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

IL. r. SCl2en ana WIFE OF HalDort
are visiting in the city.
w. M. Murphy came in from La.
VIVA yesterday OH business pertaining
to the Murphy stock. interests.
-Carwile & Bouton write liberal
fire insurance policies at the best
~obtainable rates. \
Miss Kathryn Feely of Red
Lodge, superintendent. of schools of
Carbon county, was in Billings yester-
day.
d. J. Tallant, immigrant inspector
for the port of Great Falls, was in
Billings yesterday gathering statis-
tics.
The new hospital sewer was COM
pleted yesterday and together with
the new north side sewer will be in
working order in a few days.
Mrs. Max Koehler of Livingston
has been visiting in Billings several
days with her husband, who RUM one
of the switch engines for the Northern
Pacific here.
DIR. w. X. Sudduth, the Mussel-
shell stockman, came to Billings yes
terday, leaving last night for his east
ern home in Chicago, where he will
remain for a time.
1T is likely that a rate as low as
IL fare for the round trip, and posi-
bly, / cent a mile, may be authorized
by the railroads for the Pan-American
exposition in Buffalo next summer.
ID. F. Slayton Of Folsom, Mont,
arrived in the city yesterday. Mr..
Folsom has driven several bands of
sheep to the Yellowstone valley in
this county and will feed them on
alfalfa this winter.
Chief Of Police Bond has received
an important letter for Mrs. Oscar
Smith. So far he has been unable TO
locate the m IT any one knows
of such a person please communicate
with the police at the fire hall.
Wore was received here yesterday
that E. r. Cockrell, a switchman for
the Burlington at Sheridan, had a leg
cut off in the yards. Cockrell was
cutting off BARS when he met with
the very unfortunate accident.
w. E. Phillips, a we'll known in
urance man of the capital city, was
in Billings yesterday renewing ab-
quaintances. Mr.. Phillips is also One
of the enthusiastic ball sports Of Mon
tana, and was for a time president of
the Helena club.
The ~six-year-old daughter OF A..
r. Clegg, operator of The Gazette's
typesetting machine, was taken ill
yesterday with scarlet fever, but the
case is not thought to be serious.
The family resides on South Thirty
first street.
Mrs. Peacock and children, who
left Billings several days ago to join
Mr.. Peacock in Helena, but who found
the husband and father had skipped
out, leaving no trace, mention of which
was previously made in The Gazette,
passed through Billings Thursday
night ell route to the home Of Mrs.
Peacock's parents in South Dakota.
A number of ladies took their
fancy work yesterday and spent the
afternoon with Mrs. Childs, it being
her birthday. She was the recipient
of a number of beautiful and useful
presents. A dainty lunch was served.
The following were the guests: Mes
danes Babcock, Gerald Panton,
Becker, Sam Panton, Elliot, Goss, S.
F. Morse, Armitage, w. H. Morse,
Matheson, Burton, Holmes, Rixon,
Bouton, Misses P%anton.
An animal greatly dread by WOOL
growers in the spring of the year is
the bob cat. In some sections it is
more destructive of lambs than are
the coyotes. Owing to it's size and
the stealth with which it gets about
in the brush it is much harder to de-
tect in mischief than other animals.
One woolgrower on Ford's creek, in
Fergus county, has found it necessary
to offer a bounty for their scalps. The
state offers NO bounty on these ami
mails. :.
In addition to the Al passenger
cars. two dining cars and two cofnbi-
nation cars ordered last week, the
Northern Pacific has contracted for
about 5000, 900 worth of new motive
power, which will be built at the
Schenectady works. The order in
cludes SO engines, and the company
has reserved the right to order IS
more locomotives at 1.-The same contract
price if the condition. of trade war
rants the additional order. The en-
tire cost of new engines and cars will
not be less than $3.50, 900 to 5000, 900.
FIR om Sundays Daily Gazette. \
Architect J. G. Link of Butte was
here yesterday looking over the new
school building.
Money to loan in any sum on
farm lands and improved Billings
prOperty. Carwile & BoutOn. 4