right TO appoint county officers when it
creates "A new county. If upon that the
decision was reached that the commits
sioners of Granite county elected last
year should have taken their seats this
year, we proffer the prediction that the
decision will not stand. 1t is a very slen-
der thread upon which to hang ones
hopes. Judge Brantly can find nothing in
the constitution which determines how
new county shall be created or its Of
fees filled.-Choteau Montanian.
Associate Justice Buck, of the supreme
court one sentence from the splendid
tribute of his lifelong friend. Associate
Justice Hunt, should be engraved upon
the hearts of the people, "He died with
out dollar except his policies of insur-
ance." Too often tho public m sjudges
the integrity of public men and knows
little of the earnestness and sincerity and
devotion with which official duties are
performed Occasionally "A man in high
fs,;a 20 IaJi c,,,l he
world awakens to the fact that an hon
est man is true to his conscience wherever
placed.-Butte Mining World.
1t is not beyond the bounds of posi-
biity that the country may witness an
other Kaleidoscope flop by the Hon.
Thomas Henry Carter on the silver ques-
ton. in which he will be in appal ent
opposition to the administration. Put the
opposition will only be apparent and the
republican managers will know that the
senator's words are to be taken only IN
Pickwickian sense. He has his eve on
possible second term in the senate, and
will have to make medicine with the sill
yer republicans of this state. But we
would remind the senator of the adage
about the impossibility of ''fcoling all of
the people all of the time. Billings
Times.
Johnson is the son of "A white father
and black mother. born out of we'd
lock. Imagine, if you can, JohnSon'S
father prisoner in Missoula liable to
be lynched by Infatuated blacks If taken
back to Missouri; the men who protest
against Johnson being returned to such
death at the hands of white men would
be those who would protest against john
sons father being taken back to be killed
by blacks. The principle of justice, as we
have said. must prevail. All legal means
should be exhausted TO prevent Johnson
being taken back to Missouri. Right Is
right and will harm nobody" Is an old
saying and true one.-The Muscular.
Inasmuch as that portion of the state
now within the confines of Ravalli has
never in its history been horored by the
selection of state officer from its array
of gifted though modest material. IL
would not be the part of presumption TO
ask for the appointment now under con-
sderation. Ravalli and a large majority