The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-23
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This morning a party composed of
D. w. Grieve, Doctor N. B. Smith,
Miss Smith and Mrs. Leonard return
ed from a tour of the Yellowstone
National park.
Marvin Chase and w. T. Clark OF
tie Billings Land and Irrigation COM
pany went to Toluca last Saturday
10 make an inspection of the lands in
that locality with a view to their ulti-
mate reclamation.
Workmen began e%xcavating yester-
day for a new building the Billings
meat market intends to erect in
North Twenty-seventh street, adjoin-
Ing the block begun by the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company.
In view of the growing traffic in
Montana cattle and the coast markets
the Northern Pacific has made a cut
in its coast rates. Provided a con-
signment of 10 cars is made to cne
consignee a rate of $136 is given for
each a of sc feet.
A merry party composed of the Hon
orable Pat Lavelle of Columbus, for
mer county commissioner, Edward Card
we'll and daughters, the Misses Edna
and Mabel, and Miss Nellie Miller OF.
Merrill, were in the city this morn
ing on their way to the st. Louis ex-
position.
GroAN was broken yesterday by
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company for it's new building in
North Twenty-seventh street, adioin-
ing the Gazette block. Work on the
! structure will be fastened with all
possible speed and it is hoped to have
it enclosed before snow falls.
This morning the Reverend G. B.
Miller, grand chief templar of the
grand lodge of the I. O. G. T, left for
MissOula, where the state organiza-
ton will begin a three days meeting
Thursday. August 30 the gentleman
will go to Helena to deliver an address
before the state prohibition party.
\Aast Saturday morning the long
siege of torridity which had caused
some of the people of these parts to
begin to believe that a shifting had
occurred and that the Yellowstone
valley had slipped into the tropics
was broken by a marked lowering OF
the temperature, followed by a gener-
GUS rain.
George H. Bailey, who recently re-
signed as assistant United States at
torney for Montana, was in the city
last Saturday. The gentleman is an
avowed candidate for the nomination
OF attorney general of the state, on
the republican ticket, and his pres
i ence here was in furtherance of his
candidacy.
In response to a telegram informing
him that W. L. Watkins had exper-
fenced a relapse, R. ]. Martin left this
morning for Cody, Wyo. Last week it
a. reported that Mr.. Watkins vas
IN the high road to recovery and the
news of his new danger causes much
regret to his many friends ~hereabouts,
as he was a former resident of this
city.
last Sunday afternoon the ut"
baseball team defeated a combination
playing under the banner of the Elks
and gained an easy victory. The score
was Z to 5. It is only just to the E1ks
to say that but two of their players
were in the team supposed to repre-
sent the antlered fraternity. The 9th
ers were men who volunteered fer the
occasion.
Yesterday the police made a des-
cent upon that portion of fallen Sis
terhood which persists in walking the
streets and occupying rooms north of
Minnesota e and beyond the linn.
its Of the territory set aside by COM
mon consent for habitation by the so.
cial evil. In consequence a number
of strange faces appeared before his