The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-05-26

and was OOH to be replaced by a new
one which has been OH the ground fol
some time.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by a burglar or burglars to gain admit.
tance to Yegen Bros department store
Tuesday night by cutting out a panel OF
one Of the rear doors. He was fright.
ened away.
The Gazette representative was at
Columbus yesterday photographing
views Of residences, buildings and prin-
cipal streets, which are to be used in
the illustrated Historical Edition to be
issued in July.
Frank Rademaker aud family have
removed to the d. Fratt cottage Oh
South Twenty-seventh street. The
residence vacated by them has been
taken by Mrs. NJ. B. Sleeper, she hav-
ing purchased the same.
IA family by the name Of Clark,
Who have been living in the old peni-
Tertiary building. have moved out as
the walls are cracking and the arches
giving way. The building is fast
crumbling away and will soon no
longer serve as a mark of what Billings
did not get.
Col. W. B. George, who returned
from a trip to Missouri this yeek, says
that some eastern capitalists will visit
Billings shortly for the pdrpose Of max
ing some investments. They have
heard Of our city RDd think it is des-
tined to be one Of The business points
Of the west.
Ralph Shullo, a Northern Pacific
section employe, was brought in from
Bull Mountain Tuesday for treatment,
having been struct in the forearm by a
fragment from a torpedo. The wound
was not a serious one and after it had
been dressed, Shullo was sent back and
will go to work in a few days,
A packing house for horse meat
will be in operation at Medora, N. D.,
by June l. and it is said there will be
no trouble in finding a market for the
product. To with, this
plant will slaughter 100 horses per day,
but as the demand increases the ca.
pacity will be enlarged.
Freight train No. So ran into
another freight train early tuesday
morning on Gordon siding, a<few miles
this side Of Bozeman. 10. SO could
not use her brakes so as/to stop in time
to let No. 60 in on %he siding. No
particular harm otHe< than the wreck
ing Of one engiM was done, and
traffic was delayed but two hours.
CHARLES Murphy Of Butte. who was
killed a couple Of weeks ago in an en-
gagement with the insurgents in the
Philippines, is thought to be the same
Charles Murphy who was at one time a
y~ardmaster for the Northern Pacific in
this city. Murphy left Billings for
Butte some time ago and when the war
broke out enlisted in the company from
the latter city.
w. E. Clark. a Northern Pacific
brakeman. met with an accident IN the
yards in this city Monday while coup
ling cars, which will cause him to lose
n finger and have his left thumb bad
~ lacerated. He got his fingers be-
tween the draw heads of two cars and
when they came together the index
finger was SO badly smashed a to neces-
state amputation.
The wide-awake people of Park
City are to the front and will celebrate
the glorious Fourth of July ip a very
appropriate manner. severa1 hundred
dollars having been u subscribed this
week for that purpose. There will be
h~orse-racing, fire works and, everything
that goes to make tb9 day a grand one.
And yet BillipgsAoes nothing, which
does not speak we'll for our city!
Already considerable building is
going on about the city. which has been,
delayed by che late spring. Contractefs
vie with each other in saying thst the
summer and fall building will b6 some
thing remarkable. And thj6is to be
8 in spite of the fact that Number has
takeen a squirt upward IN price. The
local yards received notice this week
that the price had advanced considera-
BILE owing to high price of logs.
The Gazette has received an H.
Illustrated pamphlet descriptive of the
handsome new passenger depot Of the
Burlington road at Omaha. It is what
is claimed-the finest in point of archi.
lecture and interior finish of any sim
liar building in America. It cost about
$3.50, 900 and is of classic design, quite
different in architectural appearance
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