The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
.ocA- NOTES.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

Alderman Thorsen returned last
Monday night from a visit to Helena.
DR.. Gainforth, the dentist, has TAX
en- up quarters in the new GruWell
building.
Henry Yaeger, a prominent Helena
attorney, spent yesterday in the city.
having come this far with Mrs. Yae.
ger, who has gone on an eastern visit.
l.. M. Hughes, travelling auditor of
the Northern Pacific Express COM
pany, was in the city yesterday check
ing up the local office of the company.
Henry Keiser has taken a large
contract on the Northern Pacific at
Bull Mountain station where the COM
pany has undertaken to rebuild five
miles of track.
R. R. Selway, one OF the largest
flockmasters of Custer county, was
a visitor in the city, yesterday, regis
tering from Sheridan, Wyo., where
he makes his home.
Richard Kirk, of the firm Of Hogue,
Robinson & Co., has returned from a
vacation of several weeks duration:
which was spent at n Of the sheep
camps at Lavina and at Forsyth.
D. j. Tallant, deputy collector Of
customs for this district, was in the
city yesterday to make investigation
concerning the applications of a cou-
pie of Cinnamon for certificates per
hitting them to visit theip former
home.
James Plat, one of he Northern
Pacific express messengers, running
between Forsyth an1 Spokane, was
taken to the Bnai1erd hospital last
Sunday night to be operated upon for
this city, where his parents reside.
Owing to continued i'll health, E.
d. Edgar, for many years Northern
Pacific general agent at Helena, has
been granted an indefinite leave of
absence and has gone to the Arkansas
Hot springs. To fill the practical
vacancy thus caused, e. S. Richards
has been appointed to succeed Mr..
Edgar.
Three men we're arrested at HaVre
last Sunday on suspicion Of being
implicated in a plot to hold up a
Great Northern train. The officers
who made the arrest say the men had
planned to rob a train at a point near
Chinook. The prisoners were heavily
but the officers had the advantage
and no trouble ensued. They gave
their names as Hooper, claiming tc
be brothers.
Mrs. Strang, superintendent of pub
lie instruction, has arranged for the
annual teachers institute, which the
law says must be held in each coun
ty. The dates are November 13, l.
and Is and she has secured the ser
vices of Professor J.. NJ. Hamilton O.
the state university, Professor c. S
Brother, superintendent of the. Bill
ings Schools Professor P. H. Hawkins
of Columbus and Miss Harwood o
the state university, as instructors
Miss Harwood will deliver a lecture
on the last day of the institute ant
Professor Hamilton will lecture o.
the evening Of the 14th.
The window of Luderman's stor
was beseiged by curious crowds al
day yesterday who We're gazing a
the sleeping form of Elmer Crawford
whom Professor Griffith placed int
a hypnotic sleep at the opera hous
the night befare. As/some question:
the genuinehess- of the cor
dition in (which the subjec
was said to bel Professor Griffith du'
ing the AFTERNOON visited the stor
and in the prekShce of a good size
crowd gathered in front of the viii
dow in which his subject lay an
passed a ladies' hat pin through tn
wrist of the sleeper. This Statistic
the doubling ones who witnessed tn
act and they became convinced ths
it was not a fake"
Among the instruments on file
police court is one that is a genuin
curiosity. 1t is an affidavit sworn
by a man who has tried almost ever
way he could think of to keep hin
self from getting into trouble becaus
of his fondness for drink and who {
a dernier RESORT bethought himse
of the expeasency of making form
oatb/thst/he will for all time absta'
fron1 ntoxicants. The depositic
goes further. It sets forth the d
ponent's intention to conduct himse
in every other way as a good and la