The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
LOCAL NOTES..
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
o. f. Goddard has gone to Glendiv,
to attend court.

Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Handel have re-
Fl. B. Segur, general agent of the
Burlington, left last night for a two
weeks business trip to Chicago.
Fred Foster has so far recovered
from the effects of his struggle with
the grip as to be able to attend to
business once more. "
/I1. Averill has resigned his bosA-
z ton of night ticket agent at the North
ern Pacific depot to accept the place
of baggage master at Butte.
The Minnesota & Montana Land
and Improvement company has sold
to Austin North lots g., 9 and 10, block
204, Billings; consideration $3.50. n
The Northern Pacific is preparing ~
remove the wooden bridge across the
drain ditch east Of the city and replace
it with a concrete and iron structure.
Work has already been begun.
A man named Page, who has been
stopping on the south side, was admit
ted to the isolation hospital Monday
night, having been discovered to be
suffering from an attack Of smallpox.
Dr.. A. C. Panton and wife of Port
land, Ore, arrived in the city yester-
day on their way home from a trip
to the east and will remain in the city
a few days the guests of the Misses
Panton.
According to the division agreed
upon by the executive committee of
the Montana honorary commission of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition,
Yellowstone counsy's proportion of
the fund to be raised is 1878.
The warm weather has caused the
streets of the city to become too
dusty for comfort and the sprinkler
was ordered out yesterday, much to
the relief of those compelled to be out
doors.
Charles Austin with one of his eyes
draped in mourning was arraigned in
police court yesterday morning on the
charge of disturbing the peace by
fighting. His appearance was against
him and he promptly entered a plea of
guilty. 1t cost him IS.
Mr.. Church, who returned yester.
day from a visit to lower California,
reports that quite a colony of Mon
tanans and visitors from the state
is established in and about Los An
geles. He also met many former resi-
dents of Wyoming there, several of
whom have become citizens of the
state and are engaged in business.
After waiting for over three months
for the hacker of the bankrupt Taft to
make good his offer of a composition,
Referee Firth has served notice on
him that unless settlement is made
at once in accordance with the agree
he will proceed to close out the es-
tate in the usual manner. 1t is e
pected that the notice will have the
desired effect and that the long de-
lGIItu ylltuI Will pS LOOdy'
In view of the excellent weather for
work of that kind some of those who
heard the gentlemen make the prom
Use are beginning to think that Alder
men Berky and Reynolds should be
making good their declaration and
begin work with that black team and
plow in the city parks. If they in
tend to do as they declared they would,
now, in the opinion of those familiar
with agricultural pursuits, is the time
for successful blowing and the SOW
ing of grass.
Mr.. and Mrs. S.. D. Church returned
yesterday from a two months sojourn
on the Pacific coast, spent principally
in southern California. Nowhere dur
comparable with that that greeted
them on their return to eastern Mon
tana. From Los Angeles north the
entire coast is deluged with rains
consequently they cut their visit to
San Francisco, Portland and the Puget
Sound cities short. 1t was not until
after they had passed Spokane on
their way home that they got out OF
the rainy belt. "
Two recent arrivals from Kansas
nave been spending the past few days
looking over the valley for land suit
able for entry under the homestead
law. They say if they succeed in
finding two claims located on the
river bottom they will make the neces-
sary filings and undertake to adopt
the Kansas method of %irrigating. This
consists of sinking wells and putting