The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-20
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and branded ten calves which were
driven to the ranch, doing so in the
belief that all were the property of
his employer. It turned out that II
of the calves belonged to another
party. Sporel had nothing to- do with
the calves except to brand them as
ordered by Scharff, but he vas arrest
ed and now must go to prison.
Just now Ben Hager is finding a
cane a useful adjunct to %locotion,
while a shoe with the major portion
of the front cut out is much more
comfortable than One not thus mutt
lated. It all comekSabout through his
inability to located The fxact position
of an open door While wandering
through his own Muse in the dark.
A few nights agoAhA had occasion to
pass from one roorAIto another and
tried to do so without lighting a
lamp. In making the passage his
left foot came in sudden and painful
| contact with a door that stood ajar
and when he secured a light found
that a couple of his toenails had been
torn out by tte contact.
Officer HaAden was called yester-
day morning to ~arrestI a specimen Of
the would be bad nah, who was at
tempting the feat Of %'cleaning OUT
lsome of the places in that part of the
city given over to pleasure of a ne
ture more or less doubtful The fell
low resisted and a deputy sheriff,
who happened to CONE along, gave the
patrolman a hand. Between the two
they managed to get their man to the
city jail, /but even there he was still
full Of Sght and it became necessary
to genhyN him on the floor and
while the deputy sat upon him the po-
liceman searched him. Later IN the
day when he had become partially
sober he was released on bonds.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette. A.,
Mrs. Torrey Shaw of Forsyth is Wis
iting friends in the city.
Judge Frank Henry of Livingston
was in the city yesterday.
DR.. M. E. Knowles, state veterinar-
ian, was a visitor in the city, yester-
day.
The Hon. J. T. Smith of Livingston
was one of yesterdays visitors in the
city. .l
E. M. Huff and wife are among
those from Forsyth who are visiting
the fair.
Rev. Father Curran Of Red Lodge
was among the visitors in the city
yesterday.
w. J. Fransham, late sheriff of Gal
latin county, was among the visitors
! in the city, yesterday.
William Gordqh, publisher of the
Yellowstone Jphrnal, was up from
Miles City yesterday to root for For
syth.
Almost every town within the terri
4 tory included in the special rates
made by the railroads had a delega
ton at the fair yesterday.
= Judge G. F. Smith of Forsyth show
! ed his loyalty to home institutions b.
:, coming up country yesterday to en-
courage the ball players from tn
Rosebud capital.
The first auction sale of state land
was to have been held at Red Lodge
' yesterday. About 5000 acres of Ian.
: lie in Carbon county and this will b.
offered. The next sale of that kind i
scheduled for October % and will tax
place at Kalispell.
q In compliance with the proclama
s tons Of President Roosevelt an,
l. Governor Toole, and the<Rt. Rev.
B. Brondel, bishop of this diocese
high mass will. be celebrated at tn
: Catholic church this morning at
o'clock. The bishops pastoral LEI
. ter will also be read.
~ DR.. E. P. Townsend has<given t
IS the P. B. NJ. L. many valuable book
from his medical library. Some c
/. them valuable on account of thei
age, being printed as early as 49,
., A copy of Sir Walter Scott's "Pever
q of the Peak printed at Philadelphi
in 1928, was among the lot.
s. 1t is said that ths/fremen of tn
st Missoula division xthe Northern P'
cifc are qYjttjY< because they fin
s the work &1ring the new locom'
tives, called by them ''battleships,
too hard. They say two stokers shout
,r be employed on the engines, as on
ID man is unable to keep up steam.
or From Chinook comes the story ths