The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-02
ANACONDA news.
NEW MEN WILL STEP IN
The County Officers Who Take
Office To-Day.
MAY WAIT TILL TUESDAY
List OF the Newly Elected County omcsrs
Who VIII Assume b Rsins of
Government Within the Next
Day or Two.

To-day Is the day for Deer Louge
county to change hands. AT least 1t Is
the time when some Of the county
officials will go out of office ana 'he
men who were elected on the sth day OF
November step in. There Is a lot OF
discussion about the exact date OF the
coming-in of the new officials. The
question is as to whether they take
charge of the county government TO-
day or whether they walt until to-
morrow. The new officers. however
are entitled to step into their new shoes
to-day, and in fact some OF them are
already At their desks. The fac'
that to-day is a legal holiday
under the statute does not inter-
fere. with the new men taking ONCE.
They can step in and throw the otner
fellows out II they want TO. III tney
do this, however, they won't have much
satisfaction, for they can't do any more
on a legal holiday than the others can,
nothing but imperative business peihs
transacted on a legal holiday.
ANYWAY. whether they go In to-day
or Tomorrow, IL will make but 1T
tile difference. and the business OF the
county will pass from one set OF COM
petent officers to another, and that's
all there Is to IL.
The following Is a list OF the omicers
who will step into office to-day or Tues-
day:
Sberir-Jack Conley OF Anaconda.
succeeds John Fitzpatrick.
County clerk and recorder-M. Mar
tin of Anaconda, succeeds himseI1.
County assessor-George s. Miller OF
Anaconda, succeeds himself.
County superintendent of schools
Miss Helena NJ. Gleeson of Anaconda
Nfs.- MA nIiUtaV
County Attorney. II. Duffy OF Ana
conda, succeeds w. H.. Trippet.
Public administrator-John Y. Bat
terton of Deer Lodge, succeeds b. Il.
Brown.
county coroner-A. H~ardenbrook of
Anaconda, succeeds himself.
County surveyor-W. L. Pinegar OF
Anaconda, succeeds II. Ii. Davis.
Justices Of the peace, Anaconda town
ship-Frank Kennedy. succeeds MN
self: Thomas Boland. succeeds Charles
II. williams.
Constables, Anaconda township-Den-
is Lynch, succeeds w. +. Furay; va
ehebat, succeeds John walsh. mr
Lynch will act as constable in Judgt
Eennedy's court and Mr.. Shepat IL
Judge Boland's court.
The members of the Legislature from
this county who will take office to-mor'
row are John Fitzpatrick of Helmville
John r. Toole, Il. ID. Mats, j. M; Mad
den of Anaconda. Charles Boyian o
Carroll, o. Y. Warren OF Warn
Springs, members of the house Of rep
resentatives, and c. II. Eggleston o
Anaconda In the senate.
The township officers in the dineren
townships of the county elected las
November, as already published, VIII
also take Office tomorrow.
p. d. Twohy, the newly elected coun
" treasurer, will succeed d.. +. Halla
han. the present incumbent Of the office
on March 4.
Corcoran. will hold office for two year
more.
The board Of county commissions
at present composed Of A. NJ. Walker
II. c. Davidson and j. w. Geary ar
also followers.
With reference to the deputies in tn
will likely be made:
Sheriff's ~office-Under sheriff, Davi
II. Morgan succeeds NJ. NJ. Donoghue
deputies. j. J. Walsh, Joe Daily, Georg
Burnham and Jack Robinson succee
Joe Daily. c. X. H~ardenbrook, j. j. Mo
Guinness and job Schurtz.
Assistant county Attorney.
Casey succeeds j. NJ. Self.
In the office of the county clerk III
deputies will doubtless remain IN
same. with the addition OF one moi
deputy. which position II Is general
believed will be filled by Alex Brow
of Deer Lodge.
The board of county commissions
will be in session tomorrow and it
a part of its business, as announced
the official call. to fix the number
deputies of the various offices and the
co~mpensations. Now that the coun'
is a fourth class county, while former
Il was only a county of the fifth elias
there may be an increase in the numb'
of deputies. However. the board
commissioners will attend to that ma
ter.
The officers who walk out of Office q
day, and those who remain in o
fee. have given the county an excelle'
administration. One and all. without q
exception. have made honest. energet
and efficient officials. They may poi
with p~ardonable pride to their wol
while in office. They all ave hundre'
of friends who will wish them succe
in whatever undertaking they may
into in the future.