Editorial Notes and Comment

The people of Fergus county will heartily endorse the action of the county commissioners in offering $1,000.00 reward for the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who murdered Samuel Studzinski. Whether it results in bringing the criminal to justice or not the commissioners are showing the right spirit, a determination to do all in their power in that direction. It manifests a sentiment that pervades this community with reference to such a heinous crime. It is to be hoped that the reward offered will stimulate renewed effort to ferret out the criminal. Fergus county cannot afford to harbor such desperate characters, as no man's life or property is safe. The reward offered should be sufficient to put professional sleuths on the trail of the murderer.

The trial of the indicted meat trust packers occurs early in October. While the government is making every effort to secure convictions, the wealthy combine will have the best legal talent in the country to conduct the defense. Wealth and brains go a good ways sometimes in the effort to evade the law and every possible technicality will be raised to defeat the government in this case. The outcome will be awaited with a great deal of interest.

Just to disprove the assertion that women would never do for soldiers a military company composed of the daughters of farmers has been organized down in Boone county, Missouri. At the first public drill the girls gave a fine exhibition, going through the entire manual of arms like veterans. They would do all right for a home guard—the nearer the home the better.

The Lewis and Clark exposition is not only paying its way, but it is believed that at the close there will be a dividend for the promoters and stockholders. This would prove something quite unusual, but the fair has been well attended ever since it opened and there is not likely to be any falling off in the admissions from now until the date of its closing, October 15th.

The elections this fall will be confined to a few states. Ohio, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will elect governors. Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky will have campaigns in which the selection of senators will be of chief interest, the two latter states trying the direct primary plan of choosing candidates.

If there is no killing frost in Iowa until after the first week in September that state will harvest a corn crop estimated at 400,000,000 bushels. Down in Louisiana there is very little hope for the suppression of yellow fever until frost kills the germs.

It is difficult to please everybody. The statement that President Roosevelt would go down in a submarine boat during experiments made at Oyster Bay, proved untrue. He had no such intention. Teddy is watching the peace plenipotentiaries and would not disappear from the surface long enough to take the trip.

Iowa seems to be going backward in the matter of population. Her young sons are evidently seeking homes in the far west where land and opportunities are better. Iowa is a grand state but it offers few chances to those desiring to get a start in life.

The famous Lost Cabin mine of Wyoming has again been found. This time it is on top of the Big Horn mountains, thirty miles from Sheridan. The Lost Cabin has been found so often that it will pay to wait awhile before hitting the trail.

While the Taft party was visiting the province of Cebu recently the secretary danced the lancers with the native governor's wife at a ball given in his honor. There is waltzing in the lancers, too.

Russia's manifesto granting a popular semi-legislative assembly is not received with the wildest enthusiasm by the people, owing to the strings attached to it. It is a step in the right direction, however.

A farmer down in Iowa has been asleep for seven weeks. He will wake up after the harvesting is all over.

This has been a hot August. We fear Montana will lose its reputation as a desirable summer resort.

Japan is likely to run out of suitable names for the reconstructed Russian warships.