The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-12-11

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to q general breaking down Of the
system.
(From Wednesdays Daily.J
Mrs. G. F. Taber OF Forsyth is visit
ng Billings friends.
Albert A. Paisley, postal inspector
or this district, Is in the city.
Deputy sheriff Arch Taylor was in
Billings yesterday from Laurel.
=. G. Barkhouser, a coal operator
# Monarch, Wyo., is il the city.
Guy s%tapleton, owner Of the Staple
on block, is in the city from Butte.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Rowley have
gone to New York IN a pleasure trip.
Pete Kooi of Kooi, Wyo., where the
Hooi coal comes from, is in Billings.
Mr.. and Mrs. George e. Smell have
gone to Tarkio, Mo-, to visit relatives.
L. Bailey of Helena, former captain
Il the police force of that city, is in
Billings on a business trip.
j. w. Chapman, a business mar Of
Red Lodge, was In the city yesterday.
H. G. Ganson, proprietor of the Bur
lington eating house at Toluca, is in.
the city on business.
DR.. w. H. johnson returned yester-
day from Hood River, Oregon, where
he has been spending a weeks vaca-
ton.
Mrs. Eliza Jones has returned to
the city from a weeks visit with rel
atives and friends at Newcastle, Wyo-
ming.
James Hartford, a boilermaker OF
Missoula, has accepted a position at
the Northern Pacific roundhouse in
this city.
a. G. Carlin Of Pompeys Pillar, one
of the new homesteaders In that sec
ton spent yesterday in Billings buy
ing supplies.
Arthur Sharp of Custer. bookkeep-
er and cashier at the Scott Mercantile
company's store at that place, spent
yesterday in Billings. n
A. L. Hewett Of the Security Bridge
company has returned from a trip to
Minneapolis, where the head Office Of
his company is situated. & Ia
P. H. Rhodes, travelling inspector Of
the Pullman company, is in the city
on business from his headquarters at
Chicago. Mr.. Rhodes is a ranch
owner in Montana and has great faith
in the future Of the state.
DR.. w. x. Sudduth OF Broadview is
in Billings and has a very fine sample
of coal from the vein recently opened
on his farm. It is of a fine quality,
the coking variety and is TX feet in
width and is rapidly improving as
depth is gained on tho vein.
Chairman Bailey and party COM
posing the Rural Life commission,
which Is on a tour of the country,
passed through the city yesterday on
their way east from Bozeman, where
q meeting Of the commission was held
the previous day. They were accom-
panied by r. S. Cooley, superintend-
ent Of farmers institutes of the Boze-
man agricultural college.
H. B. Rivers, who has been chief
clerk for the Langdon Construction
company, will move his family to
Seattle on December IA, where the
company has a large sewer contract.
He is preparing to get away now and
will dispose of his furniture here. The
Langdon Construction company were
contractors on the st. Paul road and
maintained an office in Billings up to
a few days ago.
Henry Fink of Park City, Mont,
came in last night or the Billings &
Northern and left later In the night
for his home. Mr.. Fink Is suffering
from the effects OF typhoid fever
which he contracted while out with al
surveying crew at Buford. N. D.,
where a big Irrigation canal is being
constructed and is so weak from his
illness that he was taken from the
train on a cot. His wife and family
and brother, Ed. Fink, accompanied
him.
A party consisting of G. F%folliott, of
the firm of A. Guthrie & company, r.
M. Knox, superintendent of construc-
ton, DR.. p. r. Ross, physician for the
company, and B. S. Crooks, timekeep-I
are in the city from Laurel and will
remain in Billings for a couple of
days. The firm of A. Guthrie & COM
pany are the contractors for the Bill
ings & Northern railway. The con-
struction work on the new line is hn-l
ished with the exception Of a small
amount Of work which will be COM
pleted in the next few days.
Everett Walls OF Missoula stopped
off in Billings yesterday for a visit
with frisads and left last night for his
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