The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
LocA- NOTES.

central telephone office, has gone to
Butte and Anaconda for a brief visit.
The Curtin music house of Helena
has rented the rear room of the Cru
we'll block, facing Twenty-ninth street,
and will occupy it as a store as soon
as completed.
The death of Fred West, for many
years a resident of Park City and
vicinity, is reported from Cody, Wyo.
The interment will take place at Gebo,
in Carbon county.
Clerk Whitney Of the board of edu-
cation was engaged yesterday in issu-
ing warrants to meet the bills allowed
by the board at it's recent meeting.
The amount totalled about $1,000.
Masters Tom and PICK Logan, who
have been se1ousk sick for several
weeks with typhoid fever, are report
ed as being out of all danger and Civ
ing every evidence of speedy recov-
cry.
Mis-. T.. -. IudlAA d1lu ASl tWO SOAo
Harry and Charley, accompanied by
the infantile representative Of the
house of Mann will leave today for
a few weeks visit with friends at
Park City and Laurel.
DR.. and Mrs. H. H. Shannon of Lin
coin were visitors in the city yester-
day and under the chaperonage of
Chauncey Bever and others of the
Nebraska colony were shown the
sights of the city. They left last night
for their home.
Charles Gill was the only offender
to face Police Magistrate Mann yes
terday. He was arrested the night be-
fore for being drunk and disturbing
the peace of the south side. A fine of
SIS was imposed and in default he was
committed.
Word was received last evening
that William Roberts, residing on the
Musselshell, had been badly injured
by a fall from a horse. fhe Gazette's
informant stated thaE Roberts would
be brought to thkcfty for treatment
and would arrive early this morning.
In response to a message received
yesterday DR.. Armstrong left for H.
C. Lowther's ranch on the Mussel-
shell to attend Mr.. Lowther, who was
injured the night before by being
thrown from a horse. The full extent
of the ~gentleman's injuries could not
be ascertained. It was said, however,
that he had sustained a severe scalp
wound.
Work is being pushed on the new
metallic circuit which the telephone
place of the preseN local sepr1ce,
Poles are placing througeutf the city
and at the present rate of progress il
will be only a few weeks until the
change will have been completed
when the plant will be up-to-date in
every respect and the equal of any
in the state.
Chilly" Hamilton was in the city
yesterday, having returned from
prospecting trip through portions Of
the mountain country. to the south
west. During the afternoon he me-
a party of Crows in Montana avenue
and entertained a number of highly
interested spectators by giving an ex
hibition of his proficiency as a sig1
talker, an accomplishment for which
the old frontiersman is famous.
A new feature of the annual repor
published by the commissioner o
labor statistics of the state will be
department devoted to the churches
The ministers of the state are bein!
appealed to for figures calculated t
show the number of attendants OF
their respective churches, the numbe
of communicates and such other in
formation as will help to make the re
port in this respect complete and
valuable addition to the statistical dc
partment Of the state.
Among the guests in the city is tn
Hon. w. D. Meiklejohn, who was as
sistant secretAry of war during tn
first McKinlef administration, i
which positiohMr Mkiklejohn distir
guished himself as a statesman 9
more than onRinaty ability. Nj
Meiklejohn is az r9sident of Oman
and is here for the purpose of NEE
ing some friends on their way frol
Seattle east.
An alarm called out the Ike depar
ment yesterday afternoon shortly a
ter 8 o'clock to the corner of Montan
avenue and Twenty-ffth street. Til
Of %the[alarm WAS an ineipie.