The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-11
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in the city, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Snyder of Mus
selshell arrived in the city, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. App of Mussel-
shell we've visitors in the city, yester.
day.
Rodger J. Flemming of Red Lodge
city.
j. H. Bigger, formerly engaged in
business here with A. A. Morris, was
an east bound Northern Pacific pas
senger, yesterday. ...-
Hugh H. Hunter, one of the large
f1ockmasters of Custer county, was
in the city yesterday to receive a
band of 1900 yearlings ewes that
he bought recently from Joe Sims.
DR.. J. E. Free. Mrs. Free and Mrs.
A. H. Barth are back from a two
months visit to the east. Mrs. Free
and Mrs. Barth were in the Temple
of Music at Buffalo when President
Mckinley was assassinated.
The time to pay taxes has arrived,
as the taxpayers have learned
through the notices sent out by the
county treasurer. Under the law all
taxes not paid after the close of bust
ness on November 80 will become de-
l%inquent and subject to a penalty.
Messrs. Hilger and Binford, the
South Dakota gentlemen who arrived
last week for the purpose of buying
Sheep report the consummation of
several deals by which they have Sc
cured a goodly proportion of the num-
Der they are prepared to buy.
Travellers report that Great
Northern Railroad company has TAX
en- official e~ognfzance of the recent
rise in the price of potatoes and no
longer serves the aristocratic tuber
with meat orders in it's dining cars,
unless they are specially ordered and
must be paid for as "etras."
Next Tuesday is the day set for the
sale of the bonds voted for the cree
ton Of a new city hall. AS, yet no
offers have been re~ceived~for the
issue, but judging from the number
of inquiries ha%e city clerk has
already r1<si~ed and is receiving al
most daily, the number of bidders
promises to be large. |
The weather took a sudden and de
cided change yesterday afternoon:
the thermometer falling rapidly~fFom
attitudes suggestive -of~summer heat
to a notch iEdieative of the nea ap-
proach of winter. The transition was
so great and marked that those who
make a speciality of climatic studies
were free with their predictions of
an early snowstorm.
The Mitchell Furniture company
has won the first round in it's fight
with the state furnishing board. Last
Monday the supreme court ~overruled
the DEMURRER to the complaint and
also refused the motion to quash. At
torney General~Donovan appeared for
the defendants and E. Warren Toole
for the plaintiff. The defendants
were given until October 10 in which
to file their answer and the case will
now be heard upon it's merits.
Having almost recovered from the
bullet wound he received from the po-
liceman who arrested him for h lar
ceny of an overcoat, a warrant was
issued yesterday afternoon by Judge
Mann for the arrest of John Brown on
the charge of burglary. Brown, who
has been in the hospital eve since
he was shot, was arrested n taken
to the county Jail, as it was consider
ed unsafe to longer allow him to re.
main at the hospital.
Major William Panton, brother OF
Sam and the Misses Panton and who
was here a few weeks Ago., has re
turned from his trip to the coast
where he has been to visit still an
other brother, a physician of Oregon
While out there /he took part in :
hunt for lakge fame and succeeded
in killing several elk and also a bear
Since his rettfn he has done some
fishing in the Saltwater and last Mon
day caught what is believed to be
the largest trout taken out of tina
stream this season. The fish weighed
five and a half pounds and measured
% inches in length.
Visitors to the site of the proposed
bridge across the Yellowstone east o
the city yesterday afternoon reported
slow progress ION the part of the con
Itractor. The graphing process o
\ Mhich The Gazette smoke a few day