The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-14
place at the home Of the latter'f
mother, Mrs. Ei1ers, in Billings, tomor.

mother, Mrs. Eilers, in Billings, tomor.
row night.
VIM. Armstrong, a cowboy, came
in from the range yesterday, being
troubled with an abscess Of the ear. He
went to the hospital, where he is being
treated by Dr.. Rinehart.
John Mccullough, the Gebo mer-
chant, was in town yesterday on his
way east to purchase goods. He says
the Gebo coal mine will be ready to
ship coal in about thirty days.
Deputy United States Marshal
Sam jackson of Helena, who has taken
charge of the j. G. Sperry stock, in
voiced the same last week, which
figured a total Of about 81, 400.
Jennie, one of the Chinese women
Of the bad lands, died Friday morning
and was buried today at 2 o'clock.
The dead woman's husband, Fong Toy
of Butte, arrived in the city yesterday.
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. the
beginning Of Lent. At St. Luke's
church there will be holy communion
at 10 a. m. Daily services will be held
during Lent at 4 p. M. All are well
come.
The "Bunch Of Keys" company
will arrive in Billings tomorrow morn
ing from the west, and consequently
our people need not fear of there being
any delay. The curtain will rise
promptly at s 80.
u. H. Wilson, who left Billings
two weeks ago for Minneapolis to enter
an o%steopathy school, has gone to Des
Moines, Ia, to enter the school at that
place, which is presided over by the
founder Of osteopathy, DR.. Still.
yesterday was a day Of sidewalk
cleaning. The citizen who was indif5
ferent about cleaning his walk wds
prodded up by the marshal Or mator.
A few days more of this wehtber and
the walks about the city will be devoid
of snow. -
Mrs. Vale received a letter yester-
day from her husband, who left Bill
ings last summer for the Klondike reg
ions. MI. Vale wrote that, although be
could not tell positively at that time,
he was of the opinion that he had
struck a rich claim.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist Episcopal church will give
an experience social at MRS. Ssdll's
Friday afternoon from Q 10 5~6'olock.
The members were recently given 5
cents each and they will now give their
experiences with the nickel.
Another Minneapolis Times excur-
sion party for Hawaii passed through
Billings Sunday night bound for the
coast, where they will take a steamer
in a few days. The party was composed
Of persons from as far east as Massachu-
setts and they occupied a special Pull
man.
The principal of the Red Lodge
with the consent Of the school
board, has decided to have no GRADUATE
ing class this spring, but will instead
have the same next Christmas. The
students are not advanced far enough
and it was determined not to rush
them.
DIR. Armstrong was called to Mus
selshell Saturday afternoon to attend
Mrs. George %Spenddiff, who was report
ed quite i'll. Travel was extremely
difficult. and the doctor and his driver
not reach Twenty Mile ranch until
Sunday morning at 8 O'Clock, but the
form there Oh was less difficult.
Friday nights Burlington passen-
ger, due here at 1908, did not arrive
until 4 O'Clock the next morning, the
delay being caused by waiting for east
ern connections at Edgemont, besides
losing time between that place and
Billings. The Northern Pacific did not
10 much better, reaching Billings at
80 a. m.
Three cars of hogs came in over the
yesterday from Alliance,
.ebe. billed to Seattle. I When they
reached this city thirty out of a total
Of 415 were frozen to death.
The cars had not been sufficiently pro-
'ected and the weather being very cold
he animals suocumbed. They were in
Of J. @. Ball.
United States S~enator-elect ". A.
Clark CT Butte was in the city Friday
hight, while en- route home from a trip
o his coal fields at Bridger. He made
he trip from Livingston to Bridger and
hen to Billings in Superintendent
private car "145O." He was
to Billings by Manager T.
,. Mcdonald Of the coal mines, who
eturned to Bridger the next day.
-One Of the most enjoyable perform.
noes Of the season will be Chas. II.
ioyt's "a Bunch OF Keys" whichfap-
ears at the opera house tomorrow
light. OF course 1t Ia o farce comedy
{ the most approved branG full Of
nnRs. wit and nonsensd AMI ocnstyuot-
d for laughing puypdss[ Manager
polishsa the keys every year 10
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