The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
Local. NOTES.

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hall has been completed and as far as
that portion of the work is concerned
no delay need occur, as the hole in the
ground is ready for the mason to be-
gin on the foundation.
Judge Matheson returned yesterday
morning from a visit to Miles City,
whittier he and Mrs. Matheson went
last Saturday to visit their daughter,
Mrs. j.. H. Johnston. Mrs. Matheson
remained and expects to stay several
weeks.
The crew of the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company engaged in
constructing the company's line into
this city numbers among it's members
some ~vocalists of more han ordinary
~tunefulness, as many persons learned
yesterday while the lei were at
work near Tw~enty-seventh street and
First avenu north. A quartette COM
posed of the linemen rendered sever
al songs in a decidedly pleasing man
ner while waiting for their turn to
3shin" poles or give a Gift" to the
others. ..
The continued mild weather is be-
ing taken advantage of by builders
and every available man is employed
on the various structures which are
going up in different parts of the city.
The addition to the Belknap block is
rapidly nearing completion, while the
walls of the new buildings on the
south side are going up with remark
able rapidity. With a little more of
the present kind of weather the diff
ferent structures in course of erection
will be enclosed and work on their in
teriors can be carried on during the
rest of the winter.
Although 1T is getting somewhat late
in the season to make travel after that
manner pleasant or attractive, it is
noticeable that quite a number of
accommodations afforded by brake
beams n drawbacks and almost ev-
cry rain passing through the city
carries one or more Of the gentlemen
of the road. who are now headed in
an eastern direction, apparently pre-
pairing to go into winter quarters in a
part of the country where the climate
is milder and the opportunities Tor
pan handling are greater.
A sergeant and guard of the Thir-
teenth cavalry arrived from Fort
Keogh yesterday in charge of three
prisoners, members of that regiment,
whom they we're taking to Fort Meade,
S. D. The prisoners are charged with
offenses against the civil laws and
upon their arrival at the South Dakota
post will be turned over to the county
authorities for trial. They are young
fellows, but judging from their faces
and general demeanor decidedly
tough and seemingly fair representa-
tives of the elias of men who have
given the Thirteenth such a hard rep
utation. The party left on last nights
Burlington for the south.
FulldlLuIOplSLo duu i A1IYASoS
ed in the elevation Of mankindf need
not become discouraged over thf prob
lem of civilizing the poor ref man.
Continued contact with the pile face
is beginning to show it's effeft. Yes
terday a proud and naughty member
of the Grow tribe was tt be seen walk
ing about the city carefully and ten
derby carrying a baby lnIhis arms,
while it's mother leisureP walked be-
hind and like her whiteI sisters in
spected the contents of We show win
dows of the drygoods stdtes that they
passed. The father was dressed in
"store Clothes" but still wore his hair
long and his feet were covered with
moccasins, showing that while he was
on the road, his regeneration was still
not complete. But the fact that he car.
ried the child must be accepted as an
evidence of his earnest intentions.
After staying with it for about a
clusion that to be the proprietor and
editor of a weekly newspaper in a
town no larger than the capital OF
Rosebud county and with a field nc
more inviting is not a proposition just
flying the expenditure Of years OF
time and energy. Acting on this view
of the situation, he last Thursday
DISPOSED of the Rosebud County News
to a stock company composed of gen
t]emen who have not had the same
experience he can boast of and the
paper will continue as the exponent Of
democracy and the advocate