The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-02-12

crosby to the happy frame of mind
in which the agent is now finding
himself. Mr.. Coleman is the proud
father of a baby boy of more than or
binary promise. He vas born last
night and pulled down the beam at
nine pounds.
The local division of the Order of
Railway Conductors is arranging to
give a ball and supper in this city
On the night of April 4. The order
has recently been established here
and numbers among it's members
nearly all the conductors running out
of the city. Invitations will be issued
for the affair and the knights Of the
punch expect to make the first event
of the kind held in the city a big suc
cess.
The local auxiliary of the Florence
Crittenden circle, which has for its
object the redemption of fallen women,
will, it is claimed, send a commune
cation to the city council declining
to accept the money which the coun-
Gil appropriated for the Use of the
circle at the last regular meeting
Of that body. The ladies of the cir
Gle claim that application for funds
was unauthorized by the officers Of
their association.
Additional filings have been made
in tina matter III the action of the
Billings Land and Irrigation COM
pany VS.. Elmer Summers, and others,
a suit for right-of-way. A demurrer
has been entered to the amended
complaint of the plaintiff, also a mo-
ton to strike out certain parts there
of, and another motion for an order
requiring the plaintiff to make it's
pleadings more specific and definite
in several respects.
NE l.. Summers loaded 10 cars OF
sdeep at Foster station Tuesday even.
ing, which were shipped to the Chi
| cago market. The sheep have been
fed neal Foster all winter and were
in prime condition. Mr.. Summers
was ready to load them a week ago
but was advised by the Northern Pa
| cific company that it would receive
no livestock shipments during the
| time of the extreme cold weather
and threatened blizzard in North Da-
kota.
NCaptain -Babcock, postmaster of the
Pcity, has concluded to take advantage
of a regulation Of the p%ostoff1ce de-
partment relative to his Office being
made the dumping ground for a
large number of pennies that are
placed in circulation here. Under the
regulation the Office is not obliged to
take more than 25 cents in denomina.
lions of / cent at one time from any
one person. The local Office will
make strict application of this rule
in the future, in order to relieve the
Office of a large accumulation of what
it terms undesirable COIN"
G. F. Burla, by his attorney, w. M.
Johnston, field suit in the district
court Wednesday against J. F. Hahn
Of Laurel, to recover the balance due
on a note. The note is secured by
mortgage on land near Laurel. Plain
tiff alleges that the note was original
ly given the Yellowstone National
bank for the sum of $685.. Severa.
payments were made on it and il
was then assigned to the plaintiff, and
there now remains Que on it the sum
of 1882 with interest. Plaintiff
asks judgment for s133.52, which in
cludes an attorneys fee of $50.
Eve,s & Rademaker, the sheepmen
are preparing to enlarge their bust
ness. This firm already own an ex
tensive sheep ranch ten miles north
east of the CITY on which they have
about 10000 sheep, and on Wednes
day a deed was filed showing thai
they had purchased an additions
tract of railroad land, amounting tt
1919 acres, of the Northern Pacific
railroad company. The price pai6
was $6,O43.67, or something less thar
5000 per acre. The land is near thu
firms former holdings and it is stated
they will enlarge. their flocks to cor
respond with the increased acreage
Of their pasture land.