The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-18

John w. Scally of Grow Agency
was ~transacting business in the city
yesterday.
A son was born yesterday to the
wife of Ticket Agent Burke of the
Northern Pacific.
Thomas Mahlst1om and bride
have returned to Billings from a trip
to the Pacific coast.
} Alderman Fl. F. Clement returned
Sunday from a trip to his sheep ranch
in the Flatwillow country.
H. B. Segur, general agent of the
Burlington, has gone to Omaha on
business connected with his depart
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Young, par
ents of Francis Young, will depart
Wednesday for Chicago to spend the
winter.
Several more cases of scarlet
fever have made their appearance in
Billings, but none of them are serious.
The disease is in a very mild form.
The city council will meet to-
night in the last regular session of
the year 1900. The first meeting
comes Oh the first day Of the twentieth
century.
w. B. Sleeper of Sunshine, Wyo.,
was a guest of Billings relatives Sun
day. He was just returning from a
business trip to New York CitX/and
other eastern points. III
WIN. Rea, Jr., the St. PAUL sheep
buyer and Chas. McDaniels,y repre-
senting a Chicago stock commission
firm, arrived in the city yesterday
looking for shipments.
The Billings public school will
enjoy the holidays with a weeks va
cation beginning next Monday.
School for the new year will begin on
December 81, of this year.
Judge Frank Henry of Livingston
was in the city yesterday Ell route to
Red Lodge to hold court. HA will set
the dates for the jury cases and then
adjourn court until after Christmas.
will Consolver, a we'll known
young man residing at Allendale, is
lying very low at his home with
abcess of the brain, and no hopes are
entertained for his recovery.
j. H. johnson pleaded guilty be-
fore Justice Kelly yesterday to as
sault in the third degree upon M.
Beaudoin and was fined $40 and costs,
amounting in all to 1924, which he
paid.
II. S. P. Weeks, chief engineer of
the Burlington surveying department.,
was a Billings visitor yesterday, com
ing in from Lincoln and going out to
the grading camps on the Toluca-
Cody branch.
Phil Grein, A. S. Gass, W. A.
Vale and W. G. Kahn, the %quartette
Of Billings hunters who hgve been
in the Snowies for about TWO weeks,
returned Sunday after a very success
full expedition. .H a.
-Ope week from today Santa
Claus will make his appearance.
Many a Billings child is anxiously
awaiting the grand old mans arrival,
and ere this have written him the
hearts desires.
The revival meetings are still
in progress at tho M. E. church with
good attendance each night. They
will be continued throughout this
week and possibly until the beginning
of the new year. .n."
Billings has been getting a taste
Of wind the past few days and the
dust has been something horrible to
behold. If the weather continues it
may be necessary to get the street
sprinkler to work.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Baker and
Miss Harriet Robinson Of Iowa, left
yesterday for California, after sew
eral days visit to Miss Eta Robinson,
sister of the ladies. The partt will
spend the winter in Los Angeles.
j. E. Hill, brother of Mrs. j. H.
Bigger, who has been staying in Hill-
ings for some time past, left Sunday
night for his home in Lincoln to &C
cept a position in the baggage depart
ment of the Missouri Pacific railroad.
The city is making some needed
improvements on West Minnesota ave-
nue.. The avenue between Twenty
ninth and Thirtieth streets is being
cut down to grade and the stone eros
sing. which has given so mufh trou
ble,. has been raised. A culvtrt. has
also been arranged on the north side
to drain the venue