The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-10

ena, where they attended the meeting
of the republican state central COM
mittee.
A telephone message to The Ga
zette from Red Lodge last evening
conveyed information Of the marriage
there yesterday of Daniel Kaufman,
deputy sheriff Of Carbon county. and
Miss Clara Blakely, the latter of
Bridger.
County Attorney Hathhorn, who has
been confined to his room for several
days with an attack of the grip, was
able to be down town yesterday. A
decided loss Of flesh and a peaked ap-
pearance generally attest to the Sc
verify of the attack.
The jury commissioners have COM
pleted selecting a list of names o
jurors to serve during the coming
term of court, which will convene next
Tuesday. Nine hundred James were
taken from the tax list of the county
and from these a panel will be formed.
Mayor George and City Clerk Mathe-
son were engaged yesterday in attach
ing their signatures to the bonds and
coupons of the city hall issue. AS
they are required to sign their names
about 5000 times, each, the immensely
of the job they had undertaken may
be easily imagined.
BY a deed filed for record with the
county clerk and recorder yesterday
Fred Kirch and wife have sold to
Christian Yegen the west half, north
west quarter of section %, township
1. south, range %, east, and the east
half, northeast quarter Of section Fl,
township 1, south, range Is, east, all
in consideration of 81.
Pilfering and petty thieving Of dir
ferent kinds has caused considerable
annoyance to southside residents of
late. A few days ago somebody raided
a clothes line belonging to Mrs. James
Mcbride. Complaint was made to the
police and a search warrant issued,
which was served yesterday, but the
missing articles could not be found.
Judge Fraser rendered a decision
yesterday in the case of State VS.. All
10y, tried the day before on the
charge of conducting a place where
opium is smoked. The court found the
defendant guilty and sentenced him
to pay a fine of $50, together with
the costs of prosecution. Notice of
appeal was given and the defendant
released on bond pending perfection
of the appeal.
Carpenters are engaged IN 0hildSQg
a partition in the store. oom in rear
of the county clerks Office. The addi-
tional room which will be thus form
| ed is to serve for the accommodation
| of the different abstract firms who are
engaged in making copies of the coun-
ty records, and for the convenience of
others who may have occasion to
make an extended search of the rec
OrQS OF the once.
1t may surprise the verac;ous cor
respondent of the Butte newspaper
who recently sent out a dispatch por-
traying the existence in this locality
of an arctic winter, that there is alb
sQlutely no frost in the ground, as is
demonstrated by the various excava-
lions which are in progress in differ.
ent parts OF the city. It is said that
at no time this winter has the ground
been frozen to a greater depth than
about three inches.
Geo. H. Bailey of Red Lodge was
here yesterday, returning from a visit
to Helena, having attended a meeting
of the state republican central com
mittee while at the state capital. Mr..
Bailey is the Carbon county member
of the committee. Interrogated by
The Gazette as to what ne thought Of
the political fight now being waged
within the party Mr.. Bailey said he
regretted very much that a condition
had arisen that might create a breach
in the party that it would require
years to heal over He said that he
had some very warm friends in both
factions and was emphatically of the
opinion thot a ftur year term of Of
fee ought to be sufficient for the aver
age place hunter.
nj IL n II
the Taft estate, lately adjudged bank
rupt, is progressing only slowly. AS
some time ago stated, an offer of COM
position made by Taft was accepted
by a majority of the creditors and the
proper petition for permission to make
a settlement on the basis proposed
was forwarded to the federal court at