Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-14
NUMBER HOUSES
Street Commissioners Will
Commence Work Today.
TO HAVE A FREE DELIVERY
Filings ReviSed-MuSt Have Proof of
Observation-Disclosures toe.
W. Whitney.
Bozeman, April II.

Bozeman, April II.
Today Street Commissioner Lansing
began the work of numbering the
the ordinance recently passed by the
council. The numbering begins at
Bozeman street and extends in all di-
rections from where this th%oroughfare
crosses Main street. The old LIE Clede is
No. l and the even numbers are mark
ed on the opposite side OF Main street,
the south side. On the streets running
north and south h even numbers are
on the east side of the streets. There
will b. east and west n north and
south numbers on all the streets, and
his scheme of numbering will prevent
the numbers being confused. All thor
oughfares in the city of Bozeman rum
ming east and west are called streets
and those running north and south are
termed venues The city will have
a free delivery in a few months and a
new directory will shortly be issued.
This forenoon a race war of f%orn1ida-
BILE proportions took place in an alley
back of the Bozeman hotel. A celestial
i laundryman named Ham Yek was driv-
ing past the residence of a cOlOred man
who has an ingrained hatred of celes-
tails and cannot countenance their driv-
ing past his door,. He accordingly war;
ed his Chinaman to desist his perambu-
lations past his humble shack or he
would take a fall out of the laundry out
fit and do violence to it's owner. The
Chinaman was IN a ckleSS mood to-
day and attempted to trespass on the
forbidden alley, with the result that he
mixed with the gentleman of color, and
a case will be tried in the police court
tomorrow to determine the rights of
the parties. Ham says the colored man,
whose name is Japhet Bruce, lasooed his
horse and .'klursed and damned him Ito
a tlinish,' and did other acts and things
into which Judge Smith of the police
court would be justified in making legal
inquiry.
]. E. Purnell, a mining expert we'll
known all over Montana. is just at pres
ent the butt of a good deal of well
meant chatting, the result of an expe-
riment he made a few days ago with. an
intricate piece of machinery known as a
cigar lighter. The lighter was in the
bar room of the Bozeman hotel inc Mr..
Purnell. perfectly sober. was attempt
ing to operate the device which cuts the
end off of cigars that are pressed into
a small circular orifice near the base of
the lighting apparatus. The spring of
the clipper for some reason refused to
work and Mr.. Purnell inserted his little
finger in the hole to investigate the
cause of the trouble About this time
the spring resumed it's functions and
neatly cut the end from Mr.. Purnelrs
finger. He said he realized his mistake
almost as soon as it happened.
The register of the United States land
Office at this city states that several of
the filings made at his office lately had
to be revised o n account of the parties
laying claim to land not giving proof OF
naturalization. Without such proof
when the claimant is foreign born no fl
ing is valid and the official before whom
the filing is made is obliged to require
correct papers before the term of the
claim begins to ruiz A considerable
amount of business Is done in the land
office here now, and the clock work reg
ularity and accuracy with which the
records are being attended to is making
Register Love the fast friend of the
claimant who is homesteading a quarter
section with the hope of making it his
own in the course of years.
Seventeen young people were given
the ordinance of confirmation at the
Episcopal church Monday evening by
Bishop Brewer. The fifteen lady nov
itiates were all arrayed in white, some
of them bearing Wreaths of flowers. The
church was crowded during the cere-
monies. This was the largest class ever
confirmed in the Episcopal church in
| this city.
| Wednesday a pugilistic play was the
attraction at the Bozeman opera house.
| The Jeffries-Sharkey fight was project
ed on a screen by a kenetiscope and the
amusement given the good sized audi
ence was considerable, judging from the
applause with which the happy hits of
the star actors We're greeted.
Word comes from Park county that 6.
W. Lovely is dead at his home eight
miles south of Livingston. He was n
years of age and was at one time a res
ident of this valley. His daughter, Mrs.
A.. H. Black, lives here. He was buried
In a private burial ground on the ranch.
Next Thursday. April 10, the woman's
Christian Temperance Union will meet
in regular session with Mrs. Boyles.
There will be an election of officers at
this meeting.
G w. Whitney was the victim of a
severe accident Monday. While engag-
ed in a friendly tussle with a friend on
Main street he fell in such a manner as
to break n of the small bones of his
leg and sprain his ankle. He will be laid
up for several weeks.
Harlan Boyd and Miss Mary Durham,
both of Pony, Madison county, We're
united in marriage by Judge Mcpherson
in this city Monday.
Miss Mamie Armstrong began a term
OF school at Cedar View Monday. The
Lower Madison school opens mex Mon