Flathead Indians hold council to select claims attorneys
A general Flathead council at St Ignatius, ordered by the Indian affairs commissioner, aimed to choose attorneys to prosecute 1855 treaty claims. The move follows March 18 when Congress enabled courts to adjudicate such claims. Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, Nez Perce, and Colville tribes have similarly named lawyers, with Colville suit at about 20 million dollars. Only those with tribal rights attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Ingnatius
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Court of Claims
Supreme Court of the United States
Gros Ventre
Fort Peck
Nez Perce
Idaho
Colville
Park Board Adopts 50 Cent Night Charge at Great Falls Park
The Great Falls park board decided at no special meeting to charge 50 cents per night for each automobile at the Great Falls tourist park in the coming season. Permits would be issued for tourist stays of one to two weeks. The board unanimously felt the current park standard justified a usage fee.
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Great Falls Tourist Park
Great Falls
Oil field mileage and drilling activity update
Crude from Wyoming fields reached the Sinclair line at Freeman Missouri near Kansas City on April 12 after a 720 mile, 30 day transit. The line required 488000 barrels to fill, with about 200000 more needed to top off all tanks. Drilling gear for the Laurel structure is being shipped from Pittsburgh after failed equipment purchases locally.
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Teapot
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Sinclair
Freeman
Kansas City
Clayton Tank Farm
Laurel
Penn-Kentucky Corporation
Pittsburg
Fergus
Cut Creek
Awinnette Times
Musselshell
Mutual Company
Musselshell No 2
Mussellshell
Sylvester - Sunburst - Anderson
Shelby
St. Paul
F. Clayton Keane
Moscow
Idaho
W. E. Burks
Shields
Potter Basin
Livingston
Sawmill Relocates to New Timber Site Near Grantsdale
Sawmill operator G Hy Garnett moves from Chiefman Creek seven miles west of Corvallis to Sleeping Sonia Delk area securing a timber contract. The new site near Grantsdale will support rapid lumber production with estimated daily output and rail shipment plans.
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G. Hy
Garnett
Chiefman Creek
Corvallis
Sonia
Esulvan ‘Ranch
Grantsdale
Jermalil
Montana Notes Treasure State Tales Tersely Told
Develops New Coal Mine near Bridger reports uncovering a fine vein in a 79 foot tunnel on government land leased to E W Miller. Cowboys Go to England headline features Lin4 and George Coleman joining Tex Austin’s broncho contests at Wembley in London. Billings student Hodgens heads to Shanghai as an interpreter for U S government in China. Kalispell bids $2685 on a county bridge to be built above the dam, piling supplied by the county. Federal government not liable for railroad car supply delays at Glasgow, Montana to move cattle to Chicago.
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Cottonwood
Bridger
E. W. Miller
England
Lin.4
George Coleman
Miles City
Tex Austin
Wembley Stadium
London
New York
Harry Payne Whitney
Col
William F. Cody
Lookout Mountain
Denver
Billings
China
James Thomas Hodgens
Shanghai
Foreign Office
Mr Hodgens
Jo Hodgens
Stapleton
Billings High School
Washington
Ir R Nelson
Kalispell
Nelson
Supreme Court
Great Northern
Glasgow
Mont
Chicago
R. G& Cornwell
Montana
Pioneer and public figures in Montana obituaries listed
Death notices from Montana tribute several figures with deep ties to the state. Henry Knippenberg former Hecla Mining president died in Short Hills New Jersey at his daughter's home. Willard Bennett pioneer miner and sheep man died in Helena at 78 after moving to Montana in 1881. MG Mains longtime Billings jeweler died in Seattle at 50 after arriving in 1882. George Whitesel pioneer of the Finabhead reservation area died in Polson at 60, native of Virginia. John H Rosean former Yellowstone County commissioner died at his ranch near Columbus aged 77, a German native who came to Montana in 1881.
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Knippenberg — Wort
Henry Knippenberg
Slo
Hecla Mining Company
Short Hills
Montiana
Bennett
Willard Bennett
Helena
Montana
Miains
Seattle
MG Mains
Billings
Whitesreys
George Whitesel
Finabhead Reservation
Polson
Virginia
Quotations of Interest to Montanans Week Ending April 26
Market notes from Minneapolis show Montana prices with grain futures and freight adjustments. Wheat values range from 8c to 87c, corn 54e, flax at 2.08, while Chicago figures list cattle up to 12.00 and hogs to 7.50. New York metal quotes report bar silver at 64.5 cents, copper 13.54 cents, lead 8 cents.
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Minneapolis
Montana
Chicago
New York
Smelter Grants Wage Increase At East Helena Plant
The American Smelting and Refining Company announces a voluntary raise of 25 cents a day at its East Helena plant, effective April 15, affecting 400 workers and boosting monthly payroll to about $3,000. Fall to Get License reports 27 Butte butchers charged with failing to buy the $1 special meat license tax, per the last legislature, at the urging of the state livestock department.
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American ‘Smelting and Refining Company
East Helena
Butte
State Livestock Department
Armory Run Planned for Bainville National Guard Unit
Bainville unit plans a 50 by 110 foot armory as part of the near future building program. Town subscriptions were oversubscribed signaling strong support. Location yet to be decided but near the business district to serve as show house dance hall and community center as well as headquarters for the company.
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Bainville
National Guard
Goard
Depositors Back Waiver Plan For Yegen Bank Reorganization
Depositors at Yegen Bank Billings have signed waivers affecting about 175000 of the 680000 in deposits tied up by the bank closure. The depositors committee worked April 23 on a letter to inform all depositors of investigation results and recommendations. The plan requires waivers on roughly 544000 of deposits before reopening, with depositors retaining rights against the Yegen brothers under a 16 percent trust fund provision and a 25 percent capital guarantee for the new bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yegen Bank
Chris Yegen
Yegen Brothers
Yercen Brothers
Fraid Creamery Proves Successful With Local Dairy Farmers
The Fraid creamery, run by manager Fred Engler, reports March payouts of 1,559.51 for cream. As warmer weather approaches, the plant plans to add ice cream production for local trade on the branch and main line, with dairy cattle continuing to provide income to farmers and growth hoped for the business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraid Creamery
Fred Engler
Charce
Boulder school head suffers nervous breakdown in Portland
Menzemer president of the Boulder state Institute for the deaf and blind traveled to Portland Oregon after five weeks bedridden with what doctors called a general nervous breakdown. A specialist advised several weeks rest to restore his health. He was accompanied by Mrs. Menzemer and J E Shattuck a local board member.
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Hoooj O Menzemer
Boulder State Instication For
Portland
Ore
Menzemer
High Grade Cows to Be Placed With Montana Farmers
Montana Mutual Dairy Loan Association of Missoula will place more than 2000 high grade cows with Montana farmers. Mont Purchase of a 100 acre farm north of the state fair grounds announced by Montle Levinson, general purchasing agent for the Montana concern.
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Montana St. Paul
Montana
Montana Mutual Dairy Loan Association of
Fire damages wire mill at Anaconda Copper in Great Falls
An early morning blaze at the Anaconda Copper Mining wire mill in Great Falls caused losses over 10000 dollars. The fire began in a locker room likely from a match left by an employee and spread despite steel fireproof lockers and a roofed building.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Great Falls
Apnil
Cisterns Planned for Fire Protection in Terry Town
At a Terry town council meeting it was decided to build two additional cisterns to improve fire protection. One will be near the hospital and another in the western Hamlin neighborhood. Contracts will be let at the next council meeting on May.
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Terry Town
Terry Hospital
Hamlin
Journey of Ewart Grogan A D 1898
The article chronicles Ewart Grogan and A H Sharp's 1898 Cape to Cairo expedition through the Great Rift, exploring forests and lakes, battling elephants and cannibals, meeting pygmies and ape-men, amid British Uganda turmoil, later reaching Khartoum and home. It portrays Grogan as an intrepid explorer with courage and endurance.
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Rhodes
South Africa
British Africa
Grogan
Cambridge
War and Adventure
South Seas
Alps
Cape
Cairo
Zambesi
Africa
Lake Tanganyika
A. H Sharp
Nyassa
Tanganyika
Kevu
Albert Edward
Albert
Nile
Egypt
Khartoum
Canaille
Lake Kivo
Agame
Fatali
Zowanji
Congo
Central Africa
Watonga
Sharp
Uganda
Br. Sharp
Mombasa
Mr.Grogin
Nile Valley
Captain Dunn
Dunn
Omdurman
Hans
American dressmaker Miss Nander stems from New York fame
Miss Caroline Nander of New York, formerly in London, advocates national rivalries of dress by noting how American girls wear clothes to match trim figures while French girls remain chic and English girls look clumsy. She built a showroom, became her own mannequin, and now runs a fifteen-employee operation with five figure income while studying European styles in Europe.
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Caroline Nander
New York
London
Miss Nander
Buffalo
Nander
Europe
St Louis
Such a Name for Urchins Across the Atlantic Coast
Nature Magazine notes several sea urchin species along the Atlantic coast with Strongylocentratus dhohbachiensis as a notably long name. These urchins feed on veritable matter and seaweed, scraping rocks with their sharp dentary apparatus.
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Atlantic
Nature Magazine
New Jersey
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General Council of Flatheads
Fraid Successful
Bobber
Jerrill Compa
Ewart Grogan
Cecil Rholes
Ewart
United States
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