The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-14
is READY TO SLING INK
Becker Is Putting a Point On q
New Pen.
1T IS WAR TO THE KNIFE
Colonel Babcock Is Ready for the Fray
The Ex-Indian Agent Has
Long Knife for Sem
ator Carter.

Billings, July 12.-Major +. H. Becker,
who was recently deposed as United
States Indian agent at Crow agency,
finding himself Gnable to regain pos
session of the Gazette, which he had
leased a year ago to Colonel Babcock
for term of four years, has issued the
prospectus of new paper. 1t is under
stood that Major Becker has made tenn
porary arrangements with NJ. G.. Nor
riS of the Times to print the new paper,
which will be launched il about 20
days Its appearance is looked for
with interest by those of our good peo-
pie who, like DIR. Samuel Johnson,
dearly loved a good hater," as 1t is
known that Becker, true to the tradi-
tons of the Crow tribe, with whom he
has been sojourning, is after scalps, and
particularly the hirsute adornment of
United States Senator Carter and the
negligee locks of Colonel A. L. Babcock.
E. l.. Boardman, to whom the lease Of
the Gazette was assigned last fall by
Colonel Babcock, and who is a trench
ant writer, is ready for the fray, and
last week threw out hints that he
would show up Becker in a way that
would shock his weak nerves. So an
ink-slinging contest of gigantic proper
tons is undoubtedly to be pulled off.
In his prospectus Major Becker makes
the following lucid exclamation of mis-
course:
Being already the owner at Billings
of the best equipped newspaper office
in Eastern Montana, some people may
naturally be little curious to know
why should lauEch another newspaper
in the very same field. To those j wish
to simply say that in a moment of in
sanity q can attribute 1t to nothing
else) I sought political preferment at
the hands of the dominant party and
was honored. lost my reputation as
an officeholder (Which l hope l shall
never regain) and by accepting office l
also apparently lost control for the term
of four years of the very newspaper,
the destinies of which had been directed
by me for 10 years. My greed to hold
office under the administration of Presi-
dent Mckinley has been the best poEtl-
cal lesson ever given to any man i'll the
school of experience. l was taken in,
but the field is an open and inviting
one and if l do not occupy the same
some one else will surely launch third
paper in the city of Billings before the
close of the present year.
ut is hardly necessary for me to say
| that the new paper VIII be republican
| in politics. This would be expected from
| one who beat the gold standard TOM
| tom so long and hard as l did in the
| national campaign of 1896, lost the little
| bank roll possessed and barely escaped
with my life by reason of my advocacy
| of the ST. Louis platform during that
| memorable campaign. do not believe,
| however, that any one particular man
| or set of men control political parties.
Men may come and men may go, but
| political parties will probably continue
| to exist until Gabriel sounds his trum-
| pet, dissolving all things earthly, and
| the just and unjust are judged alike
| before a court from which it is said
| there Is no appeal
| Great interest centers in the baseball
| matches which our club is to play next
! Saturday and Sunday with the Miles
| City team, as hitherto our boys have
! not gone up against anything that was
not dead easy" and it is not known
! how they will fare at the hands of a
| good club like Miles. Should they find
Miles an easy game they Will go up to
| Helena and Anaconda with more con-
| fidence. Next Friday the regular club
will have a benefit. A match Will be
| played between the Fats and the Leans,
| in which a side-splitting, holy show is
| expected. Judge Frank Mann has been
| in active training for week and is re-
| ported to have reduced his weight two
| ounces, The lineup is as follows: Fats
| Manor, catcher; Carwile and Waugh
an. pitchers; Griggs, shortstop; Leon
| ard first base: Ross. second base; Har-
| ry Scott third base; Spear left field
Forester center field; Mann, right field
Leans-Jones, catcher; d. Van Horne
pitcher; Yates, shortstop; Harris first
| base: Hugh Evans, second base; Schad
third base; Matt Rademaker, left field
| Parkinson, center field; Donovan, right
| field.
! Frederic Remington, the celebrates
artist, and wife stopped last night In
| Billings, having come over he bur-
| lington, and went on to the Yellowstone
| park this morning. Mr. Remington
| visited the Billings club and found
| hearty welcome.