The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-03-24
hunter will go forth and shoe the
ducks and geese to their summer home

hunter will go forth and shoe tn
ducks and geese to their summer HON,
in the south.
Robert Ross is studying telegraph,
and learning the office work at the B
& M. depot under Agent McCrary ant
soon hopes to be a full-f1edged "bras!
FOUNDER"
r. Whalen, teamster for the Grow
irrigation survey, was down from the
ditch camp Monday on business and re.
ports that there is little snow at the
mouth of the Big Horn canyon at pres
ent.
The deep snow has driven a large
number of prairie chickens into the
Little Horn valley and there are large
numbers of these birds near the agency.
Sorry to relate several over-zealous per.
sons are trying their skill as rifle shots
on the chickens, but a prosecution or
two under the state law would soon do
away with this practice.
The B. 8 M. engine attached to
Tuesday evenings train broke All eccen-
trio strap coming into this place and
was delayed here nearly three hours,
and is said to have reached Billings at
2 a. m.
DR.. Portus Baxter, agency physician,
and E. A. Richardson, our hustling
merchant. were attending lodge" at
Billings Wednesday evening.
The school for white children at this
agency closed last week and Miss Hol-
land. who has been conducting the
same, has returned to her home at
Gebo, Montana.
Fred Server. the versatile "Fred,''
has been suffering from a severe cold
which impaired his powers of speech to
a considerable extent, and in conse-
quence the agency does not seem like
the same old place.
%Strychnine was sent to the five farm
ing districts on the reservation last
week and after being placed in meat
was fed to several hundred dogs, which
resulted in a depletion of the canine
race, and there is wailing and crashing
of teeth among che lady members of
the Grow tribe. who think their family
is incomplete without fifteen or twenty
dogs Of no particular breed.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Becker enter
tanned informally at dinner Wednesday
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Evans,
DR.. Baxter and MI. Fred e. Miller.
r. Lubbock arrived from Texas last
Saturday and will enter the employ Of
the Murphy Cattle company.
Miss Frances B. Gray has resigned
her position as assistant cook at the
Grow boarding school and Miss Pearl
Leggitt has been appointed to fill the
vacancy.
Plenticoues, the Indian trader, was
over from Pryor creek last Saturday
looking after matters pertaining to the
people of his vicinity.
A couple of Sioux Indians from the
Pine Ridge agency, South Dakota, en-
tertained u people with an interesting
description of the Sioux English Ian
guage now being taught to their peo-
pie. rendered several vocal selections in
their native tongue and closed with a
magic lantern exhibition, the slides of
were explained in English by
the operator. In all it was a c%reditable
and shows that the Indian of to-
day is rapidly nearing the stage of civ
ilization.
John Lewis, supervisor of construct
bitches, has been on the sick list
For ten days past, but is now ''tolerably
cOnvalescent.'
Our agency force has just completed
neat three-room house for the occu-
pancy of T. A. Hindman, additional
farmer of the Black Lodge ranch, four
below the agency.
c. r. Sternberg, our blacksmith,
suffered a severe sprain last Friday
while shoeing a fractions horse and he
low moves about with a decided limp,
which time is gradually decreasing and
which we trust will ultimately disap-
pear entirely.
Agent Becker and the office force
oave been busy during the past fifteen
lays making a $15, 900 payment of
money to the Indians and the re-
of checks have been wearing a
oeaming countenance as a result.