Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-09
AFFAIRS SETTLED
GOVERNMENT ORDERS THAI
POSTOFFICE REMAIN WHERE
/ IT rs NOW.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
Old Maids Convention An Unqualified
h Success-Mormon's Water Right
Apportionment.
Billings, May I

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settled after eight months, n the de-
partment orders that it remain where it
is. The First National banks bid Of 1920
entail per annum to furnish room, light,
heat and vault has been accepted. The
bank has made arrangements for new
and additional fixtures and $50 new boxes
will also be added. The present supply
of boxes is taxed to it's utmost capacity,
as many as six persons getting mail in
each box in many instances. When COM
pieted the new office Will be one OF the
finest in the state.
Special Postotfice Inspector Brattol of
Spokane has been spending several days
in Billings looking over the city relative
to the matter of establishing the free
mail delivery system to which Billings IS
entitled by reason of it's pOstoftice re-
ceipts for the past fiscal year reaching
$50, 900 or more. MIR. Brattoh located the
carrier limits and marked the locations
for mail boxes. which will number Is.
Two carriers and a substitute will be EN-
ployed to do the work.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Congre-
g%ational church, assisted by local talent,
produced the "Old Maids Convention
at the opera house Friday night before
a large and enthusiastic audience. i,ach
one creditably acted her part and the
production was enthusiastically received.
The aid realized a neat sum from the
play. which will be devoted to church
work.
Robert Smith. a we'll known colored
young man. died yesterday and was
buried today. The deceased had been i'll
for the past nine months with rheuma-
tism and dropsy.
The receipts of the Billings postoftice
for April We're the largest of any month
in the history of the ONCE.
w. B.. Sleeper of Sunshine, Wyo., start
ed today from Billings for Cape Nome.
He will sail from Seattle on the 24th
inst. with 40 head of fat cattle, which ne
expects to dispose of to good advantage.
He will remain at Cape Nome until fail.
when he will return to his stock n
at Sunshine.
The county commissioners met in spe-
cial session today, but deferred action on
the Laurel bridge matter until the June
meeting. 1t will be remembered thai
this bridge was badly damaged by the
III waters a couple of weeks ago.
Fred Bond, state engineer of Wyoming,
stopped over in Billings Sunday while
en- route to the Big Horn basin, where
he goes to make he a~pportionment of
water rights for the Mormon colony
(which recently migrated to that state
from Utah.
An effort is on foot to ~macadanize
Montana avenue from the opera house
to T~wenty-nirth street. Some of the
heavier owners on the avenue have
agreed to so pave the street and it is
hoped that the smaller property owners
will do likewise. 1t is greatly needed and
will be quite an improvement.
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The old city council died tonight, With
am and Spear being the retiring men,
bers. Both the gentlemen have been
members of the counc for several years
and have fulfilled the duties of the office
of aldermen to the satisfaction of their
constituents, and they leave the council
with the regrets of every member
AT ~to-night's council meeting the mayor
announced his appointment for the office
of street and sewer commissioner a new
ly created office, Grant S. Lainport be-
ing the lucky aspirant for the office. Mr..
Lamport's appointment was unanimous
ly confirmed by the council. Mr.. Lam
port will make a good official and his
appointment is universally satisfactory.
The new city council took hold of the
reins of city government tonight, when
Mayor Yegen called the august body to
order and announced his committees as
follows:
Finance-ReynCIds and Tubbs.
Streets and Sidewalks-Tubbs and Con-
nelly.
Ordinances-Bennighoff and Frizella.
Officers and Bonds-BennighOff and
Clement.
Fire, Lights and Water-Frizelle and
Berky.
: Improvements and City Property
Berky and Reynolds.
: Sewers and Drainage-Clement and
Szilrick.
One new committee on ways and means
was added, and the embers are Con-
nelly and Szilrick.
Policeman Robert r. Leavens on to-
morrow will hand his resignation TO
Mayor Yegen, the same to take effect at
once. Mr.. Leavens has decided on this
. move on account of wishing to devote his
attention to his stock ranch east of Bill
lings, to Which place he will remove at
once. He mas made a good officer dur
ing the few months he has been on the
force. just who his successor will be il
not known at this time.
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