The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-16
LAUREL NOTES.

The Goings On Thereabouts-Prosperity
Reigns.
Special Correspondence of The Gazette.
Laurel, Nov. 14.-Election is ove1
thank God-and we still live.
Fl. A. Noyes claims he is the only
democrat left. The rest have taken
to>the hills. s..
The devil must have been afte,
Deverill on election day, the way he
ran.
+. w. W. WEIGH, successful candidate
for state superintendent Of schools,
was treated as was the %proverbial
prophet of whom it is written: "a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country and in his own
house, Truly, at times it's a good
thing not to be known.
The Z, 500 lambs unloaded at our
stockyards last week by Chas. Wat
kins are being fed on the Camp ranch,
just west of town. They are as fine a
lot of lambs as ever came to this sec
ton.
Mrs. E. E. Lightfoot and child are
visiting in Columbus.
Mrs. e. @. Waters of Yellowstone
lake, who with Colonel Waters is
spending the winter in Billings, was
in our town last week visiting Mrs. E.
B. Camp. Mr.. Waters, who owns
and operates the steamer and boats on
the Yellowstone lake, in the Wonder
land, is also investing a large amount
of money in the sheep business owe in
Carbon county, which occupies his
time during the winter months.
L. A. Nutting, living only a half
mile east of town, has just completed
a carriage house. Hereafter his
family will ride in a fine surrey, a
present from himself to Mrs. Nutting.
Truly he must have felt the good
times of a republican administration.
Saturday morning Mrs. James
Phillips and Mrs. S. Malcolm were
thrown from a buggy and were both
quite badly bruised and scratched.
They had just started from home and
the single horse was going at a lively
pace to get ahead Of Johnson's trac-
ton engine. On reaching the school
house corner fence the horse became
frightened and turned the corner too
sharply, upsetting the buggy.
The bank ranch just east of town
has been undergoing extensive i'm
provements in the way of a fine new
a large barn, tool house, ice
house, horse corral and sheep sheds
that will shelter thousands of sheep.
All have been painted and add greatly
to the wealth of this section.
G. G. Steers, manager of the big
ditch company from Park City to the
Hesper farm, has a e of teams at
work putting the ditch in fine condi-
tion for next season. He is also put
ting in new headgates and tileing
needed. Steers is a worker
and like his ~four-leg namesake he
''gets there on all tours" as it were.
Taylor, Burla & Co., who have an
So, 900 contract to enlarge the Canyon
Greek ditch, are doing a large amount
of work. They have about twenty
teams at work along the ditch. They
are now camped nearly to Canyon
creek.
Geo. Berky was in Laurel Thursday
two teams unloading a car Of
to be used on the Canyon
Creek ditch, Of which he is a director.
George is always a welcome visitor to
our burg.
The A. O. U. w. lodge are making
arrangements or a fine dance and
to be given at Laurel hall
Thanksgiving night.
Clate Severance, son of Mrs. G. r.
got on the warpath Saturday
afternoon and after fourishing a gun
town went to the ranch of
his mother, four miles west of Laurel,
and it is said knocked his sister down
with the butt Of, his gun and drove all
the family out Of the house. Miss
was also stopping at the house.
Something should be done with
that class of men, who refuse to work,
yet hang around home, only as a
nuisance, but allowed to remain from
fear of violence. Rancher.