.IYRT1.eL CHAFFIN 18 TAKEN

BACK HOME.

WILL MARRY HIM ANYWAY

Girl Declares Determination to Be-

come Moore's Wife at Very

'First Opportunity.

From Thursday's Daily Gazette.This morning wayward, little

Myrtle Chaffin was taken back to hehome at Fromberg, Carbon county, incustody of a constable, E. O. Chaffin,who, by the way, is her uncle and alsothe step-father of Moore, the youthwith whom she eloped and whom shedeclares she will marry at the veryfirst opportunity.

Constable Chaflin arrived in townla.s evening and had a warrant forth& elopers, although he did not takeMoore back with him, as after is-suance of the warrant the father ofthe girl concluded not to insist uponthe prosecution of the young fellow,an arrangement to which the countyattorney of Carbon county gave hisconsent. The charge against bothwas the same, incorrigibility. Shehaving consented to return and appar-ently being anxious to get back home,it is not likely that anything furtherwill hbe done in her case, unless herfather should decide that his, daugh-ter's conduct has been such as to war-rant a l~ttle. chastisement' of the oldfashioned kind into which a slipperor switch enters.

According to the statement of Mr.Chaffin, the constable; his 'niece is 15years of age, although she does notlook as old, being decidedly smallfor one of that age. She has been at-tending school near Fromberg andboarded the train at a crossing aboutthree miles from that place, whereshe had walked for the purpose ofmeeting the train, on board of whichshe knew her lover to be. Moore hadridden on the engine and at his re-quest the engineer stopped at thecrossing iin order that the girl couldget on.

Although she took herself quiteseriously and acted after the mannerof one much older, the poor child'sappearance was intended to provokea. smile on the face of those who be-held her and heard her declarationsof 'ihtention 'to0 be mitrried, despiteparental objections. In stature she

is small and nothing about her indi-cates even buding womanhood, whilethe short, dress she wears only ac-centuates her youthfulness, the gar-

ment reaching only a trifle below theknee. When walking beside her uncleshe presented the appearance of a lit-tle one out for a walk, perhaps, to acandy store to spend a "nickle" someone had given her for being a "real,good, little 'girl," instead of one whobut a few hours before had dressedfor her wedding.

Moore was released from custody,although at first it was intended -toprosecute him for carrying concealed

weapons The constable intimatedthat it would be advisable for him to

defer his return to Fromberg for a

while, as the ire of the girl's fatherwas such that it might cause him toattempt to take personal revenge onhim for eloping with his daughter.

I.OCAL AND PERLONAL.

From Tuesday's Daily Gazette.

E. E. and C. S. Gould of Forsyth are

visiting the city.Mrs. E. B. Shafer of Great Fails is

a guest at the Grand.

H. H. Lavelle of Columbus is reg-

istered at the Grand.William S. Clarkson of Livingston

is autographed at the' Grand.

The Honorable A. L. Babcock left

this morning for Helena, where, he ex-

pects to spend the next few days.

Mrs. Henry White, accompanied bytwo of her children, Master Cassiusand Miss Lizeie, left this morning forMadison, S. D., to visit a brother, who

is reported as seriously sick.

In consideration of $1 the North

Town Land company has conveyed to

William A. Shriver lots i# and 9 andthe south half of lot 10, block 40, Fos-

ter's addition to Billings townsite.

Sale was recorded today of lots

13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, block 219, Bill-

ings, by the Minnesota & MontanaLand and'. Improvement company toLuther)M. Gaines; oonsideration, $150.

As. the result of hisfai#ure to appearthis morning in poj1pa. court, MikeM]onRrey forfetted $10, an amount hedepag•ita yesterda$i n auity for his.apepaSen .to. ai8wer ,to e chargeof ha0Vng b e d1Mak. '

After itL , fori anumber ofdays against *apt appeared the in-evitable, County Clerk h has ftnally bein forced to sueeumb 6ad is con•

of .the gr I b lily

the suits which grew out of the lateelection iii Rosebu cicounty, Testi-Amtioy, is hearing for '•the prosecutionand according to all reports some in-tez'esting developments are making.

Aceording to>a deed filed for recordtoday Philip Wesch and& wife havesold to Andrew Cederholm an undi-vided one-half interest in lots 8 and9, block .17, Foster's uddition to Bill-ings townsite, all in consideration of$1.

Arrivals from Miles City this morning brought the' news of a suicide atFort Keogh, which occurred early yes-terday morning. The suicide was asoldier belonging to one of the troopsof the Thirteenth cavalry, which isunder orders to leave for the Philip-pines shortly. Disgust With armylif d dread of going to the islands

iven as the cause of the act.An engine shaft wpighing 3,000

pounds was received by eepress thismorning and transferred onto the RedLodge branch, being*the new one ol"dered to replace the one broken atthe Rocky Flrk coal mine some daysago. Considerable difficulty was ex-perienced in unloading and reloadingit, as its immense weight and awk-ward shape made it extremely hardto handle. The freight bill accom-p ing the shaft was a stagerer,

Saturday afternoon's basket ballgame between the seniors and juniorsof the high school was not so muchof a victory for the juniors as at firstappeared. The team that played un-der the colors of the seniors was real-.ly a composite, made up of differentplayers "and did not represent the ag-gregation that defeated Red. Lodgethe night before and expects to defeatit again when the return game is play-ed, which will be shortly, the localshaving accepted an invitation to visitthe coal camp soon.

E. I. Cantine, formerly roadmasterof the Billings-Livingston division ofthe Northern Pacific and more recent-ly assistant superintendent of bridges,has resigned and will leave for theeast, having accepted a position with

'the Delaware, Lackawana & Westerncompany, as division engineer. In aprivate letter received here Mrs. Can-tine writes that Mr. Cantine's resig-nation goes into effect tomorrow andthat they expect to leave Butte thefollowing day for their new home:East Orange, N. Y. Mr. Cantine'sh dquarters will be at Hoboken.

Among the bodies recently organiz-ed in the city for the promotion ofsocial and mental benefits is theYoung Men's Debating society, whichhas among its members some of thebrightest of the younger minds of thecommunity. Regular meetings. areheld at which different social, politi-cal and economic questions are dis-cussed. The subjects are always giv-en out beforehand and leaders and as-sistants are chosen for the opposingsides. Last night the society met,and "Resolved, That Women. ShouldBe Granted the Right of Suffrage"was the subject of discussion. E. H.Hollister was leader for the affirma-tive and was assisted by Messrs.Reed and Jones. H. A. Groves led thenegative and as assistants hadMessrs. Crippen and Hopkins. Thejudges were an ungallant lot, as theydecided in favor of the negative.

From Wednesday's Daily Gazette.A. H. Davis of Red Lodge is at the

Grand.

J. A. MacDonald of Bozeman is

registered at the Grand.

Mrs. Peter Burton and children ofGreat Falls are guests at the Grand.

H. A. Noyes, a prominet citizen ofLaurel is a visitor in the city today.

Among the rural visitors in the

city today is George Hirbert, the wellknown Laurel rancher.

Doctor W. X. Sudduth, the Lavina

.flockmaster and rancher, is among to-day's visitors in the city.

Mrs. B3. Murphy has been called toSt. Paul by a telegram announcingthe serious sickness of her mother.

Fred E. Miller, chief 'clerk at the

Crow agency, spent last night in the

city, returning to the home of the Ab-

sarokees this morning.

Mrs. E. B. Camp was able to re-turn home yesterday from the St.Vincent's hospital, where she hadbeen confined fir the past ten days,having passed through a very success-

,ful operation for the removal of atumor of the breast.

George Jones and wife have sold

to Adie T. Peck the southwest quarterof section 33, township 2, south, range

28, east, and lots 11 and 15, block

116, lot 21, block 72, lot 5, block 149,lot 3, block 42, lot 1, block 82 and lot

5, block 141, all in the town of Park

City. The consideration named is$800.

After having been kept prisoner inhis own house for several days, T•. A.

Williams is permitted to go . and

come once more as he pleases. Hishome has been under quarantine to

permit develpoment of a disease thatappeared in the family and which

was at first supposed to be smallpox.IFortunately it turns out to be noth-

Sdetpr Clark was .alled yesterdayafternoon to Bt. sincent's hospital, toattend a girl about 12':y ars of agewho is suffering frdm a bullet wount,sustained the day before. The, r!lis the daughter of a rancher -namedClark, who resides near Bull MoUn-tain and she was shot accid•htally byher sister, who was handling a rfle.The Wound is near 'the elbow, butowing to the swollen condition of thearm has so far been impossible to

the bullet.

e is reported of the Cold Springranch, in Rosebud' county, owned. byGould Bros., to Rea Bros.; the St. Paulsheep feeders, who will utilize -it asa range and feeding place. The ranchcomprises 25 sections of land and be-cause of its inearness to the /railroad,being only a few miles north of For-sath,' is of erxeptional value. It iswell, supplied with water, among theimprovements made upon it being alarge reservoir only recently com-pleted at a cost of about $5,000. -The

.eactprice paid by Rea Bros. is notkiow n, but it is said to be $40,000:

From Thursday's Daily Gazette.Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Haskin and

child are guests at the Grand.B. A. Campbell, Burlington train-

master, is among today's visitors ine city.T. E. Hammond, the Forsyth banker

and merchant is among today's vis-itors in the city.

A. B. Mosely, traveling agent for theOregon Railway and Navigation com-pany, is in the city.

The North Real Estate, Land andTitle Company has sold to WilliamHood lots 17, 18 and 19, block' 1710,Billings; consideration $75.

Case Prudhomme left this morningfor Red Lodge to attend the annualbanquet and dance of Beartooth lodge,. P . O. E., which takes place to-

night.

Doctor George Dilworth and his sis-ter, Miss Dilworth, passed :throiAhthe city this morning en route ,_otheir hawne at Red Lodge from a vis-it to the east.

Fred Rixon, who has been confinedfor several days with an attack ofla grippe and tonsilitis, has recoveredsufficiently to enable him to attendto business once more. " .,

Although convalescing, James CSr-wile is still anything but well andprobably several more weeks will passbefore he will have recovered to theext t to make it possible for him

ve the hospital. ' .

Eighteen carloads of sheep were re-ceived from the west by Rea $ros.this morning. A portion were loadedat Norris ";nd the rest at Bozeman,.After having been unloaded and fedhere this morning the shipment wasforwarded to St. Paul this afternoon.

J. B. Murphy was arraig'ned bef 9 ,Judge Mann this morning 'and entereda plea of guilty to a complaint charg-lug 'him with the larceny of someclothes and a number of pillow slips,Sall of the value of $10. He will be aguest of the county for the next 30das." ayor ,W. B. George returned this

morning from his trip'to the east andouth. While he enjoyed every mo-

ment of his absence .and has pleasingles of unbounded prosperity and

commercial as well as manufacturingactivity throughout all of the sectionsvisited by him, still he.1s glad to getback, especially on account of theweather which has been miserableSe ever he went.

nticipatory of the royal time instore for them, 'the members of Bill-ings. aerie, F. O. E., are making greatpreparations for the gathering of thefeathered tribe at Bozeman, next Sun-day. On that occasion an aerie is tobe instituted there, with a member-ship of 119, and Lagles from almostevery city in the state where the or-der has an organization will be pres-ent. A special train will conveyDeputy Grand State President Sangerand a working team. from. Butte,while another special will be run from,Livingston. The latter will be helduntil 8 o'clock in the afternoon for the,accommodation of the Billjngs mem-bers; who will be the guests on thetripof their Livingston brethren. It

i. expeBted that no fewer than 50 ofthe local Eagles will join the excur-sion.

RUN WILD DOWN GRADE.

Freight Wreck on Pennsylvania Road

Kills One Man.

Altoona, Pa., Feb. 25.-One manwas killed, one fatally injured and fourothers 'more or less seriously hurt la'a freight wreck on the Pennsylvaniaroad at Kitannaing Point, seven mileswest of here today. All were trainlmen. The wreck was caua'ed by afreight train of 36 loaded cars runnlniwild down the 'eastern slope of thAllegheny mountains and collidinwith another freight, which' wstanding on the aamb track. Thlrtcars were demolished,

Wanted.Ranch for rent. Address C. A., QsG

aste oAce.. 81-8

TRAVELER -ON NORTHERN PA-

.CIFIC COMMITS %SUICIDE.

DOES IT WITH A BULLET

Unknown Man Shoots Himself. When

Near Miles City-Reason

Not Khown.

From Wednesday's Daily Gazette.Arrivals on this morning's North-

ern Pacific train No. 3 reported thesuicide of a passenger, who shot him-self a few minutes before 'the train

rrived at Miles City: The man wasforeigner and apparently was travel-

Ing in company with a number ofothers.

Shor.ly before the train reachedMiles (city themnan entered the toiletroom aiid after seating himself placeda i evolver against his right templeand fired a shot into his brain. Owingco the noise made by the train the re-port of the pistol was not heard andit was not until the train was leavingthe station that the fact that he hadshot himself became known. Theflash from the weapon set fire tothe cap the man wore and the smokeand odor of the burning cloth beganforcing itself into the ̀ body of the car,causing the trainment- to make an in-vestigation. The man was' foundstill alive, but unconscious, with bloodand brain matter streaming from thegaping hole made by the bullet andcovering his face and clothing.

As soon as possible the man wasremoved from the train and, turnedOver to the authorities, who took himto a place where he could be caredfor.

Senator Gruwell, who boarded thel train at Miles City, saw the man and

-describes him as being quite youngand evidently a laborer. Solemn aswas !the occasion the senator said itwas not without its humorous side.The car in which the man shot him-self was crowded and every seat tak-en, causing those who boarded it whenthe senator did to believe that theywould probably find it difficult to se-cure seats. As soon, however, as thewounded man was brought into viewthere was an instant rush of the for-eigners for another part of the train

and they were not seen again duringthe remainder of the trip to this city.Where they found places to stow

mselves the senator does not know,as every car seemed to bq crowded,but he declares so far as that partic-

ular car was concerned he and a fewothers had it all to themselves.

IDENTITY IS ESTABLISHED.

Suicide on Northern Pacific Was Com-

ing to Billings.

From Thursday's Daily Gazette.

According to last night's Yellow-stone oJurial the man who committedsuicide on a Northern Pacific trainnear that place early yesterday morn-ing was en route to this city,, histicket being for Billings. A peculiarfeature in connection with the self-murder is that although search wasmade for it, no trace could be foundof the weapon with which the manis supposed to have killed himself.As some of the passengers on thecar saw the revolver and could partial-ly describe it there can be no doubtof its existence and the probability isthat one of the trainmen took posses-sion of it and failed to turn it over tothe authorities at Miles City, to whomthe man was given in charge.

'When removed from the train thenian was still ,alive, but died shortlyafter being taken to a hotel, where adoctor was. called to attend him.From letters and a passport found inhis possession it was learned that hewas a Finn. The ticket he had wasbought at Duluth and as before stat-ed was for Billings. The Journalsays:

All that can be known of the youngrlan at present mnust be learned fromthe Contents of his pocketbook inwhich were a letter, several scraps ofpaper bearing addresses,, an insur-ance ticket and a passport Iom Fin-land. Doctor Bruning. took charge ofthe pocketbook and endeavored' tomake something out of the papers,but while the doctor is quite facile inswingi g 'the German, French andScandinavian languages, not muchsuccess followed until the passport orpass for "utrikes resa," was reached.This was rendered 'in Finnish, "Rus-sian aand German and a literal trans-l~tion of the document in the German,staed that "Johan Mattson Tahalai

'a easant's' son, born in 1875, under-norW -o take hinmelf out of the

oosntfy for five years' time, and to

Sstrenthen this herein it is offlent toenforce this travel. this pass is out-

The insurence certificate was for

0ooii

in t tIal BeSu#h a us.-

P. B. Moss, President.M. A. ARNOLD, CRShiner.

D. H. MossJR., ASSIStant' "F 1. . THE, . .

. o S GREYNOLDTrall Pa B inoleum, Pictureo Picture Pd

and EOMPSON-Mcng BILNGR LU BE O.

First Naftonlal ........OF BILLINGS, MONTANA.

PAID-UP CAPITAL - -.

SURPLUS.

P. B. Moss, Presidenrials, Doors, Windoes, MoioMders. A. ARNOLD, Cashier.D. H. Moss JR., Assistant Case

DIRECTORS '1, 6ii

Transact a General Ban glng Buslness--- Colle ctlons P romidlRRadoand IR

t TIiOPSON-McGRE iOR LUMBER CO.BILLINGS. MONTAIR

i Every variety and size of lumber required in a buildingAlso Plasterers` Materials, Doors, Windows, MouldifngjPapers, etc. Stock Right! Prices Right! We solicit y uorders. H. J. THOMPSON",Pr;p-."

the amount of $1.25. was written inFinnish and was probably for acci-dent'insurance.

There was also a receipt for $14,given by Hornborg & Co. of Mon-treal, agent for the Finland SteamNavigation company, the money beingsent to Mrs. Anne Kaisa Takala(probably the young man's motherlat Uliharma, Wassan Laani, Finland.

The letter mentioned was fromFrank Alta, Box 17, N. W. T., Can-ada. The other addresses given wereMalti Takala, Box 1956, Butte; GustJohnson, Canadian Pacific Railway,Pearl River, Canada; Yuh Uitti, Box6, Neihart, Mont., and Kaabriel Tak-ala, Box 19, Stockett, Mont,

CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

J. B. Murphy Arrested for Looting a

Rooming House.

From Tuesday's Daily Gazette.Yesterday afternoon J. B. Murphy,

who has been cooking at some of therestaurants about the city, was ar-rested on complaint of Mrs. Kyes,who conducts a lodging house inSouth Twenty-eighth street, charginghim with larceny. She said Murphyhad stolen a suit of clothes and a gold

watch from one of her roomers,Joseph Meyers. Mrs. Kyes also saidthat she had caught Murphy in the

act of leaving her house -with a bundleof clothing belonging to another man.Murphy was locked up in the cityjail, p'inding further developments.

This morning he was cleared of thecharge: of having taken Meyers'clothes and watch, as they were foundin a closet where lkrs. Kyes had plac-ed them when cleaning the room andin her excitement incident to seeingMurphy making off with the otherclothes had forgotten the fact. It isbelieved that Murphy also purloineda lot of bedding and other articlesof wearing apparel that have beenstolen rece tly from different houseson the south side.

Shortly after Murphy's arrest a manknown as the "Morphine Kid" was

placed in custody, being 1JIiaccomplice of the other 'the opinion of the polio.: e ti*been working together and ave $making a regular practiq• o:- ooporches and rooms..

A $26,000,000 mining deal••in the Coeur d'Alene. silverlesing camps of Northern .Iahd oSpokane Spokesman-RevieWi.

First Publication Feb.., 1• sContest NQtice

Department of the Interr rStates Land Oflce, Bostana, February 19, 1903.8 3A sufficient contest

been filed in this Q.flce•Quinn, contestant .,agalnastientry No. 3935, made Marchfor NSW4, SI% SaWl n'S~%, section 10, towns4ip 1 }20 E., M. P. M., by Willlita ,lock, contestee, in which it-:isthat said William A. hitl.o 'at any time since June 1 %0on said land, and hasfor more than six xonth :.Fthat he has not lived upon. -ed said tract as required4 bthat his said alleged esaid land has not been b /ployment in the army,:rine corps of the UniteLtime of war; said partt5notified to appear,evidence touching sa51d .10 o'clock a. m. on AprIfore L. Whitney, .U,U: ,._at Joliet, Mon tSanhearing will be hell at .m. on April 21, 190•..ter and receiver't .tomland offie in. a, w

The sal•d. looproper. a.•i4Alit,1903, aet o•9•after due 4iWs

hereby ou4C*'~notice thepubUante -

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