The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-03-14

Donovan q Spear have been com-
PEELED TO bnild . large addition to
their store room il order to xcconlsmo-
date their large stock and increasing
trade.
Work has been commenced on .
go, O00 electric light plant which is
to be placed in the Gebo coal mines.
Three men from Chicago are doing the
work. j;
j. K. Holmes and N. Chandler
Of Musselshell and J. E. Edwards Of
junction were here Friday as witnesses
in the Schroeder assault and grand lar
ceny case
Eugene Milburn, a son Of Judge
Milbnrn of Miles City, attended the
M. E. conference in this city as a dele
gate from the Epworth League of his
home city.
Newman, alias Beals, will have
his preliminary hearing before Justice
Kelly on next Monday on a charge of
forgery, preferred against him by W.
L. Linton.
&C. g. Hoyt and Jas. II. McNeely.
members of the Grow Indian commits
sion, game up from Grow Agency and
spent Sunday as guests Of Landlord
Bennighof of the Grand.
ROLAND Potter has made a discov-
cry, which he is explaining to his
friends. ROLAND is a little bit bashful,
but his most intimate friends are. being
takan info his c0nf1onno @ ~
Billings now has an unexcelled
passenger train service. Ten trains
each day come and 60 and you can
depart for any spot onsthe earth at al
most any hour of the day.
Erickson says the past winter was the
hardest he ever experienced and, Jon
sidering everything, the sheep did re-
markably we'll. His loss will only
amount to about ~ per cent.
w. L. Linton and q. M. Bair and
their families returned yesterday from
a several weeks %sojouTn in California.
They report a pleasant time, but glad
to get back to good old Montana.
%. S. Erickson came in Saturday
from the Stinkingwater river country,
in Wyoming, where he has a band of
W. Hanserd's sheep. He will visit his
family in Billings for a'Atime. Mi.
w. J. Cruise Of Helena was iii the
city Saturday, being interested in the
dispositions taken that day before CLERK
Of the Court Williams IN the circuit
court case Of Thos. Cruise VS.. N. M.
McCauley. 4
AT the shooting gallery E. L. Rob-
bins won the 30-3O Winchester rifle by
scoring 80 out Of a possible 80. Will
lard Holt won the second prize, a 38-
calibre double- action revolver, by
scoring 80. f.
Miss Tarbell of Chicago arrived in
Billings last week and has accepted q
position as milliner MithIhe Fashion.
Miss Tarbell comes toN<his city with
all the latest ideas and styles in the art
Of headgear.
Owing to the absence of the police
magistrate from the city, u John Doe,
charged i with vagrancy, was given a
taste today Of Justice from the hands Of
Judge Fraser. It amounted to a sen.
tence of four days.
The ministers, laymen and Ep-
worth League delegates who were in
attendance at the Methodist Episcopal
conference in this city since last Thurs
day. returned to their various homes on
yesterdays passenger trains.
Senator Oscar Gruwell and daugh-
ter, Miss Maud, visited in Helena over
Sunday. The senator says the COVER
nor has about decide to call an extra
session Of the legislature on April 10.
but he is being strongly urged not to
do SO.
rWord has been received to the
effect that Albert S. Hicks of company
G of the First Montana regiment, who
was wounded during a battle at Manila
a couple Of weeks ago, is improving.
Mr.. Hicks is a brother of Dick Hicks,
the stock detective.
Ed. Clark, a fockmaster of the
Big Horn basin, came. in yesterday.
He reports the stock as being in excel
lent condition, that all the hay obtain
able has been fed up and straw is the
article now in demand, bringing as
high as $15 per ton.
To nnoun the final appearance
of Eewis Morrison asl'. Mephisto', in
Faust" is like sounding the death
knell Of that production. for Faust
without Morrison ID like Hamlet
without Hamlet. Morrison will
make his farewell bow here on March
25. ,%s
Hen fruit has been demanding an
exceedingly good pricefor the past few
weeks and at Nimes the product was 4
scarce article jim this community.
The former ficK together with the
high price Of chickens, may be assigned
as the reason of SO much chicken steal
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