The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-17
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From Friday s Daily Gazette.
Mrs. E. Erickson has gone to Sheri-
dan, Wyo., to visit friends.
Moses Spear is here from Missouri,
visiting in the family Of his brother,
Willis Spear, ST..
1t is reported that T. J. Bounton will
be named as the successor to $. q.
Reynolds as alderman from the second
ward.
Miss Anna Johnson, who taught
music in the city schools last year,
has gone to Boston conservatory to
study for a term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Becker, Master Edgar
and Lewis Witcher will leave tonight
for a short visit to the Barstow ranch
in Carbon county.
B. Scott and +. T. Burns got drunk
and noisy last night. In consequence
they will be under the orders of the
street commissioner for the next Two
and-a-half days.
The wool season may be said to be
fairly open at Miles City and sales
are reported daily. So far the highest
price paid has been 1874 cents. The
average seems to be about Is cents.
The Misses Irene and 1nez Elliott
and Miss Ethel Hansard, who have
been attending a young ladies' semi
nary at Tacoma, arrived from the
/Mest this morning to spend their va
4 s,Aon. It
= The men who undertook to remove
4 the brick building in the rear of the
court house concluded that they at
tempted a Job they could not success
fully carry out. In consequence the
structure is being torn down to make
room for the modern business block
which is to occupy the ground before
winter sets in. ~
Vivid flashes of lightning and over
cast skies indicated the prevalence
of a heavy storm to the west ana
north of the city last night. Toward
morning the local sky became cloudy
and the chilly condition OF the at
mosphere presaged a storm, indlca-
lions that later were verified by a
gentle fall of rain. T.
It seems to be settled that the Twen-
ty-irst infantry is to be stationed at
the posts in this state. A Miles City
dispatch states that orders have been
received at Fort Keogh to prepare
for the reception of two companies OF
the regiment, which are now en- route
from San Francisco, where the regl-
ment arrived recently from the Phil
ippines.
Tonight at the court house another
effort is to be made to formulate plans
for the reorganization of the county
fair association and settling upon
dates for the annual exhibition. The
association is to receive the report OF
the committee appointed at the last
meeting to canvass the city relative
to the raising of funds and to ascer
tain the wishes of the business mel
and others on matters pertaining te
the list of amusements for the raj
meeting. The meeting tonight shoulo
be we'll attended.
H.. N. Kennedy, recently local agent
of the Northern Pacific, but now {
happy tiller of a patch of sand in TIM
nine regions of northern Wisconsin
Is again in the city. He returned las
night to close up some business mat
tiers, principally horses, and expect'
to remain a few days. During MI
short absence he has accumulated
large crop Of c~allouses and also attain
ed a rick brown hue as the result
of industriously following a pillow ant
~'wrastlin' with the collection Q
stumps the former owner OF the Ian
left behind as a memento of his o(
cupancy.
The coal slack nuisance in tn
streams is engaging the attention Q
the people of Carbon county, as we
as. of Park county, says tn
Livingston Post. The coal washing
from the mines of the Rocky For
Coal company have rendered tn
stream into which they allowed to ru
unfit for irrigating and domestic pul
noses. and ranchers thereon have rail-
ed a fund of $4,000 and employed A
torney T. ]. Walsh Of Helena to as
for an injunction against the cos
company. The petition has been file
in the district court and will probabl
soon be reached and disposed of. I,
~ p Mcdonald. formerly engage