The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-16

Chaplain G. @. Stul! OF the FRS
Montana volunteers last week presented
Chief Of Police Bond with q police
mans club, or shillaly, such as is car
ried BY the protectors Of the peace anf
dignity uf the law i'll tho Philippines
] he club ia but III of the relics picked
up in Manila by Chaplain Stull.
Sam Davis got in the police toill
last night for stealing some coyote petit
from the rear Of M. O'ConDell's candy
and. tobacco store, which was burned
down yesterday morning. Davis wa,
arrested in the L. & l.. saloon, while
trying to dispose Of the pelts. He il
ono of the tough class and a very mn
dersirable citizen.
Too Much Johnson" the farce
comedy presented at the opera house
last night, attracted a large audience,
and the company presenting the piece
was a good one, but the play is toe
much Of all extravaganza to be com
pared with Browns in Town" Still,
the production Of "Too Much Johnson
was enjoyable, but the unnaturalness of
the plot and situations was generally
remarked.
-StockRrowers' journal: Hugh s.
Moran. II Of the pioneer saddlery men
Of the west and who had one Of the best
shops in Montana at Miles City in early
days. is a business visitor in the city
this week. Mr.. Moran is now on the
road for Brown, Wyeth g. Co., of st.
Joe, Mo-. and is doing a spIendid bust.
ness for the firm. He expects in the
near future TO establish his headquar.
te,s in the range country and has in
view either Miles City or Billings.
Policeman S%teinhauser last night
arrested a young fellow going by the
name of morphine Kid" for burglariz.
ing Williams & Baxter's drug store.
The firm has been missing morphine
and other articles lately and last night
the officer "laid low until about 10
O'Clock, when he arrested the "kid''
after he had entered the store through
the cellar way. The prisoner has seen
the inside Of the city Jail before. and
the police consider him a citizen who
could be exported without any loss
whatever.
WIN Rea was in the city Saturday
ard Sunday shipping $4,000 head Of
sheep, which he purchased of /. D.
O'Donnell. The sheep had been feeding
on alfalfa for about fifty days in which
time they gained all thseWay from five
to fifteen pounds eaehec "Skew'' John
son, live stick ags6f for the Northern
Pacific, sayA tbey were the best lot ever
shipped out Of this section. They were
taken to st. Paul, where they will be
fed for a short time on screenings,
when the top ones will BIZ exported
to Liverpool, while the others will go
to the Chicago market.
Geo. W. Wise of Wise. Wyo.. special
administrator of the estate Of Richard
Ashworth, deceased, spent a couple Of
days in Billings last week on his re-
turn from n business and social visit to
the east. Mr.. Wise took four carloads
of the Ashworth cattle to Omaha,
where he sold the lot to Rosenbaum
Bros. Of South Omaha for 49,, 1872 as
follows: Two feeders Of 6O5 pounds at
81 per hundred; twenty -four feeders,
0O5 at ~. 10; fourteen steers, 1909 at
81. so; forty .seven feeders. 694 at IS. 10
and fifteen feeders. 743 at IS. 10. Mr..
Wise was glad to learn that the contest
the probating Of the two wills,
pur ported to have been made by Mr..
Asbworth, had been settled, thus avoid
ing a long suit.
Opportunities" is the name of a
useful pamphlet just issued by O. W.
Mott, general immigration agent of the
Pacific railroad, and Of which
The Gazette has received a copy. The
book is simply a list of the towns along
the line in the several, states through
the road runs, with a brief sum.
mary Of the facts regarding each. and
with mention Of the special needs Of
such places az lack certain industries or
These openings u from a
store to municipal service
from the chance for q profess
man to a large manufacturing
establishment. The pamphlet will be
very valuable to any one looking for a
business chance or for general informa-
lion about the towns along the North.
srn Pacific.
PERSONAL POINTS.
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