The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-17
LOCAL NOTES.

Harry M~cReynolds pleaded guilty
in police court yesterday to the charge
OF vagrancy and he was given a FLOAT.
err" upon his promise to leave the
city at once.
Mrs. Nina Brown left last night for a
visit to the Twin Cities and thence
will go to her former home in Wis
consin. Mrs. Brown expects to re.
turn about the first of the year.
A United States patent issued in ia.
vor of David Frat for the north half,
southeast quarter of section 2, town
ship 8, north, range % east, was filed
for record with the county clerk and
recorder, yesterday.
w. V. Sanford of La Porte, Mich ;.
is visiting l. D. O'Donnell, his brother
1n-law, and. other relatives who make
their homes here. Mr.. Sanford is en-
gagged in the sheep business and is
here for the purpose Of seeing if any
thing new is to be learned in regards
to his industry, as well as to visit rel
atives. H..
Notwithstanding that the state has
no exhibit there and that the likeli-
hood Of many of it's citizens visiting
the exposition is very small, the man
ayers of the Charleston exposition
have written to Governor Toole re-
questing him to designate a day which
may be observed as Montana" day.
The governor has replied that he will
take great pleasure in complying with
the request as soon as he can ascer-
tain the wishes of the people and will
later name the date.
H. F. Clement was a passenger on
yesterdays belated Northern Pacific
train from the east, which he boarded
at Junction, where he arrived the
night before on his way home from a
visit to his sheep ranch near Flat
Willow. He reports the weather much
colder and the snow considerably
deeper in the part of the country Wis
tied by him, but declares the condi-
tons as far as stock is concerned
could not be better. Thursday night
the thermometer at Junction register
led 20 below zero.
Both the east and %westbound trains
arrived considerably behind their veg
ular time yesterday, owing to the cold
u1aofhnY. a md orou Tho @roJ,o f,op,
the east at 1927 in the forenoon did
not arrive until shortly before 3 in the
afternoon, having been delayed all
along the road by frozen heating
pipes and other causes attributable to
The cold. At some points in Dakota
Rnd the extreme eastern part of this
state the thermometer was reported
by passengers to have registered as
low as % degrees below zero, while
the snow was also said to be much
deeper than in these parts.
nSeventeen of the 20 counties of the
late have RENTED their proportion
If the state taxes to the treasurer at
Helena. The returns from Choteau
show a decrease of $3,25O.54, while
Tefferson returns the modest increase
bf $11.13. So far nearly all the small
" counties have shown decreases,
while the larger mes make returns
considerably in excess of those of
asst year. The increases are more
han sufficient to offset the reductions,
IS it is estimated that the state will
eceive fully $4,000 more than last
ear.
Judge Clement has rendered his de-
ision in the case of Lewis and Clarke
ounty against the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company, in which the
ounty sought to recover judgment for
license fee on the instruments of
be company in use in that county.
he judgment was adverse to the
%1aintiff, the court holding that the
ompany did an interstate business
nd that the instruments used in car
ying on that part of it's business
ould not be separated from those
sed purely in state business. AS
be matter is n concerning almost
very county in the state. it is prob
BILE that an appeal will be taken.
Fort Benton is the latest Montana
Ety which is half inclined to make
a appeal to Andrew Carnegie for a
title financial assistance for the cree
on of a public library. The River
ress in commenting on the matter
ather ruefully says that as Mr.. Car
egie always makes his gifts of that
prt conditional upon the cicties IA
pred doing something substantial in
be way Of maintaining the libraries
established by him Fort Benton is not
a position to make a 'ttouch" just
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