The Anaconda standard., 1899-07-13
WOOL SALES AT BILLINGS.
Prices Rule a Little Lower Than They
Did Last Week.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Billings, July 12.-About 100000
| pounds of wool were sold yesterday
and to-day at prices little lower than
last weeks. The sales were as follows:
| o. Erickson. $4,000 pounds to Nichols,
Dupee & Co., at 145s cents; M. F.
| Trask, $4,000 pounds to jeremiah Will
| Jams & Co., at 1865 cents; Witt & Cox
| $4,000 pounds at IT'S cents to Nichols
| Dupee & Co.; c. McCleary, 10000
pounds at 15A cents to silberman
| Brothers; D. F. Slayton, 54 600 pounds
at IN cents to Nichols, Dupee & Co; L.
P. Southworth, $4,000 pounds at 175s cents
to Hecht, Lehman & Co. and Nichols.
Dupee & Co., these two firms having
tied on their bids; Mr. Blackburn, 3O,-
900 pounds at 1914 cents to Hallowell,
Donald & Co.: A. Grossen 10000
aid & Co.; Mr.. Wincupp, 5000 pounds
at 1T& cents to jeremiah Williams &
Co.. John Schroeder, 80, 900 pounds at
1914 cents to Nichols, Dupee & Co.; r.
G. Milne. 5000 pounds at 1434 cents to
Dewey, Gould & Co: r. T. Lyon, IT,
900 pounds at 17b cents to the same
firm; T. A. Renner, $1,000 pounds at
14s cents to Hecht, Liebman & Co.;
Pierce & Beatty, 5000 pounds at 161a
cents to Dewey, Gould & Co.: William
Carmichael, 10000 pounds at 14A cents
to ]. Koshland & Co.; Holmes Broth
ers 10000 pounds at 161a cents to Mich
OILS, Dupee & Co.. Mr.. Pagel, 5000
pounds at 151a cents to Dewey, Gould
& Co.; A. G. Dent. $4,000 pounds at IA
cents to the same firm ]. r. Williams,
5000 pounds at liz cents to the same
firm; J. B. Elliot $4,000 pounds at 17Ss
cents to the same firm; c. l. Parks,
10000 pounds to jeremiah Williams on
private terms, believed to be not quite
as good as Is cents.
a ppnsi6pra b1n portion of tba wool
sold to-day was from wyoming, which
is not so clean as Montana wool, which
accounts in part for the decline in the
prices.
The advisory board of the Children's
Home society was reorganiZed on Mon
day night with the following members:
]. d. Matheson, president; Mrs. Lucy
Railsback. vice president; Miss Jane
Pitcher, secretary; Mrs. c. H. Bar
stow, treasurer: Rev. w. D. Clark,
Rev A. Carswell, Rev. George c.
Stull, Judge J. r. Goss, DR.. HI. Chap
pie, Mrs. H. M. Allen, Mrs. o. F. God
dard and Miss Panton. During her
visit here Miss Dowden, state superin-
tendent. secured five children for adop-
ton, and took them to the receiving
home at Helena. One of the five was
an orphan and the other four were
motherless children, who had been de-
serted by their father
IicHdTu I1o"dTu DdlllelS, d TeCeHl
graduate from Ann Arbor, Mich, has
been selected by the school board as
assistant principal and high school
teacher. Miss Josephine w. Holt of
Dillon was also chosen to a position
in the school. There We're a very large
number of applicants.
A large vein of superior quality of
blue granite has been discovered about
mile and a half northeast of Billings,
and builders who have examined it pro-
nounce it superior to any building
stone in Montana. Two claims have
been filed on by the discoverer, w. l..
Selvidge. and one by A. l.. Babcock.
They will at once erect the necessary
plant to quarry the stone and have
made application to the Northern Pa
cific for spur to the quarry. III