The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-15

Misses Marion and Blythe, and Miss :
Anna Belle Arnold, who have been 5
visiting friends in the city several s
weeks, departed this morning for Vel {
lowstone park, which they will tour !
completely. Miss Arnold will then re- :
turn to her home at Mexico, Mo-, n )
Mr.. Johnston and daughters will go
to Beatrice, Neb. /:
]. w. Fish returned on the belated
train Saturday afternoon from e
York, where he went about a month
ago for the purpose OF having an per
alton performed. The operation was
not so complex as first 1t was
thought to be and Mr.. Fish withstood
it very successfully and is now al
most fully restored to health. HIS
numerous friends are glad to welcome
hing home again.
storm that amounted almost
Yto/a hurricane swept down on the
fair grounds yesterday afternoon
Sduring the progress of the Bllllngs-
Bozeman ball game. No damage was
done except blowing down the race
track fence but the grand stand shook
and trembled greatly al many OF
the spectators ct the game ran out
Of the structure thinking it was going
to collapse.
IA negro dish washer employed with
a Burlington dining car made an ne
roic effort to pick a fight out OF a
Northern Pacific express messenger
al the depot this forenoon, calling the
messenger all the vile names he could
command. After the messenger had
finished unloading his car he got OUT
and looked for the negro but the lat
ter had pulled in out of sight n ala
not come out of the car thereafter.
= The Musselshell country, the home
: of Elmer B. Carter, sent some sur
prising news to- the city yesterday
in the announcement that twin girls
: had made their appearance in the a
ter household, Mr.. Carter was IN
town Saturday and went to the rancn
: post haste when he received q mes
: sage by telephone that he was about
: to be called papa by twin girls
.Boxey'' Farrell vas Frustrated When
:. the news came to- the city.
, John Vogel was given 20 days ant
n 20 minutes by Judge Mann this morn
. ing on a plain drunk charge. The
20 minutes was a saving claus addee
after the 20 days had been assessed
and John took advantage of it ant
"hiked'' cut of the city on double
quick. Tom Wise was also befor'
his honor for indulging in a plain, un
ornamented drunk. He acted as nj
own lawyer and his arguments Wer
d SO terse and convincing that he udg
W allowed him to go u%nscathed. x
" TO Saturday night there ha'
IS 1@s6 baled at the Northern Pacif1
~ fhd9ing plant, / 1896, 900 pounds Of WOO
representing the sales at that war
iss house for the preceding week. In
OF Northern Pacific now has 5,OOO,OO
pounds in it's warehouse n car
lis nearly all of it having ccome in wit
IS in the past week. The entire sale
for last week in the Billings marke
m aggregated about 100000 pound
lis This weeks sales will likely doubl
raj that figure.
Tom Murray. who operates a pun
L. for the. Northern Pacific company
in Conway. a. station about 43 miles ca
cir ct, Billings, who shot a section nal
named Hans Hansen on h 4th ms
,ol putting a pistol ball through h
he shoulder, was brought into Justi'
I'M Fraser's court, late Saturday afte
noon, for arraignment. He entered
* plea of not guilty and in reply fro
~ an inquiry from the. court declare
that he had mo- funds with which
employ a lawyer. Whereupon JUST
Fraser appointed Attorney Il. A. frl
to defend Murray at the prelimina
examination which was set tor Fra
next at 2 p. m.
VS.. The wool buyers and a mixed tea
nh. of artists, a portion of whom we
railroad men, played another wa
game of ball Saturday afternoon
nrv $50. The casualties n light
far as reported. Both teams q
~fective batteries and at the n
the second inning the score stood I
to one in favor of the mixed tea
The wool men then pulled themsel'