The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-30
THINGS SEEN OR HEARD
Fresh Topics of Interest to the
People of the Garden City.
NATURAL HISTORY CAMP
Matt Coleman Finds His Overcoat Minus
His Circus Tickets-Fourth OF July
Window Displays State
Game Laws

Missoula, June 29-Active prepara-
tons are being made for the opening of
the natural history camp which the
state university will this year conduct
on the shores of FIathead lake. The
plans of this camp have been fully dis
cussed in the Standard during the past
two months and are pretty generally
understood. Professor Elrod of the
state university and Superintendent
Hamilton of the Missoua public
schools, who will be in charge of the
camp and its work, have their material
together and are assured of better at
tendance at the camp than they had
who will this summer combine study
with pleasure and take a months prac-
teal work in biological investigation.
The situation of the camp is an admir-
able one and will afford splendid oppor-
tunities for the pursuit of the various
branches of natural science which will
be taken up There is also some good
sport in the region where the camp is
to be located and those who will make
up the camping party are looking for
ward to some pleasant experiences.
Matt Coleman has found his oyercoat
that was stolen from his buggy last
week. The fact that his spectacles We're
in his pocket when the coat came back
and that nothing was gone but the cir
Gus tickets leads him to believe that
the coat was taken, either by A. III.
Stevens. himself, or through his con-
nivance. Mr.. Stevens, Matt says, want
ed to so to the circus and it is at his
door that he lays the loss of the tick
cts that he had purchased to see the
big show. The two are still fighting
the matter out and when the result is
reached it will be interesting to know
how it was that Matt lost his tickets
and who it was that took them. The
fact remains that he was deprived of a
view of the big show
Chief of Police Angevine should take
a walk up and down some of the prnci-
pal business streets some of these days
and see how the merchants are taking
advantage of his leniency in the en-
forcement of the ordinance which for
bids the obstruction of the sidewalks by
boxes and merchandise displays. 1t is
not SO bad when the displays are kept
close to the buldings-that is possibly
all right-but when they are crowded
to the outer edge of the walks and are
allowed to remain there for weeks and
weeks it is time that some notice were
taken of it.
The windows of the stores are taking
on their Independence day appearance.
The early displays are in fine taste and
evidence much originality and ingenu
ity. One of the Higgins avenue grocery
stores has a window display that at
tracts considerable attention, though it
is not very elaborate. In the back
ground is a small wheel with clothes
pins tied to the rim all around. This
is labeled "a pin wheel" A tallow can
die, to which have been attached legs
of wire and upon which is painted a
face, is marked "A roaming candle" A
tin can, resting on a pile of soda crack
ers is marked Can on crackers Some
egg shells-presumably from some of
the (Nebraska) ranch eggs that the
establishment handes-are tagged
Bum shells" The background of the
window is fort made of canned yege
tables with bottles sticking through the
loop holes.
The state board of fish and game
commissioners are distributing a poster
printed upon cloth, which gives a brief
summary of the state game laws. This
poster is being sent all over the state
and it is the plan Of the sportsmen to
have it placed conspicuously in all re-
gions where there is fishing or hunting,
so that it will inform those who are
not posted as to when they may shoot
and what The closing sentence on the
poster, which is signed by r. A. Wag-
ner state game warden, and Morton j.
Elrod, chairman of the state board of
game and fish commissioners, is: TT
is the duty of every peace officer in
the state to see to the enforcement of
the above laws. Friends TO game and
fish are urged to aid in their protection
and in the enforcement of law. The
rangers of the forest reserves are in
structed by the United States govern
ment to enforce state laws in the re-
serves and rangers in the reserves in
Montana are given authority by the
state board of fish and game commits
sioners to enforce the state laws"