Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-07
SMALL P0X CASE
HARRY MARTIN BROUGHT IN
FROM JOHNSON'S RANCH.
PRACTICE FOR THE FiREMEN.
New Department Initiated Trains
Running to the Occur d,Alenes
Crowded-Fight at Dance.
Missoula, July 6.

Missoula, July 6.
Harry Martin was brought in from the
johnson ranch yesterday afternoon and
taken to DIR. Parson for medical treat
ment, and the doctor Immediately pro-
DUN his ailment to be a case of
smallpox. and sent him to the new pest
house forthwith. The man is said to have
just come to JOhnson's ranch from Ham
ilton. where he presumably contracted
the disease. Doctor Parson pronounced
the case a serious one n has taken ev-
cry precaution against it's spread.
The new fire department We're initiated
last night and given a little practice in
their business on the old tWo-story build
ing back of Johnson's livery stable on
Pine street. The building was used by
Mr.. Johnson as a carriage paint shop
and at the time of the fire contained a
hack, an extra set of hack wheels that
had never been used, a new road wagon
and a quantity of paints and oils, which
made a terrible blaze. Only a skeleton
OF the building was left standing. The
origin of the fire is unknown, but is be-
Iced to be the work of an ~incendiary, as
there had been no fire about the building
during the day and no one had been in
there since s o'clock, the time the work.
men left. The loss is estimated to be
about 81, 600.
Mr.. r. H. Prentice is in the city from
st. Mary's peak and reports having pass
ed through a severe snow storm on that
mountain two days ago. 1t was very
cold Inc the snow was deep and the ex-
perience to him at this season of the year
was a novel one.
The coaches of the Occur d'Alene train
were packed to overlooking yesterday,
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stand up. This is not an unusual oc-
cul'ence, and there is a demand for an
extra coach on this ranch
P. z. Prince returned from Garnet
yesterday. where he n Charles E..
bration IN the Fourth. Mr.. Avery con-
tinued his trip to Butte, where he will
spend a few days.
Zeffre Paris, with a black eye n
beaten head, sWore out a warrant for
the arrest of William Johnson, charging
him with assault, committed on him on
the evening of the Fourth at a dance
at the home of James Martin. t5
Mrs. Bryant, who has been dispatcher
at Desmit for the Northern Pacific rail
way, has been transferred to a like posi-
ton in Helena and emoved her goods
and family there today.
Mrs. r. w. Watts arrived here today
from Benton Harbor, Mich, to join her
husband, who is train dispatcher of the
Northern Pacific.
Two marriage licenses were issued to-
day by the clerk of the courts to EdWard
Roden and Miss Ida Carleton, both of
Missoula, and George A. Gunther and
; Mamie NJ. Redden, both of Thompson.
Misses Elsie Reinhard and Zoe Below
returned yesterday from Hamilton and
Grantsdale, where they spent the
| Fourth with Miss Alice Baker.
w. A. McLaren, who was injured IN
the Occur d'Alene wreck on the Sd, left
the city yesterday for Burke, Idaho.
A land slide near Spokane yesterday
was the cause of train No. 4 getting in
here seven hours late.
George Travis was before Justice
| Hayes yesterday, charged with dlsturb-
ing the peace, and was fined 81 ana
| costs. -
Sam Densmore was a passenger on the
north coast limited to Butte last night.
Frank Thomas went up to Stevensville
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