Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-01
NEWS
w. Il. Hassler. Representative Inter
Mountain. Branch Office Gazette, Bldg.

FAIR HAS MONEY.
GOOD REPORT OF YELLOWSTONE
FAIR ASSOCIATION.
RED LODGE SPRINTER is SLOW.
Wool Moving at neutrality-suspicious.
~ to Hear Roosevelt This Fall
r. Weekly Budget of News.
i& Billings, July 30.
tjGH. w. Rowley, treasurer, has just COM
piled a statement of receipts and dis
bursements of the Yellowstone Fair as
sociatlon for the year ending August /,
l2oo: Receipts-Cash on hand last re-
port, 142.75; general admissions, $1,s74.3 So;
grand stand receipts, $685.; received
from privileges, $3.50. IS; received from
entrance fees, $777.50; net pool receipts,
$4,000; portion of fence sold, $26; bills
payable, 5000: total, $4,407. go. Disburse-
ments-Race purses, $2,373.37; premiums,
$241.5O; labor, $S4. Sc; printing and adver-
Using, $114.73; repairs and Improvements,
$49l.s2; music, 5000; baseball purses,
$500; sundry expenses, $46.79; paid on in
debtedness, $500; balance on hand, 1913;
total, 4.4O1. so. The former debt of the
association amounted to $2,314.15. There
has been paid on this debt during the
past two years 81, 300, leaving the present
Indebtedness of the association $1,014.15.
With a successful meeting this fall it
lis thought all the indebtedness can be
wiped out.
An excursion was run to Billings Sum-
day from Red Lodge bringing the Red
Lodge baseball club, accompanied by the
Fin brass band and about 400 citizens
of Carbon county. A matched game of
ball had been arranged with the Billings
club, but the club having disbanded, a
game was arranged with the Livingston
team. The Red Lodge boys proved them
selves the better team by a score of Is to
8. After the ball game. Red Lodge
brought forth a would-be foot racer and
=, matched him against Charles Schneider,
the local Splinter. The result was that
Schneider won and the Red Loireites
lost between $500 and $500. But it didn't
hurt them very much, as they We're a
sporty crowd.
The wool market of the last few days
has taken on an improved condition and
WColgrowers are feeling more hopeful
of better results. Billings still retains
the championship market, Is cents hav-
ing been paid and 16b offered. During
the past few days the number of buyers
has been augmented by several new
ones and things are beginning to get in
ateresting. Over 400, 900 pounds were sold
' today at prices ranging from .131 to 16
cents, the average price being ISL cents.
This is the best days sales reported so
far in Montana. The wool receipts here
have been almost 10, 1000, 600 pounds, and
these in position to know state that the
amount will reach 10, 700, 900 before the
season ClOseS.
Mrs. Walter Clifton entertained about
20 little girls at an afternoon party II
honor Of the Misses Minnie and Gladys
Burnett of Sheridan last Wednesday
afternoon. Games and music formed the
entertainment, the little girls, in who's
honor the party was given, are talented
musicians and play nicely on the violin
Dainty refreshments or sherbet, CAKES
} and other sweetmeats were served. Miss
Ilottie Hardy, sister of Mrs. Clifton. and
> who has been spending the summer here
assisted in entertaining the little ones.
The 4-months' old SON of Mr.. and Mrs
| F. r. Eckholdt died Sunday morning OF
acute dysentery at the home of G. A
Lane. Mr.. Eckholdt and family had
broken up housekeeping and intended
leaving on Thursday for Rochester
Mimi, when the baby was taken sick
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon
u cltluuCJGu ny INGN NJ. ". otAit, "IiS HAt
and Mrs. Eckholdt left that night fol
Rochester.
Roy Evans was in the city yesterday
greeting his many friends. Roy resigned
his position as electrician with TIT
Northern Pacific railroad and is now en-
gagged with the Montana Trading com
( pany at Big Timber of which compan.
! his brother, H. s. Evans, is ~bookkeeper
Roy likes his work very much and al
though Big Timber is not as lively al
: Billings, he does mot mind it greatly
He returned to his work this mornlnt
with the knowledge that his many Bill
: ings friends are always glad to see him
Hon. w. F. Meyer, the Red Lodge law
yer and banker, who returned last Wsel
: from st. Paul where he attended tht
national convention of republican league
clubs, brings the information that o
ernor Teddy Roosevelt will visit Mon
tana, this fall, probably in October, II
his tour of the West, and deliver three
public addresses in this state and OF
which will most likely be given in Bill
ings, Mr.. Meyer, who was elected vic,
president for Montana, was authorized
to make thisa announcement.
Sheriff Dunn of Carbon county wa
n here over Sunday with a prisoner, Franz
: Rossoll, who is wanted in Red Lodg
: for forgery. Rossoll lis charged with hav
ing PASSED a check with a forged in
e 1orsement on the Carbon County banl
It over a year ago, and seems either to B.
crazy or a professional ne
r tried his work in Fergus county getting
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