The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-05
Montana Comment.

Montana Comment.
Surgeons having found that the stom-
ach is not vital organ they might eX-
pertinent OH certain men to determine If
they could live without their gall
/ Helena Independent.
We wish everybody on this dun-colored
| volcanic crust of sin happy and pros
| porous New Year and hope the wolf of
| poverty may die with hateful plutocratic
| inertness.-CastleW Whole Truth.
II the Ohio fight were TO resolve itself
INTO choice between Mark Hanna and
calvin Brice the American people could
quietly sit on the fence and display no
further interest in the proceedings than
an occasional Go ii skunk, go it snake"
Butte Miner
The Anaconda Standard has sent to
Secretary Sherman $500 to be applied to
the Cuban relief fund. The Ward line of
steamships has offered to transport pro-
ions for the sufferers free of charge.
American generosity is slowly awakening.
Buffalo Express.
The Anaconda Standard is soliciting for
n FUND to aid the starving and suffering
Cubans. The fund has reached more than
$1,000 and shows the spirit of the people of
this undesirable state" to respond
quickly and promptly to calls for aid
from whatever quarter they may come.
Townsend Star
The election was carried but at a ire
mendous cost to the gold standard men
and now they demand their reward A
further disruption of the republican party
Is now imminent and it will have to be
ruled by either the men who favor the
gold standard exclusively or those who
want to stand by the st. Louis platform.
Red Lodge Picket.
In the meantime the laborng men of
Montana as well as all other law abiding
American citizens stand indignant and
aghast at the unprovoked murder of Fred
Whitney and they call upon the patriotic
men of a sister state to enforce the law
against the murderers or to confess that
Idaho has reapsed into barbarism-
Butte Inter Mountain.
IT is bound 10 be a merry war and any
way it goes the democrats will be bene-
hted by the results, but if Hanna should
be defeated 1t Will be a slap in the face of
the administration that will set the presi-
dents friends wild, and revenge" will be
the motto of the administration men.
Foraker will have his hands full to square
himself with his party.-Great Falls Trib-
Gne.
Several exceptionally handsome Christ
mas numbers of Montana papers have
reached our desk the past week. The An
aconda Standard published a 4S-page edi-
ton, hlled with interesting special mat
ter, fine illustrations and inclosed in beau
tiful colored cover. 1t was a credit to the
Standard and the state. Among its arti-
Giles We're brief biographical sketches of
four Montana pioneers Hon James Fer
gus heading the list and followed by Mel
son Story, Thomas Cruise and Conrad
kohrs.-Fergus County Argus.
There are undoubtedly many in Madi-
son county who would be glad to aid the
starving women and babes of Cuba The
Anaconda Standard is receiving money
subscriptions and forwarding the same by
wire daily to the state department at
Washington. The first day contributions
were asked for nearly $1,000 was the sum
total contributed. The Standard ac-
knowledges all donations through its
news columns. The Madsonian would
like to see Madison county well repre-
scented on this roll of honor.-The Madi-
Sonian.
There are many things working quietly
I'm this neck o woods and all things
pointing to a prosperous spring. Many
things unlocked for will transpire during
the next few months and all will be in
the interest of prosperous season
There are not few mining transactions
taking place and the preliminary work
for much development work besides the
erection of mills and the putting in of
new machinery is going quietly on. We
will awake early next spring to find our
selves in the busiest little mining camp in
Montana.-Libby Montanian.
Had the people of other states done as
well as have the 100000 of this state, the
nations productions for the year would
amount to twenty billion dollars. or one
third its former estimated wealth. But
this cannot be expected. when all of the
reports above mentioned and many others
prove the superiority and superabundance
in Montana of every thing good from
pure air and water up Tor DOWN TO barley
and beer. Yet the cyclone and flood like
suffering and death, are little known and
less terrifying here where the sweet, soft
chinook brings us in midwinter, as at this
very writing. the delicious SAVIOR and
fairNlike caresses of a spring time zephyr
in the sunny somth.-Helena Herald.