The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-26
upon being found guilty were fined
$50 and costs, each.

The remains of the late A. l. Weller,
who died suddenly in this city last
were forwarded yesterday
to his late home, San Francisco. Sew
eral beautiful floral offerings attested
to the esteem in which he was. held by
those who knew him here and in mute
e%loquence expressed the sorrow felt
at his demise.
Because he was drunk and acted
in a suspicious manner, Ed Stebbins
began yesterday to work out a fine of
$40, imposed earlier in the day in po-
lice court. He was picked up the
night before while acting in a way
that caused the officer who arrested
him to- believe he was trying to make
an opportunity to divorce a drunken
sheepherder from his pocketbook.
The Bell Telephone company is still
keeping up it's fight to gain entry into
Red Lodge. It's latest move is to Sc
cure an alternative writ of mandate
which has been served on the mayor
and council esaering them to desig-
nate places Where the company may
set poles for the purpose of stringing
it's wires through the alleys and
streets of the city. The order is made
r%eturnable December 8.
G. J.. Kohl formerly Associated Press
operator for The Gazette came down
from the west yesterday and spent the
day among friends in the city, Mr..
Kohl during the season recently end
ed held down an Office in the National
park, where he has been spending his
summers for the past few years. Mr..
Kohl will go to Fargo to assume charge
as one of the managers in the West
ern Union office in that city.
The government is beginning to look
in the direction Of Montana for horses
fit for the artillery service. Sim
Estes of Dillon has been notified by
the war department that it desires to
buy 100 horses for use in the artillery
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high, weigh 1900 or more pounds and
be broken both to work and ride. For
such animals $3.50 a head will be paid,
delivered either at New York or Chi
cago. ~
AS a result of the smuggling match in
this city Friday night it is estimated
that several thousand dollars changed
hands. The purse offered by the as
ISOLATION having tke affair in hand was
$1,000. Numarsds side bets aggregat-
ing upwards of $1,000 more were made
by the hackers of the two men. The
gate receipts amounted to $4,000 more,
AS a whole the Butte contingent got
away with the biggest end of the
money.
The whiteman, Baker, and his color
ed wife, who were arrested last Fri
day on the charge Of vagrancy and
released On their own recognizance tt
appear for trial yesterday afternoon
evidently took advantage of the OPP
portunity offered and have left the
city. At all events, they did not pu'
in an appearance at the hour set fol
their hearing. If they have really gone
elsewhere they have rendered thu
community and officers a service
greater than they possibly imagined
they were doing.
A new Rebekah lodge was institut
ed last evening by a delegation of sis
tiers from Forsyth, members o
Marguerite lodge. THE party consis,
ed of Mesdamesf Alexander, Austin
Finch, wilsoa and Lane and tn
Misses FlorenSe and Ethel Waddine
ham, Miss Higgins, Miss Alexande,
Miss Campbell, Miss Austin and Mis-
Danielson, who had charge of the foo
work. The new lodge is known a
Olive lodge, No. 40, and starts on
with a good membership. After III
evenings work had been completed
very pleasant time socially was had b
The visitors and members.
George T. Riggs and Mrs. Mat
Riggs were united in marriage yestel
: day afternoon by Judge Mann. Til
couple evidently were strangers i
= the city, as they appeared in coul
= without the necessary witnesses and
reporter and former alderman wel
called in by his honor to witness til
ceremony and attach their signature
to the certificate certifying that tn
act had been performed in due an
proper form. AS both c%ontractin
parties had been married before, the
S acted in a matter of fact manner du
ing the ordeal and showed no sigr
of nervousness, or in fact manifesto
p emotion of any sort.