Non-Partisan League and Equity to Collaborate in Montana
The Non-Partisan League plans to expand in Montana with 30 000 members and a Great Falls publishing run. Equity and League will coordinate lobbying and cooperative efforts while speakers tour agricultural areas to boost support against the European conflict and outline election issues.
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Equity
Montana
Farmers’ Organization
North Dakota
Rocky Mountains
D. C. Dorman
Dorman
Great Falls
League
American Society of Equity
W. M. Burlingame
Glasgow
Lowrie
Burlingame
The
Agricultural College
Six Good Men Save Montana From Railroad Subsidies
In 1878 six lawmakers led a midnight trek from Helena to Fort Benton to block railroad subsidy bills. Facing bribery and staged sessions, they returned to vote against subsidies, thwarting bankrolls and bonds and preserving Montana’s finances. The six men, long forgotten, saved the state at least six million dollars.
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State OF
Montana
Hickman
Sedman
Madison County
O. P. Hayes
Gallatin
Barret
Beaverhead
Frank Ives
Missoula
Helena
Fort Benton
W. G. Conrad
Chateau County
Benton
Jay Gould
Union Pacific
Berrett
Capitol
Banking Corporation
Helena Mont
Marriage Keeps Girl Among Huns Alien To Her Country
A Montana born daughter of Marcus Daly, wife of Count Anton Sigray, is named among American women married to Austrian German and Bulgarian nobles now allied with enemies of the United States. The piece lists several high profile marriages into German and Austrian diplomacy, noting expatriate American women living abroad as war unfolds.
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U. S
Austria
Marcus Daly
Anton Sigray
America
Daly Ranch
Bitter Root Valley
Euope
Montana
Gerard
Berlin
Catherine Birney
Prince Alfred Zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst
Catherine Britton
Baron Wilhelm von Schoen
Baron von Schoen
Mexico City
Japan
Mexico
Baroness von Schoen
Harold Walker
Washington
Walker
Turquois
Vanderbilt
Agnes Carroll
Virginia
Anton Heussenstamm
John A. Stewart
Julius Apponyi
Hussars
Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Dank
Galacian
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Twenty-second
United States Engineer Corps
Constance Hoyt
Diplomatic Corps
Ferdinand von Stumm
Baroness von Stumm
Rome
Vichy
Mabel Wright
Nora Iselin
C. Oliver Iselin
Collordo- Mansfield
Countess Hatzfeldt
Count Paul Hatzfeldt
Paris
Misa Helen Moulton
Col
Charles Moulton
Albany
N. Y
Prince Hatzfeldt
Bismarck
Bismarck Resented the Countess Hatzfeldt
Count Hatzfeldt
Constantinople
London
Wiesbaden
Frederick
France Hatzfeldt
Count von Bernstorff
Egypt
Mme. Polieff
George Polieff
Miss Samuel
Philadelphia
Railroad lobbyists and a threatened quorum break
The group led by Bar rett failed to flatter or buy influence and broke the quorum. Richard Hickman warned that railroad backers counted noses and controlled outcomes. They planned a banquet the faithful attended while Hickman and Barrett counseled. A vote would occur at the next legislature session. Those opposing railroad measures were advised to stay away from the session.
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Barrett
Richard Hickman
Madison County
Hickman
War drives up costs in Montana mining district materials
Since 1914 the average mining supplies and equipment in Montana districts have doubled in cost with exceptions such as lumber and cement. Dynamite, fuse, steel, oil, rope, pipe, bolts and tools all rose sharply while some items became unavailable. Transportation shortages worsen the scramble for essential assay materials and chemicals as troops move and munition shipments strain logistics.
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Montanas Aring
Exemption Boards Urge Employers Rehire Returning Soldiers
District exemption boards in two Montana districts pass resolutions urging all employers to reinstate National Army members returned from Camp Lewis for physical defects or from other camps when additional contingents are called. Some employers had failed to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
National Army
Camp Lewis
Russian mining experts to study Montana methods
Fedor F. Ross, a Petrograd mining engineer heading a four man Russian mission, visits Montana to study local mining and smelting methods for potential transfer to Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Montana
Fedor F. Ross
Petrograd
German Agents Linked to Butte Mine Disaster Claims
Depositions in the Carl von Pohl case in Butte reveal a Great Falls woman testifying that German agents discussed crippling Montana copper production. She recounts Pohl’s talk of an explosive triggered by water and a serum to destroy cattle, and his claim that a Granite Mountain martyr died in a plot.
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Granite Mountain
Butte
United States
B. Wheeler
Carl von Pohl
Pohl
Canada
Dominion
Montana
Fire Fiends Blaze Grain Stacks Across Sweatgrass County
Fires in Sweatgrass County blamed on I W W threats consumed grain stacks on W H Boyd Ole Langhouse and Paul L VanCleve Jr farms with losses including barns and sheep sheds. Investigating officer notes hoofprints and an open gate. Boyd insured but policy issued after fire. Equity Mutual Fire Insurance paid the claim.
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Sweatgrass County
W. H. Boyd
Ole Langhouse
Paul L. VanCleve, Jr
Pete Butler
Mr. Boyd
Langhouse
VanCleve
Boyd
Big Timber
Equity Insurance
Equity Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Great Falls
Equity Company
Wireless Station Hidden On Montana Mountain Reported
On a high western Montana peak near Paradise investigators believe German agents operated a summer wireless link to Mexico. A trapper spotted two loggers, strange lights, and copper wire remains after the station was dismantled. Air and automobile efforts supplied the plant, with a flat landing site noted and signals heard at night across the region.
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Montana
Town of
Paradise
United States
Germany
Mexico
Butte
Marshall
Bald Mountain
Bald Peak
Forest Rangers
Missoula
W. L. Morrison
Helena
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D. C
Martin Barrett
Horse Prairie
Beaverhead County
Territorial Council
Northern Pacific
Utah Northern
Potts
Madisonian
Tom DeArmond
NaAtional
First National Bank
Bevasa
Asaral
Porta Legal Reserve
Daly
Equity Insurance Company
Ireless
Losa
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