Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-17
MUCH SICKNESS
MANY DISEASES PREVALENT IN
BILLINGS.
TELEPHONES FOR RAILROAD.
Giving Up Telegraph for the Phone
Good Business in the
Postoffice.

There is more sickness in Billings al
the present time than has been known
for years. La grippe, which Sc .rned to
be a regular epidemic over the entire
country a number of years ago, is pre-
vailing here, and there are very few
families who have escaped it. Scarlet
fever is also making the rounds Of the
children and has appeared in many
homes. All of the cases so far have
been in a mild form, with no fatalities.
Pneumonia. a disease to be most dread
ed Of all in this high altitude. mas
fastened itself upon several whose lives
We're despaired of for time, bur arc
now improving, with hopes of en+.r. re.
covery. Smallpox, which has been 80
prevalent throughout Montana, was Tie
first disease to make it's appearance
and is now looked upon as common
disease and one far less to be dreaded
than either pneumonia or scarlet fever.
or the ten cases which have been treat
ed at the pest house, not one has re-
| suited fatally. In only one instance has
the disease originated in Billings. ali TIL,
other patients having been brought to
this city from the out side. -
For some time past there has been
more or less talk regarding the inten-
ton of the Northern Pacific railroad to
abandon the use of biography and take
up the use of telephones, which are said
! to give better satisfaction than the
Morse system. The company has
already installed telephones in all it's
! stations between Big Timber and Mis-
soula and St. Paul and Dickinson. Now
comes the information that phones are
being placed in the stations between
| Dickinson and Billings, and SO far COM
munica ton is satisfactory as far west
as FOrSythe. At the present rate the
| line is being extended, it will be but q
short time until direct communication
can be had at all points between st.
Paul and the Pacific coast. This ex-
pertinent relates only to the Northern
Pacific railroad offices and will not in
terfere in any way with the business OF
the Western Union Telegraph company
J. e. Amin of Columbus, who is in
the city i'm attendance at the session OF
the board of county commissioners
+ says that the second town of Yellow.
stone county is beginning to grow il
Importance. Jacob Soss, president e1
the Montana Sandstone company, whose
quarries are within a mile of Columbus
visited there Sunday in company with
| william II. Hamilton OF Helena, gen
eral foreman at the state capitol build
ing, who is to have charge of the quar-
ries. The Montana Sandstone compan.
is making extensive improvements
erecting permanent shops for machiner!
for cutting stone and making grind
stones. The grindstones turned out ar,
said to be the finest made, and will il
time be one of the noted industries o
the state. Between IS and $50 men viii
be employed, and in order to accommO
date them the company will also cree
a large boarding and lodging house.
The court room, in which Judge c. H
Loud of Miles City convened distric
| court this morning, is practically new
one, because of the great Improvement
that have been made in the past week
The judges desk and the places Sc
aside for the attorneys have bee
changed to position alongside tn
north wall, and the jury box will here