The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-27
Local NOTES.

From SATURDAYS Daily Gazette.
Mr.. and Wrs. III. Crockett of For
syth visitgd>m the city yesterday.
F. j. McShane and wife of Omaha
were among yesterdays visitors in
the city.
Professor F. w. Traphagen of the
agricultural college was down from
Bozeman yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Babcock return
ed yesterday from a visit to st.
Xavier's, on the Grow reservation.
]. w. Hathaway, special agent of
the internal evenue department has
been in the city during the past few
days.
H. B. Segur, general agent of the
Burlington, has returned from a trip
to Bozeman and Livingston and inter
mediate points.
Mrs. Hungerford of %Julesburg, Colo,
has arrived in the city for an extend
ed visit with her son, E. NJ. Hunger
ford, and family.
Sheriff Hubbard left yesterday for
Warm Springs with Gus Anderson,
who was ordered committed to the
asylum the day before.
Mrs. Strang, county superintendent
of public instruction, leaves today for
Helena to attend the meeting of sup
erintendents, which convenes there
next Monday.
Mrs. 7. A. Williams departed Thurs
day night Cor St~faul and other east
ern places to visit friends. The duti-
full Tom went with her, expecting to
accompany her as far as Wibaux to.
see her safely started on her journey.
Late news from the northern part
of the state has it that extensive
forest fires are raging in Choteau
ably be very great, owing to the dry
ness which has prevailed in the burn
ing regions for some time.
The first sale of state lands by auc-
ton is to take place at Red Lodge,
September IS. October % has been
set as the date for the sale in Flat
head county, where about $4,000 acres
will be offered. The land to be OF
fered in Carbon county amounts to
about 5000 acres.
According to Agent Segur work on
the Burlington's Cody branch is pro.
crossing rapidly. To The Gazette he
said yesterday that the track had
been completed to a point near Gar
land and that the. entire line would
probably be completed within 80 days
Steel is put down at the rate OF a
mile a day, exclusive of~sidetracks.
Because they had had a trifine
quarrel a short time before, William
Muldoon at Livingston last Tuesday
night cut "Red" Quinn with a penknife
almost severing the femoral artery
For a time it was thought Quinn woule
recover, but he died late Thursda.
night. Muldoon was arrested almos
Immediately after the cutting and il
in Jail on the charge of murder.
At their last session the commits
sioners of Dawson county refused t.
levy the Ito mill tax for the bench
of the game warden fund of the state
They claim that the law doesnot max
it compulsory on them to do 50. mo-
the attorney general has notified then
that unless they proceed and levy tn
tax he will proceed against them II
%dividually, either under the civil Q
criminal code.
Two shipments of sheep, aggrega
ing 11,6OO head, were made yeste1
day from the local yeards. One b.
longed to D. B. Zimmerman and col
sisted of 5000 head, and the othe
to Richards & Dinsdale and humble
ed 5000 head. The latter firm mad
a large shipment sometime g ar
which at present is held at a poil
in Illinois. Upon arrival of the or
started yesterday the two will be cor
bined and forwarded to market.
John Keogh, employed in the ira
er's store at Pryor sub agency, arr
ed in the city last night in quest
a physician, whose services we
wanted for Young Fog, a Crow. Wh
riding yesterday Fog's horse stupbit
and fell in such manner tbat the
it,, lo,dod ,nAo oooth (When M
Keogh left th9/agensyft was 0eliev,
that Fog WOULD not recover, as
was freely from internal
iuries. DIR. Townsend, who is t
agency physician and who was in t
a;+1 had already been notified of t