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WHAT THE ISSUE WAS ra l.t I*" Ias Uie lilllm sUi. Th Two eoading Features In the Brief Submitted Before the Su oreme Court in the Silver Iow Contest In the iullivan-olud case, as it canme before the supreme court, the admirable brief for the respondent was prepared by Jo.h W. Cotter and M. Kirkpatrick. The material questions discussed are thoee re uting to the qualification of certain regis bred voters at preclncts S and 28. It was eontended by the contestant tLlolhd that a declaration of lantention to become a citimen must he made either be -ore the court or in the clerk's olee: that the place is of the essence of the act or rermwnony, and if not there made it is null and void and confers .no right whatever n the declarant. The respondent's argu ment showed that, in Michigana, the exact question involved was passed upon by the suprene court, which said: "We cannot require the action of the clerk under the naturalisation law to ie held in any par ticular spot, or room or huilding without addling to the law a qualification of mur own not Indicated by its language and not required by any of its purposes." It appears from the evidklence, continues the orlef, and from finding 10 of the court. that it has been a usual practice in the county of Silver BIow since its organisa tion to make such declaration of intesl tion, before the clerk or his dolutie. away from as well as at the office of the clerk. Moreover this same practice has prevailed in the territory of Montana since its or ianisation--the original act of congress permitting much dec€laratkio Ibefore the clerks of courts having beenl passed in UtIU. It has never been considered essen tial that such declarations should he made at the office of the lerk, ibut clerks rw their deputies, especially in the more pop abous mining counties, have usually at tended for this purpose at places convetn -ent of access for the laboring popula tion, and taken the decrlarations and ad lainstered the oaths prescribed by the act. Nor has the Montana practice in this respect been singular or unpreoe dented. There is another imlortant question to a which we now dirLet the attention of the º court. It was alleged In the replication flied by the contestant that 100 of the votes rgiltemed and cast at precinet 34 for re- r upondent were not at the time they so voted qualified electora isn that they had I aot before voting taken an oath to sup- a port the government and constitution of I the United Sates. (in the part of the re spowdent a motion was made to strike c out that portion of the replication on two grounds: 1. That tIa allee fact if a valk and sulkienmt ground of conltest, 1 s4ou have beenl set fortih il the coon plant or statement of contest, amid came 4 too late in the replication. T2. That the fact alleged was irrelevant amid llnlmater i·l. and did not constitute a valid ground I of contest. The court granited tlhe motioI and those allegations were striekenL frowN the replication. This action of the oairt I is assignued as error. 1. This involves first a miatter of plead ing, and whether a new and substantive algund of contest can he set up In the Usploation,and whether It must he alleged a i- the complaint or n ani anendment e thereto de In due tnie. It will I oh served that there was not application to amend the eoInplaint by msaking the sle- I galtons in question i part thereof--they were left to stand or fall as part of thei replication, filed long after the timewa inmiled by statute for setting frth the I grounds of contest il such cases. (Conn. Stat. Montl . (in thiLs grond alone, we submit, the ruling of the court is justified upon the onlinary principles of pleading. 2. As to sufllciency of tihe alleml fact itself. And as to this we renmarl in thle Irst place, that the ,rnenliption of law is that all voters are legal voters. It is the relinary Iwesumptiol that all PIersoI are pr.eumned to obey. and not to violate the law. Here then it was alleged that 100 of the vote. cast for Sullivan at prinelct 34 were Illegal votes. Why Stolely for dse vesols. as allegekl., tt the voters had unot before voting takel al oatth to support the govenrrnnwlt atlll constitutiol of the ('nile States. But suppo(n these voters were native horn eitisetis of tl' Unitled States. then it was not leiumllslent ona them to take that naitl. Is theLr any prn. sumption that they were nIIot native Irn etltises of the I ialted States?' No; the presumptionl is ti oathier way- iLn favor of the legality of their votes. auid it must be alleged anid proved by the contestant tlat they were not citisenll.. and not belng s, tlhat they had voted withoult takilll the re quirl edstl. llut tier.n was nIo allegation that the voter. refm-rel to or aely sf tle'sll were' not citiselss. It i IlserePly alleead that they were illegal voters for lthat tlhey had inot takenl a saclllel oath. Iast "Ilnoa constat" that tlley were. reqsuired to take the oathl; for all that apWears they may each of themI have ha.les a native Iourn Lanwrical, ctisen.. That factI Im favor of ilnnocnce, will lwe garesumed, ulntil the contrary iL showln. And here the con tmary Is aIot even alleIged. It is no answer to say that the sllnple allegation of ille gality was enough without assigning a rue'ilec rnoun d; for even if that e.treIme view coul I. aimittled. II ssprlinr Innalmd iu this case is assiglm*le. andl that greaind in insultLiienlt. And Ihen the discussion eml this exceptiotl miighlt clou. for it is too elear for further arguIm1niat that upsoni eussnimo elemenltar.y iurilipls of law, the ruling of the trial ourt grlantiang tlw. naotion to strike out. is well sulm*arted. :L. HBut even had tia allcrtionl Itwei in feori arnd silmhtamane' sulfleselelt, we lassil tais that it was Ioi)t II legal lprn)l'uisit,, to the riglht to vote at time gesneral eletion oin tlh. first Tue.uelay i I k.toeher, IMIE, tlhat the voter should take all oath to suegpel.st the governmuemnt alndl conlltitutilos of tl. U'nitedl States. Anad this brings mitm to a review of the various enactments yll the territorial legislatare lln a l )y consln., splom tie right of suf'rmge,. anld tl( .rmartle. theounder. -Going Iuk to tlh I rganice Act of May oi. 1 c64. the constitution of the territory, we have in the fifth section the provision that all citisensof the United States anl those who have declared their intention to becoine Msh. and who are otherwise deserhed and qualified under the fifth see -tan of the act of congress prmtrding for a _e._por aygovernment for th, Territory of mdaho, approved March :id, i*te. shall Iw entitled to vote at the said first election and shall be elegible to any office within the said territory. but the qualifications of voters and of holding oflih, at all sub sequent elections shall bw" smrch as shall be. ,.emeiabed by the legislative assem At the A.ret sessi..on of the legislature. January 17. 1155t. it was .imacted that all ale citdlase of the United States. and those who have declaredl their intention to become euch shall be enstitled to vote for delegate to congress. and for territor t.U county and precinct o(fiters. provided hey shall beeitisels o(f tIel. United State( . sad sei ave eSded in the tsrrney swear ty ad In tMhe eanty n das ess S Nothe day of setles." l woud a"sh bbe esid At the fourth aessA. November Ua, b1r thes leglete a tmended tL boe ssetion of theaset a Ja7 r 1= . 1IM, .*nOtlf the seet with the wort la the Pro~io, "ther uhsitall be eltiseas of the UIa atest" omitted. Tbhis was fdowed b r d 1dS0o 17t of the ees eso, Ieeb 1,1817, declr t that "othins in the above saa.dator met should 1w construed to o f~oLot wi er the riht o any rloes raof Jsaualry , 187." An act do congress uuendator of the organic et appoved Mahrb 2, 187. dis approved of the laws passed at the two sedsions of the legislature held In 18.. the second and third seesion, cecept such as should be ro.enacted, and went on to authoise the governor to district the ter ri , and to provide for the election of e leglature in aecordance with the election laws pssed at the Brt session, and pro vided that "the qualifications of voters shall he the same as that prelrribed by the organic act, excepting the distinction thereln made on account of race and -I--, The legislature suthorlaed by this act of congress, known as the fourth session, ehacted the amendments to the election laws of the first session above recited removing t.w ambiguity in the original act. At the seventh session, January 12, 1872, a revision and comnpilation of the laws was enacted and section one of chapter :^ "concerning elections." is as follow.: "All male citisens of the United States above ther age of 21 years shall he entitled to vote at any election for delegate to congres, and for territorial, county and pre.inet oeficers, provided they shall have resided in the territory ,ix months and in tihe county :10 (days." This section depriving pcrsons who luad dleclared their inltention to becoane citisens of the right of suffrage was sromlptly amended by restoring the right of voting to such personls, at the extra aseslon of 1173i, by act of April 25, 1M7:1. And the Iame section was again amnended to make assurance doubly lure, 't the eighth regumlaresslon. February 13, 1174, by agail including such declarants. Again at the ninth sesioll, February 11, 11I17, the same provisions are again enacted, declaring all itisens and all per. sons who had declared their intention to become etlisens, entitled to vote, with some change as to perlod of residence. The revised statutes of Montana of 1879, enacted by the twelfth legislative assembly, belng a codification of laws Itn force on the 21st of February, 1879, re enacts the name provisions as to the right of suffrage. At the same twelfth session the above section Is re-enacted with a chanmge il pe riold of reskidence of voters. We next have the revisalon or "Compiled Laws" of 18811, the volumes now in gemleroal memo, beil a compilatlon of all laws in force oin January 10. 1817. Section 107 repleats the sunle provisvions as to qualiflcations of voter. Thus we have the territorial law onil the subject brought down the 10th of January. I8t.. ('itisens and those who have de clared their intentionl to beome suchb are entitled to vote for all elective officers, an.d still there is no requlirement in this or any previous territorial enactment tiat such declarants shalli go further and take an oath to support thie governmlemnt and constitution of the l'nilted States. Section 1021 of the o('npiled Laws Iputs the Inten tion of the legislature in this regalrd lt yond doubt, for t prescribes in terms the oath to be taken by voters when chal lenged, and tle declarant is simply to swear that "he has declared his intention to become a citlien of the United States;" there is no clause to support the govern nment and constitution of thLe nlited States. See also thle general school law and the oath therein mprescrlld for voters, to-wit: "'You do molen.ly swear that you are a citisen of the United States or have de clared your intention to lecomlie nuch." And tle provisions of the registry law enacted March NI, INIU, at the 16Il andi last session of the legislative assemlnly, held under the territorial organization, show with the utmost clearness and roe cislon the intention of the legislature to extend the right of suffrage to all those who had declared their intention to be come citisens, regardless of whether they had taken an oath to support the goverln lent and conslltitution of the T'nited States. Pee. eI prescribes that all personns applying to he rgisteredl shall flrst take the followinlg oath: "1 do solemnly swear, r aflllrm, that I aml a ertilln of thie ',lited Statesl. or that I lhave iec.laredl mly inten-ll tionl to hemowIe a citizenl of thw United States; that I eam of thle la of 21 years, sand have actually and not colnstrulctively Ibeen a hota lik r sdOlent inl Moltalna six nImonzthis and in the county thirty days, next preceding the dat of tle, next eInsu ing electioni. anld that I a, mnot .egistered elsewlerel in Monltana for this electoral ye.ar: u Ihelp iran. Gal." Se. also tiN. irovisiolns of rectiolns land 14 of tiw mlanmie statute. Tihe foregoing examinationl of tIe terri ttual legislation diahese. tlhe fact that tihe statutes .f the territory have never re quired as a prerequisite to to e right of suffrage that persomns who had declared their inltenntioln to ec~one rcitillns, should take au nath to support the constitution anmd government of the United States. Thine and again the very form of thie oath to e adnministered to tlis class of voters when challenged, or whenl applyilnq to he registerdl, has iten i prrescritd n tle statute, but such rqulireltemlnt was nlever ntentio.ned_, or ,mate Ipart of suchl oath. TI.e prorision of tihe law of longreim irrpo.rtliu to limnit tlm legIslative pIower of the territores iln the imatter of sultrage IM the particutlar inI question uslleit to have been formulatedi by the authors or compillr of the nrimsd statiutes of the United States. fromt a sImilar Iweovislon in tilt orgalic act., of M"Wyoniing and WashinIgton territories, anll to rhav Iw. oml)e a part of that outijlation ISiN. a1t1Ih ullon Iits In malge in 1143 at tie first session of the 4ki) cEngress. Tile Ilrovisions eferrdtl to read as fol lows: Se.r. IulU. "At all IuhIeIuenIt eke tions, however, In any territory hereafter orgallised by ongress, ia well as at all elections II territories alreatly orlgaisl,t tlhe qualifcations of voters and of holding olllee sllaI he such al nay he penwrlteed by the eiclative assenhlly of each terrli tory: sub ettneverthkls to the following restriction, on the power of the ' gisla tive aemenhly. naely: First. TheI right of sufrage and of hold ing ol.lre shall he exer.sed only by citi sens of the United States over tle age of 21 year., and by those above that age,who hlave decareld on oath, before a conlel* tentl court of rcord, their illltentlio to b conw such.an, d have taken an oathL to sup J.B't the onsltitution and ll overlllient of the nlited States." We may remark LI l asilln that the forlegoingl limitatioon, .o far as it requires ull eciaratliols to Ixe naie befor. i "otnl.metent court of recordl," is to be con struned in the Ilght of thie fact, ixdlnted outl by the supremne court of Michigan in An drIe vs. Judge of the('tirCUit'ourt, sulra. that tihe conu ilers of te revised Statutes of the nited States, wlho ha!d lio authlor it' to change the law, hbut silmpl)y to (tol Ile it. htad ,inadvertently omllltted or overlrlkeitl tlhe pIrovisions of tlhe act of ongll.xa of I1234, givilng to the clera of ies er ida, andW u ns lo the amdellbr d - Ir-,o be_.,,uk , e..* I I= cord (8. ea. 1SI a iwheh wasted by in el.a s of clerks Ia ttshat e d. Coatrlg three stagutes tether te is ne aurs to doubt that deasesmrn of lte tion In See. NUD nst also be made e athe esrke t sus carls. Now, whether laentionally or ther wise, the provision of the law of eogress in the particular In question, has bsa en tiely ignored in the legis aton .of ter ritory. It is no reply to s that tbe law of congres Is the law of territorym , and that the territorial law must be read with refeenm e thereto, and as though kison tained the provision in terms. Beeause the questin here. is what did the sgi. ture intend and how did the iator, the courtstbe bar and the people d Mon tana understand that lesislation? tn this point there can ho no dispute. It is notorious, a matter of public histor that erions who have simply declared their intention to become citises have always voted in Montana: that the oath taken by much declarants never contained a clause to support the constitution and govern ment of the United States; that never hitherto has it been objected that any de clarant was not entitled to vote because he had not taken sunb an oath. Congress. we subnit, is charmed with notice of this public history. this long continued course of territorial legislation, this open and notorious pratesli con struction put upon that legislation, and public action in conformity with it, con tinued for nearly twenty years aftIr the enactmant of this congressional limita tion. and never more clewr and emphatic than in the legilation of the last assem bly which sat under the territorial organ iation. Such knowledge on the part of congress in indeed to be inferred from the relation of the federal government to the territories. The territorial governments are created by congress and a large part of the governing power is retained in the hands of the federal government. The principal officials are federal appoitoeer. The executive power and a principal part of the legislative power are vested in a governor who is appointed by the presi dent, by and with the advice and consent of the smenate. Thejudieial power is like wise reposed in federal appointees. The amne is true of the territorial secretary, marshal attorney and surveyor general. It is made the duty of the secretary of the torri tory. by the organic act. to transmit within ID days after the end of each ses sion of the legislative assembly one copy of the laws and Journals of the assembly to the president, and two copies of the laws to the president of the senate, and to the speaker of the house of representa tives, for the use of congress, in order that they may be kept fully informed of the action of the territorial government, and the character of its legislation. It is to be presumed that this duty has been compiled with. Yet congress has never in any instance exercised its reserved power of disapproving or annulling this often-repeated territorial enactment on the s.ubject of suffe. U'nder this rule ofsuffrage as prescribed a by the territorial legislature, the territory, throughout the whole period of its exist enee, Iha elected all its la.ielators, who P have enacted its vast mass of legl.lation; P all its elective ofleials and its deleates t to congrees, who have been received and I seated without objection by the house of C representatives. And coming down to the organisation of the state, the dele. t gates to the constitutional convention, t who formulated the organic law of the state; the members of the state legisla ture; the long line of state, counti and township ofieers from governer down to I constable the entire judiciary. Includllm the mem ers of this honorable cour, were all elected under and in conformity t to this territorial rule of smlfragee; that is to say, by a popular vote, of which it is ° believed from thirty to forty percent. was cast by persons who had simply declared t their intention to become citirens, but I had never taken an oath to support the constitution and government of the n United States. And if these votes are not s Ieal, as it is quite uncertain which of the political parties received the grrater num her of sucl votes. it is manifest that It t would he imlposible, without a general d scrutiny, to determine who in the longe list of candidates at the late election was1 elected by legal votes. It is now seriously propoaed to dis franchise at one blow this great mass of voters, who have failed to conform withj this provision of tile act of congresn thrlough no fault of theirs, but solely through the miitake or inadverlte.se, Ift i he a mistake or inadvertence, of others, t over whoml they had no control. namelyle the territorial hleislataur', the territorial ~ governonrs antd iadlliilltrativet o(floers, and to take away fromn them a right which the constitution 4Art. 9, See. 2) plainly in- I tendled they should exercsle for the period of five years after its adoption. We maintain that in this condition of things the law did not require uheb an oath froml this class of voters. It is easy to may that here is a positive law of con gress prohibiting the territorial gis la-' tures from hestowing the right of sumftraige on voters of this class who hadi not taken an oath to support the constitution and government of the Usnited States; that the laws of congress are paramount In tihe territories: that a territorial enact imnent in conflict tlherewith is void. But while this is true in a general selse, it is not the whole truth. It has its limita tions. ( 'Congves by its inaction, by its acqu.ae rence, and, as we in this case contendh, b it participation in a lolng established otmrse of legislation and practice lader it, like that to which we have referred may and should he held to have ratife4i that legislation anid practie., evenf though they he conltrary to an express enclltment of its own. 4. But we go further alld maintallin that onllgress in anid yl the exporess ters of the "Enabling Act" of the .Jsd of !dwru ary, lItli, has ratified and apprnrvdmll e territorual legislation of Montanat on the sulject of suffrage. lly section lof that ant it is pr.wkled: "That all lwmr.oms who are qmu;litled by the laws of said territories to vote for m.e resentatives to tthe legislative assrtmnblies thereof, are hereby authorised to vote for iand choose delegates to forn. onvenlions in said r snled states; and tIhe. qualie. tions for legates to such (olnvention shall Ie such as by the laws of said ter ritor respectively persons are r·ullred to possess to he elible to the. legislative a.ussemmlhke the.eof." Now, the rulke established by tle laws of the territory of Montana as regards the right of suffrage and the practice under it, Ibing such as we have descrihbed it to be, and this helog well known to aonl.e.s at the time of the passage of the enablng a.t, that boly, we submit, by the laengua abovwe quoted from that act, must Ibheld to have expressly ratified for the purpose. named the legislation of the territory in this regard. The persons entitled to vote for membher of the constitutional eae vention are those. says congress. who are qualified by theu laws of ld territaes to vote for representatives to the Ilegilative assemblies thereof, and there being a plain and known repugnancy, or at khamt lack of confor'mity between the h.w o" congress and the law of the territory of Montana upon the point in question, we cannot escape the conclusion that con gress. by the language used, has waived andl illntended to waive teh requirement of ie nnmMh aem t :n , T ahi eM. ios met haive take, ben.e* vaed t outh to Mnpport the eein ii od h oey ntt of to e United w eaN . Seleci .n n te tertil re he Isn r o n .o e aon nd In ane iwentu-our. ebia of a tTh nablal act Sor p of l o a oltwiththe l mol. to e costitutio t wbetbventi, d Erthe egactio of the o aid ertio heer Cotdr crIw, r beeby irwld. And It he unquetonably truet btbe nmember of the con Itutional ooa enIoa tiwere In acrt elected under tbe teriatoprovi lde the clam of mote in qutlon freely partici peletion he election wtr llout challenge Sor objet in a ron my one. Iure ab rEae Inference ises even more strongly frm t( power given In the twenty-fourth aeotsio of t"u ubliiug act to tbe contltutiounal conventioun, and (be action of the convootion tlwreunder: "Section 2C. That the conrtltutional con 1ventiott may by ordinance provide for thbe Selection u oltcers four full Mlatu overn I! ntil. mluudiurg tinerben ur the legisu ture ail reprsentativeta in tie tifty-flrst tI colgt·* .'' Under this power the contitutional con ventiou by onlinance second, eroýided for an election to be held thIoUhou the territory on the first Tuesday of OctChbr, i8t, for the ratification or rejection of the constitution and for the election of a fll set of state, district. county and townshlp ofilters, and espeelaly provided that "all pnssonls who are then qualled electors under the law of this territory shal bhe qualifted to vote" at said election. There can be no doubt as to the sense in whibch the convention used the words "qualified electors under tim laws of this territory. It would be wild and Irrational to supposo that it was intended to emxcade aT cslass of voters who had letb pad in the election of the men of the conventiou, and who from the organ satto of the territory had always exercised unquestioned the right of suffrage under the territorial statutes. This being no, we have here the su preme power, the constitutional conven tiontsaelf the creator of the state, npre. senting the ultimate sovereignty ofthe peopl from whose fat there is no appeal dwclarlng in unequivocal terms the quali fications of the voters who should partiel nste in the election on the first Tuesda In October, IM, and at that election byha clear mjoritof legal votes, possessng the qualficatons prescribed and intended be the convention and by the laws of Montana, the rspondent, Eugene D. Mul livan, was e etdto the olee of sheriff of the county of Silver Bow. There is anothbr proposition which we desire to submit to the consideration of the court. It is, we think, a grave qtlee tion whether under the system of voting established by the registry and secret bal lot laws of Montana, any judicial inquiry whatever can be made subsequent to the election into the qualifications of voters. AllU evldence of this chareater was ob etedto r spondent In the trial court, etbe objcton was overruled. We limit the proposition to a judicial inquiry, for doubtless legislative bodies, being judges of the election of their own mem bers. may conduct their investigations in accordance with their wn methods. This is a government of the people-a government deriving its just powers from the cunsent of the governed. The su preme arbiter from whose decisions, ex pressed under the forms and limitations preseribed by law. there is no appeal, is the will of the majort. To ascertain that will, to give it freehod unobstructed course, and to render it not only theoret ically but practically decisive and con trolling in the affairs of government, is the great problem of practical polities which imperatively demands a solution. With this end in view we have long since cut loose from thei original open viva vroce method of voting and substi tuted the ballot system, the dastinnuishing feature of which is secrecy, aiming thereby to protect the voter from those sinister influences which tend to control or subvert his freedom of choice. And there has been a progressive increase In the stringency of the enactments which tend to secure this result eulminating at last in the adoption in Montana and many of the states of the lMi, of a. system of reistration and bllotlaws. which aim not only to render the bllot secret, but to make that secrecy impene trahle. So important has this been deemed by the legislature, that by the ballot law it is made a criminal offense for any voter to show his ballot so as to reveal its contents, or the name of any candidate for whom he has marked his vote; sand its also made a enme for any person to solicit the elector to show his ballot. The registration law, by many and elaborate provisions, has instituted a thorough going scrutiny into the galiflca tions of voters-a scrutiny conducted under oath, and lnot merely by sot ques tions or prescrlbed formulas, buit the registry agents are invested with the power of oral examination, which they may pursue to any extent in their discre tion. If the election otffers do their duty it is next to imposiblseaorany disqualifled voter to get his name on the reg istrr lists, or run the sauntlet of the ex aminations and challenges whleh will meet him at every turn from registry agents, Jutde. of elecion and the been eyed partinsand manauers of rival andidates; and it be should cceed he will vote at the imminent risk of dete tion, and of incurring the penalties pre scribed for perjury, and illegal registra tion and votlng. To throw all this to the winds and open the door to a post factum invlstliation in the courts, carried on long afer the election has closed, and accompanied by prolonged ltgation, I we think, a ma ter of doubtIfl epedency, for which there is no elear warrant of law. Public offces are provided for the bene fit and service of the people, and not for the profit of the Incumbents. and public poliy demands that the title thereto should not be left in doubt, but summar ily determined. The aim and purpose of the election laws bein to procure the registration of qualflled voters only, and to cover with a veil of profound and inviolable secrecy the ballot of the elector, noinquiry can be made as to the contenlts of the ballot withbout violating the spirit, if not the let ter of theee laws, and unless such nqulry can be made, it would seem in vain to queetion the qualifaatsions, f voter., for in order to purge the poll it is not enough to show the voter disqualified, it must also be shown for whom he voted. A. J. MLIA. JOUN WUENEWR Blix & Wegener. CARPENTIERS AND BUILDERS. Havlng re.(.d J. R. Imrtlett' we are ,ýrepard to dn all klads of t le palring and Job Work as re hie . m. BLIX & WEGENER, ear of PrsbtlJh Clurch, " AIsi" . ESTES & CONNELL Mercantile Company. LADIES! Saturday, May I7, Commences our GREAT SALE +----ON-------+ Child's, Boy&, and Youths' Clothing. For Boys' two-piece goods, the following is a scale of prices for your consideration: 62.50 suits for........1S.25 $6.50 suits for.............. 4.00 3.oo " "........ .5o& I.60o 7.00 .............. 4.35 3.5 .. " "........ .75& 2.00 7.50 " " ............. 4.90 4.00 . "........ 2.35 8.oo " " .............. .oo 4.50 " ...... . 2.50 850 ." .. .............. 5.50 5.00 " " ........ 3.00 9.oo ." ............... 5.50 .5o .. ........ 3.50 9.50 ........... . 6.oo 6.00 ....... 375 2.5o blue suits for......... .85 Commencing with this sale on Saturday the first TEN Ladies buying a boy's suit, regardless of price, will be given a boy's coat. Bring the boys and clothe them. + COME EARLY + And get a bargain, as the prices will be certain to close out the entire line in one day. ESTES & CONNELL MIERCANTILE CO1MPANY. -- TH -- Tuttle . Manufacturing -AND SUPPLY CO., DOXR LBRS IN HEAVY + HARDWARE Mining Supplies, Pumps, Electric Supplies, Etc. *H-BUILDBRS OP--* Mining and Milling Machinery. MANUFACTURERS OF ALL CLASSES OF FOUNDRY'WORK. We carry the largest stock of Supplies, and have the Best Equipped Foundry and Machine Shops in Montana. Being on the ground, we can execute your orders at once, and save you money by saving you time. The Tuttle Ianfacturlng aid Supply Co., ANACONDA, - - - - - - MONT.