Fires Seen Check in Missoula Area Amid Rain
In Bitter Root Valley and Swan River region the rain helped halt timber fires near Missoula. Blackfoot mill crews deploy to aid rangers, while Bonner reports fires under control with further risks limited. Local crime notes and a public event at Morgan & Co. bakery follow.
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Swan River Basin
Bitter Root
Missoula
Collins
Bonita
Standard
Blackfoot
Cottonwood
Camas Prairie
Pollys
Bonner
Swan River
Lewis and Clarke
Orchard Homes plat expands with 320 acres sold
Cobban and Dinsmore have purchased 240 additional acres adjoining the Orchard Homes addition. The land has been platted into five and ten acre tracts and is for sale on the same terms as the first tract. Write for terms and descriptive pamphlets from Cobban and Dinsmore in Missoula Montana.
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Orchard Homes
Cobban & Dinsmore
Missoula
Mont
Pete Sanders Fights Big Bull Trout on Missoula Bridge
In Missoula on July 26 Pete Sanders hooked a large bull trout above the old mill flume. A crowd gathered on the bridge as the fish pulled fiercely, finally tiring, and Pete wrestled it to shore winning cheers as helpers helped haul the trophy home.
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Missoula
Pete Sanders
Pete
Fire Bug suspected in Missoula barn fires on East Pine and Spruce
Repeated fires across Missoula eastern barns raise demand for action to find the incendiary. Barns including Worden Hatheway Reinhard and the Johnson stable paint shop were burned within similar hours. Police urged to focus on a single offender threatening city safety.
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Missoula
Bakkar versus Shappard jury verdict in Missoula suit
In Missoula district court Judge Houteens sustained a $290.25 verdict for the plaintiff in the Bakkar versus Shappard case after a morning trial over architect services. Fordham versus Northern Pacific Railway began after adjournment. A missing deed surfaced when John Sloane found papers in a stored package, possibly altering the ranch damages case. Stenographer Frank Woody Jr. was fined for sleeping in court.
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Missoula
Bakkar
Shappard
Houtehens
Fordham
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Rakkar
Bakkar Sheppard
Copes
Frank Woody, Jr
Storm Damage Strikes Athletic Park Grandstand
A storm caused limited damage in town with wind tearing a grandstand at the old Athletic Park, upsetting and smashing it into splinters.
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Old Athletic Park
Missoula Notes Report Bellegerents in Court
Missoula July 26 Jessie O'Brien and two men were taken to police court after an early morning fight at her place. Judge Hayes fined Jessie 10 dollars and costs. John Doyle received a 1 day county jail sentence. the other man was acquitted.
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Missoula
Jessie O'Brien
Jessie
Weddings on the Battlefield Across Historic Sieges
The article recounts multiple wartime weddings amid sieges and battles from Kimberley Sebastopol and Strasburg to Cabul and other campaigns. It notes couples marrying during bombardments, amidst nursing sisters, and a mosque wedding in Kabul with a lieutenant and a nurse, reflecting on love enduring through conflict. It also mentions Hiram Maxim and ongoing aeroplane research by Chanute and Langley as contemporaneous notes.
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London
Kimberley
Waterloo
England
Sebastopol
Florence Nightingale
Foot
Sevastopol
Strasburg
Cabul
Bridggroom
Gueune
Fresh preserving flule Stevens and Co Notice
During the dry season hydrants for sprinkling streets and sidewalks must be discontinued and hydrants restricted to irrigation of lawns gardens and trees. Failure to comply will result in water shut off by The Missoula Water Co.
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Missoula
Co Operation Smead Collins on Forest Fire Prevention
Will Co-Operate Collins received assurance from Agent Smead of the Flathead reservation that every effort will be made to check fires within the reservation. Collins believes Smead will cooperate to prevent timber destruction outside reservation by Indians. M McDonald reports careless campers not quenching fires. The law is positive and neglect is punishable.
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Missoula
Collins
Agent Smead
Flathead Reservation
Indian Department
M. McDonald
Clearwater Country
Missoula Assessor Completes List Growth Near Million
The Missoula assessor and team finalize the subsequent list. Footings suggest total assessment will top one million two hundred thousand dollars, higher than last year. Completion expected tomorrow includes land west of timber lands not in the original list.
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Missoula
Prescott
Missoula County
Conductor Joe Bradley to Take Month Vacation
Conductor Joe Bradley plans a one month vacation with wife Mrs. Bradley, camping beside a trout stream in Yellowstone and Missoula. George Hotrum will run Bradley's schedule on the Coeur d Alene branch during the absence.
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Missoula
Joe Bradley
Warm Missoula Weather Shift After Intermountain Shower
Missoula saw a sharp 2 percent drop in temperature as a mountain shower swept in after a hot afternoon near 100 degrees. In about 15 minutes the mercury sank into the 70s, giving residents relief after four sweltering days.
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Missoula
For Sale Cheap Three and Five Room Houses
John Lundgren offers three and five room houses for sale at low prices. Contact details not specified.
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John Lundgren
La Belle Brooks Vin cent: Victim of Alaska gold fraud
The Chicago Chronicle profiles La Belle Brooks Vin cent a prolific speculator singer and author who lost a fortune over $100000 following marriages divorces and failed ventures in Michigan Seattle and Alaska. After a brutal sequence of losses she writes The Scarlet Life of Dawson and Nome describing deceit hardship and a dog sleigh journey to escape creditors.
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la Belle Brooks Vincent
Alaska
Chicago Chronicle
la Belle Vincent
Ypsilanti College
Michigan
Benjamin Mason
la Belle
M. ©. Vincent
Counry
Seattle
Ash
Dawson
Nome
States
Reflection on Greed Corrupting Society and Justice
A fragment contemplates greed driving people to extreme acts, corrupting the good, turning the careless vicious and the vicious mad. It warns that selfishness guards the gateway to ruin, with death by own action, murder, and despair looming as justice mourns and liberty frays.
Storm Strikes Grant Creek to DeSmet Wrecks Corn and Wheat
Missoula reports last night’s storm brought heavy hail from Grant creek west to DeSmet. John Richli’s large corn field was beaten down and cut off, with a large portion of his grain also beaten.
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Missoula
Grant Creek
DeSmet
John Richli
Graft Concerns Rise Over Bad Lands in Missoula
Local observers in Missoula on July 26 discuss possible strong measures to curb growing graft in the region. The remark suggests escalating concern about corrupt practices and the need for decisive action.
Experiments Made in Flying From the Times-Democrat
The article discusses the mystery of avian flight and floating. It cites experts noting little is known about hovering and air currents, mentions photographs via telephotoscope, and recalls German scientist Lillienthal whose gliding machine inspired study before a fatal fall.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
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Union Market
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