The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-11-06
LOCAL AND

PERSONAL s
denly summoned to his former home
in Missouri by the sickness OF his
mother, several weeks ago, is expected
osteturn next Monday.
~ meeting of the board Of educa-
Zion was held Wednesday evening at
which H. e. Reckard was elected
teacher of the new business depart
ment, recently added to the other
branches of the city schools.
Late last Saturday night a couple
of cutting scrapes occurred on the
! south side. In M a negro had the
greater part of his nose cut off and
in the other a whiteman received a
I cash across the abdomen. No COM
plant was entered in either case and
no arrests were made.
" special train of three fiatcars,
t6uf stock cars, two boxcars and four
tourist sleepers passed through the
city Wednesday, having on board the
Thirtieth battery, en- route from Fort
Walla Walla to Fort Smelling. One
hundred enlisted men and three COM
missioned officers composed the bat
terry, which had 80 horses.
Next Wednesday a farmers insti-
tute will be held at Park City. The
4 same persons who will take partias
speakers in the institute to be held
in this city the following day will
be present. Two sessions will be
held, one in the forenoon and the
other during the afternoon. In the
4 epedidg a dance will follow.
xlfotice has been received from the
City high school football team
cancelling it's date with the Billings
team for a game tomorrow. No rea-
son is known for the f1uke, but some
: OF the local players declare that a
Miles City man saw them practice and
the report he took home so brighten
= e1the Milesians that they weakened
last night the new board of direc
! Lors of the Yellowstone Building and
,, Loan association met for the purpose
of electing officers for the ensuing
year. A. M. Peters was reelected
, president, his fifth term; r. I. Han
nah, vice president; G.. F. Burton, sec
rotary; J. w. Vaughan, treasurer.
:. valuation committee, Thorson, Bay
erd, Rinehart; abstract committee
4 Peters, Burton, Mashaw.
, News has been received OF tn
n death at Minneapolis of Lincoln Sew
ard, until last spring a resident o
Musselshell. A severe cold he cor
tracted last winter developed int
u consumption and as he was rapid
growing worse he sold out his bushes
L and removed east, hoping that
change of climate might prove benz
q fetal to him. The disease, howeve
l. had fastened itself onto him beyon
the skill of science and the intiuenc
: of climatic conditions.
A combination of whisky and jea
ousy almost got Adolph Depping int
serious trouble Wednesday nigh
While staggering under the comb.
ed load he found his way to a res
dence on the south side where I
imagined a hated rival was languis
ing under the smiles that belonged
him. He brought his revolver in
play and proceeded to "shoot up" II
neighborhood. For this he was 9
rested and yesterday morning pa
a fine of SIS for disturbing the peac
Missoula dispatches announce t
partial recovery of Neill Graham, t
boy who was injured there sometir
ago by being caught under an elevate
One arm is still partially paralyze
but the doctors think he will outgrt
this in time. He says he does n
remember how he came to be und
the elevator, being unable to recollt
anything further than that he we
home, attended to some chores a
returned to the shaft, but does I
know how or why he got under I