Solons Debate Renaming Deer Lodge County to Daly
The Montana Legislature considers renaming Deer Lodge county to Daly in honor of Marcus Daly who developed Butte's copper resources. Senator Williams sponsors the bill. the Supreme Court has ruled a county is a place, complicating the change, but lawmakers seek a path to enact the佩. If approved, Deer Lodge would regain its historic name for the mother county.
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Deer Lodge County
Daly County
Butte
Wiliams
Supreme Court
Deer Lodge
Montana
Anaconda
Steenth
Powell County
Daly
Marcus Daly
Swansea
Wales
Anaconda Mining Company
Hearst, Haggin
Rothschilds
Carroll
Hich
W. A. Clark
Clark
United States Senate
Helena
Anaconda Standard
United States
Butte Daily Miner
Associated Press
J. H. Durston
Syracuse
New York
West
Arconda
Bank
Idaho
Washington
Rocky Mountains
Idaho Panhandle
Willett
Mineral County
California
Sitting Bull and Marcus Daly: Sioux leader and Montana magnate
The article profiles Sitting Bull as a medicine man and criticizes the popular war chief image while detailing Marcus Daly's rise in Montana. It covers Daly founding Anaconda, clashes with W A Clark over water rights, and Daly's influence on Butte and Anaconda, plus Montana politics and statehood discussions.
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Sitting Bull
Custer
Tepees
United States
Great Sea
Jefferson Davis and the Northern Route Debate in the 1850s
The piece recounts how Jefferson Davis then secretary of war under Franklin Pierce directed three surveying parties to evaluate routes for a transcontinental line. It contrasts Davis and McClellan's critiques with General Stevens' favorable northern route findings, noting cost overruns and perceived wastage in northern-route studies.
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Missouri
Columbia
Great American Desert
Utah
Nevada
San Francisco
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Democratic Party
Mississippi
Pacific
Stevens
Washington
National Capital
George B. McClellan
McClelland
Vancouver
Cascades
Columbia River
Snoqualmie Pass
McClellan
Snoqualmie
Nahchess
Nahchess Pass
Great Northern
Wenachee
Pisquouse
Coeur d’Alene Pass
Governor Stevens
Mission
Coeur d’Alene Lake
Spokane
Gilmore
Pittsburgh
Salmon
Ida
Montana
Congress
Davis
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Slope
Montana State Fair appoints 1917 division superintendents
Secretary R S Skinner announces the Montana state fair 1917 division heads including W V Talbot Armington general farm products and Miss May Trumper public instruction in charge of education. Other appointees cover horses cattle sheep swine poultry and various crafts.
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W. V. Talbot
Armington
Miss May Troumper
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
R. S. Skinner
Montana
General Farm Products
Last Chance Ranch
Cascade County
May Trumper
M. J. Abbey
Bozeman
L. C. Edwards
Sheridan
Howard Welch
W. F. Parker
Helena
H. P. Griffin
Great Falls
L. H. Thompson
J. L. Dorsh
Butte
James Griffin
Truman Ames
Miles City
M. L. Dean
Missoula
L. P. Benedict
C. Ford
State Board of Examiners
H. Hart
H. 8. Magraw
Charles Scharf
William Keating
Pioneer farmer H L Dillard dies at Glasgow ranch
H L Dillard a pioneer farmer who settled in Valley county and demonstrated successful farming without irrigation died recently at the ranch home of his son John L. Dillard twelve miles east of Glasgow.
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H. L. Dillard
Valley County
John L. Dillard
Glasgow
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Solons
Copper City
Powell
Legislative Bureau of the
Montana Newspaper Association
Helens
Arch Plotter
William Cutts
J. J. Flanigan
Flanigan
Cutts
Silver Bow County
Mr. Cutts
Stewart
Ford
Higgins
Little Big Horn
Mississippi Valley
Uncle Sam
Iowa
Chief Gall
Jeff Davis
Spirit Lake
Minnesota
Yellowstone
Sully
Reno
Gall
Crow King
Black Moon
Sans Arcs
Spotted Eagle
Hump
Brule
White Bull
Two Moons
Little Horse
Crazy Horse
Big Road
Low Dog
Mex
Lco
Grand River
North Dakota
The
Montana Life Insurance Company
State of
Montana Life
Home Office
A. C. Johnson
American National Bank
Helena, Montana
H. R. Cunningham
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