Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-08
THE TELEPHONES
ARE BEING PUT IN THE BEST OF
WORKING ORDER.
PYTHIAN SOCIAL A SUCCESS.
Livingston Knights Helped to Make
the Evening Very
Merry One. 49,.
BoZeman, February I.

BOZeman, February I.
Manager Harry Somers of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Co., stopped
over a day in Bozeman and looked over
the local exchange. in which a new
switchboard is being installed and the
being thoroughly inspected and placed in
the finest working order possible. Mr..
Somers, on being questioned as to the
progress he was making in the way of
extending the line through to Billings,
was unable to say just when the work
would be completed. AS soon as the
weather permits the work will begin go
ing from Big Timber east as far as Bill
ings during the year. if possible. He fur
Their states that it is the intention of the
company to make the entire circuit Il
metallic one, greatly improving the serv-
ice. Other alterations and Improvements
are contemplated, the discussion of
which he postponed to some future date.
The knights of Pythias social and
banquet was a huge success. With an
addition of 2S lusty Knights from Liv-
ingston to reinforce the local members.
enjoyed themselves in q truly fraternal
manner The third rank was conferred
upon one candidate and after the cera-
mony was we'll off their hands. jolly
time was had. Speeches, songs and
banquet that was strictly up to date
were the main features. The contingent
from across the range found it so late
that it was not worth while to look for
rooms, and SO they simply staid up all
night to catch the early morning train
for home, which they did. with time 10
spare. Before leaving they vowed that
they would get even with the l'oZeman
boys, and they surely will when the
proper time comes.
On Monday morning Budd Story, pro-
prietor of the Story Iron works, was
burned about the face and had his NOUS
tache and eyebrows removed slick and
Clean by the explosion of charge OF
gasoline. that in some manner failed to
go off, at the proper time. The machine.
for the first time since it has been in
stalled refused to work as smoothly as
usual and Mr.. Story made an inVestiga-
ton as to the cause and found That the
sparkling device had gotten out of Or
der, but only found this out after he had
" burned, but looks odd with his NOUS
! tache missing from it's usual place.
| With the velocity of Il wind decreased
to a moderate speed the cold snap which
| came upon us with the "breeze' has
gone out of business and the weather is
consequently greatly improved, although
tits very far from what might be termed
''balmy" or spring like, still we have
abiding faith in Montana weather and
in due course of time expect to be able to
report the appearance of early foliage,
hot house vegetables, etc.
Invitations are out for a musicale at
! the residence of Col. and Mrs. o. p. Chis-.
! holm. this evening, for which occasion Il
very elaborate and we'll selected pro-
i sramme has been arranged. The musl-
/ Gales at the Chisholm home arc looked
! toward to with a great deal OF pleasure
] by the music loving people of the city.
MIR. Ward A. Cockrill has been appoint
! ed a member of the state board of stock
commissioners. MIR. Cockrill is the owner
! of "a great number of cattle in the Gala
tin valley and will be a valuable member
! of the board.
/ Ed l.. Stowe, formerly landlord of the
| "Bozeman" and who has been located
in Seattle for the past few months. writes
that he will try his luck i'll the Cape
Nome country in the spring when navi-
cation opens and nuggets of gold are
ripe enough to pick.
Ben Turner. the manager of the bowl
ing alley over in Helena, arrived yester-
day and in looking for trouble in the way
of a game he found that he had struck
the hottest crowd in Montana. There
, was no trouble in getting someone to
play with him, but there was any
amount of trouble in store for him when
he. tried to saddle the game on the man
from Bozeman, a feat which he found
impossible He settled for the games,
had IA great time and will go home and
practice and then come back and do up
the local crowd to a rich brown, so he
says.
On the 9Th. the first "Wednesday in the
month, the fire laddes held their meet
ing as usual. as it happens, however.
| there was but little business to transact
and in consequence the meeting was q