The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-30

bers OF he graduating class of the
Hfgh school. were graduated yesterday
by special permission from the board
of trustees. They were given full
credit for the terms, received their
diplomas and are now ready to go 10
the front. During the noon hour the
High school guards we're drawn nm in
line I'm front of the school building In
the presence of the seven trustees.
superintendent Hendricks presented
the two young men to President Long.
and in doing so said the companies had
been drilled for years i'm the schools
n the time had now arrived when
military appearances became a reality
n the bows who will go to the front
may expect to face war in all its stern
realities. MIR. Hendricks said a drawer
army OF volunteers never went to a
war than those who are going to assist
the ubans in the cause of freedom
and liberty. The superintendent COM
plimented the young men upon their
good school record and the opportu-
mites n lay before them. He as
sured President Long that the u
men who were about to receive their
diplomas. as well as the two young
men from the junior class who were
also going to the front, would renre-
sent the school. the city and the state
with credit.
President Long presented the diplo-
mas with an appropriate speech to the
student-warriors and congratulated
them upon their school work. He
spoFe to them b their duties as a
soldier and said he hoped and ex-
pected to hear that they and every
other volunteer from Montana distin-
guished themselves in the war.
Believing that the Butte militia
would leave for Helena on Monday,
IL was announced yesterday that there
would be no school for n and
mat the primary pupils need not re-
port. After the schools had been dis
missed. IL was learned that the militia
would not leave on Monday. therefore
there will be the regular sessions of
chool again.
Deputy County Attorney D'Gay Stiv-
ers yesterday wrote ex-Assistant Score
tary of the Navy Roosevelt and also
sent him a telegram to New York. Of
fering the services of a company of
cowboy cavalry for the regiment of
independent cavalry to he raised by
Mr.. Roosevelt and DIR. Woods IL the
ROCKY Mountain region. Mr.. Stivers'
wide acquaintance among the cowboys
who are acquainted with the fact that
he was raised on the range in Texas,
has caused "A great many of the cow
boys OF this section who are anxious to
participate i'm the war, to ask him TO
raise a company. For severa LAYS Mr..
Stivers has received visits from cow
boys asking him to interest himself in
SUCH an undertaking. and yesterday no
less than Is called upon him. Mr.. Stiv-
ers hrst wrote Governor Smith to as
certain IL a place for sue "A
could be secured, and receiving a reply
that nothing could be done for him at
present but that the governor would
interest himself i'm an effort to secure a
place for his company in Secretary
Roosevelts regiment, If desired, Mr..
Stivers decided to go ahead and organ
ize his company. His offer to Mr..
roosevelt yesterday was preliminary
to this step. In his letter to Mr.. Roose-
Welt, Mr.. Stivers offered a company of
100 range riders and cowboys, all of
whom are good rifle and pistol shots.
Mr.. Stivers further informed the ex-
assistant secretary that his company
would be recruited west Of the Rockies
In Montana, that the men were anxious
to become a part of the independent
cowboy cavalry regiment. and that
Governor Smith was favorable to the
project. Should Mr.. Stivers be unable
TO secure a place for his company in
Mr.. Roosevelt's regiment, he will organ-
lie anyway n offer the services of the
company to Governor Richards Of wy
oming, who is a personal friend of him
self and father, as he is determined to
go to the front with his IN
some manner. Mr.. Stivers also wired
the Montana senators yesterday, asking
them to bring his project to the atten-
ton of Mr.. Roosevelt, if he was in
Washington. Mr.. Stivers does not ask
the captaincy of the but
would like a commission as first or sec
ond lieutenant. His father is a retired
captain of the regular army. who has
u permission to return to the
army in the present emergency. The
son got a great deal of experience while
his father was stationed in Texas, and
Is well equipped for the project he has
undertaken. Mr.. Stivers stated yester-
day that he has received applications
from a great many cowboys to join the
company, but there is still room for a
few more. AS soon as he receives some
that the company will be &C
cepted in some branch of the service.
he will open a recruiting station and
select his men, taking the best of the
L. c. Trent of Salt Lake. who has
just returned from a trip East, is in
the city for a few days. He says the
here is not a circumstance
to what ii is in New York and other
eastern cities. He says the enthusiasm
everywhere In the East Is simply un-
und One day last week Mr.. Trent |
passed Hampton Roads and saw the fly
squadron at anchor. He said he
had never seen a handsomer fleet OF
warships or one hat appeared, to look
at, to be more formidable.
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