The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-01-20
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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mand of the department. of Columbia
and California, with headquarters at
San Francisco.
Albert j. Beveridge, who was elect
ed to the United States senate Wednes-
day by the Indiana Legislature, is just
So years Of age. He is considered one
of Indiana's foremost attorneys.
The following states elected United
States senators Wednesday: Massachu-
setts, Lodge, reelected; Maine, Hale,
reelected; Connecticut, Hawley, re.
elected; Michigan, Burrows, reelected.
Three state legislatures elected
United States senators Tuesday as fol-
lows: Cockrell, reelected to a fifth
term in Missouri; Chauncey M. Depew
in New York Davis, reelected in
| Minnesota.
General Jose Miguel Gomez of the
Cuban commission is authority for the
statement that the United States will
advance $40, 900, 900 to pay off the Gu
ban soldiers, recouping itself from the
Cuban revenues. The details, however,
are not completed.
1t is practically certain that the con.
solidation of the chewing gum business
recently announced will be brought
about next spring. The plan is to pur-
chase the chewing gum factories by a
corporation with a capital stock
amounting to $15, O00. 900.
A concurrent resolution authorizing
the governor to waive the claim Of the
state of New York against the United
States for the pay of the officers and
soldiers Of that state in the volunteer
army in the late war with Spain was
introduced in the New York assembly
Tuesday and adopted.
Orders have been issued for the dis
patch of the Third regulars from Fort
Smelling to Manila by way of New
York. Headquarters and four COM
panies of the Seventeenth infantry
from the department of the lakes, yet
to be named, will 60 with the Third.
Orders have been sent to the Twenty
second infantry. now at Fort Crook, to
proceed to San Francisco to go to Ma
Mia. This undoubtedly means that a
number of volunteers now at Manila
will be sent home as soon as the regu-
lars arrive there.
The following is the text of the anti
smoking bill which was introduced in
the Utah legislature Monday and wa
referred to the committee on public
health: House Bill No. ~, by Full
mer-An act to prohibit persons under
the age of 81 from smoking and requir-
ing officers to arrest any person found
guilty thereof. The use of tobacco in
any form by a minor is made a misde-
meanor, punishable by a fine not ex-
ceeding 500 and Imprisonment for not
exceeding three months. Officers neg
Letting to arrest such smokers are liza
BILE to a fine not exceeding $500 and i'm
prisonment not to exceed three months.
A daring attempt to wreck the Ore
gon Short Line pay car was made at a
point six and a half miles west of
Mountain Home Tuesday. The per-
petrators are three Boise youths, rang
ing from 16 to 10 years of age. Their
names are Emmett Allan. Hugh Breen
and John Richardson. They stole a
heavy log chain from one of the
ranches near by, which they tied
around the track. The paycar. fortu.
nately. did not reach the point until
after the section men started to work
Tuesday morning over their section on
the handcar. They came to the OBJ
struction and lost no time in removing
it. The train was due in thirty.eight
minutes from the time they got there.
They then instituted search and found
the three culprits hiding in some vii.
lows. They offered no resistance, but
confessed that they had done the deed
with a view Of wrecking the paycar
for the purpose Of getting the money.
They were at once removed to Noun
tain Home and lodged in jail there.