The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-13
WANTED TO DO SHOOTING
Thirsty Individual Suggests Necessity
for Another Law, One Along
Humanitarian Lines.

6OOu AOOAAA6 0AN p4SVSHSAA6 ~
ance Of friendships Of long standing
the Northern Pacific passenger depart
ment should hasten and give a name
to it's newly installed Billings-Red
Lodge train, which left on it's initial
trip this morning. The friends of
the distinguished senator from Car
bon county appear to think that to
the action taken by him at Helena
is the travelling public indebted for
the added convenience the train will
prove and insist upon calling it
Meyers Special" On the other hand
those who realize the power of the
press, especially when it works in
unison with the government, are of
the opinion that the credit for the in
novation should go elsewhere. They
hold that the Red Lodge Picket and
Postmaster Alderson are really the
ones who compelled the railroad COM
pany to come to the relief of a long
suffering public and propose that the
train shall be known as the "Alder-
son-Picket Flyer" While the matter
has as yet not assumed serious pro-
portions and no immediate trouble is
expected, still, some think the COM
pany should act before there will
arise any occasion for involvement of
the powers of the civil authorities for
the maintenance of the peace.
There were two of them and their
new guns, fresh cartridge belts, in
nocent of stains of wear and use, to-
gether with the suspicious newness
and peculiar cut of the clothes they
wore indicated them to have stepped
from the %westbound train that only
a few minutes before had departed
for the land of the setting sun. They
we're walking along Montana avenue,
deeply Interested in all they saw and
furtively scanning the faces OF the
~passers-by and in other ways acting
the real "tenderfoot." Finally mus
tering up courage enough, they STOP
ped a boy VISA vas fastening in the
opposite direction and assuming an
air of we-are-the-stuff-and -know-what-
we-want, one of them asked him, SIS
there any shooting around her, m
good boy?"
20, a little" was the reply. "Once
in a while they get to shooting on the
other side of the track, but you are
safe. They won't hurt you"
But that's not what we mean
answered the spokesman of the two
1--WE are looking for game. Elk, buf
falo, deer, you KNOX" y
"Gwan," retorted his kidlets. "Dc
you s'pose that we are keeping thai
kind of game for such guys as yous
Yous had better go looking for chip
hunks and gophers, they're abou'
your size"
Much wonder has been expressed
Of late as to when the men who con
serve the peace of the city are t
make their appearance in the new
uniform which by act of the board o
aldermen is to distinguish those es
Unable public servants from the res
Of their fellow citizens. A consider
able time has passed since the rese
luton was adopted specifying tn
color and cut of the clothes they wer
to wear, together with the size an
make of the pistols to be used in cas-
of necessity, but sc far the policeme
continue to dress and look like ord
nary men and the stranger in nee
of the services of an officer know
not to whom to appeal. Perhaps, Xix
some other matters that have bee
made the subject of official actor
the uniforming question has been pei
mitted to become a "closed incident.
"If the gentlemen who are at He
ena drawing pay from the state TO
investigating democratic rows an
looking into all sorts of charges real
ly desire to do something of benef
to a large class of deserving ant
worthy lei by enacting a law that i
needed and will do much good, tn
Opnortuuifv ic fhpir'c3 With fhic tb.
speaker looked sadly at a collection
pasteboard tickets and c~elluloid ant
aluminium disks that he held in hi:
hand. They should pass a law max
ing the bar checks issued in the state
good wherever presented, regardless
Of the name that may appear on them
and also provide in the act for a re,
demptiOn fund, to be maintained by