Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-12
ELECTION RESULT
Road Supervisors Contest Was
Hard Fought.
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Dora Benart Sent to Warm Springs
A Man Who Personally Knew
Admiral Dewey.
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Bozeman, April 10.

The result of the elections in this
county Saturday nave been determined
by the count of votes and reports from
the outlying districts. The contests over
road supervisors were the most interest,"
ing and hard fought. The results in
seven districts are as follows: District
No. l. Three Forks, T.. F. Callaghan; No.
2. Manhattan, George Taylor; NO. 3,
Belgrade, Press Johnson; No. 4, Sales
vile, j. w. Todd; No. 5, Bozeman and
Chestnut, Thomas .Healey; No. 6. Nor
CAMS school house, Frank Perkins; No.
Z, Sedan, John Geisie. The election held
for Bozeman and Chestnut excited about
as much of a contest as n in the cOun-
ty and was carried by the friends of
l Healey from Chestnut, who rallied around
him strong and came in wagon loads to
the polls to see hat he was elected.
Dora Benart of the valley has been
sent to the insane asylum. Her mental
condition was the subject Of an inquisi-
ton by Drs. Safely and Whitefoot and
Chairman Pro Tenn. Ellis of the board OF
county commissioners. For some time
her health has been failing and the
shock to her nervous system unbalanced
her mind and she became unable to care
for herself, and it was thought best to
ave her sent to some place where she
would be cared for and medical atten-
llOll SINeH Z DIG was COIlol64OA ~
the state institution at Warm Springs
by order of the chairman of the board
of county commissioners and it is ex-
pected her treatment there will be such
that her reason will be restored.
A, c., ROecher arrived home the early
part of the week from a trip to his old
home in Ohio. He was accompanied by
his brother, who will locate in this
west. Mr.. Roecher found business good
in the eastern states. but the weather
was far behind what he had been ac-
customed to in Montana.
A, C. Thomas of Sheridan, Wyoming,
is in the valley this week the guest of
w. H: Preston. He is buying cattle for
his extensive ranch in Wyoming and
has many words of praise for the CAL
latin valley. which he calls the stock
mans paradise. .
Il DR.. ]. H. Henshall of this city is one
of the few men in the west who Is an
intimate acquaintance of Admiral Dew
ey. Before DIR. Henshall was appoint
| ed fish commissioner and located at
, Bozeman he was with Dewey in the old
|, Pensacola in the Mediterranean and
speaks entertainly of the opinions held
by the now famous man. He says he
recalls the time when Dewey said he
would vote for Grover Cleveland if he
We're HOIll0, dllIlOu6u iC d v tOlCO
in his life. Dewey believed in tariff re-
form in those days and had strong dem
ocratic tendencies of the old school v a
riety, and, DIR. Henshall thinks. would
likely be a gold democrat as political
matters are now shaped.
News comes from Chestnut that there
was no election of school trustees at that
place Saturday. The polls were not open
ed until Is minutes before the time to
close and only eleven votes were cast
\ The county superintendent will be ask.
: ed to appoint a set of trustees for the
district.
; D. F. Johnson. whose wife died Fri
I day of last week, will move to Chesnu1
I and make his home with his brother
! who is a resident of that camp. Hi:
; little daughter will accompany him.
( George G.. Howard, who has a rancl
: on the old reservation, was in the cit,
the fore part of the week and reports
} the snow hub deep on the o between
Z here and his ranch.
5 The Misses Maxey of this city were il
} in Chestnut Sunday the guests of Mrs
I J.. C. Mccarthy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cooper arrived
, last week from Washington, where the,
y nave Oeon SpeHOluS the WlAIcI.
Miss Lena Armstrong is i'll with a.
attack of scarlet fever at her home L
this city.
I Miss Clara Fisher is confined to he
home with an attack of scarlet fever.
Bishop Brewer was in the city Nor
= day from Helena and conducted the ser
\ vices of confirmation at the Episcopa
n church. He departed for Butte the fol
y lowing morning.
BILLINGS NEWS
X We. Hassler, Representative Int
Mountain. Branch Office Gazette BIZ
Billings, April 10.