The Anaconda standard., 1897-12-22
MONTANA AND MONTANANS.

| 1t would prove interesting to publish
| few of Tom Carters many verbal and
written pledges made to Gust Moser in
| relation to the Flathead reservation.
| Gust may be a geese-but don't you think
| it.-Missoula Democrat.
| The holiday edition of the Anaconda
standard. issued yesterday, was most
excellent piece of work in every way
The contents showed evidence of great
care having been exercised in the selec-
| tion and the Illuminated cover was a
very pretty and artistic affair. 1t was
dainty in design and delicate in eXeeu-
| tion and reflected great credit upon the
Standard.-Butte Miner.
Butte is laboring under the impression
that she is bigger than Montana and has
the concentrated nerve to officially am
nounce that she permits gambling for
revenue only. Gamblers are fined month
| ly in Butte as are the women who con-
duct gilded temples of sim This may
be all right as far as filling the hungry
Golfers of the city treasury but it is the
most brazen insult to law ever offered
| In what purports to be a civilized COM
munity. What part of this money goes
to the county? None, although some of
1t may go toward augmenting the salar-
les of the well paid enthusiastically
! County Gazette.
The frequent visits to Butte of Col.
| Sanders, chief advocate for the Chinese
| boycott cases, is a reminder that the an
| swer of the Butte defendants was made
in the case some two months ago, and al
| though ii is now the colonel turn to
| spiel, he does not do it, The rumor has
| been current for a week or two that the
| Chinese and their attorney are more or
| less up stump and have about concluded
| to drop the prosecution and let the cases
| go by default, acting on the theory of
| several recent decisions which affirm
| that any man has the right In this free
| country to ask patronage for his frienes,
/ which is about all that the Chinese boy
| cott amounts to when you sift it down.
| Butte Bystander.
The Times is proud TO see the Inter
| Mountain declare itself and we trust a
| horse butcher or any other kind of a crit
| ter in the critter business, who jumps
on the Inter Mountain or any other
newspaper because his internal organs
have gone wrong, will have all the LIBEL
suits they want to attend to before they
have done. A butcher who will defraud
| and lie to his customers by selling to
| them horse meat, should be exposed
! providing he was caught in the trick
and given quick shift to the peniten-
| tiary. A man who will do a dirty nasty
! trick of that description, is too low 10
! be recognized and too nasty to be per-
mitted to live in the town. Horse meat
may be o. X. up in Dawson, but in Butte
! If a butcher attempted, to sell it under
| the representation that it was the pure
kind of truck he should be made to suf-
! fer for the fraud and deceit.-Butte
| Times.
Capt Thomas p. Fuller of Helena has
| been appointed as Indian agent at the
| Blackfoot reservation in place of George
| b. Mclaughlin resigned. This ends a
| chapter in which a good deal of republi-
| can scandal has been mixed up. Just
| how much truth there may have been in
! the reports of deals connected with the
| opening up of the reservation will prob
| ably never be known. Likewise the ma
| ture of the pressure brought to bear en-
| Agent Mclaughlin to induce him to re-
sign an office which he was so much
| pleased to get will also probably be kept
a secret. The new appointee is n fr end
| of Senator Carter's. AS far as the Trib-
une knows he is qualified for the postio
| and will make a good agent. DR.. Nc
| Canns Sand Coulee friends will hardly
| be pleased with this second slight put
on him by Senator Carter. however. The
| goldbug forces at Sand Cou,ee have a
| grieyance.-Great Falls Tribune.
! 1t may be that Mr.. Hill did not foresee
| the effect of the success of the enterprise
| he undertook. and yet he must have ex-
! ercised foresight for it is known that he
! built his road to and through vast
4 stretches Of uninhabited country thus
paving, as IL were. "A road from the
| crowded East to the uninhabited West.
4 thus making his road the precursor OF
grand civilization. Not only has the
! genius of this brainy man guided the
fortunes of the Great Northern railroad
7 from the Mississippi river to the Pac fic
4 coast: not only do we find great cities.
thriving towns and populous commun!tie $
| in the wake of the enterprise begun and
| completed, but we know that the cost of
| constructing the Great Northern railroad
| added millions of dollars to the prosper
ity of the country. and the fact that 1t
| was built many times augmented the
value of the real estate through which
| It run and which IL was built to accom-
modate Finally to the honor of the man
let ii be repeated that in carrying out
| his plans he asked for and received no
aid from the government. Coming near
home we can the more clearly see, and
ought the more highly appreciate what
the road is to the people of Flathead
connty.-Flathead Herald-Journal
The appearance of A. X. Yerkes name
in the list of stockholders of the new
bank at Helena is quite II shock TO his
friends i'm the profession. who have hoped
| that Montana journalism might be kept
free from any suspicion of plutocfacy
There are among us many who would
/ willingly have borrowed NerkeS' surplus
had we known it was making him round
shonldered 10 carry IL around and thus
saved him from tho taint Of Dives that
must attach hereafter 10 even his homels
Sour Dough ballads. In truth there are
those who. through similarity OF name and
profession, have confounded him with the
! Chicago millionaire who has recently be
come the owner Of the Inter Ocean, ano
insist that the mild. unohtrusive gentle
man at BoZeman is leading a dual exist
cuee at Bozeman and Chicago. Sueh Z
disclosure as Is made BY this ownership
, Of bank stock. together with the rumors
that arc floating around. Is sure To bs
hurtful tp the newspaper business ad
Z NertisiuC rates will become unsettled
subscribers VIII deem II impulitic To PAY
! subscriptions and thereby create a new
order ~ plutograts and the honored pro
I t1ss .1u viii he forced to subsist on cord
weed ANA farm products, an through tht'
|'H=adylsrd display ot wealth by broth-
p N6rhcs OF Bo1emau.--N eIlowstone jour