Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-11
Hotel G0SSiD|

I. p. Mcdonald of Bridger, is one of
those people Interested in mines whom
reporters delight to meet. He does not
wear that profound look of wisdom and
caution which coldly repels any intrusion
of the newspaper fraternity. He will tell
al the reporter wants to know, and
throw in little funny story on the side
Mr.. Mcdonald was at the McDermott on
Sunday.
Bridger is just beginning to be a town
/ OF some importance in Carbon county,
and a lively town for it's size, according
to Mr. Mcdonald. During the past sum-
tmer the Wyoming Transportation com
! pany handled over three million pounds
OF freight. 1t is a novel sight to see a
string of wagons pulled by four and
sometimes ten horses en- the road to Wy
cining. From % to 40 teams We're engag-
cd in this work all of last summer.
-
The charge for transportation is usual
/ ~ one cent per mile for every hundred
pounds of freight. some reduction being
made in long distance contracts Team
I sters with good horses are making good
money and spending it like princes in the
little town of Brdger, which has all the
resorts and amuSements of the frontier
settlements of early Montana. Then there
are $50 men on the pay roll of the coal
mine in which Mr. Mcdonald is interest
ed, and these hold their end up with the
/ teamsteIs. Altogether Broidger has more
snap to it than any town of it's size in
/ the state.
! RridSer has a population of over 500
and about 100 children attend the dis
t.ict schools. There is some talk of
starting a newspaper. and the wonder is
that no printer with bag OF type has
struck the town and sung the praises of
| E.idger ere this.
Day Clerk Smith Of the McDermott
was in fine fettle Sunday afternoon and
told a story which he assured the re-
porter was no pipe dream. The story
wa. related to him by one of the par
Elephants in the amusing incident.
August Dipple is a commercial trav-
eler who stops at the McDermott upon
arriving in Butte. Adam Appel is an
other who eats and sleeps in the same
hosiery when the train stops in our
smoky city. August Dipple and Adam
Appel got acquainted on the road or at
some hotel, and have known each other
for years
Way back in the front part of the Nc
Dermott register may be found the name
of Adam Appel spelled the same as the
fruit which tempted Mother Eve. AS
the years grew on apace and business
on the road prospered, Adam got proud
and did not relish the josh over she AS
part of his name. Accordingly IL.
changed it from Apple to Appel, and
pronounced it by accenting the last syl-
table, HIS friend Dipple, however, al
ways registered as Dipple until one day
recently at Kalispell, and here is where
the funny incident occurred.
So
Dipple and Apple, or Appel. got off the
! train at the county seat mensiOnedfi and
proceeded to the Hotel Kaispell. Apple
was the first to register and spelled his
name Appel, as he had done for the past
two or three years. Some mp of hu-
mar caused the other man to write his
ma ne Dippel instead of Dippie, and there
the incident ended until the appearance
AZ the desk of a ctocknfan with severa.
io-ts under his belt.
The stockman looked over the register
and discovered the names Of the two
commercial travellers. and then he gave
y horse laugh that could be heard way
ort in the Kitchen. Selling pen, the
81, ckman made this entry on the regis
ter:
..Eo-tel Kalis-pel. August DIPPED.
Adam Appel. Oh, hell"
Mr.. Annie will spell his old name when
he goes to that town in the future. Dip
pei will do the same.