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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1905
Page
4
Notices show P C Kress and E L Poindexter listed with a September 20 1902 entry date in Dillon Montana as second class matter under the 1879 act. Subscription price appears at $2 per year in advance.
The Dillon Examiner guarantees advertisers the largest bona fide paid circulation in Beaverhead county and offers open subscription records for inspection. The note is dated Wednesday Oct. 18, 1905.
The Helena issue reports Governor Toole and Attorney General Galeway weighing the validity of land grant bonds for Montana state educational institutions. If Galeway’s opinion stands, interest and principal on bonds for the university and colleges could be repudiated, endangering salaries, maintenance, and funds across state agencies and facilities. The piece notes editorials and public silence on the matter.
A compilation of deeds and mineral location notices throughout the week ending Oct 16. Transactions include transfers to Schultz, Flat Rock Quarry, Peterson Cattle Co., and others, plus multiple quartz and placer mining claims across Wise River, Horse Prairie, Bryant, and Bald Mountain districts with various water and patent actions. Names include George W. Chinn Kate Fitzharris John B. Smith Samuel Peterson Ernest Nelson and Be ssette among others, with several parcels in townships 5-7 South and ranges 9-16 West.
The Examiner claims to avoid politics and locality in education coverage and praises efforts for better teachers and efficiency. Prof Harmon is cited as working toward these goals, justifying the paper's “natural kindly prejudice” toward improving educational affairs.
Montana papers increasingly abandon semi weekly runs as experience shows they raise costs by 50 to 60 percent while revenue barely covers half. A small daily can be produced near the cost of a large semi weekly, with better returns where the local field is promising.
The piece argues news on crime and vice should serve moral health, not private affairs. It notes critics push for public notice when seeking favors, praising reporters for public duty but blaming them for inadvertent sycophancy when private interests arise.
The Baptist church hosts a Friday lecture by Dr. Tilden on an ocean voyage from New York to Scotland for the Normal College faculty and students and the County High School. A social follows with light refreshments. Steam up early. ship moves at 8 and the event ends at 10. Everyone is welcome.
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