The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-23

terday to Forsyth to attend the FUN
erai of Mrs. Baily Waddingham.
The city council at its last regular
meellng let --.e contract to the Thomp-
son-McGregor lumber company for
furnishing all lumber needed ~ the
city for the ensuing year.
Austin North has just set out and
donated to the pune schools a row
of suade trees entirely along the west
side of North T~wenty-ninth street:
ayutting on tue school GROUNDS.
The new city street sprinkler has
been put to use, and it is giving entire
satisfaction. 1t is a much better
sprinkler than the one purchased two
years ago, and which is still in use.
]. NJ. Holt and l.. w. Stacy, we'll
known stockmen of Custer county.
We're in the city yesterday on their
way to Texas to superintend the ship
ment of a large numuer of cattle to
| Montana, with which to replenish their
herds.
w. Lee Mains left yesterday for a
few days visit at the home of a GER
tain well known ranchman near My
ers. east of Billings. Mr.. Mains gave
it out that -.e was going to st. Paul
on a business trip. but his ticket read
differently.
County Commissioner w. o. Parker
has rented his farm west of Billings
to Geo. Douglass, and Earl Stowe, and
will remove to the city May |. He
will take the dwelling now occupied
by H. N. Kennedy and wife, the lat
ter having secured rooms in the j. j..
Mccormick home. -
rrLo npicfion Er1aoV 0rs cnniafV 0f
the Congregational church held a So
cial session in the lecture Dom of the
church FRIDAY night, attended by a
large number of friends and members.
Music and games furnished the even
ing's entertainment, together with
light refreshments.
Miss Marguerite M. Strang, county
superintendent of schools. returned
YESTERDAY from a visit to two of the
schools in the western part of the
county. She reports the schools as
being in a prosperous condition, and
everything moving along nicely in al
lines of county educational work.
case of Chas. Kane and Robt.
Maxwell, WAC are charged with bur.
gary in the first degree with having
attempted to rob leila Davidson's
house, will come up before Justice
Mann, tomorrow at 2 p. m, having
been postponed from yesterday. z. l.
harris was appointed by the court te
defend .ue men. f
Jas. Neil, a white man, and John
Lee ,colored, were arrested yester
day on a warrant sworn out ny A.. A
Campbell, sub agent of the Crows
charging them with having sold liquor
to Grow Indians. The men were TAX
en- before United States Commissions
A. Fraser n their hearing set TO
tomorrow. Both are residents of Bill
ings. '"
Msr. Henry Cnapple has sold he
. two-story frame dwelling at the COZ
ner of ThirIy-first street and FRS
= avenue north to c.. w. Forester, tn
:. consideration oeing $3.50. Posses
sion is to be given at once. TIL
' house was just recently rented b,
w. H. Ross, who will now take tn
house to be vacated by Mr.. Forester
on North 4wenty-fifth street.
Ebenezer Sharpe, manager of tn
a New York Life Insurance company |
s Montana, is dead at his home in Hele
ma, from the result of a stroke of pal
alysis. Mr.. Sharpe came to Montan
e from Indiana in 1880, as cashier Q
y the Montana National bank of Helena
l. am. for the last ten years has bee
e state manager for the insurance con
d pany. He was one of the best know
y men of the state.
Miss G. A. Murphy, travelling rel
e resentative Of the Rocky Mountai
e. Husbandman. of White Sulphu
n. Springs. passed through Billings ye'
If terday, while on her way to this Sc
20 ton of the country in the interests
ir her paper. Miss Murphy bears tn
le distinction Of being the only woma
travelling representative of a Montan
paper. She is we'll known in nearl
II every farm and ranch home in tn
la s~outh-central portion of Montana.
~ A meeting of the general committe
l. having in charge the arrangement
for the state Sunday school conve:
'e ton, which is to meet in this cit
week after next, was he'd yesterda
at the home of Mrs. H. M. Brayto
er The committee on entertainment r
i'd ported that it was meeting with goo
TO success but there are a number y
is to be provided for. Mrs. Railsbat
&c is receiving many letters daily fro
RS those intending to come, ana ever
thing points to a large attendance.
al The city treasurer is now collecti1
dog tax from the owners of canine
a, Last year only 95 people paid tt
ne tax. but there are about five tim
of that number of dogs in the city.
[r. is proposed this year to establish
in pound and have the police round
nd all the dogs on which the tax has n
he been paid and place them therei
ig Then, a1.er a certain time, if the t,
by still remains unpaid, the dogs will
dispatched to the world where I
as dogs look alike. The tax paid so t
mt this year is very small, but the po44
of will begin in a few days to get
he their work.
as -,
,rt From Tuesdays Daily Gazette.
at Phil Grein is looking after buslne
lat a affairs in Rutte. - 4=s