The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-23

For first class plumbing and' heat.
ing see Yegen Bros. 1874
w Nj. Murphy Of Merrill Is look.
ing after business affairs In the city.
Go to Yegen Bros. and talk steam
aud hot water heat with them. 86.4
House numbers furnished aud put
up according to city ordinance. See
Austin North. S2.tf
Wanted. a position by man and
wife on a stock ranch. Leave word at
this Office.
Sheridan and Bear Greek coal for
sale by Yegen Bros. There Ia no
better OIL the marker.
20. q. Cook Of Musselshell and e.
A. Baldwin Of Baldwin were III the
city on business Yesterday.
e. Z. Esselstyn Of Red Lodge,
Northern Pacific coal inspector, was III
the city last night en- route west.
You take no chances when you get
work done ut Brown & Deokert's bar ber
shop. Only good artists employed. y
Yesterday was Washington's birth.
day. Being a legal holiday the schools,
banks aud p~ostoffloe took q vacation.
Wanted to Rent.-A four or five
room house. Write stating particulars.
Address j. Il. kurtz, Billings,
Montana. S7.2
1t gives the best satisfaction and
has no equal, SO say the consumer Of
BridRer coal, sold by Ben. W. Toole for
only $3.50 per ton cash. 88.tf
tzJailer g. W. Harding ia one Of the
happy papas Of Billings. having 70.
ceived word yesterday that Mrs. Hard.
ing, who has been visiting at Winfield,
Kansas, for several months, had given
birth to n girl baby.
-Postof1ce Inspectors Lance aud
MoMillin went to Red Lodge Wednes.
day to check out the retiring postmaster.
Walter Anderson, the newly appointed
postmaster, received his commission
Tuesday and has taken charge Of the
Office.
wv. =. George contemplates the
addition Of a reading room to his cigar
establishment iorsthe benefit of a mum.
Der Of young Mep<Who would spend
their evenings Nh6re. 1t will be sup
piled with newspapers and magazines
and will be greatly appreciated.
= Believing in being up.to.date aud
giving its patrons the best service to be
had, the Billings steam laundry il in.
s~talling some hex| machinery in its es.
adjustment, consisting of a steam
wing point turner. a ~neckband and
wristband ironer and a COLLAR and cuff
edger and turner.
5~Roy Scott, Fl. q. MoNeely aud
VIM. Harker, three Of last years Bill.
ings baseball club, who have been stay.
ing here this winter have signed con.
tracts to play the cunning season with
Denver club IN the Western league and
will leave March 20 to get III trim for
the opening Of the season.
WIN, l.. Malley, advance agent
for "The Toll Gate Inn," which will
DO seen here next Wednesday evening,
was IN the city yesterday. Mr.. Malley
IL the gentleman who was ahead Of
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" and says "The
Toll Gate Inn" Ia just as good a show.
II Is a good Il IL it il, and. judging
from the press notices, 1t Ia worthy Of
a big patronage.
Henry Burrell arrived III Billings
Tuesday night from the east aud left
the next morning for GebO to assume
the management of the Clark's Fork
Goal company. He was accompanied
by #, H. Davis of Omaha, a heavy
stakeholder IN the company, and Henry
Weloh, superintendent Of the Carbonado
mine, who will likely assume the same
duties at Geho.
The Henry Wilcox building on
Montana avenue. whioi, reoently passed
to the ownership Of ~. b, George,
will be VACATED NEXT week, when it
will undergo Improvements. The two
rooms Of thd loyer floor are to be COM
bined into obs/lares room with u plate
glass front, The building will be 10.
painted and repapered throughout, 1t
has not been rented yet, although MI,
George has q number Of applicants.
The Northern Pacific carpenter
Grew arrived IN the city this morning
and has begun work Oh the neN addi'
tion to the wool warehouse The pres
cut freight warehouses; purchased
from tho RAILROAD pAMpany by Yegen
Bros, and MI W removed to the lat
ter's additi(pM the southwest part of
the city, wil6ie 1t will he used for q
warehouse, During the construction
of the addition to the wool warehouse,
Agent Kennedy and his clerical force
will have their office in the east end of
the present wool warehouse,
/-Secletary of State u, s., Hogan,
kieHtenant Governor spriggs and Land
commissioning ], Fl, Ualderhead were
in the city Wednesday evening Waiting
a, NJ, Peters The gentlemen were re-