The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-20

Trainmaster Rapelje of the Yellow
stone division of the Northern Pacific
Is in the city.
Miss Mryte D. Chick, who has been
visiting Mrs. Jean Decker, left this
morning for her home, Cherokee, Ia.
Tomorrow evening the girls basket
ball team of the high school will meet
a team from Red Lodge, representing
the high school of that place.
The marriage of William B. Munsell
and Mrs. Bessie Ford was solemnized
last evening at the home of Mrs. N.
l. Afford, the Reverend w. D. Clark
officiating.
w. s. Freeman Of Wibaux is in the
city today, en- route west. His stop
here is for the purpose of buying a
band of sheep, if he can be suited as
to price and quality.
Mrs. Orilla Whitney and her moth
err, Mrs. M. K. Harms, left this morn
ing for Tucson, Ari., having been
called thither by a telegram announc-
ing the serious sickness of a son of
Mrs. Harms and brother of Mrs. Whit
ney.
Alderman George F. B%ennighoff and
little niece, Miss Julia, expect to
leave next Saturday on a months
visit to the coast, during which they
| will stop at different points in the
north. west and also take a run down
into California.
Ed Williams, foreman of the North
ern Pacific bridge crew, is under the
doctors care as a result of excessive
/ joy at the birth of a daughter, who
arrived last Tuesday. The attending
physician is hopeful of his recovery,
although the case is a serious one.
The lecture that was to have been
given tomorrow evening at the Ii
brary by Professor Brewer, one of the
course arranged for by the trustees
of the library, has been indefinitely
postponed, Professor Brewer having
been called east by the serious i'll.
mascot a member of his family.
Several representatives of the syndi.
Eate figuring on retaining the lands
in Huntley flats are in the city today
and have been making a further in
vestigation into the project. The
chief engineer of the company is
among them and is looking over the
land with a view to gaining an idea
as to the engineering work necessary
in case constructio NOT canals is un'
dertaken.
u Not all of the immigrants from the
middle western states are giving Mon
tana the go-by in their quest for 10
calities where the road to wealth is
presumably less hard to travel thar
in the places they are leaving. O
the lot that passed through the city
this morning q were destined te
western Montana points, the others
all being ticketed to Oregon an6
WT3lngton' .
WIS., idea of the intense cold prevail
ing in the extreme eastern part o.
this state and in Dakota is made pos
sible when it is stated that every
water tank along the line OF the
Northern Pacific, between Glendive
and Gladstone, has been put out o.
service by being frozen. In order tt
supply the locomotives with water i
is necessary to haul it in tanks tt
points where needed.
Marie King, a decidedly faded an1
forlorn specimen of the soiled dove
fraternity, was in police court thi:
morning to answer to the charge O.
street walking and f%requenting rooms
for immoral purposes. She Wa'
found guilty and in default of $40 will
be the city's guest for the next five
days, during which time she will
probably recover from the effects o
a drubbing she received somewhere
for both of her eyes were draped il
moArning when she faced his honor
~he annual rush of homeseeker'
may be said to have commenced IL
earnest. Nearly every train arriving
from the east is loaded with imm1
grants destined to various parts o
the land said to flow with milk an
honey and where the heart of tn
honess granger is made glad by tn
rich reward following his endeavors
This mornings No. 3 on the Northern
Pacific was run in two sections, tn
number of being so grea