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The Billins Gazette.
SEM I-MWEE KLY.
VOL. XV.1 BILLINGS, YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, MON'IANA, IFRI[lAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1899 NO. 38
PAUL PeGOOO1RMICK, W iI. MeCORIaICK,
PRBSID·NT. TREOR. RMD W'OR.
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(Succes.ors to Paul McCormick Co.)
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PROFUSIONAL CARDS.
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Othce First National Bank lnollding.
H E. ARMSTIRONG, M. i.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Belknap Block, . illinu, Montana.
DR. J. H. RINEHART.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
ooftce in First National Bank building, Billings,
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PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS.
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North, two doors north of Cottage Inn. Office
stri~o private. All calls will receive prompt
attenion. Telephone 118.
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p . DONOHOE,
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Surplus and Profits, - 10,000
B. B. Moss, President.
H. W. ROWLEY, Vice-Pres.
S. F. MORsE, Cashier.
S. G. REYNOLDS, Asst. Cash. t
DIRECTORS: u
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Jos. Zimmerman, i
H. W. Rowley, t
G. W. Woodson, t
P. B Moss.
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...hItERY STABL..,,
"TIW"u*. P. p. aTra P asI
T'j'WO MO IRE fICT(RIES
The lBillings Ball Team Wins
Games at Both Pocatello
and Ogden.
MORMONS SHUT OUT
The Real Truth About the Hielena
ullle--- -Basehall Enth usiasm
at Fever lHieat.
p jcial T'Jelgrnm to t 'h! i Gazi-tt'.
Ogden, Utah, Aug. ;31.--Billings
shut out Ogden today in one of the
fastest games ever seen in tl j ar.fste, the
nine innings being pl in the re
nmarkably fast t me~e hour and 38
minutes. The e was 5 to 0, Bill
ings making 2 in the second inning, 2
in the fifth and one in the ninth.
Hansford and Henry was the battery
for Ogden, and MoNeeley and Zearfross
for Billings. Hits-Billings, 9; Ogden,
ii. Errors-Billings 2; Ogden 6. Left
on bases-Bihllngs8; Ogden 10.
Wet, IL III file Nintl.
Spe)iael 'l'letcram to The Gazette.
Pocatello, Idaho, Aug. 30.-Billings
struck a hard game here today, but
won it in the ninth inning by superior
batting, mraking five runs, with only
one man out, Marsbal) made !~-usual
home run in the sixth inn . at there
was but one ma on a bases. The
batteries were fqjseks and Berkeley
for Pocatello, d Harker and Zear
fross for Billings. Each pitcher struck
out two men, Barker giving four men
base on balls and Eubnuks two. Harker
was hit hard, but was well supported
and backed up by almost perfect team
work. Pocatello has a good team and
will give Billings a hard rub for the
two games to be played here next
week. Score by innings:
Pocatello..... 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 3-8
Billings....... 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 5-9
All ilillinge Rejoi .'s.
The good work of the team on its
trip has kept the basebafl "enthusasmn
at lever heat ip Bij fs, and every
evening crowdst the' sidewalk in
front of Manager Nix's Sideboard sa.
loon to bear the first reports of the
games. Billings has won four out of
five games so far, and will undoubtedly
win a majority of those played. Today
(Friday) the team plays in Ogden
again, and tomorrow, Snuday and
Monday in Salt bake. Wednesday and
Thursday of next week it plays in Po
catello again, and the following Satur
day and Sunday Billings ends her trip
by playing Butte, the team returning
home on the morning of Sept. 11.
Tho' e Heleun Genies.
Helena is a hard loser, and the Hel
ena hog was very much in evidence in
the recent series of games with Bill.
SIhags. The backers of the Billings nine
could hardly get a bet, unless they
gave unreasonable odds, and the Hel.
r enaites, after the first game, quietly
placed their money on Billings for the
second contest. Then they were sore
because they lost, but did not have the
nerve to back their club on Monday,
and fancied that they were getting
even by roasting the visitors-players
and all. The Heleua audiences are
actually abusive tq visiting players
and, while they do occoasionally ap
plaue a brilliant play, the retnarks
from the grand stand and the the geh
eral demeanor of the onpitalhtes to
wards an opposing nine are little short
of disgraceful.
And the newspapers encourage it,
too. Their abuse of Captain Rose was
wholly unjustifiable. All he did was
to protest-as the captain has at perfect
right to do-when the umpire maide an
unfair decision. Rose did not use any
bad language, made no tnreate and
only registered a kick when Billings
was being given decidedly the worst of
it, ,which was usually the case when
the Helena umpire had a close decision
to make. And simply because Rose
stood up for his rights, the papers
roasted and the audience guyed and
abused him. The Ofrt ball thrown to
him in the fret game split one of his
fingers, olear to the bone, and because I
he made three errors during the game,
he was very unjustly treated. All bhl
good plays were overlooked, and he
made a number of them, having two
olean bits, four put.ost and five assists,
aeeptinga twelve chances. .He handled I
several hard-hit balls that would have
been base bits in the national league,
but got no oredit for it whatever,. But
that is Helena's way. She was sure I
because abe was loning, beinl outplayed i
as every point, and had to vent hera
spleen on someone. But Rose conatinu.
d to play good ball, Juat the same, I
whioh made the aelena bhog squeal
loader than ever The captain's record I
for Sunday was tree clean hits, one
pUlouat and bhre aaelts, with but a
sgle arerr, while he got thre blits
again Monday, three put-outs, three as
sists and only one error. Rose is a good
ball player, all right, and it is no won
der he is a thorn in the Helena flesh.
And the interferenoe by Zearfross in
Monday's game was misrepresented by
the Independent. He had been hit in
the batter's box by a pitched ball,
which he tried to jump out of the way
of, but the umpire unjustly called him
back after he had taken his base.
claiming that he jumped in the way of
the ball and got hit on purpose. Every
one in the audience saw the play and
knew that Zearfross was being given
the worst of it. Of course it was not
justifiable for him to throw his bat in
the air when an attempt was made to
throw hbin out at first, but Zearfross
was angry and the provocation was
great, which should be .taken into con
sideratiou. That was the only "dirty
ball playing," about which the Helena
papers and audiences made such a roar.
But they didn't say a word about the
Helena players, on the coaching lines,
bases and on the field, applying.vile
and profane epithets to the Billings
boys. There was plenty of that done.
Fortunately the profanity could not be
heard in the grand stand, but the news
paper reporters knew all about it.
Neither did the papers say anything
about the disgraceful attempts, made
Saturday and Sunday nights to get the
Billings boys intoxiatedrl, or the offers
to bribe thetm to "throw" the games,
There is ino doubt about these attempts
being made, but the Cowboys spurned
all such offers and were true to their
town. Besides this, Helena tried to
buy several of the Billings players,
well knowing that they had been hired
for the balance of the season. Offers
of this kind were made to Zearfross,
McNeeley, Casey. Flannery, Scott and
others, hut the boys. all rejected them.
And the Helena hog was in evidence
again in the offers. For instance Mo
Neeley was offered $75 a month, He
replied that he was not working for
bootblack's wages. while Casey inform
ed the Helena emissary of "clean"
baseball that he would not play with
anyone but Billings. Helena had bet
ter let up about "dirty" ball. She
should learn to take her medicine when
she is outplayed and fairly beaten, and
not whine and act the baby You did
not hear anything of this kind from
Bllings, when she lost. She went to
work and strengthened her team, And
then Helena got "sore" because she
was "skinned." That's all there is to
the.roar she is making about "dirty"
ball.
Billings would have won Sunday's
game, without a doubt, if Harker bad
been kept in the pitcher's box, but
Manager Nix was advised by the sup
porters of the team-and at seemed to be
the proper thing to do-to take him
out. It was impossible, of course, to
know that Billings was going to ham
mer St. Vrain for twenty-four hits and
make eighteen runs, and the way
things have since turned out, it seems
that Harker did not get a fair show.
He was scheduled to pitch the game at
Pocatello, Wednesday, which has one
cf the.strongest teams in the state, but
Billings took them in, and will no
doubt win a majority of the games on
the trip. Harker is going to show up
all right as a pitcher, and we still have
hope that Sporer will do better. It was
a hard deal he got Sunday, to be put in
the boz after Harker had been knocked
out, and the St. Paul kid may yet give
a good account of himself. MoNeeley,
however, is the star pitcher of the
state. He is hit freely, it is true, but
he always manages to keep the hits
scattered, and wins his games. And
that's what counts. MoNeeley has a
good head on him, as well as a good
arm. He studies the weak points of a
batter and keeps thb best of them guess
lug to hit the ball. Billings needs an
other pitcher like him, unless the pres
ent trip proves that Harker or Sporer
are all right.
The Billings club is well worth what
it cost the people of this city for the
good advertising it is doing for the
town. For three days everyone in Hel
ena was talking about Billings-speak
ing of her enterprise, etc., in getting
together such a good team-and now
it is advertising Billings down in Idaho
and Utah. Whether the Cowboys win
a majority of the games or not, they
are worth the price. Billings has in
vested in no public enterprise lately
that will yield better returns as an ad.
vertising amedium than her baseball
club. Helena is now going to copy
after this city, having sent to St. Louias
to secure Maupin, who pitched in the
national Ieague last year. The capital
Is also looking elsewhere for, ball Rlay
era, but she needs a new set, badly,
and if she has enterprise enough to seM
cure them, that's all right--Billi.is
will never kick.
Casey. the bsortstop Biiag seured
from Ogden, is a peash, Re only
weighs 184 pounds and looks like a
dades n street dress, but oe the dia.
mend Is feat enougb for the atlopal
'ae Heo' as quick as a cat, maur
a fmble and throws a all like
it was shot out of a gn, while he is
also a good batter, Williams, the new
aet bsemns from Batt., .to a ooa
lman, too, sad there is no deuallg that I
I- this city bas !got together a" team that
d would make any western league club
hump itself to win from.
* * *
Scott. Hansen and Marshall all made
3 wonderful oneoband fly catches in the
V last two Helena games, those of Scott
I and Hansen being left-handed catches,
too. Helena was trying to tie the
score Monday, when Scott made his,.
but he pulled down a long line drive
to the fence with his left mit, with
f ease, and the Helena hog was done for.
But all the Billings boys did good ball
1 playing, in all three games, Zearfross
didn't have a pqssed ball in the three
t games and on Baturday started the
fashion of hitting over the fence. Mc
Neeley followed suit and Marshall
knocked it over on Sunday and Mon
day, making four pairs of shoes that
will come to Billings from the enter
prising Helena dealer who gives them
away for over-thefeunce hits. Every
member of the home team hit well,
Ihowever, while the few unprejudiced
people in Helena who understand the
game, frankly admitted that the Cow
boys are the fastest fielders who have
visited the capital this season. Flan
nery caught eleven flies in center in
the three games, Scott getting five in
left, and everything that went in those
directions was cared for; the "sun
field" didn't bother Flannery and Scott
a little bit. It interfered with the
work of Freeman in right, however,
who missed chances on both Saturday
and Sunday that should have been outs,
and nu Mnuday Hansen suoceeded him.
He played all right, too, and should be
kept permninently in that field.
TEjglitRfS FWIJND DEAD
In His Hut on an Island in the
Yqllowstone About Two
Miles From Billings.
ATTEMPTED TO RAPE'
The Seven-Year-Old D)aughter of .l
A. Morley and Thenl Used
Strychnine.
esday evening, J. A. Morley, a r
ell known resident of Billings, who c
was formerly employed by T. W. Hum. 5
pbrey, came into town and swore out a
warrant for the arrest of Alonzo Teeters
on a charge of attempting to rape the I
seven-year-old daughter of Mr. Morley. o
Wednesday morning, Sheriff Hubbard t
went to Teeters' place on an island in 6
the Yellowstone river, about two miles I
above the city, for the purpose of serv- t
ing the warrant. He found no one d
around the premises, but on entering a
the hut be discovered Teeters lying on a
the bed, dead. His eyes were blacken. ti
ed, but otherwise his appearance was as a
usual. Sheriff Hubbard camte back to a
town and placed Mr. Moic!y under ar- at
reat, pending investigation by the coro- S
ner. Morley accounted for Teeters'
black eyes by saying that when he
learned of the attempted outrage, which
occurred on Monday afternoon, he went F
over to Teeters' place and demanded to
know if he had attempted the crime,
and upon being answered in the affir- h
mative, and Teeters replying "that's m
what the child was for" be proceeded tr
to pound' the villiari's face. an
Wednesday afternoon the coroner ty
empanelled a jury and together with 8S
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The Gazette reporter went to Teeters'
place, where everything was found as
Sheriff Hubbard had said. The coro
ner instructed the jury to survey the
surroundings. There was nothihg to
show that any fight or trouble had tak
en place inside the hut, but there was a
smell of some liniment, which Teeters
had probably used on his wounds or
bruises. The coroner and jury were
making ready to leave when the report
er's eye was attracted to a small un
corked bottle, sitting on the table. The
reporter picked it up and found that it
was labeled strychnine, there being a
small portion of poison still remaining,
after which he handed it to the coroner,
who in turn called the jury's attention
to it. The body was then placed in a
coffin and brought to town.
At 4 o'clock the coroner, Dr. Town
send, assisted by Dr. J. B. Rinehart,
held an autopsy, the result being that
they found strychnine in the stomach,
and their report was that beath was
caused by its use, the body, externally,
aside from the black eyes, being in per
fect condition. The coroner's inquest
wRsn held at 8 o'clock, the witnesses be
ing examined by County Attorney John
ston and Coroner Townsend. The wit
nesses testifying were J. A. Morley,
Thomas Cooper, Jas. McKnight, Sher
iff Hubbard, W. E. Hassler and Dr. J.
H. Rinehart. Cooper and McKnight
had been staying with Teeters for a
time. At the conclusion of the testi
tuony, the jury retired, soon after
bringing in a verdict that the deceased
came to his death by strychnine poison
ing, taken with sticidal intent. This
released Mr. -Morley from all suspicion
and.he was accordingly given his lib
erty and allowed to join his wife and
children.
Teeters was a man about 60 years of
age and made his living by selling fish
and vegetables on the streets. When
ever he would get a dollar or two ahead
he came to town and loaded up on
whiskey, and at the time of his at
tempted rape on the child, was drunk,
having been so for about a ,eek. It is
thought that in a fit of remorse over his
orinie, or afraid that he might be sent
to the penitentiary, he took the strych
nine.
"VANITY FAIR."
A New Extravagan.a on the Hoards Next
Wednesday Evening.
"Vanity Fair," Hill's newest ex
travaganza, is a bright and wholesome
entertainment. illustrated, it is said, by
a very carefully selected company who
are enrapport with the strongest ele
nents in song, dance and farce. Nigh
Mlass selections, given form and expres
ion by the best of entertainers, among
whom are the following state: C. W.
Williams, mimic; the Harbecks, Euro
pean sensational act; John Leonard,
)haracter comedian; Jennie Fulton,
he celebrated opera queen; Williams
B Albion, in the latest coon songs;
Jawthorne & Parsons, noted vocal ar
ists; Carlin & Brown, German come
Hans; Edua Melrnse, Gussie Hill and
large chorus of prettye gir. - The
ibove oast will present the two latest
raversities, "A Jay in New York"
Ind Hotel Girly Girly." Most of the
ibove artists make their first appear.
unes at the opera house on Wednesday, .
lept. 6.
BURLINGTON MAKES A RATE
ror Exeursionists 'to the Yellowstone
County Fair.
The local office of the Burlington
las been notified that that road will
make a rate of one fare for the round
rip from all points between Gillette
nd Billings for the Yellowstone coun
t fair, which will be held in this city
apt. 1S, 18, 14 and 16.