The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-11-28
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

GENERAL STATE NEWS.
The postal department. oes tn,
discontinuance Of the post office ut FIar
ris, Custer county.
Great Falls will make an effort 1,
secure an appropriation from congress-
for a federal building.
The Bozeman Agricultural college
football team beat the Livingston team
Saturday to the tune Of 48 to 0.
Carrie M. Allen has been appointed
postmistress at Cooke, Park county,
vice Frank j. Dean, resigned.
The two men who robbed the Ameri.
can Development 8 Mining company
at Gibbonsville, Idaho, a week ago,
were captured in Anaconda yesterday.
Ex-senator Lee Mantle has been III
for several weeks and Ia still confined
to his home at Butte. He will present.
~ leave for the east and may spend a
portion of the winter at Washington.
George W. Cook, Thomas Duff and
Owen Dunn Of Montana have been ap.
pointed BY the interior department o.
appraisers Of part Of Fort Maginnis
abandoned military reservation in this
state.
The case Of the United States against
T.. H. Hershfeld. president Of the sus.
pended Merchants bank in Helena,
wherein the latter was indicted on 40.
count Of Illegal banking, has been con.
tinued.
The Miles City telephone company ia
extending its line ia Stacy and along
Otter creek to Birney. The route has
been staked out and the material for
the construction Of the line will soon
be on the ground.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the secretary Of the interior has
approved for patent to the state Of Mon.
tana 1870 acres of land in the Mis-.
soula land district which will be 40.
credited to the public building fund Of
the state.
Montana Shriners will meet in Hell
ena Dec. ID, when tho annual meeting
Of the mobiles Of Algeria Temple will
take place. Besides the election Of
officers and the transaction of the usual
business there will be the initiation Of
a score or more Of candidates.
Albert Fisher has brought suit for
$40, 900 against the j. q. Adams Stage
company, which operates u stage line
between Augusta and Craig on the
Montana Central. Fisher alleges that
he was thrown from the stage last
August and sustained severe injuries.
A deal was oonsummated III Missoula
yesterday whereby the Ravalli Republi.
can and the Bitter Root Times. the two
republican papers were consolidated,
James e. Stevens of the Republican
purchasing the Times from Messrs.
Knapp and White, the owners Of that
paper.
Governor Smith appointed John M.
Holt Of Miles City q member of the
state arid land commission to succeed
Ex-Gov. J. K. Toole, resigned. Mr..
Holt is a we'll known stookman Of
eastern Montana. He will serve on the
board until April 8, 1905, II he accepts
the appointment.
A reward Of 800 has been offered
for the recovery Of the body Of Il. Il.
Hatch who was drowned in the Yellow
stone river near Hathaway about two
weeks ago. A vigorous search has been
made but 1t 10 feared the body was
swept over the swift rapids a short dis.
lance below the place where the unfor.
tunate nan met his death.
The city council Of Helena held q
special meeting yesterday and decided
to advertise for bids for the construc.
ton of M electric light plant to be
owned aud run by the city. The plant
will not cost to exceed $40, 900 and will
furnish the city with eighty.fve arc
street lights. besides supplying private
consumers throughout the city.
Satisfactory progress Is being made
upon the paper plant, being constructed
at Manhattan and the plant IL nearing
Paper manufacturers gen.
orally are said to be watching with in.
terest the undertaking that the COM
pany has entered upon, AZ the manufao-
ture Of all grades Of paper from barley
straw il something Of an innovation IN
America. That the undertaking will
prove o success the directors and stock
holders have no doubt. The plant will
be in operation very oon
Judge W. Davis, a pioneer Of Gala.
tin county, died at his home in Boze-
Friday, after an illness Of two
years. He was born in Albany, N. Y,
in 1898. and came to Montana in 1864,
and bad resided ia Bohemian more than
thirty years. He had served AS pro.
bate judge Of Gallatin county, and in
1874 was elected Il member OF the logls.
lature Of Montana. He leaves one son,
Attorney W. +. Davis Of Hnzeman. and
daughters. The funeral took
place Sunday at 2 p. IN.
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