The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-16

THE BILLIN
former goes to look after some min
ing interests.
VIM. E1lery, representing Hallowell,
Donald & CO., Of Boston, wool mer-
chants, arrived in the city Sunday
and will be on the market for the
next few weeks.
The insurance adjuster has ad-
justed the loss of Hill & Conway's
store, recently destroyed by fire at
Gebo. The loss on the stock was
$4,000 with $4,000 OF the building.
j. M. Seaman, the well known
young pharmacist, who was formerly
engaged with the Chapple Drug com
pany, but is now located at Butte,
spent Sunday with friends in this
city.
VIM. Chapple Of shoal Lake, Man
itoba, is spending a few days in the
city visiting his brothers, James,
Charles and Thomas. He is en-
route to Miles City to attend the big
horse sale which takes place there
Thursday.
w. j. Cruise of Helena is in the
city to dispose of the large Cruise clip
of wool, which amounts to about $780,
600 pounds this year. He will not
! place the wool on sale for several
days, hoping that the market may adj
vance some during the meantime.
Among the woolgrowers from the
northern country who have arrived in
the city to dispose of their clips are
w. B. Peck of Stanford, L. S. Briggs,
Bert Maynard and Fin Switzer Of
Ennis and M. n. Stevens of Harlow
town. The latter is accompanied by
his wife.
The last regular meeting of the city
council for the present month will be
held tonight. The most important
matter of business to come before the
city fathers is the calling of a special
election for the purpose of voting on
the proposition to bond the city in
the sum of 100000 for the construc-
ton of a new city hall building.
The case against Frank McSorley,
who was charged with disturbing the
peace, was dismissed in the police
court yesterday. Mac" is an actor
at O'Grady's and it is said that some
of the other actors became jealous of
him and took this ear to get even
with him. The complaint was made
by Mrs. F. s. Dooling, who is also an
attache of O'Grady's.
A party of Burlington officials,
headed by G. B.. Perkins, formerly
president, but now chairman of the
board Of directors of that great rail
road system, and General Manager
Holdrege, made a trip over the new
Toluca-Cody branch of the road Sun
day. They are said to have express
ed themselves as we'll pleased with
the outlook for business from the
section t~raversed by the line.
United States Senator w. A. Clark
of Butte was in the city last night.
returning from a trip to- Bridger,
where he made a tour Of inspection
of his mining property. He was &C
companied by Walter Cooper Of Boze-
man and A. H. Wethey of Butte. The
senator stated that he expected some
new development work to be done in
the mines shortly for the purpose of
furthering the "long-wall' system.
Chas. Spear has received word Of
the death of his half--brother, Maxim
ley Wood, which took place Sunday
night at the. home of the deceased at
Big Horn, Wyo. The cause of death
was smallpox, many cases of which
are prevalent in that section. The
deceased vas 81 years of age, Two
of the youngest children Of Willis
Spear, brother of Mr.. Spear, are said
to be sick with the disease at Big
Horn.
State Veterinarian Knowles of Hell
ena has made two trips to this coun-
ty during the past three days to look
into the report Of more cases Of CLAN
dered horses. He was compelled to
slaughter 20 more head belonging to
McShane & Co. and Dunlay, on the
Grow reservation, and yesterday he
found four head at Laurel, belonging
to James Ashbaugh, that had to be
killed. McShane and others on the
line of the B~urlington's new branch
have had Al head of fine horses kill
ed, owing to the prevalence of the
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