The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-25

crow reservation, Where ne spent sew
eral weeks in experimenting the
rounding up of his stock preparatory
to driving it north in quest of a local
ity where there is more feed, as the
grass has become SO scarce on the
old range as to afford not feed enough
to carry his herd through the winter.
Last Friday a man giving his name
as Ray Osgood was arraigned on the
complaint Of the parents of several
little girls, who said the fellow had
sought to entice the children into a
box car, for purposes that may be
easily imagined. Not sufficient testi-
mOny could be secured to warrant
prosecution under a criminal charge
and a complaint of vagrancy was en-
tered against him. He was convicted
and Judge Mann sentenced him to
twenty days in the county jail At the
expiration Of his sentence he will be
given the honor of a police escort to
the city limits with orders to lose no
time in getting away as far as posi-
BILE.
A letter has been received from
Miss Clara Anderson, appointed a
grade teacher, saying that she has de-
cided not to accept the appointment.
She gives as an excuse that she holds
a state certificate in Minnesota and
finds that she cannot teach here with
out the certificate has been endorsed
by the state board Of education Of
Montana, and that as the board will
not meet again until some time in De-
cember her certificate would not be
good. The privilege of standing a
teachers examination was open to
her, but the young lady intimates in
her letter to the board OF trustees
that she considered it a humiliation
to be required to submit to the exam
jnation.
Z The public entertainment given by
the Lady Maccabees in Gruwell hall
was largely attended and many
awaited themselves Of the opportunity
to witness a public initiation. The
hall had been arranged as a lodge
room and all the different officers &C.
cupied their respective stations and
performed their respective duties in
connection with the ceremonies. Mu-
sic was furnished by the Logan orches-
ira at the close of the ceremonies and
Mrs. Olivia Gilsdorf invoked divine
blessing. After this a musical and
literary programme followed and the
affair ended with the Maccabees' drill,
led by Mrs. Bentley and Miss Anna
Norman, and in which fourteen young
LADIES' participated.
N0nce more the movement instituted
BY the conductors of the passenger
trains on the Yellowstone division OF
the Northern Pacific to secure transfer
of their headquarters from Glendive
to Billings has failed. The committee
appointed a few weeks ago to make a
canvass olthe city for thespurpose OF
seeing if a sufficient number of houses
could be rented to accommodate the
conductors in the event the change
was asked for found that not enough
houses could be rented to shelter the
families that would be involved in the
change. 1t was found that rents were
much higher here than at Glendive,
about onelhalf, and this also had some
thing to do with causing postponement
of the contemplated change until
next spring at least.
Again the little Langford boy is
with the aunt who cared for him until
a short time before his father claimed
him and brought him to Billings. Last
week a letter was received by DIR.
Rinehart from Mrs. Francis Wells, OF
Buffalo Gap, s. D., in which she said
she was a sister of Langford and
would take care OF the boy again,
but was unable to defray the expense
of his fare to her home. She also
said that she had given the child a
home until he had been removed by
his father. Doctor Rinehart laid the
matter before the county authorities
and they forthwith furnished the nee
essary transportation and the little
fellow was sent to Mrs. Wells. A let
ter received from her since then an
nounces the safe arrival of the boy.
On behalf of the chief of the party
The Gazette is requested to contra
dict the SANDER that appeared in last
nights issue of the Times. Ii they
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