Butte Police Court Dockets Include Fires, Fines and Frays
Judge McGowan handles a Monday lineup of cases in police court. A. E. Jackson's accidental gun discharge leads to a $30 fine. Several defendants including O'Brien and Dumke pay $10 each for disturbing the peace. A mix of drunkenness, indecent exposure, and vagrancy charges populate the docket with sentences ranging from fines to county jail time.
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Jackson
James Kennever
Tarry Johnson
Johnson
Ken
Annie Rooney
Tom Brennan
North Dakota
Tatte
McGowan
Joe Guthro
James McCue
John O'Brien
I. N Alexander
W. G. Whitestone
John Berkin
C. W Palmer
Huntley Land Entrants Sparse Despite Earlier Winners
A Special Dispatch from Billings reports that only about a quarter of those who drew winning lands on June 4 filed to take entry in the Huntley irrigation project. The list includes 40 to 79 acre tracts with entrants from Billings Joliet Sheridan Wyoming Kansas City and Haswell among others. After August 2 unappropriated lands may be filed by any eligible homesteader.
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Billings
Huntley Irrigation Project
T. L. White
J. W. Webb
Joliet
FF. A. Driesem
Sheridan
Wyo
WB Degroat
Kansas City
R. J. Cruse
J. H. Brown
William Clark
Wymore
Neb
Herman FB Stewart
Hassell
Mont
FE ¢. Sampson
Bank Buys School Bonds at Par for Several Projects
The Union Bank and Trust Company purchased $26,000 Helena district bonds at par bearing 4 1 2 percent interest for 20 years. Two other bidders competed. Proceeds fund a central heating plant for two schools, a gymnasium, and a manual training department. Fariss O'Brien Rowe agency of Butte insures automobiles and prohibits gasoline storage restrictions.
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Helena
Union Bank and Trust Company
Helena sPho
Fariss, O'Brien & Rowe Agency
Hamilton Street
Butte
Wool market report from Great Falls sales
On the wool exchange R. Christian sold 20 000 pounds at 21 1 2 cents and B K Christian sold 13 000 pounds at 21 1 2 cents.
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Great Falls
Iudy
Wool Exchange
R. Christian
BK. Christian
Local jeweler offers stones and expert jewelry service
A store invites buyers to choose a wide selection of stones and receive expert guidance. It highlights artistic diamond mountings and offers resetting and remounting of diamonds.
Devastating cloudburst hits Meaderville roads and rails
A Sunday night cloudburst floods Meaderville causing track washouts and torn roadbeds from Elk Park to Butte. Telegraph lines remain down as officials and crews work heroically to reopen the Great Northern and local routes. several houses wrecked, two families narrowly saved, and trains delayed with limited service.
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Columbia Gardens
Park Canyon
Paul Clark
Meaderville
Northern Pacific Railway
Great Northern
Helena
Butte
Lutte
Woodvile
Lightning Strikes Two B M Compressors at Meaderville Plant
A heavy snowstorm caused a lightning strike on the Leonard mine compressor building of the Boston and Montana company in Meaderville. Two of three air compressors were knocked out, with one worker narrowly escaping injury. Repairs will take days, and the company plans to order two spare compressors for future storms.
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George Powers
Vpewers
Powers
Leonard Mine
Boston & Montana Company
Meaderville
Plans and Maps Finished for Middle Creek Irrigation
Special Dispatch to the Standard Bozeman July 22 plans and maps for the Middle Creek reservoir project are nearly complete. An application to the secretary of agriculture is being prepared to gain permission to start the work. The site lies within the Gallatin forest reserve and several contractors are in talks to bid. This marks the largest irrigation project begun in the Gallatin valley and the preliminary steps are closely watched.
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Standard
Bozeman
Middle Creek Reservoir
Secretary of Agriculture
Gallatin Forest Reserve
Gallatin Valley
Prospector A. B. Hopkins Buried in Fergus County
Lewistown reports the burial of A. B. Hopkins a longtime Bi-Metallic mine foreman at Philipsburg and Fergus county prospector for 20 years He died at age 7 and had several discoveries to his credit though he never profited much He declined a $10 000 offer for Kendall district claims believing they would yield a fortune.
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Standard
Lewistown
A. B. Hopkins
Philipsburg
Hopkins
Fergus County
Kendall
Farmers Fight Dealers Over Grain Prices in Montana Meet
Bozeman Montana July 22 A meeting of the Gallatin county union of the American Society of Equity convenes in Belgrade August 3 to set wheat price scales for 1907 The society fixes a minimum price 5 cents below Minneapolis while mills pay 12 cents under that rate The outcome may test the society power to fix prices and could last months
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Bozeman
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