Early Deer Lodge Pioneers Remembered in Local Chronicle
The piece catalogs prominent early residents of Deer Lodge, Montana, listing their roles as miners, merchants, lawyers, and public officials. It notes deaths in Deer Lodge or nearby cities and recalls associations with firms, mines, and county offices, including names like Louis Coleman, Robert Kelly, Strang, Richardson, and McTague, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roma P
Rune Cme
Minnesota
Territorial Counci
Deer Lodge
Lou P. Smith
Bannack
Silver Bow
Butte
Louis Coleman
Red Mountain City
William
Robert £. Kelly
Missoula
Birang
Thomas McTaine
Tor. McTagu
House ‘of Representatives
Washington
Montana
James M. Fish
Sterling
Madison County
United
Silver Bow County
Placer Mining Breaks Future Chief Justice
Judge W Pemberton of Helena recalls placer mining in Virginia City starting in 1863 after arriving from Missouri by ox wagon. He notes vigilante days, Ives and the Plummer gang, miners courts, and the boom bust cycles of mining towns shaping Montana in early state history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia City
W. Pemberton
Helena
Missouri
Doris
Ives
Plummer
Newspaper Man Recounts Skirmish With Indians Near Cheyenne Pass
J. D. Conrad, arriving for a pioneers’ convention in Butte, recalls leaving Kansas in 1865 to seek the setting sun. He describes 85 men marching, an attack near Pole Creek, four dead on the plain, and no white casualties. He later mined in Virginian City Oregon then ran a store in Marysville before turning to newspapers, leading Helena Record for nine years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Noble Grand
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Deer Lodge
E. P. Lindsey
John O'Neill
Butte
Oregon
Samuel’ Neel
Helena
Murphy, Neel & Co
Joseph M. Alger
Philipsburg Lodge
A. F
A. M
Philipsburg Mining Company
Trout
Charles Kerr
A. L. Sharpe
J. D. Conrad
Kansas
Leavenworth
Pole Creek
Cheyenne Pass
Conrad
Rad
Marysville
Early Butte Era Notables and Montana Pioneers
A reminiscence lists Charles Murphy, Henry Jacobs, W. A. Clark, and others as early millers, merchants, bankers, and miners in Butte Deer Lodge Missoula and surrounding towns. It notes their roles, ventures from Elk Park to Bannock, and deaths or residences, highlighting community leaders, stockmen, rail and bank figures, and veterans of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Murphy
E. L. Bonner
Kenyon
Charles D. Kenyon
Henry Jacobs
Zeke Newman
J- B. Wilcox
John N. W. Bielenberg
N. J. Bielenberg
C. P. Bielenberg
J. K. Clark
W. A. R W. Connell
E. Larable
James A. Talbot
Henry
Butte
Elk Park
Butte Lodge
A. F
A. M.L. Bonnet
Western Reef
Siaoul
Deer Lodge
Charles D
Deer Hodes
Tha Henry Jacobs
Utah Northern Railroad
Montana
Jacobs
Heth
W. W. Dixon
Wilcox
Helena
Blackfoot
Anaconda
Deer Lode
Charles PH. Bielendersch
Grand Army of the Republic
Clark
Horse Plains
Sanders County
Missoula
Alla
Portland
W. A. Clark
Motana
Arly
Bannock
Alder Gulch
Last Chance
United States
I. W. Donnell
Donnell, Clark & Larabie
William Wallace
Hell Gate Valley
Gold Creek
New Chicago
P. Calahan
Panama Pat
Bear Town
Elk Creek
FE. Girard
Silver Row
Ballinger & Allen
Warm Springs
Dan J. Welch
Deer Lodge County
Bonner &Welch
United States Internal Revenue
Dan Welch
A. C. MC
Howard Welch
REFLOATTING OF STRANDED SHIP AT KOREA STRAIT
TOKIO August 25 AP passengers for the United States aboard the steamer Heffron, which went aground off B kurea Korea strait August 18, have all been landed at Moji. They remain there awaiting refloating of the vessel. On board were 833 sick and wounded Czecho-Slovak soldiers from Siberia and nine American Red Cross workers, five of whom were wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Associated Press
United States Board
Heffron
Bokurea
Korea Strait
Moji
Tme
Siberia
American Red Cross
Pigeon Prank Ends With Pie Puzzle
In London Tit-Bits a light rivalry between Mr. Jones and Mr. Brown over pigeons leads to a curious exchange with Willie Jones. Brown offers a sixpence to learn if a missing bird was blue with white feathers, but Willie pockets the coin and quips that you cannot tell a bird's color when it's in a pie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mr. Jones
Mr. Brown
Brown
Mts
Jones
Willie
Daddie
Golor
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Newton Dickinson
Lesie W. Jones
Philipsburg
John Gerber
Bed Rock
Charles B. Simmons
A. J. Simmons
Carpenters Bar
Blackfoot City
Charles Simmons
Fort
Rapid City
William B. Juda
James M. Bailey
George H. Hammond
Sam Hammond
William Hammond
William Coleman
Joseph A. Hyde
Deer
Thomas P. Fuller
R. T. Kennon
Lewis Coleman
Robert
Joseph Bell
D. D. Pattee
John Bradley
J. M. Bowes
Samuel Neel
al Sharpte
Med Carter
Donnell, Lawson & Simpson
New York City
New York
Larabie
Clark & Larabie
Larabie Brothers of
James A. ‘Talbot
Tutte
Mountain View
Madison
Puget Sound
New Whatcom
M. J. Connell
E. L. Bonner & Co
Los Angeles
John Caplice
Cedar Creek
Merson Gulch
Caplice
A. Bf. Walker
Ranchie
Peter” Levengood
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