The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-19
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, Tonight the city council will meet
in regular semi-monthly session.
Mrs. John r. Yates has returned
home from an extended visit among
relatives and friends ait Leavenworth,
Kan.
License to- wed was granted this
morning to John P. Fenwick of Red
Lodge and Clara Winter of Rochester,
Mimi.
B. G. Brockway, a resident of Lau-
rel, was severely injured a few days
ago by a horse which he was riding
falling upon him. One of Mr.. Brock
J ways legs was fractured.
|NToday the Bouton Livestock COM
pany began shipment of 5000 sheep
| that 1T has been fatuening Tor market
in Nebraska. A. S. Hanson left last
| Sunday for Broken Bow to superintend
the marketing.
James G. Fraser has returned from
| st. Paul, where he sold a band of
mutton sheep which he had fattened
| during the winter. The lot consisted
of ewes and lambs. For the former
he received $40 and for the latter
IS.
Joseph Sims, the Lavina lockmas-
ter, is in the city, en- route home from
a visit ITO the range about Wibaux,
| where he has a large number of sheep.
! He reports the weather as being Sc
verely cold in the eastern part of the
state, but stock is wintering well.
With the idea of keeping we'll Np>
at the head of the procession in thu
lime of improvements, John D. Lose
kamp upon his return from the east
proposes 10 remodel his store locat-
ed in Minnesota avenue. 1t is said
| that the contemplated alterations will
cost $12, 900.
Word announcing the death of Mrs.
R. K. Clear, sister.of Mrs. H. IS. Willis
Non and George M. Hays and Miss
Mabel Hays, was received last Satur-
day. Her death occurred at Butte
and was due to pneumonia. Mrs.
Clear was we'll known in the city,
.aving been a visitor in the family
Nof MI. and Mrs. H. S. Williston dur
ing the past few years.
Former Mayor George and family
departed a few days ago for southern
California, where Mrs. George and the
children and Miss Sleeper will re-
main for some time for the benefit
of the health of little Miss Dorothy
George. The latter has been poorly
for some months past and it was upon
the advice of the family physician
that she was taken to the sea coast.
X Sheriff Shackleford of Wallowa
bounty, Oregon, left last Saturday
having in charge Brick Johnson,
who must answer in the district court
of Enterprise to the charge of assault
with intent to kill, alleged to have
been made on the sheriff himself. AL
though the Oregon officer while here
made light Of the matter and was
inclined to give Johnson the best kind
Of a character. it was noticeable that
he took no chances with his prisoner,
as he weighed him down with an
"Oregon boot"
|XFrom some of the ranges in WyonA
ing come reports of serious depreda-
tons by wolves, which are said to be
killing cattle in large numbers. Ac-
cording to the way some of the stock
men tell it the wolves have suddenly
become very fastidious in the matter
of eating. They kill grown cattle, as
well as young stock, but instead OF
devouring the animals entire, as is
their wont, the Wyoming devastators
eat only portions of the hind quarters,
leaving the rest of the un
touched. In some localities the
ranchers are offering an additional
bounty of IS, making $40 in all paid
for the scalps of wolves in those Sec
lions.