The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-07
NEWS FROM BOHEMIAN
The Annual Report of the Free Ii
brary Submitted to the Council
ON THE NEWCASTLE ROAI
Smashing Fish-Catching Records
Along Callatin County's Streams
The New Aldermen-No
and Personals.


and Personals.
Special Correspondence of the Standard
Bozeman, May 5.-The fifth annual
report of the Bozeman free library was
submitted to the city council at it's
meeting last night and accepted by that
body. In part it was as follows
The officers for the past year have
been Daniel Maxey, ex-officio chair
man; F. j. Nesbitt, vice chairman;
Frank B. Lewis, secretary, and Miss
Belle K. Chrisman, librarian. There
have been 210 new borrowers cards is
sued during the year, in all there being
some 400 out and the aggregate of vol
umes loaned was 1905. The number of
books out now is 1926, three volumes
were lost during the year. of which two
were paid for. These figures do not
differ very materially from those of
last year, showing that the use of the
library continues about the same. On
account of the additional room gen.
erously granted by the city for the use
of the library there is now a special
room for reference books giving much
better facilities to those who wish to
consult the library or read in the IL
brary rooms.
The directors have purchased 66s vol
there being now in the library 1851 vol
umes suitable for loaning or reference,
besides some 800 volumes of govern
ment reports, etc.
The following sums were expended
from the library fund of the city treas
ury:
For new books and freight on
same. ...... .......... ........$ SUI 80
Reminding, unpaid bill of May
H. 1880: .'''.'''' minimum 1V1. 20
Librarians salary. ....... ...... 200. 90
Borrowers cards. ..... ..... 3.75
Linoleum to cover floor TO main
room. ...... ..... .... 17.15
Total expenditure. ISL, 249 SO
The balance to the credit of library
board in the city library fund is
$40. go
and more a reality, the condition on
Upper Sixteen Mile becoming more and
more lively every day. The crews, in
all containing about so men, that were
working in the canyon above Bakers
the past winter, have now completed
the grade through this narrow defile
and moved on toward Castle. There
are 800 men and about $50 teams at
work beginning at the upper end of the
canyon and stretching on to Fosters
ranch, 10 miles beyond. 1t is only
little over 30 miles to Castle and IL
throwing up the dirt as If the Montana
Railroad company would fulfil their
promise to run a train into Castle on
July 4.
Just before the fish law preventing
fishing during the months of May and
June went into effect, there was a
great rush for the West Gallatin river
by the local experts with the rod.
Game Warden Keown and DR.. Higgins
returned from such a trip with string
of 80 fish, George Carver and boys got
over 100, 1. l.. Kirk and G. w. Soper
got about so and d. A. Murphy, H. A
Pease, Horace Cleveland and Charles
Pietsch rs, some of which were very
large.
On Sunday a party left the Bozeman
hotel bound for this stream, lunch bas-
kets slowed under the salts to their con-
veyance and fish poles protruding from
the rear end. They had understood
that they could fish during May and
June, but just as they started faithful
friend convinced them it was unsafe to
NEEDLE with the finny tribe and they
therefore drove out to Ferris Hot
Springs and picniced during the day.
Game Warden Keown is thinking of
making test case and settling the dis.
puted points of law by which it is both
claimed that you can and that you
cannot fish during the months of May
and June.
The greatest catch of this year
among the local nimrods was a four
days fish, Roe Emery, son of Director
Emery of the experiment station. and
Charles Ruffner spending four days on
the West Gallatin. The first two days
they used rock worms for bait and
landed a little over 100 fish, and the
next two days, using only a bare fly
hook, they hauled in over 800. The to-
tai catch for three and one-half days
of actual fishing being Asa white fish
and trout.
G.. w. Ellis county commissioner and
A. Brandy were one day beside the
running brook-five fish is the total of
what they took.
Colonel o. p. Chisholm and family re-
turned from their trip to Los Angeles
and other coast points on Sunday.
Colonel Chisholm was much refreshed
by the change and rest. but not at all
favorably impressed with the business
outlook OF the coast states. He returns
gladly to his Montana home, having
found nothing west of here which. in a
business way. can approach this
state.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Bisel and Miss
Kate Sheridan returned from a four
months stay in Los Angelesson Satur-
day morning. Mr.. Bisel. like Colonel
Chisholm, cannot express the relief he
feels over the business prospects seen
here after experiencing the depression
which is making Los Angeles such a
very quiet town these days.
The Carnival of Nations" given by
the Young Peoples Christian Endeavor
society Of the Presbyterian church in
the opera house Friday evening last.
cleared some $50. The expenses were
very heavy being nearly as much as