The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-22
DUR BOHEMIAN LETTER.
Bozeman's Appearance as an
Incorporated City.

Church Schools and Church o.
gan cations.
The Railroad and What it Brings
With it.
The Park ard the Visiting Idiots
And Vandals.
The Position of the M'n@r
Strongly Endorsed.
Silver, Gold and Coal Mines Of
Gallatln.
Special Correspondence of the MINER.
BozEMAN, Seq t. l6, 1883.
Bozeman has now passed through
several months of Incorporation; and
does she like it as we'll as she did?
Well, yes; and better, as at fist, 1t
may be said, she did not like it ut
all. Ordinances rolled out of the
corporate mill too thick and fast to
suit only the ordinance makers, AS
we had existed so long and s, order
ly las we had thought) without a
statute book, that wnen legisl ton
began to shy law at everything from
a tin pot to a church, We wondered
whether the thing would not be over
done. We were told that Butte and
Helena had repented long < their
application for a charter, aud that
Bozeman would soon be sitting in
sackcloth and ashes awaiting the
converting of the legislature, that she
might take it all back, and revert
herself to the happy-go-lucky no sys-
TEN of the past. But not sO-the
sidewalks and the clean >treets; and
the sweeping away of the various
nuisances, from awning posts to mud
holes, and the knowle ]ge of what
one a do legally, and what one
can't do legally, have operated like a
revelation, whatever that isl aud
the charter is now our fetish. A | t.
tie rule ana regulation is a good
thing. Paint aud furnishing have
followed of themselves; and many of
us who thought we looked beautiful y
have discovered that a new sidewalk
las the result Of an ordinance) made
advise able a new front lin the interest
of decency).
Thus We have almost a new town,
and though Mr.. Word, when
here yesterday, in response to
our fishing for compliments, Oh
served that we are too clean to be nice.
We, nevertheless, don't care sor such
a democratic opinion as that.
We are soon to have a Roman
Catholic school establishment, and
perhaps a Baptist organization, the
Rev. Mr.. Wood having been here in
the interest Of the latter, and per-
forming the act of ere ,uting Tiger
soll," rs he calls it. The reputation
of Ingersoll by a priest of a church,
i division Of which won't sit at
the Lords table with the other di.
vision thereof is all intert sting thing. |
Do you feel the railroad as we do:
W. get fence posts now from Mime
sofa, and tomatoes and Melons and
cucumbers by the a load from the
Yellowstone, and the Connecticut
man guesses he'll run home tonight
to Hartford and be back in time for
the tea party; and the directory can
vasser and the key tag maker swarnl
up from the depot; and oh, horror!
the salvation army is coming. Sap
key Was here II It long since, looking
at town lots on Sunday, and the pi-
ano tuner and the DO t black who
lost his leg in the blowup on the
Mississippi, and the man with the
roses sure to | loom al winter infests
every front gate. Peace has fed, and
the day when you left your door key
upon the nail by the knob, has fled
to Alaska. And Alaska! That exc
dus struck us some months ago, and
now the bread we cast upon those
Waters has returned to us, content to
remain in Montana, and
hereby hangs a ale, 81 to speak. We
here have sent lhen away this
year who would never come back.
Oh, no! They went some to Oregon;
some to Michigan; some to New
York; to Utah; TO Washington; to
California-and they returned. And
everyone they met who could return
were coming, and those who can't
want to. OF course, there are
exceptions. Some who came from
Eastern States this year landed in the
hail storm and hunted lands. As
The frost came, some of these went
back, but only to unload themselves
into Ohio or Wisconsin during a cy-
clone or the frost. They'll be back
the spring, bag and baggage. and
most Of them with Republican votes.
[ met a man in the railroad office not
ong since, who was bu ling thilt-en
tickets for Missouri. {
Going back"
Eyes"
"Why?"
"Too gol-darn many b.b-s!eds {
lbout here in the summer"
Yesterday the Land Office heard {
rom him. He wants a list Of unec- /
public lands, and permission |
% file for some to be held for him
While he and the twelve in family t
work back this way. {