The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-23

peace, but pleaded in e~xtenuation
that he had not been exactly RESPONSE
BILE for his actions, owing to the large
and assortedacargo Of spirits he had
on board. The judge took into %
s%ideration the mans penitence and
the further fact that he would lose
his job If imprisoned, not having the
necessary amount Of ready cash to
pay a fine, and permitted him to de-
part upon his promise to leave the
fcity at onc and go to work. The
last seer of the late prisoner he was
"hiking''in the direction of the place
where he and his gang are employed.
From Fridays Daily Gazette.
DR.. Mcclure, assistant state veter-
marian, was a visitor in the city yes
terday.
E. w. Beattie, surveyor general OF
Montana, vas down from the state
capital, yesterday.
I James Hopkins. n of the substan-
tial citizens of Forsyth, was a visitor
in the city yesterday.
c. ". Spar, manager of the Dono-
van-McC ormick company, has returned
from a flying business trip to Helena.
Judge and Mrs. Frank Henry pass
ed through the city yesterday from
Red Lodge on their way home to
Livingston.
Mrs. P. Sorenson gave a delightful
party to about a dozen of her lady
friends yesterday afternoon at her
home in South Thirty-frst street.
T. j. O'Rourke, who until recently
was landlord of the Cottage Inn, ac-
companied by his family, left yester-
|day fro Red Lodge, where he will en-
gage in business.
II. G. Williams returned yesterday
from a visit to the Pan American ex-
position. While absent he also took
a run across the border and visited
several Canadian cities.
lands has evoked a vigorous protest
from the people of Missoula. They
want the state university lands ex-
empted from the sale, on the ground
that the lands are worth much more
than their present appraised values,
Neither the Butte Miners union nor
the typographical union is represent
ed at the State Trade and Labor coun
ell now in session at Anaconda. The
refusal of those two organizations to
send delegates is~based Upon the coun
ellis policy of taking part as an or
g%anization in politics.
w. A. Clark, Jr., of Butte has gone
into the library endowment form Of
) philanthropy. Through w. w. DixoI
! he has notified the managers of the
!. penitentiary that he has decided te
donate the sum of $4,000 for the pur
) pose of establishing a library for the
r benefit of the convicts. Mrs. Dixon has
5 been selected to go east and purchase
the books. b.
} William Ryan was arrested Wednes
day night for making a gun play, but
as he failed to get within reach of his
intended victim, he was booked fol
: carrying concealed weapons. Yester
. day he was arraigned before Judge
4. Mann, who made a state case of i
and fined Ryan $25 and costs. No
the possessor of the amount
> necessary to liquidate, the defendan'
1 was committed to the county Jail.
! A detachment of F troop, FRS
? cavalry, numbering q men, passed
! through the city yesterday, en- route
from Fort Keogh to Fort Yellowstone
I There it will join the first detachmen
! OF the same troop, which passed
J through a few weeks ago and which
was ordered to the park to fight. for
est fires. A third detachment is still
doing duty at the Northern Cheyenne
Indian agency but will probably b.
relieved soon and will then join tn
e rest of the troop at Fort Yellowstone
The ultimate destination of the re
assembled troop is still conjectural
T but it will probably be order to taxi
station at one of the Wyoming forts
OF UNSOUND MIND.