The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-25
LOCAL NOTES.

20. F. Goddard returned yesterday
from Helena.
Ed Cardwell and family have
gone to their ranch near Merrill to
remain for several days.
E. D. Beatty of Helena, post
Office inspector, vas here yesterday
checking up the local office.
Severe Boulanger and Lester
Shredder went to Hunters Hot Springs
yesterday for a few days outing.
George Soule has returned from
Great Falls, where he attended the
annual meeting of the master plumb rs'
association.
Street Commissioners Wick had a
gang of men at work all day Monday
and yesterday forenoone cleaning up
the business streets.
Conductor Geo. Gordon of the
Northern Pacific is taking a vacation,
and together with his wife is enjoying
a sojourn at Hunters Hot Springs.
Scarlet fever has not ruu its race
in Billings, several new cases having
broken out the past few days. The
homes of Peter Yegen and Frank
O'Donnell in South Billings are now
quarantined.
Yesterday was about al disagreea-
BILE a day as has been experienced in
Billings for some time. All afternoon
the wind blew at a fearful rate and
clouds of dust greeted the wayfarer
on every hand.
The expedition of Lewis and
Clarke in 1904 will be celebrated by a
centennial celebration in 1904. Peo-
pie of northern Montana are inter-
ested in the plan and it is likely that
the exercises will be held at Great
Falls.
p. F. Swanson, distributing clerk
in the Billings %postoffice, has received
notice Of his appointment to a posi-
ton as postal clerk on the Billings
Lincoln division. He has not yet de-
cided whether or not he will accept
the position.
Bishop r. L. Brewer, of the Prot
sstant Episcopal church of Montana,
with his residence in Helena, who has
many warm friends and admirers in
Billings, has just passed his Cad birth
day. The bishop has been in the
ministry of Montana 30 years.
The body of H L. Williams was
brought to Billings yesterday noon
from Junction, accompanied by two
daughters of the deceased. The fun
eral was held at Smiths undertaking
establishment at 8 O'Clock, conducted
by Rev. W. D. Clark, after which the
remains we're inferred in the city GEM
etery.
The smallpox patients at the pest
mouse, which number seven, are doing
nicely, and with the exception Of one
or two, who are feeling pretty sick
now, the others are in such condition
that they can be out of doors most of
the time. Two or three will be dis
charged this week, one or two next
week, but the last mi will not be
given his liberty until about February
Is. ,.
james Reed of Medicine Bow,
Wyo., has invented an automatic and
se~lf-acting gun for use of sheepmen
without corrals. The gun is on
trolled by clockwork, and can be made
to fire at intervals Of from five min
utes to 10 hours. Twelve shots can
be fred with one winding. If desired,
the gun will explode every five min
utes, or every 10 minutes, or half an
hour or five hours.
"A Mr. Fox, section foreman for
the Burlington at Garry Owen, Mont. /,
about IS miles east Of Billings, was
seriously wounded Monday in an acct
dent. Together with a brother, who
had conn out from the east, he was
out hunting, when through an accident
the formers gun was discharged, the
charges from both barrels entering
the latter's breast. At last report the
wounded man was still alive.
The clerk of the district court did
a pretty fair business in the issuance
of marriage licenses yesterday, three
being the number granted during the
afternoon to the following persons
Ulysses p. Willett and Belle Ray, both
of Billings; VIM. Fl. Smith, Omaha,
and Ida List, Kansas City; Marcus
R. Farwell, Silesia, and Mary Wolfe,
Grow Agency. The latter couple were
married at the Driscoll last night.
The groom is a quarter breed Grow
Indian, while the bride is a quarter
breed Cherokee Indian.
The members and friends of the
M. E. church spent a few hours in q
very enjoyable manner at the dime
social held in the church last evening
under the auspices of the literary and
social departments of the Epworth
League. The fore part Of the evening
was given over to a musical and lit
erary programme, in which the
church male q%uartette, mandolin and
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