The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
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From Fridays Daily.
C. J. Cottingham is among the Hell
enaites who are visiting the city to-
day.
Chris. A. Rasmussen, a recent ar
rival from Oshkosh, Wis, has entered
the service of E. D. Camp as stenog-
gapher.
\Tomorrow evening the Billings and
Bohemian high school basket ball
teams will meet in the gymnasium of
the new southside schol house.
Mrs. A. l.. Babcock returned this
morning from a visit to her mother, at
Pontiac, Ills, to whose side she was
called a few weeks ago on account of
serious sickness.
Good use is being made of much of
the dirt obtained from the excavations
for the new Stapleton ond Yoemen
blocks in filling Twe~nty-seventh and
other streets and bringing their sides
up to grade.
Last evening Thomas Cruise of Hell
ena, who had been in the city several
days, was Joined by his nephew, w.
J. Cruise, and later they left for the
east, intending to go as far as New
York before their return.
J. H. Tharp, a member of the Colo
RADIO colony, has secured a lease on
the barn recently vacated by Cothron
& Todd, which has been removed onto
a lot near the Burlington wool ware
house, and will engage in the livery.
business.
AS a result Of their visit to that
place the county commissioners and
county clerk have returned from Hell
ena with many valuable ideas as re-
CARDS furnishing the new court house
and which will be applied to Yellow
stones imposing temple of justice.
The state board of pardons has APP
proved of the action of Acting Gov
ernor Higgins, who a few weeks ago
diminished the sentence of Pleasant
Draper, confined in the ~penitentlary
for the murder of Lena Turner at the
Crow agency 10 years ago.. Draper
will secure his liberty in January,
1906.
Their patience has been finally re-
warded and the Reverend Mr.. Bowker
and family are at last domiciled in
the new rectory which the Episcopal
society has built in Second ven
north, between Thirty-second and
Thirty-third streets. The building is
a large one and modern in all it's de-
tails.
Hearing of testimony is in progress
today on the petition Of Henry Thor
son for letters testamentary and pro-
bate of the last will and testament q
the late johannes Svennes. AS has al
ready been published, the contest
filed by one of the legatees has been
withdrawn and Mr.. Thorson is now
taking the necessary steps to comply
with the wish of the deceased, who
named him executor of the will.
H. j. Miller, the Livingston lawyer,
who went to Red Lodge a day or two
ago to defend the Picket Publishing
company in a $4,000 libel suit insti-
tuted by a Mrs. Reeves, returned to
the city last evening or his way home.
The case was continued until the
next regular term of the district court
for that county, owing to the inability
of two witnesses for the defense to
appear on account of illness.
Charles Kelsey and w. Went were
given a preliminary examination yes
terday afternoon before Judge Fraser
on the charge of having stolen a horse
from Seth Trip. who lives east of the
city. The men were arrested several
weeks ago in Park county by Sheriff
Roberts of Livingston. Nothing was
brougt out to implicate Went and he
was discharged from custody. Kelsey
was held to the district court in tine
sum of $500.