The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-28

iSAloAASu oHly d. SHofI time, going
east from here and subsequently to
the coast and has made his home at
Portland for a number of years.
from Tuesdays Daily Gazette,
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Hays, who
spent several days in the city visit
ing relatives and friends, returned to
Helena, yesterday.
Business car No. 3, having on board
A. Saville, superintendent of motive
power, and r. vi. De Lambert, general
storekeeper of the Northern Pacific,
was attached to yesterday mornings
w%estbound train.
While trains from the west are run
ming on time, those from the east con
tinue to arrive several hours late,
caused by the continuance of the ex-
cessively cold weather in Minnesota
and Dakota. &
A fire in the attic of the county Jail
funday forenoon gave the department
a run The blaze was extinguished
before it had done more than nominal
damage to the building. A defective
1ue was the cause.
Henry Ohland, who formerly resid-
ed here, but removed to Red Lodge,
where he engaged in the plumbing
business, is once more a resident of
the city. He has disposed of his Red
Lodge interests and expects to re-
main permanently. "
So far as can now be recalled f5y
any one familiar with the history Of
that institution the county jail is for
the first time without a single prison
err. The last n to be confined there
was Harry Wolstein, who was taken
to the ~penitentiary last week.
Two of scarlet fever we're
discovered in the northside school
house yesterday. The children affect
ed were Immediately sent to their
homes and the rooms in which they
studied fumigated and every precau-
ton taken to prevent a spread of the
disease.
AS a result of the cold wave the
plumbers have been busy during the
past few days repairing breaks in
water pipes and reservoirs that have
burst in residences and business
places. Several houses were flooded
yesterday and considerable damage
done to carpets and walls. :
Mrs. Allyn Buchanan, Wife of the
publisher of the News, arrived from
Miles City Sunday afternoon and will
make her future home here. For the
present MI. and Mrs. Buchanan will
beard, but hope to be able to secure
a suitable residence later on, when
they will go to housekeeping. shf e
Certiication was made to the coun-
ty clerk and recorder yesterday by
the president and cashier of the new
ly organized State bank that the cap
ital stock of the concern, $50, 900, has
all been paid in. AS previously pub
lished in The Gazette, the bank will
month. r
E. G.. Kuster, who has been filling
the position of stenographer to Agent
Kennedy at the Northern Pacific
freight depot, has been advanced a
number and is now occupying a like
position in the Office of Superintendent
Horn at Livingston. He has been
succeeded at the depot by Mr.. Kniss,
sent out from st. Paul. ~
Wayne, the %15-year-old son of wv.
Vaughan, was seriously injured i'll
ternally last Sunday night by being
kicked in the abdomen by a horse.
The boy entered the barn for the pur.
pose of getting coal and found a o u
pie of horses kicking each other. He
stopped them and vas in the act of
passing behind one of them when the
animal kicked him.
A team composed of F. l.. Mann, E.
w. Keene, Henry Kerr, B. H. Brown,
F. Warwick and M. Durkin will go to
Forsyth this morning to institute a
camp of the Modern Woodmen of
America. recently organized at that
place. The institution will take place
this evening and will be followed by
the usual social features which enter
into occasions of that kind "
A portion of the lower floor of fhe
court house was flooded yesterday at
ternoon by the bursting of a water
pipe near the head of the stairs lead
ing to the second story, which had be-
come frozen. Before any damage