The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-03-31
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heavy travel westward.

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heavy travel westward.
DR.. j. M. Fox of Red Lodge was
in the city Tuesday night Oh his way
to Helena, where he will meet with the
state capitol commission, of which he
is a member, for the purpose of decid-
ing Oh the stone to be used in the erec-
ton of the states new building.
Tomorrow the question of bonding
the school district will be submitted to
the people of Columbus. The proposed
amount ~ So, 200. II the bonds carry
that amount will be expended in a fine
stone school building. Two sites are
already available for that purpose.
A civil service examination for the
position of railway mail clerks in
Uncle Sans service was Conducted in
the court houseA todaS~bG Fred Wanna
maker, q specially Examiner from WASH
ington, D. g. Only three persons pre-
sented themselves for the examination.
Mr.. John Griffith, who is an
nounced to appear here Saturday night
lin 1.-The Avenger." is a master of the
art of fencing. AS Henri DeLagardere,
the cavalier of the seventeenth century,
he fights on the stage a duel which is
said to be the most remarkable per.
Torrance of it's kind ever seen.
1.-THE Avenger." which is an
nounced to appear in this city Saturday
night, is a romantic drama telling the
love-story Of the Seventeenth century,
and showing incidents that stir the
blood through scenes of adventure:.l It
is said to be a play of absorbing inter-
est, passion, action and fine rhetoric.
1t has been received everywhere with
enthusiasm.
Livingston Post: H. B. Segur,
general agent Of the Burlington road
with headquarters at Billings, was in
the city Friday. Mr.. Segur reports an
excellent business over his road and
says that the new through sleeper ser
vice recently inaugurated by the Bur-
lington is meeting with a great deal Of
favorable comment from the travelling
public. The general agent is as genial
a gentleman as one would meet in a
months journey and he will always be
accorded a warm welcome in the Gate
way city.
H. A. Van Horne received a sam
pie Racycle from the Miami Cycle COM
pany of Middleton, Ohio, Wednesday,
which wheel, together with the Olive
bicycle, he and Bob Allen will sell the
coming season. The Racycle point
is that the bearings ard outside the
sprocket wheel and in tho crank hubs.
thus doing away with every particle of
leverage and side pull, allowing the
chain to be run tight and thus saving
lost power. besides %lessening the pres
sure on the bearings ~ per cent. The
Racycle is a beauty and we predict that
the boys will sell their share of high
grade bicycles. The Racycle may be
seen at T. W. Humphreys.
Phil Gallaher of Billings, who has
been continually working and patiently
waiting for a railroad to build to the
Bear creek coal mines, in Carbon coun-
ty, and is about to see his hopes rea-
liked. spent Tuesday in Bohemian, says
the Bozeman Chronicle. MI. Gallaher
has nothing to say about other coal
fields. but is still enthusiastic over his
own. which he says will be the best
outside of Colorado. Like all Billings
men, Mr.. Gallaher sings its praises in
a key pitched to the highest point. The
Billings man is as breezy and refresh
ing as the first breath of spring; he
comes with new notes of melody and in
his eye hope sparkles like a diamond in
an engagement ring.