The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-01-02
LOCAL AND

From Tuesdays Daily Gazette.
II. H. Griffith of Gebo is at the
Grand.
F. w. Lee of Park City is registered
at the Grand.
John Kersman of Bridger is a guest
at the Grand.
j w. Bailey of Helena is among
those registered at the Grand.
b. A. Campbell, Burlington train
master, is up from Sheridan.
George w. Handel, the Musselshell
merchant, is a visitor in the city.
w. M. Murphy, manager of the Mon
tana Cattle company, is in from Mer-
rill.
Sam D. Church has returned from a
visit to his sheep camp north of Miles
City.
Among the Geboites in the city to-
day is John DAILY. He is registered at
the Grand.
George Watkins will leave tomor-
row for a visit to his sheep camp in
the eastern part of the state.
Trainmaster OFT of the Montana di-
vision of the Northern Pacific is
among today's visitors in the city.
" While the weather in this locality
for several days has been almost sum
mer-like in it's mildness, it is very
evident fhof tho rari1p, - @Lo wood
are not so fortunate. Trains from that
direction are again arriving consider
ably behind schedule time and report
delays on account of deep SHOWS in
the mountains.
Frank Savarsey made goou his notice
of appeal, yesterday, and filed the re-
quired bond necessary to bring the
matter of his recent conviction in po-
Last Saturday a jury found him guilty
OF conducting a variety show within
the city limits and Judge Mann fined
BIN $100 and costs.
|Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock
>Nthe Maverick Hose company, in &C
cordance with it's time honored Gus
tom, will hold it's annual parade as a
preliminary to the ball to be given
in the evening. Several new features
are promised and the turnout will no
doubt attract the usual crowds onto
the streets along the line of march,
Unless something is lone by the
Srifv o1,tlnri{soo %@ ror1o H.
tEieving going on in the several parts
of the residence districts of the town
one or more of the thieves will find
their bodies full of lead one of these.
nights. The people are growing des-
perate and will take desperate steps
to break up the gang who make night
1y visits to their homes for the pur-
pose of pilfering.
VI The relief committee of the Eagles,
appointed to provide Christmas din
ners for the poor and destitute of the
city, according to all accounts was
much more successful in it's quest for
fit subjects of the orders generosity
than was a like committee of another
organization. No fewer than 10 fam
lilies were discovered who were abso-
lutely destitute and almost without
shelter, one family being found in a
shed near the fair ground, who had
nothing except a little corn meal in
the way of food. while the mother
was sick in bed. All we're literally
supplied with fuel, provisions n 9TH
Ell n~ecessaries and for the time being
at least placed above want.
A jury tried the case of the Ryan
Bros. Cattle company VS.. Horace
4. Long Bear, a Grow Indian, in Judge
Fraser's court yesterday afternoon.
The action was for the recovery of a
horse in the possession of the defend
ant and which the plaintiff claimed to
own. The animal in controversy dis
appear from it's accustomed range, &C.
cording to the testimony of plaintiff,
and was not seen again until last fall
at the races at the fair. Long Bear
claimed to have obtained the horse
from a man named Davis, who is said
to have bought it from Dick Hicks,
who in turn claimed to have bought |
i. from Ryan Bros, A verdict in favor
Of the defendant was returned. No
tice of appeal was given.
Sheriff Hubbard returned last night
from Butte with Walter Cox, arrested
there on complaint of a local mer-
chant. who charges him with having
passed a forged check. Cox had moth