Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-22

Df. W.. "A. Allen left yesterday for a
trip to Sheridan and Buffalo, Wyo., ex-
pecting to be absent several weeks.
w. b. Cochran, the proprietor of the
new meat market, has rented the McCor-
mick residence just vacated by T. B. Hill.
H. j. Spleker II family have arrived
from North Dakota to settle in the yell
lowstone valley contiguous to Billings.
Mel. Creswell and family of Dawes
county, Neb., are new l~ocators in this
valley, having arrived in Billings Satur-
day.
Joe Steinhauser, formerly a brakeman
on the Rocky Fork branch, has accepted
a position with the coal in
Bridger.
w. H. Norton, the tall sycamore from
Columbus, was a Billings visitor Satur-
day, it being the first time for a couple
of months.
The Epworth League will give a free
entertainment in the NJ. E. church Fri
day night. A cordial invitation is eX-
tended "
DR.. Townsend returned home Friday
night after several weeks in Philadelphia,
whittier he had been called by the illness
of a son
H. B. Segur left last night for Miles
City to attend the stockgrowers meeting
and to see that the Burlington is well
represented.
Thos Hogan, the travelling freight rep
re5entative for the Northern Pacific, left
last night for Miles City to be present at
the stock meeting.
The A. o. U. W. lodge will hold a social
session on Wednesday evening, April 26,
when the members will entertain the De-
gree of Honor.
Mrs. e. R. Winnett and children, who
have been spending the winter in Bill
ings, returned to their ranch home in
Fergus county last week.
Mrs. O.. p. Nash has gone to Minneap-
oils. She will be followed about May /
by Mr.. Nash and they will reside in that
city in the future. u.
Quite a delegation of stockmen from
Helena passed through Billings last night
on their way to Miles City to attend the
stockgrowers' meeting.
The Billings opera house management
has already booked twenty good com
panies for next fall and our theater-go-
ing people are promised something fine.
Amos Snyder, representing the. live
stock commission firm Of Jackson, Hig-
gins & Co. Of Omaha, is here with a car
load Of blooded cattle, which he will sell.
Karl Simpson Of Helena, who is in
charge of Northern Pacific railroad lands
in Montana, visited Billings Saturday
and disposed Of several good locations.
j. M. Frost, superintendent of the Red
Lodge-Meeteetse stage line, stopped in
Billings a couple of days last week while
en- route home to Meeteetse from a trip
TO New YORK city.
Thos. Barry, the well known sheepman,
returned to Billings Friday night from
Nartha, Cal, where he spent the winter
among the roses and the oceans balmy
breezes.
J A. Rea of Bozeman last week pur-
chased of Paul Mccormick the Elder
Grove ranch of 80 acres. Mr.. Rea will
remove to Yellowstone county and make
his home in this valley.
Architect P. J. Donohue of Butte, who
furnished the plans for Carbon county's
new court house, was a Billings visitor
Saturday, being on his way home from a
trip to Red Lodge.
Mike fillmore, the railroad contractor,
came up from Alliance, Neb., the latter
part of last week and went on to Idaho,
where he has a grading contract for the
Northern Pacific.
Chas. r. Rugg, J.. w. Coombs, Thos.
Roman, Sam Feyler, Charles and Frank
O'Donnell, who lave ranches in this val
ley, were in Billings last week buying
spring supplies for farming.
J. w. and Hosea Connick of Butte,
who recently purchased a ranch in this
valley, arrived in Billings yesterday with
their farming effects, preparatory to
starting in on their spring work.
r. r. Grove of this city was one of the
bidders on the contract to erect the new
court house for Carbon county. His bid
was the secon lowest n only $500
higher than the successful bidder.
Geo. Treischman returned Sunday from
Warm Springs. He expects to leave
shortly for Fort Yellowstone, where he
is engaged as a government mechanic,
and will take his children with him.
Rev. Turner of Denver, Col, presiding
elder of this district Of the A. M. e.
church, was in the city yesterday, leaV-
ing today for a visit to the churches of
Helena and other points in Montana.
New houses cannot be erected in Bill
ings any too fast to please the two score
or more inquirers for rentable property.
The demand for houses increases about
ten times as fast as the houses are built.
Matt H. Murphy has sold his Billings
property, adjoining the Congregational
| church to Capt. L. f. B~abcock, consid-
Grafton being $4,000. The sale was made
through w. b. George.
John Andrews, special agent of the
Royal Exchange Insurance company of
Portland, was visiting his local agent, w.
b. George, in Billings yesterday. He was
much pleased with the growth and out
look of our pretty city.
M. N. Stevens and Samuel Kelly, COM
| prising the firm of Kelly & Stevens, large
sheep owners of Merino, Fergus county,
were transacting business in Billings
yesterday. They had just returned from
a visit to their old home in Maine.
Theo. l.. Ringwalt, treasurer of the
Gebo mines, arrived in Billings Friday
| night from a two weeks visit to his
family in Omaha. He was delayed here
over Sunday on account of nc trains be-
ing run on the Bridger line.
Jepp Ryan of the large cattle firm of
Ryan Bros, who range in the Mussel-
shell country, was a business visitor in
L~eavenworth, Kansas. He left last night
for Miles City to attend the stOckgrOw-