The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-22
BRIGHT IDEAS OF MONTANA EDITORS.

Some Of the acknowledgements ;
low-a-camel kind of mora4.sts are severely
criticising the government for settling the
Kiowa reservation by lot. Never was a
ceded reservation settled so harmoniously
or with less loss Of life and property as
this. The government Will remember tne
canteen moralist and attend to its business
in its own way In future.-Dillon Tribune
The Montana sheepmen have done fairly
well this year with their wool crop-im'
measurably better than during the Cleve-
land administration, and our democratic
contemporaries have found all their dire
predictions of low prices for wool this year
completely falsifed The rangers of Nom
tana are satisfied with the Mckinley policy
and the democratic partisans need expect
no political aid from the Montana Sheep
interchangeable Mountaineer.
Democratic editors are naturally little
shy about writing OF the more than half
billion dollars Of gold which have been
accumulated in the United States treasury
since the Mckinley regime began. and the
few that do are amusing rather than con-
vincing in their efforts to explain why
the gold Is there. It's presence needs no
explanation. It stands for the great PROS
perity of the country, which is the direct
result of republican control.-Alder Gulch
Times. g .
A good deal has been said in the papers.
through intervals with Col. Buffalo Bill
Cody, concerning a rough rider college to
be located at the magnificent municipality
of Cody Wyo. One account Of this edu-
| cational institution was reprinted In the
Picket recently from an eastern paper.
The exalted aim of this putatlye college
is to take the effete sons Of eastern mil
lionaires and train them in frontier life
in the hope of making real cowboys out
of them.-Red Lodge Picket.
The little town Of Deer Lodge levics a
city tax of ten mills while in many other
Montana towns the tax runs still higher.
Dillon's tax Of two mills. inclutlinh IL
brary tax, cannot be equalled by any other
city in the state In addition. ouc city
finances are almost invariably on a cash
basis. There are no outstanding registered
warrants bearing interest. in respect to
| local taxation the residents of Dillon are
the most fortunate people In Montana
Dillon Examiner. %
The wool market is proving quite dis
appointing. but after all the man who Is
out of debt can make more money on wool
at the present low figures than on any,
| thing else he can invest in. The sheep In
dustry is the equal of any other pursuit
! that we know anything about with wool
! at ten cents per pound. Many of our read.
erS Will take issue With TINS statement,
but it cannot be disproved. If we were
selecting a calling we would prefer to en-.
gage in cattle because they require less
care. The sheep is a constant charge but
| he pays for it and is not to be condemned
for it. More people lose money in specu-
| lating in wool than in growing it.-Rocky
Mountain Husbandman. = =
| Local spOrtsmen are indignant because
of reports which come from Bigfork to the
effect that the biological station people are
killing ducks and geese In defiance Of the
| law. 1t is intimated that the culprfts ex.
cuse themselves by saying that they want
what they kill only for specimens and for
the purpose of scient.> .: investigation, and
tab they ave State Game Warden SCOTS
permission to disregard the game law for
| the ends of scientific research. A careful
perusal of the act creating the ONCE Of
| state game warden and of that for the
protection of game birds and animals does
not disclose any authority for the game
warden to issue such exemptions and it
is hard for the layman to understand why
a duck or a goose killed in the open season
is not just as good for scientific purposes
| a. one killed In the closed season and In
violation of the laW.-kaIlSpell Bee