Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-24
NEWS
w. E. Hassler. Representative Inter
Mountain. Branch Office Gazette Bldg.
Of JULY
BILLINGS ENDEAvORS TO HAVE
CELEBRATION OF ITS OWN.
CITIZENS ENTHUSIASTIC.
Sentence of Ninety Days-Will Be Re-
Arrested-Segur Social
7 Event.

Billings, May %, 1900.
That Billings will celebrate the Fourth
of July is not yet a decided fact. but it
will be settled in the course of the next
few days. Some had become imbued
with the idea that this city was to re-
turn the compliment and go en- masse to
Sheridan this year, but our people are
ayerse to his. Billings has become of
SO much Importance now that it is neces-
sary for the city to have a celebration of
it's own. The attempt last year, by
which nearly 81, 500 was raised for fire
works, horse races and a baseball game,
was a complete success in every partic-
ular, and it brought many hundreds to
Billings. A like attempt will be made
this year and work commenced at once.
The business men of u city always
stand ready to assist in a movement or
this kind and will give their liberal sup
port toward making it a success. Billings
is better prepared this year to a care
OF. the hundreds or thousands that may
visit the city. We awe more hotels and
more restaurants, and the accommodate
ions are much better. ADJUSTMENTS OF
all kinds will be arranged for. There
will be good horse races, possibly a game
of baseball between Miles City and Bill
lings and various other sports to enter
ain the crowds. In the evening there
will be just such a magnificent display
of fireworks as they had last year.
T. O'Rourke, a we'll known citizen of
Glendive, has leased the Cottage Inn
| hotel from the owner, Frank .. McCor-
mick, for a term of five years, and will
| take possession on June LIST or 18th. Mr..
O'Rourke has been connected with the
! Northern Pacific Railroad at
Glendive for years and is a large stock
owner of Dawson county.
Martin Welsh has been sentenced to 90
days in the county Jail for vagrancy, and
when he is liberated he viii probably be
re-arrested on a charge of robbery, with
having stolen a rifle from a Northern
Pacific car. The officers think they have
a, clear case against him.
Mrs. H. B. Segur and Mrs. T.. o. Rails
back rave been elected delegates from
the Congregational Sunday school at the
State Sunday School convention, which
meets in Butte next week.
The city council has passed an ordi-
nance prohibiting gambling and making
lit a miSdemeanOr, putting it under the
same restriction as the houses of pros.
titution. The council has waited fol
some time for the county officials to take
a hand in the matter and on their failure
to do anything the ouncil has k the
above steps, which are vested in it. Sew
eral months ago the mayor ordered al
gambling stopped and gave the police
Instructions to arrest any n found
gambling. Since then there has beer
but little gambling. The ordinance just
= passed provides for the finng of persons
gambling in a sum not less han SO ant
no more than 500 and costs of prosecu,
ton. 1t will AVE the effect of putting
a stop to all open gambling, as there arr
but few gamblers that can afford to pay
a fine weekly, or oftene if the police
round them up, which they will be com
PEELED to do.
I. S. Weeks, chief engineer, and c. M
Westervelt, right-of-Way man of the
! Burlington railroad, arrived in the city
last night from Lincoln, and in company
with Grow Indian Agent Edwards left
this morning for the Pryor reservation
ostensibly to buy rights from the Indians
for the railroad to run through theil
land to the Big Horn basin in Wyoming