The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-29

Grass counties. During their absence
they visited the saltwater, where
they caught more fish than they knew
what to do with and also were at
Nye, both the old and new towns Of
that name. They killed sage hens
and also ate some bear meat, but the
latter was not OF their own killing.
A generous gentleman of another par
| ty managed to kill one Of the animals
and gave them a share.
The fire department was called ON
last evening in response to an
usual alarm. A freight car attachet
to an e%astbound Northern Pacific
train was found to be on fire. 1t was
hauled opposite to the lunch house
and there the blaze was extinguished,
the fremen aiding the railroad men
with their chemicals. The roof OF
the car and also the sides were badly
damaged, but as near as could be
learned little damage was done to the
contents, consisting of dressed lum-
Der. In a few minutes afterward a
second alarm was sounded, it having
been found that still another car OF
the same train, which had been left
near the west end of the yards, was
also burning. It was brought down
to the corner Of Twenty-ninth street,
where the blaze was speedily put out.
Like the other it was loaded with
lumber. Both fires are supposed to-
have had their origin from sparks
thrown out by the locomotive.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
A. Morrison of Glendive is at the
Grand.
Dan Slayton Of Whitehall is regis
tered at the Grand.
III w. d. Patterson came up from Glen
hive this morning and is quarted at
the Grand.
j. M. Tolman is among today's Wis
itors. from Red Lodge. He is q guest
! at the Grand.
George A. Smith, a native of Scot
: land, filed his declaration of becom-
: ing a citizen with the clerk of the
: district court, yesterday afternoon.
The Billings & Musselshell tele-
: phone line has been leased for another
: year to L. l.. Moffett, who has been
operating it the past several years
!, Jesse March, who resides on Canyon
! creek, came to town yesterday after
noon for the purpose of securing med
ical treatment. He is the owner of an
apiary and became mixed up witt
+, one of his swarms, with the result
that he was stung almost to death.
D. A. Sinclair, the Dayton, Ohio
4, gentleman who has been seriously
= sick at the Sisters hospital since las
week, was reported as c~onsiderabl!
improved this morning. He has re
gained sufficient strength to enabl
him to sit up in bed, while his min
:. is also becoming much clearer.
/. 1t seems that the small t%erritor,
= covered by Billings and immediatel
adjacent alone escapes the welcom
rains which have been reported du1
ing the past few days from almos
:, all directions. Over on the Musse
shell heavy r%ainfalls have occurre
within the last week, while at Par
City it rained heavily for fully hal
an hour yesterday afternoon.
The grasshopper plague which I'D
visited localities to the east is repor
ed as having made it's appearance i
the section about Iavina. In som
places the range has been denuded {
grass by the pests and as they al
still travelling it is feared that muc
damage will be dcne by them. TIL
is the. first time in the history of Mo
tana that grasshoppers in number
: sufficient to cause material loss ha,
ever appeared.
Nv Because of designations that can
ng in after the personnel Of thescorps hi
NO been selected the board of educatlt
,rt is finding itself short of teachers. J
,ut fill the vacancies the trustees ha'
&C. been wiring to- several OF he app
SEES cants who applied for positions ca
lier in the season, but so far wi
only Indifferent success. This MOI
M ing a telegram was received fro
- Miss Mary F. Loves of Muskegc
Il Mich, accepting the boards offer
~ the position of teacher of the four
lin, gfaue' : W.
has Constantly Increasing traffic is co
out pelling the Northern Pacific to
sor- crease it's motive power and ord
ire. for new locomotives are stringing II
the shons of. the east from the co