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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
1
The record outlines a Juur t session addressing old cases including bankruptcy filings, estate settlements, and orders to sell real estate. It notes creditors, fees, and court orders involving Mary Doe and Mel Fohensed among others, with various individuals admitted to counts and committees.
Thomas Manning 25 a rioter shot on Anaconda road last Wednesday died in St James hospital early Sunday. Dr T J Shanley operated Thursday and Manning briefly improved before sinking Friday and dying at 1 40 Sunday morning. Manning, native of Ireland, had lived in Battle for several years. relatives reside in Ireland except a cousin Boyle in Butte.
A fragmented report outlines North Carolina moving to ratify a national suffrage amendment. Key figures including Governor Bickett and Senator Hoey weigh in as party leaders fear a possible defeat if the measure reaches voters.
A fragmented OCR record hints at a county election tally with numbers like 3,922 and references to Butte and Wood. The readable text is sparse and unclear but indicates a completed primary with geographic and candidate identifiers needing verification.
In Great Falls on April 25, 290 plus members of local unions and IWW affiliates marched with banners defying a city ban on public banners. Police halted the line, jailed participants, who were released after documentation. Warrants to re-arrest for banner ordinance violations will follow.
New York April 26 former speaker Champ Clark announced via telephone to Julia Sanders of the Swastika club that he will run for the Democratic presidential nomination. He said he wants to serve the people as he has for 23 years and will not wage fights for delegates, noting he is a poor man who cannot buy patronage.
Newark New Jersey April 28 revised returns in all but 84 districts show Major General Leonard Wood ahead of Senator Hiram W Johnson by 612 votes in the preferential presidential primary. Final tallies give Johnson 50 790 Wood 51 402 with 74 missing districts in counties where Wood leads in incomplete returns.
A man identified as Dave Hanson was arrested in Turtle Lake North Dakota over the deaths of Jacob Wolff his six family members and a chore boy at the Wolff farm last Thursday. Hanson claims innocence and says he was jailed in Regina recently. A second report states a masked man attacked Henry Reichling near a field and stole his shotgun while two accomplices were said to drive a car.
The Montana Stockgrowers Association wrapped its thirty-fifth annual convention in Bilings with Helena slated as the next meeting place. Officers elected include Wallis Hudekoper president G B Pope Miles City vice president W K Flowerce Great Falls vice president D W Raymond Helena secretary treasurer. Over 1 000 delegates attended as the group added nearly 100 new members and adopted resolutions urging hay price relief through a 60 day cut rate extension and various legislative actions on land, public loans, and wool substitutes.
The funeral for Sheriff C. K. Wyman was held at St. James Episcopal Church with Rev. Bennett officiating. Large crowds filled the church. interment followed at Mountain View cemetery. Sheriff Lew Hartsell of Anaconda represented the Montana State Sheriff’s Association and laid flowers on the casket.
W P Verdon a Johnson supporter in Hoboken claims Senator Johnson was robbed of the republican presidential preference in Camden Morris and Essex counties New Jersey in a telegram to the senator.
Bozeman Chronicle tallies Montana Democratic delegates from 26 counties with full and partial returns. Walsh leads with 3,262 votes, followed by Kelly 2,685 Ayers 2,678 Ramsey 2,083 Hathaway 2,058 and others including O’Connor Murphy Barth Burke Kehoe Purcell Thompson Stewart Erickson Reynolds Newman O’Neill Secarce Lane and McGregor with lower counts.
In Columbus Ohio the Republican presidential primary returns show Senator W C Harding leading Major General Leonard Wood with 135 of 5882 precincts reported. Harding 122, 48. Wood 106, 173, a 14,313 vote margin.
Funeral services for Mrs. E J S Moore former Belle Stanton were held at the First Presbyterian church in Bozeman with Rev. R M Stevenson officiating. Many relatives and friends attended from the Stanton and Moore families and the funeral procession included pallbearers C P Steffens Edmund Burke E E Howard Herman Wilson Carlisle Kenyon and Lewis Bale.
The Friday election produced low turnout about one third of votes, with bond measures for a dormitory and manual training addition drawing the main attention. County results show mixed majorities and varied precinct support, with Johnson delegates favored by the anti Johnson ticket and a split statewide.
The Supreme Court, in a 4 to 3 decision, sustained government charges of illegal combinations against the Reading company and its railroad and coal subsidiaries and ordered dissolution. Justice White, Holmes, and Vandevanter dissented. Justices McReynolds and Brandeis took no part. No majority copy was available as Justice Clark completed it.
Montana officials warned results from the presidential preference primary will not be definite until the official canvass on May 8. By late Friday only Silver Bow complete. Yellowstone nearly complete. Carbon, Casca de partial. Republican totals show Johnson leading with 8,741 to 2,663 for Wood and others.
Patrick Meany of Butte filed his declaration to run for Congress in the First District under the Lexington Cord Minute Men party. The platform calls for government ownership of large industries, abolition of the army, restoration of water power to the public, and other radical changes.
The Pioneer lists multiple school district trustees elected or chosen, detailing numbers and names such as S. H. Bare No. 2, George Bailey No. 10, A. J. Hanson No. 20, John Nevin No. 28, and many others including Charles Pravda, Thorntos Carter No. 31, Ole Hegdal No. 32, and J. M. McChesnie No. 63, among additional names.
A. Turco, who recently purchased the Grand hotel, will take charge Saturday and devote full time to running a first class establishment. J. McCambridge, former proprietor, will depart about May 10 for Great Falls to assume the Grand hotel there.
In Helena on Friday night the final general result appears uncertain until the official count determines the outcome. Early returns suggest the tally will not be known until scrutiny and computation by election officials.
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