The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-10
VACANCY
DOUBLE ONE
SouEsTIoN THAT HAS ARISEN IN
SECOND WARD.
IREFUL VICTIMS or ''CIACR':
Instance Where Monopoly Produces
Soulful and Ornate Profanity
An Unwelcome Guest.
From Fridays Daily Gazette.

From Fridays Daily Gazette.
1t is more than likely that the city
attorney will be called on for an opin-
ion concerning a matter that is in
te1estlng some OF the people of the
Second ward at the present time. The
point he will probably be asked to de-
eide is whether it will be necessary
to hold an election for two aldermen
in that ward. The term of Alderman
White expires next month by limita-
ton, but not SO the term for which
MI. Reynolds was elected. There are
some who hold to the belief that the
election of Mr.. Bouton as interim sue
cessor to Mr.. Reynolds was only I'M
til the next regular election and that
consequently his place will also be-
\ come vacant when that of his col
league becomes vacant.
This morning the question was the
subject of discussion by several resi-
dents of the ward. They were of
the opinion that an election of two
aldermen would be called. Reference
to the laws, however, made it appear
as though they were in error. The
provisions of the civil code as in,
terpreted by them seemed to favor the
continuance of Mr.. Bouton as the reg
ularly, elected and qualified successor
to Mr. Reynolds for the full term Of
the ~latter's elections An attorney,
who vas n of the group, so inter
preted the law, but for all that it is
very probable that an official opinion
will be asked particularly as it is
understood that the number of pa
triotic gentlemen who are fired by the
laudahle ambition to fill the chair Of
alderman from the Second ward is
SO large that even with two vacancies
existing some of them will he dis
appointed.
Almost every day soulful and stir
ring in~veighments of monopolies are
to be heard at the Northern Pacific
station, particularly at train time.
The number of persons who want to
send Geographic messages to waiting
friends or on matters of business is
noticeably large. Scarcely a train ar
rives from which one or more men
and women do not rush to the ticket
office with pieces of the Western I'm
ion cocmpany's yellow paper in their
hands and make hurried and eager
Inquiries for the telegraph office.
When informed that it is about-two
blocks distant and the only way for
them to get their messages off is to
so there the remarks they occasional
ly drop are, as Truthful James" ex-
pressed it, painful and frequent and
free Occasionally it happens that
some n can be found to whom to
entrust delivery of a message, es-
pecially if it is to be sent COLLECT
but this does not happen very often
and those anxious to communicate
with absent ones must content them.
VI oClfCo Will NcltIlS lutlI Ictll1S Ill
words and wait until the train reaches
a station where the telegraph office is
in the depot. Of course, the presence
OF a messenger with a little loose coin
with which to make change would
remedy the matter, but the Western
Union is not noted for it's ~obliging.
ness and accommodating ways espec.
tally at places where it has the field
to itself.
M/What at first was a novelty and
rather agreeable to many has reach,
X ed the point where it is promising to
fast become al unmitigated nuisance
Reference is had to the presence OF
the English sparrows, whose vanguard
arrived a few seasons ago. The soil
tary pair has increased until now they
are present in numbers great enough tC
cause many persons to wish that the
mar who was responsible for their in
PRODUCTION on this side of the Atlantic
had never been born. They are {
prolific pest, are these sparrows, ant
the rapidity with which they increase
and multiply is one of the wonders O
nature. Down at Miles City, where
they appeared about coeval with theil
appearance here they have assumed
such numbers that recently the cit,
council was petitioned by the business
men to take steps to eradicate them