The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-05
STATE PRESS

STATE PRESS COMMENT.
Spring sunshine illumines the Land
OF the Red Apple in a manner that is
wholly satisfactory Daily Missou-
liam.
Mr.. Hobson's c~andidicy is eagerly
Endorsed by the Amalgamated Assoc
citation Of O%sculatory spinsters.-
Butte Inter Mountain.
The people of Helena are hereby
notified that Forsyth proposes to do a
Fourth Of July celebration stunt her
self.-;Forsyth Journal.
There should be special laws passed
providing for the punishment Of the
physicians and scientists who dis
cover new diseases.-Butte Evening
News.
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Mr. Brown OF, Rosebud, having de-
clared for Mr.. Norris Of Beaverhead,
it, is now the courteous thing for the
governors,to declare for the eastern
Montana man.-Helena Record.
One would think that after Anna
Gould's experience with Castellaine
that she wouldn't III a for
5Hellie de sagan or any other man
Fergus County Argus.
1T is the essence OF refined cruelty,
to seek to delude Hon. CIV. Conrad
with the belief that he is even Il re-
mote vice presidential possibility on
tn, democratic ticket -F:otsyth jour.
nal i
The democrats are doing everything
in their power to block legislation
and in a couple Of months they will
be on the stump, denouncing the e
publicans for not enacting laws Mis-
soulian.
Contentment is the greatest of all
boons, and the: farmer that can con
tent himself to push along in an hum
BILE way for a few years will soon get
on his feet; get on the road to pros
perity, progress and Independence
Rocky Mountain Husbandman.
Your tongue, by it's speech, notes
the condition Of your mind; no matter
what you say, the manner of saying
it marks your condition. The way
you speak of your town, your neigh
Dor, your friend, marks the good or
evil that exists in you.-Stevens-
Vile Register.
Those English suffragists in New
York have a right to complain OF
their treatment, il they YER really
knocked down and kicked by men.
They want to be mans equal, but 1t
is thought they do not care about get
ting upon q basis of equality with
these hoodlums.-Butte Miner.
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The dollar banquet by the billings
boosters Thursday night is reported
to have been q great success, there
being over 600 guests at the banquet.
It is hoped the promoters Of the at.
fair gave their guests more for their
dollar than the Billings restaurants
are in the habit Of doing.-Republican.
Picket.
Notwithstanding, thirty diff arent
languages have been tried on a pris'
oner in the county Jail, the authorl'
ties have. been unable to converse
1 WIFI IT'LL. IL Is du O1O SkO1y VI lAS
man who knows how to keep silent
in seven different tongues, but This
chap seems to hold the record.-Hel
ena Independent. q
It is now declared that tie talk OF
Inv. G. Conrad Of Montana In; connec
ton with a place on the democratic
national ticket was a thought OF Mr.
Bryan, and that the main purpose In
it was to put a spoke in the wheels
Of the johnson band wagon, which
had been travelling a little too fast tc
suit the plans Of the gentleman from
Nebraska.-Pony Express.
Senator JEFF Davis Of Arkansas
takes himself altogether. too seriously
Most people take him as a joke and
have not the least desire to see hin
made into carrion for crows, and
judging from the n in which ht
ran away from a man who licked hin
down In Little Rock q few weeks ago
1t would appear that he has g healthy
regard for his own hide.-Butte Miner
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