Miners Union Days Memory Remembrance of Butte Riot
A lengthy account recalls the 1900s riot in Butte where miners clashed with craft representatives and the Western Federation. The parade split into street fighting, windows shattered, the union hall looted, and the mayor injured. A safe was stolen, Moyer fled, and later attempts to reorganize failed. The union now maintains ownership of the destroyed hall site with two officers remaining.
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Oping
Miners
West Park Street
Atlantic
Esstrainea
Main” Street
Frank Curran
Butte Miners’ Union
Cver
Charles & Moyer
Denver
Western Federation of Miners
Butte
Union Hall
Moyer
Th Hall
Burt Riley
Tuutte Miners’ Union
Helena
Riley
Miners Union
Peter Breen
Charles Baxter
Paddy Lee
James Callahan of Coeur d Alene
James Callahan of Coeur d Alene was born in Galena Illinois on August 12 1858 son of Thomas Paul Callahan a native of Iowa He was educated in Illinois country schools left home July 6 1876 bound for the Black His wanderings took him to Minnesota Montana and finally the Idaho Coeur d Alenes where he split timber for the first blacksmith and later followed cattle ranching and lumbering before joining the gold rush era in Murray Idaho.
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Mr. Callahan
Galena
Thomas Paul Callahan
Iowa
James
Illinois
Minnesota
Montana
Murray
Idaho
Oil Interests Exposed Grabbing Montana Lands
The document accuses large oil companies of deceiving Montanans about oil prospects and claims they secretly secured millions of acres across the state. It alleges leases on CAT CREEK SOAP CREEK DEVIL'S BASIN and extensive holdings at Browning Chateau Kevin Fort Benton Virgelle Havre and other districts, using federal and state lands for their development.
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Montana
Cat Creek
Soap Creek
Devil’s Basin
Browning
Chateau
Kevin
Fort Benton
Virgelle
Havre
They Stall for Time on Oil Leases in Montana
The article accuses oil interests of stalling for time while buying up Montana oil leases. It claims subsidiaries avoid dry farming while piling up acreage, portraying the strategy as preboom accumulation and public misdirection to prevent widespread profit sharing.
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Montana
Good times ahead in Montana oil wealth drive
The message urges Montanans to join oil ventures, arguing big companies profit from dry holes while investors gain dividends. It stresses the oil industry’s rise, depletion of reserves, and the need for courage to claim a share of Montana’s future petroleum wealth, comparing investors to horse traders seeking value.
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Montana
Gordon Campbell’s Geology Expertise Highlighted
Gordon Campbell is described as a sessional geologist with extensive experience identifying ore and oil prospects. He claims deep knowledge of locating resources and bringing them to surface, citing work across numerous fields and structural concepts like anticlines and sinclines.
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Gordon Campbell
Campbell
Come to Kevin and Claim Montana Oil Fortune Now
A pitch urges Montana residents to invest in Gordon Campbell’s oil venture at Kevin. The message promises a huge, quick profit from 12 000 acres atop Rocky Ridge Dome with 80 percent shareholder return and Campbell retaining 74 percent, urging attendance to see the promised structure and evidence, calling it the era’s greatest opportunity.
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Kevin
Montana
Rocky Ridge Dome
Campbell
Ground floor oil shares urged with par value change
A promotional notice urges rapid action on an oil stock offering. It promises huge upside from an imminent well and gusher, cites a major brokerage house backing a par value change, and asks for wire reservations and payment in Liberty bonds or cash. Subscriptions nearing capacity. late entries will be returned.
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United States
Canada
Pioneering prospector Callahan linked to Coeur d'Alene district
The text notes Murray shop founder who introduced the first double-bitted axe and market basket in the country. He prospected the district in 1885 locating the Puritan, Hawaiian and Prodigal Son claims and the Interstate Callahan. He opened up the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene river the same year and located many mining claims. He lived in Wallace and belonged to the Elks lodge.
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Murray
Callahan
North Fork
Coeur d'Alene
Wallace
The
Elks Lodge
Rejected Wage Reduction Deal Shocks Marine Engineers
The six months' agreement offering a 15 percent wage cut for striking marine engineers was rejected at a Marine Engineers Beneficial Association meeting. A telegram warned William S Brown of resignation if he accepts, and the Associated Press notes the dispute escalates. A separate Senate judiciary subcommittee meet in Washington to discuss Senator King's resolution investigating alleged age industry lobbying and other lobbies.
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Associated Press
New York
The
Shipping Board
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
William 8. Brown
National Marine Engineers' Association
Washington
Senate Judiciary
King
Utah
Drowned youth Rudolph Polanchek at Mussel shell river
June 12 in Roundup A Rudolph Polanchek aged 16 drowned while swimming with friends at Mussel shell river. He could not swim and sank, rising once before disappearing. Friends raised alarm, body recovered about 20 minutes later a few hundred feet below the hole. doctor and pulmotor failed to revive him. He worked as a tracklayer at Roundup Coal company mine and lived with his mother and sister.
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Rudolph Polanchek
Musselshell
Roundup Coal Company
Pittsburg
Pretty wedding at Philipsburg joins Detroit groom and Montana bride
In Philipsburg on Thursday, Margaret Cabell McFarlan Van Court wed B. Potter Van Court of Detroit, with groom’s sister and Miss Cathryn Cole catching the bouquet. Attendants wore blue taffeta and brown silk lace ensembles, as guests from Portland Missoula and Butte attended the ceremony and reception. The couple plan a wedding journey through Chicago Washington and New York before moving to Detroit.
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Philipsburg
Wingfield Ludwell Brown
High Hoon
Margaret
Cabell McFarlan Beet
B. Potter van Court
Detroit
Mich
A. E. Hannah
Portland
Mary Gantt Brown
Carrie McLeod
Dorothy Spencer
Fan’ Cole
Kathryn, Cole
Edna ‘Stephens
Mrs. Brown
James D. Hobson
Miss McLeod
Spencer
Cole
Edns Stephens
Cathryn Cole
Mr. van Court
B. P. van Court
D. C
New York
Princeton
van Court
Mra
Butte
East
A. E. "Hannah
Ore
William Hannah
Rutledge T. Parker
Frank D. Brown
W. T. Allison
Missoula
Laray Ditto
H. L. Maury
Baptism Event Among 14 Prison Inmates in Missouri
In Jefferson City Mo on June 12 three life term murder convicts and eleven others were baptized by immersion in the prison fountain and fish pond. The chaplain said only six convicts had been baptized in the penitentiary’s 86 year history.
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Associated Press
Jefferson City
State Penitentiary
Fire damages Dlo Rooming House at 304 East Broadway
A blaze last night partially destroyed an old miners rooming house behind 304 East Broadway. The vacant three story building caught fire before the fire department arrived, with flames consuming the top floor before crews cut through the roof to extinguish the fire. The owner Mrs James Naughton, who runs a lodging house at 304 East Broadway, was away when the fire started. The structure is said to be partially insured.
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East Broadway
James Naughton
Fast Broadway
Mrs Anna Sullivan dies longtime Butte resident
Mrs Anna Vaughn Sullivan aged about 51 died at home 545 Mast Park Street. She was born in Ishpeming Michigan and lived in Butte for 27 years. She is survived by husband Florence Sullivan and children Joseph Anthony and Frances, plus brothers Daniel of Marquette John and Patrick Vaughn and sister Mary Vaughn.
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Anna Vaughn Sullivan
Florence Sullivan
Mast Park Street
Joseph
Anthony
Frances
Daniel Vaughn
Marquette
Mich
John
Mary Vaughn
Negauna
Patrick Vaughn
Hibbing
Sullivan
Ishpeming
Butte
Funeral Notice for Sacred Heart Parish Member
A funeral service is scheduled for Tuesday morning for a member of Sacred Heart parish and the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Society No 861. Details indicate the deceased is Leena.
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Sacred Heart Parish
The
Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent
Leena
Georges Takes Tea But Won’t Dance On Lawn
Georges Carpentier attended a Roslyn lawn fete hosted by Mrs. Frank Henderson, refereeing sparring bouts but arriving late. He chatted with guests, assisted in auctions of his paintings, and declined a dance invitation, then returned to camp for dinner. The challenger planned a week of hard training starting tomorrow.
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Manhassett
N. Y
Georges Carpentier
Frank Henderson
Roslyn
Georges
Wilson
Tralian Joe “Gans
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James Callahan
Fats Ghit” Medical Aarts
Atlanta
S.S.S
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Mr. Campbell
Camberle
Kevin Fall
Gordon Campa Deiat
Toole County
Sss
Kevin Syndicate
Elihe
Polanchek
DLO
Anna Sullivan
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