Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-02
TWO PER MONTH
THRIVING BUSINESS IN DISTURB
ED MENTAL EQUILI-
BRUINS.
TRAVEL TO WARM SPRINGS.
Legality of Teachers Contradictions
of Herman Will Picnic in
Helena.
BOZeman. MAY 81.

Mecca for people who have lost their
mental equilibrium. Lately the aver
age of %lunatics that have come forward
TO their lapse of mental So
"briety has been about two per month.
The last month has run slightly over
fhis generous average, and the sheriff
has been ON the road between here and
Warm Springs with great regularity.
s1he last mental wreck to be east upon
friendly shore of the sheliff's juris-,
appeared in She city early this
tWeek. He is named Francis Sherman
and came here from Livingston. He left
the ~eastbound passenger train ait that
point and walked over the range ON foot
in the might. Arriving at Chestnut in the
morning, he asked for breakfast, and
While eating gave evidence of his pur-
turbed mental state by announcing that
he was being follDwed by several men
who We're seeking his life: He was
brought to Bozeman and confined in the
county Jail. He is a man of above the
; aveuag e intelligence and had a ticket for
Duluth when he left the train. He was
coming from the coast, bur paper in his
pockets proved hat he owned some town
property in Great Falls and was a tax
payer in several other parts of the
country. A plethoric pocketbook attest
ed his easy financial condition and no
| reason can be found for his dementia.
He says he is not a drinking man, but
| AYERS that he is being followed by per-
sons who Will kin him on sight and says
| he will not proceed on his Journey alone.
He told Sheriff Fransaam that it would
| be cheaper for the county to send him to
his destination under guard than to
keep him here - the public expense, and
| his reasoning in other directions goes to
show that he Us not aEtogether crazy.
| On the subject of his imaginary pursu-
| ers, however, he IS, as mad as a March
hare and refuses to be comforted.
B. T. Stanton arrived in the city the
! early part Of the week from a trip to
the coast. He has spent several weeks
in Seattle and vicinity and is delighted
with the coast climate. Mrs. Stanton
and the younger children, on
the coast for the summer. The weather
is delightful in the sound country, Mr..
: stanton says, and tie roses other
Pance. e%.& 2. a~eatfa.,
T., S. c. Kenyon arrived in the city this
evening From a trip to the east for his
lhealth. He Went away accompanied by
his wife several weeks ago and for a time
iFhis recovery was, despaired, of, but he *
much improved ait. present and bids fair
to be his former self again in a. short
time. 80. .-4--
+ The city school board is much alarmed
over the recent decision of the courts re-
garding the legality of contracts for
teachers in the public schools. Hitherto
the board has always been bile to keep
an excellent corps of teachers In the
school and at no time has q teacher
1been disturbed in h tenure of the
teaching year. Now, with the three
months contract law in vogue, teachers
viii not consider a position in the city
schools SO inviting and will go to Other
states to secure positions, or. being in
other states, will refuse to come here
under ordinary Inducements on account
of The law governing contracts with the
board.
June sth and 9th will be the college
field days at the Montana State college
The races, games and athletic contests
will come off on those lay and the
years sport will be finished With inter
esting feats of strength and skill.
Knobs o Tennessee played to a goo6
sized audience at the opera house this
evening and gave a very creditable per-
formance. The play is full of the subtle
fsu9gesitiVeness of the blood and thunder
drama without being frenzied at any
point, and this strain of feeling running
through the play commands the ready
interest and frequent applause of the
auditors.
Sunday the Sons of Herman go IL
Helent on a picnic excursion. They will
charter a special train and make up &
crowd of several undre people, Whit
will spend the day ait Central Park il
the pasttimes peculiar to Sunday out
ings.
Attorney A. P. Stark was in the cit,
Yesterday. His wife is in the city receiv
ing medical attention, and will soon b.
in condition to return home to Livngs
ton.
Il q o.. GU rtD;, ,ro. IN Ehn nv xyorfn -
day from Altte in the interest of tn
lnraron Shnllf~ Line for. which Ne is thl