The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
LOCAL AND

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Lodge Picket, was a visitor in the
city last evening.
P. M. Gallaher, chief engineer of
the Amalgamated company's coal
mines at Storrs, is in the city. He
is a guest at the Grand.
Judge Matheson is among those
who are reported on the sick list. He
is said to be suffering from an attack
Of the prevailing epidemic of influ-
enza.
headquarters in the city hall
DE being improved by the addition
OF a closet for the accommodation Of
the members, who want a place for
storing their extra clothes and other
effects.
Mrs. Kress, who addressed the Wo-
mans club yesterday afternoon, will
deliver a lecture tonight at the Con-
gregational church, under the
auspices of the club, on Shakespeare
can art.
The first state patent ever recorded
in the county was filed today by Hen
ry Struck. 1t conveys title to the
east half of the northeast quarter and
northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter and lot 1, section SO, township
2, south, range %, east, containing
in all 1867 acres. The consideration
js- $1,467.5o. -
A shipment of lis head of horses,
belonging to D. Balcuski, destined to
Winnipeg, Manitoba, was inspected
yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Hub
bard. The horses were all bought
in this vicinity and constituted a part
OF the lot the same party has been
gathering h~ereabouts. He still mas
several hundred more scattered
throughout the valley which will be
forwarded later on.
Judge Goss, attorney for the plain
tiff, has filed an amended complaint
in the matter of the action brought
by the w. S. Dickey Clay Manufacture
ing company against George Soule.
The original complaint was filed De-
cember 8, last, but the summons was
never served. The action is to recov-
er the sum of $350.47, alleged to be
due for goods sold defendant last
June and which it is claimed became
payable last August.
Chief of Police Dulin is in receipt
of a letter from Chester Clegg, the
Young man whom he arrested on a
dispatch from Luverne, Mimi, n
who was taken back there for trial,
last week. Clegg states that upon
his arrival he was a%rraigned and his
bond fixed at $1,000. This he sue
ceeded in giving Immediately and
was released pending his preliminary
hearing, which was to have taken
place today. Nothing is contained III
the letter concerning Weatherby, the
other man taken back at the same
time on the charge of being a fugitive
from Justice and who was said to have
committed wholesale forgeries.
County Attorney Harris has filed a
complaint against Louis Leon charg-
ing him with assault in the first de
gree. alleged to have been committed
on August Brey, October 10, last.
Leon was tried at the last term OF
court for attempting to XIII one
Leuthe, but was acquitted by the jury,
who believed the story he told OF
shooting at a coyote instead of Leuthe.
The accused has had his preliminary
hearing and is already under bond
for his appearance when the dis
| trict court convenes for the next term,
he having been arrested on the second
| charge the same day he was acquitted
of the first.
1t will surprise those who were
fcomDelled to be out of doors last
night to learn that despite the ap-
parent intense frigidity which pre-
| vailed it was NO colder than two de
grees below zero, as attested by the
| government thermometer at the city
hall. Some of the instruments about
the city registered as low as six. This
morning at 9 O'Clock it was five above.
The sharp, cutting wind that prevail
ed during the night made the tenn
perature seem a great deal lower
than it really was and deceived many
into the belief that the coolest
weather thus far this winter was be-
ing experienced.