The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-11-07

-Dr. A. E. Kroner, dentist. Bel
KNAPP block. 56.tf
West Side Addition is the place te
build a home. *
Its of. Are you on? A home OF
Investment. 4l-tf
See W. B. George and get lots in
the West Side Addition. They are sell.
ing like hot cakes.
Austin North for town lots. Low
prices. Reasonable terms. Easy
monthly payments. -
There is a revival Of talk about the
Montana railroad building into Billings
from Martinsdale. which was prophesi
ed in The Gazette several months ago.
Joliet one Of the e~nterrrising vii.
lagos of Carbon county, is to be resur.
veyed by q new company called the
Joliet Townsite g. Improvement com
pany.
The Salvation Army gave an oys.
ter supper in its new hall Saturday,
the proceeds Of which will be used to
pay for the building.
The city council will meet in regu.
lar session tonight. Being the first
monthly meeting considerable business
will probably come before the city
fathers.
Judge Loud will reconvene district
court in this city tomorrow, after a
couple Of weeks vacation. There are q
number of divorce cases and probate
matters yet to be heard.
Frank Damsel has taken o yacu.
ton from his express messenger duties
on the Burlington and VII leave soon
for a couple Of &lontks s%ojourn at ST..
Joe, Mo-, and o4Ssf points.
Seymour Il. Stoughton, a telegraph
operator Of Huntley, this county, was
adjudged a bankrupt Thursday in the
bankruptcy court at Helena. His liza
bilities were ~, 1858; assets $11.
There were several parties Of young
folks throughout the city Saturday af-
ternoon. The little Zimmerman boys
entertained a number Of friends and
Miss Marie Sleeper and Miss Alice
Walk their Sunday school classes.
The Billings Water Power company
is fitting up the room in the Belknap
blolck, formerly occupied by Vale &
Potter, which will hereafter serve as
an Office. The roo is being partition
ed off and the north side will be rent.
ed for q store room.
The Northern Pacific has COM
menced the work on charging the
traokage for the Rocky Fork Coal com-
pany in Red Lodge, which, when COM
pleted, will accommodate over 200 cars.
Roadmaster Cantine of this city is su.
perintendng the work.
An Elks lodge is to be organized in
Sheridan on Wednesday night of next
week and a number of Billings Elks
will go down and Assist in plotting the
new Elketu=be through the forest and
over the rocky plains. A big time is
anticipated. There will be a banquet
at the Sheridan Inn after the initiation.
The Rock Mountain Husbandman
Of White Sulphur Springs in Its lastlis-
sue contains quite a lengthy writeup of
the farms and ranches in Yellowstone
county, adjacent to Billings on the
west, southwest and northwest. The
article, which is from the pen Of that
papers travelling solicitor, speaks in
glowing terms of the properties in the
valley.
Governor Smith yesterday offered a
reward Of 5000 for the apprehension Of
M. 0. Howell, the murderer of Thos.
Rosling at P. ]. Moule's ranch. How
ell, as stated in Fridays Gazette, is be-
lieved to be under arrest in the North
west Territory, and the reward will 20
towards remunerating Mr.. Moule, who
expended a large sum to run the muir.
1erer down.
The Northern Pacific will not suffer
by scarcity Of coal. In this situation it
is peculiarly fortunate. It obtains it's
Of coal for its eastern division at
Duluth, where it has access to two
one just west of Mandan and
another in Lehigh. In Montana it pro-
cures coal from the Rocky Fork mines
at Red Lodge, and il necessary it can
also be supplied from Gebo and Oar
In Washington it has an un.
limited supply in the mines Of Roslyn
and other places.
The Cree indians are in great dis
;ress. No longer can they loaf on the
reservations and they are anticipating
\ very lard winter. Every Indian
agent in the state has, in accordance
with instructions, ordered the renegade
citizens Of Canada to keep off the reser-
and they are enforcing the
rider. Some of the Crees attempted to
the order by marrying their
quaws to agency bucks. but the agents
would not tolerate the subterfuge, and
t seems to be off with the Crees.
Austin North has circulated among
he business men a petition, asking that