The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-05-19

serve to take a little attention from.
the California gTafters.
In Fergus county the lemon is be-
ing squeezed. Barnes-King is earn
Ing . profit for the stockholders.
-O--
He is a diplomatist who gets his
boy to NOW the lawn by telling him
that he mustn't do it.-Missoula Her
aid.
No state in the union can produce
a finer bunch of high school students
than that which is gathered in Mis-
soula this week.-Missoulian.
Even though Nj. Conrad substitute
a Panama for his old derby, the bee
will take kindly to its new domicile
and buzz as merrily and necessarily
as ever.-Anaconda Standard.
y "A nation which employs 10000 tele-
graphers filing and receiving C.
track returns is not the sort Of a ma
ton to shine under a democratic form
of government.-Butte Inter Noun
tain.
Some day some genius who has a
great deal Of time on his hands may
win lasting fame, in Red Lodge at
least, by figuring out Just what the
new electric light meter rate means
Republican Picket.
With four transcontinental rail-
roads %traversing the state and two
more in prospect, Montana will not
have urgent need Of a political adver-
Using bureau in the immediate future.
-Missoula Herald.
Here's hoping that Convict Rock,
who murdered Guard Robinson at the
Deer Lodge pen recently has better
luck in seeking the death penalty
than did Harry Orchard in Idaho
.Bozeman Republican, Courier.
The delegation selected is COM
posed of representative republicans,
all of them, with the exception of one
convert Of recent years, having been
prominently identified with the work
of their party.-Butte Inter Mountain.
When Mark Twain, in Captain
Stormf1eld's Visit to Heaven" quotes
an angel as saying that in heaven
they called the earth The Wart," he
expressed wonderfully the littleness
of Jul tiny ball OF mud.-Butte News.
Lewis and Clark county, where the
Hughes presidential boom was first
Launched in the northwest, now goes
on record for Taft. And this after the
politicians of the county haa led Daw-
son county to believe that the be-
%whiskered governor Of New York was
the zone best bet.""-Helena Independ-
ent. a
When former Governor Bradley was
elected senator from Kentucky he
made the announcement that his state
would support Fairbanks for presi-
dent. Now many districts have In
structed for Taft, demonstrating that
in some instances a United States
senator doesn't carry his state around
in his pocket.-Forsyth Times.
The action Of the state convention
this afternoon in sending a delegation
to Chicago instructed for Taft will
meet with the support Of good citizens
Of every party who want to see q
Roosevelt nan in the executive Of
dlce.-Butte News.
IN instructing for Taft Montana is
in line with the other states in the
northwest which love and honor
Roosevelt, and who believe in the
man who has proved by his public
services that he will be q At succe
sor to the present executive head OF
the nation.-Helena Record.
Poor old Hackenschmidt has reach
ed Paris and 10 busy telling the news
paper men how It all happened, ex-
planning that Gotch is not q gentle
man. What he says is probably true,
but 1t would be the part Of wisdom
for him to say nothing and saw such
wood az may be convenient. A de-