The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-22
LOCAL NOTES.

Butte.
The Northern Pacific has ordered
$50 men to Forsyth. to work Oh the
grade near that place.
Mrs. Paul Mccormick contem-
plates the erection Of a dwelling in
the West Side addition for renting pur-
poses.
-Counterfeiters are plying their
trade in Missoula, the coin passed be-
ing five and ten dollar imitation gold
pieces.
Harry L. Wilson, a stenographer
from Miles City, has accepted a posi-
tion with County Attorney Fred Il.
Hathhorn.
The Western Federation Of Labor
of Billings had a busy session Thurs
day night, 10 new members being
taken into the union.
Mrs. T. J. Bouton and children
went to Hunters Hot Springs yester-
day afternoon for a few days sojourn
at that pleasure resort.
The commencement exercises of
the Montana State Normal school OF
Dillon will be held on Thursday even
ing, January "a, 1901, at 8 O'Clock.
Jack Shea paid a fine Of $25 into
the county treasury yesterday for hav-
ing made a gun play in front OF a sa-
loon on South Twenty-seventh street.
--R. H. Walsh, who is we'll known
here as a horsebuyer for the English
governments. returned to Billings yes
terdav from a visit to his old home in
England.
A slight fire occurred at the ranch
of T. g. Armitage, a couple OF miles
west of Billings, yesterday morning,
in which the bunk house was badly
damaged. ..
-Drs. Andl ew and Harriet Clark
have issued invitations to all "at
home'' from 7:3O to II p. M, on
Monday, January %, 1901, at their
home in the West Side addition.
j. F. Stiles and wife, who have
been at Joliet for several months past,
have returned to Billings and are re-
siding on South Thirty-first street.
Mr.. Stiles is employed by the A. L..
Babcock Hardware company.
One vag and one drunk were up
before Police Magistrate Mann yester-
day, and both dismissed, the former
on promising to leave the city at
once, and the other because he was
arrested on a Misunderstanding.
Another special train of racing
horses belonging to the estate of the
late Marcus DAILY passed through Bill
ings yesterday afternoon en- route to
New York, where they are to be sold
at public auction the latter part of this
month.
Rocky Mountain H~usbandman:
The Yellowstone farmer who gets
three crops of alfalfa of one and a
half tons of alfalfa hay per season and
sells it at from SO, SO to 81. so per ton
is on the high road to prosperity and
is to be congratulated on the downhlll
pull to fortune he now has before
him. Great is the Yellowstone.
Ben Blackwell was arrested Thurs
day night or a charge Of drunkenness
by Policeman Corle. Balkwell resist
ed the officer, who found it necessary
to club the drunken man a few times
before he could persuade him to &C.
company the policeman to Jail. Balk-
we'll will have something more than a
charge Of being drunk to face when he
appears before the police Judge today.
Rev. H. A. James Of Bozeman,
presiding elder of the Bozeman dis.
trict, Methodist Episcopal church, ar
rived in Billings yesterday from For.
syth. He will preside at the quarter
ly conference meeting of the church
tonight and tomorrow will preach
both morning and evening in the M.
E. church, administering the sacra'
ment of the Lords supper at the
morning service.
Colonel William F. Cody, who
was in Billings recently, is organizing
a hunting club that will have head
quarters at his ranch in the Big Horn
mountains, zeal Cody, Wyo. The
first outing will be in the autumn o.
1901, and among the guests will bt
Colonel Roosevelt, General Miles, ant
should he come to America to attent
. the yacht races, the Prince Of Wale'
will be asked to participate.
General Agent H. B. Segur O
Billings, who looks out for the inter
est of the Burlington railroad from
Sheridan, Wyo., west to Billings an
throughout all Montana, has received
notice from his company that he will
be expected to also take charge of tn
business that will be contingent to tn
Toluca-C Cody branch of the Burling
ton, which will be about 100 mile
long and go through a country rio
in stock raising and farming. Til
will necessitate the. addition Q
anotherltraveling representative unde
Mr.. Segnr, with headquarters in Bill
ipgs. .st.s,i