The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-07
LOCAL N PERSONAL

From Fridays Daily Gazette.
Sam Greenblatt Of Fromberg is reg.
istered at the Grand
J.J. Holland of Gebo is among those
autographed at the Grand.
I Mrs. W. w. Andrus and Miss Ire
land of Miles City are visiting Billings
friends today.
B. q. Shorey left this morning for
Wibaux to look arter his Dawson
county sheep interests.
4 Sidney Fox, the Red Lodge aktor4t
ney, was among last nights visitors
in the city. He returned this morn
ing.
A marriage license was issued this
morning to Joseph Quincy Hooker of
Lowell, Wyo., and Maude ]. Colvert of
this city.
Allie II. and O. F. Goddard have
sold to Money o. Cedergren lots l,
2 and. 8, block 81, Fosters addition to
Billings TOWNSHIP; consideration 3d.
900.
THE Honorable George NJ. Hays, Sec
rotary of state, came down from Hell
n last night to assist in tonight's
concert for the benefit of the public
library.
Professor Currier and the Misses
Landon and Kinney, who will take
the leading parts in tonight's concert,
arrived from Bozeman last night and
are the guests of friends.
w. B. Sleeper left this morning for
a trip to- the Lame Deer Indian
agency IN the Rosebud river to visit
his sister, Mrs. Doctor Townsend,
who Is reported dangerously i'll.
Claude Buchanan, who is engaged
in the sheep business in Dawson coun-
ty, is among the visitors in the city
today. He reports a moderation in
the weather and says the range out
look in that part of the state is much
more favorable than a short time ago.
Mrs. r. O. More, wife of the Laurel
merchant, vas brought to st. Vim
cents hospital this morning to be
treated for inflammatory rheumatism,
from which ailment she has suffered
a long time. Recently she visited one
of the water cures to the west, but
without obtaining any relief.
H. N. Saxton, an examiner connect
ed with the civil service of the gov
eminent, is in the city today exam
lining applicants for positions as type
writer's and stenographers in depart
mental work at Washington. Three
candidates, two ladies and n gen.
tleman, the first two from Miles City
and the latter from Fort Keogh, took
the examination.
A lieu selection patant granted by
the United States to Carl F. Hensen
for the southwest quarter of the north
| east quarter of section 20, township
3 south, range % east, was filed for
record today. The patent is given in
lieu of a quarter section of land the
patantee formerly owned in Cali
fornia and title to which he relin-
quished in favor of the government.
Mrs. Srrang, county superintendent,
received a telegram this morning
from the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction directing her to post
pone the teachers institute for Vel
lowstone county and setting new
dates for the m AS originally set
the institute was to have been held
April 10, IA and Is. Under the post
ponement the dates will be April Is,
II and 10.
N1he annual election of officers of
the Maverick Hose company was held
at the fire hall last evening. These
officers were elected to serve the en-
suing year: Chief, ]. c. Bond; as
sistant chief, c. l.. Sawyer; secretary,
O. w. Mickey; president, S. T. Con-
nelly; vice-president, Alvin Duff. In
addition the company made final ar.
engagements for the annual banquet to
be held tomorrow night.
Walter Anderson, editor of the Red
Lodge Picket and postmaster for that
town, was in the city last night book
ed for a short business trip to the
western part Of the state. AS is gen.
orally known in this part of the coun
try, MI. Anderson has had an inter
esting and at times highly sensational
newspaper war on his hands in Car.
bon county during the past few