The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-03
LOCAL T

From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
w. E. Phillips, the insurance man
of Helena, is in the city.
Miss Alene McGregor, daughter Of
H. McGregor, returned yesterday from
a visit to Butte.
c.. S. harrison of Fargo, N. D., trav-
cling engineer Of this division of the
Northern Pacific, was in the city yes
terday.
G. F. Gage of Helena, deputy United
States marshal, was looking after
some of Uncle Sans business in this
vicinity yesterday.
Mrs. Ella luke, of Red Lodge, is.in
the city sick at the Driscoll hotel.
She is accompanied by Mrs. Ed. Oh
colt, who is caring for her.
The board of trustees of the Mon
tana Wesleyan university, which met
in Helena Monday afternoon, elected
DR.. j. w. Morris of Kalispell as presi-
Ter to succeed the late DR.. Van
Scoy.
w. E. Slower, the new manager of
the telegraph Office at the Northern
Pacific freight depot, was a resident
of this city some II or IA years ago,
when he was manager of the Western
Union Office.
The Billings Steam laundry has let
the contract for the brick work for a
new building to be erected on the cor
ner of Twenty-sixth street and First
avenue. The building is to be one
story, 42x116 feet, with basement, and
will be especially adapted for laundry
purposes.
County Commissioner J.. B. Amin of
Columbus was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. amin brought with him a noun
tain trout, weighing five and one-quar-
ter pounds, it being one of the largest
ever caught in that section. The fish
was on exhibition at the Billings club
yesterday.
Rev. l.. G.. Clark Of Helena is in the
city in attendance upon the Sunday
school convention. The gentleman
came up from Sheridan, Wyo, where
he had been on business in connection
with the missionary work of the Bap-
tist church, being field worker for sew
eral of the northwestern states.
Sam Jackson, the man mat was so
badly injured about ten days ago by
a powder explosion, was removed to
the home of Mrs. Geo. Davidson yes
terday, from the hospital. He is i'm
proving and the attending physician
thinks sit will be a matter of a few
weeks until he is entirety recovered.
Rev. E. NJ. Calvin and wife of Miles
City are among the delegates in at
tendance at the Sunday school con-
vention. They will leave Thursday
night for the east, Mr.. Calvin for Phil
adelphia to attend a general confer
ence of the Presbyterian church and
Mrs. Calvin for Iowa to visit relatives.
captain James C. Reed, who was
mentioned IN the dispatch from Man
lila in yesterday mornings Gazette for
alleged participation in the commits
sary frauds, was formerly stationed
at Fort Custer and was in charge of
the troops in Billings in 1894 during
the railroad strike. He is well known
to many of the people of this city.
R. R. Hathaway and wife of Ver-
mont were visitors in the city yester-
day. They are the parents of C. II.
Hathaway of Park City, whom they
met at San, Francisco a couple of
weeks ago while the latter was en-
route to Honolulu for the benefit of
his wife's health. The elder Mr.. and
Mrs. Hathaway were in their way
home from a trip to the Pacific coast.
Walter Smith, John Riley and VIM.
Norris faced Iolice Judge Mann yes
terday on the charge of vagrancy.
Smith and Norris claimed to be rail
road men on their way to Livingston
from Illinois, and Riley, who is a one
armed man, said that he was looking
for a job as sheepherder, seeming to
think that it was an easy matter to do
such WORK.. In all tnree cases sem
tence was suspended and the men
were given an opportunity to get out
of the city.