The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-05-05
mer. Tho boys should receive tho
proper financial support.

Cottage Inn from May 8 to 10 inolus.
I've. The doctor IL tho only eye special.
lat visiting this city prepared to grind
his W. prescription lenses at the hotel.
Consultation free.
GO. l.. Ravens, for u long time a
Burlington passenger brakeman under
Conductor Campbell, has resigned and
gone to Alliance, Neb.. to do operating
duty for that road. He has been suo.
coedod by +. l.. Sterling, q former
Western Union operator III this city.
Mrs. Ravens expects to join her hus.
band soon at Alliance.
e. II. Gagnon has received the
contract for erecting the new gold stor.
age building for YeRen By0s. on the
Northern Pacific right.of.Y 6y, west Of
the Bohemian brewery Headquarters.
The building will \bo A0x4O feet, two
stories, frame. withl1 covering and
stone foundation. Mr.. Gagnon expects
to commence work In q few days,
Butte Miner: W. B. George, OK.
county treasurer Of Yellowstone county,
and now prominent real estate MAJ
Of Billings, was IN the city yesterday.
Mr.. George says Billings Ia booming
and contracts were recently let for
three new three.story brick buildings
there. There 10, however. no says, a
shortage Of mechanics there. especially
carpenters.
e. Fl. Hollister, the assistant
cashier and bookkeeper Of the Yellow.
stone National bank. has rented the
Frank O'Donnell cottage on South
fhirtieth street and will get possession
about June !, when Mrs. VIM. Birely
will remove to the ranch. Mrs, Hollis.
tor, who Ia a sister Of Mrs. W. Il. Hass.
Ter. will arrive In Billings In about
two weeks.
DR.. Henry Chapple and wife oon-
templated q trip to Hunters Hot
Springs the early part Of this" week, but
were delayed by the~>blizzard. They
will probably visit>the Pacific coast this
spring for a tow weeks for the doctors
health and<spend some time during the
summep>i In the mountains. Dr.. Chap
pie continues to improve, which IS Joy.
fnY news to bis many friends and
Acquaintanoes.
Geo. Treisohman and children left
last evening for Fort Yellowstone,
Wyo., where they will make their
home during the summer, expecting to
return to Billings In the early part Of
September. Mr.. Treisehman, q few
days before his departure, received q
letter from the doctor IN attendance at
the state asylum at Warm Springs stat.
ing that Mrs. Treisohman was improv.
ing nicely and II she continued to do
SO, could return to i,er family III ubuut
q months time, This will be glad
to the many friends Of the family.
l~Melville y. Landon, the original
"Eli Perkins," the great American
humorist, graoed Billings with his pres.
ence yesterday. "Eli" was OH his way
from Denver to Bozeman and other
Montana points Oh q lecture tour. By
reason Of the Burlington train. on
which he was a passenger Wednesday
night, being late and not making con.
nections with the Northern Pacific, be
was forced to stop over In this city.
The Gazette wal oomplimented with q
pleasant visit from the renowned hu.
morist.
-Missoula feels like a new city since
the last smallpox quarantine has been
raised and oil Of the late patients have
fully recovered. The health officers
aud physicians are confident that the
disease is entirely stamped out and 1t IL
a matter Of oongratulation that there
has not been q single fatality III the
list Of cases that tho city has had. No.
body need have any fear about visiting
the city now, and 1t Is believed that tho
patients and others who have been OK.
posed to the disease have been 40 CON-.
isolated since the city board OF
health made its last order that there Ia
danger Of the disease making Its up.
pearance again.
Some farmers have little conscience,
as was shown by tho fraud perpetrated
upon a Billings Wholesale firm Il few
days ago. The latter had purchased a
carload OF oats from a Carbon county
farmer, paying for them tl.2b q hun.
drod. The grain same to Billings this
week and as usual was IN sacks. Wish
to show a few samples, tho car was
and a sack OF two taken out.
When eimptied, 10 and behold! the
sacks were found to contain about two.
thirds wheat and one.third oats and an
Of the other sacks In the
,ar revealed tho same state of affairs,
The oats invariably being Oh top. The
farmer had, IN all probability. more
than anything else and az II was
,nly worth So cents a hundred no de-
vised q scheme TO dispose Of II. The
which was 10 neatly swindled had
paid for the grain or IL would
put q different nhase Oh the far.
scheme. Tho LITTER will not be
prosecuted, but tho Billings firm will
OF the lookout hereafter.