The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-03

home in Wisconsin. He will go from
here tn Bozeman where Mrs. Waters
and their two daughters are spending
the winter.
Charley Smith of this city has been
appointed game warden for the east
ern Montana district. Mr.. Smiths
appointment is regarded as an ex-
cellent one in the section where he
is best known.
George NJ. Hatch, former state SEN
ator for Sweet Grass county, has been
appointed special immigration agent,
vice D. ]. Tallant, resigned. Mr.. Hatch
left Big Timber last Monday for Great
Falls to enter upon the discharge of
his new duties.
The regular annual meeting of the
Congregational church will take place
tonight at 1880 o'clock. In addition
to the election Of the various officers
interesting reports will be read by the
church officials and secretaries of the
different auxiliary societies.
The state association of plumbers
will meet in this city in annual con-
vention January Is, 16 and II. About
Is delegates are expected to be in at
tendance and the session promises to
be an unusually interesting one. At
the close the visiting delegates. will
be given a banquet by the local mem
bers of the association.
The secretary of the state board of
sheep commissioners announces as
one of the features of the forthcoming
meeting of the Pacific Northwest
Woolgrowers' association, which will
be held at Helena next month, an adj
dress by P. B. Moss of this city. AS
Mr.. Moss is an acknowledged author
ity on all matters pertaining to the
| sheep industry, his address promises
to be of more than ordinary interest.
A Missoula dispatch that
| the office of forest reserve superin-
Guu6u Has OCOu dDOlloucu Ill ILLS
state, and presumably in all others,
and supervisors will hereafter make
| direct reports to the commissioner
kof the general land office. The an
~nouncement was received by Gust
Moser, acting superintendent, in an
official notice from Binger Hermann.
| H,l,o I,+;oc nf thu off on woro not
onerous and the salary it carried was
f$2,O 900 a year.
Sheriff Hubbard has heard from
Deputy Harding. who is still chasing
Huffman and Kilby, the escaped pris-
oners. Mr.. Harding states that he is
close on their trail, or was when he
reported and that he heard of the fell
lows on Parrot creek, where they are
said to have committed some 'sort of
depreciation. The nature of their lat
est offense irs-1not Known, but the sup
position is that they robbed a sheep
camp and laid in a fresh supply of
food.
Mrs. Towne, who conducts some of
the rooms in the Gruwell block as
lodging apartments, is said to have
sustained a serious loss Monday night
through the actions of thieves. A
satchel containing $50 in cash, a gold
watch and some valuable papers was
carried off. The theft is supposed to
have occurred shortly before mid
night, as Mrs. Towne, who occupied
an adjoining room, remembers having
heard a noise in that direction at
about that time. but paid no atten-
ton to it, believing it to have been
made by someone rooming in the
building.
Captain Perkins, the %postofice in
spector for this district, has been con
fined at St. Vincent's hospital for sew
eral days and last Monday underwent
an operation by which of his eyes
was removed. The member was sc
lady diseased that it's removal was
regarded as the only al Of pre-
venting total blindness, the other eye
being threatened with a sympathetic
affection. DR.. Rinehart was the oper
ating surgeon and acted in conjunc
ton wi h DIR. Frank, the lady eye
specialist at present stopping in the
city. The captain is rapidly recover
ing from the effects of the operation
and will soon be entirely recovered.
A new move seems to be intended
by the men who are befriending the
man Logan under arrest at Knoxville
Tenn, as one of the men implicated
in last summers robbery of the Great
Northern. A few days ago the county
attorney at Helena received a tele
gram from a Knoxville lawyer sign
ing himself G. T. Gates, asking the