The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-22
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the army of married men. The guests
OF honor will be Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Lee Mains, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Roche,
MI. and Mrs. Harry Kelsey anQrNr.
and Mrs. Thomas Chapple.
Jesse Koshland, buyer for ]. Kosh-
land & Co., took his departure for the
west Wednesday. He expected to
visit his mother, who resides at San
Francisco, where he intended to re-
main a few weeks and then return to
Boston.
Complaint was made to the police
yesterday that the room of Miss
Kate Loepeer, in East Montana ave-
nue., had been entered and a trunk
riled of it's contents. A sapphire
ring, a diamond ring and $50 in money
were taken. There is no clue to the
thief and his arrest is regarded as
extremely unlikely.
! >City Clerk Carwile is makinggood
pfOgress in the matter of taking the
census Of Billings and has the major
portion of the work done. Under the
resolution of the council directing the
he has until August Is
in which to report. While, of course,
the footings have not yet been made,
Mr.. Carwile is confident that the
city's population will be found to be
in excess of 5000.
J.. B. Jack" Herford, at one time
city attorney and one of the pioneers
of Billings, surprised his friends a
couple Of days ago by dropping in on
them. Because of the generous man.
ner in which Dame Fortune smiled
upon him during the last few years,
Mr.. HEREFORD nov happily finds him
self able to enjoy life without care
and is taking matters easy in the
Least, where his family resides.
F<Workmen began yesterday to tear
down the front of the store occupied
by the Billings Hardware company,
preparatory to the installation Of a
new and modern front that the owner
of the building, A. L. Babcock, has
decided upon. Large plate glass win
kdows will replace the old ones and
instead of two entrances, a large dou-
BILE door will be placed in the center,
affording immense show windows on
either side.
d. N. Kinds, a former residghf OF
Billings, is among the visitors in the
city. Mr.. Kinds and Judge Fraser
were employed as paymasters by He
man Clark & Co. during the construc-
ton period of the Northern Pacific.
He left shortly after the completion
of the road and during recent years
has made his home at Denver. He
still finds many old friends here, men
who came when Billings was merely a
dot on the landscape.
Waiter a good time at st. Louis
Twhere he was an alternate to h demo
cratic convention, the Honorable Johr
d. Losekamp is back once more. i
was his intention to attend the reunion
of Elks at Cincinnati, but because o
: the death of his sister, Mrs. Ordway
which occurred at Chicago last Mon
= day, he was obliged to omit that par
of his programme. Mr.. Losekamp wa
honored by being named as one of tn
committee to notify the vice presiden
tial nominee of his nomination.
After having been held in the cour
ty Jail for a couple of days two womer
whose names were not learned, wer
released. The charge against thel
was robbery. George Clarke, TO
merly Of this city, was the complain
ant. He alleged that the women stol
$3.50 from him while he was aslee
on a train going west. Clarke appear
to have befriended the women an
was taking them to Harlowtown. H
failed to make good his charge and .
no testimony against them was ava
able, the fairies were given their II
lerty.