The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-25
CHOICE or STATE TREE
Pine and Balm Of Gilead Divide
the Honors.
AN EDUCATION is WANTED
By Cubans and Porto Ricans-A Request
That Montana Take Care OF Some
of the Applicants-Boys
g..- Are Ambitious.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, May 24.-State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction Carleton has
received from the county superinten-
dents of two counties the result of the
vote taken among many of the pupils
of those counties at the poll made on
Arbor day of their choice of a state
tree The returns received are from
Gallatin and Teton. Not all of the dis
tricts in either country reported. but
the figures given show an interest in
the subject The Gallatin pupils by
large majority favor the pine tree,
while the Teton county boys and girls
incline to the Balm of Gilead. The re-
suit of the poll in the counties was:
Gallatin-Pine 267, cottonwood Is, cedar
| GA, Balm of Gilead As. mountain ash So,
fir ILL., birch 4, spruce 3, W illow 3, quak-
| ing ash 2.
Teton-BaIm of Gilead rs, white pine
q, aspen {, cottonwood g. fir 4.
The state superintendent has also re-
ceived a communication from the Gu
ban Educational association of the
United States, an organization that
seeks to educate in this country young
Cubans and Porto Ricans desiring such
education, an outline of what the as
ISOLATION proposes to do, and request to
know if any of the pupils can be ac-
commodated in Montana. The associa-
| ton desires to know if at least two pu-
pills can be accommodated in Montana
The association announces that It has
upon it's list at least 500 applicants
| from Cuba and Porto Rico, whom 1t Is
| anxious to allot but who have no
money with which to pay for their sup
| port during the time Of their education.
fort afc1S- rrit hn
| ton, most of these applicants are
| without a knowledge of English, be-
sides having very slight com orahen-
| sion of what we term studions habits.
| Our experience teaches us that they
have excellent malleable material and
| with kind but firm treatment, my soon
| become willing to devote themselves to
their books. Any plan that YOU can
| propose to this association for tire adj
| vancement of its work will be gladly re-
| ceived.''
The association says further that so
anxious are the parents of these am
| bilious boys that some of them are
willing to go under bond or mortgage
their land in order that these aEpli-
cants may complete their education in
! this country. 1t is estimated tnar fl ON
5000 to 5000 will be required to give a
student his board and incidental en-
penses during a first years schooling,
| DeSlueS the Tree TUITION uC
| Is to receive. The association .,roDos es
as feasible plan that in each city or
| town which has an institution wi ling
| to receive one or more of these ouEg
| men, "let there be formed a committee
| who will stand sponsors for the .Glrd
and incidental expenses of each young
man for one year of trial 'vork at
school. AS soon as such committee in
form the association they are ready
! to receive a student we will allot to
them one whom we believe to be a COM
petent and reputable student
The secretary of the Cuban Il :uca-
tional association is G.. X. Harroun,
Kenney building, 239 Fourth avenue,
| New York. Among the directors of the
association are Major-General Joe
Wheeler, who is president; Albert
Shaw, Alexander Orr, and others of
like note.