The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-11-17

-Yegen Bros. are handling Sheridan
and Gebo coal. Let them fill your or.
ders.
To users IF hard coal: We have
just received a carload Of hard coal.
Donovan & Spear.
The West Side Addition is the
place for a nice home - away from
both railroad tracks.
1t is learned that VIM. Potts, who
has been the subject Of some inquiry
by a Canadian paper, is living in
Wyoming, his postotfice address being
Otto. Wyo.
The attending physician having
discharged F. Il. Mann's boy as cured
of diphtheria, the city physician an.
nounces that he will raise the quaran-
tine from the family Oh Saturday morn
ing.
The shower Of meteOrs scheduled
for this city Tuesday night failed to
put in an appearance. Many anxious
watchers scanned the heavens from
midnight to dawn, but not a meteorite
rewarded their gaze. In some cities in
the east quite a display was visible.
Prophet Hicks says a display will oc.
cur Nov. ~. ...w.
Chicago Drovers Journal: J. E.
Edwards. United States Indian agent,
had a trainload of Montana range cat.
tie here today belonging to the Grow
Indians. The cattle sold as follows
One hundred and ninety three steers,
averaging 1,270 pounds, IS; forty ei glt
COWS and heifers. averaging Lib,
81. 20; sixty-four COWS and heifers,
averaging 1,116. $4.25.
About fifteen or twenty of the
members Of the local lodge Of Elks re.
turned last night from Sheridan, Wyo..
where they assisted in instituting an
order Wednesday night of %thirty-two
members. To say they were nicely ell
~tertained is putting it mildly-there
was nothing too good in Sheridan for
our Elks-and good cheer flowed as
freely as does the water in the Yellow.
stone.
The Billings school children have
been enjoying a full weeks vacation.
The first three days it was on account
of the teachers institute, while the lat
ter two it was oooasioned by the vacci-
nation, which causes many Of the chill
dren to carry sore arms. BY next Mon
day the effects of the vaccination will
have disappeared aud the children will
feel better prepared TO enter upon their
school studies.
john Smith Norris Of Red Lodge
has received papers from the patent
Office at Washington granting him a
patent on a new wheel %cultivating ma
chine. The new cultivator has many
excellent features, the principal one
Of which is the mechanism which Ell.
ables the operator to shift the cultiva.
tor rakes to or away from the row by
simply pressing a lever. The machine
will probably be placed on the market.
Sheriff John Dunn of Carbon
county was in the city Tuesday, being
on his way to Big Timber in search Of
one j. Fl. Fosdyke, wanted in Carbon
county for passing worthless checks
and ~"shoving the queer" Fosdyke
passed a check OH John Convery Of Red
Lodge and a merchant of Bridger. He
also had n couple cashed in Big Timber.
Sheriff Dunno overhauled his man at
Livingston and now has him in Jail at
Red Lodge.
The excavation has been commence
ed for the erection Of a large brjoa~and
stone building on the Nortbstf Pacific
right of way, betweeptT egen Bros.
cold storage house aYiP the headquarters
company. Te building will be two
stories higHwlth about the same frcnt.
age az the Billings Wholesale Grocery
house. j. j. Mccormick has the con
tract for the e%xcavating.