Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-13
MEN WARY
BILLINGS GROWERS THINK BUY
EBS HAVE COMBINATION.
SALES LIGHT AS A RESULT.
Prize Fight at the Fair Grounds-Ed
! Barry and Walter Campbell
(, the Principals.

0ulIIIBS, July IL.
The wool market yesterday was slug
glsh and showed no signs of improve
lnent over that of Monday, which ac-
counted for the fact that few w
cared to go up aginst such a proposition.
Only two buyers again offered bids, n
as they are the same two who have been
operating since Saturday, the growers
have COMMENCED to think there is a job.
The buyers have orders from their firms
TO buy and they are trying to pick out
the best clips. Only three clips We're sold
yesterday, as follows: William Potter,
Williams & Co.; s.. Holmes, 10, 900 pounds
at Is cents. Bach. Becker & Co and
Jeremiah Williams & Co. tied i'm their
bids and the clip was divided between
them. H. L. Perkins of Wyoming, 10000
pounds at 13 cents to Bach, Becker &
Co. A. L. Thomas opened his clip of
$1,000 pounds, but the highest price Of
fered was 1871 cents, and this he refus-
ed. Not long afterwards he consigned
the clip at an advance of 10 cents to JUS
tice, Bateman & Co. David Forman of
Grass Range consigned his clip at an
advance of II cents to Luc & Manning.
Again no wool was opened ait the Bur-
lington warehouse as the growers did
mot care to face such low prices, cOnsld-
ering their clips worth much more. There
will be no sales here today, as the buy
ers went to Big Timber last night, where
there are abou 2,0O0, 900 pounds stored.
J. E. Edwards, Grow Indian agent, is
in the city today from Grow Agency.
He says the Indians are still ait work on
the Burlington grading contract. He re-
ports that only about a half crop of
wheat will be raised his year. owing to
the continued dry weather.
Mrs. Minnie Baker, a woman of easy
virtue, died last night of consumption
/. The woman had Ipan near npalth'S dOOl
for nearly two weeks. Her husband lives
in Salt Lake and he was t~elegraphed fol
some time ago, as his wife begged to SEE
him before she died. but he refused tt
come. ..." .@
Charles C. Hathhorn. who recently
graduated from the college of osteopath,
ait Kirksville, Mo-, is in the city toda.
visiting his brother. #. H. HathhOrn
while en- route to his home in Livings
ton. He intends locating i'm Montana.
The fixtures for the postoffice have ar
rived and will be put in place during TIN
next few days. When the room IS ar
ranged Billings will have one Of TIN
most commodious p~ostoffices in the state
This community was disgraced toda;
by a. prize fight, which was held at tn
fair grounds at Z o'clock this morning
The participants were Ed Barry. a bar
tender, and Walter Campbell of Chicago
who claims to be someWha of a prOfes
sional pugilist. The fight was for Z
knockout, but in the nth round it wa
giving to Barry on a foul, the betting be
ing in his favor, and the referee stand
ing in with him. 1t is said that Camp
bell had the best of tle encounter ANT
showed himself to be much the bette
man but the bartender stood i'm on tn
money side. Neither the police nor tn
sheriff's office knew anything about tn
affair until it was over although 1T wa
street talk last night.