The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-01

taE BILLINGS GAZEIlEt
If you have not paid your taxes
up to Q o'clock tonight you will be fined
10 per cent for the neglect,
Buy Sheridan coal of y, +, Holly.
who will ill all orders left with the
Mccormick Mercantile Go. 64.a !.
- when you pay your money you OK.
poet the best IN the mnrket for ii. The
groceries sold by Ben W. Toole ire the
best. 6a-tf
AT the cigar stand conducted by
Miss Marie Sleeper in W. b. Georges
office, you will find M elegant assort-
ment Of ab.uent goods, two for 20 cents,
three for 20 cents or D oenters. 04.a
Owing to increased holiday adver.
Using The Gazette will publish Il six
page paper instead Of four, un Tuesdays
up to Christmas time. Billings mer-
chants realize the necessity Of advertise
ing and at the same time know the
value Of The Gazette M a medium for
drawing trade.
Word reached Billings Tuesday
night of an accident, which occurred
TINT day IN the Rocky Fork mine ut Red
Lodge, by which one miner lost his life
and another IL not expected to survive.
The accident was the result Of Il cave
In. An Italian named Romeo was
killed, while his partner, a Nnlander,
had both legs broken.
l-Prof, j, Il. kurtx. OF the Laurel
school, sends The Gazette the following
list Of names Of pupils who were pres.
ent at school every day daring the month
ending November "a: Clarence H..
Kurtx, Harrison Powell, Maggie Boyd,
Laura Boyd. and Eva M. kurtH, Clar.
ence Il. and Eva M. Kurtz were neither
absent o tardy during the month.
The Union Thanksgiving services
Of the Methodist aud Congregational
church people, at the Congregational
church yesterday forenoon, were we'll
attended. The sermon was preached BY
Rev. james Opie, while the CongIega-
tional choir rendered some very approp.
rinte music. Services were also held
at 81, Luke's Episcopal and the Catholic
churches In the morning.
-Boxeman Chronicle: A latter from
A. X. Yerkes states that the bard OF
Sourdough has purchased a comfortable
home ut 1910 Broadway, Seattle. and
with his wife and family IL enjoying Il
we'll earned rest after his years Of jour.
nalistic labor In Montana. Mr., Yerkes
suys the Sound country Ia booming. and
u great number Of new business blocks
and dwellings arc beng erected IN Sc
nttle aud Tacoma.
ii. u. Maring, the popular and
efficient cashier Of the local freight
Office OF the Northern Pacific will leave
tomorrow morning for Seattle, having
been Offered a betteg position III the
local office At thRt place. Mr. Maring
has been c~ashielSfn Billings for over \
year past and HAS won for himself the
popularity not only Of the patrons OF
tho railroad, but III people generally,
and many regrets will DO expressed at
his departure.
HYhe big four tower electric light
ana pole on North Twenty. seventh
street near the Northern Pacific track,
tumbled to tho ground Tuesday after.
O with Il crash. Luokilysro teams or
trains were passing 90 the time or II
serious accident would have occurred.
The rottening Of the guy poles, to.
gether with thaheavy wind prevailing,
oaused the damage. The council at its
meeting next Tuesday night will take
some action regarding the replacing OF
the lights. Ii IL thought that the lights
will be distributed on Montana and
Minnesota avenues.
-Missouln correspondence IN Ann.
oonda Standard; Earl Douglass, the
INSTRUCTOR Ia geology ut the Montana
university Ia hnppy over the receipt Of
q huge tooth from q frind In Billings,
whose name tlN correspondent was un.
able to learn. This Ia q tooth from an
elephant. elephas primiRenus. and II
IA Inches long by 10 inches deep, This
~ a good addition to the palenontoloRi-
cal collections made BY MI. DauRlass'
Very few people realize what mon
STEERS trod the earth Ia this state IN past
geological times. III looking at such u
monster tooth one u imagine the size
Of the animal that carried II.
"A favored few Of tho young men Of
this city partook Of u Mmptuous
Thanksgiving dinner ut the country
home OF the Graham Rros., n few miles
west Of town. The guests were enter
mined IN a royal manner by their hosts,
Massrs, Jnok and Tom Graham, and "
~ needless to shy they did full justice