The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-04

cants for a position in the railway
mail service. An examiner from
Washington has beer detailed for the
purpose, being somewhat of a change
from the ordinary custom, as here
tofore such examinations have been
usually conducted by local postal au-
thorities.
Miss Charlotte Pierce of Miles City
arrived in the city yesterday for the
purpose of being examined under the
civil service laws for appointment to
a clerical position in the. land office
at Miles City. She has been dis
charging the duties of the position
temporarily, filling a vacancy caused
by the resignation of the regular
clerk, also a lady.
BY telephone The Gazette was in
formed yesterday of the death OF the
f~our-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Reese McVey, who reside at the Mus
selshell crossing, which occurred
last Tuesday night, as a result OF
Group. The child first became SER
iously sick at 5 o'clock in the even
ing and at 10 he died. The funeral
was held yesterday morning.
Tom Scully, who has the reputation
of being a would-be prizefghter, was
arraigned yesterday before Judge
TS,,o,o, ~, Tho cho ru0 Of occql1t and
battery. He entered a plea of guilty
and was sentenced to 60 days in the
county Jail. His victim was a woman
a resident of the lava fields, and &C.
cording to all accounts he beat her
up in a most brutal manner.
Again has a Montana horse won
fame by breaking a worlds record
and by the performance placed con
. siderable money into the pocket of its
owner. Edith W., a mare owned by
J. J.. Weidman of Great Falls a few
y days g paced three consecutive
y heats on the Oakley Park track, Gin
4 cinnati, in 2:O5A, 2:05A and 2:05R,
breaking all records for a mare.
+ Tom Pollard, proprietor of the
4 Spofford hotel at Red Lodge was III
II town yesterday, having accompanied
h Mrs. Pollard and the children thus
a far on an eastern journey. Mr.. Pol
r. lard stated that Red Lodge keeps up
: it's record in the way of sensations
and people of other localities who
h like that kind of a life can find all
thew want of it if they will move to
Red Lodge.
II The postal department is advertls'
d ing for bids to maintain a trl-Weekly
mail service between Billings and
Pryor, and between Billings and La
at vina, the latter six times a week. The
IL advertisements specify particularly
is that proposals will be entertained
S, only from persons who will give thei1
le personal supervision to the contract:
le and who are residents of the terri
I'd tory and who live on or contiguous tt
le the routes. Bids will close Decem
RS Der 3.
IL Edgar B. and Ida L. Camp have FLEE
o., a petition with the clerk of the dis
trict praying for an order of adoption
ID of Lila Gilman Carter and Rutl
[e, Esther, minors and orphans. Novem
If, Der Is, 1898, the petitioners were az
ut pointed guardians of the children
who are the children of a decease'
brother of Mrs. Camp, and accom-
Is panying the petition is their repor
of guardianship for the past year. A
tached to the petition is the name Q
ri Lila, who prays that it be granted.
rs Officer Hayden and Ed. Jackson
90 dispensing chemist at the Sideboart
80 have returned from a fishing eXpe(
~ ition up the Yellowstone. They COZ
Nv fined their/ Operations principally t
the stream at~points near Hunter
'us Hot springs, but met with only poe
success where angling usually
good. The refuse from the coal mine
~ at Horn, which is dumped into tn
~ river, has rolled the water to such a
Ia extent that fish will not rise, no ma
~ ter how tempting the bait that ma
:" be employed.
80 w. E. Phillips, the Helena insu
~ ance man, came down from the ca
ital yesterday morning. Mr.. Phi
-. lips stated that while the newspape
of the city condemned the lynchi1
there the other night, there was. no
ever much in the %foulness of tt
s a act of the rapist that would drive
community to the very act which Sc
,o,, Brady to his death. Mr.. Phillips sa
the he was always in favor of la