The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-12
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STATE PRESS COMMENT.
II the rains continue much longer
duck hunting will be good on the
high benches.-Fergus County Argus.
Winning an oratorical contest in a
university seldom helps q young won
an TO win q husband,-White sulphur
Springs Republican.
MI. Noah might not think much OF
these floods, but just the same they
are too much for most OF us who have
no arks at hand.-Butte Miner.
Hit keeps on rainingSit will be just
about a standon as to who is the
luckier, the farmer with his crops In
or the farmer with his crops out
Republican Courier.
A Colorado man writes the Denver
News in advocacy of remonetizinlg
silver. Maybe Bryan will not have to
hunt a new issue for the coming cam
paingn.-Red Lodge Picket.
Within about two weeks every re-
publican in the country will be boast
ing Of the fact that he was the first
man to mention Taft as presidential
timber.-Helena Independent.
We are at the beginning Of an un.
precedented era of railway building in
Montana. It will be a poor town and
a poor section Of the state that won't
have some kind OF a railroad.-Madi-
son County Monitor.
The farmer who is sure that seed is
too costly a thing to use in adequate
quantities belongs to the same school
or finance as the merchant who is
sure that advertising costs. too much.
Twin Bridges Monitor.
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The Conrad contingent was not
equal to getting through an endorse
ment of its leader at the democratic
county convention yesterday, but 1t
had the votes to kill the plan which
looked for instructions TOR John
M{fNha 11-I5nInrn nnn1~S lN&@S&@ @Jt$fgN3
With macadamized streets, several
more miles of cement sidewalk. a
central heating plant and a sewerage
system, Red Lodge within a year or
two can boast Of more municipal i'm
proyements than any other city Of It's
size in the country.-Red Lodge Pick.
ct.
Governor Edwin Norris has proven
himself a crackerjack when 1t comes
to leading a gang Of men walking the
railroad track upon being caught by
a washout, but he will have to show"
the republicans Of Montana when it
comes to being SO swift at election
.ttme.-Dillon Tribune.
MI. Conrad scored q point at the
Helena primaries, the Sixth ward in
that city having instructed for him
for vice president. The ward in
which his capital city residence is To-
Gated was not so complimentary,
which only goes to prove that a pro
phet is not without honor save in his
own Notwithstanding Miner.
Editor Johns, of the Forsyth Jour
nal. is in a fair way to have Mrs. Hell
en- Pierce Gray on his trail again. OF
Mrs. Gray's friends, the Crow Indians.
Mr.. Johns says: IF the Crow Indians
are as successful in breeding horses
as they formerly were in stealing
them every member OF the tribe should
soon accumulate a fortune."-Helena
Independent.
-I71lfr TlM- &T@cENWr E-n4Ef Nt4N aE EHss.I NJ.
A novel wager was made in this
city last Saturday between two we'll
known gentlemen, regarding the pres
idential nominations. The novelty OF
the bet IS that one man wagered $50
that neither Taft or Bryan will be the
nominee Of their respective parties.
And still some people claim thatstimes
are hard and that money is scarce
Livingston Enterprise.
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Sunday night the Miner received a
dispatch from Missoula that was sent
over $500 miles of wire in order to
reach Butte. Telegraphic communica-
ton is being restored, so that this
newspaper has abandoned its prepare
tions to receive news from western.
Montana via Portland, San Francisco,
Hongkong, Cairo, London, New York
and Salt Lake.-Butte Miner.
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There's a law in several Of the
states prohibiting the exhibition Of
moving pictures ~portraying train rob.
berries and other like scenes. The re.
cent holdup OF train near Great
Falls by four boys who had been
ssArodSs IN Hnornro<a donao Ah.1.~A