The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-04-15
LOCAL AND
From Fridays Daily Gazette.

Captain G. A. Romeyn, U. S. A., is
registered at the Grand.
J.. w. Scally of Prior creek on the
Grow reservation, has been t%ransactine
business inNthe city.
w. A. Vale is confined to his home,
suffering from a severe attack of in.
fammatory rheumatism.
w. J.. Mclaughlin, a we'll known
Spearfish, s. D., cattleman, was in the
city a short time today.
Mrs. Collin West has returned to
the city from a visit to her parents,
LIMr. and Mrs. Henry Mueller, at Butte.
u w. N. Eads loaded seven cars of fat
cattle this morning on consignment
to Smith, Haas & Co., South Omaha.
Robert Gruwell has rented the Don
pSA1n home in North T~wenty-ninth
Feet, soc to be vacated by Mr.. and
Mrs. Donovan. 5
PATSY" Brown, who halls from
Butte and prevails upon smokers to
buy Queen Mary" cigars, was in town
yesterday calling on friends. .
BY a deed filed for record last ev-
ening Austin North and wife have CON
Veyed to J.. G. Alderman lots 3 and
I, block 2, Billings, in consideration of
he sum of $3.50.
The Minnesota e Montana Land and
Improvement company has sold to
Austin North lot 4, block II, and lots
), Z and 8, block ITO, Billings town
site; consideration $112.
General Manager Bush of the Rocky
Fork Coal company at Red Lodge,
las gone east, presumably to confer
with St. Paul officials relative to the
miners strike in that town.
The Park City Cemetery association
las become the owner of real estate,
laving bought fve-twelfths of an acre
+ land from T. j. Sayles and wife.
The consideration involved is a mod
st one, $25.
Thanks to the activity of the police.
Itreet Commissioner Keene now has
n efficient and fairly strong corps
q shovel under his immediate COM
rand and is doing good work in the
ray of cleaning the downtown streets.
Mrs. Gerald Panton entertained 40
tile girls and boys yesterday after
o in honor of her daughter Ger
dimes 18th birthday. Out door
ames and the usual birthday feast
elped to make the affair a merry one.
L. L. Moffett, of the Wyoming &
s~ontana telephone line, will leave to-
orrow for California. Upon his re-
I'm he will be accompanied by Mrs.
offett and their two children, who
i've been spending the winter in that
.ction.
T. p. Arnold of this city was one
thei2 20 successful candidates grant
certificates as registered phar-
SITS by the state board, which met
Butte last Wednesday. Twenty !
70 applicants were examined and all
1t two passed.
T. v. Oderkirk had the distinction
being the only offender arraigned
police court this morning. He ALSO
Id the pleasure of being discharged,
he was able to convince the court
at he was not, as charged in the
mplaint, a common vagrant. "
Stocker & Hall of Big Timber, who
st fall purchased about 5000 lambs
I'm l.. D. O'Donnell, r in the city
eparing to gather them and trail
EN- to some point in the eastern part
the state. They expect to- get un-
y way within a day or two.
The trustees for the Episcopal
urch have taken a proposition in
nd looking to the erection of a
tory. With that object in view a
mmittee consisting Of the Rev. Ges-
+ and Henry White, are today So
iting funds among the communi-
its and their friends.
2etsrn has been made on a writ of
achment issued in the case of
rry Scott, ct al, VS.. I. M. Keithler
i wife, an action for debt and in
ich plaintiffs sue for the recovery
$531.45, alleged to be due them on
cunt for groceries and other sup
IS furnished defendants. XII;
Notwithstanding the wet condition
the ground down that way and
fact that the green grass has a
ID start, the presence of huge clouds
smoke, driven in by a strong west
I'd, at Miles City during the greater
t of yesterday caused the belief
T a prairie fire had started to de-
tate the range and considerable ap-
hAnSiOn was coid RI ho folt Loot cori