Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-16
WANT PRESIDENT
BUT HE PASSES LIVINGSTON IN
THE NIGHT, BOTH WAYS.
FATAL CASE OF SMALLPOX
First One of the Year-Change in Com
mander of the Troops in the
National Park.
Livingston, Mont, April IS.

Among the prominent people of the city
there exists a feeling of regret because
of the fact that President Mckinley and
party will pass through Livingston on
their way to the park and their return
trip in the night time. Mayor John 7.
Smith has written to the president ask
ing that he stop in the city for an hour
or two, but has as yet received no reply.
The itinerary of the presidents party
having been already arranged, it is hard
ly probable that this result can be ac-
complished. The exact time of the ar
rival and departure of the train has not
yet been announced
The first death to ensue from smallpox
since that disease made it's appearance
in this city, occurred at the pest house
Sunday, when David Cook succumbed to
the malady. The deceased was a bridge
carpenter on the Northern Pacific rail-
way, and had been working with the
outfit of which C. Clawson is foreman.
Last Tuesday he came to Livingston
from Merrill, where the gang is work.
ing, and asked for lay off, saying that
he was ill., He consulted a physician
who recognized symptc111s of smallpox.
The disease had not broken out, however,
and Cook was committed to the deten-
ton hospital He was kept under quar-
antine for two days, and Friday small
pox developed. He was taken at once
to the pest house. From the first it was
apparent that Cook was very sYx
man. The disease assumed the continent
and hemOrrhagic form. The pustules
| filled with blood and turned black, and
SO thick were they that Cooks body
was a mass of eruptions. He suffered
greatly until Sunday, when death came
to his relief. He was buried privately
in Mountain View cemetery. Cook came
to Livingston about two years ago from
the Rocky Mountain division of the
Northern Pacific, and has resided here
since that time. His mother lives at
Cedar rails, Iowa, and has been notified
OF her sons death. Cook had never been
Vacclnated, and this fact is given by the
physicians as the reason for the viol mt
attack he suffered. There are no other
| cases of the disease in the city at pres
! ent.
captain Pitcher of the Fourth cavalry
who is now stationed at San Francisco
has been named to succeed Captain
George Goode, who is at present ACTING
| superintendent of the park. Captain
! Goode has not been we'll liked by civ.
ilians generally, because Of his strict in.
depreciation Of the rules of the interio,
department, relative to stray horses
etc., in Wonderland. The news of his
| transfer will create no great amount of
| sorrow. However, it must be said OF
| the gentleman that he has preserved the
! game and the other features of the park
| in excellent condition.
The~regular practice shoot of the Liv.
| ingston Gun club was held Sunday after.
noon at the grounds, west of the CITY
The attendance was smaller than usual
a cold, biting wind making good shoot.
ing next to impossible. E. F. Confarr
Held captain of the club, has not vet
returned from the east, where he was
called two weeks ago by the serious i'll.
ness OF his father. The following scores
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