The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-02-19
LOCAL AND


there are experiencing one of the
hardest winters that has visited that
section in years.
notwithstanding that the weather
during the last few days has been
almost springlike in it's balminess,
the nights have been decidedly cold.
Last night thermometers in different
parts of the city registered from Q
to 4 below zero, with the night before
about the same. The government in
strument recorded zero.
Miss Ruth Fish, sister of County
Clerk J. w. Fish, is expected to ar
rive tomorrow from Waverly, N. Y,
to remain indefinitely. The young
lady will be installed as housekeeper
for her brother. She will be pleasant
ly recalled by many of the people of
tie city, whom she met while here
>oYa visit last summer.
st. Patrick's day will be celebrated
by the local aerie of Eagles by a vau-
deville entertainment at the opera
house. The net proceeds will be de-
voted to the fund raising for the en-
tertainment of the delegates and Wis
itors to the state convention of the
order, which will take place in this
city in May. An elaborate programme
ic in nrnno rohion ond tho oorfo~nooroo
promises to be one of exceptional
merit and novelty.
George Anderson of the Bridger Free
Press was in the city yesterday, en-
route to Hunters Hot Springs, where
he said he expected to remain for
sometime to take the waters in the
hopse of effecting a cur for paraly-
sis involving his right side. The
stroke from which he is suffering
occurred recently and has caused his
right arm to become useless, which is
more seriously affected than the re-
mainder of his body.
Among yesterdays arrivals in the
city was Carlos Warfield, a gentleman
whose name is familiar to about ev-
cry newspaper reader in the state as
one of the most trusted of f. Aug.
Heinze's lieutenants. Mr.. Warfield is
now one of the solid sheepmen OF
Chouteau county, having bought a
large tract of land there on which
he is grazing his flocks. His visit
here is for the purpose of learning
more in regard to feeding sheep and
the production of alfalfa, SO he says,
denying that his presence has any po-
litical significance, although admit
ting that he. always took much de
light in having a "quiet little chat
with w. B."
NFrank Tobin is once more a guest
of Yellowstone county and at the
urgent invitation of Judge Mann will
remain such for the next 80 days or
more. He was ~sequestered yesterday
for an outrageous assault on his wife,
committed last week. He had one OF
his customary misunderstanding with
his spouse and to emphasize his re
marks threw a metallic cuspidor at
her. His aim was true and for several
hours the lady was unconscious, the
~projectile having struck her on the
head. Since then she has been con
fined to her bed and the services of a
physician have been necessary al
most daily. She was unable to appear
in court, but testimony from Other
witnesses was sufficient to convict
her ~unfeeling husband.
Last Wednesday Alfred Hampton, {
special agent of the bureau OF immi
grafton, was in the city for the pur
pose of making an investigation into
the status of some of the Chinese
residents, many of whom are suspect
ed to be without the necessary Ger
tificates permitting them to remain II
the country. Two were found who's
papers were regarded as insufficient
They were arrested and placed in Jail
pending a hearing before Unite'
States Commissioner Fraser. Befor'