The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-09

For a hair cut or shave, done in
w%orkmanlike manner, 90 to Browr &
Deckert. 57.tf
Save wear and tear oil your laundr,
by sending it to the Billings Steam
Laundry. 1873
Let @. F. Burton write your 19O(
insurance. You will find him i'll hi
new office Oh North Twenty-ninti
street. 74.2
1t gives the best satisfaction ant
has no equal, so say the consumers Of
Bridger coal, sold by Ben. w. Toole 70,
only 1910 per ton. 63.tf
MA girl baby, was born last night tt
Mrs. e. l.. Boarflmau wife Of the edi,
tor and publisbar of The Gazette. "A
full house Of girls" says Mr.. Board
man.
The Catholic church of this city hae
made arrangements for having Thomas
Edison's marvellous moving reproduc.
tion Of THE Passion Play given i'll
this city Thursday night, Jan. 1s.
The Methodist people,>of Billings
are observing the Weekof Prayer. which
began Sunday 4ight/ Meetings are be.
ing held every 4jSht this week aud a
cordial invitation il extended all to at
tend.
The chairman of the beardn Of
county commissioners, county treasurer
u county assessor met yesterday and
drew the anne Of persons eligible for
jury duty in Yellowstone county for the
ensuing year.
Arrangements have been made for
the pleasure Of the Browns living in
Billings for u Browns night, in which
Manager Babcock has given them We'd.
nesday eevniDg, Jan. 10th, and all the
browns will be there to greet their new
found cousin.
Presiding Elder j. W. Bennett of
the Bozeman district of the M. f..
church. held quarterly conference in
this city Saturday night and Sunday.
Sunday morning and evening he
preached two able sermons before large
congregations.
-Frank Cushta, or "Custer' as he
is mole familiarly known, who is
charged with the murder Of Max Hide.
brandt last October. was taken to Miles
City Saturday by Sheriff Cato of that
place. He will be arranged next Satur-
day. John L. Smith Of Livingston is
his attorney.
There is at least one feature in the
life OF a ChiDaman that the white class
could pattern after with good effect.
At the beginning of the Chinese new
year the Celestials pay up all their
debts and think it a crime to do other.
wise, And the collector does not even
have to call on them.
WIN. Rea, the st. Panl sheep buyer
and feeder, who has been winterinp
many thousand head Of sheep in this
valley, will ship $4,000 head from Bill.
ings next week for ST. Paul to feed for
a few weeks for the market. He will
also ship about the same number from
Big Timber at the same time.
The public sale of real property.
upon which the taxes are DELINQUENT in
county, willbegin in front
Of the county trbasuypffs office at the
court house on Jkp<12, at 10 o'clock a.
H., and will be held on such other
to which the sale may be post
poned, within the limits fixed by law.
There is hardly a train passing
westward these days that does not
carry a delegation bound for Cape
Nome. Those who are going west now
are preparing to spend the winter in
and go north on the first bout.
If the rush continues, the spring mouths
Will witness a repetition of the Klon-
like exodus.
j. Il. Bigger, late of Lincoln, and
A. Morris Of this city, have formed
! partnership tor a brokerage business
have rented room 10 of the Belkpap
block for al office, which is now being
tilted up. The firm viii! deal in stocks,
'onds, grain and provisions and will
daily reports from Omaha, Chica.
70, New York and Boston.
General Nelson A. Miles and wife
rave issued invitations for the mar.
iage of their daughter, Cecilia Sher-
nan, tn Captain Samuel Reber, of the
United States army, which event will
ranspire at high noon on Junuary 10, :.
Il st. Johns church, Washington, D..
Miss Miles was a member of the
Niles party during its weeks visit to
Billings last fall.
Red Lodge Picket: There are few
merchants in Montana more generous
han Hon. John D. L-osekamp of Bill.
ngs. On Christmas morning, follow.
ng a custom established BY him many
ears ago, he distributed from his store.
resents to nearly a thousand children.
lis last gift distribution. figured in cash
alue, aggregated some $3.50. There
re no penurious spots in that gentle.
composition.
County Superintendent Burla last
'eek received a communication from
Superintendent Carleton. giving