The Billings gazette., 1899-04-04

spending few days among Billings
friends and acquaintances.
%. E. Mills, who will have charge
Of the wholesale grocery house of Mills
& Walsh. expects to bring his family
to Billings from Red Lodge just az
soon as he can secure a house.
MIR. Mclaughlin of Chicago ar.
rived i'll Billings Sunday and is now in
the employ OF the A. L. Babcock Hard
ware company, having accepted the
position vacated by T. J. English.
-Yegen Bros. purchased the Sperry
bankrupt stock yesterday for $41O and
W. B. George will have charge Of the
store to close out the goods. He will
open up for business in few days.
Miss Katherine Elmore returned to
Billings last !, week from Lewiston,
Idaho, aud. is now visiting in Carbon
county. She expects to leave in few
days for her home at Alliance, Neb.
II. E. McCrea, former operator
in this city, but who has been at Ash.
land, Wis, for several months, returned
last week and is once more holding
down key in the Western Union Office.
w. J. Crimmins of Forsyth has
rented a portion Of the store room oc-
cupied by Mrs. Driscoll's millinery
stock and will open therein shortly a
stock of dry goods and ladies furnish
ings.
Many Billings lady way disap.
pointed in not being enabled to wear
her Easter bonnet Oh Sunday. But the
new beadgear will keep add on the first
pretty Sunday it will be seen in abund-
ance.
The regular monthly meeting of
the city council will be held in the fire
hall tonight, Mayor Smith presiding.
The newly elected city officials will not
take their seats until the first meeting
in May.
City Marshal Jack Bond is pretty
good persuader and succeeded in get
ting the bread and water hoboes to
work at cleaning oG~ffle crossings yes
terday, after they NFutterly refused to do
it last week. ..
Work in the Gebo minei is being
rapidly pushed with the electric breats
mining machines, opening up entries so
that the getting out of coal may be ex-
pediated when the tipple machinery is
ready to load cars
William Dick of Red Lodge ar
rived in Billings last week and has as
sumed a position as shipping and re-
ceiving clerk in the wholesale grocery
store Of Mills & Walsh, which opened
in this city Saturday.
+"Calamity Jane" has been in town
tbe past few days, having come down
from Bridger. 1t is said that she is
looking for her husband. who, a week
ago, skipped for parts unknown with a
younger and handsomer girl.
Mrs H. S. Williston and little son
arrived last week from Cleveland, Ohio,
and together with Mr.. Williston have
once more taken up their residence
among us. They have moved into their
owi house ON North Twenty ninth
street.
Jos. Zininski. yesterday, before
Clerk of the District Court T. A. Will
Jams, took out a ranch declaration upon
an unsurveyed island in the Yellow
stone river at a point where the North
ern Pacific railroad crosses the river
east of Billings.
tzOur esteemed contemporary, the
Billings Times, has gotten above
ground, having leased the new brick
block of P. H. Smith, opposite this
office. Editor Morris moved his outfit
Saturday and is now nicely installed in
his new quarters
The Racycle which Messrs. Allen
and Van Horne have on exhibition at
Z. W. Humphreys jewelry store is
creating much interest and some dis
cussion in The bicycle world of Billings.
in which, however, the Racycle easily
has the best of it,
Winston Prospector: G. NJ Bair,
who was conductor on this division Of
the Northern Pacific six years ago. and
who is at present interested in valua-
BILE gold mine in Alaska. where he
spent the last summer, was doing bust
ness in camp the first of the week.
According to the Red Lodge
Picket. Ellis Alvin, clerk at the
Hotel Spofford in that city, quit the
service of that hostelry very suddenly
last Saturday and departed for Billings
the same day in order to avoid meeting
an exasperated and angry husband.