Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-10
WAS A SURPRISE
MARRIAGE OF BOHEMIAN BELLE
AND SEATTLE MAN.
MISS RUFFNER WEEDS H. BROWN
Letters From the Frozen North
Sheriff Farnsham Leaves for
the East.


Bozeman society had a real surprise
party this afternoon when one of it's lead
ing members got married and went away
on the train without warning or farewell.
MISS Ola Rufner and Harry Brown were
quietly married by Rev. Frank B. Lewis
OF the Episcopal church and took the after
noon train for Seattle, where the groom is
engaged in business, and where they will
make their future home. Miss Ruffner is
one Of the leading musicians of the city
and has a wide circle of friends here. 1t
appears that she became acquainted with
Mr.. Brown while she visited in Seattle
about a year ago, and he has visited here
to have a more public wedding, but on Mr..
Browns arrival here to prepare for the
the coast. There appeared to be only one
thing to do and the young people secured
a minister and a friend of Miss Ruffner's
welded in haste. The good wishes of the
entire community go with the young
couple. and the regrets of Miss Runners
young lady friends over the loss of the
wedding festivities is monumental.
A letter from John Lawson to d. G.
Stevens of this city tells of the formers
from Dutch harbor, 1855 miles west Of
Seattle, where the ship put in to wait for
the floating ice to drift off the trace Of
4,G0 people were landed on the beach at
Dutch harbor, and Walt Caldwell and Tom
Fowler were among those from Gallatin
1t requires about a month for letters to
come from Dutch harbor to this state. d..
E. R. Purnell, a we'll known mining man,
who is at Nome City in quest of a fortune,
has sent a letter from the frozen north
to a friend in this city. He wrote a letter
put in during her voyage but this letter,
dated June 5, did not reach this city until
the letter from Nome was at hand. 1t APP
was delayed. Mr.. Purnell tells an interest
ing story of the celebration of Decoration
day on the San Bias. Ex-Mayor Wood OF
through the heavy seas. Five hundred
passengers were aboard the vessel.
Sheriff Fransham departed for a trip to
the east Sunday morning and expects to
be absent on business for about a week.
found a very great need of rain existing
in all parts of the states between here anC
the Mississippi, and predicts that the pres.
j ent drought will be the most severe ir
I Prof. Samuel Fortier departed the early
part of the week for a trip to points or
the Yellowstone river, where he will lobk
up data relative to irrigation. Professor
Fortier has recently been in Missoula, and
while there took an interest in the work
VI Improvement Ho" AOlIR FORWARD
IN the garden city of the Bitter Root, and
thinks Bozeman might do worse than pat
tern after the methods employed there in
putting the streets in passable shape.
The Grand Army post of this city has
sent to the government supply department
for a number of tombstones for marking
the graves of the men who have beer
buried by the post in recent years. Tn
government furnishes the .tombstones fret
to all soldiers graves.
Stanley Koch of this city is the r~ecipien,
OF numerous congratulations over his goOG
fortune In capturing the cadetship to West
Point at the examination at Helena last
/ week.
The DAILY delegates from the Kansas City
convention passed through this city thi.
morning on their way home. There was
not a great crowd out to meet them.
The BOzeman college has issued a nea,
catalogue of the commercial department
of that institution and embellished th4
brochure with numerous half-tone cuts.
Prof. Fl. G. Phelps of the college ia al
the Wylie camps in the park and is expect
ing to spend his entire vacskon there.
Rev. M. l.. Rickman has gone to his oil
home in North Carolina for a visit of q
couple of months. His family is aIread,
there.
J. W. Kelley returned this morning from
a trip to Butte and Anaconda.
!, Ed L.; Stowe and a party of friends