The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-03-26
LOCAL NOTES.
From Saturdays Daily Gazette.

pointed judge advocate general on the
military staff of Governor Richards
of Wyoming.
Geo. l.. Havens has returned to
Billings from Homestake, where he
has been working for the Northern
Pacific railroad.
County Attorney E. M. Hall Of
Sweetgrass county, was in Billings
yesterday. accompanied by Abel Gard
ner, also of Big Timber.
Will T. Strait and wife are i'll the
city. Mr.. Strait is now convalescing
from quite a siege with pneumonia,
and still looks rather poorly. ...
"A fine snow fell here yesterday
afternoon, being the result of a storm
that has been brewing for several days.
The snow melted as fast as it fell.
The nomination of J. e. Kurtz as
one Of the school trustees to be voted
on at the coming school election has
been filed with Clerk Ira. L. Whitney.
W. M. Crenshaw, a former resi-
dent of Billings and proprietor at n
time of the Grand hotel, will shortly
open a hotel in White Sulphur Springs,
this state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Halbert and
Mr.. and Mrs. David Milne of Gunton,
Mont, are spending a few days in the
city, buying supplies and taking a rest
from ranch life.
Rev. W. D. Clark kept a record Of
the weather last year and of the 365
days he reports that there were 321
sunshiny days. This is a pretty good
record for any country.
A. G. Redding came in yesterday
from Gem, Idaho, for a visit to his
family. Mr.. Redding has a lucrative
position as engineer with a mining
company in that place.
The Northern Pacific pay checks
made their appearance in this city a
couple Of days ago and Agent Ken
needy has been kept busy since then
disbing them out to the boys.
The trial of Frank Savarsey, set
for 10 O'Clock this morning in Justice
Mann's court, has been continued I'M
til the same hour Tuesday. Inability
of defendants attorney to be present
is the cause of the continuance.
Mr.. and Mrs. 9. w. Forester
returned yesterday from several
weeks visit in the east. They spent
a couple Of weeks at Valley City, N.
D., visiting friends and a~cquaintances.
They also spent a couple of weeks in
Indiana. @..~ %
"A man named belong died down
near the Billings wagon bridge yester-
day from pneumonia and bronchitis.
He had been sick for about a week.
belong, together with some other
men have been living in tents near
the bridge since last fall. .
The students in the eighth grade
of the public schools took the eighth
grade examination yesterday. All
pupils successfully passing this will be
admitted to the high school without
taking another examination. The
various schools of the county also took
the examination.
DIR. Townsend returned yesterday
from neal Fairview, where he was
called the day before to see Herman
Lehfeldt who was thought to be
afflicted with smallpox. The doctor
says that Mr.. Lehfeldt had taken a
cold and a rash had broken out on
him, but it was not smallpox.
Arthur W. Miles of Livingston
was renewing acquaintance in this
city Yesterday. He came down to at
tend a meeting of the Babcock & Miles
company, which has stores at Castle,
Two Dot and Harlowtown. He didn't
find MI. Babcock at home, that gentle
mar having business which took him
from the city. Mr.. Miles was accom-
panied by P. H. Tooley, who manages
the stores at Two Dot and Harlowton.
M. M. Curtin left yesterday for a
trip through the northern country in
the interest of John D. Losekamp.
Mr.. Custin will spend a few days re.
newing old acquaintance among his
old comrades, the employees of the
Ryan Cattle company on the Mussel.
shell. He was formerly one of the
and rope q wild steer as good as the
best of them, but utilization with the
town folks has caused him to loose his
hold.
The coroner's jury which investi'
gated the cause of the death of the
four persons who lost their lives II
the car of the Uncle Tom g Cabin com
pany west of Missoula q few days
ago, found that. the fire which de-
stroyed the car was built by Harry
Adams, the colored porter, and thai
the persons came to their deaths OF
account of his criminal carelessness
The Northern Pacific company ane
Ed. F. Davis, manager of the com
pany, were .exonerated from blame.
DIR. Geo. K. Mcdowell of Staple
Mimi, arrived in the city yesterday