The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-04-26
LOCAL M

chestra in attendance and everybody
in town that night will be welcomed
to the new hosiery by the manager
and his corps OF assistants.
Wyo., arrived in the city yesterday
to meet an officer from Miles City,
who had a prisoner arrested there
at the request of the Wyoming au-
thorities, on the charge OF forgery.
Mr.. Yund and his man left for the
south over the Burlington this morn
ing.
At the request of Professor Brother,
superintendent of the city schools,
the Woman's club will repeat the
dramatic part of it's entertainment
next Saturday evening for the benefit
of the school children, many of whom
are ardent students of Shakespeare.
[ The presentation will take place in
Elks' hall.
J. r. Evans, John Hudson and John
B. Killman, all deserters from the
Third cavalry, stationed at Fort yell
lowstone, were arrested last Saturday
by Policeman Mowre, who took them
to Livingston the following day,
There he turned them over to an
officer who was going to the fort the
next morning.
' w. H. Norton, who was one of the
first white men to settle in the vicinity
of the Saltwater river, was a visitor
from Columbus yesterday. Mr.. Norton
reports that the outlook for a big
grass crop in that locality this season
was never better. He also reports that
prospects for a big crop of candidates
for county office next fall looks en-
couraging.
Under the direction of the advisory
board of the Congregational church
Va reception was given last Friday
Nevening at the home of Mrs. j. B. Ell
hot to the members of the society
admitted since the beginning OF the
passionate of the Reverend Mr.. Miles,
IS in number. Mesdames Rowley,
Morse, Segur, Miles and Goss assist
ed the hostess.
1t is believed that Sylvester Flynn,
convicted in this county in December,
1898, on the charge of burglary, is in
trouble once more at Dillon. A request
for a certified copy of the information
filed in the district court here has
been received from the prosecuting at
torney of B%eaverhead county. Flynn
served a year in the ~penitentiary ON
his conviction in Billings.
General Harry G.. Kessler, who
commanded the First Montana volun-
teers when that regiment campaigned
in the Philippines, passed through
the city this morning, en- route to New
York, where he is making his home
at present. General Kessler still re-
tains many interests in Montana and
will probably later on return to re-
side at Butte permanently.
Return has been made by the sher-
if or an attachment issued out OF
the district court against J. J. Hop
kins, to satisfy a judgment rendered
in favor of Doctor Cliff Lindsey for
professional services rendered the de-
PENDANT. The amount sued for and
for which judgment was rendered is
$500, together with interest at the
rate of s per cent per annum since
May, 1895. The sheriff certifies that
he attached all of the money due Hop
kins for wages, in the hands of Rob-
ert Brownlee.
Chief of Police Morse is in receipt
of two letters making inquiry con.
corning Marie Burns, murdered here
March 3, together with the man
Schwink, with whom she was living.
One of the letters is from a sister OF
the dead woman and was written at
! the Sacred Heart academy, Missoula,
the other from the father, a man
named Thompson, who lives at KEEL
logg, Ida. The latter writes that he