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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
First Publication Jan, il, 1901.
CONTEST NOTICE.

Department of the Interior, United States
Land Office, Bozeman, Mont, January 4,19Ol.
sufficient contest affidavit having been
filed in this Office by Robert T.. Matheson.
contestant. against Timber Culture entry
No. $50, made June /, 1889, for NV.
"a, NV. n, section "a, township.
l s., range Is E., M. p. NJ, by
Charles d. Strang. contestee, in which it is.
alleged that said Charles d. Strang has not
cultivated any portion of said land or plant
ed any trees thereon at any time since the
the 1st day of June 1889; that said land is in
the same condition as it was on June /, 1885,
growing IN said land. which said trees were
there on before June /, 1889, and were
put there by another party, that
since June l., 1899, about 100
sprouts have voluntarily grown up from
seed dropped or from old roots. That for
one year last passed the said land has been
to the entry of stock thereon, gates
have been broken down and open and fence
in places torn down. Said parties are
hereby notified to appear, resi- ond and offer
evidence touching said allegation at 10
O'Clock q. m. on February s, 1901, before
T. A. Williams, Clerk Of the District Court
at Billings, Montana, and that The fnal
hearing will be held at 10 o'clo k a. m. on
FEBRUARY II, 1901, before the register and
receiver at the United States Land office in
Bozeman, Montana.
The said contestant having in a proper
affidavit, filed January 4, 1901, set forth
facts which show that after due diligence
service of this notice can not be
made, it is hereby ordered and directed that
notice be given by due and proper
publication. A. L. LOVE.
Register.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
P OF
Little Joliet Girl Severely Burned but
Will Likely Get Well.

A. Merlin of Joliet was in Billings
Wednesday receiving medical advice
as to the condition Of his seven-year-
old daughter, who was severely
burned three weeks ago.. The child
was placing some wood in a stove
when a cloth, which she had in her
hand, caught fire. She threw it to
the floor and while in the act of stamp
ing it out the blaze communicated to
her clothing, and before the fire could
be extinguished she was badly burned.
The attending physician has nc hopes
of the little ones recovery, but a Bill
ings physician believes that the case
is not hopeless.
Mr.. Merlin together with F. l..
Mann of this city formerly owned the
plat of ground where is located the
Clarke Fork coal mine in Gebo, but
not having the money to swing the en-
terprise, which is developing into a
paying one, they were compelled to
sell.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
ANOTHER JACK THE PEPPER.
Frightening Women by Rowling Around
Homes.

Complaint has been made that a
certain man of this city has entered
the role of a Jack the pepper, and is
making nightly visits around the
houses in different parts of Billings
frightening the women who are left
alone at home. Only a few nights
ago he was noticed by a lad peering
into the windows of one home, but
when he heard footsteps he hurriedly
departed. Monday night he was seen
providing around a home on North
Thirty second street and a telephone
call was sent to the police headquart-
ers for an officers, who soon arrived
there, but the scoundrel had disap-
peared.
Billings women were frightened
and annoyed last winter by a man who
intercepted them as they passed or the
streets at night and it may be that the
same fellow is at work aagin. If he
would receive his just deserts it
would be with a load of buckshot or a
shot from a revolver, which he will
surely get if he prowls around many
more homes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
WANTS DAMAGES.
James o. Burlington Sues Northern Pacific
Railroad for $1,000.


An action has been filed in the dis
trict court of this county wherein
James o. Burlington brings suit
against the Northern Pacific Railroad
company for damages to the amount
OF $4,000 Burlington is the freighter
who was injured on the railroad eros
sing in this city last summer and as a
consequence was confined in the hos
pital for several weeks.
In his affidavit he alleges that on
July II, 1900, while passing over the
company's crossing on Twenty-ninth
street with a six-horse team and two
freight wagons, he was struck by a
freight train Of four cars which had
made a flying switch, and was thrown
to the ground with great violence,
severely injuring his back, left knee,
cutting and 'mutilating the index
finger Of the left hand. By reason
of such injuries the plaintiff has aver
since been lame, sick and crippled and
disabled from attending to business.
Aside from this he has paid out 1898
for medical attendance and nursing
and n team injured and harness
damaged to the extent Of $50. He,
therefore, asks damages in the sum of
SIS, O60.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
CHANGING COURT ROOM.
Judges and Attorneys Positions on
North Side.

In view of the fact that Yellow
stone county is not likely to have a
new court house for a couple of years
at least, improvements are to be made
in the interior of the court room and
work on the same was commenced
yesterday, sc that the room will be
ready when court meets on next Tues
day. The judges desk. which has al
ways stood against the east wall, has
been changed to a position midway
between the north wall and the rail
ing dividing the attorneys positions
from the public to a corresponding
position. This has been done for sew
eral reasons. In the first place, there
is no small disturbance and Interrupt
ton caused to the court by the heavy
traffic along Twenty-seventh street,
while this will be believed to a great
extent, as there is but little traffic
along First avenue. Then, too, all
the big storms come from the east
thus making the building very uncom-
Portable along that side.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
DEMAND IS GOOD.
Northern Pacific Land Sales Last Year
Established New Record.

Karl Simmons, land agent for the
Northern Pacific railroad IN Montana.
is authority for the statement that
more land has changed hands in Mon
tana during the twelve months clos
ing with the first of the year, than for
any corresponding period for a num-
Der Of years.
Montana has but little agricultural
land, that is Immediately available
that has not already been taken up or
sold," says Mr.. Simmons. "Our
large sales last year and the year be-
fore represent for the most part land
that has been sold to small ranchers
who ale spreading out and to those
who have recently gone into the cattle
business.
eft ia we'll known that there are
but few large companies in Montana
compared with a few years ago, in
other words, the small owners are
the ones that are controlling the land.
AS a result we have sold hundreds of
tracts of land to small owners
"The land sales during 1900 were
very large. l have no accurate figures
at hand of the business done by this
department in Montana during the
year, but I can say that during one
month I sold 100, 900 acres of land.
During the last few years the rail
roads have put the price of land down,
to promote immigration. 1t has been
the policy Of the company to make a
low figure on the land that it may be-
come settled and look to the traffic Of
the future to make good any loss in
this direction.
"Much of the fertile land along the
valleys has been taken up, in fact,
but little firstclass agricultural land
remains. However, il the government
takes hold of the irrigation project, in
fact individual corporations could
make it quite profitable, we would
soon have many settlers from other
states who would rather come to Mon
tana than to the Dakotas. The state
of Montana could be made to be one
Of the most productive in the country
through a system of irrigation.
"Under the present conditions we
are selling a great deal of land. The
large increase in the number of small
creates a brisk demand for
land. Ranchers are discovering that
to be successful they must have land
of their own, and many of them re-
alize that good grazing land at con
venient points is being rapidly picked
up.
Irrigation is practical il this state.
Indeed, we have a large area Of land
between Billings and Glendive that
we have reserved and expect to sell it
at some future time to large COM
panies contemplating irrigation
schemes"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC.
Expected to Visit Butte Sometime Next
Month.

The city of Butte is looking forward
to a visit from Maude Come some
time during the coming month. Miss
Come is known to fame as the Irish
Joan of Arc from her heroic efforts on
behalf of her rae and the oppressed
of mankind in other lands than her
own. 1t will be remembered that
Miss Come came to New York about
a year ago, and it was expected at that
time that she would make a somewhat
extended tour through the United
States. but to the great disappoint-
ment of her many admirers Tin the
western states, she returned to Ire
land without penetrating the land of
the free farther than the metropolis of
Gotham. This time it is expected
that the itinerary Of this modern Joan
of Arc will include the principal states
of the west.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
TO HAVE SUNDAY SERVICE.
The Telephone System Inauguyates 4
New Plan.

The annual meeting of the Billings
Telephone company was held Monday
night, at which time the old officers
were reelected as follows:
President-A. u. Babcock.
Vice-President-L. H. Fenske.
Treasurer-Chas. Spear.
Secretary-F. H. Foster.
SUPPLEMENTARY. M Hungerford.
The directors decided to inaugurate
q Sunday service beginning next Sun
day, January IS, after which time the
telephone business will be one oontin-
ual round OF ring both day and night
throughout every day of the year.
This additional service has been
brought about by the growth Of the
system, together with the connecting
of outside toll lines. Other changes
are contemplated in the improvement
of the system.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
READY TO FIGHT FIRE.
Glendive Has Instituted a First Class
Fire Department.

The town of Glendive has inaugu-
rated the twentieth century by insti-
tuting a first class fire department
that will fully meet the requirements
of the town and the organization of
a fire company composed of about 80
young men. A brand new hose reel
and 1880 feet of hose have been re-
ceived and placed in their new quart
ers. The building was put up by the
Northern Pacific railway and is locat-
ed close to the track and convenient
to the business part of town. The
railroad company has alto put in sew
eral fire plugs along the right of way
and these are connected with the wat
er tank which insures a good pressure.
The cart and hose were purchased by
money coming from voluntary SUP
scriptions and was furnished at cost
with freight charges free by the
Northern Pacific railway. The fire
boys will raise more money by enter
tainments and expect to purchase
more apparatus as needed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
THINKS IT IS A STEAL.
A. H. Barth Paid Taxes in Wyoming and
Sheep Were Privileged to Return.

In an interview with a Gazette
man A. H. Barth, the Billings sheep
man, who is accused of violating the
Wyoming law relative to trailing
sheep from this state into Wyoming,
brands the case against him as d
''holdup o. steal" It will be remem
bered that two Of Mr. Barth's herders,
while trailing sheep from this state
into Wyoming, we're arrested and
taken before a Justice at Lowell.
Both were bound over to the district
court and then taken to the county
seat, Basin City, when the county at
torney, after inquiring into the case,
ordered the prisoners discharged.
It seems that Mr.. Barth paid taxes
to the amount Of $500 on these sheep
in Wyoming last year and they had
not been out of the state six month
when he was bringing them back
again for winter grazing. He has
carefully looked into the matter rela-
tive to the inspection law and fails to
find anything in the Wyoming law to
the effect that an owner of sheep wish
ing to take same into Wyoming shall
send a draft of $3.50 to the state treas
urer with which to defray the expense
of inspection, and he believes that it
is nothing more than a ruling of the
board OF sheep commissioners of that
state, who hope to make a rake-off.
If the board expects to make every
sheepman who trails his sheep over
into that state for about Is or 20
miles, it will be kept busy.
Mr.. Barth thinks such a law would
not be amiss if Montana was an in
fected state, but in view of the fact
that it is not and has not been it is
rather premature and. if carried into
effect will give the state Of Montana
a splendid opportunity for retaliation.
Besides, were it not for the Montana
sheepmen who winter their hocks in
the northern part Of Wyoming the
ranchmen of that part of the state
would have Jared badly the past few
years, as the former have bought their
hay and feed paying them good prices.
1t is more than likely that the case
will be dropped by the sheep commits
sioners, as Mr.. Barth seems to have
the best of the proposition.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
MRS. MILBURN's DEATH.
A Shock to Billings Friends-Funeral
in Helena Today,

The news of the death of Mrs. Mil
burn, wife Of Associate Justice George
r. Milburn, at Helena Tuesday even
ing, was received in Billings yester-
day morning with sorrow and pro-
foundest regret by the friends and
those who enjoyed only a slight &C
quaintance with the deceased. Mrs.
Milburn, together with her husband
and two smallest children visited at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. J.. r. Goss
in this city for several days last week,
leaving a week ago yesterday noon
for Helena. While here she had a
slight cold and felt fatigued, owing to
the strain which she had been under
owing to the preparation in leaving
Miles City.
The funeral will be held in Helena
this afternoon and interment will take
place there also. The deceased leaves
a husband and four children, three
boys and n girl. Eugene, the second
son, is attending school at Simsbury,
Conn.,, a preparatory school for Yale
college, and will not be able to be
present at the funeral.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
TOT CAUSES NIGHT ALARM.

Zone night my brothers baby was
taken with Group" writes Mrs. j. G.
Snider Of Crittenden, KY, lit seemed it
would strangle before we could get q
doctor, so we gave 1t DR.. Kings New
Discovery, which gave quick relief and
permanently cured it. We always keep
it in the house to protect our children
from Group and Whooping Cough. It
cured me OF a chronic bronchial trouble
that no other remedy would relieve"
Infallible for Coughs, Colds and Threat
and Lung troubles. SOC and 91.OO. Trial
bottles free at Chspple Drug Co.'s.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
HI DUTY OF WATER.
Valuable Work Showing Experiments
Made in Gallatin Vallv.

The Gazette is in receipt of a valu-
able publication by the United States
department. of agriculture on "Duty
of Water in the Gallatin Valley by
Samuel Fortier, director of the Mon
tana experiment station and professor
of irrigation engineering at the Mon
tana college of agriculture and me-
chanic arts. The work treats of the
average quantity of water used on the
irrigated farms in Gallatin valley,
showing the flow of the several
streams, the evaporation, the precipi-
tation, the date of each irrigation, the
duration thereof, the area irrigated,
the acre.feet of water used, the aver
age depth Of water applied, etc., the
average yield, and very interesting
and valuable conclusions.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
NOT SHERIFF YouNG's MURDERER
Iowa Desperate Turns Out to Be
Someone Else.

Someone Else.
1t is now known for a certainty that
the Burlington, Iowa, murderer is not
the slayer of Sheriff Young as was
supposed.
A telegram to this effect was re-
ceived in Livingston Monday by
Under Sheriff woodlands from John
Carney and Charles M%endenhall of
Springdale, who are now at Burling-
ton, where they were sent last Satur-
day to determine positively whether
it was the same man or not. The
photographs of the Iowa murderer re-
ceived at Livingston a short time ago
we're identified by two persons as the
man who did the shooting at Spring
dale on the 9th of November, while
others who had seen the desperate
could not identify the likeness.
Messrs. Carney and Mendenhall were
sent to Iowa to prove the identity be-
You'd a doubt with the above result.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
First Publication Dec. IA, 19OO.-6f
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land office at
Bozeman, Mont. December IL, 1~9OO.-Notice-
is hereby given that the following-named
make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before T.
A. Williams, Clerk of the Court at Billings,
Montana, on January 10. 1901, viz:
EVAN N. JONES,
who made Fl. e. No. 1924 for the lots / and
2, E. Il, NV. n, Sec. 10, TIP. l N, RE- E.,
M. p. M.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and ~cultiva-
Daniel A. Hammond. Jacob Burgeson,
James Ryan, all of Billings, Montana.
A. T.. LOVE, Register.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
LOSES FILIPINO RELICS.
Saturday Nights Fire Destroyed Valu-
. able CuriOs.

H e..
By the fire which destroyed the coal
shed belonging to the M. E. parsonage
and badly damaged the barn of @. M.
Bair on Saturday night, Rev. Geo. G..
Stull lost all his Filipino relics and a
precious cabinet which were stored
in the former building. Those foreign
relics consisted of almost every known
article which Rev. Stull had gathered
while chaplain of the First Montana
regiment of volunteers when it was
stationed in the Philippine islands,
and the loss of the same cannot be es
timated as they can never be replaced.
The cabinet was something that the
minister had had in his possession for
years. It is believed that the fire was
the result of incendiarism.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
First Publication Dec. IA, 1900. -6f
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

at Bozeman, Mont, December IL, 1900
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
ton to make final proof in support of his
claim, aud that said proof will be made be-
fore T.. A. Williams, Clerk of the Court, at
Billings, Mont. on January 10, 1901, viz:
JOHN FAIRBAIN,
who made H. E. No. 2274, for the lots /, 2
and j, S. u. NV. Il, NV. a, SW. ID, Sec. 2,
TIP. 4 n, r. q E., NJ. p. NJ.
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation OF said land, viz: Jefferson z.
Brewer, Waiter o. Lee, Thomas A.. Butler
all of Billings, Montana, and J. W. Menden-
hall, Lavina, Montana. A. L. LOVE.
Register.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
First Publication January 4, 19O1-6f
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land Office
at Bozeman; Montana, December %, 1900.
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
ton to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made be-
fore Z. A. Williams, Clerk of District Court
at Billings, Montana, on FEBRUARY 8, 1901,
viz:
LIONEL I. HAMMOND,
NV. a, Sec. II, NE. a, NE. u and Lot 3,
Sec. 10, Tp. l N, r. ~ E., NJ. P. NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and c~ultiva-
ton of said land, viz: George 7. Gamble,
James Ryan, Brian Hart, Jacob Burgeson,
all of Billings, Montana.
A. L. LOVE, Register.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
PLAYED OUT.

Dull Headache, Pains IN vario4 IS parts
of the body, Sinking at the pit Of the
stomach. Loss of appetite, Feverlshness,
Pimples or sores are all positive evil
dences of impure blood. No matter how
it became sc it must be purified in order
to obtain good health. Acker's Blood
Elixir has never failed to cure scrofulous
or syphilitic poisons or any other blood
diseases. It is certainly a wonderful
remedy, and we sell every bottle on a
positive guarantee. Chapple Drug Co.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
LAW A
Legal Obstacles to Big Railroad
Deal.

Milwaukee, Jan. 8-The Evening
Wisconsin today prints an interview
with its railway authority" in which
it is stated that legal obstacles are in
the way of a combination of the Great
Northern Northern Pacific Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul deal. The
Wisconsin's informant says there are
laws in Minnesota and the Dakctas
which forbid combinations, leases or
ohter traffic arrangements between
and among parallel competing lines,
which the named railways are.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
NEW T SWORN IN.
Hon. George R. Milbnrn Takes Position
Upon Supreme Bench.

Georeg r. Milburn, of Miles City,
who wal elected at the election last
fall to a position upon the supreme
bench, took the oath Of office this
morning and is nov a full fedged as
sociate justice of the highest court in
the state for the next six years, says
Mondays Helena Herald. The court
room was crowded with attorneys
and a number of laymen during the
brief ceremony characterizing the in
duction into office of a new member
of the bench.
The court met at the usual time this
morning. Chief Justice Brantly and
Associate Justices Pigott and Word
each announced some decisions in
pending cases. Five decisions in all
were handed down and a verbal ruling
denying a motion for a rehearing.
After the court had disposed of the de-
cisions G. B. Nolan, the retiring at
torpey general, addressing the court
said:
"May it please the court, I take
pleasure in introducing Hon. George
R. Milburn, who has been elected as
an associate justice of this court. He
is in court ready to take the oath of
office"
The new associate Justice, who had
been occupying a chair in the front of
the row of attorneys, arose and bowed
to the court. The three justices also
arose and the chief justice proceeded
to administer the oath, reading from
a typewriter copy, the new member
Of the bench following word for word
in a clear tone Of voice. AS Associate
Justice Milburn %enunciated the words,
"in the name of God, amen" the
chief justice handed him the type
written oath to sign. The chief JUS
tice affixed his signature, and then in
vited Justice Milburn to a seat upon
the bench.
Robert Lee Word, who was appoint
ed associate Justice seven months ago,
succeeding Justice Hunt, resigned,
surrendered the seat he has been oc-
cupying at the left of the chief JUS
tice and left the bench, meeting his
successor at the steps leading up to
the bench. Mr.. Word congratulated
Justice Milburn with a warm shake
of the hand and a pleasant word.
Each of the justices extended a warm
greeting to the new justice as he took
his position. Court then took a recess.
The attorneys and others crowded
around the new member of the court
and extended congratulations. Chief
Justice Brantly introducing those
who were not acquainted with him.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11
First Publication Dec. %, 1900.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land Office
at Bohemian, Mont, December d. 1907
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
ton to make final proof in support Of his
claim and that said proof will be made be-
fore T. A. Williams, Clerk of Court, at Bill
ings, Montana. on February Z, 1901. viz:
GEORGE T. GAMBLE
who made II. E. No. 2176 for the SW. 4,
NV. u, Sec. II; 8. u, NE. 4, Lot 4, SEQ.
10, TIP. l N, r. n E., n. p. n.
He names the following Witnesses 20
prove his continuous residences upon and
fSi Hsrt ~ Jacob issS ,1 Burees -. "a Jsmse t1. !.
Dickie. al Of Billings, Nontans.
4. L LOW, Register.