The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-14
LocA. NOTES..
From Saturdays Daily Gazette,

among the guests registered at the
Grand, yesterday.
Miss Mary Mccormick left yester-
day for st. Peters, Mont, where she
will enter the sisters academy.
Winthrop Raymond of Sheridan,
Mont, was a visitor in the city, yester-
day. He was a guest at the Grand.
Colonel E. G. Waters, the handsome
commodore of Yellowstone lake fame,
was in the city yesterday on business.
Arrivals from there report the ex-
istence of smallpox at Hunters Hot
Springs. So far only one case of the
disease has made it's appearance.
Robert E. Gruwell, who with Mrs.
Gruwell has been sight seeing in the
east for several months past, has re-
turned. Mrs. Gruwell remained east
with relatives.
Mrs. r. e. Hardness, who has been
spending the winter with friends at
Minneapolis, will return in a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hardness will occupy
the Morse home in North Thirty-irst
street.
Mrs. Geo. l.. Ravens after a visit
with her mother, Mrs. M. Filler, left
yesterday morning for her home in
Butte, where Mr.. Ravens fills the posi-
ton of city ticket agent for the Oregon
Short Line.
A shipment Of severa7 Thousand
head of sheep, which the Beasleys
bought from J.. l.. Miner, will be made
today. The price has not been made
!'Lllic, but it is SAT-, to have ',een in
the ne,;,boorhrc'i If $3.50 per hun
bred.
Mrs. Bradley, who resides in North
T~hir+y-irst street, is under a physi-
clans care for injuries received
Thursday evening by falling down
stairs. She severely wrenched her
arm aud is reported as suffering in
%tensely. NJ
The state historical association
rooms at Helena have been adorned
by the addition of two large photo
graphs OF the Parmly Billings Memo
rial library. They are the first of a
collection which it is intended to be
made by the labor bureau.
Judge Mann was engaged yesterday
afternoon in taking dispositions of wit
nesses for the plaintiff in the case
of George W. Hubbard VS.. the North
ern Pacific Railroad company, an &C.
ton for personal injury, which comes
up for trial at st. Paul next Tuesday,
January IA.
Articles of incorporation Of the
Vogue Clothing and Shoe company
have been filed for record. The in
~corporators are S. E. and G. c. Berken,
G. M. and c. H. Luderman and C. E.
Bever. The company proposes to en-
gage in business in the city, having
purchased the Luderman Shoe COM
pany stock and the Yegen northside
clothing stock.
The business of the postofice has
reached such a volume that Captain
Babcock has decided to make requisi-
ton for another carrier and an addi-
ton to the clerical force of the office.
While the department is somewhat,
chary about complying with requests
of that nature, the captain believes he
will succeed as the work which the Of
ice is compelled to do has outgrown
the capacity of his present force.
Mrs. w. o. Parker was the hostess
at a pleasant afternoon yesterday at
her home IN North Twenty-ninth
street. The affair was quite informal,
and was given in honor of Mrs. Rachel
Carson of Chicago, who is the guest
of her n%ieces, Mrs. Ed. Cardwell and
Mrs. DR.. Parker. Fancy work and
conversation served to while away the
time in an agreeable manner. Re-
freshnents served on small tables on
cluded the afternoon. "
The shareholders in the company
prospecting for oil on Cottonwood
creek, Carbon county, are greatly en-
couraged at the latest reports from
their property. DR.. Lindsey, n of
the stockholders, visited the works
last Thursday and found the drill down
about 100 feet. The flow of gas had
increased to a marked degree, while
the water pumped showed the pres
nee of oily matter in greatly increas-
ed quantities. The doctor expects to
leave for Chicago next week and will
take some of the water with him for
ANALYSIS by an expert chemist.
The men prospecting for oil in Car
bon county are not having a monopoly
of the excitement incident to mining