The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-03-21
for the Mcclellan Paper company Of

IOr the McClellan Paper company Of
Minneapolis.
JAS. Summers, sheriff of Madison
county, was renewing acquaintance
yesterday with Sheriff Hubbard. Mr..
Summers was not looking for any Grim.
inal, bat stopped GU his way home from
Miles City. whittier he had taken a lad
to the reform school.
Geo. s. Geddes. we'll known in
this part Of Montana by reason of his
having stood trial last summer for com.
plicity in the mudrer of Winnie Brown,
and was sentenced to ninety nine years
imprisonment in the state ~penitentiary.
is spending a few days in Billings.
Jos. Koul, an employee Of the Gebo
mines, was brought down from Gebo
last night and taken to st. Vincent's
hospital, suffering from some severe
burns to his eyes and head, caused by
an explosion Of lead. Although badly
burned, Koul's eyesight will be saved.
Hon. T. @. Power, ex-United
States senator from Montana, passed
through Billings Yesterday on his re-
turn to Helena from an eastern trip.
He al met at the depot by Paul Nc
Cormick and the two gentlemen had q
pleasant conversation for ten minutes.
Representative E. G. Day Of Hell
ena. who was a strong opponent of Rep
resentative Stiff for the position Of
speaker Of the lower house Of the recent
was mingling with Billings
political friends last Friday. Mr.. Day
was Ell route to st. Louis on legal bust
ness.
A petition is out nominating Geo.
F. Bennighof for alderman in the
First ward. So far no opposition is
of and Mr.. Bennington will I'M
doubtedly have full sway. He is a rep
resentative citizen, a heavy taxpayer
and will, beyond u doubt, serve the city
we'll.
Christ Schmehl. in a letter to The
Gazette from Eagle, Wyo., says that
the combined loss Of sheep of himself
and Bennett will not exceed sixty head.
Concluding, he says that the sheep are
all doing we'll in his section and have
of feed to run them through the
winter.
Representative w. W. Beasley of
Big Timber, who has brought suit for
$40, 900 against some of the represent
alive citizens Of that place for damages
his character anent the Clark sona.
fobt woo IN tho o;%y Er;1or f,.,
in consultation with his attorney,
o. F. Goddard.
John Griffith. who has appeared
before Billings audiences in the role of
'Mephisto" in Faust" has made a
date for the first of April
to play 1.-The Avenger." Mr.. Griffith
desired to play Faust" but was mott
fed that Lewis Morrison had an engage
ment for that play.
IN. S. Richards, local editor of the
Billings Times, yesterday received his
emitting him to practice law
in any of the courts Of Montana, hav-
ing been admitted on March Is. Mr..
Richards was first admitted to the bar
in Nebraska in 1895, but has not been
practicing for some time.
George Soule has commenced some
OH his store building.
The front portion will be widened and
brand new %up-to-date show front put
in. This part of the building will also
as an Office. To the ea1.of~~tA4.g~
suore will be built a wahehonse, which
is demanded by reason Of increasing
business.
The county commissioners of Vel
yowstone county have decided to ignore
;he opinion of the attorney general in
'egard to the new road law and will
proceed to hold the election of road SUI
oervisors on April 1. County Clerk
Jarwile is sending out the ballots and
boxes necessary for conducting the said
Livingston Enterprise: The dele
gates of the district convention Of Ep-
WORTH Leagues, Misses Ethel Garner,
Bessie Lyall, Myrtle Morris and Lea
0eGroat. returned Monday from Bill
ngs. They report profitable sessions of
he convention and speak in terms of
praise of the courteous treatment ex-
ended by the citizens Of Billings.
Mrs. @. II. Barstow received the
lad intelligence Saturday afternoon of
he death of her brother-in-law, B. T.
Wells, which occurred in Boston Satur-
lay morning The deceased was a
member of the firm of Maston & Wells,
Wholesale fireworks manufacturers, and
he news Of his death came as a great
ihock to Mrs. Barstow and her o
The city council Of Red Lodge at a
Meeting held last week, ordered that a
'pecial election be held May / for sub
of a proposition to bond the
'ity III the sun Of $25, 900 for the pur-
Jose of putting in a system of water