The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-01-09
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M. w. Nuckols of Cody is a guest at
the Grand.
Walter and Edwain Lehrkind of
Silesia are visitors in the city.
Edward s. Stewart and Joseph M.
Moran of Big Horn are at the Grand.
Walter Story, the Park City horse
man, is in town attending the dis
trict court.
John r. Conway, a native of Scot
land, was granted final papers yester-
day afternoon.
Miss Sophia Bennington is spending
the week at Helena visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. w. j. Cruise.
Mrs. John Lewis and son are here
from the Grow agency. They were
called to the city to seek medical ad-
vice for the latter. S.
DR.. Chapple, who has been confined
to the house for a week or so with
an attack of chickenpox, has recover
ed sufficiently to enable him to re-
sumo his practice.
The expensive doll to be given away
at a drawing by the Donovan-McCor-
mick company, still remains un-
claimed, the person holding the lucky
number not having put in an appear
ance.
No defense having been undertake
en-, Judge Loud ordered a decree of
divorce to be entered yesterday after
noon in the case of William Munsell
VS.. Ellen Munsell. The ground was
desertion.
The condition of James Carwile,
who has been i'll at the hospital for
a week past, took a decided turn for
the worse at a early hour this morn
ing. Mrs. Carwile, who has been
visiting a sister in California, has
been notified by wire to return to the
city at once.
= Last night the directors of the
Parmly Billings Memorial library held
their annual meeting and election of
officers, which resulted as follows:
President, j. r. Goss; vice president,
W. D. Clark; secretary, J. D. Mathe-
son.. treasurer, l. D. O'Donnell. The
last two named gentlemen were hon
Oned nv being r~e-eIected y
Meyer of Carbon county.
will have as his pet hobby in the
legislature this winter the passage
OF a law to compel railroads to run
passenger trains on all branch rail
ways in the state. Senator Meyer
lives at Red Lodge and knows the
inconvenience the travelling public is
subjected to in being compelled to,
ride on freight trains.
By default and on plain
tiff's proof Emma Judge was
granted a divorce yesterday
from Mathew Judge. BY plain
tjff's witnesses it was shown that the
defendant was habitually Incorporate
and that he had failed and refused to
provide for the plaintiff and their
minor children. Custody of the chill
dren was awarded to Mrs. Judge.
Judge Loud, who presides over the
affairs of the seventh judicial dis
trict, which comprises this and the
three counties east of here, finds
himself confronted with a larger
docket at this time than ever before,
in the six years he has served the
district on the bench. Should he try
to clean up the docket in this county
ii would take him over a month to
do SO. The same condition of affairs
exists in Rosebud county, where a
large amount of litigation has come
up by reason of the election contests.
While it is not likely to be brought
about during the present session of
the legislature, the creation of anoth-
er judicial district in this part of the
state will undoubtedly be enacted into
4laM within the next few years.
sNhat there is a constant and grow
ing demand for land in this part of
the Yellowstone valley is manifest
by the recent transfers of realty in
what may be called the immediate
vicinity of the city. l. D. O'Donnell
nine sales within the last few
days. With the exception that in one
instance the land is fenced no i'm
provements have been made on any
of the parcels sold by him, notwith-
standing this the price received in
each case was what may be consider