The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-05-30

has been appealed from this county,
will be n of the first to be heard by
the supreme court during it's June meet
ing and will probably be taken up
about June IL or 10. The court has al
ready been furnished with the trans
cript in the case.
L The family of VIM. Birely, who
have been living in Billings the past
nine months for the purpose of allow
ing the children to attend tho public
school,, have removed to their
farm up the valley. The residence va
Gated by them will be taken by +. H.
Hollister and wife.
Mr.. Jas. Holland and Jas. Brady
of Gebo arrived in Billings last even
ing with the corpse Of VIM. Woods,
ranchman and miner of Gebo, which
Mr.. Brady accompanies on to st. Louis.
While in town Mr.. Holland paid The
Gazette a very pleasant visit and among
other things reports Gebo as very pros
porous.
II. P. Mcdonald, manager Of the
Bridger coal mines, spent Sunday in
the city. Both Bridger and Gebo, he
says, have raised subscriptions for
Fourth of July celebrations. but, to
show the good feeling existing
between the two camps, Mr.. Mcdonald
says they will likely join in one cele.
bration at Gebo. 5
~ certain young druggist Of the
city is threatened with a damage suit
for having sold a prominent cattleman
tooth-ache medicine instead of corn
cure. But the joke is no more on the
pill mixer than it is on the bovine
raiser, who did not discover the mis-
take until after he had dosed his corns
for several nights.
Prosperity is surely returning in
all lines and in all directions. The
Burlington road ANNOUNCES that, be-
ginning with next Saturday, it will
once more run it's fast mail trains, Nos.
IS and IA, OF the S. Louis Denver
southern line. ,ThesH trains were n
nulled during the democratic hard
times, when traffic was given such a
Knockout blow.
We are glad to note that the mer-
chants of our city are taking especial
pride in the decoration of their show
windows. The Memrial day windows
of Yegen Bros, John p Losekamp
and the Fashion have bgen attracting
much attention the pdstcouple of days.
The windows show cafeful preparation
and much artistic ability on the part
of their Decorators.
The millionaire evangelist, Chas.
N. Cfittenton. who was to have opened
meetings in this city tonight, has post
poned doing so until next Sunday
night. having been .importuned. by, the
good people of Livingston to stop in
that city a few days. Evangelist Crit
tenton has been meeting with grand
success in the cities of Missoula, Butte,
Anaconda and Helena.
DIR. E. P. Townsend, coanty coroner,
made a visit to Dry Head, in the south.
western part of the Grow reservation,
to inquire into the death of Ed. Nc
Donald, whose body was found there
about two weeks ago. A jury was
called and 1t reached a verdict to the
effect that the deceased had met death
by either exposure during the extreme
cold weather in February, or starvation.
-JohnD Dunn, sheriff of Carbon county,
was here Sunday looking for a prisoner
who had escaped Saturday by saving
his way out of Jail with a file. Mr..
Dunn did not care so much to capture
the man, as he was only up on a petit
larceny charge, but lie wanted to ascer-
tain who had given him assistance.
The man was thought to have come to