The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-10
GENERAL NEWS
OF THE STATE.
! Biiiines.

Billings.
Frank Morse has begun his duties %
messenger In the Yellowstone National
bank.
rom Chapple arrived from Canada Tues
friends from Canadian soil.
Lesley Bates csms iq from the west this
week on . visit to his family. who ara resid-
Ing In Billings for the summer.
Elliott soeur. . bright young student
from MiddlsbuYR, N. Y, has taken q posi-
tion in g. w. shosmaker's drug store.
w. A. Hodges. with wife and baby. anne
In from tho ranch near Yale last week.
wife and baby going cast TO spend the sum
mef.
Mlaa May Sanford, of Portland. Ore. 10
visiting with her friend. Mrs. q. W. shoe
maker. and ID ON route to the Worlds FaiE
city.
Mira. w. o. Parker went east Monday
night with the intention OF spending several
months In the neiRhborhood Of the Worlds
1ai. city.
David Pollard. a nephew Of Engineer
Pollard, who has the Red Lodge iun. 10
hero from Orono, Canada. ON y visit to bis
relatives.
Thomas Barry was mp from his Cold
Spring ranch near Forsyth this week.
making arrangements for going to- the
World's fair.
Alex 8. Glass;. for some time car checking
In the Billings yards of the Northern IA
ciGc. has zone on tie road and. is breaking
on the first division.
w. H. Donovan aud wife returned last
week from Chicago, having been among tls
earlior visitors 10 the W orld's fair from this
section Of Montana.
Col. u. c. Waters has como into the park
for the purpose Of launching his symmst-
rieal steamer the Ezillah in the Lake Is
soon 40 the ice goes ont.
Charley ONenl has reached Fallon with
the band Of 4 GOO sheep he recently pur-
chased from +. Il. Miller and will cross the
Yellowstone At that point.
w. W. Andrews. N. D.. q friend OF the
Chapple brothers aud classmats of DR..
Mcdowell, 10 hero on y visit from Otono,
Canada, and will probably spend the sum-
mer in Billings.
An additional installment of the unpas-
allelcd snow in the mountains fell last
week. Whenever the summer suu gets in
Its work and hot weather sets in there il Q
prospect Of the highest water Of . decade.
W.. s. Smell and A.. M. MeCree. with 1000
head of yearlinQ sheep from Oregon, mr.
sivsd at Billings stock yards Monday. The
sheep We. Q unloaded from the cars and ex-
amined by Inspector Corson. who pro-
nounced them free from soab or othor
disease.
The semi-snnual meeting Of the Billings
club was held Friday evening last and the
election of officers for the ensuing to.
resulted a. follows: Il. II. Becker. presi-
dent; Jas. II. Goss. vice-prssident; r. NJ.
Gallagher. secretary; w. A. Evans, treas
Geo. M. Hays. L. Il. Gsguon. H. W. Row
Icy trustees.
Livingston.
Born, on Saturday, June 4. to the wife OF
p. W. Nelson. a son.
The Cosmopolitan hotel at Cooke City 10
ready for summer travellers.
Parties in from the Deer creek mining
country say that the region IL alive with
game.
j. w. johnson has moved into the resi-
dencs which he recently purchased of Henry
Howell.
The fountain presented by j. w. Ander-
son to the oity ID now in position in the
city park.
Owing to the Ill health Of her child. Mrs.
y. &. Curtis departed Sunday evening for
Viola. Wis.
A kindergarten 10 to be opened next
Monday by Mrs. II. L. Glenn in the west
side school building.
A license to wed was issued out of the
district clerks office June l to Walter Rus
NAN NANAJ w At@ys WYNN v ! A1OETs
A marriage license Was issued on juno l
by District Clerk Bailey to John Wafils
and Sophia BonRtila. both of Rcd Lodge.
Miss Olive McClain. who has made q
most excellent record a. q teacher In the
Livingston public schools. loft for the east.
Tho grass sesd sown in the CITY park has
responded to the encouraging visits Of the
rains. and the grass is sp, inRing up all over
the enclosure.
A quartette OF school teachers left for
the east on Tuesday evenings train. They
were the Misses AcDermott. Fslsted. Day
ton and Conway.
James Thompson, of the firm of Thomp-
son Bros. departed Saturday evening for
the Worlds fair on = trip combining bust
ness and pleasure.
DR.. G. h. Wells returned Monday from
trip to New York and Chicago. Mrs.
Wells will remain another month with her
relatives in New York.
At the close of tho term last week the
pupils of Miss Lulu Ballinger presented her
= set Of the works of Shakespeare as q tes.
timonial of their regard.
Last week . mountain lion attacked and
terribly laceTAted two horses owned BY Al
bert Schmidt. who is prospecting in the
Deer creek placer fields.
The Livingston hotel was opened on
Monday under the management of G. A.
Crippsn, at whose hands the travelling pub
lie will receive . hearty welcome and good
treatment.
All the bids for filing the bridges on tho
Park branch having been rejected, the COM
pany will begin on July l to do the work
with a crew aud steam shovel. The bids
were too high.
A grand picnic will be given under the
auspices of the Livingston circuit nj, Z,
church on July 4 at Pine creek, Paradis,
valley. A good programme will be given.
The Cokeaale band is expected to take part.
Engineer George Eldredge. whose in
jurieS in the Park branch wreck of several
weeks ago laid him up Tor repai 3, departed
Friday evening for Brainerd, Minn,, whore
he will enter the N. I. hospital TO. treat
ment.
Col. E. c. Waters, proprietor Of the
steamer in tho Yellowstone park lakes. de-
Iartod Thu sday for tho sosno of his sum-
mer operations. Capt. kellich, of Now
York city. is 10 have charge of tho boats
this season.
Messers. Petty Il Meigs have established
. stage line between Livingston and Solo.
mon City. The rate TO Cuwan's ranch is
IS. to Doty's 81. to Hicks park $50, to
solomon City ~. For the round trip $13
will be charged.
The annual camp meeting Of the Seventh
Day Adventists il to be held in the grove
on Mcleod island. Livingston, beginning
June 10. and continuing till June II. Elders
j. II. Mo, rison. of California, aud X. &.
Donnell. Of Walla Walla, will be present.
At n meeting of the trustees of the King
Solomon Consolidated Mining and MILLING