The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-03

Saturday is the day fixed by the board
for opening bids for the bonds to be is
sued for constructing the new court
house.
This morning a doctor was again
hurrAedly called to the home Of T. A.
Wilkins, but this time. the house.
hold will not be quarantined. It is a
boy and the lung power he already |
manifests convinces the proud father
that he will be either an auctioneer or
an opera singer.
Funeral services were held at Miles
City this morning over the body of
the late Judge j. w. Strevell. After
ward the remains were placed on
board the North Coast Limited and
taken to Chicago for interment in
Rosehill cemetery, where Mrs.
Strevell is buried. C. N. Strevell, son
of the deceased, accompanied the
body.
County Assessor Evans and his dep
uIy, - l. ooAAOlu, OO6oh ~ Auo
assessment work for the county this
morning. MI. Evans will conine him
self principally to the work outside of
the city, while Mr.. Sanford will be
engaged on the assessment rolls in
the office. Under the law the assess
mept will have to be completed by
July 1.
l.. 3. Merrill, son of C. w. Merrill,
the Bridger attorney, was in the city
this morning on his way home from
Foreman, where he has been attend
ing the agricultural college. Failing
health compelled him to stop his stud
les for the term. If his condition is
suct as to warrant it, he will return
to the college at the beginning of the
next semester.
1t is reported in the news dis
patches from Alaska that Lulu Watts,
known in this city as the Diamond
Tooth Woman" was acquitted On a
trial in which she was charged with
having attempted to take the life of
her husband. The woman used a
razor and severely. carved the neck Of
the man she was teaming with on the
vaudeville stage.
This was the day when the March
term of the district court was to have
been opened, but owing to the press
Of business in the other counties of
the district Judge Loud found it i'm
possible to be here and an adjourn
ment was necessitated. Judging from
the work still before him in Rosebud,
likely that the Yellowstone term can
be convened before sometime next
month.
Milf a clustering, disagreeable wind
may be accepted as answering the
description then it may be said the
entry of March was in true, leonine
fashion, for a worse day than yes
terday oculd not we'll be imagined.
This morning the sun shone bright
and. warm and the day continued all
that one might wish for, notwith-
standing that the weather bureau pre-
dicted snow or rain with rising tenn
pertature. The rise materialized, but
not the precipitation of moisture.
W Taking advantage of the fact that
through the operations of the police
court he had been provided with a
working force of %able-bodied men, the
street commissioner this morning be-
gan 20 give the downtown streets a
long and much needed cleaning. Paul
CromLol, who when sentenced for
vagrancy last week, declared he would
not work ON the streets, was n of
the rcst energetic and Industrious
workers in the gang and handled a
broom as though he liked it.
With the exception of two, the dele
CATION of Eagles that went to Boze-
man % assist in the institution of an
aerie at that place returned this morn
ing. The missing ones are Chilly"
Vale and John Christ, who apparent