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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1924
Page
2
The 1923 Montana crop value total is 95,298,000 dollars, up from 1922, despite lower wheat prices. Production includes 52,486,000 bushels of wheat and gains in oats, barley, corn, hay, and beets, with sugar beets near 2.5 million dollars and broader acreage increases signaling a shift to diversified farming.
County Attorney Bourquin says the Butte board must enforce the state health board vaccination order as long as it stands. The board initially resisted hoping the immunity would fade after Christmas, but Dr. Donahue warns disobedience would be reported to the attorney general. Judge Galen previously affirmed the health board backed by police power to close schools lacking compliance.
Mrs Maren Anna Wolden 76 died alone at her homestead north of the Yellowstone River from Big Timber after returning from Portland Oregon. Peter Brecken drove her to the ranch. Friends found her dead the next morning. Death attributed to heart disease. She leaves three sons and three daughters. She had resided there about seven years.
Harold Severance son of Dr and Mrs B H Severance of Great Falls wins state American Legion essay contest His piece Immigration to the United States Should be Prohibited for Five Years advances as Montana entry to the national contest
A Helena meeting of the state body released a report noting 60 active sporting organizations and clubs statewide, with 48 affiliated to the state organization.
Frord hosts muster of Company D with 62 men on roster. Capt. C. H. Olson commands the state militia unit.
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A night collision near Flume involved T A Meagher and Wilson Gray avoiding a cow after a split second sighting. both escaped injury and the cow vanished by morning. Montana demographics show the Blackfeet most numerous, with county grain shipments, cattle prices, and early poultry show success highlighted along with Flathead and Pondera tribal land values and a West Point cadet appointment for Perry Imes. Prolific turkey shipments from Harlem to Chicago and the Twin Cities mark a bustling agricultural period.
Obituary roundup notes deaths of pioneers and veterans across Montana. Edgar R. Camp of Billings founder of Laurel and early city figure dies in California. John M. Hixon of Hamilton dies of heart failure age 80. William H. Birely, Yellow stone Valley homesteader, dies in Billings. Joseph Davis, 71, loc ated in Gallatin valley in 1863, dies in Corvallis Oregon. Andrew Blair Chapman, who came from Oregon to Gallatin valley in 1881, dies near Red Lodge. Henry Ronken longtime Butte resident passes away. Henry L. Sanford pioneer of Bear Paw mountains dies near Leroy. Henry Felsman located at Mission over 80 years ago and commits suicide in Polson. Jeremiah Brayman veteran of Civil War and Spanish-American War dies in Musselshell country near Roundup.
N H Williams of Ridge post office near Broadus says he would not take wheat as a gift for hauling to market yet will accept $2 a bushel for his wheat. He notes feeding wheat to hogs yields pork worth about $2 per bushel and a broad sow pays 200 percent more than a yearling steer. He plans to move 70 hogs to Belle Fourche SD, 75 miles, at about 15 miles daily, leading with corn and grinding 1000 bushels of wheat for hog feed until it sours to the pigs’ taste.
The Montana Development association at Billings announced the top yields from three districts in the 1923 summer tillage contest. Charles Po McGuire of Highwood claimed the sweepstakes prize with more than 61 bushels per acre. Central district leaders included McGuire 61, Carl Noble 55.6, Roy Wood 54.4, Hobensack 50.25, Robunson 48.24, Bruss 47.5. Northern district leaders were Chris Ebil 48.57, H W Volbrecht 44.32, Broumans 47.69, Telden 48, Martin Conrad 44.5, Crawford 42. Lower yields ranged from 20 to 44 bushels per acre across districts.
Roy Walsh, condemned sliver of Al Johnson, Renova merchant, will not eat his Christmas dinner in the Jefferson county Jail at Boulder with the shadow of the rope swinging low over his cell. Nearly two months have passed since Walsh was mysteriously liberated from his cell and his capture now seems even more distant. Reports to Sheriff Mountjoy suggest the escaped slayer will likely be near the Mexican border south of the Rio Grande.
The death by drowning of George White, two and a half, son of Rev and Mrs George White, occurred at Corner The Attle when he wandered with his four year old sister to a river hole. The sister stood at the hole while Mrs White located them and the body was recovered shortly after through the same ice hole.
The four year old daughter of 4H Swank, a farmer east of Froid, drank most of a bottle of carbolic acid. Prompt medical action likely will save her life, aided by her recent hearty meal which improved her chances.
A week or more ago the Wyatt mine, ten miles from Lambert, a major coal source in the district, caught fire and burns fiercely. It is not operating this year and the cause remains unknown. The mine reportedly hosts a 20 foot coal vein and the fire represents a serious national loss.
Italian fishermen near Sicily surfaced a body identified in Rome as Lieutenant du Plessis de Grenadan, commander of the missing French dirigible Dixmude. French naval officials vow continued searches from Sicily toward the Gulf of Gabes, hoping clues salvage notes or other evidence aboard.
Virginia Bridger Hahn sues Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount in Wyandotte County for 1 million dollars claiming The Covered Wagon portrays her father James Bridger as a heavy drinker and in compromising scenes, harming his memory and causing humiliation as the sole living child.
A decree published December 5 in Coahuila’s official organ, signed by Mexico's minister of agriculture R P Denegri, declares the June 23 1881 concession to measure idle lands void for failure to colonize. It would return hundreds of thousands of acres to national ownership, affecting American ranchers in nearby northern Mexico.
Japanese heavyweight Taro Miyaki defeated Reginald Siki in Chicago in two straight falls taking the first in 15 minutes 16 seconds and the second in 18 minutes 2 seconds. Miyaki will soon face Ed Lewis in a match employing jiu jitsu holds.
Billy Miske of St Paul, a leading heavy weight boxer, is seriously ill in a local hospital with Bright's disease.
Deputy Coroner Frank Paul blamed poisonous liquor for 875 deaths in Philadelphia last year. He said the city is wide open with liquor sold openly on corners and warned that much of it is poisonous or adulterated.
West Virginia, sister to the Maryland and Colorado, is commissioned at Norfolk. The battleship displaces 32,600 tons, carries 16 inch guns, and speed reaches 21 knots. It marks the end of an era as the fleet shifts under naval treaty limits and rival ships from Japan and Britain loom larger.
The general river and harbor program for 1925 proposes 63 328 065 dollars for the year starting July 1 1924 under the chief of engineers. Major shares go to the Mississippi river New York harbor and the Ohio river improvements with Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals among the funded sites.
A Department of the Interior crop report on irrigation projects shows generally good yields. Noted: Yuma Arizona California cotton gins busy with 16 500 to 18 000 bales. Orland California alfalfa cuts. Grand Valley Colorado sugar beets and early crops strong. Uncompahgre Colorado beet yields high. Minidoka Idaho sugar beets possibly largest ever. Hutley Montana beet best ever. Newlands Nevada winter wheat planted and potatoes sold well. Rio Grande New Mexico Texas cotton gins at capacity. Williston North Dakota sugar beet tests exceed 12 tons per plot. Strawberry Valley Utah sugar beets forecast over 100 000 tons.
An analysis from National City Bank of New York highlights the banana trade's cost and reach in the United States. It notes Americans will eat about four billion bananas this year with imports rising due to ships railways plantations and supporting tropic industry growth.
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