The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-03-04
LOCAL NOTES..

10 CHdTleS r. burton lou "a, DOCK
164, Billings townsite; consideration
81.
tonight for Denver, where Mr.. Frat
will attend the meeting of the Ma
tional Stock Growers association.
F. R. Browning, who until recently
was in the company's employ at Penn.
bina, N. D., has been appointed night
city ticket agent at the Northern Pa
.cific depot.
Paul Mccormick expects to leave
tonight over the Burlington for Chi
cago to join his daughter, Miss Merle,
who is in a hospital there to under.
go an operation for appendicitis.
In accordance with law the county
assessor will begin to make his rounds
next Monday and Mr.. Smith is pre-
pairing for his annual visits to the
holders Of property and hopes that
he may overlook none, as he is very
DESTROYS of sighting nobody on his
Aollll6 llol. oIOulu LII lIlduNCICduLly
miss some he will consider it a per-
sonal favor ii the aggrieved ones will
kindly notify him and he will do all
in his power to correct the mistake.
A real or imaginary grievance caus-
ed John Mcpherson to go on the war
path On the south side Thursday
night with the avowed intention of
cleaning out" several places and per-
ons His belligerency caused him
and a. policeman to come together,
with the result that he spent the
night in the lookup. Yesterday morn
ing he was fined $40 and only the
%.opulence Of a friend saved him the
disgrace of working out the fine on
the streets. NJ
1t seems that the troops now Sta
toned at Fort Keogh are an excep-
tionally unruly lot and hardly a day
passes that some of them do not get
into trouble more or less serious. The
latest row of any proportions occur
red a few days ago. when several pris-
roners in the guard house overpowered
the guards and almost beat one of
them to death, after which they es-
capped to the woods below the post.
A detachment was sent out and speed
lily recaptured the fugitives.
William Murphy, the Lavina stock,
man. arrived in the city yesterday and
confirmed the many good reports con-
corning conditions IN the range that
have been brought in of late. He says
sheep and cattle are strong and fat,
many of the latter almost fit for the
block. The frost is all out of the
ground and grass is beginning to
grow nicely. A fall of about a foot of
wet, soaking snow, in his opinion
would materially help things just
about now by affording much needed
moisture to vegetation. N
A fire in a box of rubbish in reayd
the Boston store caused an alarm to
be sounded yesterday afternoon that
brought out the department in a hur
ry. Before they could reach the place
the firemen were notified that their
services were not required, the blaze
having been extinguished with a few
bucketfuls of water thrown onto il
by a clerk of the store. How the fire
originated is not known, as the box
stood where it was not exposed to a
careless smoker who might have
thrown a lighted match into it. y
sounded a few hours after the first
gave Their fire department anothe
causeless run. The last was caused
by a fire in n of the frame shacks
in Minnesota avenue, between Twenty
fourth and Twenty-ffth streets, oc
cupied by Bertha Helms, which made
its appearance on the roof, near the
chimney. When the firemen arrived
at the place the woman was on the
roof pouring water on the blaze and
in strong and vigorous language pay
ing her compliments to a crowd Of
loungers below. She succeeded in
extinguishing the fire before it had
done more han nominal damage.
Notice has been given by the posta
department to the railway mail clerks
that the annual weighing of mail mat
ter carried by the railroads will be
gin March 4. A new departure in con
nection with the order is that unlike
heretofore no representatives of the
railroads will be permitted in the
cars to witness the weighing. Thu
railroads, if they wish, may weigh the
mails at terminals, functions ant
points of transfer, but then only wher
they are not in actual possession OF
the government, which means that il