The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31

the Observation-Disclosures
Carbon county is prosperous and
has the largest part Of its farm and
coal mine products of last year on
hand to dispose of.-Belfry News.
The opposition to Beckham In Ken.
lucky can break the deadlock by hav.
ing MI. Bryan make another speech In
favor Of the former governor.-Hel.
ena Record.
Why not have a midwinter base.
ball game. The players would keep
from freezing and the audience would
make it warn for the umpire.-Fergus
County Argus.
One of these days one Of those gen.
tleman chauffeurs who skid the West
Granite street hill will kill a child.
Then there will be Developments
Butte Inter Mountain.
1t is encouraging that the railway
men have reached the stage where
they are willing to talk 1t over with
the president. Awhile ago they were
misunderstanding.
MI. Bryan, who is spending a few
days in Washington, is so pleased with
it that he has hopes Of SO %perfecting
his plans that he can spend a few
years there.-Anaconda Standard.
It may be all right for a newspaper
to wait for subscription money until
the farmer sells his wheat, but blamed
# we believe they should wait until
the century plant Observation-Disclosures
Pilot.
After suffering so much by having
politicians steal his thunder, William
Jennings Bryan must be doubly an
noyed to find a young senator walk.
ing of with his very name.-Miles
City Independent.
1t will be hard to make Spain be
lieve the statement made by a naval
critic that our battleships are unfit
for actual warfare. 1.-THE proof of
the pudding is in the eating thereof
Virginia City Times.
There is really no reason to appre-
bend that Mr.. Bryan's personal es-
pousal OF former Governor Beckham
turned any Of the Bradley republican
vote to that infant phenomenon
Butte Inter Mountain.
With a deficit Of 800, OO0, 900 staring
this country in the face next year, 1t
is reasonably certain that Uncle Sam,
through his congress, will cut down
materially the estimates for the next
fiscal year.-Missoula Herald.
The fellows who attempted to make
a panic and failed are trying once
more to blame '"this fellow Roose-
velt'' for the disturbed conditions. All
that the president is to blame for is
the prevention Of a panic.-Missou-
liam.
Having choked the stuf1ng out of
the goose that laid the golden egg, the
East Helena smelter announces q
modification in the squeeze and asks
the goose to please come back and
bring the whole family.-Great Falls
Leader.
II some of the sheepmen assem-
bled at the Helena meeting would but
take the advice Of 1. D. o'Donnell Of
Billings and raise more alfalfa and
less howl for special range privi.
.leges, the sheep business would not
suffer appreciably thereby.-Great
Falls Tribune.
A Chicago woman found a baby
wrapped in a newspaper, and lying on
her front door step not long ago. She
took the youngster into the house
with the remark that the incident was
nothing extraordinary-that she was
never surprised at anything she saw
in the newspapers any more.-The
Plainsman. 5#.
Colorado now has a Harry Orchard
all her own. His name Is Antoine
Neroni and he has confessed to 16
murders and had several other kill
ings on his date book, but was arrest
ed before he could carry them out.
Unlike Orchard, the dago does not aim
to have anyone hanged along with
himself. though he does claim he was
inspired to the deeds by the "Black
Hand" neutrality-suspicious. Courier.
The reason We don,f lnuh1ish Items