Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20

. Tuesday the. exeeutivelboard.ef~ the
the State Normal. held a meeting and
unanimously elected DR.. Geo. J. Mean
drew. CT. South Orange, N. j., as presi-
dent.of the faculty of the Normal sehool.N
The new president has already entered
Upon his duties at the Normal school in
this city.
A fatal accident Tuesday evening. AS
the midnight passenger was pulling out
of the yard a nan by the name Of James
kenney attempted to board the train
near the Dillon Implement company's
house. In some way he slipped and fell
under the wheels. His left leg vas hOr-
ribly mutilated and he received some
severe injuries about the head, his nose
being entirely torn from his face. DR..
M. A. Miller was summoned and ampu-
tated the leg just above the knee. Mr..
'Kenney was sent to the railroad hospital
at Salt Lake City, the next morning. but
it is reported he died before he reached
Salt Lake. Very little is known about
the man or the accident. as he was too
weak to tell anything after it occurred.
A special session of the board Of Gun
ty commissioners was held Monday. Oct.
IS Chairman T. T.. Barrett, Commits
sioner VIM. Montgomery and County
Clerk Geo. Taylor were i~nattendance.
A sealed proposal from w. W.. Fran
els for building a bridge across the North
Fork Of the Big Hole river was opened
and accepted. The sum bid was $3.50. The
clerk was instructed to notify Mr.. Fran
els that his bid vas accepted. The set
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December LIST, 1900. his bond is fixed at
81, 800.
Sealed proposals for furnishing logs
to corduroy what is known as "Brenner's
Lane" were opened and are as follows:
H. Mcknight, 45c per log; John Shesser,
CSC per log; j. I'll. Hall, 3Oc per log; n
John Roberts. 25c per log. The bid Of the
latter, being the lowest was accepted, his
bond being fixed at $500 and the contract
is to be completed within 30 days. The
clerk was instructed to notify Mr.. Rob-
erts of the same.
The next matter. brought up was the
small pox,, by the direction of the board
the clerk is to advertise for sealed pro-
posals for building a one-story house on
the poor farm which will be used as a
pesthouse, and all persons afflicted with
any contagious or infectious disease will
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constructed according to plans now on
file at the clerk and recorders Office, Geo.
Miller being employed to draught plans.
The time set for opening the sealed pro-
posals will be Nov. Is, 1900.
In the matter o fthe tax of the O.. S. L.
Railroad company, as fixed by the board
OF equalization, the same was compared
with the books of the county as entered
by the clerk, the same was found correct
and approved. The board adjourned at
noon.
The registry office, which is at j. w.
Morton's store on Bannack street, open
ed last Monday with Robert Boone as
registry agent. A goodly number of
names have already entered the books.
Another business change took place in
this city Tuesday when w. A. Truax pur-
chased the blacksmith business and shop
formally conducted by Dan Callahan and
Oscar Stone
The police magistrate collected fines
amounting to $40 this week from two of
the inmates of Lucille's residence on the
Island. They We're arrested for being
disorderly while riding astride two
horses at a fast gait through lain street.
Attorney Willis was over in Madi-
son county last week on political bust
ness.
Anthony French of Argenta was in
town yesterday and took the evening
train for New York City. where he wifi
visit for several weeks.
r h 1a.s IrA- ~ -. - .A-
in Indiana, where he went to attend to
the marketing of a shipment of eleven
car lead of. horses which We're shipped
from Dillon and Bedrock this week.
J. S. Baker of Lima, candidate on the
republican ticket for clerk and recorder
was at the county seat the first of tha
week.
, Will Simmons, the contractor accident
ally run a nail in his foot last week and
is now around on crutches.
Miss Blanche Haynes is seriously i'll
with brain fever at the home of her pa
\ rents in the city.
GET VACCINATED.
Believing that the recent alarming
spread of smallpox necessitates promp,
) and decisive action on the part of the
county and city officials in order to ar.
rest the disease. and believing rvaccina,
, ton to be the most effectual method o.
securing immunity from smallpox ant
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