Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-08
NEED MQREROOM
SCHOOLS CANNOT CARE FOR ALL
THE PUPILS.
TO DEDICATE Library IN MAY.
An Incipient Blaze-325 Men Quaran-
tined for Smallpox in Grading
Camp.
TO DEDICATE Library IN MAY,
Billings, Mont, March 8, 1901.


The board of trustees of school district
No. 2 met in regular session last night.
Among the various matters to be discuss
ed is the feasibility Of asking the tax
payers to vote additional bonds this year
for a new school building, and also to
enable the board to complete the new
north side building. The PRESENT school
buildings are inadequate and by next
fall, unless means are provided for ad-
ditional room, the school will be unable
to accommodate all the children. The
south side is greatly in need of more
room, and an offer has been made the
board for the present building. It Is
the wishes of the trustees that q build
ing similar to the new one on the north
side be erected on new site, which has
already been offered.
At a recent meeting of the board of
managers of the Parmly- Billings me-
mortal library an estimate of the con-
tract was allowed. Matters pertaining
to the further improvement of the build
ing and grounds We're discussed. The
representatives of the Billings estate
have given the managers to understand
that they will bear the expense of fur
nishing the building, which means that
everything pertaining thereto will be of
the finest. In addition to this the Bill
lings estate will attend to the grading
of the grounds and otherwise improving
the same. The dedicatOry exercises will
most likely be held about the middle of
May, but the exact date will be set to
conform with the plans of the Billings
people in New York who will come to
this city at that time.
The fire department was called out
Sunday about. 1 o'clock to extinguish a
blaze in the Eugene restaurant on North
TWenty-SeVenth street. The fire was
first thought to be located in the lodg-
ing house upstairs, but it was soon dis
covered that the seat of the fire was in
a closet unAer the stairway. 1t took
but short time to extinguish the blaze
and very little damage was done. The
fire is supposed to have caught from a
lamp used by the Chinaman when enter
ing the closet, which served as store
room.
One of the McShane Bros. grading
camps at Pryor Gap was Quarantined
Monday on account Of the presence of
smallpox, one case being found. The
camp quarantined contains 1926 men, but
as every thing possible is being done to
keep it from so doing. The patient was
brought to Billings and is being cared
for at the pest house. There are now
about 80 cases at the pest house, five
new ones having been brought in Mon
day from Knights grading camp on the
Toluca-C Cody branch.
J. II. Templeton, a foreman for Nc
Shane Bros. on the latter's grading con-
tract at Pryor Gap, was arrested and
fined $40 for breaking quarantine. Tenn
pleton, whose family has rooms at
Mrs. G. W. Stoddard's on South Twenty
eighth street, came to the city few
days ago upon learning that his children
had contracted scarlet fever. A few
days later he had occasion to come down
town for medicine and was arrested by
the police. He was taken before Judge
Mann, where he pleaded guilty and paid
a fine of $40. He gave as an excuse that
he had started after medicine and had
left the house on the suggestion of the
physician that it would be all
right. The physician, DR.. Chapple, was
called and corroborated what Temple
ton had said, stating that he had no
idea it made any difference, as there
We're cases every day where people We're
going in and out of houses where quar-
antine had been established.
A temporary pest house has been es-