The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13
MONTANA AND MONTANANS.

suffered 9fOl Il little the past TWO
weeks from the snow and sleet storms
that have prevailed generally in the
high attitudes. The month of Novem-
Der went out with a sudden change
from a chinook to the cold of a blizzard
that the mountains and foothills were
covered with a blanket of ice which
did not disappear for several days In
consequence stock could not get feed,
! except in spots where the snow had
! thaw and freeze. A sleet storm on Sun
! day night also made the picking pretty
/ poor on Monday, but fortunately a
warm wind which prevailed during that
I day did much to dissipate the snow and
/ since then stock has Jared much bet
tef.-LiNingston Post.
7 To the informed and thoughtful OBJ
! server the prospects of this charming
/ capital of a state. among the richest
union. have long been bright and hope
I full; but now so near and brilliant are
/ the lights which relume those prospects
! that even the most casual ana super
! fetal observer may see them standing
! tiptoe' on the mountain tops tnat
/ tower around this amphtheater of hills
where Helena gracefully reclines in
reserved seat.-Helena Herald
his attorneys. brought sui at Helena
to prevent Mr.. Garrett, the county
treasurer. from selling for taxes the
property known as the State Fair
I grounds. Assessor Fisher had the gall
! to assess it at S11 900 and the tax on
that valuation calls for $751; The Fair
association is a. little short of cash this
year and is evidently afraid that Joe
Butte Inter Mountain
1t is said that Frank G. Higgins of
| Missoula is Of, tuIatjne a netition for the
appointment of associate Justice, rem
| defed vacant nv the death of Judge
| Buck Nv MANY Frank Higgins cam
didacv is looked unon as a huge Joke
| but his friends saw that if is straight
| From orr point Of view his appoint-
that are sometimes agitated. but never
happen.-Bitter Root Times
! eociaty r,antion IN SUNDAYS Ana
/ ND Standara intiroatas tbot JTranl,
Cnniov bas hean mivad mn in a ..func-
| 49,, y, Nv 10 ~ talIing y,hat . ,nan
| Lii 40 af,a, he roc haan dasnoiIed of
his yermiform annendix hut we never
tbougbt Frank would he puiItv of a
junction; re never ar.eu o.,a' way
| WI nv nv w ''N
mai
Dame Rumor has II that Hon
| pbon.s - MarsbaI1 NJ this citv iS
ahout to he annointed limited states
district attorney for Montana we
hastan IN conpratnlata the eminent
iurist in authorization of the appoint-
| ment b,It darn IL all come To think
than three years-Missoula Democrat.
While Bitter Rooters We're shifting
the balmv Chinool, breezes last week
|
dulging in visions of a hot time in the
old town thai night. the mercury at
Havre, in the eastern part of the state,
! dropped Witt a. duh sickening thud to
ant ~ live in a trnnicai countTv after
All -Hamilton News
\ -
/ Montana HOG bear yattino Soma r.tb
ar ,Indasirabla CLIMATE lataiy hacsuse
NJ the waathe, h,,reau at Uavre proh-
ably Hayre is the coolest point in Mon
Gated here a. large part of the state
particularly this locality. is credited
| with the kind of climate which pre-
| walls at that point-Great Falls
! Leader.
Governor Smith may experience con-
a successor to the late Associate Justice
Buck Ife he appoints a democrat he
will probably have reason to wish he
had chosen a populist. and if a populist
receives the appointments. the governor
may afterwards regret that he did not
make the award to a democrat Fort
II beats all how the free silver people
of Montana are being looked after and
the McKinleyites getting not even q
these people ON the string where he can