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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
WILL INSPECT TRAINS.
How Butte Proposes to Keep Out
Smallpox.

How Butte Proposes to Keep Out
Smallpox.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.
While the health authorities of
Butte are still determined to keep out
cases of smallpox and allow no one
suspected of having the disease or
who has been exposed to it to enter
that city, they have receded from
their first order requiring all strang-
ers arriving on trains to show clean
bills of health. The railroad com
panies combatted the order so strong
ly, especially the Northern Pacific,
that a modification was considered adj
visable. The latter company gave no.
tice that if the order was persisted
in no more of its trains would be per-
mitted to run via Butte. but all
would be dispatched over the main
line, by way of Helena.
The railroads pointed out the hard
ship enforcement of the order would
work o. them and in it's stead suggest
ed that the city employ health in
spectors to board all incoming trains,
at some. point convenient to the city,
they agreeing to give free transport
tation to such inspectors. The sug-
gestion was adopted and the new or
der is to go into effect at once.
BY the adoption of the railroad
companies proposition passengers
will not be required to exhibit certif-
Gates Of health before they will be per-
mitted to enter the city. The in
spectors will board the trains some
distance outside the corporation lin
it's and make a personal inspection of
all passengers. In addition the COM
panies have promised to instruct their
conductors to notify the health officer
by wire of any case of sickness that
may occur on their respective trains.
This will give the inspectors oppor-
tunity to board the trains and de-
termine the nature of the disease be-
fore the afflicted person is permitted
to get off.
The plan is to sidetrack the car
when a case of smallpox is discover
ed. and send the patient direct to
the pest house. The car will then be
thoroughly disinfected and allowed
to resume it's place with the train.
In cases OF scarlet fever and diphther-
ia, the health officer states that the
railroad companies will have to make
some provision fer their care outside
of the city limits.
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MAKING IRON FENCES.
Another Added to HeIena's List of
Manufacturing Concerns.
From Wednesdays Dai1v Gazette.

From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
Helena's manufacturing institutions
are growing in number, if not in mag
nitude. Within six weeks, if nothing
happens to upset present plans, a con
Germ at the Capital City wifi be turn
ing out iron fences of about every
description.
A man from Portland has been at
Helena for a number of days interest
ing capitalists Of the city in the mat
ter of starting up a factory Of the
kind mentioned and has met with ex-
~ceptionally good success. He is a rep
resentative of the Anchor Fence COM
pany, which is operating plants in II
different states. and was brought to
rotary of the Helena Business Mems
association and who has been assist
ing the visitor. The strangers name
is Dean and in speaking of the project
and the goods intended to be manu-
featured he said:
"The Anchor line of fences, includ-
ing farm. railroad and ornamental
fences. is we'll known throughout the
United States, and I anticipate that
the industry will be an exceedingly
good one for Helena. I have succeed
ed in getting some of the leading bus
mess men of the city interested in
the project and am confident of it's
success. The site for the factory
will probably be announced tomorrow,
as this has been left with local men,
who are as yet undecided between two
buildings that have been offered to
u.s."
Only about six men will be employed
at the start, but it is expected that the
increase in business will soon justify
a marked increase in the number of
the employees.
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First Publication Feb. p, 19OZ-6w
CONTEST NOTICE.

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Lewistown, Mon
tana, February u, 1902.-A sufficient
contest affidavit having been iled in
this Office by Gordon Kennedy, con-
testant, against homestead entry No.
1929, made April 20, 1898, for lots !,
2 and 3, and NEA NWA section 80,
township 9 north, range 80 east, NJ. M,
by Jesse q. sGile, contestee, in which
it is alleged hat the said Jesse E.
Gle erected a habitable house
upon, and never established his resi-
dence upon said lane at any time prior
to or since the making of
said homestead entry; that he
has wholly abandoned said
land; that his abandonment was not
in any way due to his being absent
in the army or naval service of the
United States in time of war; that
the present whereabouts of said en-
tryman is unknown; that his last
known place of residence and post
Office address was Musselshell, Mon
tana; that afiant has asked postmas-
ter at Musselshell postoffice and sew
eral persons residing near the land
and could not find present residence
or postoffice address of entryman;
said parties are hereby notified to ap-
pear, respond and offer evidence
touching said allegation at 10 o'clock
a. m. on April 81, 1902, before r. A..
Williams, clerk of Seventh Judicial
District court, at Billings, Montana,
and that final hearing will be held
at 10 O'Clock a. m. on Monday, April
%, 1902, before the Register and Re-
ceiver at the United States Land Of
fee in Lewistown, Montana.
The said contestant having. in a
proper affidavit, filed February 10,
1902. set forth facts which show that
after due diligence personal service
of this notice canno be made, it is
hereby ordered and directed that such
notice be given by due and proper
publication.
EDWARD BRASSEY. Register.
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First Publication AN. "a, 1905
Notice for Publication.

Department of the Interior, Land
Office at Bozeman, Mont, Jan. 81,
l9o2.-Notice is hereby given that the
following named settler has filed no.
t1ce of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before
T.. A. Williams, clerk of court, at Bill
ings. Montana, on March /, 1902, viz:
SAMUEL F. MITCHELL,
Homestead Entry No. 2,1O7, for the
fractional NEA section 4, township
3 south, range % east, M. P. M.
He names the following witnesses
to prove dis continuous residence
upon and cultivation of said land, viz:
Charles S. McFarlin, Of Park City,
Montana; John N. Sackett, of Park
City, Montana; James T. Sayles, of
Billings, Montana; Charles G. .Domi-
nick, of Park City, Montana.
A. L. LOVE. Register.
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WILL try RESERVOIRS.
Two Settlers to Use Storage System
of Irrigation.

! wv oClllCIS " SSS SASI0AVH 0ySICT1
Of Irrigation. .
| From Wednesdays Daily Gazette. x
What is believed to be about the
last land remaining unclaimed in that
part of the valley was entered yester-
day by two men named St. Jean and
De Vaul under the homestead law.
The claims adjoin and are located a
short distance beyond the Northern
Pacific railroad bridge. east of the city.
The land is not under ditch and as the
locators are not possessed Of the
e to construct an elaborate syS-
tenn of irrigation they have decided
to take advantage of nature and hope
to be successful.
Instead of depending Upon the river
for their supply Of water, they intend
to construct a series of reservoirs at
sufficient attitudes to give the requir-
ed fall to carry the water to any point
desired. The reservoirs will be IN
structed by simply daming coulees and
storing the water heaven gives them.
They think the rainfall in ordinary
if carefully h%usbanded, will
be ample for all requirements and
that no trouble need be unprecedented
on account of a scarcity of water.
The experiment will no doubt be
watched with more than ordinary in
terest, for it's success will mean the
of much land throughout
the entire eastern part of the state.
In every valley land similarly situated
can be had for the entering and if the
plan of Messrs. st. Jean and De Vaul
turns out as they expect the number
of farms will be materially increased
not only in Yellowstone. but in every
other county in the arid portions of
the state.
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AN EXCEPTIONAL RECORD.
Of Millions Inspected Not One Mon
tana Sheep Condemned.

DR.. A. r. G~laisyer. government sheep
inspector, passed through Havre Tues
day on his way to Devils Lake, where
he will inspect the Smith band of
sheep before shipment, says the Havre
Plaindealer. DR.. G~laisyer is one of
two government inspectors who in
spect all sheep shipped from Montana
to the markets of the east.
Last year. said DR.. Glaisyer, the
department inspected 1900, 900 sheep
in Montana and the n%eighboring states
and not one animal was condemned
for scab. This can be regarded as a
remarkable showing as in the other
sheep states of the west there are u.s.
ually from 5 to 10 per cent of the
sheep condemned for scab. Montana
is the best state in the union for sheep,
and it is already the banner state for
the production Of wool and mutton.
There are IN the neighborhood of four
and a half million sheep in this state,
which is a larger number than in any
other state in the union.
"The government inspection of
sheep was instituted two years e
and at present there are 26 inspectors
covering the northwest, operating I'M
der instructions from Colonel Hickox
at Salt Lake"
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First Publication February Z, 1902.
Sheriff's Sale.


Sheriff's Sale.
T. G. Grover, plaintiff, VS.. Fred S.
Mills and Ida Mills, his wife, and First
National bank of Billings, defendants.
In pursuance of a Judgment of fore
closure and sale duly made and en-
tered in the above entitled action in
the district court of the Seventh Jul
dicial district Of the state of Montana,
in and for the county of Yellowstone,
bearing date of the 4th day of Feb
ruary, A. D.. 1902, | the undersigned,
sheriff of the county of Yellowstone,
state of Montana, will sell at public
auction at the front door of the court
house of said county of Yellowstone,
on the 3rd day of March, at 10 O'Clock
a M, of said day, the following de-
scribed premises, to-wit:
The east half (1s) of the southeast
quarter (A) of section thirty-six 1867,
township n % north. range TWEEN
ty-five (25) east of the Montana prin-
cipal meridian, situated in the county
of Yellowstone, state of Montana, and
containing eighty ESQ., acres of land.
(Signed) GEO..'W. HUBBARD,
Sheriff.
By ]. T. Sayles, Under Sheriff.
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First Publication Feb. IA, 1902-6w
Notice for Publication,


Department Of the Interior, Land
Office at Lewistown, Montana, Febru-
ary y, 1902.-Notice is hereby given
that the following named settler has
filed notice Of his intention to make
final proof in support Of his claim,
and that said proof will be made be-
fore T. A. Williams, clerk district
court, at Billings. Montana, on Satur-
day, April 10, 1902, viz:
JAMES w. MENpENHALL,
who made H. E. No. 2.6O3, for the
Sh sen, Sh SWA section 26. town
ship 5 north, range 81 east. M. M.
He the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence
upon and cultivation of said land, viz:
William NJ. Murphy, of Lavina, Mont;
Walter O. Lee, Of Billings. Mont:
Jefferson z. Brewer, of Billings, Mont:
Harry B. Drum, of Lavina, Mont.
EDWARD BRASSEY.
Register.
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LEAGUERs ENTERTAIN.
Pleasant Evening Given Their Friends
In Methodist Church,

Pleasant Evening Given Their Friends
In Methodist Church.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.
A delightful social event was that
given Tuesday evening in the base
ment of the Methodist Episcopal
church by the Epworth league of that
denomination.
This was the third attempt made
by the society to bring the young
people of the city together and pro-
vide amusement for them. and it was
even more successful than the others,
about 80 persons being in attendance.
The early spart of the evening was
spent with ~conundrums, the questions
and having both been dis
tributed. Those having the questions
read them and anyone who thought
he had the correct answer read the
amusement. A short programme
was then rendered, consisting of songs
and recitations, after which tables,
upon which were carrom boards, were
provided and some amused themselves
with that game, while others INDUCED
in fruit basket" "grunt," and sew
eral others which proved highly en-
tertaining. About 10 o'clock the car
rom boards were removed and lunch
clothes placed on the tables. and
cake and coffee served.
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First Publication Feb. II, 19O2-6w
Notice for Publication.

Department of the Interior, Land
Office at Bozeman, Montana, Feb. -,
19O2.-Notice is hereby given that
the following named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before
T. A. Williams. clerk of court, at Bill
ings, Montana, on April 5th. 1902, viz:
EDWARD B. KENNEDY,
Homestead Entry No. 2,227, for the
lot 5, section "a, NJ NWA section
35, lot Z, sen SWA section 26, town
ship l north, range 526 east, M. P. NJ.
He anne the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
on and cultivation of said land, viz:
Jacob Burgeson, of Billings, Montana;
Samuel D. Church. of Billings, Mon
tana; George A. Miller, of Billings,
Montana; Lionel l. Hammond, of Bill
ings, Montana.
A. l.. LOVE RepiSter
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Bring your shoe repairing to Post
office basement. 74-tf
A Convincinu Answer.

81 hobbled into Mr.. Blackman's
drug store one evening, Says Yves
ley Nelson of Hamilton, Ga, "and he
asked me to try Chamberlain's Pain
Balm for rheumatism. with which I
had suffered for a long time. I told
him / had no faith in any medicine, as
they all failed. He said: We'll, if
Chamberlain's Pain Balm does not
help you. you need not pay for it, I
took a bottle of it home. and used it
according to directions and in N
week I was cured. and have not since
been troubled with rheumatism.' For
sale by Chapple Drug Co.
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TO PROTECT HIMSELF.
North Dakota Attorney In Town Look
ing Up Testimony.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

my Op testimony.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
II. G. Noss, an attorney of Mandan,
N. d.. has been in the city for the
past few days gathering testimony to
be used in his own defense in a mo,
ton for his d~isbarment, now pending
before the supreme court of North
Dakota. He is charged with having
received protection" money from
gamblers while prosecuting attorney
of Morton county.
One of the men whose deposition is
sought was formerly a gambler at
Mandan and in an affidavit forming a
portion of the foundation for the mo-
ton to disbar testified that he had
paid money to Voss. He now quail
ies this statement in a deposition
taken before a notary of this city by
alleging that he paid the money to
others parties. but understood it was
to go to Voss.
OF course, the accused attorney de-
MES the charge against him and is
seeking to put up a defense that will
overcome the testimony the other side
may have to offer.
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First Publication Feb. 7. 1902
SUMMONS.

IN the District Court of the Sew
enth Judicial District of the State Of
Montana, in and for the County of Vel
lowstone.
No. 1169-Maggie A. Wilson, plain.
tiff. VS.. Edward J.. Wilson, defendant
SUMMONS (for publication).
The State of Montana sends greet
ing to- the above named defendant:
You are hereby summoned to an
swer the complaint in this action
which is filed in the office of the clerk
of this court, and to file your answer
and serve a copy thereof upon the
plaintiffs attorney within twenty
days after the service Of this sum
mons, exclusive of the day of service.
and in case of your failure to appear
or answer. judgment will be taken
against you by default. for the relief
demanded in he complaint.
The said action is brought to OBJ
tain a decree dissolving the bonds of
matrimony between plaintiff and de-
PENDANT, LIST on the ground of deser-
ton. the complaint alleging that de-
PENDANT deserted and abandoned plain
tiff at Usage county, Kansas. in the
year 1896, and has ever since con
tinued to desert and abandon her
without her cause and against plain
tiff's will and without her consent:
2nd, that defendant for four years
last past has neglected to provide
plaintiff with the common necessaries
of life, he having ability soto do. and
having sufficient property, with in
come therefrom sufficient to furnish to
plaintiff such necessaries of life:
plaintiff also prays for general relief.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said court this 4th day of February,
1902.
T. A. WILLIAMS,
tSeaD Clerk.
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%k'Ne FOR RANeE
Nans Want to Bring Large Herd
Into Montana.

If suitable range can be secured, D.
D. S~wearingen and w. S. Hoyt. two of
the largest cattle growers in Northern
Texas, will within the next four years
have upwards of 10000 head of cattle
in Montana. The gentlemen are part
ners in the business and were in Hell
ena yesterday from their ranch near
Quannah, Texas, says the %Independ-
ent.
eve have long known of Montana
as one of the best cattle states in the
union" said Mr.. Swearingen last
night. land inasmuch as our herds are
becoming too numerous to be accom-
modated on our Texas ranch, we have
decided to extend our business to
this state-that is, of course, if we
can cur suitable range.
"We will require in the neighbour
hood of 100000 acres, which, if posi-
BILE, we will buy Or lease. If we Sc
cure the range we intend shipping
about 5000 head of t~wo-year-olds here
early the coming sprng. The year fol-
lowing we will ship about the same
number if everything proves salts
factory, and by the time the young
cattle begin to mature we will prob
ably have shipped about 10000 head
into the state.
"Our herds now amount to over
100000 head, and despite our large
shipments each year. we are at a loss
to provide range for the increase.
Northern Texas is different from what
it was a few years ago, and the rapid
settlement of the country has made
an open range a thing of the past. We
have control of a little over 200 900
acres near Quannah, and if possible
will try to get about the same amount
in this state.
"The Staked Plains. in the Texas
panhandle was the last of the open
range to be taken. For a long time the
scarcity of water in this region pre-
SSlllCu IL DClLS CAIClolf ely uoSu. 1 lO-
gressive stockmen, however, have
overcome this difficulty and windmills
and gasoline engines are utilized to
pump water for the stock. 1t is nee
essary to pump this water about 200
feet, but owing to the high altitude,
there is almost always sufficient
breeze blowing to generate power.
When the wind fails gasoline engines
are brought into use. .
During the last few years the cat
tie business in northern Texas has
been exceptionally good and no stock
man has complaints to Offer"
Both Mr.. Swearingen and Mr.. Hoyt
left last night for northern Montana.
where they will investigate range con-
ditions.
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NELL NOW WANTS TO BE AN
us
ELK.
IS SEEING HIS MISTAKE
Was Angry and Acted Hastily
Wishes He Had Been Com
PEELED to Finish.

James Neill, actor, is beginning to
realize that he made a mistake when
he jumped the game the Spokane Elks
had put up for his benefit, and now
says he hopes that he will be forgiven
by them and the order all over the
country. More than that, he say he
hopes no resentment will be harbored
against him and that when he passes
through Spokane again, which will be
sometime next September. the initia-
ton he so rudely interrupted will be
resumed and that he may be permitted
to go ahead and take the rest of the
work.
Mrs. Neill's awakening came at
Grand Forks. a town over in North
Dakota, where he recently appeared.
Of course. he was interviewed on the
subject of his Spokane experience and
this is what the dispatch reporting the
interview says:
When James Neill appeared a few
days ago in Barbara Frietchie' much
interest was taken in the house he
would draw, and the extent the Elk
boycott would have on the attraction.
While there were no open demonstra-
lions against him, it is a fact that as
far as known not an Elk was present,
as. the members of that order feel that
Neill has not acted as he should have
done toward the lodge in connection
with his partial initiation at Spokane
a short time ago.
Says He Wa MisHpresented.
Mr.. Neill was called upon at the Da-
cotah the afternoon before he appear
ed behind the footlights and was ask
ed if he had anything to say regard
ing the controversy. He stated that
the feeling between the Spokane
lodge and himself had been misrepre-
sented in the newspapers. The letter
he had written had been misquoted in
many of the papers, and others had
published but a part of it, and that
gave a wrong impression. He said
there was no truth in the statement
that he chad it in" for the lodge in
any way. Many of his most intimate
friends were Elks and he would like
to be one some day, when he should
pass through Spokane on his way to
the Pacific coast next September.
However. Mr.. Neill admitted that
he had acted hastily and that at that
time he was very angry. else he should
not have said what he did or acted as
he did. He says that after he had
retired to the ante room and had cool
ed down he realized his position, and
told those near him that he was will
ing to go or with the work and take
the obligations necessary. under the
assurance that he would be kindly
dealt with. BY this time, however,
the members of the lodge were in a
debate on the question. and before any
settlement had been reached his train
was about to leave and he was COM
PEELED to go.
Mr.. Neill deeply regrets the occur
renee, and says he sincerely wishes
the exalted ruler of the lodge had
never permitted him to leave the
room. He acted hastily and admits
it. and also admits hat he was angry
when he wrote his first letter to Mr..
Rockwell of the Spokane lodge.
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The claim of other cough medicines
to be as good as Chambcrlain's are
effectually set at rest in the following
testimonial of Mr.. G. D. Glass, an EN-
ploye of Bartlett. & Dennis Co., Gardi-
ner, Me. He says: 81 had kept adding
to a cold and cough in the winter of
1897, trying every cough medicine I
heard of without permanent help, un-
til one day I was in the drug store
of Mr.. Houlehan and he advised me
to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
and offered to pay back my money
if l was not cured. My lungs and bron-
chla tubes were very sore at this
time, but | was completely cured by
this remedy. and have since always
turned to it when I got a cold, and
find relief. I also recommend
it to my friends and am glad to say it
is the best Of all cough medicines"
For sale by Chapple Drug Co.
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Teachers Examination:

The regular teachers examination
will be held in the court room. in the
city Of Billings Yellowstone county,
Montana, beginning Friday. February
70, at 8 O'Clock a. M. and continuing
on Saturday, March /, 1902.
1876 Marguerite M. Strang,
County Superintendent of Schools.