The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-17
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ON Fridays Daily Gazette.

From Fridays Daily Gazette.
E. L. Kern of Butte is at the Grand.
G. Parker is up from Glendive and is
registered at the Grand. .
Thomas E. Goodwin of Helena is
registered at the Grand.
A. A. Braten, the Bozeman mer-
chant, is among the visitors in the
city today.
Miss Katherine Beeler of Rockport,
Ind, is visiting her sister, Miss Daisy
Beeler of this city.
w. H. Gebo, James Copeland and
w. James, all of Red Lodge, are auto
graphed at the Grand.
The Honorable j. N. Tolman of
Red4odge was in the city last even
We and returned home this morning.
Again the weather bureau is to be
credited with a home run. The pre-
dlction of continued cold and possibly
stormy weather is in a fair way of
veriication as regards both ends of
the representation" 1t is certainly
cold, and has been for two or three
days, while every appearance indi-
Gates snow and high winds.
A few days ago sparks from a pass
ing locomotive set fire to a lot Of rub
bish in the Big Timber stockyards
and before it was discovered the fire
had gained considerable Roadway, as
q high wind vas prevailing at the
time. Only the hardest kind of work
on the part Of the railroad employees
and citizens prevented the destruc-
ton of the plant. AS it was, one of
tbepchutes was destroyed and part of
burned.
.egotiations have been resumed
between Captain Babcock and the,
trustees of the Congregational church
for the sale Of the captains home, ad-
joining the ground of the church to
the south, to that society. 1t is
pected that the transfer will be COM
pleted this evening or tomorrow.
Captain and Mrs. A. E. Neate of
Bridger are spending the day in Bill
ipgs on their way home from Miles
City, where they have been several
days.
1t may interest the stockmen of
this locality that some ugly reports
are coming from the Black Hills range,
which adjoins that of southeastern:
Montana, concerning the prevalence
OF pleuro-pneumonia among the herds
of the locality. The disease is said
to be assuming proportions that are
alarming the owners of stock and
an appeal has been made to the gen
e,al and state governments for the
adoption of measures calculated to
give relief.
J. A. Hunter and R. Fraser, two
husky and robust young fellows,
were arraigned in police court this
afternoon on the charge of vagrancy.
Both entered pleas of guilty, although
they subsequently claimed to have
been making earnest efforts to Sc
cure employment without success and,
said that they had walked the entire
distance from Seattle while looking
for work. Both were almost barefoot
and their general appearance was
that of men who had taken second
money in a severe contest with an ex-
%ceptionally aggressive streak of hard.
luck. They were sentenced to do five
days labor on the streets, with the
provision that if employment could
be found for them in the meantime
they would be released, as it is said
that a man is in the city who is look
ing for men to work in the National
park.
From Saturdays Daily Gazette.
l.. M. Hughes of Helena is at the
Grand.
j. A. Ross of Bozeman is registered
at the Grand.
M. G. Swan of Gebo visited the city
last evening, returning home this
morning.
c. L. Merrill, the Bridger lawyer,