The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-25
DOZEMAM'S fine HOTEL,
The Elegant New House Leased BY
Geo. Wakefield and John
Callaghan.
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TO Be Thrown Open Not Later
Than tho First Day OF
March.
Fashionable Gathering Mt ". y. Lamme's
New Residonee-Iarge Heal Estate
Trsnsaetiops-Nsws Notes.

BOHEMIAN, Jan. W.-ESpecial. THE Hotel
Bozeman has at last been leased. George
Wakefield and John Callaghan are the suc.
cessful bidders, they having agreed to pay
a monthly rental of $3.50 for the building,
which has ei0hty-three furnished bed
rooms, a dining room capable Of seating
two hundred people, q bar room and bill
lard room. The store rooms are to be
leased by the hotel company, which in turn
pays the ~lessees for the light and fuel used.
Mr.. Wakefield needs no introduction 10 the
Montana public rs he is an old-timer and
for several years has been master Of trans.
portation at the Park. "Cally" is we'll
known to the public, as he has been in
charge of tho Mcqueen house. of Miles.
and the Albemarl, at Livingston.
Wherever Mr.. Callaghan has had
absolute charge of u hotel ne has made it
first class and popular and there is no rea-
son to doubt but that he will do the same
here. The opening Of the hotel will either
be on the 22d of February or the first Of
tomorrow. Bozemsn is proud Of its hotel.
II has been 80 long without a first-class one,
and has been so universally and ener0eti-
cally denounced OH this account, that Boze-
NANTES rejoice with exceeding great ioy
and are filed with pardonable pride over
the new hostelry.
News of the promised compromise was
received yesterday through The INDEPEND-
ENT, and was not hailed with hilarious joy
by democrats, many of whom say they are
pleased to learn that the wheels Of legisla-
ton are to be no longer clogged, but that
they think too much of a sacrifice has been
made. Perhaps they will have reason to
change their opinion when thef full details
of compromise is presented to them.
The Lamme-Fielding reception, which
took place at Z. b. Lamme's handsome new
residence, is still the talk of the town. Two
hundred guests were present between three
and six O'Clock and the affair was conduct
ed in a manner which would have made
Ward McAllister feel proud of himself.
The reception was made the vehicle for the
announcement of the engagement OF Robt.
b. Turner to Miss Stella Nash. Mr.. Turner
is manager OF the Revenue mine, also trus-
tee of the Hotel Bozeman, which was con-
structed under his eye. Miss Nash is a
niece of Gen. Wilson, and q young lady of
rare accomplishments, amiable and charm
ing.
Real estate deals continue uninterrupted
ly. The purchase of the Hoffman addition
by Lieut. Gov. Richards and his associates
has been followed this week by the bonding
of the poor farm for $125 per acre. Real
estate dealers say that a commencement has
just been made in important trans
actions and from the expend-
itures being made by these
purchasers of large tracts it looks as If the
real estate men have builded wisely and
we'll. Bozeman's present and prospective
prosperity seems to be largely due to the
Con mn cnkonrihod hv tina Citizanc t0yvQP1c
the erection of the hotel. As an advertise
ment this expenditure has proved a gigan-
tic success.
An important suit between j. +. Swindle-
hurst and Mr.. Smith. of Livingston, is now
being tried before the land office. The
suit has been on ali the week and the de-
fendant. Mr.. Swindlehurst, has not yet
had a hearing.
Frank Conkey, a ell-known railroad
contractor of Minneapolis, stopped in
Bozeman on Thursday to see some friends.
make an adjustment of the difficulties
which have overtaken the Big Ok Mining
company, in which he is interested.
A gentleman just in from the upper Gal
latin basin says there is no SNOW in that
region. AS a result the basin is filed with
elk, deer, antelope and mountain sheep.
He estimates that there are fully 5000 elk
in the basin at the present time. Hereto
fore hunters nave made sal havoc with
bands coming into the basin during the
winter, when, with a deep now they could
club them to death. But now, since set
tiers have gone in there. this wholesale and
needless slaughter is not prosecuted, for
fear of arrests.
The Bozeman fire department, in making
its annual report, says that the aggregate
loss bv fire last year at Bozeman was less
than $4,000. The company, besides being
given elegant quarters in the new city hall,
and the free use of the opera house, which
Council ~ to Of furnish naS It's apartme 1SH The
gift was accompanied with congratulations
and expressions of appreciation and good
will.