The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-12

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turned yesterday from a few days
visit in Helena.
County Commissioners j. B. An.
min and Pat Lavelle were here yester-
day from Columbus.
DIR. A. P. Merriwether, govern.
ment physician at Grow Agency, was
a Billings visitor yesterday,
e. A. Richardman, a merchant OF
Grow Agency, was looking after bust
ness affairs in Billings yesterday.
II. w. Schlaberg, one Of the prom.
inent ,stockmen of the Musselshell
country, is in Billings on business.
e. M. Hungerford was in Joliet
yesterday placing a switch board in
the local telephone office on the l.. L.
Moffett system.
Rev. Father Pauwelyn of Miles
City arrived here yesterday afternoon
for a couple Of days visit to Rev.
Father Van Clarenbeck.
The hog market is not overrun in
Billings. Two carloads Of porkers had
to be shipped in last week from Boze-
man, the price paid being five cents
per pound.
j. M. Holt of Miles City, who for
years past has been one Of the largest
cattlemen of eastern Montana, is SELL
ing off his herds and in their place
is buying sheep.
Lee Eisenberg, who has been
travelling for an eastern wholesale dry
goods house for the past two or three
months, arrived here Sunday for a
visit to his family.
"A. w. Stanton of Siam, s. D.,
was in Billings yesterday, Ell route
home. He has been at Basin City,
Wyo., looking after some business
interests at his old home.
w. j. Youmans and wife have
returned from a several weeks visit
to California points. They report the
Billings people, that are so%journing in
California, as getting along nicely.
&c. G. Cook, foreman of the Ryan
Bros. stock interests on the Nutshell
she'll, is in the city for a few days
looking for some blooded cattle which
are to be added to his company S herds.
Yellowstone Leader: Chas. King
Of Mcleod, who has been spending a
couple of weeks with friends in Bill
ings. returned to this place the first
of this week. Mr.. King says that
Billings is the best town in Montana.
Robert James, the railroad grad
er, who attempted suicide a few days
ago by cutting his throat with a razor,
was examined yesterday as to his san
ity with the result that he was ordered
sent to the insane asylum at Warm
Springs.
Mrs. A. P. Smith has been elected
delegate-at-large from the state meet
ing of Royal Neighbors of America to
attend the grand lodge to be held at
Springfield, ILL.,. in May. She was also
elected inner sentinel of the grand
lodge of Montana.
An operation was performed upon
David Pirrie of Lavina at st. Vim
cents hospital, in which an eye was
removed and one finger taken off.
Nh. Pirrie met with a bad accident
about a week ago. having his face
terribly burned by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun.
r. R. Eckholdt, a former attor-
ney of Billings, was a passenger en-
route east yesterday, accompanied by
his father, H. r. Eckholdt. The for
mer is now located at Lewiston, Idaho,
and reports business as being good.
He expects to return to Lewiston soon
accompanied by his wife, who is still
in the east.
Two division superinuendents of
the Northern Pacific, F. W. Giebert
of the Idaho division with headquart-
ers at Spokane, and Chas. Russell of
the Rocky Mountain division at Mis-
soula, passed through Billings yester-
day afternoon, en- route home from a
meeting Of division superintendent
at st. Paul.
Beginning today there will start
from St. Paul over the Northern Pa
cific and from st. Louis over the Bur-
lingtOn, homeseekers' excursions,
which are to be run for the next three
months to the northwestern states on
each Tuesday. Prospective settlers
from all the central and eastern states
are being booked for transportation.
The sensation which was prom
ised a few weeks eago by Oracle
Robinson, who ran away from her
husband at Libby, Mont, taking
SO, 900 worth of mining stock be-
longing to her husband, and was ar
rested at Cleveland, Ohio, has de-
veloped in a divorce suit in which she
is the defendant. Her husband al
leges all sorts of cruelties.
AT a meeting Of the Billings Climb
held Sunday the committee, previous
ly appointed to make recommendations
regarding a commercial club reported,
which in effect was that the Billings
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