The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-09-01
The Billings Furniture & Carpet
company has added undertaking TO it's

-Ine blIIlnRs fnfD1tufe q Carpe
company has added undertaking to i'll
business.
Twill Sperry has gone to Butte t.
accept a position as baegaRemap in the
passenger depot Of the B.. A. & P. rail
road.
The family of Geo. T%reischman
who have been at Fort Yellowstone
Wyo., the past summer, will return t.
Billings to reside. They will take pos.
session of their residence in North Bill.
ings in a week or two.
Edward +. M. Heide and Christine
b. SOeDksen, both Of Ahsorakee, Mont.
were married at the home Ot Carl Han.
sen in this city Wednesday night by
Justice Fraser. Following the cere.
mony a fine wedding supper was en-
joyed.
Tho Gazette has been furnished
with the following item through the
mails: Married, in Bozeman. Aug.
%. at the parsonage Of Rev. Hutchinson,
Douglas A. Hall Of Minneapolis, to
Evelyn, only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. p. Woodward Of Anoka, MINI. No
cards.
The state Sunday school a%ssocia.
ton is DESTROYS Of holding its CONVEX
ton in this city next May aud has
written the church workers asking if
they would take charge OF it. It is
Q than likely that the convention
will be held here. Some thirty or forty
delegates will attend.
Sam Simonsen Cortson wants to
become a citizen of this glorious repub-
lie and has accordingly made declara.
ton OF his intention before Clerk Of the
District Court Williams. in which he
renounces all allegiance and fidelity to
every other nation, etc., and especially
that of Emperor William Of Germany.
Pat Healey Of Ogden, a prominent
sheepman, who is interested with a MI.
Patterson in Wyoming and Utah, spent
q couple of days here this week. He
bought two cars of bucks, one each
from John T. Murphy Of Merrill aud
j.. Lehfeldt Of Lavina. which lie
shipped today to his ranges south Of
Sheridan.
B. M. Hungerford, who is string.
ing the wire for the Billings & Mussel-
she'll Telephone company. 'phoned in
yesterday afternoon from Five Mile,
asking that four bundles of wire be
sent him, as some poor fellow, who
had neither money nor conscience, had
stolaa that many bundles and he could
not continue his work for a time.
The Bittper theater company,
which gave such unbounded satisfac-
ton here last spring. will appear again
at the opera house fair week. During
this c%ompany's engagement of six
weeks at the Auditorium theatre, Spo-
kane, WASH. many changes We're made.
the favorites being retained and others
added. until now the company is the
strongest in the west.
HDr. Merriweather, late of the
Shoshone Indian reservation,
at Crow Agency yesterday to
DR.. Portus Baxter as govern.
ment physician, the latter having re-
ceived transfer orders to the formers
post. DR.. Baxter, however, declined
60 to the North ShoshoDe reserva.
tion 0nd it is understood he intends
to Billings to locate.
The preliminary hearing of George
Shepard. charged with assault in the
FIRST degree on the person Of Richard
Jones Of Flatwillow, was held in |
last Friday. Jones, who
had been III this city for a couple OF
weeks. was present, at the hearing.
Attorney Smith of FerRus
county appeared for the state, while
Jort & Worden had been retained BY
Shepard. Shepard was bound over to
await the action Of the district court,
which meets soon.
Two young men walters and the
and night clerks at the Cottage Inn
sot OH u high lonesome night befure
asst and were run in by the night police.
When brought before Police Judge
Mann n Of them pleaded guilty to a
Of drunkenness, while the other
hree stood trial. which resulted in
heir being declared guilty. They
each assessed a fine Of IS and are
nut today hustling the money with
which to pay it. Landlord Driscoll
las dispensed with their services.
County Attorney W. M. Johnston
vas called to Columbus yesterday to
prosecute three men on a charge of
rand larceny, who 1t was Thought had
tolen some goods during the fire in1
hat place Monday. Mr.. Johnston
ound that the evidence was not %sufio.
ent for q grand larceny charge and the
were prosecuted for petit larceny.
Ie says the buildings burned down will
Q replaced at. once by more su~ bstantial
and that Columbus will forge
light to the front. The new school
uilding, which is Il fine one, is near.
ag completion.