The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-11
BOHEMIAN, THE BEAUTIFUL
Her Citizens Will Make It More
Beautiful Than Ever.
TO BE A SUMMER RESORT
Farmers Asked to Grant Right OF Way
for the Proposed Railroad From
Bohemian to the National Park.
Stanley Koch's Prize.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, May 9.-Arbor day was not
generally accepted as holiday by the
citizens of Bozeman. The school chill
dren went to the schools and held Ar
Dor day exercises and planted a tree or
two, the banks closed, as well as other
public institutions, but all the stores
kept open and business transacted as
on other days. Instead of planting
trees, a great many people took ad-
vantage of the fine weather to plant
their gardens. Bozeman has always
been celebrated for the beauty of it's
gardens in the summer time, which are
usually full of many colored sweet peas
and other flowers, all of which send
forth perfumes pleasing to the senses.
AS each year succeeds its predecessor,
the householders appear to take greater
pride in the decoration of their yards
and gardens, and from all appearances
1899 will be the banner year.
The Improvement League is doing
good work in stirring one and all up to
an appreciation of the advantages to
be derived from having a beautiful
city. Last year Bozeman blossomed
forth as a health resort and summer
town, and several hundred pamphlets
were printed and sent to all parts Of
the United States. The pamphlets con-
tanned short description of the town,
and Of the many pretty canyons in the
immediate vicinity, where summer
camps had been erected for the benefit
OF those wishing to, spend few days
under canvas without many of the dis
agreeable drawbacks of camping out
The prospective visitor was invited to
see the grand sights of the Gallatin
canyon, the quieter scenes of the Mid
die Creek canyon. or the thousands
upon thousands Of acres of waving
golden grain growing on the rich acres
Of the Gallatin farmers. Many people
from afar did come to Bozeman and see
all these things and enjoyed them, and
1T Is to be hoped many more will wend
their way hither the coming season,
when the nights are hot and life I'M
bearable in the less favored states of
the East. 1t is this anticipation of
making Bozeman a summer resort. and
an lnducement to Eastern people to
visit her, and also of keeping up the
right to the title of "Bozeman, the
Beautiful" that the citizens are pulling
together and making their gardens
pretty. But, if only Main could be re-
formed and cleaned!
The Gallatin Valley Railroad COM
pany is hard at work with it's pros
pective road from Bozeman to the Vel
1owstone National park. Several meet
ings of the farmers in the vicinity of
Salesville and farther out towards the
mouth of the West Gallatin canyon,
and some 20 or 25 miles from Bozeman,
have been held in the little town of
Salesville. The company want the
farmers along the proposed route to
donate the right of way and also do a
>tci1 OF Hr,rf
sition, it is stated, is to tax each farmer
along the road in proportion to the
number of acres he owns. at the rate
of about 81 an acre. Then the COM
pany also asks the citizens of Boze-
man to donate enough money, or rather
to vouch for it, sufficient to erect de-
pot and other necessary buildings. This
money is not to be paid until the road
is completed and ready for operation.
Those ranchers who live so far from
the railroad that they cannot make
more than a trip or two week with
their grain in the fall, are, of course,
very anxious to do all they can for the
enterprise. Whether those who reside
close to Bozeman, where the land
is most valuable, will be willing to
grant a right of way without adequate
compensation is doubtful. This doubt
full land. however, does not extend very
far. and should a good nercentage ac-
do all they can to push a good thing
along there seems to be but little rea-
son to doubt that the Gallatin valley
will be traversed by line of railroad
in the near future, and instead of the
long train of loaded four horse wagons
hauling grain to town, a long string Of
cars loaded with the products of
bountiful harvest of the Gallatin vail
ley, will be moving swiftly along the
road of steel to be switched to the mills
or elevators, or forwarded to the East
ern markets.
Ed Hanley was tried before A. D.
Mcpherson, justice of the peace, on
Friday last for assaulting his wife. The
case was tried before a jury, who lis
tened to the evidence with a good deal
of attention (most of the jurors being
married mem, and when they brought
in their verdict it was to the effect
that Mr.. Hanley was guilty of abusing
his wife, or words to that effect, and
that he should be fined the sum of 81,
without costs, or, at least, costs were
not mentioned. and he did not have to
pay them 1t is probable the jurors be-
1ieved that a man should be allowed
to chastise his wife at times, as he
used to be able to do in the time of
Blackstone, for minor offenses and also
thought that the times We're not ripe
enough yet for "woman's rights" to
become a part and parcel of the gov
eminent Of free America and there
fore needs but little protection as yet
Stanley Koch, the younger son of