The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-21
LOCAL NOTES..

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Mrs. James Swisher of Grow agency
is in the city, the guest of Mrs. L. H.
Parker.
W. j. Cruise, the Helena cattleman,
went west yesterday morning after
a brief stay in the city.
Henrietta J. Slime and husband
have sold to Sarah J. Kuschke the
westerly 40 feet of lots S and 6, block
1872, Billings TOWNSHIP; consideration,
$1OO.
The funeral Of the late Joseph F'alN,
who died at Chicago, took place yes
terday afternoon from Smiths un-
dertaking rooms. A large number of
friends of the deceased attended.
A deed filed for record with the
county clerk and recorder yesterday
and executed by Charles King con-
veys to Fred B. Mitchell the south
half of the southwest quarter Of sec
ton 10, township 2, south, range 23.
east, for the sum of $4,000.
Work has temporarily stopped at
the we'll Billings parties are drilling
for oil up in Carbon county. 1t has
been found that the bit of the drill
used is too small and until another is
received nothing can be done. A new
one has been ordered and is expected
shortly.
Billings is promised a real cafe
better than which it is claimed none
will be found in the state. The par
ties who intend to engage in the ven
ture have leased the storeroom in tire
Gruwell block facing Tw%enty-ninth
street and will open as soon as their
furniture and fixtures arrive.
Mrs. c. j.. Chapple and Mrs. j. E.
Elliott, the latter accompanied by her
son, left yesterday for Hunters Hot
Springs. Mrs. P. l.. Reece, who has
been visiting in the city also went
with them and expects to remain a
few days at the springs before pro-
ceedings to her home at Helena.
The efforts of the man 3anta, in
Jail on the charge of having violated
the postal laws, to obtain bonds have
proved futile SO far and an officer
is expected from Helena to take him
to that place to be kept a federal
prisoner until the next United States
grand. jury is convened, which will
be sometime in April. ~
Much to the surprise or everybody
At |howed, yesterday. The fall was
Sight, barely enough to cover the
it allayed the dust in the city and
impaired a little moisture to the
range. 1t melted almost as fast as it
fell and within a few hours after the
first flakes began to descend it had
entirely disappeared and the ground
was bare, but wet. N
Two carloads of what experts bro
nounced to be the finest Herefords
ever seen in this part of the state
passed through the city yesterday, en-
route to Whitehall. They were all
of the bluest blood known and each
bore the mark of it's high breeding in
the form of horn brands giving it's
number and also the herd number.
They were a special lot picked up at
the Kansas City sale of pure bred
stock and the prices paid for them
ranged from $400 to $500, each.
L. p. Benedict, chie1 c-erk of rhs
state bureau of statistics, arrived in
the city yesterday and will make this
his headquarters for a number of days
while gathering figures and data for
the bureaus annual report. Before
coming here he spent several days
at Big Timber obtaining facts in con-
nection with the wooden mill. also
making views of the plant, which will
be made the subject of an extended
article in connection with the report,
being the first and only enterprise Of
the kind in the state.
Otto Chenelworth, the alleged North
Dakota ~horsethief, who was arrested
in this city sometime ago, is again at
large. Information has been received
that he broke Jail at Medora last
Sunday. It seems that the jailor wilG
was responsible for his safe keeping is
of a religious turn of mind, at all
events he violated the Medora custom
to the extent of going to church, leav-
ing the jail securely locked as he
supposed. When he returned from
his worship he found Chenelworth
gon although the Jail seemed to be
as we'll locked as before.
After a delay of several months>the
assembly room of the high school
building has finally been completed,