The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-02
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/ close of business tomorrow will be
delinquent and subject to the usual
penalty.
Among last nights visitors in the
city was the Reverend Father Stack
of Red Lodge, who is soon to be sta
toned here as successor to Father
Van Clarenback, transferred by
Bishop Lenihan to Lewistown. Father
Stack in turn will be succeeded by
Etker Vermaat, now at Lewistown.
{/Nat. G. Carwile is circulating a petit
Ftion among the business and profess
sional men OF the city today praying
that Governor Toole appoint him to
the office of state examiner. Mr.. Car
vile is one of the mast competent Of
flee men in the state and it is pre-.
dicted by his friends that he stands
an excellent snow of landing the COW
eted prize.
Next Monday, December 5, the
county commissioners will meet in
regular quarterly session. The audit
ing of accounts will compose a large
part of the business to be transacted.
Those having bills to present would
better file them with the county clerk
by the end of the present week, for if
filed later they will have to lie over
uYtD the March meeting of the board.
Noward Eaton, the well known
guide, arrived from the west last
night. He was accompanied by a Ger
man count and his son, whom he had
been guiding through the large game
resorts of Wyoming AID western Mon
tana. From here the party left for
NH. Eaton's ranch, near Rancher,
Wyo., where the two foreigners will
remain a few days and then return to
Germany.
Henry Thorson has FatitiOned the
district OUT for letters ~testamentary
in the estate of johannes Svennes, de-
! ceased. In a codicil to the will lett
by johannes Mr.. Thorson is named
executor, multiplying the appointment
of deceased's wife, Gunner Svennes,
who was nominated executrix in the
original document, executed Septem-
Der %, 1904. In addition to some
l yno]tyt the nsfo+n onnc;ctc IF GO NIX on
deposit in the First National bank OF
this city.
Pleasant Draper, the colored
trooper from Fort Custer, who killed
Anna Turner, also colored, at the
home of Agency Trader BabcoclS at
the Grow agency in 1894, was granted
a dininution OF sentence by Acting
Governor Higgins at Helena, yester-
day. Draper was convicted in Custer
county and sentenced to serve %
years at Deer Lodge. Taking into
account time for good behavior and
the ~lessening of the sentence by he
acting governor, Draper will be given
his liberty a year from next January.
ABOUT 3 o'clock this morning a fire
was discovered in the small confec-
tionery store of Brooks Bros, in South
Twenty-ninth street. The department.
responded with unusual promptness,
but was unable to save more than the
building itself, as it managed to con-
fine the fire to the room in which 1t
originated. Almost the entire stock
and fixtures were destroyed by heat
and smoke. The loss falls heavily on
the owners who carried no insurance.
But little damage was done to the
building. The origin of the fire is I'M
known, as there was no stove in the
room. -
An error in yesterdays report OF
court proceedings made it appear that
the petition for a change OF venue
fled in the Grady s. had been de-
MED. The petition was not acted
upon and a ruling will not be made
until after the examination OF tn
witnesses subpoenaed at defendants
instance to prove great public preju'
dice against him.