The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-08

almost any time, especially a little
later on, when the warm weather be-
gins.
From Sundays Daily Gazette.
The Little Mothers club held their
weekly meeting yesterday afternoon
at the home of Harry Logan.
c. ~ Sharkey, travelling freight
agenHgf the Northern Pacific, has
gone Ast on a short vacation.
/W6rk has been begun on the walls
Of that part of the new city hall which
is to be used as a fire station.
A. L. Love, register of the United
States land office at Bozeman, was
among yesterdays visitors in the city.
A special composed Of empty
coaches and one sleeper passed east
over the Northern Pacific yesterday
afternoon.
Superintendent Horn came down
from Livingston yesterday and SPENT
the afternoon in the city, returning
this morning on the %westbound train.
hAnother large trainload of sheep be-
Hodging to P. B. Moss passed through
he city from Laurel yesterday after
Yroon for Wibaux. where they will be
turned onto the. range.
Henry Blakely, general freight
agent of the Montana division of the
Northern Pacific, spent yesterday in
the city. He arrived on the Burlington
and deft for the east last night.
Ehe School election passed off so
QhietW yesterday that it is safe to
large portion of the community
wits not aware that it was being held.
lEhe vote cast was light, there being
fonly one candidate in the field, P. B.
Moss, who was nominated to succeed
himself. 4
TheINorthern Pacific carpenters at
thjs City says the Glendive Review,
W. fitting up so box cars for use OF
Nktra. gangs on the Yellowstone di-
| vision this summer. 1t is stated that
half a million dollars will be expended
for improvements on the division dur.
ing the coming summer. ~
Superintendent Newman Kline of
the Yellowstone division of the North
ern Pacific, was in the city yester,
day, on one of the last of his visits,
as he expects to leave in about five
days for Tacoma to take charge OF
that end of the road, a position he was
advanced to a few days ago.
Word was received from Butte yes
terday that a No. IL, in addition to the
one started from Portland, would
leave there last night, az some Of the
rolling stock of the flyers" has been
held up there since the disarranges
vent of traffic consequent upon the
h,ockade caused by Lake McKenzieX
Street Commissioner Keene has
stayed. to enforce the ordinance
against throwing waste paper into the
stree and yesterday caused the ar
rest of a Montana avenue merchant
for violation of the ordinance. Judge
Mann dismissed the action upon the
defendants promise not to be guilty
again of the same offense.
The match game which was to have
beeI played at Livingston last
uig6th etween a team of that
yNy/ and representatives of the
M4Eic City Bowling club, has been
k6stponed until next Saturday, when
Nhe Billings bowlers will participate in
a three. cornered contest, having Liv
ingston and Bozeman for their op'
ponents< X
sy6erinte6dent Haviland was in the
olty Yesterday and stated that the
hnis1 ing touches were being put on
vt new county bridge across the Ye|
Nowstone, east of the city. All that
remained to be done was to finish the
painting, something he thought would
be completed by nightfall. Next Tues
day a special meeting of the board OF
county commissioners will be held fol
the purpose of acting on the matter
of accepting the bridge. Y
According to recent Wyoming news
papers received, Woodland, who was
hanged by a mob at Casper, last week
did not jump from the edge of the gal
lows, as was at first reported. i
seems that he was pushed off by mem
bers of the mob, who could not worl
the trap and seemingly were. fearfu
of interference. AS told by those same
newspapers the lynching was no les'
brutal than the crime for which sum
mary vengeance was taken by thu
lvncherS.