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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

w. F. Mershon, general agent pas
senger department, New York.
G. 3. Foster, district passenger
| agent, Boston.
G. W. Hardisty, district passenger
G. 3. Brison, district passenger
agent, Pittsburg.
P. w. Pummill, district passenger
agent, Philadelphia.
w. G. Mason, district passenger
agent, Buffalo.
w. H. Whitaker, district passenger
agent, Detroit.
j. j. Ferry, district passenger agent,
Cincinnati.
C. P. O'Donnell, district passenger
agent, Indianapolis.
G. A. Matthews, general agent pas
senger department. Chicago.
J. C. Thompson, district passenger
agent, Chicago.
c. c. Trott, district passenger agent,
Milwaukee.
D. B. Gardner, district passenger
agent, st. Louis.
G. F. McNeill, city passenger and
ticket agent, Minneapolis.
Geo. D. Rogers, city passenger and
ticket agent, st. Paul.
]. H. MacFadzean, city passenger
and ticket agent, Duluth.
G. w. McCaskey, district passenger
agent, st. Paul.
H. W. Sweet, district passenger
agent, st. Paul.
b. D. Rockwell, district passenger
agent, Des Moines.
H. B. Bryning, travelling emigration
agent, Kansas City.
G. G. Morrison, travelling emigration
agent, Omaha.
J.. L. Daugherty, travelling emigra-
ton agent, Chicago.
J.. L. Pryor, stenographer, st. Paul.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
OLD TIME
Ac~hoolbOOk Posers For the Nrnn WI,

schoolboolS POsers For the Man who
Knows 1t All.
somebody's and girls OF today who
think they are oppressed by problems
requiring the use Of both English and
metric units Of weight and measure
would be appalled, by an examination
OF some of the text books their grand
mothers studied. The author of "Old
lime Schools" quotes many questions
which are in a language unintellipible
today.
"How much will 10 serons Of cochi-
neal come to-" asks an arithmetic pub
lished a century ago in Northampton.
Mass. weighing neat 724 okes, %
%rotolas. at 80 piastres per okeY
"How much will 1S9 bazaar mauds.
81 seer and 8 chittacks of sugar come
to at 6 rupees per maud?"
Any one who had finished a course
in that book was evidently equipped
to go as supercargo in an old fash
Toned merchantmen. But who of to-
day would know for what he was
equipped when he had struggled with
the next one?
Deduct the tare and the tret and
divide the suttle by 16S, and the quo
tient will be the cloff, which subtract
from the suttle, and the remainder will
be the neat"
1t becomes scarcely more ineligible
when explained by definition: "Tare is
an allowance made the purchaser for
box, bag or barrel. Tret is an allow
ane of four pounds in each hundred
and four for waste, dust and so forth.
CloF is an allowance of two pounds
upon every three hundredweight. SUIT
tie is what is left when a part of the
is deducted. Neat remains
when all is deducted"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
FLIES IN
They Everywhere and Are an
ntOlerab BILE Plague.

WSs
Manchuria is the land Of flies. They
ravage it like an Egyptian plague. If
you have not experienced it, it is al
most impossible to realize how loath-
some are these black swarms. Early
in the morning they descend from the
ceiling and crawl over your face and
hands, into your ears and nostrils.
Friendly meetings are held in your
hair, and fights take place in the cor
nera of your eyes. There is not a glass
or Il cup in which they are not to be
found drowned in masses. They buzz
out of sugar bowls and dishes, they
swim in the sauce of every dish we
eat. They scurry in great numbers
over the ~tablecloths; they cover bread
and meat as a solid body which the
eye cannot penetrate; they make
everything alive-ceiling, floor, walls,
furniture, bed, the paper on which l
write this letter, the pen in my hand
and the ink l ain using. Everywhere
these small black things crawl and
buzz as in a repulsive delirious vision.
But the evening is the worst time of
all. Satisfied and drowsy, they settle
themselves where it best suits them,
and they are not to be got rid of. Sc
n crushes them, only to be sickened
still by the black, yellow and reu spots
which they leave ON ones skin, ON
ones tablecloths. tables, linen, paper
everything. Truly the flies own Man
churia, increasing by millions in it's
dust and mud, an intolerable plague
Cor. London Graphic.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
(First Publication Oct. 2S-6w)
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land
Office at Lewistown, Montana, Octo-
Der 21st, 1904.
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before Fred w.
Handel, U. S. Commissioner at Mus
selshell, Montana, on December 18th.
1904, viz; H. E. No. 1856, made by
ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS EDMIsTON,
for the NJ NEA, sWA NEA, NWA
sen, section "a, township s north,
range rs east, M. M.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence
upon and cultivation of said land, viz;
Andrew H. Murray, of Musselshell,
Mont; John H. Deskins, of Mussel-
shell, Mont; Henry E. Martin, of Mus
selshell. Mont; Wright Harvey, OF
Musselshell, Mont.
EDWARD BRAssEY, Register.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
(First Publication Oct. 25, 19O4-4t
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate OF Albert Butler, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed administrator OF the estate OF
Albert Butler, deceased, to the cred
itors OF and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within four months after the first pub
LEGATION of this notice, to the said ad-
ministrator at the office of H. G,
Crippen, in the county of Yellowstone,
state of Montana.
Dated at Billings. October 21, 1904.
o. D. HOGUE,
Administrator of the Estate of Albert
Butler, deceased.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
BEHRENDT BROS MACHINERY
AND GENERAL IRON WORKS.

Machine, boiler and general iron
work. such as rod iron ratings, fences,
heavy sheet-iron work, machine black
smithing and tool dressing. Repair
ing OF automobiles, bicycles, guns and
sewing machines a specially. Full line
OF repair supplies in stock. Twenty
years experience enables us to do
all work in first-class mechanical
manner. Prices reasonable.
BEHRENDT BROS, Props.
tt "a North Twenty-Ninth St.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

Sealed proposals for the building OF
a drainage ditch along the section
line between sections No. 33, T. 1, N.
R. Is, 3. M. p. NJ, for Yellowstone
County, will be received by the Clerk
of Yellowstone County, Montana, at
his Office in the County Court House
at Billings, until November 18th, 1904,
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Ditch is to be four feet wide on the
bottom and the banks are to have a
slope OF one foot to one foot; the ditch
is to be approximately, $500 feet long
and will contain approximately $500
cubic yards of earth and gravel.
In making bids, name the price per
yard.
BY order of the Board of Commits
sioners.
Dated, Billings, -4ont., Oct. 29th,
1904.
53-4 J. W. FISH, Co. Clerk.
Read The Gazette and keep posted
of local happenings.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
AlRsHl7 IS RECOVERED.
Aerial Craft First Discovered by Far.
mers-HauIed Back On a Wagon.

st. Louis, Nov. 4.-The airship of
Captain T. S. Baldwin, which suddenly
slipped away last night as it was be-
ing towed from the country to the
aeronautic concOurse, was found today
16 miles west of st. Louis. 1t was
unframed by it's wild flight, save for
two small rents in the gas bag, which,
Captain Baldwin stated, could be re-
paired in half an Aour.
When the Arrow escaped there was
just enough gas to lift the craft we'll
off the ground. Inventor Baldwin es-
cold night air would condense the gas
rapidly and cause the airship to come
down in the vicinity of st. Louis. After
floating in the wind for 16 miles the
airship anne down within a short dis
lance of the ground and her anchor
rope became entangled in the dead
limb of a tree. This served as an In
Choir and the airship was found SO
moored in a cornfield by farmers.
Word reached Baldwin late in the
day that his airship had been found.
He and Aeronaut Knabenshu hurried
to the scene in an automobile and
were rejoiced to find the aerial craft
uninjured, with the exception of two
slight tears in the balloon. The bal
loon was Debated and, after negotia-
lions had been completed with a far
mer, the collapsed airship was loaded
on a hay wagon and brought back to
the exposition aerOdrOme.
Captain Baldwin stated tonight that
he expected to have the airship in
readiness for a flight by Saturday at
ternoOn.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Troops to Take the Field,

Lander, Wyo., Nov. Appropriations
are being made by the military au-
thorities at Fort Washable to have the
two troops of the Tenth cavalry sta
toned here to take the field at a
moments notice in pursuit OF the two
Cody outlaws.
The bandits are whiting a few miles
of the boundaries of the Wind River
reservation, and if they succeed in
eluding their pursuers, will cros over
the Indian reservation on to govern
ment land. In this event the colored
troopers from this post will join in
the man hunt.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
A Flower Book Of Real Flowers.

The Yellowstone Park Flower Book,
published by the Northern Pacific, is
a beautiful creation. 1t contains IL
srecimens of real, pressed flowers, in
p tural colors, from Yellowstone
lark, with botanical names and the
places where found.
The book also has six full page,
fine half-tone illustrations showing
the Park bears, the Grand canyon,
seysers, hotels, etc., found in the
Park, which is the most wonderful
spot on earth, 81 by 62 miles in size,
in the very depths Of the Rockies.
The Flower Book makes a beautiful
souvenir. Send A. M. Clelend, general
passenger agent, Northern Pacific
railway, st. Paul, Mimi, so cents for
a copy. tt
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Falls Under WAGON Wheels.

Dillon, Nov. 4.-Ernest G. Ritter,
who lives on the William Roberts
ranch south OF Dillon, narrowly es-
capped death while engaged in hauling
wood Wednesday.
He was driving over a bad piece OF
road when a lurch of the wagon threw
him off the vehicle in front of one OF
the wheels. The vehicle passed over
his hips.
No bones were broken, but the pres
sure of the wheel caused a hemor-
rhage that would have ended his life
had not medical attention been given
in time.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Pressed For Money.

ooh, Henr... exclaimed his wife as
she threw her arms rapturously about
his neck, II do love you so! Don't for
get to leave me $40 when you go to
town this morning, will you, dear"
"And this" muttered Henry, softly
disengaging himself from her fond
embrace-"this is what you might call
being hard pressed for money"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
How 1t struck Him.

A writer in the Chicago Record-Her-
aid tells Of a city automobile on a
rampage that skipped the sidewalk
and took a header into a basement,
turning a few somersaults and finally
stopping with its wheels in the air re-
volving and sputtering. The old cob
bier was found damned into a corner
of the shop, unhurt, but dazed. what
did you think it WASP" his rescuers
asked. II fought" he gasped, dot
vas a customer vat vas mad apout hees
ShOes!"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Wanted Them Nice.

rvurmy--I'm going to begin vulgar
fractions tomorrow. ma. Mother-You
shall do nothing of the kind. Tommy.
You shall study the most refined frac-
tons they have in the school.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
STEAMERS
French Ships Come Together Off Al
qerian Coast.

Algeria, Nov. "A hundred persons
were drowned last night by the sink
ing of the French steamer Gironde,
after having been in COLLISION with
the French steamer A. Schiffino, near
Herbillen, % miles from Bona.
The Gironde left Bona with ITO pas
sengers, of which 100 were Algerian
natives.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Money on Real Estate.

LII you want to borrow money on
your house, farm Or building, see us
right away. North Real Estate, Loan
q Title 20. 47-9t
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Cancers Removes

Cancers successfully removed by
the skill of medicine. All people al
hicted with this dreaded disease, can
Ger, will do we'll to call on DIR. W. A.
JACKSON, Cancer Specialist, 1928 w.
Main street, Bozeman, Mont. r. q.
Box 512. If
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

All orders for IL flowers, designs,
etc., promptly filled at Miss P%anton's.
Roses, $1.5O; carnations, 75c. 3Oly
Montana avenue. Bell phone 62F. tt
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
A Serious Prospect.

Gust think Of what it is to have no
hoca." said the man who was asking
for % cents. 81
That's just what l am thinking off,
answered Mr.. Meekton. MY wife is
going to clean house again very soon."
Washington Star.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
No Money There.

Cody, Wyo., Nov. 4-The report
that the federal government had a
larges amount OF money on deposit in
the local bank, the funds to be used
in the completion of the big Shoshone
irrigation enterprise, was a mistake.
The government has at no time had
funds on deposit there.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

II Is a blessing for the happy home
thar husbands and wives do not al
ways know exactly what each thinks
Of the other Chicago Journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Piano Tuninu.

Arthur Wales, premier plano tuner.
Thirty years experience. Leave or.
ders ct Holmes & Rixon's drug store
Montana avenue. 57-rf
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Map of Coded Reservation.

Map of ceded part of Grow Indian
reservation will be mailed to any adj
dress by The Gazette on receipt of
10 cents.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Phone to Frenchy

At Billings woodward for all kinds
OF first-class wood. Bell phone 65F;
Moffett, 289. Satisfaction guaranteed.
tt ALFRED BURY.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Foreclosure Of chatteI MORTGAGE

FUTecTosUTe OF ChdtteI MoTtgage.
The following property will be sold
at public auction at ranch of John
Thusen, 10 miles west of Billings,
November 10, 1904: Horses, harness,
wagons, buggies, plows, mowers, har-
rows, rakes, stacker, etc. Chance for
bargains. 54-2
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

We guarantee all our work and II
GOT satisfactory we will make it 81
or return your money.
BILLINGS STEAM LAUNDRY.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
NORTHERN PACIFIC PASSENGER
AGENTS ON TOUR.
IN VALLEY OF BIG CROPS
Visitors Shown Wonders That Irriga'
ton Worked for BilIings-Given
Royal Time.

Twenty-seven. "count EN-" as the
old time minstrel advertisement put
it, missionaries representing the pas
senger department of the Northern
Pacific railroad arrived from the east
this morning and are spending the
day in gaining knowledge concerning
Billings and the wonderfully rich ter
ritory Immediately adjacent to it. The
party is under the chaperonage OF A.
M. Cleland, general passenger agent
of the road, and the object of it's tour
of the west is to become familiar with
the country through which the line
the members represent threads it's
way in order that they may see for
themselves and be all the more able
to convince the travellers who apply
to them for information Of the glor-
les, wealth and possibilities that lie
in the land beyond the murky current
of the big son of the Daddy OF
Waters
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

Calling cards at the Gazette ONCE.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
They Were Shown.

WATERS. .
They Were Shown.
Soon after breakfast this morning
the visitors were taken in hand by a
delegation from the Commercial club
and agents of the Billings Land and
Irrigation company and loaded into
vehicles for a drive VI the valley.
There they were shown what irriga-
tion has done in the way OF trans
forming the desert into a region pro-
ductive of about every grain, fruit.
vegetable and grass Indigenous to the
temperate zone
Afterwards they were driven to the
east of the city where the land and
irrigation .sompany is developing a
large area and where nature still
holds sway awaiting the final touches
of art and industry to make the land
there equally as productive and gener-
Gus of yield as that seen earlier in
the day.
At noon they were the guests of the
Commercial club, which rendered
them a complimentary luncheon at
the Northern.
Because of the length of the journey
still ahead of them and the many
places at which stops are to be made,
the party cut its visit short and left
for the west at 2:30.
"Hit the Trail"
The foregoing is the heading OIL a
neat folder gotten out as a memento
of the itinerary, the object OF which
is set forth as follows:
with the coming of the Lewis and
Clarke exposition to be held at Port
land in 1905, the travel of the middle
and northwest promises to be the
heaviest yet experienced, and the
Northern Pacific railway, which fol
lows closely the trail of the early
pioneers whose wonderful trip we are
to commemorate, hopes to do it's share
development of the country, as we'll
as in the extent of it's passenger bust
ness
The interest of the people and OF
the Northern Pacific railroad are iden-
teal. 1t is the desire of the manage
ment of the company that it's repre-
%sentatives shall thoroughly under
stand the needs and possibilities OF
the cities and states through which
it's line runs and hat everything pos
sible shall be done to build up this
country. The tour is for this purpose
and with the hope that it will be bread
cast upon the waters. After seeing
for themselves the resources, wealth
and development of the great west,
they cannot return to their respective
territories without great enthusiasm,
and this enthusiasm will be conta-
gious."
Who They Are.
The personnel of the jolly party is
as follows:
A. M. Cleland, general passenger
agent, st. Paul.
C. W. Mott, general emigration
agent, st. Paul.
A. D. Carlton, assistant general
passenger agent, oPrtland.
]. G. Poore, chief clerk passenger
department, st. Paul.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

Read The Gazette and keep posted
of local happenings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-02

The Union says that it has always
maintained that the agitation for q
commission in this state was purely
for political purposes and that when
il has accomplished that end it will
pass off the stage of active interest. 1t
still think So" Then We are to under
stand that the present alleged support
of an appointive, regulative railway
commission by the Union and by the
republican legislative nominees Is
purely for political purposes" and that
if the said nominees should be elected
they Will let the question pass off the
stage of active interest" just as was
done by the last lobby ridden legisla-
ture. They look upon the railway
commission issue as a good enough
Morgan" for winning votes, but after
election they would relegate it to the
political junk pile.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-02
ANOMALOUS WHEAT STU ALTON.

The Minneapolis Journal says:
Following the announcement of the
bonding of local plants and the I'M
portation of Canadian wheat by Min
neapolis millers, comes the report that
a miller at Richmond. Va. is planning
to grind Russian wheat to be shipped
direct from the Black sea. OF all de-
velopments illustrating the extraordi-
nary American wheat supply situation,
this is the most striking. Canadian
wheat could ordinarily come to Amer
lean mills almost as cheaply as to Ca
madam markets. the tariff being the
one great consideration. But Russian
wheat must pay duty as well and must
come thousands of miles by sea. New
ertheless. when American No. 2 red
winter wheat was quoted recently at
$1.26@1.3O at the seaboard, Russian
wheat could be bought to cost r$1.05
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-02
THE BONERS WERE RIGHT.

Not long before the republican pri-
maries last April the Roosevelt Nc
Bride club through its executive COM
mittee, w. H. kirkman. F. S. Dement,
and Oscar Cain. issued a campaign
circular on the question of a railway
commission in which some statements
and predictions We're made that are
now interesting reading in view of the
subsequent course of the republican
organization in this county and state
Here are some choice excerpts from
this circular:
In order To reach proper consider
alton of the questions involved it is
best that we should recall something
Of the political history of the state as
1t has been written during the past
two years
After the Mcbride following in the
state convention of 1902 had secured
the adoption OF an appointive COM
mission plank in the platform. promi-
heh' railroad attorneys throughout the
state openly repudated the plank and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-02
PAP FOR RAILROAD
ORGANS

The campaign matter being pub
lished in nearly all the republican rail-
road organs of the state outside of
the three large cities, is being furnish
eau With headquarters in the office of
the Seattle Post -Intelligencer Through
mer of the state committee Ed Thomas,
formerly editor of Boss Farrelrs pa
per, the Whatcom Reveille, is now
writing editorial paragraphs and cam
paign Screeds for the anti-Turner Or
gans of the state, the committee paying
his salary. With the exception of the
editorial paragraphs. this stuff first APP
pears in the POSt-Intelligencer and it
is merely echoed by the smaller fry.
The editorial paragraphs are first used
by outside papers and then copied by
the P.-I. as rejecting the opinions of
republican editors throughout the state
All this matter bears the earmarks
of John l.. Wilson and it breathes his
spirit of envy, malice and vindictive-
ness toward his most formidable polit-
ical rival, George Turner. In this way
Wilson is regaining his former hold
on the republican party machinery of
this state. He already has the state
committee in his grasp and he is
gradually gaining control of most of
the republican newspapers. Even the
Walla Walla Union. which formerly
fumed and snorted at the mere men,
ton of John l.. Wilson like bull at
the sight of red rag. is now using his
political pabulum without question.
For example, over two columns of Will
sons sweetened pap appears on the
front page of tOday's Union for the
nourishment of supporters of Albert E.
Mead, who was brought out as the
railroad lobby nominee for governor
by the Farrell Grosscup incubator.