Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-15
NEWS OF THE STATE.
BILLINGS NEWS.

BILLINGS NEWS.
Billings, March IA. 1900.
All lines of business are looking up
ward with the appearance of spring. Sew
eral new business houses are opening up
here and everything points to a prosper
GUS year. The carpenters. brick masons
and stone masons are being KEEP. BUSY az
good wages and when the building per-
iod gets fairly started they Will not be
able to fill thedemand. Contractors and
dealers Of building material ~conf1denti-
ally state that this years improvements
will exceed those of last year when near
~ two hundred buildings were erected.
Smallpox in it's worst type has broken
out among the Crow Indians on the
Pryor creek reservation. The victim Is
an ndian who has been riding the line.
All the ndian of that reservation have
been ordered to the sub-agency at Pryor.
The city election in Billings does not
bid fair to be a warm article. There are
but four aldermen to be elected, and II
seems to be a case of Office seeking the
man, as no one has come out for 1t. Tn
election comes off April 2, and VIII De
followed on April Z, by the school cleo
ton of three trustees and In all prooa-
U1lIllC tuC WINS VI oAAN
of SIS, 900 for a new school building. The
present buildings are altogether TOO
small and unless something is done this
summer the school will not be able to
ance. There will not likely be any op-
position to the bonds as is a matter
of great Importance to the welfare of our
schools. 1t is intended, in case the
bonds carry, to have he building ready
W.T. on school again next fall.
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At a meeting of the board Of trustees
of the M. E. church last night a COM
mittee was appointed to see about q site
for the erection Of a new church build
flee. which is too small to accommodate
either the church or Sunday school at
tendance.
The board of trustees Of the county
free high school of Yellowstone county
have at last been given a cue as to what
they can do toward establishing the said
school,. In answer to a letter from
County Attorney Johnston. the attorney
general of the state Jays that the high
school law. to say the least, is crude and
indefinite in the extreme. 1t is prob
lematic as to how it will be considered
by the supreme court, n In what way
steps q be k 50 as to make pos
sible the issuance Of bonds. 1t is very
doubtful whether the manner provided
for the issuance of school district bonds
can be made available in the county high
school election, and 1t is a matter OF con-
lecture as to how the election should be
conducted. The attorney general also
has no semblance of authority over the
election, which must be ordered by the
high school trustees, but holds that 1T
is undoubtedly best, before fna action
is taken, that the law should receive jul
dicial construction and says 1t should
be tested by the supreme court, after the
district court shall have passed upon 1t.
Concluding the attorney general express
ses grave doubt as to whether the bonds
can be sold, if voted, until the high
school law is thoroughly tested by the
courts. 4. ~.
A deal was consummated today where
by A. j. Gilsdorf disposed of his large
meat market bushes sto John Winger,
formerly of Butte and Anaconda. Mr..
Winger has has been Billings off on
for over a month with a view to locating
here. Possession is not to be given I'M
! til April l.. The central market, the
north side branc owned by Mr.. CHS.
dorf, will be closed up tomorrow night
and all the business transacted by the
south side shop. The terms OF the sale
are not known, but there IS no uouot
but what Mr.. Gilsdorf will realize a nice
sum from it, ashehas one OF the Hlos'
complete shops in the state.
The t~hree-year-old child Of James Yes
tai died this morning and was buried
this afternoon, the funeral being con
Quoted by Rev. VIM. Remington, pastor
of the Baptist church.
Superintendent Horn was In the CITY
today from Livingston, looking over the
Northern Pacific improvements. He
found everything progressing nicely, the
foundation for the freight warehouse pc
ing nearly completed. The lumber FOL
the addition to the wool warehouse II
arriving daily, and the company carpen'
ters will rush this building to- compile
ton, so that it will be ready to care To-
the wool business with the opening o.
the season. 1t is confidently estimated
I that over 5000, 900 pounds of wool Will 81
: marketed i'm this city this season.
: New residences are sprtnglng up al
over the city this week. It. Is reported
that an eastern gentleman is ngurlns o.
:. building six new cottages at once, ana l
, he does they will go like hot cakes. An,
a kind of a house rents in this city at al
most any figure above $40 a month.
The Billings brewery, of which Henri,
3 Mueller of Butte is president, Will plac
: it's product on the market on April i
: The brewery is one IT the most complet
in the west, having a yearly apacit q
r IL. 900 barrels. Nearly $1,000 has alread
y been expended ir Its construction, an
g this will be augmented by 3 1000 NOR
e for a malt house and other Improvement
this summer
n Mayor Chris Yegen and Attorney o. I
= Goddard went to Red Lodge today to al
d tend district court.
It -
The case of the State VS.. B. F.. {
! Kuchta, better known as Frank Custe
- who is charged with the murder of Ma
Hildebrandt in the Musselshell count
last fall, will come up for trial in Mile
CITY next Monday. T. H. Hathhorn
this city has been engaged to assist tt
prosecution. John b. Smith, mayor