The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-05

to Billings and engaged with the
Title Abstract company as clerk.
There is considerable sickness in
the city at the present time, consist
ing mostly Of colds, sore thronts and
the grip.
Mrs. F. Quinn and Mrs. Lizzie
Blackaby of Columbus were visitors
in the city yesterday, attending
court, where the latter was granted a
divorce.
H. q. Lowell Of Kane, Wyo., is
in the city, combining business with
pleasure. He reports plenty Of snow
in his section and the range in good
condition.
In the police court yesterday
Roberu Roberts was fined $40 for being
an inmate Of a house of ill-fame, and
John Smith was assessed the Jun of
IS for being drunk.
&C. j. Swartout, a stock detective
from Rapid City, S. D, was in the
city yesterday in search of a witness
in a cattle stealing case. He found
his man here and left last night for
home. g "
DIR E. E. Madden, the eye special
list, arrived in the city yesterday from
Carbon county, where he has been for
about two weeks. He will be found at
the Driscoll hotel for the next two
weeks.
Mrs. j. D. Matheson returned
home yesterday from Miles City,
where she had been for several
weeks attending her daughter, Mrs.
J. H. Johnston, who has been quite
i'll, but is now improving.
Rev. Father A. Hoffman, who
was brought to the city from Red
Lodge Monday and is now confined at
St. Vincent's hospital, is no better.
He is a very sick man, but his ,condi-
ton is not considered serious.
Sheriff Hubbard went to Deer
Lodge yesterday taking Little Day.
light, who was sentenced to one
years imprisonment in the state peni.
Tertiary. Austin Stray Calf, the
other Grow Indian, will be taken tc
the penitentiary later in the week.
"A civil service examination will
be held in the court house tomorrow
for governmental positions in the de-
partmental, railway mail and Indian
service. There are eight applicants
to take the examination, which will.
be conducted by a special examiner.
Myrtle Brown, who shot Matte
Langford in the leg Tuesday with 6
revolver, was arraigned before Justice
Fraser yesterday afternoon Oh the
charge of assault in the first degree.
She pleaded not guilty and her tria.
was set for next Monday at 2 O'Clock
p. m. .u .
H. G.. McNeely, who was a mem
Der of the Billings baseball club il
1899, and was last year with the Den
vre club in the Western association
has been retained by that club TO-
this year. He was Denver's sta:
pitcher and will probably hold tina
honor this year again.
The body of Ed. Youman, which
has been held for several days await
ing information from the mother O
the deceased in the east as to the bur
ial, will be inferred in the city GENE
terry today, Undertaken Smith having
.|received word from the relatives t.
give the body a respectable burial.
The people of the northwest ar,
certainly great smokers, il n is t.
judge from the report of Collector o:
Customs Webster for the states o
Montana, Idaho and Utah, who say
the people of those three states smoker
:, 1867, O59 cigars during the year 1900
Averaging the cigars at 10 cents apiece
the smokers spent nearly $500, 900.
Yesterdays Northern Pacif,
homeseekers' excursion was run il
two sections, accommodating over 40
passengers. Today's excursion will
probably he in thee sections, as tn
travel westward will be much heavie
than that of yesterday. This morn
ing's Burlington was run in two sec
tions also. So far the excursions thi
year have greatly exceeded those TO
the same period last year.
Last Sundays issue of the New
York Herald contains a two-third
page article under the caption 0
"How I Dropped into Monologue' o
some confessions by Beatrice Her
ford. The article gives an idea O
the work of Miss Herford, and show
her in w different poses. Mis-
Herford, who is a sister of City AT
torney J.. B. Herfcrd, has BEEF
"monologing" all her life, SO she says
and keeps on because she really can
help it.
I'm the district court of Lewis an
Clarke county, M. J. Sweeney ha
brought suit against the Northern Pa
cifc railroad for $40, 900. The plain
tiff alleges that October %. 1900, Ii
was injured in a wreck on the North
ern Pacific at DeHart, this state. H
covc ho c,fforod corcrssion IF th