The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-06

MARY M. CuSQmau, uVo ny MdFCud "A.
Dewar, %executrix, and five by Austin
North, of the Austin North company.
LOCAL NOTES.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
G. w. Spar, manager of the Dono-
van-McCormick company, has been
visiting at Helena.
Attorney Johnston, who has been
out of the city for several days, is ex-
pected to return today.
George Settler, who has been con-
nected with the furniture department
of the Mccormick store, has resigned
his position to engage in business lor
himself.
John Riley was the only offender to
be arraigned in police court yesterday.
He was charged with having been
drunk and noisy the night before. 10
this he entered a plea of guilty and
paid $40.
George B. Kirby, the well known
stockman, who until lately made his
home at Kirby, was in the city yes
terady and purchased a home. He
expects to occupy it shortly, as he IN
tends to reside here after the first
of the year.
During the fiscal year which closed
last Saturday the receipts OF the state
land offices amounted to $293,235.15,
as compared with $2O0,275.25. The
amount received from rentals was
STA, O74.0 4; sales of lands, $58,l79.H;
timber sales, $61,OSl94.
Taking advantage of the continued
good weather the contractors about
the city continue work on the many
unfinished buildings and judging from
present appearances most OF them will
be completed before cold and storms
put a bar on further operations.
The Billings Furniture and Carpet
company, which retired from business
a few months 6 by reason OF hav-
! ing disposed of it's stock to the Nc
} cormick company, will resume bust
/ ness at the beginning of the new year.
Mr.. Thos. Chapple, who was connect
ed with the old firm, is now in the
, east buying a stock for immediate
shipment. The location will be in the
) store in Twenty-eighth street formerly
occupied by the firm.
The supreme court has sustained
: the action Of the state medical board
in refusing to issue a license to prac-
, tice medicine to DIR. J.. f. Grinstead of
: Forsyth. Last Monday the court rem
,. dered a decision annulling the order
! of Judge Clements in granting Grin
stead's petition for permission to prac-
tice his profession in the state while
> his appeal to the district court from
: the ruling of the board was pending.
! In granting the petition the supreme
court holds that Clements exceeded
his authority.
Jerushann Williams has begun az
action for divorce against Arthur D,
Williams and three or four separate
causes are set forth in her complaint
The principal ground alleged is non.
support and abandonment. Plaintiff
o alleges that she and the defendant
a intermarried at Sidney, Ia, July Z
1896, and that since July 10, 1900, the
defendant has not contributed to hel
support, although amply able to do SO
e as he is earning no less than 500 pei
& month, and also that he has refused
v y and still refuses to live with her, all
v in violation of his VOWS to be a good
q and faithful husband.
o Notwithstanding the efforts of the
IT state furnishing board to keep out
d non-union concerns in the matter Of
s dWdIuluS lie "
the state capitol, one of. the success
" full bidders turns out to be a company
e that does not employ union help. Ret
IS ting & Sweet of Grand Rapids, Mich.
IS and the Wolaeger Manufacturing com
e pany of Milwaukee submitted a join
proposal and secured the contract
1T The sum agreed Upon is $37,3l4.25
j. which, while not the lowest bid, i!
considered to have been the best. Th'
tt first floor of the building is to be com
s. pleted ready for occupancy inside o
ID four months, while the rest is to b.
furnished inside OF six months.
According to an opinion of the at
torney general the care of person
affected with smallpox is a public dut,
IS and not a matter of charity. Yestel
day the county commissioners engae
= ed in telephone communication wit
= the clerk of Lewis and Clarke count
and asked him as to the rule followe
= by the commissioners of that count
- in the matter of exacting pay fror
smallpox patients who were able t
IS. 20 personally defray the cost of thei
~ care while inmates of the isolatio
~ hospital. The gentleman replied tna
according to an opinion of the AUTO
~ = ney general on file in his Office tn
matter OF paying was one eutlIel
. optional with the patients themselves
that while the law made it the duty
the county to s%equester and care fc
such persons the county could nj
~. compel them to pay for their keel
- it being entirely a matter for them
- decide. If such persons offer to rein
re burse the county nothing exists to pr
~ vent acceptance of whatever the
50 may choose to pay, but the tende
~ must be voluntary.
Us Says He Was Tortured.
Of II have suffered such pain fro
n corns l could hardly walk" writes
Ot- Robinson. Hillshorough. Ill. "b