The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-01

cause of the awful catastrophe that be-
fell Chicago last Wednesday. A dis
patch was received last night by @.
H. Frady, who resides near the New
man school house, informing him 0
the death of the wife and little boy
of his son, who were victims of the
holocaust.
Mames Fraser, who has been feeding
a band of sheep a few miles west OF
the city, made his first shipment last
Wednesday. 1t consisted OF eight cars
of exceptionally choice animals, for
which it is predicted a fancy price
will be received. On the same day
H. C. Fitzpatrick of Harlowtown for
warded even cars and GrOsser and
Reichen of Custer the same number. 4
Transcript of a judgment rendered
in the district court for Carbon county
has been received for filing by the
clerk of the district court for Yellow
stone county. The matter at issue was
between John Celander and Charles
and o. G. Bundy, whom plaintiff sued
for the recovery of $1,138.98, said to
be due on a debt. According to the
transcript the judgment was ordered
December 1.
Instead of having been stolen from
"a residence, as was at first supposed,
it now turns out that the preserves
which a couple of tramps were try
ing to sell earlier in the week were
undoubtedly taken from a Burlington
freight car. The discovery was made
Wednesday that last Sunday, while it
was standing in the company's yards,
a car was entered and a case of can
ned goods carried off.
candy" Bennighof is trying to ac-
custom himself to respond to a new
appellation and is frequently to be
heard repeating the word "Grandpa,"
while the Misses Beninghof call one
another "aunty," SO as to become ia
miliar with the new title by the time
they will have to reply to it. The
Cause is the arrival of a son to Mr..
and Mrs. w. J. Cruise, which import
ant event occurred at Helena last
Tuesday.
nesday night and yesterday morning
arrived many hours behind time. The
delay was caused by an accident at
Tuscor, a flag station near the west
ern border of the state, where the
Twin City Express was wrecked. Sew.
en- cars were derailed, but fortunately
no one was injured. A wrecking crew
was dispatched from Missoula and
cleared the track so that by 5 o'clock
in the evening traffic could be resum-
ed.
Clerk Williams of the district court
was engaged yesterday in taking the
deposition of George w. Connick to be
used as evidence in a case to be tried
at Brigham City, Utah. The matter
as issue involves the payment Of a
note executed a number of years ago
by j. M. Haws & Son in favor of Con-
mick and by him sold to another party.
The note is for $24O.46 and was given
in payment of a stock of goods sold
by Connick to the defendants, who,
since then, have removed to Utah.
Having failed in his attempt to
prosecute the officers on a criminal
charge, George A. Miller has insti-
tuted a civil action against the Slater
Brick company to recover the value OF
the wood taken by them and for which
he rejected the offer made by the COM
pany in payment of his claim. He
sues in Justice Mann's court and de-
-mands judgment for $246 and costs.
He alleges that Al cords of wood were
taken by the defendants, and places
the value at Sc a cord.
" Since construction of the Billings
Land and Irrigation company's canal
has begun, a large number of undesira-
bles have been arriving in the city.
Although all claim to have come for