The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-28
MR.. BOOS FEELS ELATED
Notified of His Discharge in the
Bankruptcy Case.
CARRIED A HEAVY BURDEN
And 1t Was Not Altogether of His
Assuming - Some Revelations of
Helena journal Method Sit
Was an Honest Failure.


court in his bankruptcy case, and is
much pleased in consequence, as he has
been carrying a heavy burden for sew
eral years and one that was not alto
gether Of his own assuming.
The Helena Journal was the medium
through which he became involved to
the enormous amount of over 500, O00
This shows that it takes money to es-
tablish newspaper, a property that
pays large when it does pay and loses
faster when it does lose than any other
enterprise, and in the majority of cases
a newspaper is generally a losing ven
ture at first. Mr.. Boos is receiving con-
congratulations of his friends
over his discharge many
of whom Ire conversant with the cir
the obligations We're not entirely his.
When he applied to the United States
court to be released from these obliga
tionS, under the act of congress relat-
ing to bankruptcy, several newspapers
in the state seemed to take a fiendish
delight in sneering illusions to him,
either not knowing the circumstances
or being too unjust to tell the truth.
Having the opportunity, Mr., Boos talks
freely now that he is again on his
feet.
"Of course I feel elated," he said. land
why shouldn't I? No one likes to pack
around a 100000 burden of debt upon
his shoulders even if it Is honestly in
Cured. The Helena Journal was re-
sponsible for that debt. yet I know
that half of that amout used at the
proper time would have made the VEN
ture a paying instead of losing one.
The Journal did a great deal for the
republican party in Montana, as we'll
as the state itself. during its existence.
1t unified the party, if l may say so, and
gave some men a chance who other
wise would not have had it. had there
been no Journal l was doing fairly
we'll in Helena publishing the Stock
Journal and had accumulated scme
money, the plant, etc, being on pay
ing basis. A proposition was made to
me by Asel Ames, a prominent stock
man, to turn my paper into republic
can morning daily. Although not fully
in accord with the proposition al first
l agreed to the plan. l consented to
sell my plant for $4,000 and put $4,000
of the money into the new venture
Was Russell B. Harrison connected
with it?"
Mr.. Harrison assumed $4,000 of the
lndehtedness ana PAID II. MI Ames
was TO pay the other $4,000, but did not,
ana Mr. harrison PAID 1t in ms stead,
receiving thefepy tWo-thlfds interest IN
the new concern. We then bought the
Helena Record and merged it into the
Journal. We believed that there was
a field in Montana for one great state
paper such as the Standard has since
become, and we planned to fill this
neld. we started IN to make a Dig
daily morning paper, republican in poll
tics, and | think we succeeded
Did you have a good circulation?
Excellent, but 1t took big money to
carry out our plans. All or nearly all
the money that went INTO the enterprise
was Eastern money raised by Mr.. Har-
rison and myself. We bought and oper-
ated the first Mergenthaler machines
ever brought to Montana, in fact the
first west of the Mississippi river. We
secured the Associated Press. United
| Press and Postal service franchises and
paid out large sums for specials, Our
editorial staff was one of thn strongest
in the West; Lemuel Eli Quigg, for
merry of the New York Tribune: j. A.
Mcknight, prominent New York edi-
tor, and M. B. Keith, present editor of
the Inter Mountain, with Perry S.
Heath, now first assistant postmaster
general, chief of our Eastern cores
pondence bureau at Washington, were
on the staff during the papers eXis-
tence. We got the best that was to be
had At that time. We made republic
can paper that pleased all the republic
cans of the state il 1t didn't the demc-
Gratis. and the journal paved the way
for future republican successes. l don
believe there is republican who has
been in the state for any length of time
and taken an interest in politics but
will admit that the journal put new
| life in him and made him anxious for
! the success of his party at the polls
| You see 1t wasn't very fashionable TO be
| a republican in those days. There were
| plenty of ardent true blue republicans
| but they had been defeated so often
| at the polls that on election days they
cast their ballots in perfunctory man.
ner, not caring a tinker's dam which
way the cat jumped. There were re-
publican papers, of course, doing excel.
| lent service for the republican party
but what l mean to say is that the Jour
nal was the most ambitious effort thai
! had been made, the first Well-eQuippet
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