Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-13
BOHEMIAN WAS
H0SP|TAbLE
POSTMASTER IRWIN SPEAKS
GLOWINGLY OF THE MEET
ING OF THE PIONEERS.
POLITICS AND CROPS KEPT
MANY FROM attending,
Restoration of Virginia City Burying
Ground-Amendment to Consti-
tuition Goes Over.

Postmaster George w. Irwin, who has
been in attendance at the old-timers' re-
union at Bozeman this week. returned
home last evening. He enjoyed the trip
and speaks in warm terms of the hos
pitality of the people of Gallatin county.
The tendan from outside points
was not very large this year." said Mr..
irwin today. "but there was a large at
tendance from Gallatin county. A great
many OF the pioneers are ranchers now
adays. and as they We're busy harvesting
a great number could not attend. Poll
tics also tended to cut down the attend
ance. The entertainment provided by the
people of Bozeman was Of a very hos
pitable nature and was much appre-
ciated by the visitors. The pioneers
were excellently well housed and every
was anticipated and provided for.
The city of Bozeman looked very
beautiful. There was an abundance of
verdure flowers and fruits. and to a per-
son from Butte the stay was the most
delightful of recreations. BoZeman in
the last few years has grown very sub
stantially. 1t is well built and has all
the facilities and public utilities of an
eastern city three times it's size. 1t is
surrounded by living streams of water
and a splendid agricultural region. Gal
latin is the producer of the greatest
quantity per acre and the finest quality
of barley in the world. It's other grains
are proportionately excellent. Ones at
tentiOn is attracted to the large Touring
mills and the immense grain elevators
from which it can readily be seen that the
revenues of the people of Gallatin county
must be in a very healthy condition. The
people, too, look as if they had gotten
out of the red and were in the possess
sion of comfortable bank accounts.
The meeting of the pioneers. although
not large, was a great success, u
largely to the spontaneous effort of all
the citizens Of Bozeman. The usual pro-
gramme was rendered. The retiring
president. w. w. Anderson, delivered his
annual address. which included a well
come of the old-timers to the city. The
response was made by Col. w. F. San
ders in one of his eloquent and charac-
t%eristic speeches. b entertainment
consisted Of a visit of the old-timers to
the United States fish hatchery on
Bridger creek. an entertainment by the
sons and daughters Of the pioneers at
the opera house and a banquet at the
Bozeman hotel. They We're all delight
fully managed by the officAs Of the so
ciety and the citizens committee.
"Mr. George H. Casey of Butte, who
is not a member of the pioneers, sent a
check for 500 to the society as a starter
for a fund sufficient to restore and put
in order the old burying ground at Vir-
ginia City, which has been sadly neg
lected. In the old cemetery are buried
a number of prominent men, whose his
tory is inseparably connected with the
early history of Montana territory. 1t
also includes a bouquet of the gentle-
manly o agents, who furnished splen-
did moral examples to the tough charac-
ters of the Rocky mountains by being
suspended several feet in the air.
"The only important legislation consid-
cred was an amendment to the constitu-
ton offered by Hon. Walter Cooper Of
Bozeman, providing for the repeal of the
graduated scale relative to the admis-
sion of members. which substituted the
fiat requirement that all persons who
had arrived in Montana as late as 1866
should be eligible to membership in the
Society of Pioneers. The amendment
goes over until the next session, which
will be held in Missoula. Henry F.
Edgar, one of the original ~scovere of
gold in Alder gulch. was selected as pres
ident.
about 20 deaths in a total member
ship of 1,50o was reported during the
year.
1.-The session was concluded by a dance
given by the young people of Bozeman.''
The ladies of St. Johns Guild intend
giving a bazaar in aid of the parish
house during the week beginning Octo-
Der IS. For further particulars see Sat-
,,-1o ySc r., {a~ AfN,n~