The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-01

season.
ut is said that now all the checks
that Watkins passed will be paid and
that none II the western persons upon
whom be passed any Of his paper will
proceed against him. An arrange
ment to this effect was entered into
sometime ago by relatives of Wat.
kins and the men whom he took in.
After having spent eight months in
the county Jail of Yellowstone coun-
ty Phillip Doremus Watkins, who is
charged with having left a trail OF
forged checks behind extending from
the eastern limit Of the United States
to the coast Of California and thence
back to Billings, vas turned loose to.
day and is now free to do as he
pleases.
~ consignment Of Boston ivy, the
~ OF Frederick X. Billings, has been
received by l. ID. O'Donnell, one Of
the trustees of the Parmly Billings
Memorial library, with the request
that it be planed about the library
building. The plant is an exceptional
ly hardy one and it is expected that
in a few years it will almost complete
ly cover the walls Of the structure.
"a new schedule Of rates for hauling
by teamsters belonging to that or
ganization has been adopted by the
local labor union, to become effective
May Is. On and after that date the
prices charged will be as follows:
Rock, so cents a percn; brick, $1.25
per 1000; gravel, 81 per yard; sand,
81 per yard; coal, single tons, As
cents a ton; coal, carload lots, 40
cehks a ton; garbage, Is cents a load.
z Early shearing has become the GUS
tom with many Of the sheepmen of
Custer county. A day or two ago
machine shearers finished a lot Of
about 10000 for w. e. Harris, near
Miles City, and arrangements had
been made to continue the season, but
the stormy weather of the earlier part
of the week caused a change to be
made and it is believed now that but
little, If any more shearing will be
done before the middle of May.
Referee Firth has been notified that
the Judge of the United States dis
trict court has made an order direct
ing that the schedule of liabilities and
assets of A. O. Newton, an involuntary
bankrupt, must be filed with the ref
cree on or before May 4. Newton has
left the country and the duty of max
ing the necessary filings devolves up
on the creditors, unless the bankrupt
should see fit to return before that
date, something not regarded as at
'alkaikely to- occur.
night while a long string Of
freight cars were being switched in
the Burlington yards, a brakebeam OF
one Of the cars broke and dropped m
to the track. This caused the car and
the one Immediately behind to become
derailed, but without being upset. The
accident occurred near the Twenty
seventh street crossing and before the
could be stopped the derailed
cars had torn away the platform in
of the depot and also a small
Of one corner of the depot it,
self.
A motion for a continuance of the
was filed this morning by the
county attorney. The ground given
was that it had been impossible to
secure the attendance of an important
witness for the prosecution. The mo-
tion was o%verruled, on objection of the
defense and a jury was ordered en-
p~annelled. Some difficulty a ex-
p%erienced in securing men qualified
to sit and it was not until a special
had been returned that II men
without opinion or prejudice were Sc.
The state made q poor case, omit
ting to prove that the check said to
nave been forged and which George
Bennighoff cashed had ever been
presented. Neither was it proved that
payment of it had been refused, or
hat no such person as the payer,
John T. Swain" had an account or
credit in the Amesbury National bank
II Amesbury, Mass, nor that Wat
xins, or George w. SWAIN" as Wat
lins called himself when he arrived
It the hotel, had said the check was
good.
Frank l.. Thayer of Fenton, Wyo,
presented himself at the Office of the
.1or1k nj tho district cO11rf vaSfAr.