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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
Fifth Day.
Billings, Mont, July "a, 1908.

bllllukS, MOUI., July II, lSVO.
The board met this day at 9 a. m.
pursuant to adjournment, all members
and the clerk being present.
The minutes OF the previous meet
| ing were read and duly approved.
The board proceeded with the ex-
animation of the assessment book.
For the reasons hereinafter stated,
the board was OF the opinion that the
following additions or increase should
be entered upon the assessment book,
and directed the clerk to notify by
letter all persons interested that fur
Their consideration and hearing would
be given on August 6, 1903, regarding
the proposed action o. the board:
Jacob Dahlstrom, south half north
west quarter section 80, township l
north, range 25 east; valuation too
low; 1920.
w. H. Clanton, northwest quarter
and northeast quarter southeast quar-
ter section 81, township / north, range
26 east; TOO low; $500.
Ada l.. Defoe, improvements on lots
5, 6, block 1877, Billings; valuation too
low; $3.50.
J. G. Epperson, southwest quarter
southwest quarted section Is, township
! south, range rs east; valuation too
low; $3.50.
Mrs. Allie H. GODDARD, improve
ments on lots 1 to 4, block AZ, Billings;
valuation TOO low; $3.50.
Gilsdorf Bros, hxtures; valuation
too low; $3.50.
Gazette Printing Co., machinery;
valuation too low; $500.
Sam Holmesland, northeast quar-.
ter section 13, township 2 south, range
% east; valuation too low; $145.
Sarah J. Lamey, north half northeast
quarter section &c, township l south,
range rs east; valuation too low; $24O
Daniel Lamey, northwest quarter
section IL, township l south, range
25 east; valuation too low; $3.50.
VIM. Mccullough, northwest quar-
ter southwest quarter and east hall
southwest quarter section Is, township
1 south, range 25 east; valuation toe
low; $500.
The clerk was instructed to note the
following reductions on the asses
ment book:
Sam Feyler, south half northwes
quarter section "a, township l south
range 25 east; valuation too high
$3.50.
: VIM. Lamey, southeast quarter sec
ton II, township l south. range 2:
> east; valuation too high; $3.50.
! J. A. Morgan. southwest quarter sec
> ton 2, southeast quarter northeas
) quarter section 3, township l south
range 25 east; valuation too high; $50
: Ed. O'Donnell, southeast quarter SCI
tion 6, township 1 south, range 2
( east; valuation too high; $3.50.
The board adjourned to meet Jul,
> %, 1903, at 9 o'clock a. m.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
Third Day.

Billings, Mont, July %, l9O
The board met this day at 8 a. m.
pursuant to adjournment, all members
and the clerk being present.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and duly approved.
The board proceeded with the ex-
animation of the assessment book.
For the reasons stated hereinafter
the board was of the opinion that the
following additions or increase in val
uation should be entered upon the as
sessment book, and instructed the
clerk to promptly notify by letter all
persons interested, that 1urther con-
s%ideration and hearing on the proposed
action of the board would be given on
August 5, 1908:
Brewer & Lee, goods, wares and
merchandise; valuation Toe low; 5000.
Billings Water Power Co. fixtures;
valuation too low; $500.
Chas. F. Burton, improvements on
lots 5 to 5, block IS, Billings; valua-
ton too low; $500.
A. L.. Babcock Hardware Co, goods,
wares and merchandise; valuation too
low; $4,000.
C. M. Bair, 10000 sheep; incomplete
assessment; $40,0
Continental OIL Co., goods, wares
and merchandise; valuation too low;
$3.50.
Elmer NJ. Coombs, southeast quarter
section IL, township 2 south, range %
east; valuation too low; 5000.
J.. w. Coombs, southeast quarter
section IA, township 2 south, range %
east; valuation too low; $500.
w. H. Clanton, northwest quarter
and northeast quarter southeast quar-.
ter section 81, township l north, range
rs east; valuation too low; $500.
Edward Cardwell, northwest quarter
section A, township l south, range rs
/, east; valuation too low; $474.
Edward Cardwell, north half anG
southeast quarter section 2, township
1 south, range 25 east; valuation toe
: low; $2,714.
For the reason given, the board wa
of the opinion that n following as
sessment should be increased on the
assessment book, and the clerk was
directed to give notice that further
consideration and hearing would b.
given the proposed change on Angus
6, 1903.
Edward l. Cantine, southwest quar-
ter section 80, township / south, rang
25 east; valuation too low; $500.
The clerk was directed to decreas'
the following assessments for the rea
sons stated:
S. R. Miller, section 4, township
north, range q. east; valuation to'
> high; $64O.
David Sansome Estate, household
furniture; assessment; $l5C
J.. l.. Carey & Co., 500 sheep; Ell
roneous assessment; $3.50.
j.. w. Cunningham, southeast qual
teI ScclioA D. eoWAoAip F" o
25 east; valuation toe high; $4OO.
Mr.. Henry Holling appeared befor
the board and protested against TN
assessment on his pasture lands.
The board adjourned to meet Jul
IS, 1908, at 9 a. m.
Fourth Day.
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WORKING Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever was made is DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. These pills change
weakness into strength, ~listlessness
into energy, brain-fag into mental
power. They're wonderful in building
up the health. Only Csc per box. Sold
by Chapple Drug Co.
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A. H. West. pupil of the late E. s.
Jacobron, would like a limited num-
Der CT pupils on violin. Piano tuning.
Violins repaired. Bows rehaired.
Room % Gruwell building. Tele,
phone 165m.
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Don't Forget Me.

When you are placing your insur'
ance. My companies and rates can
not be excelled. Edgar B. Camp, FRS,
National bank building. 154-t1
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Cut flowers for all occasions con-
stantly on hand at Miss Panton's Bill
ings greenhouse 3019 Montana Ave.
Bell phone 62-F. I'LL
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We guarantee all our work and II
not satisfactory we will make it sc
or. return your money.
BILLINGS STEAM LAUNDRY.
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1873
ssmak

The Misses Johnson, dressmakers,
will be at Yegen's after July 6, where
they will be pleased to e all their
former patrons and n new ones.
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For Sale.

Six room house, three corner lots,
near northside school house; $1,000
on easay payments.
S-tf E. b. CAM,
Zeal Estate and Live Stock Broker.
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kELLEY's EMPLOYMENT AGENc

If You Want Help Tell Kelley Your
Troubles.
j. F. Kelley has established IN en-
ployment bureau in the building OPP
posite the Yegen corner Mr.. Kelley
is prepared to supply help of all kinds
and invites those seeking positions
to list with him. 1873
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Fourth Day.

Billings, Mont, July 23, 1905.
The board met this day pursuant to
adjournment at 9 a. M, all members
and the clerk being present.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28

Read The Gazette and keep posted
on local happenings.
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THE BILLINGS GAZETTE.

Evers & Rademaker, 300 sheep; err
roneous assessment; $3.50.
The board adjourned to meet July
"a, 1903, at 8 a. m.
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lei Vaughan, north half
quarter section 10, township l south,
range 26 east; valuation too low; $500.
Joe Zimmerman, south half and
south half north half section "a, town
ship l north, range 25 east; valuation
too low; $3.50.
Joe Zimmerman, improvements on
| section 80, township l north, range 70
east; valuation too low; $3.50.
w. J. Comstock, machinery; es-
capped assessment; 500.
w. J. Comstock, Wagons; escaped
assessment; $50.
w. J. Comstock, 8 horses; escaped
assessment; 500.
w. J. Comstock, 8 head cattle, es
capped assessment; $50.
w. j. Comstock, 2 COWS; escaped
assessment; $50.
The clerk was instructed to reduce
the following:
P. H. Smith, west half section 6
township l south, range 26 east; val
uation too high; $500.
Joe Zimmerman, fractional cas-
half east half section o3, township
north, range 25 east; valuation too
high; $500.
Evers & Rademaker, section IL
township 2 north, range rs east; dou
BILE assessment; $640.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
BRITISH BIRDS FoR cANApA.

An attempt on a large scale to intro- duce English song birds into British Co., lumbia Is at present being made. The Victoria (B. CD Natural History socie- ty, we learn from Country Life, is talk ing out a consignment of about 500 birds, consisting of 100 pairs of gold finehes, 100 pairs of larks and fifty pairs of robins. They go by way of New York to Victoria. In accordance with the arrangements which have been made, half of the consignment will be placed in Vancouver and taken care of there until next spring. when they will be distributed throughout the wood lands of the lower mainland. The re-. mainder will be placed in Beacon Hill Park aviary and kept until spring, when they will be given their liberty at various points on Vancouver Island. It will be very interesting to hear if this extensive scheme of standardization proves uocess.-Westminste Ga- zette.
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tfons which last for some minutes. This feature of endurance was not observed. On the other hand, a peculiarity of ac- tinium, as compared with radium, is that the emanations, although more profuse, disappear in a few seconds. Another marked feature is a certain visibility or materiality of the emana- tions. This has already been referred to in some of the experiments above de- scribed in connection with willemite. If actinium is placed in a paper over a screen of the phosphorescent sulphide of zinc (Sidot's blende) the screen will become illuminated, and on slightly blowing, so as to produce a current of air, the light is carried along the screen with the emanations. I found that the diamond was affected quite as perma- nently as with radium; so was the spo- dumene variety, kunzite and a speci- men of willemite more than two inches square. Emanations of the actinium, which was in a double paper, rose in a cone-shaped form and spread out in an inverted cone on the base of the mille- mite, Illuminating both."
 Concerning the developments regard ing the much discussed radium and uranium, Mir. Kunz said yesterday to a
 Tribune reporter: Professor Alexander Hamilton Phil lips, professor of chemistry at Prince ton university, has examined quantity of carnotite, an ore of uranium, which is being mined by the Welsh-Lofftus
 Uranium company, of Buffalo, which is at present endeavoring to furnish ra- dium from an American ore. Professor Phillips analysed twenty-five pounds Of the Colorado mineral and obtained from it one gram of radium-barium chloride
 of an activity of 1,500. He made pho-
 tographs of keys and other objects.
 proving it's actinic properties. The ra- 1 dio-activity was finally determined by Professor Adams, of the physical de
 partment of Princeton, who measured
 the activity by means of a Wilson gold leaf electrometer, and also with the
 pith balls, there being no doubt as to i the activity being quite 1,50O. Profess sor Phillips also stated that some of the radium said to have been extracted by the Buffalo people was not radioactive, due possibly to the fact that the radio
 activity was lost in the chemical oper- | ations. It is probable that Sir William
 Ramsay's investigations were made by
 some minerals separated by the Buffalo people, and hence his conclusion that the American mineral was not radio
 active, when, in fact, the radio-activity ] was lost, as above stated. in the chemi- | cal operations. From Professor Phil 1 lips results it is evident that the radi-
 nm from Anaarioay1 ,,a5;,,, b., i,,,,, o,.oss will not improbably be secured and that
 in the very near future"
 MT. Kunz said that he himself had been able to cause phosphorescence in
 Q fifteen-carat diamond by means of a
 recent sample received from the Welsh
 Lofftus ccrnpany.-New York Tribune
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT .REoR
ANIMATION.


 The fundamental laws of the Russian institution, for the most part promulga- ted by Peter the Great, have remained unchanged; but, paradoxical as it may seem, the manner of carrying out these laws and their subsequent amendments varies according to the constantly growing demands of the empire A very few years ago the department of agriculture and state domains was in augurated; later came the establish ment of the department of public works and railways; at the present mo- ment the Czar is said to be contempla- ting. an extension of the functions of the committee of ministers, the presi- dency of which was recently assumed by M. de Witte. while 1t is well known that the ministry of the interior has had it's powers vastly increased. The ap- pointment of a vfceroy of the far east marked another change: the separation Of the Asiatic and European policies another.
 While no actual facts are yet known as to the change which is to be made in the committee of ministers, 1t may be amounted on the highest authority that the administrative department of Russian posts and telegraphs, which has hitherto been a mere bureau of the war and interior departments, will in the present month, be regularly trans formed into a constituted ministry Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
THE PLAY A CENTURY AGO.


 "John Bull, third time, Colrnan. All the World a Stage, Macready."
 That was a theatrical announcement in New York on November 29 1S0S-just hundred years ago to-day. And here is the way the event impressed the critic of the time: <. .A-.<
 I've have seldom witnessed a perfor- nance that was entitled throughout to so much credit as that of last evening. Not that it Is by any means perfect, for though extremely improved since it's first representation, much yet remains to be done. We are sorry that at this time there should be any cause to speak of deficiency of study.
 "As it is not our method to deal in in- discriminating applause of censure, which defeats the object of criticism, we shall briefly notice q few of such particulars as may be entitled to one or deserve the other" s...
 The dear old Evening Post, at once sparkling and judicial, even in infan- cy!
 New York had other dramatic attrac- tions hundred years ago tonight. Mrs. Melmoth was playing Lady Mac beth, with "The Sixty-third Letter. C'never performed here'O as an after piece. The doors were open at half past five and the curtain rose at half past six. By ten o'clock New York was safely tucked in bed.--New York World, November 29.
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: PRESENCE OF MIND

It was ten minutes past the hour for the ceremony, and the bridegroom had not come. It afterward developed that he had run over In his automobile a man who had money, and was unavoid- ably detained, but this did not appear at the time.
 The bride, however. was not mustered.
 "Is there" she demanded. mo mill lionaire in the audience who will marry me-"
 An icemarl, who had long wanted to break into society, signtfled his assent. and the ceremony proceeded. For as the bride afterward remarked:
 To disappoint our guests would have been bad form. Life
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ded that he is too big and too strong to go to school. 4 correspondent in a let ter which appeared in yesterdays Times, calls attention to this months agenda of the special schools sub-com- mittee, in which there appears the re- port of the doctor who examined the childr. In the course of his remarks he says: This child Is of abnormal de- velOpment physically. The account giv- en of his weight (tenstone) qute true. The increase weight is due not only to fat, but to muscular development as well, since the child can easily lift ar ordinary adult. Mentally he seems in somme ways precocious; he is quite educable Owing to his sic and habits, I do not think it is pos sible to place him in any school It is obvious he cannot attend an ordinary infants department; not only would his extraordinary appearance create dis turbance, but no desk would hold him, and his enormous strength would be dangerous to the other children.
 "If taken to a physically defective center he would take up the room of three or four children in the ambulance, even if he could be reused and dressed in time, which from the history of the case I should think improbable. I therefore suggest he be exempt from school attendance
 The committee admit their defeat in the terse sentence Agreed to exempt i from attendance"
 ! hToplY fEn ie Iy7Ot1yf1 in f11a lneighborhood, is himself happily uncon- ! cerned about his education. During the day he is generally to be found in or near beer house in WilIowbrook road, where in the doctors words, He earns his dinner by acting as an advertise ment."
 1 In brain he is a quick witted, intelli- gent child; in body he seems a propos- terous exaggeration. He has the breadth of shoulders of big man, thighs and calves which navvy might be proud of, and above all the healthy open face of 8 gigantic baby.
 He runs up and down the road to the canal bridge with cheerful waddle, and shows an activity which puts to shame those local prophets who fore told that he would be paralyzed in his lower limbs. He will lift fffty-six- pound weight with one hand to show you his bulk is not made up with fat alone, and despite his lack of education he knows the difference between six pence and a shilling. ..
 He is a favorite with all who know him, and the Peckham policemen and omnibus drivers are never tired of talk ing of him.-London Mail.
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PLANTATIONS FROM AcTINIUM.

The Result of Recent Experiments by
 George F. Kunz-Its Radio-Activity.
 Unusual interest attaches to the ad- dress delivered before the Princeton Chemical society a day or two ago by George F. Kunz, viee-president of the
 American Institute of Mining Engi-
 neers, on the subject of his recent ex-
 periments with the exceedingly rare
 and hitherto all but unobtainable ele-
 ment, actinium.
 The result of these experiments is
 now presented to Tribune readers for
 the first time. l This actinium experimented on," says
 MT. Kunz, "was a preparation of the oxide, with an activity of 10000 (urani-
 um being taken as unity). prepared by
 Dr. Debierne and sent to me through the courtesy of Professor P. Curie. The
 emanatiCns from it seemed most pro- fuse, and. although it had been exposed for two weeks in a paper package, yet they were as energetic at the time of it's arrival and one week after as they
 could have been at any time. The sub
 stance is wonderfully radioactive. In the few experiments that l have made
 upon it I found that, like radium, it
 causes the diamond to phosphoresce,
 and exerts the same action as radium upon willemite and kunzite, with the possible exception that the emanations from the small quantity of the sub
 stance seemed to become luminous be-
 fore they touched the willemite itself.
 The surface affected measured two square inches, many times the surface of the actinium. The effect produced on willemite" was somewhat different from that due to radium. The lurni- nescence apparently penetrated the will lemite, and at the same time it almost
 seemed as if a luminous emanation left the material.
 Tt was also found, on applying some powdered and granulated willemite to
 the inside of a closed jar twelve centi-
 metres high, and placing this over the
 actinium, which was in a paper, that the emanations made luminous the en-
 tire interior of the jar.
 "On the other hand, they do not ap- pear to possess the penetrating power through the glass that the radium com- pounds show, for in the same experi- ment they failed to affect the willemite
 on the outside of the jar. although the glass was only one and one-half milli- metres in thickness.
 "A jlatinum- barium- cyanide screen immediately responded when the actin ium was held against the black paper on the back The abundance of ema- nations from the substance, rather than their penetrative quality, seemed to be it's characteristic.
 "one of the properties of actinium which Professor Curie mentions in his l letters is the emission of many emana-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12

Tess-''I was passing that small for ist's with Lord Britton yesterday, and I hinted that would like to have some of the lovely roses that were displayed in the window" Jess-"And did he send some to your" Tess-"Yes. they came this morning, c. o. D."-PhiIadelphia Press.
 And now. madam" said the kind hearted old judge who had granted the divorce, 'tlet me advise you as a. friend to wait decent interval before you marry again" How long do you think I ought to wait, judge?" asked the young woman, with some anxiety. 1.-TWO hours ?aC Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
A YOUNG MONSTER.

The London school board has been beaten by the fat boy of Peckhatn. /, The fat boy of Peckham is a child of six, who lives with his parents, working people, at Colgrove road, midway be- tween Rye Lane and the Old Kent road
 He is about four feet in height, with a chest measurement of forty-four inches, and a weight of ten stone. He has enormous strength for his age, and al- together is the pride of Peckham. He is of school age, and the school board has been concerning itself about his ed- ucation.
 After elaborate inquiries and an ex- animation by a doctor 1t has been deci-
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IBsEN,s LANGUAGE.
Is it, in His Plays, Danish or Norwe-
 gian? >'..

Is it, in His Plays, Danish or Norwe-
 gian? >,... "
 An interesting discussion as to the language in which Ibsen wrote his plays is just now being waged in Rus sian literary circles. A translation into Russian of ali the great Norwegian dramatist's works is being undertaken by two Danes. who, in the preface to the first volume, lay special emphasis on the fact that the translation is from the Danish.
 Commenting on this point, the Russ kiya, Viedomosti remarks that it was 8 great advantage to Ibsen to write in the Danish language, for he used the tongue that is understood by both Danes and Norwegians. But what real ly led to the present discussion was the following comment made by the above mentioned journal:
 "There are some of Ibsen's transla- tors who maintain that they translated his works from the Norwegian. This, however, is calculated to create a mis- understanding, for at the time Ibsen wrote his earlier plays there did not ex- ist an organized Norwegian language. The attempt to create a Norwegian language is a work of recent years"
 Continuing It's argument, the Russ kiya yiedomosti says: "We do not know which language is alluded to by those gentlemen who claim that their translations are from the Norwegian D
 It was but natural that this should bring about a chorus of protest from the translators, M. Poliakoff among others, who hold that Ibsen's works are written in Norwegian, and that their translation is produced from the latter language: and, of course, they once more declared, and still declare, point blank, that in this view they are abso- lutely correct.
 They quote in support of their state rnent Professor Sturm, who, on the oc- casion of the dramatist's eightieth birthday Gin 1883, published a pamph- let entitled 'Ibsen und die NorWegische Sprache" But the well known Danish writer, M. Brandes, is reported to have said that "the language of Ibsen is the purest Danish, and SO also is that of the majority of the best known Norwe- gian writers, and that Ibsen spared no pains in acquiring a most thorough knowledge of the purest Danish dialect which is principally spoken in Copenha- en.''--London Daily Chronicle.