Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-25
OPEN NEW LANDS
BRIDGE. OPENS UP FINE LANDS
ACROSS THE RIVER.
HOSPITAL LOSES A WORKER.
Sister Antoinette Who Made st. Vim
cents Hospital Model of
Its Kind.
Billings, Mont. Feb. 90, 1901.

Billings, Mont, Feb. %, 1901.
When the new wagon bridge across
the Yellowstone river east of Billings is
erected, good many people will take up
homesteads across the river Arrange
ments are already under way by num-
Der to take up homesteads above the
Coulson irrigating ditch and above their
land. building a dam beyond the mouth
of the gulies, thus forming a reservoir
to supply the irrieating ditch The land
is about the finest in the county, having
a warmer soil, sandy loan.
Sister Superior Antoinette left Tues
day noon for Butte, where she goes to
take charge of the st. James hospital
succeeding Sister Superior Louise who
died recently. Sister Antoinette has been
in charge of St. Nincents hospital in this
city for nearly two years, coming here
just short time after the hospital was
opened, and to her splendid management
ds due the success of the institution. She
succeeded in bringing it up to the point
where it stands at the head with the
other hospitals in the state, despite the
fact that it is the youngest in Montana.
The sister friends by her nobler
traits of character and her efforts to
assist in allevatng the pain and suffer-
ings of the patients who came under her
observation Her departure from Bill
ingS is the cause of sorrow among the
sisters at the hospital. and deeply re-
GREETED by the physicians and others
whose duties brought them in contact
with her work.
e NJ Hungerford is no longer SUPER
tntendent or a stakeholder in the Bill
llngs Telephone company, having re-
Signed the former position Thursday
AFTERNOON after dsposing of his interest
IN the system TO l.. l.. Moffett.
{ Mr. Hungerford organized the Billings
Telephone company October n, 1895, of
entirely local capital He installed the
system, which was opened for business
december of the same year, and was
placed in charge as superintendent
position he has filled ever since with
entire satisfaction to the majority of
the stockholders Through his untiring
efforts the system was improved from
time to time until now it is in splendid
condition, and to him is accorded the
credit for having made it paying en-
terprise.
For months past there has been more
or less friction among some Of the
stockholders of the local system, due
no doubt to the fact that stock in the
company has proved one Of the best in
,vestments In Billings. This created q
desire on the part of a few owning stock
TO secure control. and the desire became
lnore noticeable when it was announced
that the Rocky Mountain Bell system
would ask permission from the city
council to do business in Billings. Stock
IN the local company reached it's highest
point yesterday when the bulls paid $50
per share and upwards for stock, the
par value of which is $40.
among the bears there is a suspicion
that controlling interest in the local
company is being purchased in behalf
OF the Rocky Mountain Bell company,
(which has been before the city council
for months seeking a franchise with but
Few restrictions. The council has thus
FAR been unable to fully determine what
kind of franchise. if any, it will grant
the Bell people, and now that "tip"
has been given out that the controlling
interest in the local company has been
bought up for the Bell company, it will
place the city council in more unset
tied frame of mind than ever when an
ordinance granting the Bell people a
right to enter the city is finally present.
ed for adoption.
That Billings is splendid business
point has been contended for several
years by it's citizens and merchants.
and the fact is further borne out by
this, that hardly week passes but the
city is visited by business men from
other places looking up location. Dur
lng the past week no less than half
dozen men have been in Billings, COM
Ing with the intention of engagin in
business. but their plans were upset by
their Inability to secure store rooms, At
present there is not a vacant store room
IN the city, and no probability of there
being any in the near future
The new Gruwell block has not been
rented. but the owner has received a
number of applications for the same.