The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-22
IT'S VERY ANNOYING
The Ventilation and Heating Commit
tee Has Peen Criticised.
WALTER COOPER EXPLAINS
Remarks of Censure in Some
Quarters Have Been Premature
An Ignorant New Yorker Ar
rested for Killing Beavers.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Feb. 20.-The criticisms of
the press of the state concerning the
report of the commission appointed by
the state board of education to visit
Eastern cities to investigate heating,
ventilation and sanitary appliances for
state buildings, are, it is said, very an
noying to the members of that commits
sion. Hon. Walter Cooper, one of the
members of this commission, said to-
day: Yes, have noticed the various
criticisms and am surprised at them.
In the first place, the commission did
not report in favor of the adoption of
the hot air system for heating the state
buildings now under construction, and
as to the widely published statement to
the effect that the commission reported
in favor of letting all contracts for
heating and ventilation to manufacture
ers. which, If true, would bar out local
bidders, no such report was made by
the commission. The report is on file
with the state board of education and
i presume could be seen and examined
by those interested.
This general misunderstanding was
probably caused by an article which
appeared in the Helena Independent
about the 10th of the month, some two
days before our commission met at
Helena to consider it's report. and be-
fore left my home at BoZeman to meet
the other members of the commission
for the purpose of formulating a re-
port. l do not think the article stated
that such a report had been agreed up
on, but II was intended to foreshadow
II. This article was the cause of a pro-
test, signed by number of Helena
firms, against the report of our COM
mission, but this, upon their part, was
somewhat previous, as the report did
not contain the Objectionable features
complained Of"
DIR. c. NJ. Chambliss of Bozeman, who
is taking course of studies in the New
York Polytechnic, writes that he is TAX
ing two extra courses outside the reg
ular polytechnic study, which keeps him
busy every minutes from a. m. to 8
p. m DR.. and Mrs. Chambliss are very
pleasantly situated and the doctor ex-
poets to finish his studies so as to re-
turn to Bozeman the last of April. In
acknowledging the receipt of his paper,
the doctor says: &C. NJ. c., jr., although
only a year old, seems to recognize an
old friend in the Standard and ii also
affords me no little pleasure to pass the
paper around a little circle of friends
here. who think of Montana as a land
of icebergs, Indians and wild beasts.
New York is certainly a great metrop-
oils, but 1t is indeed shocking to meet
so many people thoroughly educated in
all the professions and avocations of
life, familiar with even the smaller
places in Europe. and utterly ignorant
of their own country. Never realizing
that there is any United States except
New York city. When you talk to
them of the great West they sit with
mouths open and a listless expression,
as though you were telling a fairy tale,
and as soon as possible change the sub
Ject to speak of some new high build
ing in New York"
Ed Hilderbrand, laboring man from
down the valley, was arrested Wednes-
day and brought to BoZeman on a war
rant sworn out by Game Warden
Keown for killing beavers. Hilderbrand
is from the East and was unaware of a
law against killing these animals, and
claims that the farmer for whom he
was working asked him to clear a creek
on his ranch of the beavers, as they
were damming the water back and so
obstructing its course. He had killed
four of them and when brought before
Judge Stevenson to-day pleaded guilty.
He has no money and so will have to
serve out a two months sentence in
jail, tins being the minimum sentence
for this offense.
Caldwell Edwards was in Bozeman
late Thursday evening to swear out
warrants against some persons living
on the West Gallatin who had been
ngntng over some sheep. DICK Plumb
had been knocked in the head by a
sheepherder, receiving serious injuries.
An officer left for the scene of the trou-
BILE this evening to straighten matters
out
The weather in Bozeman for the past
six weeks has been one long stretch of
sunshine and clear, cool weather, the
snow simply wearing out from constant
use. This week the sun got a little too
warm for snow, and ii seemed as If
spring were here, from the flow of
water, the depth of mud and the beau
tiful. warm days.