The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-31

position of their wives and children. They
are confident they viii be protected in
their citizen rights. All wrong The cat
tie barons of Tongue river have said no.
we object to having our range fenced, and
IL the government fences the reservation
we want damages. In proof of tlfis. read
what the Anaconda Standards Washing
ton correspondent writes.-Forsythe
Times.
It is now reported that after careful
study some of the parties contemplating
going TO the klondike to work for wages
have changed their minds. They reason
like this: Wages there are SIS a day. The
days are thirteen months long. Fifteen
goes into - nit times and nit over.-Fiat-
head Herald-Journal.
The conviction and sentence of Godfrey
DeMers for Illegally branding horses is
evidence that in some instances at least,
grand larceny Is Il more serious offense
than the taking of human life. DeMers
escaped punishment for the killing of
George r. Dilworth near Red Lodge only
to serve a sentence in the penitentiary for
appropriating from the range a compare
lively worthless ayuse.-Liyingston En-
terprise.
All sorts of schemes are worked by the
bibuous to obtain liquor without detec-
ton box arrived at Blackfoot via the
small hole in the top showed the observer
"a tempting lot of apples. An inquisitive
person mistrusting that the fruit was a
blind poked around with small stick
and found gallon jug of the oh-be-joyful
snugly hidden in the centcr.-Teton
Chronicle.
At Is the Chronicle ought to be as bright
and vivacious as the maidens of these
mountains, where God-given air puts
81, in
the eye. And so ii will. There shall be
no calamity bowling or pessimistic prog
nostications: no doleful wailing over pros
pective or intangible ills and ailments.
The Chronicles stage will be filed with
cheer and gladness. with song and music.
-Bozeman Chronicle.
When the worthy executive was plain
| William Mckinley and his fellow-citizens
| of the East We're bombarding Canton with
! special trains the pleasures of such politi-
| cal jauntS were denied to the less fortu-
| nate and more remote deniZens of the
| Rockies. 1t was a long way to Canton
| and besides we had troubles of our own.
| But William, knowing how it is himself,
| has decided not to let our lack of ready
| cash stand in the way of our enjoyment
| of his Observation-Disclosures Herald.
If the A. r. A. committee now engaged
| in perfecting plan of action and select
| ing candidates for the coming school
| election are successful this year they will
| have a working majority of the board
when all the good the present board has
done will go back into the same old rut
| of bigotry, hypocrisy and wasteful eH-
penditure of the school fund. Friends of
the public schools made Il gallant fight
| and won last year, but this year the light
| must be waged again more vigorous than
| ever, for the patriots are organized
and perfecting plans now for the contest.
| Butte Times.
It would hardly do to omit compliment
tary mention of our old-time friend and
| fellow-citizen, Col. G. G. Bradshaw, the
distinguished parsonage which the Boze-
| man Chronicle invariably delights to
| honor. We met the colonel on the floor
| of the house the other day. By the way,
he enjoys the privileges of the floor (when
| the house is not in SESSION.. So far as
we could observe, the colonel tolls not,
| neither does he spin, and Vet Solomon
| never wore more immaculate linen, sleek
| er broadcloth or nobbier Prince Alberts.
| The colonel is the same pleasant, social,
| comljanonable gentleman as of yore-
| suave as Frenchman polished as
| Chesterfield. faultessly attred and the
exquisite otto of roses emanating at all
| times from his attractive wardrobe. We
always count the colonel among our most
distinguished acquaintances and place no
| little store upon his unfailing friendship.
| w. w. Anderson in a Washington Let
| ter to the Bozeman Courier.