The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-08
II. WAS A CLEAN BEAT.
Standard Bulletins Were Thirty
Eight Minutes Ahead.
MIGHTY WELCOME NEWS
1t Created as Much Rejoicing in Butte
as the First News of the Victory.
Standard Rockets Will Fly
When q Hurrah Is Coming.

AS usual the Standard was ahead.
The official confirmation of the glori-
Gus news of Dewey's unparalleled vic
tory was announced to the people of
Butte on the standards bulletin board
3s minutes before any other newspaper
had the information. Thirty-eight min
utes before any other paper, the
Standard posted the exact wording Of
Dewey's dispatch. More than AN hour
after the Standards bulletin board had
told the people the news the local pa
pcrs got out extras which were "A great
disappointment to those who bought
them. inasmuch as more news had
been posted on the Standards bulletin
board twice over h appeared I'm the
extras. 81
IL was mighty welcome news. After
the celebration OF Sunday night TIN
people became quite concerned aud
worried over the failure Ia hear any
thing further from the American fleet.
As day after day passed without word
the apprehension grew, and all sorts
of wild rumors spread, most of them
to the effect that in some way the
American fleet had been blown up ar
bottled up at Manila. Yesterdays
news showing that Sundays victory
was even greater han first reported
and that best of all no lives We're lost
on the American side. was almost as
welcome as the first news of the battle.
and created quite as much rejoicing,
although I'm "a quiet way.
The people of Butte can depend on
the Standard to give them the first re-
liable news OF anything important. 1t
will not work the people into buying
extras containing six lines Of news, but
will post the news promptly during the
daytime on the Standards bulletin
board. and at night will SEND NJ a few
rockets when the Americans win again.
When you see the Standards rockets
you can know there is a hurrah com
ing.
BY tho way. YOU ought To have one
of the Standards premium books. They
are RICH in line at this time and were
gotten up. according To the Standards
custom. to get Just what the people
want before they get over wanting IL.
The new book is intensely American. II
is handsomely bound in red. white and
blue colors. It Is styled The Ameri-
can " Cuba and Hawaii" liV,
subjects, indeed. at this time. TIL,
book is worth So of anybody's money
IL Is given free to anybody who vii
pay $40 i'm advance for a years sub
scription to the Standard. or So i'm ad
vance for a s~ix-nonths' subscription
Besides the pictures there IL an inter
esting introduction and descriptive tex
describing each ship and scene. Th,
introduction tells the story Of the de
yciopment of teN american navy. &rh'
first picture is HF> Oregon and she is q
beauty. Then comes the New York
Indiana. etc. There are "A rumber y
views of the Maine, showing her wher
in her glory and showing several view,
of her after the explosion. There is an
interesting account of the West Indie,
and Cuba, with scenes which are al
live interest just now. Then comes 9
description os Hawaii with a number
of splendid views. This is Of live in
terest. too. as the Hawaiian islands ar,
about to be annexed.
Altogether there are 1852 elegant full
page pictures in the book. Come in to
morrow and get a copy.