The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-24
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From Fridays Daily Gazette.
\ s. l.. Boyd of Bonner is registered
at the Grand. Z
Sheriff Potter of Carbon county was
in town last night.
Mrs. Lizzie Mills of Joliet is a
guest at the Grand.
H. v. Bailey left this morning for an
extended tour of the northern part of
Wyoming.
H. H. Mund, a former banker Of
the city, will come here from Denver
to attend the funeral Of the late
Henry G. Lowell.
This morning the funeral Of the in
FAINT son of Joseph Ashbridge took
place from the home of Mrs. Sarah
Thompson. The Reverend Mr.. Clark
of3slated. ...
1T is very evident that Billings will
have no professional ball this season.
Harker and Smalley, two of the crack
players Of last years team, have sign
ed with the Leavenworth team Of the
Missouri Valley league and are under
or1ersto report April 1.
" Bhder the directions Of Superin-
lxendent Searles a force of men is at
! work at the terminus of the Big Ditch
company's canal filling the washout
that the waste water caused in the
county road at that point last summer.
The hole is an immense one and much
material will be required to fill it.
Frank Renie, who is charged with
having shot Tom Soloman, was ar
raigned last evening before Judge
Mann on a complaint filed by the
county attorney, charging him with
assault in the first degree. Prelim-
mary hearing was fixed for next Mon
day, March %. In default Of $3.50
bonds the defendant was remanded
into the custody of the sheriff.
Jess Richardson, Jack Elliot and
Frank Estus we're a%rraigned before
Justice Man yesterday. afternoon on a
state complaint charging them with
disturbing the peace. The men reside
near the race track and the complain.
ant alleged that they had abused him
while he was passing their shanty.
Pleas Of guilty were entered by all
three defendants and they were fined
81, each. ..
Sheriff Hubbard has received a let
ter of inquiry in which information
is sought concerning the whereabouts
OF Henry M. Vannier, late of D. COM
pany, First North Dakota infantry,
which regiment served in the Spanish
war, and who is supposed to be here
abouts. Information is desired from
the missing man to further an applica,
ton for a pension he has made to the
government. 4
Vi Toy Haw, who died suddenly last
Tuesday, was buried this afternoon.
The funeral was conducted by the
Chinese Masonic lodge and was an
elaborate and c%eremonious affair.
Services were held at the Joss house
and also at the grave. Because of his
prominence in the order that buried
him every honor was shown his mem
ory. The Billings band led the process
sion to the graveyard.
J.. B. Elliot is reported as being very
sick of the grip, with which he was
taken a few days before he accom-,
panied the bowling team to ButtH
While at that place his tongue beg6
to swell in a remarkable and unac-
countable manner and he vas told by
a doctor that he was suffering from
blood poisoning. This diagnosis was
pronounced to be wrong by Mr.. FL
lots home physician, who says it is
only another peculiar way la grippe
has of occasionally manifesting itself!
Mrs. S. W. Soule Of Billings, grand
chief of the order of Rathbone Sisters,
the ladies' auxiliary to the Knights
of Pythias, is in the city this week,
says the Livingston Post. Mrs. Soule
came to Livingston to- organize a
lodge of the order. She has but re-
Gently returned from Lewistown.
where she instituted a lodge with 80
members, and she has met with great
success in other towns throughout
the state. 1t is more than likely that
a lodge will be organized here. The
knights are in splendid shape
financially and can materially assist in
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