The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-12
LOCAL NOTES.
From Wednesday. Daily Gaz tie.

Fred T.. Gibson of Forsyth was a
business visitor in the city yesterday.
Attorney w. F. Meyer of Red
Lodge came down last night to attend
district court.
e. J. Mclean of Red Lodge was
looking after business affairs in the
city yesterday.
Mrs. E. B. Flaherty returned to
Butte yesterday afternoon. after a
visit to her husband in this city.
The Northern Pacific is improving
it's tracks in the yards and also paint
ing the various buildings of the com
pany.
Mrs. w. H. Shipman, sister of
Mrs. w. H. Morse, has gone 10 Big
Timber for a short visit to her brother,
II. S. Evans.
j. NJ. Loring, one of the popular
clerks in Holmes & Calhoun's drug
store, has gone to Helena for a few
days sojourn.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Tele-
rhone company has begun work on its
local exchange at Miles City, and $50
phones have already been contracted
for.
The lodge Of Royal Highlanders
gave an after Easter dance at their
hall Monday night, which was one of
the pleasant social occasions Of the
season.
w. 0. Steele, secretary Of the Big
Horn County Wo~olgrowers' associa-
ton, is in the city. Mr.. Steele is also
one of the sheep commissioners of
Wyoming.
AT the school election in Butte
only 276 votes were cast out Of a total
of 1868 which had been registered.
The vote was about half as large as
that cast in Billings.
Mrs. G. Nord and daughter Lillian
have gone to Spokane, WASH, after
spending a few weeks in visiting
relatives. They will make their
future home in the city OF the coast.
Rev. F. S. Terrence, pastor of the
Congregational church at Laurel, has
beer spending a couple of days in the
city on matters relating to his church
work in the western part of the county.
20. G. Cato Of Miles City was here
yesterday. He wal on his way to
Alaska, where he will try his luck in
the placer mines. Miles City has
%sevearl citizens located in the northern
country.
e. A. Richards, foreman for Caleb
Thompson, a we'll known sheepman,
returned from the east yesterday with
a bride, having heen married last
Sunday to a popular young lady OF
st. Cloud, Wis. 4
Charles M. Russell OF Great Falls,
famous all over Montana as the cow
body artist, passed through the city
yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Rus
sell, being en- route TO St. Louis to
visit Mr.. Russell's parents for several
weeks.
The proposition to establish a free
county high school in Great Falls was
voted down last Saturday by an over
whelming majority. Almost every
district in the county recorded an ad-
verse vote, the majority in Great
Falls alone being $40.
DIR. H. E. Armstrong. left yester-
day for a short s%ojourn at Hunters
Hot Springs. after which he will go
east on a vacation. DR.. S. K. Nc
Dowell has returned to Billings and
will look after DIR. Armstrong; prac-
tice during his absence.
Mrs. A. S. Whiteway and chill
dren, who have been visiting in Bill
ings for the past few weeks, returned
to their home in Butte last night, be-
ing accompanied by Mr.. Whiteway,
who will look after business interests
in that city for a few days.
The woolgrowers of the southern
part of Wyoming have decided thai
they will pay for shearing s cents per
head without board or Z cents per head
and board. 1t is thought these prices
will prevail all over that state. The
shearing season in that state will be.
gin shortly
j. F. Davis and family left yes
terday morning for Dickinson, N. D.,
where they will reside and which
place was their home previous to CON
ing t o Billings a few months ago. Mr..
Davis was q member of the lumber
firm of Walton & Davis, who sold
their business the first of the month.
Two more cases of smallpox were
discovered yesterday, n Of the cases
being the 19.year old son of Mr.. Nc
Newer, at Canyon creek. The other
is a colored man, who was sent to the
detention hospital by order of City
Physician Baxter. The McNeever boy
is ~quarantined at his home up the
valley.
Walter Anderson, EDITOR of the
Red Lodge Picket. was in the city last