Midland Empire News from Billings, Montana • 3

I Friday, December 21, 1900 THE BILLINGS GAZETTE. 3 CITY COUNCIL MEETS. TOOK IT UNDER ADVISEMENT. IS COMING ty for the period. For 1899 three deaths are recorded and during the current year not more than a dozen First ional Bank OF BILLINGS, MONTANA.

Paip-Up Capital, SOrplos P. B. Moss, President. 1. vv.

Kowley, Vice-President. S. F. Morse, Cashier. S.

Reynolds, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS Chas. Babcock, P. B. Moss, H.

W. Rowley, Jos. Zimmerman, G. W. Woodson.

if Transact a General Banking Business-Collections Walton Successors to -Wholesale and JL-b-lfe J. IJIIIIWJy 1111 IX, VC'LLUC'lllf Bfiilding Paper, Montana Hail Orders Solicited. Transacts but Little Business Mayor Vetoes Crossing Resolution. Mayor Yegen called thtC city coun cil to order last Tuesday night at 8:15 Aldermen Bennighoff, Berky, Clement, Frizelle, Reynolds, Tubbs and Szitnick being present. The report of the police magistrate for the month of November was accepted and filed.

The street and sewer Lcommissioner reported on the work done by his department during the month of November, and the same was accepted. Several citizens petitioned for an electric light on North Twenty-fifth street and First avenue. It was referred to the fire, light and water committee. Not contented with the passing up which he received at the last meeting at the hands of the council, Frank Myer petitioned the honorable body to allow him to continue his fruit and confectionery stand at the corner of Montana avenue and Twenty-seventh street, and offered a physician's certificate as evidence that he was unable perform any physical labor. Bennighoff moved that the petition be tabled.

It was seconded, but before being put to a vote, the members expressed themselves in the matter. It seems that Myer had purchased stock for the holidays before he was closed up and stated that he owed for the goods and it was working a hardship on him. Bennighoff withdrew his motion, and in its place Clement moved that the petition of Myer be granted to be limited until January 15, 1901, and that he shall then peaceably remove the building. The motion prevailed. Mayor Yegen returned the resolution passed at the last regular meeting awarding a contract to T.

R. Hinds for the construction of 50 new stone crosswalks during the next two years, with his veto of the same. In vetoing the resolution the mayor said the cost was out of proportion to the benefit to be derived, and that the present tax levy of 10 mills is all that can be levied; that the funds so raised are already used up each year, without placing additional expense upon the city. Clement then made a motion that at the next regular meeting the council take up the mat ter of the veto. In the matter of rebating the sewer tax of the M.

E. church, Clement reported that he had investigated the matter and in his mind there was no way in which the tax could legally be rebated. Reynolds and Bennighoff both spoke on the matter, which in effect was that they saw no way of rebating the tax. The committee reported adversely on the petition. For half an hour the members dis cussed matters pertaining to the fire limit ordinance, but no definite action was taken.

In response to the advertisement for bids for constructing sidewalks for the ensuing year, five bids were offered, the bidders being W. E. Owens, O. L. Jones, C.

W. English, Louis Smith and John Powers. The bids were referred to the street and sidewalk committee to report at a future meeting. The meeting adjourned at 10oclock. WILL COME HOME EACH WEEK.

Rev. G. C. Stull, Representative-Elect, Will Fill His Own Pulpit. Rev.

G. C. Stull of Billings, repre sentative-elect from Yellowstone county, will supply his own pupit dur ing -the time the legislature is in session, his plan being to come home each Saturday morning or evening, preaching on Sunday and returning to Helena Monday. This will necessitate some hard work on the part of the chaplain, but he believes himself fully able to do it. This arrangement will be much more sa'tisfactdW to his church constituents than by having a supply preacher come here for the two months that he is likely to be kept at Helena in assisting to make good laws for the Treasure state.

FOUR CASES. Police Court Has Light Grist Twelve Day Sentence. The police court had four cases on Tuesday morning, Judge Mann dis posing of them in rather quick order. Fred Heagy, a barber, who has a family in Billings and has been carousing for about four weeks, was up for vagrancy. He promised to leave town within the next 12 hours if per mitted to go his way.

Sentence was suspended. Juddie Oram, the Helena kid, who ran away from his home sometime ago and was up before the court only a week since, was given a sentence of 12 days work on the streets for being a vagrant. M. Beaudoin was arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace. He confessed the former charge, but denied the latter.

He was given a chance to leave the city. Beaudoin is the man whom J. H. Johnson assaulted about a week ago. Ethel Harwell, is a man who has been around town for sometime, but so far as the officers know has only done a week's work.

He was accordingly sentenced to do five days work on the street. STRIKES A RICH FIND. 'I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and neavous debility," writes F. J. Green, of Lancaster, N.

H. "No remedy helped me until I began using Electric Bitters, which did me more good than all the medicine I ever used. They also kent my wife in excellent health for years. She Bays Electric Bitters are just splendid for female troubles; that they are a grand tonic and invigorator for weak, run down women. No other medicine can taka its place in our family." Try them.

Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by have been reported. During the same period 125 births were reported, less than the number that usually occur during one year. 'Without a penalty the law re quiring physicians to report deaths and births is little better than a farce," said a county official today. "There ha been in some cases absolutely no attempt to complay with the law.

It is very important that these records be complete. In facf the record of mortality and births is almost indispensable. People' looking up lost relatives, and those wishing to establish identity of persons find these records often the only way of proving or determining identity. "I think it is pure oversight on the part of the physicians. All of them doubtless know of the existence of the law and their failure to comply with its provisions is more oversight and neglect than anything else.

If a penalty was attached to a failure to report deaths and births, all would make it a point to contribute everything that would add to the completeness of these records. What is true in Lewis and Clarke county is probably equally true in nine out of every ten counties in the state, if not all of them. In Yellowstone county the physicians for a time complied with the law, but of recent years have made no effort to do so. The Coeur d'Alene Miner of Wallace, Idaho, says that Thos. O.

Peacock, lately of Billings, police force, is in the city in search of a desirable location. Well, now, wouldn't that jar you. Peacock an ex-policeman of Billings, hardly. It is to be hoped he will manage to stay as far as Wallace is from Billings. BLOWN TO ATOMS.

The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has been exploded; for Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure constipation and sick headache. Only 25c at Chappie Drug Co. Special Kate to unter Hot Springs The Northern Pacific railway offers the people of Montana special round trip rates to Hunter's Hot Springs to enable them to enjoy the fine mineral, hot water baths at that point. These springs are situated at Springdale, nineteen miles east of Livingston.

The site is a beautiful one and the medicinal properties of the waters are equal to those found anywhere. A special eight-day ticket, good for roud trip fare to Springdale and for twenty-one meals, seven nights lodging and bathing privileges at the, springs. will be sold as follows Hamilton, $27. Missoula, $25. Philipsburg, $24.

Marysville, $21. Deer Lodge, $22. Pony, $19. Norris, $19. Winston, $19.

Townsend, $19. Lombard, $18. Custer, $20. Forsyth, $22. Miles City, $24.

Glendive, $27. A three-day ticket, including fare to Springdale and return, six meals, two nights lodging and bathing privileges will be sold from points and at rates named below: Butte, $10. Helena, $10. Bozeman, $6. Chesnut, $6.

Bridger, $9. Carbon, $9. Red Lodge, $10. Billings, $8.85. Call on Northern Pacific railway general agents at Butte or Helena or on local agents at points named.

Chas. S. Fee, G. P. 37-tf.

St. Paul, Minn. $350 Reward. For evidence that will convict any person or persons for breaking down my feuc.es, leaving gates open and letting stock out or or driving any of my stock from any of my fields, stock branded GP connected. 104-tf George Pirrie.

First Publication Dec. 14, 1900. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Land office at Bozeman, December 12, Notice is hereby given that the following-nanied settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before T.

A. Williams, Clerk of the Court, at Billings, on January 19, 1901, viz: JOHN FAIRBAIN, who made H. E. No. 2274, for the lots 1, 2 and 3, S.

y2, NW. NW. SW. Sec. 2, Tp.

4 R. 21 M. P. M. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation ot said land, viz: Jefferson Z.

Brewer, Walter O. Lee, Thomas A. Butler all of Billings, Montana, and J. W. Menden-hall, Lavina, Montana.

A. L. LOVE. Register. First Publication Dec.

14, lm-Cf NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, Land office at Bozeman, December 12, 1900. Notice is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that Raid proof will be made before T. A. Williams, Clerk of the Court at Billings, Montana, on January 19.

1901, viz: EVAN N. JONES, who made H. E. No. 2234 for the lots I and 2, E.

NW. Sec. 19, Tp. 1 R. 27 M.

P. M. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Edward B. Kennedy, Daniel A. Hammond, Jacob Bugeson, James Ryan, all of Billings, Montana.

A. L. LOVE, Register. Question Submitted to Judge Knowles for First Time. Judge Knowles in the United States court in Helena Tuesday heard arguments on the motion of counsel for Annie Olson to dismiss tho proceeding in bankruptcy brought by Edward R.

Maples. The argument was on a question never before raised in Judge Knowles' court. Maples, who lives in Custer, county, sought to be declared a bankrupt. His only liability of 'consequence was a judgment for $3,880 obtained against him in the district court by Miss Olson, who charged him with seduction. The motion to dismiss the action in the bankruptcy court was made on the ground that the court did not have jurisdiction to adjudge a person a bankrupt when there were no debts against that person except a judgment for personal injuries.

The question before the court was whether enough was disclosed bv the record to show that the iuderment was for personal injuries. The bankruptcy law provides that debts for personal injuries are exempt from the provisions of the law that is; that a poison otherwise a bankrupt cannot secure exemption from responsibility from a judgment for personal injuries. George Farr, of Miles City, rep resented Miss Olson, and T. J. Porter appeared for Judge Knowles took the case under advisement.

This is a continuance of the case heard by Referee Frith in this city a few weeks ago. L. R. PIPER STILL MISSING. Relatives of Ohio Banker Have Given Him Up as Dead.

The story that Leroy R. Piper had been located in Washington appears to have been not true. The relatives of Piper, who was lost in the National park near, the Fountain hotel last summer, still do not know his whereabouts, and they believe him dead. Last September a soldier in the park said that Piper had employed a camper to take him out of the park by way of Monida, and that he had not been lost at all. The story also related that Piper had been seen in Washington, D.

since his disappearance. That story appears to be controverted by the following special to the Chicago Times-Herald from Wapakoneta, dated Dec. 14: "The family of Leroy R. Piper cashier of the First National bank and a wealthy young business man of St. Marys, who mysteriously disappeared July 30 last at Yellowstone park while on a business and pleasure trip to the Pacific coast, has given up all hope of his return and has secured the appointment of O.

E. Dunan as administrator of his estate. At the time Mr. Piper disappeared the best detectives were employed, and a systematic search of the park was made without finding any trace of the young man. Several theories were advanced, one that his mind became unbalanced and he wandered away, another that he was murdered for what money he had with him, and a third that he accidentally fell into one of' the pools, or geysers of that strange place." PROCLAMATION BY GOVERNOR.

Declares Amendment Carried and Announces It Part of Constitution. Governor Robert B. Smith Tuesday issued a proclamation declaring the amendment to section five of article eight of the constitution, submitted to a popular vote of the people at the last election, adopted. The amendment was carried by a vote of 7,689 against 3,265 and provides that where one or more judges of the supreme court is by any reason disqualified to sit, the remaining judge may call one or more district judges to sit in the case that the members of the supreme bench are disqualified to sit in, and a decision given by the court so constituted shall have the same force and effect as other decisions of the court. If the leigslature increases the supreme court to five members the amendment will have but little effect as it is scarcely probably that an instance will arise where more than two members of the court would be disqualified in any one case.

If the legislature does not, however, increase the bench the amendment will enable the court to proceed with its business, where one or more judges are disqualified. THEY FAIL TO REPORT. Physicians Negligent in Reporting Births and Death. The board of county commissioners will present a bill to the next legislature providing for a penalty in cases where physicians fail to report deaths and births to the proper county officials, says the Helena Herald. There has scarcely been an effort to comply with the law in this county and as a result Lewis and Clarke county has no accurate records covering the deaths and births during the last ten years.

The law requires that physicians report to the county clerk all deaths and births that come to their notice. Perhaps two Helena doctors have made a point to comply with the law. In other states the law is quite stringent and prescribes a heavy penalty where physicians are negligent in this respect. During the last five years there has been something like two score deaths reported to the county clerk and recorder and these ccver the whole coun TO BILLINGS ROCKY MOUNTAIN BELL TELEPHONE WILL EXEND SYSTEM FROM BIG TIMBER Operations to Begin Next. April.

Will Build East and South From Billings. "Before six months more have passed Billings will be connected with outside cities by a long distanced telephone system." This is the statement of H. Sora-mers of Helena, division manager of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company, who visited this city yesterday, spending the day interviewing prominent business men relative to the matter. For almost a year paktifnere has been a widespread rum(jr that the Rocky Mountain company intended to build a line into this city from the west and then south to Deadwood. This rumor was occasioned by the company's building into Big Timber and stopping there.

The city council ot Billings will be petitioned to grant the Rocky Mountain company privilege to build into this city and there seems to be no doubt but what the request will be granted. Mr. Sommers will come to Billings on January, 2 and appear before the council, making known his request. To The Gazette reporter Mr. Sommers explained the proposed plan of his company.

The time has come when the telephone is fast supplant- ing the telegraph and realising this the Bell company is extending its great service in the Rocky Mountain couutiy. Already the Bell people have a line from Denver to Salt Lake and Butte, and Portland and Spokane to Big limber, Great Falls and Lewis-town, Mont. It is now proposed to extend the line from Big Timber east to the North Dakota line by way of the Northern Pacific and there connect with a similar line coming from the east, and to go south over the Burlington to Deadwood and there connect with another branch from Denver. A separate branch will be built out from Laurel, this county, to all- of the Carbon county towns. The Bell people will begin opera- 1 tious on the new extension east from Big Timber about April 1, next, and within three months time afterwards will have the system inaugurated and in running order in Billings.

This may seem rather slow work, but the Bell Telephone company believes in constructing a system that must of necessity be a substantial one. The material used in contsruction differs considerably from that of local systems, in that it is much heavier and more durable. The company will rent headquarters for a time after coming into Billings, but its plan is to erect and occupy its own buildings in cities of this size, which means that Billings would soon have another fine business block to grace its midst. The benefits to be derived by such a system are innumerable, and the coming of the Bell company to Billings Will be gladly welcomed by citizens as well as business men. Mr.

Soinmers will leave this morning for Miles City to confer with the business men of that place. A WHIST PARTY. Miss Lamartine Entertains in Honor of Miss Zinn. Miss Lamartine entertained a few friends Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

W. G. Kain on North Twenty-ninth street in honor of Miss Zinn, who has lately come to Billings from Butte. Whist was played, Miss Zinn being awarded the lady's prize. a handsome sterling silver book mar and Mr.

JbJd. Eraser, tne gentleman's prize, a sterling silver stam Mox. Dainty refreshments were seivid followed by musical selections by sjrveral of the guests. Miss Lamartine in every way showed herself to be a very capable and pleasing hostess! Those present were Misses Sleeper, Zinn, Lyle, Alice and May McCor-mick, Niokey, Colvin, Lamartine and Mrs. Rhodes, Messrs.

Buchanan, Seaman, W. Rixon, Ed. Fraser, Jay McCormick, Taylor, Carper and Matheson. EYE MUST BE REMOVED. Young Son of F.

L. Mann Loses Sight of His Left Eye. Harry Mann, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F.

L. Mann, will be compelled to suffer the removal of his left eye, which is totally blind. It will be remembered by fmany of The Gazette readers that last March he was accidently shot in the eye by a buckshot from an air rifle in the hands of a playmate. The injured eye was examined and treated, it being thought that the sight could be saved. For some time the little fellow has been unable to see out of the injured eye and an examination a few days ago disclosed the fact that the nerves were dead and an operation should be performed so as to preclude any possibility of the other eye becoming diseased.

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BRICK-MANUFACTURERS, I BILLINGS. MONTANA. We are prepared to furnish and deliver any nnm berof First-Class Building Brick. Yards One Mile Northwest of City. Office 202 N.

Twenty-Seventh St. Telephone 123. Hot Air BATH CABINET WHY suffer with Pains, Aches, Rheumatism, LaGrippe, Kidney Trouble, Pneumonia and many other complaints, when you can cure and prevent the cause by taking your baths in one of these famous bath cabinets? One bath will cure the worst cold, and thereby prevent an attack of LaGrippe or Pneumonia. Turkish Baths at home at 3 cents each. Cures Rheumatism.

No family should be without the Square Quaker Bath Cabinet. Practicable and Sensible. You would not part with it if you could not get another. Galvanized Steel Frame, folds flat in one inch space; weight 10 pounds; lasts 20 years. Don't, confound this cabinet with the old-style round and wooden frame that warps and splits.

Buy the Square Quaker Cabinet. Alcohol stove, directions and formu- fin las for different baths, all complete, $UiUU Head and Face Steaming Attachment for Asthma, Catarrh and Throat Troubles, $1.00 extra. Sent by express on receipt of price, or send $1.00 with order and balance C. O. D.

and charges. For further information write for descriptive booklet. R. L. HAYWORTH, Residence 213 Thirty-fourth St.

South, BILLINGS GENERAL AGENT FOR YELLOWSTONE and Adjoining Counties. 61-9 UNDER STATE SUPERVISION. Pays 5 per cent on Savings Deposits, Interest compounded quarterly. Pays 7 per cent on Time Certificates of Deposit, not subject to check. Issues Savings Certificates on Building and Loan Plan with definite time of maturity and definite payments.

Loans Monej on Real Estate to be repaid in monthly installments running from ONE to TEN YEARS, to uit bor-. rower. TmatfiPB Loa Mantle, president; Chas. Schatzlein.vice president; Fayette Harrington, treasurer; Chna. R.

Leonard, attorney; A. li. Uiements, secretary; Aug. Heinze, Henry Mueller, Frank W. Haskins, James H.

Monteath. FRED H. FOSTER, local agent. gpLSQUARE ID QUAKER i mr i Art iRKSXCt. Business Changes Owing to the probable retirement of one of the members of the firm on January 1st, 1901, we have decided to Sell Out and reduce our stock during the month of December.

We advertise some shall in Jewelry and Silverware, Diamonds and Watches during the month, suitable for New Location Near Cottage Inn FIRE, ACCIDENT AND LIFE INSURANCE IReal Eetate ana Convejmnctno Charles. F. Burton The Oldest Established Office In Town. Rare Bargains Holiday Presents The Prices are sure to be right for the reason already stated, that? one of the members oil the firm will likely re- tire from the business shortly. Forester 2 Frizelle JEWELERS 5 Chappie Drug Uo..