The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-09-26

Q bunch, but his principal business will
be the raising Of cattle. He has beel
} absent from home for several days blu
will rejoin his family at the Sulphu
Springs during the coming week. y v
After several weeks spent ut the Sui
!, phur Springs, MI. and Mrs. L. r. Fielt
very prominent and highly respected
people Of Billings started for home OF
Wednesday last.
Chief Little Bear and a band Of
Crees are camped near Lewistown, il
Fergus county. Little Bear ia desir
GUS of securing a permanent home TO,
his numerous family aud ia circulating
a petition, which is being generally
signed in L.ewistown, it is learned, ask
ing the government to locate them OH
some Indian reservation in the United
States. This would probably be the
easiest way out Of the difficulty. bu,
they are a dirty, lazy class of Indians
and should be made to go back to Can.
ada and stay there.
Deputy United States Marshal
Sam Jackson Of Helena was III the city
Wednesday IN his way to Grow Agency
to subpoena some witnesses to appear
before the United States court in Butte
nextSmonth. Mr.. jackson visited Gar.
bon county last week and arrested W.
7. Stewart and William Perry, the two
men responsible for the Rosebud tim.
Der fire and who had been arrested,
tried before a justice and held for trial
for Oct. 3 IN bonds Of $500. The men
were arrested on u warrant issued by
U. s. Commissioner Geo. W. Pierson
Of Red Lodge, and upon being arraign-
ed were held for trial Oh Oct. 2 under
the United States statutes.
Frank Church recently sold his
ranch on Bitter creek. III this county,
to W. L. LeaveDs, and has bought the
Richard CosRliff ranch near Grey Cliff.
IN Sweet Grass county, moving to that
place this week. The ranch is one Of
the best properties in that county aud
especially adapted to sheep raising, III
which Mr.. Church will engage. Mi.
Church disposed Of his cattle, 1850 head,
to j. H. Conway If Grand Island,
Ncb., for $50 per head. For nearly
seventeen years Mr.. Church has been a,
resident Of this county and expressed
considerable regret at leaving, but was
prompted to make the change because he
thought a better opening awaited him.
He will visit Billings occasionally, az
there is TOO much Yellowstone county
blood in him to entirely wean him
away from ID.
The people Of the Forsyth school
district, in Custer county, are feeling
decidedly elated over the success which
attended their efforts to font bonds for
the erection Of a modern school house
at Forsyth. The issue was for 80, 500
and sale was contaminated last Satur.
day to the Union Bank and Trust com.
pany Of Helena at a premium Of $500.
The bonds are for twenty years and
bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent
per annum. The contract for the erec-
ton Of the building has been let TO
George W. Mitchell Of Billings for
$4,000. Work ia already under way
and the building will be completed as
soon as possible. It will be modern in
all Of it's appointments, including
steam heat. Its dimensions are SO by
81 feet, two stories high and will
contain six rooms.
H. F. Clement Is home from Chi.
cago, where he went two weeks ago to
see about his wool, which had been
to himself, but St6red in the
wool waSehouse ga sold by that
concern without the A6rmer's consent.
Mr.. Clement hid x6 trouble in getting
Of his wool, but he says il cost
the warehouse concern over $7OO to get
the matter untangled, as they had sold
wool and the purchaser would not
let them of until they bad l%iquidated
IN the above amount After securing
bis wool Mr.. UlemsG had 1t transfer.
to another warehouse, where it will
be stored and hetd subject to his order.
Speaking Of Business in the east, Mr..
Clement said that he never saw such
prosperity evidenced down there.
seemed to be busy. happy
md making money under the reign Of
'epublioanism.
We call attention to the advertise.
nent in this issue Of the Ulsuline
convent, Mount Angela, st. Peter, P.
J.. Montana, a boarding school for
'ounR ladies and little girls. This
conducted by the Ursuline
was founded October 80, 1884,
" Right Reverend J. B. Brondel, ID.
D.. Bishop Of Helena, and incorporated
October 8. 1896. according to the laws
# Montana, with power to grant such
literary honors or confer such degrees
IS are usually conferred by similar in-
.titutions Of learning in the United
The convent is a branch Of the
anne order that, in 1889, just nineteen
ears after the Mayaowei had touched {
shores, established in Quebec the
rat convent in North America; SO we
lay consider Harvard and the Ursuline
onvents as contemporary, as we'll as
first institutions of learning on the
ointment, north Of Mexico. In the Uni.