The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-28

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Briggs-Ellis company OF Big Timber,
was in the city yesterday attending
to business matters.
Rev. G. C. Stull goes to Columbus
today to deliver the baccalaureate SER
mon before the graduating class of
the public schools of that place to-
night.
Representative Frank Mondell of
| Wyoming was in the city last night
on his way to his home at Newcastle,
from a business trip to the Big Horn
basin.
Rufus Thompson returned to his
ranch at Highfield yesterday after
several days stay in the city. He took
out a e of sheep shearers, who
will be engaged at his place for the
next few weeks.
J. M. Seaman returned yesterday
from a visit to Livingston and Butte.
At the former place he attended the
alumni banquet Of the high school,
he being a graduate of the Livingston
public schools.
This section is now having splen-
did growing weather. The three days
rain was what was needed at that
time and now followed by plenty of
sunshine it is causing vegetation and
grass to fairly jump from the ground.
A party of Ohio and Indiana con-
gressmen will pass through this city
Monday en- route east. The party
has made a tour of the coast country
and is going home. Congressman
Grosvenor and Dick head the Wis
itors.
The building committee of the
Parmly Billings Memorial library has
let the contract to Ben Hager for
constructing the stone coping around
three sides Of the library and also
laying the cement walk to the west
entrance.
The help for the various hotels and
lunch stations in the Yellowstone
park are passing through the city
daily en- route west from st. Paul,
where they usually spend the winter.
One party of over a hundred went
through yesterday morning.
John Peters left this morning for
#afvnsend, where he will attend the
=dffast. of his friend, Andrew Nc.
@H>Ft3ts.l, which is to take place in
pcown today. Mr.. McDonough,
is a freight engineer running
:. livingston, is to marry a Miss
7 ]'ins
a. s. tstorms of the past week played
havouawith the rural telephone lines
in this section and as a result they
are now undergoing repairs. E. M
Hungerford left yesterday to go owe
the Musselshell line. His services are
also desired on the Red Lodge & Wyo
ming and the Forsyth lines.
Mike Chester, the cowboy who Great
ed a disturbance on the streets Fri
day night and defied the officers tc
arrest him, was caught yesterday by
Policeman Hayden and was taken be
fore Justice Mann last night, where
he pleaded guilty to the charge OF
disturbing the peace and was fined SIS
Many sheep shearers are daily arriv
ing in the city from points in Wye
ming and will be engaged in this state
for the next two months. In the vicin
ity of Billings shearing will begin il
earnest this week, While seveSal out
fits have already begun, buA have
, been delayed by the wet weather. 100
: The baccalaureate sermon before
! the graduating class OF the public
schools will be delivered next Sun
day evening at the Congregations
church by the Rev. VIM. Remington
} pastor of the BaptssA church. Tht
7 graduating exercises will take place
} in the opera house on the evening
) of June Z.
Senator T. P. Cullen and famil.
have returned to their home in Glen
dive from California, where they hav'
: been spending the winteh and spring
MI. Cullen was formerlyA passenge
conductor on the Northern Pacific be
, tween Glendive and Billings, but it i