The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-19
NEWS In BIG TIMBER
HOllanders Coming to Settle on Land
in Sweet Grass County.
THE SCORCHlNG CYCLISTS
One Rider Comes to Grief After a
Tete-a-1 etc With a Horse
and Cart-Personal
Mention.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Big Timber. April 1S-Rev. A. Worm
ser, of Bozeman, who has been winter
ing in and around New York city, ar
rived in Big Timber last night and is
a guest at the Grand. Mr. Wormser
Is heavily interested in the Holland
Ditch company, whose huge irrigating
canal on Big Timber creek is one of
the most interesting and valuable
things in Sweet Grass county. Mr..
Wormser would have remained longer
in New York had he not desired to be
here in time to arrange for the locat-
ing ON the canal company's land,
contingent of 16 families of Hollanders
which will arrive here tomorrow
morning. The party will number about
so persons in all. The Hollanders come
here from North Dakota, where they
have been farming for the past few
years. but owing to repeated failures
or their crops, have decided to pull up
stakes and try their luck in Montana.
They bring with them eight carloads
of cattle besides a large quantity OF
farming implements and household fur
n1ture. The settlement of these hardy
and Industrious agriculturalists in this
locality means much for themselves
and the county of Sweet Grass. The
land upon which they will locate is
unsurpassed in agricultural proper
ties, and with the advancement of
water furnished by the canal a failure
of crops will be highly improbable.
AS fast as the canal Is extended 1t is
expected that the land thus reclaimed
will be cultivated by other parties of
Hollanders who are expected to ar
rive from time to time.
Big Timber being an unincorporated
town, the bicyclists have aviled them
selves of their alleged privilege to
~scorch" up and down the sidewalks,
greatly to the discomfort and peril of
pedestrians. To protests from various
sources some of the wheelmen have re-
piled very saucily and 1t was becoming
painfully evident that an attempt
would have to be made to compel them
to desist from their dangerous prac-
tice when one of them received an OBJ
Ject lesson which the rest will doubt
less profit by. Yesterday afternoon
two of the enthusiasts were riding at
high speed from the depot up Mcleod
street Just as the foremost of them
reached the intersection of First ave-
nue., the United States mail cart which
phys between here and Howie also ar
rived there. The cyclist and the driver
of the cart saw their mutual danger at
the same instant, and each made an
effort to avoid 1t with the result that
the man on the bicycle crashed into the
cart, striking it between the shaft and
the wheel. There the bicycle became
fast wedged and the rider was thrown
into the cart head foremost, but was
in a few seconds thrown heavily out
onto the stony ground by the violent
lurching of the vehicle caused by the
frantic efforts of the frightened horse
to get away. 1t looked for a minute
as IL the results would be very
serious, but the driver hung manfully
to the refns and when the bicycle was
finally kicked loose by the horse the
animal quieted down. The rider of
the bicycle was severely cut and
bruised and the wheel was, of course,
totally wrecked. 1t is hoped that the
cyclists will bear this incident in mind
and hereafter keep to the roads, else
they may discover that there is more
law on the subject than they imag-
inc
The regular teachers examination
for this quarter was held Friday and
Saturday in the court house Those
who applied for certificates were Maud
Jones, Misses Lottie and Phoebe Stub
blefield, Emma EllinFson and Mona
Brown. The next regular examination
will be in August.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Roberts are in
town to-day. They will soon move
from their White Beaver ranch to their
ranch on the south side of the Yellow
stone, near Reeds Point.
Sam Cowan and family removed to |
Helena last week, where they will re-
side permanently.
The road which has heretofore run |
north and west from the Yellowstone |
bridge, has been changed so that II |
now runs much nearer the hills. The |
change is highly beneficial to the |
ranchers in that neighborhood.
The Shaw building has been pur-
chased by c. G. Kellar and moved |
over onto Harris street, where it will |
be repaired and occupied by it's owner |
Lester Howard is back In his old /
quarters looking after the livery bust
ness of John Quinn.
The tax payers of the Kent school dis
trict have voted a special tax of S225 4
for the purpose of paying off a debt in /
CURED by purchasing furniture for the l
school house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Shook celebrated /
the formers birthday anniversary last /
evening by a pleasant little whist par
ty at their home
Miss Adelaide Chambers of Living
ston has been engaged to teach the
summer term of school in the Basin 4
district west of Melville.
J. L. Simmons. prominent sheep /
man from the East end Of the county,
was in town Friday.
Miss Mary c. Frawley. who has just
completed a five months term of
school in the Kent district, took charge
of. the school at Mcleod last Mon
day.
Robert T. Andrews OF Hurst was a
business visitor in the town to-day. !
Miss Jessie Kenyon, who is now
teaching in the Missoula schools. has
been engaged TO teach the summer
term OF school in the Jarrett dis
trict
Rev. J. F. Pritchard. rector Of the
St. Andrews Episcopal church OF Liv-
ingston. conducted services in the new