The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-23
BEE MAN NEWS.
Tho Tail of the Reform Wave Has NIT
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Special Cores pondence of the Standard.
BOHEMIAN, March 2l.-The Citizens
league of one hundred of Bozeman Is
pushing right forward in its work ana at
its last meeting on Tuesday evening, the
membership was increased from 4O to 90
members. The league has large grist OF
work planned for the next few weeks and
some of the measures they will propose
are the combining of the offices of hre
marshal, street commissioner and SAINT
tary officer, believing that these can all
be attended to by the fire marshal. They
are investigating such reform as the dis
charge of the county surveyor, his place
to be supplied by job work in the future
should surveying be necessary, instead OF
keeping q man on salary for the purpose.
| The discharge Of one night watch is pro-
| posed with the belief that only one officer
| is needed for night duty. A cut in the
salary of chief fire marshal who now re-
celves $40 per month, the department
being volunteer department. and the
reducing of the salary of Prof. w. T.. Har-
mon, principal Of the city schools. Then
they hope to combine the offices OF city
clerk and city attorney although at pres
ent this cannot be done owing to the city
charter which provides for the two offices,
the hopes of the league members being
based on the new codes which when
signed, will change this.
Committees we're appointed at the last
meeting as follows: On city affairs, Mar
tin Shea, B. T. Stanton, VIM. Tracy, Eliza
Couple and A. w. Orion; and on school
affairs, George Il. Davis, 6. r. Nichols,
Louis Kruger, Id. Stowe and S.W. Lewis.
The league will place a city ticket in the
field shortly, unless an old party candi-
date can be unanimously endorsed. and
the name of Frank L. Benepe is said to be
the choice of the league for mayor. The
democrats are not in the field at all and
it begins to look as If they would have no
ticket this year, while the republican
party has been talking the past week of
such men as S, G. Kenyon, j. V. Bogert,
T.. D. Ellis and General l.. s. Wilson.
General Wilson has not consented to
have his name used for mayor.
There is also move on foot looking to-
ward the forming of an independent
ticket which would no doubt place in
nomination for mayor George w. High
smith, but there has been no primary
called by any party as yet and nothing
will be done this week, although it is now
but fifteen days before election.
The Evening Democrat of Kankakee, ILL.,,
in its issue of March 10 gives a column t'
! a letter with the following heading
: "Capt Chas. Ii. Cobb for mayor-a candi
} date for the laboring man, the business
man and the professional man." Mr
Cobb was formerly n resident of Boze
! man. being employed in the Bozemar
National bank, Of which his father, En-
ory Cobb of Kankakee is president, ant
his residence in Montana is thus referrer
2 to by the Kankakee paper: he is no
| only thorough business man, but a maj
( of fine executive ability, is one of tn
finest presiding officers in the city, and !
!. no stranger to municipal legislation, hav
ing served as alderman in the West, ant
0 had the distinguished honor of being
. delegate TO the constitutional convention
which made Montana a state"
A fourth-class postofIice which is no
far from Bozemau, and which is in tn
rear of a small store carrying a genera
stock of goods, has this sign hung up nea
s the delivery window of the postoftice:
No more eggs taken for postage STAMPS.
The postmaster having started to eN
change stamps for eggs, was soon havin
|. n trade which forced him to establish
Ii strictly cash business.