The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-03
TOPICS OF THE TOWN
Herr Bandmann Must Repair
His Bridges.
FORMING A BARBER TRUST
No Money. No Stave-The Octopus Is
Still Reaching Out for More Shops
to Devour-Another Time Card
on the N. p.

Missoula, July 2.-Herr Bandmann
came into town Saturday to pay his
toll bridge license. He had received in
formation from the county clerk that
the commissioners had decided to grant
him no license until he had made the
repairs that they considered necessary
upon his bridges. These repairs. some
of them, the owner of the bridges did
not consider to be necessary, and they
were not made. When he applied for
his license Saturday, the first of the
month, he offered, of course, to pay for
it, and was much surprised when he
was informed that he could not have
a license until the bridges We're re-
paired according to the directions OF
the county commissioners. Then there
was some fine acting. Herr Bandmann
can act, nobody who knows him will
deny that He never acted with great
er earnestness and with less effect than
he did at the office of the county treas
urer when he was told that there would
be no license if there were no repairs.
He exclaimed in tragic tones: my
God, am l in Russia" The county
treasurer told him that he was still in
Missoula, Missoula county, Montana.
and that the orders of the commission
ers in the license matter were the only
guide that the treasurer's office had in
the matter. Then the tragic rancher
or the ranching tragedian left with
heart bowed down.
bers' trust. 1t is a trust that does rot
trust. No money. no shave; no dough,
no shampoo The new combine is called
the Amalgamated Haircutting and
Shaving company and is backed by the
leading capitalists of the barber bust
ness in the city. The principal movers
in the concern are Fred Won Besteabos-
tel, J. A. Baker and AL Green. Some
time ago they organized a comp my
and started a modest little shop. They
did business right along and soon enc
of their rivals in business went crazy.
They bought out his place and Baker
took charge of the branch shop. Then
another of their rivals, fearing that he,
too. would go crazy, sold out to
stranger. The stranger was soon in
the midst of all kinds of trouble, fer
eign and domestic, and his wife sold
out the shop to the trust. The octopus
is still reaching out and will likely soon
have all of the barber business under
its control.
The bicycle carnival on the night of
the Fourth will be under the marshall
ship of Ed Mix. His aides will be Sc
lected from the local wheelmen who
are familiar with the work, and the
line of march wilLsbe announced to
them. 1t is expected that the line Of
the parade will be nearly the same as
that of last year, except that the pro-
cession will not cross the big bridge.
The wheelmen will meet on Higgins
avenue above the Kennedy hotel at s
o'clock Tuesday evening and will be
assigned to places in the parade. The
line promises to be a long one and it
is hoped that every building on Higgins
avenue will be illuminated This will
help out the good work immensely.
Another time card now. The change
in time is not much. but it is enough to
make a new card. 1t is said that con-
slant trial and experiment is the surest
way to attain perfection. The North
ern Pacific is making a hard struggle
for perfection. One thing is noticeable.
however, that the rule Is working in
versely these days. The oftener the
card is changed. the later the trains
get, and one or two more changes will
bring the cars in here on the day after
they are scheduled.