The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-09

See Yeeen Bros. &c. counter all
this week. S3.2
Mrs. 8. r.. Scott returned home
tlh week from d visit to Iowa.
For a hair cut or shave. done in q
workmanlike manner, go to Brown x
Deckort. 7btf
Austin North for town lots. Low
prices. Reasonable terms. Easy
monthly payments. ~
Wanted: Three to Ave room
house, water, permanent tenant. Ap.
ply at Gazette office. s4.2
= You take no chances when you get
work done at Brown 81 Deokert's bar Der
shop. Only good artists employed. y
When you pay your money you OK.
poet the best in the market for 1t. The
groceries sold by Ben W. Toole are the
best. BB-tf
1.-The Maverick Hose company will
glfe an informal pink tea Saturday
night In honor Of the wives and sweet
hearts OF the members.
Miss Lillian Yerkes, an employe
Of the Carbon County bank Of Red
Lodge, visited in Billings Tuesday
night, being on her way to Fargo. N.
D., for a visit to relatives.
Mrs. j. II. Bigger arrived III the
city last night from Lincoln aud to.
gether with her husband, will nuke
Billings her future home. They have
rooms III Rademaker's new block.
N--Mrs. Harry p. Ryan wal pleasantly
surprised at her home Wednesday, night
by II number Of lady friends IN honor
Of her birthday anniversary. The
guests brought luncheon az we'll us
presents. and an enjoyable time was
had for several hours.
AT the close Of business III the
county treasurer's office ID Dec. ! last,
there was delinquent in county taxes
the sum Of ~, 900, hut up to yesterday
over 8 1866. 70 had been. paid or ra.
ceived from delinquent tax sales. The
balance remaining IL IN small amounts,
standing against 0 residents largely.
Quite a party Of prominent Nor.
mons passed through Red Lodge the
first Of the week on their way to the
Big Horn basin In northern Wyoming
OIL a scheme which contemplates the
establishment OF a large Mormon col.
ony rorth Of the Shoshone and west Of
the Big Horn river In Fremont county,
Wyoming.
The county commissioners re-
turned Tuesday night from Laurel,
where they inspected the new Laurel
bridge. A special meeting Of the board
was held Wednesday morning. at which
time the bridge was accepted. The
bridge will not be ready for travel for
about sixty days. as the approaches
have to be graded, hut the construction
work Ia completed and was entirely
satisfactory to the commissioners.
In San Francisco 1.-THE Hottest
Coon IN Dixie" packed the magnificent
California theater to the doors almost
nightly for two weeks, and this with
the Black Patti show playing III oppo.
sition both weeks ut the Alhambra
theatre. The press Of San Francisco
almost unanimously pronounced Ii the
best colored show that had ever visited
the Pacific coast. At the Billings op.
era house next Wednesday, Feb. IA.
Electric headlights are now being
plhoed Oh the Burlington main line en.
piiles cast Of the Missouri river, and
are replacing the old oil headlights as
rapidly as they need replacing. The
electricity isl made by l>4fttle dynamo
between the stack ap6 the headlight.
The same dynamo furnishes incandas-
cent lights fdt< the cab and tender. The
little electric light plant Ia examined
at the end Of each run by al electric.
ian. It Ia said that the headlight Ia
80 powerful that 1t Gun be seen for sew.
en- miles OH a straight track.
L-Dr. M. r. Knowles, state veterin.
arlan, was here Tuesday vnocinating
some cattle for W. M. Murphy ut Can.
yon creek, which had been shipped IN
from California. While here the doc.
tor received word that his home IN
Helena had been destroyed BY Are Tues.
day forenoon. Mrs. Knowles was also
absent from home, being at one Of the
hospitals III Butte. The loss to the
house, which was owned by L. A. Walk.
or, was $4,000. covered by 5000 In.
suranoe. Some Of DR.. Knowles fur.
was saved, but 4 good share Of II
was either destroyed or almost totally
The furniture was insured,
but not for enough to cover the loss
The famous original "Clorindy"
Of oolored singers, better known
in the large cities Of the east than III
the west, IL II principal musical f~enture
this season swith "The Hottest Coon
Ia Dixie" For sixteen weeks at the
fashionable New York Casino roof
garden, and eight weeks at the swell
Sans Souoi gardens IN tChicago, these
and their songs were quite the
tage. The coming season they have
been engaged by tho Long Island Rail-
toad company TO, the entire season at