The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-17

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Miss Panton, accompanied by her
sister, Miss Minnie Panton, departed
yesterday for Portland, Ore, where
they will spend several months visit
ing relatives. Miss Aggle Burton was
their companion du voyage, with Ia.
coma as her destination, there to
spend the summer with her uncle,
Henry Burton.
Mrs. Reuben Lipp and daughters,
the Misses Gertrude and Laura, have
arrived from Pawnee City, Neb., on q
visit to Mrs. e. H. HOLSTER, another
daughter, anu Fred and Lloyd Lipp,
sons, of this city. Before their re-
turn to Nebraska they will go to Mis-
soula to visit Mrs. w. E. Hassler,
also a daughter.
An error was made last Tuesday
in reporting the proceedings begun
against the Fox children, who have
been committed to the reform school
by Judge Loud. The complaint in
the case was not filed by the step
father, Grafton Couch. Chief Morse
was the complainant and MI. Couch
was merely summoned as a witness.
Colonel George s. Hickox, inspector
in charge of the bureau of animal in
dustry, western division of quarantine,
was in the city yesterday. The colonel
makes his headquarters at Salt Lake
and is making a tour of Montana and
! North Dakota to investigate the re-
ports of cattle mango, many cases OF
which disease are said to exist in
both states.
Frank and Henry Sanderson have
returned from Summer Hill, ILL.,,
where they went to visit their brother,
Fred W. %Sanderson, who died June 5.
Mr.. Sanderson was we'll known here
by the older settlers, having former
ly resided near the city, where he
owned the ground now embraced in
what is called the "Ten acre lots"
He left here about 16 years ago..
Next Sunday the annual
ton of the Episcopal church of Mon
tana will begin at Anaconda and re-
main in session for four days. The
Reverend J. J. Bowker, rector of St.
Luke's, departed for there last Wed
nesday, accompanied by Mrs. Bowker.
Mr.. Bowker has been honored by be-
ing selected as preacher for the con-
vocation and will deliver Sunday
sermon.
%laim is made that a switch invent
ga by Daniel Boyle, superintendent
of the Montana division OF the North
ern Pacific, will make occurrence OF
such accidents as have happened on
his division by the breaking Of switch
rods impossible. 1t is even said for
the new invention that the switch
stand itself might be torn away and
still no accident could happen. One
of the switches has been installed in
the Livingston yards, where it is to
be thoroughly tested.
Bearing every evidence in the way
OF sundry raw places and pealing
cuticle where sun and wind had ca
ressed him just a trifle too ardently,
Alderman George F. Bennighoff re-
turned Wednesday from a weeks
drive to the region to the north, dur
ing which he visited Lewistown and
the intervening places, piloted by w.
]. Cruise. At Lewistown he was Offer
ed a decidedly liberal bonus to open
a hotel, but declined the offer, prefer
ring to remain in Billings.
|Captain Perkins, United States
postof1ce inspector, returned yester-
day morning from a trip to the Black
Hills. Going he went by stage and
private conveyance and found the
journey one long to be remembered,
having had all kinds OF experience
in swimming streams, fighting storms
and %shoveling gumbo. Immediately
upon his return the captain went to
Laurel, where he made an investiga.
ton Of the recent robbery of the
postoff1ce there, which was committed
during his absence.
The division of soils of the agricul-