Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-17

| provements made to give the whole in
! terror the appearance of being almost
new. By the change the room is better
lighted, the two windows in the east
/ wall, which have heretofore been closed
/ on account of the judges desk being in
! front of them, are now opened. The
/ first session of court for 1901 will find
considerable business to be disposed of.
| There are only two criminal cases the
State VS.. BERTHE Perry and Charles H.
, Thomas, robbery, and the State VS..
James Clifford and Mark Thompson.
grand larceny. The defendants n ire
J first case are charged with holding up
/ a miner at the water tank in Laurel,
relieving him of $50, while the defend
I ants in the last case are charged with
/ stealing two horses from Gisdorf Bros
! They escaped to Wyoming, but were
captured and brought back. There are
Ten divorce cases, the majority of nil,-
ital failures being on account of desar-
/ tion, While there is one for i'll and in
! human treatment.
| l.. b. Kennedy has brought suit in JUS
4 tics Mann's court against Tilman and
i. Buck Graham to recover $780, Kennedy
alleges that he enterede into a contract
with the defendants. who reside on
him so tons of hay and allow the plaintiff
to feed it to his sheep at their ranch, AMI
the plaintiff paid 5000 on the contract.
Now the defendants refuse to either pro-
| duce the hay, allow plaintiffs sheep to
feed there, or to refund to plaintiff the
$500
The quarter ending December 31st. was
the largest quarters business of the Bill
ings pOstoffice, the sales from postage
! stamps and box rental amounting to
$S,24O44. The quarter ending June so,
1900, which was previously the largest
quarter showed receipts of $3.219.9O. while
that ending September 80, last, amounted
to only $2,99910. For the six months
ending December 30. at least 1885 regis
tered letters originated in this office.
While something over 5000 were handled
in transit. The Billings postoffice is one
of the busiest institutions in the city, it
now necessitating five persons to care for
the business besides the two carriers.
J. l.. Scarlet, the Englishnan who is
we'll known here, was recently married
at Melville. Mont. to Miss Helen p. Van
Cleve, eldest daughter of Hon. Paul Van
Cleve of that place. The happy couple
4 have gone on an extended wedding trip.
which will end in England, their future
home, sometime next summer.
H. V. Bailey narrowly escaped a Sc
rous accident last Sunday. He had flied
his pipe with tobacco from pocket in
which he also had few 22-calibre rim
fire cartridges and while smoking the
pipe, one of the cartridges which had
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exploded, but he escaped injury
The county commissioners met yester-
day and entered into a contract with
VIM. S. Hewitt for the erection of the
East Billings wagon bridge. The list of
taxpayers from which to draw the court
= jurors for the year 1901 was also selected
The commissioners We're in session toda y
and made trip to Canyon Creek to in
spect some bridges across the irrigation
ditch
Captain A. f. Neate and bride were in
Billings yesterday and left this morning
for heir home near Bridger in Carbon
county where the former has a stock
ranch. They are just returning from
Minneapolis. Captain Neate has en-
ployed the services of one of the hest at
torneys in Minneapolis to prosecute the
damage suit of Mrs. Neate, nee Belle
Howard against the owners of the New
store at that place and has no intention
or dropping or compromising the suit.
FRANK watson, county patient del
at the hospital Saturday night from con-
sumption and was buried Sunday.
! Mt x,.l1o
as county commissioner because he ex
poets to locate in Oregon. will not re-
move his family from Billings unit,
, spring. Mr.. Linton is now at Hot Lake
ana Will remain there during the winter.
Captain Hurst and Lieutenant NAL
colin, who have been in charge of the
salvation Army work in this city for
several months past, leave tomorrow, the
former going to her home in Nanmo,
British Columbia, and the latter ia
Snohomish, Washington.
A PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE.
What an abnormal thirst for knowl-
edge your son seems to have"
Yes; every now and then he lets go of
good job to see what will happen
| llPAt. \ nlcdSO Record.
AN ABLE SINGER.
''She supports herself, her father. and
mother and small brother and sister
with her singing"
. My. her voice must have what thew
, call carrying power. "-Philadephia Bull
letn.
: NOTICE 10 CO-OWNERs.
To Pat O'Neil and his heirs, executors
T administrators and assigns: You are
=. hereby notified that I, Dennis ODonnell
YOUR co-owner, has in accordance with
4 tie provisions of section 1924 of the Re-
f | vised Statutes of the United States, ex-
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