The Billings gazette. [volume], October 03, 1899, Semi-weekly, Image 1

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PRUL Me00R1IICIK, W. H. MeCORMIKI(,
PRDSIDDNT. TR8RS. RND M'OR.
MYicCormick fercantile Go.
(Successors to Paul McCormick Co,)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
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HARRIET FOXTON.('LARK, M. D., C. M
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS.
Rooms 6 and 7, First National Bank llnilding
Night calls answered at office.
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PHYSICIAN and SURGEO'N.
Office and Residence on Twenty-Ninth Htrao
North, two doors north of C(ottag u n. OHfli
strictly private. All oll. will seeeive promp
attention. Telephone 118.
O, F. GODDARD.
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Office over First National Hank.
FRED H. HATHHORN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
(lloie-Room 4 First National Bank Building
Rillings, Montana.
,OHNSTON & JOHNSTON.
LAWYERS.
Room 18, Belknap Block.
p J. DONOHOE,
ARCHITECT.
Bntte and Billings, Montana.
A FIRABER
Notary Public,
Justice of the Peace1 U. S. Comnmiesoner
General Commassion Mercehant.
Room 8, First National Bank Building, Billings
CARWILE & IIOUTON,
REAL ESTATE, LIVE STOCK,
INSURANCE.
Office in Wardwoll Block. Telephone 11i,
('orrespontdence olicited.
BILLINGS, - - MONTANA.
TITLE ABSTRACT COMPANY,
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE
To all real proiperty in Yollowstouu, cnouty,
onta a, compiled by Go. M. Hays atnd Austir
North Cornpan . Tithe examined ani complete
tracts furislhed, Office next north Grand
Iotel. Telephone 128.
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CAPITAL, • $501000
SURPLUS, - 820,000
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A. I. BAACOOK, President,
DAVID PRAT', Vloe.Pres.
0. A. 011G005, Cashier,
IC. H. IOLLIYTUR. Ass't Cash,
DIRSOTOIOS.
A. L. UAI000K, DAVID PRATT,
O, A. 033010, D, OCAIDW-I4-,
P'TIE LAMW.
aspue ABeats a tN Ot l s om..
Dsu in Forg--n and Domesti Exoh---an
JOHN D.
osekamp
THE ChOTHIER
,' FARIOUS OUTFITTE1R
MEN.s -, Clothing,
ý" AND BOYS' o
Blankets and Bedding,
Bed Sheets,
Wagon Covers,
it Hats and Caps.
t The Largest Stock of Boots
and Shoes, comprising Ladies'
Fine Shoes and Slippers, Chil
dren's Shoes, all sizes, Men's
Boots and Shoes, all grades.
Sole Agent in Billings for the
Star brand rubber overshoes,
every pair guaranteed perfect.
Mail Orders
Promptly Attended to.
JOHN D. EOSiKRMP.
FIRST NATIONAL
BA NK
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BILLNUS, KOPTAA
Paid Up Capital, - $150,000
Surplus and Profits, - 10,000
P. B. Moss, President.
H. W. ROWLEY, Vice-Pres.
S. F. MORSE, Cashier.
S. G. REYNOLDS, Asst. Cash.
DIRECTORS:
Chas, T. Babcock,
Jos. Zimmerman,
H. W. Rowley,
G. W. Woodson,
P. B Moss.
Transact a general banking busi
ness. Collections promptly
made and remitted for.
sMITH'S
...hIVERY STABIhE..
Twenru.8aspnB 8t.
iI,]BLIC SCHOOL + NEWS
A High School Football Team
Organized--Is Challenged by
Miles City.
TO PLAY BASKET BALL
(lame Will lie Intirinedl foin' Girls.
M 1ontlhly Ilepl'ot fi1'r Mepteini
he Iieie'al Nutev.
The regnlar monthly report nld roll
of honor were received too late for pub
lioution in this issue. They will ap
pear Friday.
The monthly report' for September
shows the following items of interest:
The enrollnet,. 504, is 102- gr. than
that of last yen and IjTjilore than
Sept. 1897. The 3ver daily attend
once is 88 more at*f'l1st year. The
per cent of uttendo e is one-tenth of
one per cent less than Sept. 181)8. The
gain per cent of enrollment over last
year is 25, or an increase of one-fourth.
Some excellent work in drawing and
preserving autumn leaves is being doue
in several rooms.
) The teachers are making more use of
the fine set of relief maps than they
did last year.
A set of supplementary history read
ers and a set of nature readers are fnr
nished each room.
The grade ibraries been dis
tributed and ae l being used in
their respectiv mns. Each teacher
keeps ouareftrecord of the books
taken by every pupil.
Among the various excellent school
journals taken by our teachers ark the
following: North Western Monthly,
Popular Edunator, Primary Education,
The School Review, N. Y. School
Journal, The Normal Instructor, The
Teachers' Institute, The Child Study
Monthly.
The boys of the eighth graide and
high school have purchased a football.
Miles City has challenged them for a
game. Foot-ball is rough sport, but it
seems to develop a spirit of school
patriotism unequaled by any other
game. Under the direction of a care
ful "coach" It teaches boys how to be
come strong and healthy. One of the
first things the football player is
taught is the fact that he cannot devel
op his muscles unless he refrains from
the use of tobacco. A cigarette smoker
is useless among a lot of hearty boys
who are striving their utmost. It is
such fellows who, by deceiving the
"coach" and after gaining a place on
the team, are injured through their
own weakness that gives the game a
bad record.
And now cometh the girls of the
high school, with the very reasonable
inquiry why they are not furnished an
opportunity for physical exercise. If
suitable arrangements can be made,
they will be permitted to introduce the
fascinating game of basket ball, which
has of late years proved itself so popu
lar in girls' colleges and gymnasiums.
The Longfellow rhetorical society of
the high school will give their first
programme at their room in the high I
school building Friday. Oct. 18 at 2
o'clock. All friends and patrons of
the high school are cordially invited.
I'OLICO AND IJUNTICE COURITHT
Have Ileenl (iintllllag Oult it IIIg (Grlt thbi
Pasat IFew I)Dys.
£, ie report of Police Judge Mann or
the amount of fines collected by bin
during the month of September, whica
will be filed with the city council to
night, shows an increased business i
police circles. The sum of $520 wan
collected last month in fines from al
souroes.
Since last Wednesday the polio.
judge has had thirteen cases brought
before him, the majority- of whio
were charges of disturbing the peace
The proceeds from this batch nettei
the city something like $100 in cash
W. Davie faced Police Judge ManI oc
a charge of disturbing the peace. Thb
judge thought the man's face and namt
seemed familiar and on referring bac
to his July record he found that Davit
had been up before him in that montl
and was fined $5, but the fine had never
been paid. He was assesed another 8t
and told to put up a $10 William,
wbloh he did. Bud Lavassor i a
"plnkie" whom the police have had
dealinug with before. Lavaueor wai
lnoed 910 on Sept. 80 and then got it
the police dragnet the following dal
for dturbing the peace. He put up a
cash bond of @84.8 for his appearano
yesterday morning, but failed to sbov
up and the judge declared his bond for
feited.
Justice of the Peace Fraser is out o
town and Justice Ke!ly has been doing
the entire justice business the past few
days. A very queer case came before
Justic Kelly Saturday. Friday after
noon the police arrested James Whalen
who was charged with having held un
and robbed a man named Reilly
When arrested Whalen denied having
done so and said that it was just tin
other way-Reilly had robbed him anu
he had then held Reilly up to get hie
money back, which amounted to about
*. $80. Reilly was also hunted up anc
placed in jail. At the hearing Satur
day the 'county attorney decided than
Whalen should not bn hold and he wat
accordingly turned loose. Reilly wan
bound over to the district conrt on I
charge of granid Ilnrcoy.
A warrant was sworn out in Jnstic(
Kelly's court Saturday charging Ed.
Kopps with having stolen two horse,
belonging to James Virtue, who live,
r out in the Masselshell country. It was
learned that Kopps had been irrestet
at Malta and Sheriff Hubbard left that
n night to bring the mran to Billings.
e The state of Montana vs. Fong King
f is the title of a cnase before J 2sticr
e Kelly today. The Chinaman is charg.
t ed with running an opium joint.
Peter C. Dunning and B. F. David.
son were arrested Saturday afternoon
0 by the police on a charge of having
stolen about $450 from Yee Sing, pro.
prietor of the New York restaurant on
i the south side. The men had their
V preliminary hearing before Justice
Kelly yesterday and were hound over
to the district court.
TRAFFIC IN LISltL,.
Mrw. Edholll, tlhe Hoenle M linlol Wolr
er, onl Thlnw mlu.lbect.
Traffic in girls and rescue missions is
the startling subject on which Mrs.
Charlton Edholm of The Temple, Chi.
cago, will speak to the people of Bill
ings for several days. Mrs. Edholm
spoke in the Methodist church *two
weeks ago Sunday night and those who
heard her were thrilled with horror as
she portrayed the snares by which one
thousand girls per week are trapped
into houses of infamy. She proves be
yond a doubt that there is an organized
traffic in young innocent girls, and her
work is largely preventive to tell fath
ers and mothers and teachers that their
girls are liable to be snared into these
vile dens. Being "forewarned is fore
armed," and girls being warned of
their danger can save themselves,
Wherever Mrs. Edholm has spoken
the audience has shown the deepest in
terest in the great work of saving the
girls, and to that end many have joined
the ,W. C. T. U.-Chicago Evening
Post.
Mrs. Edholm speaks tonight at the
M. E. church, Wednesday and Friday
nights at the court house and Thursday
night will conduct the prayer service
at the Congregational church. All
services are free and everybody cordial
ly invited.
. HOQUIECT FOR IIILLINS.,
State Newspapers Speak of the Pro.perlty
of tile Magic City.
Anaconda Recorder: Billings is said
to be the liveliest town in the state at
present As an evidence of this, it is
pointed out that it supports two variety
theaters, However Billings is rapidly
going to the front. The new coal min
iug camps, as well as some of the older
nes, are tributary to Billings. A pro.
tifl livestock and farn;ning country sur
^ounds her and she has every cause to
ook forward to a great future.
Livingston Post: It has become the
ashiou lately for the towns of Mon
ana to exploit their superiority in
rain phrase and arrogate to themselves
11i the blessings that bounteous nature
and benign providence have to bestow.
Billings has done this. Acting on the
)ld proverb which says that "he who
lath a horn and bloweth it not, verily
she same shall not be tooted," the
WIagio city has been heralded abroad by
ier excellent press and enterprising
itizens as the place where fortune
miles with perennial pleasantness.
Billings today is famed abroad, her
sal estate is rising and in the midst of
in alkali flat has arisen a city which is
ip-to-date in more particulars than one.
:t is easily' done. It must be when
nch a boom as Billings seems to be en
oying can be made out of the raw ma
erial the boomers there had to start
with. Here in Livingston and the
rountry are opportunities whioh need
inly to be seen to be appreciated, em.
raced and enjoyed. It is a grand com
nonwealth-a splendid section of a
plendid state. It is bound to come to
be front. A year hence will see a
"reat change. It is time to prepare.
Otis cabled the following from Ma.
ila Saturday: The transport Ohio,
wltb three officers and forty-nine men
if the Nevada cavalry, and two ban.
Ired and fifteen disoharged men, sailed
_eaterday. via Hongkong and Guam.
Ewo men of the Nevada cavalry are in
be hands of the Ianrgente.
'I'I BIG YACHT I1AC
Both the Shamrock and Columbia
Are Becalmed, Off the
Highlands.
BEST THREE IN FIVE
First of the Series of lanes ior the
"CIil l ,tween Englantld aid
* A Ierica.
A W\esten Union bulletin as 3:30
this afternoon, says: "Both bouts
practically becalmed about three miles
otff the highlands, the same distance
from l.ightship. Neither can finish in
side tihe time limit. The Shamrock is
off the Oolumlnbinl' weather bow. abolt
100 yards away.
Hi,oeiul T'elegram to The (nazette.
New York, Oct. :3.-The tliirty-mile
international yacht race, between the
(olunihin and the Shamrock, starts at
11 o'clock this morning. The course
is from Sandy Hook lightship, to wiud
ward or lhewarn, according to the di
rcction of the breeze. The second race
will be triangular, ten miles to the leg,
and will be sailed on Thursday, and
the contests will alternate every day
until one of the yachts win three out of
five races.
J. Pierpont Morgan and U. Oliver
Iselin own the Columbia, and the
Shamrock, the English boat, is owned
by Sir Thomas Lipton.
"MINTAKEN WILL HAPPEN."
SeNe ThisIh Great Comedy qt the Opera
House TOlmorrow Eveninw.
In "Mistakes Will Happen," which
comes to the opera house tomorrow
night, under the direction of Jacob
Litt, the theater.going public will be
treated to' a distinct novelty, and novel
ties in farcial comedies are rare. The
second act of the comedy takes place in
the coach house of a supposedly wealthy
gentleman, and both the ground floor
and the hay loft are shown. The loft
is as practical as the stage itself and is
utilized with as muobh freedom by the
actors. The set is so heavy that it
takes over *an hour to set up, for it is
necessary to build a solid bridge with
a thirty-foot span in order that the loft
may be made solid enough to be utillh
ed, for at one time there are five people
running about it. The entire produoc
tion is said to be very handsome and
the company which is presenting the
play is said to be an exceptionally
strong one. It is headed by Charles
Dickson.
A GOOD oLEAN-UP.
E. H. Cowles Makes $15,000 in Three
Years in His Gold Diggings.
Last Friday E. H. Cowles came to
town and brought with him $15,000 in
gold, which he deposited in the local
banks, says the Livingston Post. Mr.
Cowles was more than jubilant over
his good fortune and in an interview
with a Post man he didn't conceal the
secondary cause of his happiness.
"Why say, do you keow when I went
out into the Boulder country the peo
ple here gave me he horse laugh.
Some of them said all kinds of things.
I just pitied them and went out to that
country to work those hills for all they
Linton Clothing Co.
A CLrOTHING AND
F iNISHINGS
Everything of, the Latest and Nobbiest for
Men's Wear.
HATS AiND CAPS
BOOTS AND SHOES
The Best Selected Stock in all Eastern
Montana.
The Linton Cr lthin
were worth. That was three years ago.
Of course it took stick-to- ativeness to
keep at it day after day and find that
she wasn't panning out. But I knew
the mineral was there, and if you don't
believe me and you do believe that
money talks come out to that country
and see for yourself and listen to it
talk. I expect to see Cowles' jump
from its present population of less than
a hundred to 1,000 in less than a year,"
said Mr. Cowles as he hurriedly ex
cused himself. It is said that 1,000
claims have been staked out at the
camp during the past two weeks.
Cowles is about twenty-three miles
southeast of here and if indications
count for anything the little camp has
a bright future.
MR. HOGE'S GIFT.
P'lldl Oa' Htalf tlhe Methodist Chlurch Debt
Before L.eaviJnl,
Before leaving Montana W. L.
Hoge, the pioneer and banker who has
done so much for the upbnildin of
the Methodist chu b in this de
a donation to the Bhurch 1,465 to
t help pay off the d rl h as been out
standing for two ars, says the Anan
conda Standard. This leaves a similar
amount yet to be raised. At the quar
terly conference of the church held
Monday this donation was reported.
Last Sunday the quarterly meeting of
the church took place, the first quar
terly meeting of the year and the first
appearance of Hev. Jacob Mills as pre
siding elder of the district. Mr. Mills
is well known throughout the state,
having lived in Montana for seventeen
or eighteen years, where hb.WlW accom
plished great goo, ot by his pul
pit ministrations re life, but also
by his gifts in va s places. An ex
ception to the rule, Mr. Mills is a man
of considerable wealth, which he claims
belongs not to him, but to the Lord,
while he is the steward to use the
very best advantage. Givi erefore,
one-tenth or more uf flacome each
year, he has been cngfiLed to pat thou
sands of dollars into needy hands.
Churches have been built, pqrsonages
paid for, preachers assisted'and the
Montana Weslyan university largely
helped through his benovalence.
GENERAL STATE NSIWS.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Montana Baptist association, that was
to have been held in Great Falls last
week, but was changed to Helena 'on
account of the smallpox scare' in the
former city, convened in Helena PFi
day. The Montana Presbyterian Synod
was held in Bozeman last week.
George M. Roe, a former employe at
the Warm Springs insane asylum, who
left Montana last winter about the time
of the robbery of the postoflice and
depot at Warm Springs, was arrested in
Lincoln, Neb., and brought back to be
tried by the United States court, was
acquitted at Butte Friday., The jury
reached a verdict in a few minutes.
The defense 'was an alibi, in which
time was the matter of chief import
anoe. The jury seems to have consid
ered the alibi established.
The city board of health in Great
Falls appears to have at last arisen to
the situation that confronts the city
with an epidemic ot smallpox and has
adopted measures in keeping with the
gravity of the situation. All public
places have been closed with the ex
ception of hotels and saloons. The
press of the city qt last admits there is
smallpox in the city and plenty of it,
after industriously trying to conceal the
matter from the public. There are
about thirty cases at present in the pest
house, but the epidemic is now under
control of the authorities.