The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-19


able to soon obtain the needed per-
nit to proceed with the work.
From Sundays Daily Gazette.
Mrs. P. B. Egeton o. Cebo visited
Billings, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. G. O'Shea OF Red
Lodge were visitors ii. the city, yaster-
day morning.
A marriage license was granted yes
terday to Paul Robert Huffman and
Emma M. Rue.
Judge J. T. Smith Of Livingston was
among the visitors WHO were in the
city, yesterday.
William Lehfeldt, the Musselshell
sheepman, was among yesterdays Wis
itors in the city.
Helena papers announce that the
trial of Lee and Garvin, of this city,
has been set for December 10.
w. j. Cruise, the Helena cattleman,
was among the strangers on the
streets of the city, yesterday.
In the rattle last night holder of
ticket No. 2 won the sofa pillow and
No. so the centerpiece, put up by Mrs.
Mcdonald.
The ladies Of the Catholic church
will give a dance in the Gruwell
building Tuesday night for the bene-
fit of the church. .... -... e..
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany has sold to the Custer Cattle
company section 13, township 1, north,
range "a, east, for $~1,S31.ss.
The Snidow Sheep company of this
city has bought a flock of 1900 year.
ling wethers from Coleman & Black
burn of Carbon county. Considera-
ton not given.
BY a deed filed for record with the
county clerk and recorder yesterday
Lulu Smith and H. M. Smith, her hus-
band, have sold to Jessie Peters lots
Is and 16, block 143, Billings; con-
s%ideration 81. @
The Rev. Mr.. Gesner expects his
family to return from the east a
week from next Tuesday, November
26, and has taken rooms with Mr.. and
Mrs. Hemingway, 80 North Twen-
ty-sixth street. .7
w. r. Mcfarland, who makes his
home at Lewistown, has decided to
engage in the fish Matching business
and has leased a tract of land neal
that town for the purpose of occupying
it with his hatchery.
Miss Ida Lord entertained about
Is of her schoolmates Friday evening
at her home in South Thirty-first
street. They played games, sang
! school songs and were served with
dainty refreshments.
A. H. Williams and Chris Swanson
| we're arraigned in police court yester-
day on the charge of disturbing the
peace. Both entered pleas of guilty.
| Williams was fined SIS, while Swanson,
who is an old offender, had to put
up twice that amount.
Plans are being drawn for remodel
ing the front of the Babcock block in
| Montana avenue, betweeD~~Twenty-
| eighth and TwentYpi4t6 streets. The
ground floor, which at present is sew
eral feet above the sidewalk, will be
lowered and other improvements made
in the building.
Reports from that locality have
it that smallpox has made it's appear
ance at Lewistown. Several cases of
the disease are said to have broken
out there during the past week, but in
no instance has the malady assumed
a serious phase. 1t is also said that
the disease prevails to a considerable
extent in the mining camp of Kendall,
in the North Moccasin mountains.
J. Levin, assistant superintendent
of the Western Union, was in the city
last Friday and left yesterday morn
ing for the west. His territory ex-
tends from Sault Ste. Marie on the
east to the coast on the west. He is
| also treasurer of the American Dis
trict Telegraph company and before
his departure said his company would
install q messenger service here with
in a short time. It already occupies
! the field to the extent of having an