Pioneers recall high flour prices and frontier life in Montana
Edward A. Lewis and W. B. Cochran recount hardships of 1850s and 1860s Montana. They describe flour at $125 a sack, buckskin fashion, tobacco worth its weight in gold, slow river travel with Mackinaw boats, and a pioneer journey from the Missouri to Fort Benton and Deer Lodge.
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Montana
Edward A. Lewis
Butts
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Pioneers
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St. Peter's
Cascade County
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Big Sandy
Butte
B.cochran
Harlowton
Plains
Cochran
St Touts
Missouri River
Port Ren
Fur Company
Mierbrush
Fort Benton
Mullins
United States Army
Deer Ladge
Tell Gate
Redskins
Benton
Walla
Wash
Judith River
Yellow Mone
Bntil
Mr. Lewis
Silver City
Faye
Election to Decide Fate of Condemned Murderer
Salem Oregon reports the hangings of H F Roberts were postponed after Gov Wert granted a reprieve until after the November election. The public is to vote on abolishing capital punishment. if rejected Roberts would be hanged. The case stems from the shooting death of Donald Leo Stewart near Portland.
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Salem
Ore
H. FE. Roberts
Donald Leo Stewart
Portland
Oswald Wert
Oregon
Roberts
Stewart
George Hastings
Massachusetts born man dies in Oregon Short Line empire
Mr Rice of Pocatello Idaho and Mrs J W Ewing of this place survive him. Funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian church in the city tomorrow morning.
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Emipley
Oregon
Rechristening Mount Baldy as Mount Spokane in Spokane
Spokane, Washington Aug 28 Mount Baldy a northeast Spokane peak once a meeting place for Northwest Indian tribes was renamed Mount Spokane. Gov M E Hay Mayor W J Hindiey and representatives from the state historical society and civic groups attended the ceremony as Miss Marguerite Molle broke a bottle of clear spring water to christen the peak.
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Spokane
Wash
Mount Baldy
Northwest
Mount Spokane
M. E Hay
W. J. Hindiey
State Historical Society
Marguerite Molle
May Engage in Tariff War Over Split Peas
Washington Aug 2 A countervailing duty on imports of wheat rye flour and split peas from Germany was entered by Secretary MacVeagh noting German government subsidies boosted production and competition. Officials see potential for a tariff war but hope Germany may concede to reduce duties.
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Washington
Germany
MacVeagh
United States
Treasy Department
Order of Moose votes funds for member institutions
Kansas City August 22 five million dollars was voted by the Loyal Order of Moose to establish institutions for members. Plans include a vocational and trade school for children a home for the aged a home for orphans and members a sanatorium and a tuberculosis hospital.
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Kansas City
Loyal Order of Moone
Inhide
Anderson
Ind
F& General Sanatorium
Taft Signs New Appropriation After Vetoes
Washington August 8 President Taft signed a new legislative and judicial appropriation after vetoes. Provisions abolishing the commerce court and shortening civil service tenure were removed. The commerce court is now set to operate until March 4 1913. A separate note introduces a bill granting $5000 for Thomas G Running of Montana who lost an eye fighting forest fires in 1904.
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Washington
Taft
Commerce Court
Civil Service
Stannard
Ashington
Thomas G. Running
Montana
Six Men Owe Lives To Heroic Fireman Praey Crew Rescue
In Tacoma, a Northern Pacific freight train trapped in Stampede Tunnel after a hose burst left six crewmen in danger. Fireman Jack Denise ran through fumes to reach the conductor, help revive engineers and brakemen, and summon station hands. The group then freed the engine and guided the wounded to safety at the tunnel entrances. The halted passenger train No 8 was diverted for safety.
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Tacoma
Northern Pacific
Jack Denise
Icom
Denise
Iyby
Tatlan
O'Toole
Debates Over First Sluice Box Claim Lift Montana Pioneers
At Deer Lodge meeting of the Society of Montana Pioneers the question of who set the first sluice box in the state sparked intense debate. Granville Stuart claimed Pine Tree gulch on Golge creek May 1, while M H Lott of Twin Bridges and Tom Miles of Silver Bow supported other sites. Mrs Nat Collins argued the Virginia City claim dating to 1882. The Standard invites letters and data from old-timers to settle the dispute. Loomis Rice, a Beaverhead County veteran and former railroad worker, died at 75. He had lived in the county for 18 years. Bolivia will open its third railroad through Chile to the Pacific coast this month.
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Society of Montana Pioneers
Deer Lodge
Tom Miles
Silver Bow
M. H. Lote
Twin’ Bridges
Big
Iss
Granville Stuart
Pine Tree Gulch
Golge Creek
Lott
Nat Collins
Virginia City
The
Standard
Dilton
Beaverhead County
Loomis Rice
John W. Ewing
Waits Until Ship Is On High Seas To Nab Quarry
San Francisco August 28 United States officers aboard the Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria plan to arrest passengers Bernice Ward Jane Kelly and Jennie Heath and swing them to a waiting government tug once at sea en route to Yokohama on a charge of violating federal white slave laws. No arrest can be made in city routes but prisoners may be taken into custody while passing through ports.
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San Francisco
United
Elliott
Pacific Mail
Manchuria
Bernice Ward
Jane Kelly
Jennie Heath
Yokohama
Seattle
Figures on main cereal crops in foreign lands
Washington Aug 2 Preliminary figures of this year s production of the principal crops of several foreign countries were received today by the department agriculture by cable from the International Institute of Agriculture at Mealy. Wheat Prima 99 472 09 bushels India 6279 00 Canada 18 227 000 Pea es Corn Spain 25 064000 bushels Feypt 445 000 125 000 bul garia 18372 00 Canada 32 590 000 Egypt Mess 000 Denmark 2565 00 Oats Prussia 297 40 00 bushels Canada 40 0eh000 Denmark 62 4680 Han weary SH 00 Rice Spain 344 000 bushels Egypt M ose The condition of cereal crops in Russia is much as to predict yields above the av
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Washington
Inter~national Tntitute of Agriculture
Mealy
Aria
Canada
Spain
Bulgaria
Egypt
Denmark
Prussia
Hanweary
Russia
Army Appropriation Bill Passes After Heated Debate
In Washington on August, after hours of debate over the seven year enlistment clause the conference report on the army appropriation bill was agreed to by the Senate. The bill, about 90 million dollars lower than last year, moved to the House and passed with no dissent. Miners Savings Bank and Tenet Committee Montana served as U S depository for postal savings funds at 4 percent interest and safety deposit boxes. A smoke abatement exposition is planned for Glasgow in September and October.
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House
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Montana
U. S
Postal Savings Funds
Glasgow
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