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WHEN THE NURSE POURS
the medicine for the patient she has more faith in it if
she knows we made up the perscription. She knows that
at this pharmacy purity, strength and accuracy are assured.
Please the nurse and help the invalid in your house by
bringing your prescriptions here.
RED CROSS DRUG STORE
Billings, Montana
Local and Personal
From Sunday's Daily.
'Floyd J. Logan of Missoula is a
business visitor in the city.
!Mrs. W. S. Guyor of Laurel, was in
the city yesterday.
lMr. and Mrs. L. G. Piper of Absaro
kee are spending Sunday as the
guests of friends in this city.
Felix Alston, sheriff of Big Horn
county, Wyo., came up from the Basin
yesterday for a brief business visit.
H. J. Calhoun, a merchan of Colum
bus, was a business visitor in the city
yesterday.
W. C. Ahren of Columbus spent
yesterday attending to business mat
ters in Billings.
Mr. and Mrs. 'Win. E. Reed of Hunt
ley, will (be the guests of Billings
friends over Sunday.
W. F. 'Holder, secretary of the
Waco-Custer Ditch company, was a
business visitor in the city yester
day.
Harry A. Logan, a recent settler
near Osborn, spent yesterday in Bill
ings on business connected with the
land office.
Miss Faye Davidson, a teacher of
the Lake Basin district, is spending
Sunday as the guest of Miss Anette
Freeman of this city.
R. E. Gleeson, a business man of
Cody, Wyo., arrived in Billings yes
terday and will spend a few days
here.
A. B. Wells of Wells, N. D. arrived
in Billings yesterday and is spending
a few days here attending to 'business
matters.
C. E. 'Shipman of the Gerharz En
gineering company, who is superin
tending the work on the Waco-Cus
ter canal ,is spending Sunday in this I
city.
A. H. Cady of Burnett Junction,
Wis., and .his daughter, Mrs. Charles
Smith and two children of Wenatchee,
Wash., are spending a few days as
guests at the home of R. M. Bushee.
Mrs. Bushee is Mr. Cady's sister.
Merton J. Adams of Elgin, Ill., has
decided to make his home in this
county and was yesterday here for
the purpose of filing on a quarter
section of land in the Lake Basin
district.
From Saturday's Daily.
Dr. Carl Schulin has returned from
a professional visit to Lewistown.
Charles E. Larson of Forsyth, was a
business visitor in Billings yesterday.
A. L. Haight of Fromberg, was in
the city yesterday.
Mrs. James T. Brown and son of
Birney, Mont., arrived in Billings yes
terday and are the guests of friends.
Dr. W. A. Walker, a physician of
Dillon, spent yesterday attending to
business affairs here.
S. H. Glidden, formerly senator from
Carbon county, was in the city yester
day attending to business affairs.
Mrs. J. D. Wilson, Jr., of Helena, is
in the city and will spend the winter
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Houghton.
Charles McAllister, a prominent
stockman of Sweetgrass county, is at
tending to business matters in this
city.
C. A. Brooks, a prosperous settler
at the new town of Commanche, spent
yesterday attending to business af
fairs in Billings.
Judge S. H. Mendenhall, a former
resident of this city but now engaged
in business in Miles City, arrived here
yesterday to visit briefly with friends.
Dr. C. D. Powell, a physician of
North Dakota, is spending a few daysi
in Billings as the guest of friends. Dr.
Powell is looking for a location it
Montana.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Grove and chil
dren have left the city for Evanston,
111., and will spend a month visiting.
relatives and friends in the east.
C. S. Haire of Butte, is spending a
few days at the Billings office of Link
& Haire. Mr. Link, who has been in
the western part of the state for some
time, has also returned to Billings.
J. A. PEED, D. V. S.
Deputy State Veterinarian
Calls Promptly Answered.
Phones: Bell 96 B., Mutual 1131
103 N. 25th 6t. Billings, Mont.
Ralph V. Eller of Radcliffe, Iowa,
has decided to make his home in Yel
lowstone county and yesterday filed
on a quarter section of land in the
Broadview district.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dawes of
Bozeman, were in the city yesterday
en route to Fromberg, where they will
visit. Mr. Dawes is in the real estate
business in the Gallatin county seat.
G. W. Barry, a mining man of the
Big Horn canon country, spent yes
terday here. Mr. Barry recently re-,
turned from a business trip in the
east.
H. N. Kennedy, formerly Northern
Pacific agent in Billings but now gen
eral agent of the road with headquar
ters at Spokane, was a business vis
itor here yesterday.
Engineer W. L. Darling and a party
of St. Paul men arrived in Billings
yesterday in a private car over the
Northern Pacific. The party is return
ing from Seattle and Mr. Darling is
spending a few days here looking into 1
recent work of the Northern Pacific.
STRONG DELEGATION
OF NEBRASKANS COME
Governor Shallenberger Names Twen
ty-Three Representative Citi
zens as Delegates.
Governor Shallenberger of Nebras
ka, has appointed 23 delegates to the
Fourth Dry Farming congress and
sends the list to the secretary with
the note that all are gentlemen much
interested in the subjects to be dis
cussed at the Billings meeting. The
governor also expresses his good
wishes for a profitable and interest
ing session. The Nebraska delegates
are:
J. S. Cannaday, Minden; William
Morgan, Atkinson; John O'Connell,
Malcolm; A. L. Burdick, Albion; A.
H. Metzger, Rolf; C. Patterson, Rush
ville; J. S. Wilcox, Morse Bluffs; H.
Johnson, W. T. Farnsworth, W. F.
Harper, Minatare; A. J. Firkin, Ord;
J. M. Cains, Chadron; I. S. Walker,
Kimball; Oscar Bird, Trenton; H. B.
Cunningham, Empire; F. C. Krotter,
Palisade; Albert L. Bowen, Charles A.
Morrill, Scotts Bluffs; J. B. Hunt,
Bridgeport; Victor Peterson, Harris
burg; S. C. Peck, Alliance; Frank
Burnal, Baird; A. B. Pershinger,
Lodge Pole.
TWO APPLICANTS FOR
ONE QUARTER SECTION
One Files Application in Person, Oth.
er's Application Is Received
by Mail
From Saturday's Daily.
The first case where two appli
cants have been entered for the same
piece of land at the same time, oc
curred yesterday at the Billings land
office when Ralph V. Eller, recently
of Radcliffe, Iowa, appeared at the
office in person and the postman
brought the application of Roy T.
Smith of Broadview, by mail. The
land which both men desire is de
scribed as lots 3, 4 and 5 in the south
east quarter of the northeast quarter
*of section 6 of township 4 north of
range 23 east. The tract includes 144
acres and is situated 10 miles south
east of Lavina.
The case is what is known in the
parlance of the land office as simul
tanqous entries, and the laws govern
ing such entries will be applied. An
investigation will be made to ascer
tain whether or not either of the
claimants has made any improve
ments on the land, and it one of them
done so the land will be awarded to
him. In case neither has and neither
is willing to withdraw his claim the
land will be auctioned to the higher
of the two bidders.
AFTER THE DEER.
P From Saturday's Daily.
Ed Beal, Frank Vanek, Russell Sage
and Peter A. Ribb left the city yes
terday for the Bull mountains where
they will spend a few days hunting.
It is reported that game and espe
cially deer, are plentiful in the range
to the north and the hunters do not
expect to return to the city empty
handed.
Advertise that property just to show
that you are in earnest about selling
It. Gazette ads get results.
EXPERTS WILL
ACT AS JUDGES
Head of Farm Economics of Depart- I
ment of Agriculture Will Judge
Machinery Test.
WORKING ON EXHIBITS (
Arcade Where Montana Grown Grains 5
Will Be Displayed Is Being Decorat
ed at Cost of Counties Which Ex
hlbit.-Shipments Arrive.
From Saturday's Daily.
W. A. Peck, head of the bureau of t
farm economics of the department of (
agriculture, spent yesterday in Bill
ings looking over the local field and
in a conference with officials of the
Dry Farming congress. Mr. Peck
left last evening for Bozeman, where I
he will spend a week in the Gallatin a
valley and will return to Billings early t
in the week following for the purpose
of being here during the congress and t
meeting the dry land farmers of this r
section of the state
The work of Mr. Peck's department
is the study of economic ways of rais
ing and marketing crops and he has
under his direction the preparation of 1
many booklets regarding the best
methods of handling crops and the
kinds of machinery that are especial
ly adapted to the raising of certain
grains and grasses. He has made the
study of farming methods his life
work and is an expert on farm ma
chinery.
Mr. Peck has accepted the position
of judge of the exhibition and compei- a
tion in farming machinery, and espe
cially of steam plows and plow out
fits, which will be held here during 1
the congress, and he will take a
prominent part in directing the com- r
petition which is to be held on land
south of the city and near the sugar
factory. The other judges will be F.
E. Kimbal, a consulting engineer of
Pittsburg, and Dr. W. X. Sudduth, who
has fostered the plowing contest
since the congress was secured for a
this city. The judges will prepare an
exhaustive report on the exhibition
and competition which will 'be made a
part of the report of the minutes of
the congress, a booklet which will be
published after the meetings and
which will be distributed to all mem
bers of the organization. It is expect
ed that the coming competition, in
which no less than a dozen manufac
turers of steam plows will enter, will
furnish abundant material on a mat
ter which is of interest to every dry
land farmer and which has heretofore
not received much attention.
Mr. Peck expressed himself as sur
prised by the advance which has been
made in dry land farming in this sec
tion of the state and predicted that
Billings was but entering upon an era
of prosperity which will mean the'
material growth of the city within the I
coming few years.
The work of decorating the exhibit
hall is progressing nicely under the
direction of C. I. Gardner, who has
charge of the work. The center aisle
of the building will be devoted to
Montana exhibits, most of the coun
ties in the state where dry land farm
ing is carried on to any extent hav
ing already contracted for space in
this aisle. The ceiling of the aisle is
being decorated with grains and
grasses and the cost is being met by
the various counties exhibiting, the
work costing $2 per running foot.
The exhibit hall is divided into three
sections, and the center section of the
building will be devoted to Montana
exhibits. Yellowstone county will oc
cupy the first 40 feet of the Montana
aisle, Fergus will come next, Rosebud
next, and all other counties of the
eastern part of the state will be rep
resented in this part of the building.
The main exhibit from Colorado will
be placed in the first aisle from the
entrance and Texas and other south
ern states will occupy positions in
the third aisle. The ends of the hall
have not been allotted. Illumination
will be supplied by a multitude of I
small electric arcs, while incandes
cents, tinted green, will add the color
touch.
One of the most attractive exhibits
will be that of Miss Mabel Sudduth of
Proadview, who last year carried off
several prizes in the Cheyenne com
petition. Earlier in the season Miss
Sudduth prepared grains and grasses
which were cured when green. The
Ilight green and gold of the seasoned
grains will make a pleasing contrast.
BASEMENT IS CLEARED. s
After several weeks of hard work 1
work the basement of the Yegen Bros. e
building on Minnesota avenue has a
been cleared of debris and the greater t
part of the ruins of the fire have been t
relegated to the scrap pile south of f
the city. The heating plant in the t
basement of the block is being put c
into shape and it is expected that it e
will be ready for use in a few days. t
The work of remodeling the store I
front of the Saversey building which a
has been purchased by the company r
and which is at present being used t
for the fire sale, is about to begin.
No definite plan for a new building i
-has been adopted and Chris Yegen t
says that the firm will take no action
> thereon until next year. In the mean
time plans for a building will be con- I
sidered. It has been announced that i
the new building will be fireproof and
probably the largest establishment of
its kind in the city.
EX.SENATOR LINDSAY DEAD.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 15.-For
mer United States Senator William
a Lindsay died at his home here early
today. He was 72 years of age.
e LICENSE IS GRANTED.
t From Saturday's Daily.
A license to wed was yesterday
morning granted to James Whitfield
and Mrs. Nora Henry, both of Bill
ings.
Subscribe for The Gazette.
SALVATION ARMY
DOES GOOD WORK
Employment Agency Has Been Very
Successful In Fitting the Job
and the Man.
QUARTERS WELL FILLED
Scarcely a Night Has Passed Since
New Barracks Were Opened That
All Sleeping Accommodations Have
Not Been Filled.
The Salvation Army in this city,
under the leadership of Ensign E. F.
Omann, who took charge of the work
some few months ago, is accomplish
ing a remarkable amount of good
and is, in the opinion of Secretary
Brayton of the Chamber of Commerce,
an institution which is deserving of
the generous support of that body.
Since Ensign Omann took crarge of
the work there has been a complete
reorganization of the methods of the
army, new barracks have been opened
and it is asserted by some, the insti
tution has done more real good in the
past two months than it had previous
ly accomplished in as many years.
The army is now comfortable lo
cated in a building at the corner of
Twenty-seventh street and First ave
nue south. The new barracks have
been fitted up with an eye to provid
ing for the man who is in need, and a
score or more of comfortable and
clean beds have been installed which
rent at 15 and 20 cents nightly. En
sign Omann states that,since the new
barracks have been opened there has
scarcely been a night that all these
beds have not been occupied and late
ly the army has been compelled to
refuse shelter to many on account of
crowded conditions.
The employment agency of the army,
which is free to all and which is es
pecially recommended to the mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce who
are in need of good laborers, is one
of the best features of the work. En
sign Omann states that since the
agency has been opened he has placed
36 men in permanent positions in and
around the city and that every one of
them are making good. Hundreds of
others have been given work for a
few days and enabled to get a start
financially in the right direction. One
case that is representative of many
others is that of a Spokane man who,
failing to find work in his home city,
accepted a job from a Spokane agency
and came to one of the mining towns
in Carbon county with the expecta
tion of finding work. There he learned
that he had been duped by the Spo
kane agency and that the firm to
whom he had been sent had never ad
vertised with the Spokane house and
did not know of its existence. He
landed in Billings penniless, and ob
tained work through the army agency
for a few days. Later the army placed
him with a local dairy. He has been
working there for three weeks and,
although he was entirely unskilled in
such work, his employer declares
that he is one of the best men on his
place and has accordingly given him
a position of trust.
The charitable work of the army is
carried on entirely separate from the
other work and all money given for
charity is used for that purpose ex
clusively. At present the army has
monthly subscriptions amounting to
$32 which are used for charity, and
some very needed cases have been at
tended to.
Ensign Omann is striving to make
the local institution self-supporting,
and is succeeding beyond his expec
tation.
4
IHE COULDN'T DERAIL
THE LIMITED TRAIN :
Drunken Italian Loses Life When He i
Attempts to Stop Great North. s9
ern Train No. 44.
From Saturday's Daily.
Coroner Herman E. Smith returned q
last night from Broadview where he
was called by the death of an Italian,
run over by Great Northern train No.
44 as it was approaching Broadview
Thursday evening.
Mr. Smith says that it was unnec
essary to call a coroner's inquest as
the testimony of the only man who
saw the accident showed clearly that
death was due solely to his own care
lessness. The Italian, Rocco Basch
etti, by name, is of powerful phy
sique and he and a fellow worker on
the railroad were walking down the
track. Both men were under the in
Sfluence of liquor and as he saw the
train approaching the Italian con
ceived the notion that he was big
enough to knock the train off the
track. In vain did his companion
plead with him to get out of the road,
and the engineer, knowing that the
F man had heard the whistle, supposed
I that he was only seeing how long he
could stay on the track and paid no
heed to him. When it was clear that
k the Italian did not intend to get out
I of the road the emergency brakes
were applied, but too late to save
Baschetti from being ground to death
t under the wheels.
BAD MEN DEPART.
From Saturday's Daily.
Sheriff Orrick left the city yester
day accompanied by four prisoners
of the county jail who have been sen
n tenced to terms in the state peniten
y tiar at Deer Lodge. The four men
were Lewis Suttig, sentenced to three
years for assault and who nearly suc
ceeded in breaking out of the county
jail Wednesday night; Frank Estes,
y sentenced to two and a half years for
d horse stealing; August Giesbrecht,
I- sentenced to one year for forgery, and
John Mills, better known as "Black
Jack," sentenced to two years and
a half for cattle stealing.
BOULLION WITH
HOT POTATOES
P. B. Merrill Packing Co. and Billings
Creamery Will Aid in Free
Potato Boast.
NEED NOT GO HUNGRY
Visitors at Congress Will Be Treated
to Bullion, Wienerwursts and Po.
tatoes Cooked in All Styles, at Noon
Each Day.
The people of Broadview who pro
pose to serve free potatoes raised on
dry land during the three days of
the Dry Farming congress, are to be
aided in their work by the P. B. Mer
rill Packing company and the Bill.
ings creamery, and the hungry vis
itors are now assured of what is as
good as a square meal every noon
during the big convention.
The Merrill Packing company has
not only agreed to supply free beef
boullion, made from the best Montana
grass fed cattle, but will also have
an abundant supply of its best wlen
erwursts on hand, and the Billings
creamery will furnish all the butter
and cream necessary in cooking the
potatoes. The packing plant has also
agreed to furnish the cook and will
bring an experienced chef from Chi
cago to preside over the oven.
The free baked potatoes, although
practically an after-thought, bids fair
to become one of the leading features
of the congress. It will be held on
the platform at the east end of the
exhibit hall, an oven is being built
by E. O. Blais who has taken the con
tract for the work, and ranges will
be installed on the platform where
potatoes in other styles than baked
will be turned out. Lunch hour will
be every day from 12 to 2 o'clock,
when visitors will be welcomed in
line to sample the dry land potatoes
from the Broadview district. An or
der has been placed for sever thou
sand paper plates and cups in which
the potatoes and bullion will be serv
ed and free souvenir spoons will also
be given away.
THREE POSITIONS
WITH UNCLE SAM
Announcement Is Made of Some of
the November Civil Service
Examinations.
From Saturday's Daily.
Announcements of three civil ser
vice examinations which will be held
in the latter part of next month were
made yesterday at the Billings post
office. The examinations will be held
on November 24, with the exception of
mechanical draftsmen, which will be
of three days' duration and will begin
November 22.
The position of mechanical drafts
man is with the ordinance depart
ment and the successful applicants
will be stationed at different arsenals
throughout the country. Twelve po
sitions are to be filled, the salaries
being from $900 to $1,400 a year. The
examination embraces mathematics,
knowledge of all building materials,
drafting and practical training and
experience.
The position of assistant inspector
in the bureau of animal industry of
the department of agriculture, an ex
amination for which will be held No
vember 24, draws a salary of $840 the
first year with increases to $1,000.
The examination covers general edu
cation, and applicants must show that
they have had at least three years'
experience in handling meats and
meat producing animals.
An engineer and miller to operate
a sawmill on the Uintah and Ouray
Indian reservations in Utah, is de
sired. Practical experience will weigh
heavily in the examinations. The sal
ary is $900 a year. At the previous
examination, held June 2, no eligible
person succeeded and those who are
qualified to fill the position are urged
to take the coming examination.
4 HALF MILLION 4
• ACRES FOR HOMESTEADS 4
+ IN TREASURE STATE 4
4 t
* Gazette Bureau, 4
f Washington, D. C., 4
- October 15, '09. 4
4 The interior department to- +
4 day designated 450,480 acres +
4 more of land in Montana as 4
• coming within the provisions 4
4 of the enlarged homestead or 4
4 dry farm act. The land is •
4 scattered over the state and 4
• brings the total area in Mon- 4
1 tana subject to homestead en- 4
4 try in 320-acre tracts, upon to 4
4 a total of 26,636,000 acres. 4
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Billings A Matter of Choice
Really, as a matter of choice, while we welcome both large
and small deposits, we would rather have
t a t e ten persons deposit $1 each than one person $10 , or
ten persons deposit $10 each than one person $100 , or
ten persons deposit $103 each than one person $1000 , or
ten persons deposit $1000 each than one person $10000.
B a n k It is true, these smaller deposits give us more labor in caring
for them, nevertheless, we prefer them. @No one there
B. G. SHOREY President fore should feel at all timid about brlnging in small
HENRY WnHITE, Cashier depoests.
OHAS. SPEAR. Vice President
8. L. DOUGHTY, Asst. Cashies
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Put up in capsule form, each
dose in separate capsule. Re
° lieves pain and suffocated
breathing. Can be given in
capsule or drench.
SCHAPPLE DRUG CO.
` "You Can Get it at Chapple's"
CHAPPLE'S ° Watch For Our Next Ad. 1 CHAPPLE'S Tsn
The First National Bank
of Billings
We Want Your
Bank Account
We solicit your account and are pre.
pared to give you service that will
satisfy you.
When you are in Bilhngs, see us
about our banking business. When
you are away, communicate with us
and we will represent you in your
transactions
We have accounts with banks in all
the large cities and handle collec
tions and make transfers of money
by letters or wire to all parts of the
world.
L-. B. Moss. President
Lee N Goodwin, Vice President.
Robert ... Newton, Cashier.
F. M. Lipp, Ass't ,ashier.
L. B. St. John, Ass't Cashier.
Interest Paid on Time Certificates oat
Deposit
We make
It easy for you to have a bank account, and transact year
business in a business.like manner.
We want
An opportunity to demonstrate to you in how many ways
a strong banking institution can be of beneft to you.
We Invite
your personal account. We have every facility for han.
dling large accounts, but we desire the smaller ones, also.
Yellowstone National Bank
Capital and Surplus $150,000.00
United States Depository Biling, oeat.
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