The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-03-01

yesterday and given until today to
plead.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.
B. Hart of Red Lodge is in the
city.
IS. K. Deverill and wife were in
the city yesterday from Laurel.
Tomorrow will be st. David's
day, the national festival of the Welsh
people.
Mrs. G. G. Stull is visiting in
Helena this week with her husband,
Representative Stull.
R. S. Chapple, a prominent stock
man of Roberts, in Carbon county, is
in the city on business.
Money to loan in any sum on
farm lands and improved Billings
property Carwile & Bouton. u
Miles City seems to have been
very unfortunate of late regarding
fires, no less than three having oc-
CURED there since Sunday.
George Inglis Of Pawnee City,
Neb., arrived in the city Yesterday
morning to accept a position al car
checker for the Burlington railroad.
A. E. Hager, manager of the Car
bon Mercantile company, the leading
establishment of Red Lodge, came in
on last evenings train, en- route to
Chicago on a business trip. ~. ~"
Mrs. Duer and Miss Duer of Fort
Benton stopped over in Billings Tues
day and spent the day as the guests of
Mrs. Paul Mccormick. The ladies
were en- route to Chicago for a visit.
-Yegen Bros. have purchased
another stock Of general merchandise,
it being that of Sam Young & Sons of
Joliet. Allen Farrell and F. H.
Walters are at Joliet invoicing the
stock.
The Billings Woman's club will
meet with Mrs. J. H. Rineha1t tomor-
row afternoon at 3 o'clock, with Mrs.
H. E. Clement in charge. The sub
ject for study will be the first three
acts of Shakespeare's Cor1olanus.
j. L. Harrington, local agent of
the Burlington, became tired of riding
on cars and went to Livingston this
week to take a trip aboard a goat as
manipulated by the Ancient and Ac-
copied Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
Peter Roberts died at st. Vim
CENTS hospital yesterday Of pneumonia.
The deceased had been ill but a short
time. A brother of the deceased has
been in the city for some time and
will attend to the burial Of the re-
mains. &
Ernest Van Ness, mention of
whom was made in yesterday morn
ing's Gazette as being 8 fakir, was
fined 81, all the money he had left,
and sentenced to work five days on
the streets by Police Judge Mann, yes
terday.
The state capitol will be ready for
occupancy by July 1, according to
the report made to the capitol COM
mission by Joseph Foss, manager Of
the Montana Building company. The
state officers will prepare to move in
soon after that date.
Miss Patriarche, who has been at
Folsom, Mont, for several months as
governess in the family Of D. F. Stay
ton, arrived here Tuesday evening,
leaving that night for Burlington,
Ia, in response to word announcing
the death of a brother-in-law.
w. M. Mitchell, formerly car
checker at the Burlington freight de-
pot, has been appointed switchman in
the local yards. George Inglis, a
young man from Pawnee City, Neb.,
has accpeted the position vacated by
Mr.. Mitchell, entering upon his work
yesterday. H..
John johnson pleaded not guilty
to the charge of petty larceny yester-
day and his trial was set for 10
O'Clock Friday morning in Justice
Fraser's court. johnson is accused of
having leeced a young man out of $15
on a pretense of buying the latter a
railroad ticket.
The Mystic shriners left Chicago
Monday afternoon on their trip to
Honolulu. They will take a railroad
journey Of 1852 miles and an ocean
one of 4,200 miles before reaching
home. They will return by way of
Helena. S. G. Reynolds of this city
is a member of the party.
III. B. Segur, general agent of the
Burlington, is in Meeteetsee, Wyo.,
attending the meeting of the Big
Horn county woolgrowers. Mr.. Segur
started for that place about ten days
ago, but after getting as far as Red
Lodge received word that the meeting
had been postponed until February %.
Two more smallpox patients were
added to the number at the pesthouse
this week, they being W. H. Frazier
and E. g. Redding. The former has
been running a saloon in the tender