The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-06

Miss Margaret Helen Anderson and Mr..
Stephen Albert Ulmsr, which will take
place at the home of the BRIDES par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Anderson, il
Bozeman, tonight. The couple will be
at home after July Is in Phoenix,
Arizona.
The trustees of school district No.
6, Columbus, Saturday sold the So, OOC
worth Of bonds voted for a new school
building. they being purchased by the
Union Bank & Trust company, at a
premium Of $3.50. The contract fol
the erection of the new building was
awarded to Tubbs & Ward and Welsh
& Oak of this city for s.. 700.
james Robinson, who escaped from
the Red Lodge Jail about two weeks
ago, was captured near Laurel last
week by Sheriff Dunn of Carbon coun.
ty. Robinson was assisted in making
his escape by one Mat Samlen, who
furnished him with the file used in
efecting his liberty. Samlen was tried
and bound over to the district court in
bonds in the sum of 5000.
H5ohn States, a sheepshearer from
Thermepolis, Wyo., who has been
working in this county a few days, was
brought to Billings yesterday and ex-
amined as to his sanity. The examina-
ton revealed that the man had been on
a spree and it was deemed advisable to
postpone further action until he sobered
up. He was turned over to Sheriff
Hubbard and will later be tried.
"A mai named Dean, who worked
for Herman Lehfeldt during the lamb
ing season, was arrested today twenty
three miles east of Billings by Consta.
BILE Lou Robbins, being charged with
stealing several hundred head of sheep
from L. Lehfeldt on or about May IL.
He was brought to Billings today and
will have his preliminary hearing be-.
fore Justice Fraser in a day or two.
"A lana decision of considerable
Importance to those affected has been
made by the secretary of the interior,
who rules that on the death Of a home.
steader, leaving a widow and heirs,
the widow takes the homestead right of
the husband, free from any claim on
behalf of the heirs, and is visited with
full power to complete the entry for
her own benefit, or to relinquish the
same if she so elects.
Capt. J. G. Brown and Lieut.. Vim.
Yates, accompanied by ninety-six men
of troop NJ, First cavalry, passed
through Billings Sunday night being
transferred from Fort Meade, S. D., to
Fort Yellowstone, in Wyoming. The
troop occupied a special train of twelve
cars, being eight cars of horses and
outfit and four Wagner sleepers. The
came in over the Burlington
and then transferred to the Northern
Pacific.
The opera house management have
taken pains to secure a strictly high
class attraction for the closing of the
season, and in "La Tosca," the famous
play from the pen of Victorien Sardou,
the great French author. presented by
the Blanche Walsh and Melbourne
Mcdowell company, the public will
not be disappointed. It is to be made a
brilliant event, and handsome souvenirs
will be given out on the occasion. Re-
member the date-June II.
The Hess Photo company extends
an invitation to all members of the
Billings lodge Of Elks to call at their
gallery and sit for a picture. When all
the members have had photographs
taken, they will be combined into one
large picture, size 48x72, which, when
finished, will be presented to the lodge
and hung in their hall. The Hess peo-
pie will make no charge for this work
and it is hoped that every member of
the Elks order will call at their earliest
convenience. This large photograph
will be something new in that line in
Billings.