The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-25
From Fridays Daily Gazette.

Lehfeldt ranch.
From Friday Daily Gazette.
The members of the Billings
club will enjoy their usual monthly
social ball tonight.
Miss Marie Sleeper entertained, a
number Of friends at duplicate whist
at her home Wednesday evening.
E. l. Cantine, roadmaster Of the
Northern Pacific, has gone to Cali
fornia on a ten days business trip. "
doc" Spear and wife of the
Big Horn basin, Wyoming, are in the
city visiting Chas. Spear and family.
Fl. j. McShane of Omaha, one of
the railroad contractors of the Toluca-
Cody branch. was in the city yester-
day.
Justice A. Fraser is acting as po-
lice judge in the absence of F. l..
Mann, who is taking a few days va
cation. ATS.
The literature department Of the
Woman's club will meet tomorrow
afternoon with Mrs. H. F. Clement on
North Thirtieth street.
Fred Handel, the Musselshell
crossing merchant and stockman, is
spending a few days in the city look
ing after business affairs.
Rev. Father Victor Day resumed
his journey to Helena yesterday, be-
ing accompanied by Rev. Father Van
Clarenbeck, who will spend a few days
in the state capital.
james H. Johnston, formerly. of
this city, but now residing in Miles
City, where he is prosecuting attorney
of Custer county, has been admitted
to practice before the United States
court. .a.
j. W. Gardner of Bowler is in
the city OIL business. Mr.. Gardner
was formerly engaged in the mercan-
tile business at Laurel, but sold out
recently to the Camp Mercantile COM
pany, and is now a ~full-fledged stock
man.
An operation was performed yes
terday upon Dodge, foreman for G.
H. Sharp, the railroad contractor, at
st. Vincent's hospital by Drs. Arm
strong, Rinehart and Townsend. The
patient is getting along nicely and
will soon be able to be about.
"A tract Of 1900 acres of good
grazing land in the southwest corner
of Fergus county, near Bercall, and
among the foothills Of the Big Snowy
mountains, has just been sold by the
Northern Pacific land department to a
large sheep raiser of that section.
Rev. Father A. Hoffman leaves
this morning for Red Lodge, where he
will hold Catholic services Sunday.
Father Hoffman has been given
charge of all of Carbon county, and
will make his headquarters at Red
Lodge. spending a portion of his time
in Billings.
The mid-winter public %rhetoricals
Of the Billings school will be held in
the opera house on Saturday night,
February 9. The teachers and stu
dents of the high school are at work
on a musical burlesque. These en-
tertainments by the school are always
a source of much enjoyment, not only
to the patrons but others as well. a
ALL mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
desiring to join the Honolulu excur-
sion can do so at San Francisco, Cal.
The round trip from that point
costs 500. Mobiles intending to
go IN the at San Francisco
) must make application to Noble
George F. Sinclair, Grand Rapids,
Mich, on or before February 1, 1901.
The caravan will leave San Francisco
March 6 Oh the new steamship So
mona, arriving at Honolulu March
IL. returning on the sister ship We
tura, leaving Honolulu April 2.
DIR. v. T. McGillycuddy, special
agent of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, is visiting Montana cities
on business. For many years the
doctor was connected with the Indian
department and was one of the few
early agents who could deal with the
Sioux. He was one of the first white
men to reach the scene of the Custer
massacre, and was we'll known in the
Black Hills in the early days. His
duties at present are to investigate all
cases where his company suspects
that it has been %defrauded, and his
work requires a great deal Of travel
ing, his territory including all of the
states west of the Missouri, Mexico,
Alaska and Hawaii.