The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-11

leave Saturday for Salt Lake City,
where the former will attend the
meeting of the National Livestock as
ISOLATION.
e. B. Bacbock and wife have
rented the new dwelling recently
erected on North Thirty third street
by s. G. Reynolds, and will soon take
possession of the same.
The police court had a quartette
of vags and DRINKS before it yester-
day afternoon, three being given a
chance to get out of town and the
other put to work for three days on
the streets Of Billings.
Lieutenant Lindsey in command
of Fl. Keogh, Mont, was in Billings
Tuesday night in search of a deserter.
The man was captured here by the
police and turned over to the officer
who returned to Miles City yesterday
with his prisoner.
The case of William Keeliher VS..
the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad company for $l18.60 wages,
was dismissed in Justice Mann's
court yesterday, the plaintiff having
received his pay-check for this sum
from the company.
DIR. o. B. Prickett of this city,
who has been elected president of the
State Association Of osteopathy, has
received letters from prominent physi-
clans of Montana who favor the enact
ment of a law recognizing the practice
Of esteopathy and will use their en-
deavors tt have such a law passed.
THE First National bank stock
holders have elected the following d.
rectors: G. w. Woodson, M. A.
Arnold, S. F. Morse, Jos. Zimmerman
and P. B. Moss. Mr.. Arnold is a resi-
dent Of St. Louis, Missouri, and a
brother in-law Of Mr.. Moss. The Off
GERS of the bank remain unchanged.
VIM. S. Hewett, the bridge con-
tractor, arrived in the city yesterday
and has furnished a bond TO the coun-
ty in the sum of $40, 900 for the faith
full performance in constructing the
new East Billings bridge. MI. Hewett
says he will not be able to begin work
until after the June rise comes and
goes, which means that the bridge
will, not be completed until about
Augusta, at the earliest.
From Fridays Daily Gazette.
The infant daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kane died last evening.
The little daughter of Fred Pull
yer, who died from pneumonia
Wednesday, was buried yesterday.
w. A. Clark of Virginia City was
a Billings visitor yesterday en- route
to Red Lodge to attend the annual
meeting OF the stockholders of the
Carbon County bank.
Judge G.. H. Loud of Miles City
has set the following dates for hold
ings district court in Yellowstone
county during the year 1901: January
Is, April 2, June II and October Is.
Postmaster Babcock will feel
i grateful to those persons having cost
office keys, who have given up their
mail boxes and are nov being sup.
piled by the carriers, if they will re.
turn the same to him at nee.
, The weather continues to moder.
ate slightly during the day, but be-
! low zero weather prevail during the
} nights. Great Falls has been having
some exceedingly cold snaps, the Their.
8 mometer having reached the mark Of
. 80 degrees below zero.
Earl A. Burley, a clerk living al
: Glendive, has been adjudged a bank.
rupt by the United States court and
the matter referred to H. A. Firth Of
, this city, referee in bankruptcy.
Burley's liabilities are $4,476.0 OIL,
t while his assets only,amount to 500.
. w. j. Scott and Erick Erickson.
j, proprietors of the Billings Steam
: Laundry, left this morning for Butte
to spend a couple of days looking owe
the laundry plants of that city with
> the purpose of receiving new ideas fol
. the erection of a new building in this
city.
9 There is considerable sickness il
Billings at the present time and il
! seams to be quite general over the
: state. The smallpox and scarlet fever
e cases are rapidly diminishing. but
$ those of the grippe and pneumonia are
I becoming more numerous. So fal
but one case of the dread disease
pneumonia, has resulted fatally il
this city.
9 Billings sportsmen are beginning
s to interest themselves in the proposed
? race meeting to be held in Montan,
' this season in the hopes that this city
may be included in the circuit. Thi'
n city always has and can still turn GU
e as big attendanoes at racing events al
any city in the state, excepting pos
sibly Butte, and there seems no reason
why Billings should not be on the cir
r cult.
John Iamey, q mail clerk on tn,