The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-09


are prepared to back that opinion
with their weight lin greenbacks.
notwithstanding the one-sidedness
Of the score, the game OF ball played
last Sunday afternoon between the
regular Billings team and a team
composed of employees OF Yegen Bros,
inc. proved to be interesting. Bill
ings proved the victor. Score, Is
to 9.
Thursday evening the Rathbone
Sisters will give their country dance.
1t has been decided to hold it in
Elks' hall. the lodge DON Of the sis
tiers not being large enough to cor
modate all who are expected to at
tend. The invitations issued request
Nndance in costume. W
From Helena comes the report that
the people Of that place have sue
ceeded in raising the money required
to buy the old fair grounds and will
deed them to the state, thus insuring
establishment there of the state fair,
provision for which was made at the
last session of the legislature. -
DBrown as y berry and strong as
an athlete, 0. d. Hogue, former alder
man of the city, was in town last Sat
urday visiting friends and doing a
little trading. He declares that at
last he has found the source of eter-
nal life and cannot understand why
any one can resist the temptation to
become a rancher. <
~ Trainmen from the south last night
brought information Of the death OF
the Grow woman, who was stabbed
last week by a Sioux squaw visiting
the agency. From the same source
! it was learned that in addition to the
one already dead the visitor also cut
another woman and that the latter
was not expected to live. Jealousy is
given as the cause of the ARRAY.
o. F. Goddard has returned to Glen
dive, where he appears as counsel
for the defense in the cases of State
VS.. Donaldson. and Broadbent, who
are charged with the wholesale theft
of sheep. The men have been con-
victed once and were sentenced to the
pen.tentiary, where they spent sew
eral months. On an appeal to the SUI
preme court they were granted new
trials.
Mrs. Cora l.. Ramsey, who for the
past four years has been the efficient
deputy county treasurer, relinquished
her position in that office last Satur-
day. Mrs. Ramsey will be engaged
in bringing the abstract books OF the
Yellowstone Investment company up
to date during the next few months
and will then go to the Stanford uni
versity in California to take a course
esaay, ,..,,., !. :, , ..m,.
oOZCll1dA Ado uOSANOu w poS ON
professional ball team in the field
| this season. Bert Storey, who has
played with some of the best known
| clubs of the state, including Red
Lodge, has been engaged by Boze-
man to manage and coach its team.
AS soon as the Bozemanites get into
shape they expect to challenge the
teams of the east side, as they think
they will be able to take all of them
if camp.
ACCORDING to the accounts of those
who witnessed it a game of baseball
more than ordinarily interesting and
exciting was played at Laurel last
| Sunday. While the contest was sup
posed to be between Laurel and Rob-
| erts, it appears to have been in reality
a match with Laurel and Park City
| on one side and all of Carbon county,
/ possibly Red Lodge alone excepted,
on the other. Notwithstanding the
odds of an almost unlimited field
| from which to draw players that the
/ alleged Roberts team possessed, The
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