The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-06
rom Fridays Daily Gazette.

ONAASo v. ooA LII q PAOAAlA1OLL yOuA5.
business man of Miles City, was
among those from the outside who
were to be seen on the streets of the
city, yesterday.
Robert Steele and family leave to-
night over the Burlington, to visit
the formers sister in Nebraska. From
there she will accompany them on a
visit to their old home in Canada.
Yesterday mornings eastboQnd,
rived several hours behind time, hav-
ing been detained by the wreck of a
freight at Tyler, on the Idaho divi-
sion.
The stock of saddlery and harness
goods Of w. B. TenEyck, who some
time ago made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors, has been pur-
chased by F. B. Chapman and inven-
tory Of the same is now in progress
preparatory to the transfer.
The preliminary hearing of Joseph
G. Hunter, arrested in this city for
murder alleged to have been commit
ter in Granite county owe a year ago,
was concluded at Philipsburg last
Wednesday,. The accused was held
without bail to the district court.
Unless new cases develop in tbs
meantime, there will be nothing doing
at the isolation hospital within a few
days. All the patients confined there
are rapidly recovering, in fact the
first to be taken in have been dis
charged and the others expect to be
at the end of the week.
l.. Nichols, who holds down a train
Of -"varnished cars over on the Mis-
souri, River division of the Northern
Pacific, arrived in the city yesterday
from a visit to some of the boys at
Butte and Helena: He spent the day
in the city talking shop with the
gang" that laid over here.
The case of State VS.. Harry, John
son, charged with making a threaten
ing display of a deadly weapon, which
Mann yesterday, was again continued,
this time until this evening at Z
o'clock. The attorney for the defend
ant vas engaged elsewhere and was
unable to attend.
While snow and rain are reported
from points both to the east and west
and within a short distance of this
locality, Billings still retains the en-
viable reputation Of being the center
of the orange and banana belt. More
beautiful or pleasing weather than
this section continues to be favored
with would be hard to imagine.
Rev. Father van Clarenbeck was un-
e~xpectedly called to Livingston and
will not be able to deliver his lecture
before the Woman's club this after
noon, but an effort will be made to
have Frederick Warde give a talk on
Shakespeare. AS there are few per-
sons who are more capable of discus
! sing sthe Shakesperean dramas than
he, if the effort is successful the men,
bers will enjoy a rare treat.
In reply to a request from the school
trustees of n of the Rosebud county
districts the attorney general has sub
mitted an opinion as to the right of
trustees to build a. school on an Indian
reservation, it seeming that a part of
at least n school district of that
county extends onto the Northern
Cheyenne reservation. The attorney
general holds that they have this
right, provided they obtain the con-
sent of the proper authorities having
Jurisdiction ove the reservation.
Hereafter visitors to Helena will
not be granted permission to inspect
the new capitol building, a privilege
Which heretofore has been seldom re-
fused by the contractors. The new or
der is the result of acts of vandalism
committed by persons who have abus-
ed the privilege to the extent Of de-
facing the walls and cutting pieces
out of the wood work, presumably for
souvenirs. One of the columns in the
interior has been damaged to such an
extent by a knife welded by a relic
hunter that it has been found neces-
sary to send east for material With
which to make the needed repairs.
Judge Fraser was engaged yesterday
with the case of State VS.. All 10y,
which came up on arguments on the
demurrer filed against the complaint
by defendants attorney, Judge Goss.
The defendant is charged with smok-
ing, selling and maintaining a place
where opium is sold for the purpose
of being smoked on the premises.
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