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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
ELLA w. PIE ATTIE
Drawings by Maud Tousey

HAGADoRN HALL. CHICAGO, Ill.
AEY WONDERFUL GIRL wonder how
wi could have taken you calmy,-you who
have had so many emotions and lived so
much? Why haven't you talked about it more? How
you take it as matter of course that you have
had lover, and actually been married that you
have that dear baby, that you possess home, and
have filled it with the things you need to make life
comfortable? Why, it seems quite amazing to me
to do these things! l look about and all
these little home kingdoms, and almost lose my
breath with establishment at what it means of love
and wonder and work and thought and hope. Such
a wOrldl Such world!
And the most astonishing thing of all is that I
have only now noticed how marvellous it is l too
took it for granted. 1 thought it common
place. But that excusable of me, because until
lately nothing had been unfolded: But you-you
knew! And you said nothing! What do you mean
Girl things have been happening to me! One
thing in particular. feel like blurting it all out;
but I'll be obstinate with myself and not do it.
I'll take you along the road travelled, and let you
see things as them. We think it is very fine
to take ride in a train or an automobile, and to
look out at all we pass; but it very much finer
her on journey of experience and see what hap
pens. Don't you think so?
no you know, Delphine, have been very tired
- Being Universal Provder is sometimes pictur-
esque, but oftener dull. 1t resolved itself finally
into doing shopping for people that weren't quite
what they wanted except that they didn't
want what sent them. There were days and days
of miserable browsing around banal shops, getting
union SUITS LOT the DOyS ana matching SILK LOT
mother, and finding bonnets for grandmother, and
picking out serviceab1e dresses that would look
pretty if they not durable. Aunt Louise
helped me, till she got so tired she couldn't sleep
nights, and then 1 made her stop. The work got
heavier, and the profits smaller Those stirring
signments that came at first seemed to
The work became monotonous Everybody wanted
the usual things. No one asked me for blue tulip
or black swan, or bunch of ancestors or cats
eye necklace in beaten brass. Nothing interesting
happened I tramped around in the slush and
shopped for suburbantes that had no imaginatons
1t got my l fell to thinking of how
alike they all were, and how, if you went in their
homes, you would know just where to find the
cooky box and the potato masher.
=, I'm not not expressing myself" | said to Thomas
swarming similar people, who are all running into
and out of their anthls in horrible fuss and feather
wanting the things but thinking they are
very discriminating They are not discriminating;
they only disagreeabie: They aren't fastidous;
they merely obstinate
Your vocabulary" said Thomas Mace, begins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

and IN another
age, a totally
different one. /
might have been
a faithful Mo-
hammedan or an
orthodox Jew, or
a violent Trini-
tartan, or a Chris
tan Scientist, or
anything else de-
vout and single
minded. / am
none of these
things. / am a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

to show a vast improve
ment."
my goodness" 1 said.
g l wish you wouldn't stand
off there with such a cold
blooded, critical manner!
You are as detached as
as a summer kitchen"
Far from it," he an
swered. I'm attached
desperately attached"
oh" l cried, Il detest
you! You're just as horrid
as those suburban ladies
whose cashmere hose l buy.
They're centipedes-I know
they are! l can't begin to
keep those women in cash
mere hose"
Il don't see why you
should hate me-" he said.
You don't know where my
potato masher is. You
don't know anything about
me, in fact. Sometimes I've
thought I'd better tell you
If you'd stop scolding
long enough to give me a
chance.
Il suppose it would be a
long history SIGHED
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18

The large number Of sorrowing
friends who attended, the services at.
tested to the esteem In which Mira.
Barstow was held Ii this community.
The floral tributes were many and
beautiful.
a brother Of the deceased from
North Dakota attended the FUNERAL;
but on account Of sickness hrs. Bar
stow's mother, Mrs. L. P. Abbott, who
has been Ia Billings for the past two
weeks attending her daughter. was
not able to attend the funeral. Mrs.
home 81 insNorth Dakota and
she came to Billings expecting to
take Mrs.sxsarstow to Pasadena, Cal,
with her,sbut her daughters condition
would not permit the change.
Another brother, who sis at Seattle
at present, and has recently returned
to the states from Alaska, was unable
to attend the funeral.
The grief of friends and relatives
Of Mrs. Barstow over her death was
made doubly hard by the death OF
Mr.. Barstow a few hours later.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
HAVEN
FIGHT IS A DRAW
CLEVER BOXERS GIVE GOOD Ex.
HlelTioN BOUT.
From Sundays Daily

From Sundays Daily.
Floyd De Haven and Jimmie Martin
fought 10 rounds to q draw at the
Globe theater last night before an m
thusiastic crowd of sports. Both Of
the men were in good condition and
gave en- exhibition which met with the
approval OF every n present.
Martin did q gooA@deal Of the lead
ing and .ougut a clean. fair fight. All
OF his movements were quick, but at
times it seemed that he was q little
slow in following. up an advantage.
His boxing was clever, yet al OF his
blows lacked steam.
De Haven showed good ring general
ship and was disposed to q good deal
Of butting with his uead lor lne first
few rounds. He was repeatedly warn
ed by the referee to refrain, and this
warning with the shouts Of disap-
: prevail Of the crowd, caused him to
desist. He cleverly blocked and
ducked many Of Martins bows and
landed a few stir punches himself
which had but little effec- on account
|of the heavily padded gloves used.
! The decision Cf Vince Loody, the
referee, in calling the fight a draw
seemed to meet with the general ap.
proval Of those present.
The announcer announced just be
fore the sbout that Charles Berry, 9
welterweight Of this city, would boz
a 1O-round exhibition bout with Kid
Erne, a clever welterweight Of Mich
igan. The bout will be- given at the
Coliseum rink some time next week
under the auspices Of the North Side
Athletic club.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
JESSE JARVIS TO
EXPIATE MISTAKES
NEGRO WILL SPEND NINETY DAYS
I'M THE COUNTY JAIL.

From Sundays Daily. .
Jesse jarvis, a colored man arrest
cd Friday on "a charge Of stealing q
suit OF clothes and an overcoat from q
white man, was yesterday sentenced
by Judge Mann to spend the next
three months In the county jail.
His pal, one Fred Bowman or Brown,
turned states evidence AMI was there
fore granted immunity, In copformity
with the practice Of some higher
courts. Bowman is said to have been
implicated In the theft. but there was
no direct evidence against him, and
after his valuable testimony had aided
in the conviction Of jarvis he was al
lowed to 60.
Because Jarvis pleaded not guilty It
was necessary to bring in several wit
neases, and when the crime was
proven to have Deen that Of the negro
by evidence that satisfied Judge
Mann's mind, Jarvis was given ninety
days.
The prisoner has been arrested sew
eral times before. once for drunken.
ness, one for Illicit cohabitation with
a woman whom he afterward married,
and once for Vile beating.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
OPENS
new EXCHANGE
H. tUtE @0LW 5lE[ Hqs+W gNfE at5a2{&LgH1
COLUMBUS 70 HAVE LOCAL AND
LONG DISTANCE SERVICE.

From Sundays Daily.
During the past week the Mutual
Telephone company has installed q
telephone exchange at Columbus and
already has more tnan 80 phones In
the town alone.
George Rowden, superintendent Of
maintenance and construction, was in
charge OF the work and Manager
Berry recently returned from a trip
of inspection.
The new exchange is mi Of the
most modernly equipped exchanges In
the state. A new switchboard, new
fixtures Of all kinds, and, in, fact, ev-
erythinqg that is up-to-date have. been
installed.
No detail that would assist in Civ
ing the most efficient and best service
possible has .Deen overlooked and spe.
cial attention was given to the wiring
and service equipment Of the ONCE.
"A public booth has been fitted up In
the exchange, and it is the intention
Of the company to give both local and
long distance service to its patrons,
Mrs. George Douglas, a we'll known
woman Of Columbus, is in charge Of
Tho nav 90
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
PLAT OF TOWNSHIP
FILED BY HANDLES
ABOUT 200 LOTS in THE NEW
TOWN OF MUssELsHELL.

From Sundays Daily.
Fred and George Handel merchants
of Musselshell, filed a plat of the new
town, Of Musselshell, with the county
clerk and recorder yesterday. In the
new town there are four streets and
three avenues and, they are laid out
parallel with the Musselshell river
Walter scdft is the engineer who plat
ted the townsite.
The streets are 80 feet wide, alleys
20 feet wide and there are "a lots II
each block or about 200 lots In the
whole townsite. The lots are 1875 fee
long and so feet wide.
Main street is located in the center
of the town and is wider than thu
others. The avenues are 80 feet il
width.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
TALK
IS AGAIN RIFE
HUNDRED is
MAKING ovERTuREs TO 8. en-.
FOR USE OF TRACKS
May Build Through Billings to Coast
as Result Of Decision Of Burlington
to Connect kearney, Neb, With
6ridger.

From Sundays Daily.
According to a prominent railroad
man who was IN Billings yesterday
the Northwestern railroad has made
overtures to the Burlington looking to
the extension Of the latter road from
its present terminus at Kirby, Wyo.,
through the Big Hon canyon to Sho-
shoni, Wyo.,. and in return for which
the Northwestern wal permit the Bur
lington to use the Northwestern track
to Grin Junction, Wyo., while the
Northwestern will S the Burlington
tracks t0 Thermopo.4s.
He said that the overtures were
the result of the decision Of the d.
rectors of the Burlington to build con.
Meeting lines and extensions so that q
through line from Kearney, Neb., to
Bridger would be Afforded.
shoshoni is the nearest point to
Kirby on the Northwestern's Lander
branch while Grin Junction is the
junction point of the Burlington line
which terminates at Kearney, with
the Northwestern s Casper and Land,
er branches. The Big Horn canyon
mentioned is better known as vino
River canyon in this section.
Line 10 Surveyed.
In order to connect nearney with
Bridger, a connecting line will have tc
be built W the Burlington from She's
shoni through Thermopolis to Kirby
It is understood that the lines have
already been surveyed and that the
Burlington has right OF way through
the Big Horn canyon there. An ex
tension from Frame, Wyo., the juno
ton point of the Burlington's Cody
and Big Horn Basin branches. will also
have to be but.
Talk of the o%vertures Of the North
western to the Burlington has caused
a number Of rumors, to the enect tina
the Northwestern will use Burlington
tracks over the line which they vii
build by the way Of Bridger to Bill
ings, and will connect mere with a line
which will be built from Billings Il
the coast. It Is said that the reason
for the Northwestern building thi,
way Is to connect at Bridger IL pos
sible with a line to the Yellowston,
National park and to have a line Il
the north coast.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
JUDGE MANN WARNS
THE COAL THIEVES
NICK RoTHscHiLLER FINED FOR
STEALING FROM N. P.

From Sundays Daily.
In fning Nick R~otnschiller, IN Aus
trian, residing on South Twenty-sixth
street, IS and costs for stealing coal
from the Northern Pacific yesterday.
Judge Mann issued a warning to the
effect that, all offenders of this class
would be severely dealt with in the
future. aSs
Rothschiller was arrested by Spe-
cial Officer Blakeway of the Northern
Pacific and a charge of petty larceny
placed against him. it being alleged
that he stole 500 pounds Of coal from
the company's coal supply here. He
pleaded guilty to the charge and the
fine was imposed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
new COMPANY
HAS GARAGE
WILL OPERATE FIRST CLASS
AuToMoBlL: REPAIR SHOP.
MAY RUN HACK LINE
Automobiles VIII BE stored, Re
paired and Taken Care of-Will DO
Open Day or Nl0ht-Well known
Men Associated With Company.
From Sundays Daily.

From Sundays Daily.
The Public Motor company, a newly
organized corporation, will this week
take charge of the rublic motor garage
on North Twenty-seventh street. and
will hereafter conduct 1t az q public
gagarage, a first class machine shop
and an automobile store house. The
entire brick structure at 512 North
1wenty-seventh street will be occu-
pied.
The new company starts OF with
ample capital to conduct an excellent
business. Some Of the most substan-
tial business men in lie city r In
terested in it. 8. @. Hannah wiz have
charge IS manager; 9. B. French Will
be chauffeur and P. G. schoelkoph will
be the machinist. 1T is the intention
Of the company to not only conduct q
garage and machine shop, but to be
agents for some Of the best makes Of
automobiles and to conduct a general
automobile repair and supply .Dusi-
ness. Automobiles will be rented.
stored and repaired and re place will
be open day or night, the three ON
Gals OF the company Occupying rooms
in the building SO that they al attend
to me wishes Of patrons at any hour.
It is said to be the intention OF the
company, as Don az the spring is ad-
vanced, to inaugurate a. automobile
hack line. All kinds Of automobiles.
both or pleasure and business, will
be operated.
The company has secured an excel
lent garage location. The structure is
at 512 North Twenty-seventh street,
and has been especially constructed
for the purpose. 1t WIN be heated by
hot water, electric lighted, n equip
ped with the most modern machinery
for caring for and repairing automo-
biles. Among the apparatus will be q,
vulcanizer, the only one in the state.
which will be used to repair tires. Il
Is also the intention Of the new com.
pany to handle gasoline for automobile
llSe. -4A-- tg t- 4H5
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
9. 4. Garrison went to ..ardin Tues

G. =. Garrison went to -.ardin Tues
day.
william Cochran and Frank Edersot
Hardin visited with alpine. McCompb
Sunday. "a S,s+s'sSN ss
Miss Florence Ames. the trained
nurse who has Deen. with Mrs. =. =.
Gay. returned to Billings Sunday. Mrs.
Gay is slowly improving.
Herman ~. Eckleberry spent Tues
day in Hardin.
+. q. Reynolds is on the sick list.
Albert Sweeney left 4or Billings
Tuesday for an indenn.le stay.
TIE ranchers IN and around Foster
started work on their telephone line
last week, and oy tue latter part OF
the month expect to have IT In use.
The literary society will have a
George Washington program Friday,
February d, 1875. d
Church has again been changed to
IL o'clock q. M, Immediately follow.
ing Sunday school.
=. J.. Mitchell was in Hardin We0-
|nesday on business for the Low Line
Ditch company, and will leave Sunday
for Billings to transact some business
for the company.
Frank Mccormick cane down from
Billings Tuesday.
T. e. Gay was a Hardin visitor
Wednesday.
While Ralph Franklin and Carl Bow
man were out riding Wednesday the
latter's horse threw him and he re
ceived slight bruises.
John Starkweather entertained the
Jolly Five" comprising H. e. Bckle'
berry. g. q. Garrison, r. D. Corwin,
]. r. Stanley and the host, at a 9
o'clock dinner Thursday.
William Seeley left for Billings on
Thursday.
Leslie Franklin has been in Hardin
several days this week.
N. d. Dethlefson brought Mr.. and
Mrs. Galliger out to his raNch Wed
nesday.
Mrs. j. Morris has been on the sick
list, suffering from a cold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar z. Jones, be
fore leaving for the east, entertained
last Monday for Mr. and Mrs, o. l.
Mitchell and John Starkweather. The
evening was spent in playing five
hundred" after which a dainty lunch
was served by the hostess.
John Cavanah returned to Billings
Wednesday. S
Frank. Yankosky came down from
Red Lodge Wednesday.
G. w. Brion, a sheepman, was IN
Foster Tuesday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
NEWS FROM HARDIN

Hardin, Feb. l5.-Clarence and
William Young Of Joliet have recently
been on their ranches north of Hardin
ana expect to improve them in the
spring.
William A. Sherlock recently proved
up on his ranch two miles north OF
town and is now of on a visit Of a
few weeks. He will return and begin
further improvements next month.
Mike 4.bbneha Of Foster has return
ed home after q visit to the western
part Of the state.
F.. D. Mccormick. and wife are
spending q few days visiting friends
in Billings.
w. B. Bussey OF Bozeman is visit
ing in this neighborhood.
y. A. StarkWeather and HI. Eckel-
berg Of Foster were In Billings re-
Gently. to let the contract for the
budding of the Foster ditch.
Ralph McComb was q recent visitor
from his North valley ranch.
Misses Mary and Mabel Callahan OF
Foster were IN town LAST week shop
ping. - 11
Mrs. E.sA Howell is visiting, friends
in Billings, where che formerly Re-
sided.
a. Ketash. the engineer In charge
of the steam engines on the Crow In
dian reservation, visited v. B. McComb
last week.
E. c. Bowman of Ralston, Wyo.,
was in town recently looking up the
water works contract.
i. The Water & Power company will
begin the construction of their plant
in the early spring.
w. j. McCauley and j. G. Partridge
of Butte were in town last week sell
ing the Hardin bar new fixtures.
William Becker, proprietor Of the
Montana saloon, is off for a rest, and
&c. G. Hutton is selling the liquid In
his absence.
Rev. G. M. Fuller Of Billings preach.
ed here and at Foster last Sunday.
Miss Addie Ewers of Sheridan,
Wyo., is visiting her. father at his
ranch home.
w. B. Shipton Of Omaha was a re.
cent visitor.
Ernest Dix OF Clayton, N. NJ, recent
ly arrived in town with a new driving
horse for Robert Anderson. The
uOIcc was ou4pPSuN1n Ny CApICoo QAO
arrived in fine condition.
A. j. Survey of Strong City, Kan.
is visiting friends here for a few days
Francis E. Bateman is building on
his Center avenue lot. He expects tc
open up a bakery here in the spring
Sidewalk improvements in Hardin
are still going on.
Mrs. L. B. Reno OF Chance, Mont.
who was visiting her son and family
returned to her home Wednesday.
Carl Rankin has been sojourning IL
Billings a few days.
A. "A. Campbell and Mr.. Piper 81
Grow Agency were here last weel
looking for a business location.
Several ditch propositions in this
neighborhood are being rapidly de
yeloped and the coming spring will
doubtless see much work done in thai
line.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
RAISED TO A.
HIGHER CLASS
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 IS RE
CLASSIFIED.
SEVEN TRUSTEES NOV
Elections Will 20 Held BY County
commissioners and
Voting Precincts Will Be Laid Off
Election In April.
From Sundays Daily.

From Sundays Daily. y
The county clerk and county super
intendent of schools have received no
tice from the state superintendent OF
public instruction that school district
No. 2. which embraces: the city Of
Billings, has. been raised from a sec,
ond to a first class district, in accord
ance with a provision Of the school
laws enacted at the last session Of the
state legislature which provides that
any school district Of q population OF
more than 5000 is entitled to be in the
first class.
BY being raised to a first class dis
trict the election Of school trustees
Is placed in the hands o. the county
commissioners instead of the school
trustees, as formerly.
A special meeting OF the board will
be called this week to lay of registra-
ton districts, of which there will be
probably two or three, and to appoint
registration agents for the spring cleo
ton, which will be held the first Sat
urday in April. Voting precincts, pol.
ing places and judges Of election will
also be decided upon.
Will Elect Three Trustees.
Under the provisions Of the law
there are seven trustees In a district
of the first class. At present there are
but five trustees in this district, and
the term Of office Of one OF these will
expire in the spring, consequently
three trustees will be elected at the
election to be held in April.
Candidates must be nominated in
each Of the districts at a meeting OF
qualified voters which must be held at
least 80 days before the election, and
there must be at least 20 qualified vot.
Fers present at the meeting, which
should be presided over by a chair.
man.
Women May Vote.
All citizens Of the United States who
have been in the state n year and
In the district 80 days are qualified
voters. Women over the age Of 81
years, citizens of the United States,
and residents Of the state che year
and the district 80 days, are qualified
voters and are eligible to hold the Of
Gee of trustee.
The position of school trustee even
in districts OF the first class is solely
one or. honor, as there Is no salary OF
compensation connected with the OF
flee. In districts of the first class
with a population of more than 10000
the trustees are compelled to file 9
bond Of $4,000 and receive 81 for each
meeting. Meetings must not be held
oftener than once a week, however.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
FUNERAL SERVICES
THIS AFTERNOON
MAJOR RARsToW WILL BE BUR.
led IN BILLINGS CEMETERY.

From Sundays Daily: i
y AT a late hour last evening ar.
rangements for me funeral; Of Major
u n. Barstow we're competed serv.
ices will be held at the home Of o. F.
Goddard. an old friend Of the de
ceased, this afternoon at 4 O'Clock,
Rev. Edward Smith Of the First Meth.
odist church will of1ciate.:
An answer to the telegram sent to
Roger Barstow Of Boston, a brother,
was not received yesterday, but it is
expected that he w. be heard from
today.
1nterment will be made in the Bill
ings cemetery.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN.

". N. c. A. Will Try to Secure 100
New Members ~aturday.
From Sundays Daily.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton will inaugurate a one days mem
bership campaign next Saturday. It
is hoped that 100 memoirs a be
secured In the day. Business men,
young mems and boys committees
have been appointed to assist In the
work Of securing mempers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
BRYCE WILL, LEAVE
TO FIX UP MATTERS

Washington, Feb. 15.-James Bryce,
the British ambassador, accompanied
by Mrs. Bryce, will leave here tomor-
row for a visit of several weeks to
Canada, during which he will stop at
Ottawa to confer with several other
prominent officials respecting various
questions pending between Canada
and the United States which are to
firm the basis of treaties between
Great Britain and America. The Brit
ish ambassador had a final interview
this afternoon preparatory to his trip
with Secretary Root.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
REV. TukE WILL SPEAK.
christianity and Athletics" for His
Subject.

From Sundays Daily.
Rev. G. E. luke, pastor O. the Epis,
copal church Of this city, and presi
dent Of the Church Athletic league
w1ll deliver a lecture at the Y. M. C
A. building this afternoon on Chris.
tianity and Athletics. He will dis,
cuss the question of church. and ath,
letics going together. There will be
special music by the Episcopal choir
Rev. luke is particularly e fitted
to speak on the subject. being a mem.
Der Of the clergy and an ardent pro
moter Of sports.