The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-31
MONEY IS LACKING
The Bozeman School Fund Is Worry.
ing the Trustees.
SCORCHED MAIL MATTER
Lightning and a Snow Blizzard
Combine to Surprise the People
of CalIatin valley-Shocked
by Electric Brushes.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Dec. 29.-Every year at
about this time Bozeman is agitated
over the discussion of the question of
raising a special school tax for the
purpose of continuing the public
schools to the end of the school year.
The school trustees have issued a call
for special election, as follows: mo
tice Is hereby given to the qualified
electors of school district No. z. CAL
latin county, state of Montana, that an
election will be held at the west side
school house on Monday, the 9Th day
of January. 1896, at which will be sub
mitted the question of voting a tax to
raise the sum of fifteen thousand dol
lars, (s15,0O0) to maintain the schools
of district No. Z. Polls will be open
from a. m. until p m" This is
signed by E. D. Ellis. o. p. Chisholm,
Aug. Gottschalk, w. Y. Smith, e. d.
Ferguson and Jacob Mills, school trus-
tees.
The school trustees state in a long
letter to the public that they have
exhausted all available means for con-
tinuing the schools until the end of
the school year, that the trustees have
already incurred a debt of $2,S19.05,
they have no more funds and no credit
and must close the schools unless the
sum of $4,000 can be raised at once.
They then say, Everybody comedies
that the schools enjoy a good reputa-
ton. To close them now would be a
public calamity. There are 1893 chill
dren enrolled and 16 teachers employ
ed. While demand for houses in the
city is more than equal to the supply
and we are striving to build a college,
we must not fail to provide for our
children in the public school. There
are now so pupils more in school than
ever before Each teacher has an av-
erage of 40 pupils. The salaries paid
are the lowest in the state for the
work done. In view of the foregoing
facts. the trustees feel justified in
their course and await your decision,
which you are asked to give Jan. o.
Remember the schools cannot open I'M
less you so direct"
This is an annual question in Boze-
man. 1t has always carried at the
polls in years past in favor of keeping
the schools open, but last year and
again this year the question comes be-
fore the citizens of Bozeman with es-
pecial force, owing to the special tax
being fought by a faction, organized
as the Citizens League OF One Hun
dred, which league has stood out
strongly against such a tax. In fact
this question was one of the foremost
given as the reason for the forming
dred. The league is in the field again
and will work to defeat at the polls on
Jan. 6, the increased tax of $4,000 as
proposed by this special school cleo
ton.
]. NJ. Lindley and the electric light
company claim to have got ahead of
the proposed movement on the part of
the Citizens League, for the suppress
sion of the houses of prostitution in
Bozeman, the above parties having
closed the house run by Grace McGin-
mis- yesterday on an attachment The
attachment is for something over $780,
due for rent and electric light bills
Grace McGinnis is well known in Mon
tana.
A quantity of badly scorched paper
mail arrived at the Bozeman postoffice
this week, some of which was burned
so as to make ii impossible to deci-
pher the address and 1t had to be con-
signed to the waste paper basket. II
seems that the clerk in charge on
train No. i, when eight miles east OF
Miles City, discovered pile of paper
mail In the rear of his car to be on
fire. He at once stopped the train and
only saved large quantity of mail
and probably the mail car. from being
totally destroyed by the promptness
with which the train crew answered
his call for help and aided in extin-
Il
consisted of two sacks for Butte and
one sack for points intermediate. be-
tween Bozeman and Butte, the sacks
being the principal loss, as the amount
of mail burned so as to be past deliv-
cry was small. The mail was piled
over a stove in which there was no
fire, the supposition being that a spark
from the engine ignited the oily waste
and paper which had accumulated in
the stove, in this way causing the
blaze.
A young girl about IA or Is years OF
age caused quite a commotion in a
boarding house on Main street Friday
and very nearly died from the effects
of a too large dose OF tansy. For rea-
sons of her own, the girl took the
drug. She was reported as dead dur
ing the afternoon, but IL is thought
will survive her indiscrete act. A
young man who was charged with
causing her trouble, packed his grip
and left the town sometime between
Friday and Saturday.
A phenomena was witnessed in
Bozeman Friday evening which Is sell
dom seen anywhere. A squall of snow
and wind which passed over the city
at 6 o'clock in the evening was accom-
panied by sharp flashes of lightning.
The lightning, although very bright.
was unaccompanied by thunder or any
other disturbance.
E. L. Park has decided to again open
a restaurant in Bozeman and Is pre-
pairing TO move into the room he for
merly occupied. next TO Z. F. Hanley's
tin shop. for this purpose.
Ed Johnson, an employe OF the Elec-
trio Light company. was laid out by
a shock from an 1.100-volt dynamo a.
the power house OF the Electric Light
company Friday afternoon In clean
ing the machine he touched two OF the
brushes. forming a circuit and was
hurled to the floor.