The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-14

by Mayor George, has declined and
the mayor will try his hand again.
The graduating exercises of the
public schools will take place June Z,
when eight students will close their
work in the city schools.
Chas. H. Sappington of Billings and
Maude Deasey of Boulder, Mont, we're
united in marriage last night at $3.50
o'clock by Justice Mann at. the latter's
Office.
Lee Eisenberg has returned from a
visit to Livingston, where Mrs. Els
enberg and little daughter have been
stopping for the past two or three
weeks.
Frank Church, a former resident Of
this section, has purchase. a ranch
on Bear creek in Carbon county and
will engage extensively in the stock
business. .
G. E. Rector, who was transferred
to a run on the main line during the
shutdown of Rocky Fork coal mines
has resumed his run between this city
and Red Lodge.
Mrs. Barr and daughter, Miss Nellie,
who have been the guests of their
daughter and sister, Mrs. H. S. Ham
mond OF this city for the past two
months, have returned to their home
in Hillsboro, la.
Alfred Day Pardee, a capitalist of
Philadelphia, was in Billings yester-
day on his way home from a trip to
Carbon county, and the northern part
of Wyoming. Mr.. Pardee is interested
in the Sunlight mining district.
j.. l.. Harrington, local agent of the
Burlington, left yesterday for Super
ior, Neb. After a few days visit there
he will return home accompanied by
Mrs. Harrington and children, who
have been visiting at Superior for a
few weeks.
1t is learned that the Bridger Coal
company has ordered the miners to
vacale the company's dwellings in
Bridger, which looks as though the
company intended TO fight the union
and possibly bring in non-union men
to work in the mines.
The police arrested f. A. Kinnlc and
Mike Burns yesterday afternoon on
the complaint of a young man, name
unknown, who alleges that the men
held him up. He claims that Kinnic
and Burns met him in the alley at the
rear of the l.. & l.. restaurant and
robbed him of $12.75 in silver.
The Sheridan Enterprise states that
the president, general manager, gen
eral superintendent and division super
intendent OF the Burlington visited
that place a few days ago, the pur-
| pose OF when it is understood was to
perfect arrangements for putting in
an extensive roundhouse, machine
shops and making other valuable i'm
proyements.
H. H. Griffith, secretary and treas
urer OF the Clarke Fork Coal Mining
company Of Gebo, is in the city, hav-
president and j. A. Johnson Of Chest
nut. The company expects to begin
shortly or the work OF supplying the
town of Gebo with wafer works and
electric lights. Improvements are
also to be made in the mines, the pres.
ent working force to be increased to
200 or 800 men.
Bronson Rumsey of Buffalo, N. Y,
came in last night from Cody, Wyo.
where he had been for the past two
weeks looking after business affairs
Mr.. Rumsey is a member OF the Cody
Trading company, which has a large
establishment at Cody. He says the
town is growing and believes that it
is destined to be a pretty large place
in a few years time, being the center
of a splendid country adapted to stock
raising and farming. Talk about the
Burlington railroad, which will enter
Cody about September /, is the one
theme of the people of that section,
says Mr.. Rumsey.