The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
mating $40 to the city yesterday for
having INDUCED in a little unseemly
conduct the day before.

mating $40 to the city yesterday for
having INDUCED in a little unseemly
conduct the day before. ~
At their meeting of Friday efeh-
ing the trustees of the Big Ditch COM
pany decided to call a meeting Of
stockholders for April Is to vote IN
the proposition of charging the COM
pany's canal.
S. P. Panton, formerly a resident Of
this city, but now mingling with the
sinners of Butte, came down yester-
day from the west side to do a little
in the insurance line and attend to
some private affairs.
A trainload of mixed sheep, feeders,
was forwarded yesterday by the North
ern Pacific, 20 cars Of which were
loaded at the local yards by Oman,
while the balance were taken on at
Foster, by Quick. another buyer for
the feeding yards. X
(Vhe cold wave predicted for this
part of the state by the main weather
prognosticator at Washington has evil
IDENTIFY become lost en- route. Despite
the warning, the weather continues
warm and the snow covering the hills
is fast disappearing.
The water and electric light conf
pany intends to shortly remove it's Of
fro into nnn nf tho nnw1u finicho6
rooms in the Belknap block facing
Twenty-eighth street. AS soon as the
move is made T. J. bouton, who now
occupies an office upstairs in the same
building, will take possession. of the
company's old quarters. 81
The icemen are taking advantage/of
what they believe to be their last
chance and are losing no time in har-
vesting their crop before the breakup
comes. The ice in the river is be-
coming decidedly porous and the pre-
diction is made that with a continue
ton of the present warm weather it
will be only a few days before it will
OC6lI w AuoNC.
Deputy Sheriff Muir of Rosebud
county al in the city yesterday in
search of an escaped prisoner named
Slater. The man was confined in the
Forsyth Jail awaiting trial on the
charge Of burglary and made his es-
cape last Friday night by breaking
down the door of the Jail. Mr.. Muri
kept close watch on all trains hoping
he might catch a glimpse of his man,
who was thought to have come in this
direction with the intention of making
his way out of the %colntry.
F. P, Sterling, secretary of the MOI
tana auxiliary of the National McKhe
ley Memorial association, in a letter
to Judge J.. r. Goss, Yellowstone
county committeeman, acknowledging
the receipt of the money collected by
the judge as this %county's contribu-
ton to the fund, takes occasion to
thank the donors for the generous
manner in which they responded and
concludes by assuring the judge that
so far Yellowstone is the banner
county Of the state.' The total
amount contributed by the people OF
the county was $1S6.66. a sum it was
thought would be far below the con,
tributionS Of some of the more thickly
settled and Weather counties Of the
state.
In memory of Angus Brown, late
division superintendent of motive pow
err of the New York Central, whose
death was caused by an accident at
West Albany, January 21, Mr.. A. M.
Watt, superintendent of motive pow
er and rolling stock, says the Railway
pamphlet form the address delivered
at. the funeral of Mr.. Brown by the
Rev. George N. Karher of the West
End Presbyterian church at Albany
The pamphlet contains also an excel.
ont engraving of Mr.. Brown and cop.
Is have been sent to every man who
w in the employ of the company IN
der his jurisdiction. The address it,
self s a worthy tribute to the mar
as h. was understood by those who
knew him best-a strong man mental
ly. morally and spiritually, as we'll as
physically.
From TUESDAYS Daily Gazette
A son was born last Sunday to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Spear.
Mrs. Claude S. Brother has returned
from a months visit with relatives in
Alabama.
w. R. Dunnigan has sold to B. R
D%unningan lots Z and s, block 81, Bill