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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1925
Page
4
The federal court jury found Senator Wheeler not guilty on the first ballot in Great Falls. Speculation swirls about a second Washington trial before a different court and jury. Reports say a fourth Wheeler family member was added as costs rise.
The Livingston Enterprise exposes a correction to a Pioneer piece about the 1893 train robbery. John Brown, the engineer believed dead in Logan, is found alive and well, prompting praise for The Enterprise and Brown.
Report alleges a demented girl, Sarah Key, was handed from Sacramento to Judith Basin sheriff and confined in a California home for feeble minded. Doctors say starvation led to her death with stomach X rays supporting the diagnosis. Her father remains in California as state claims financial strain justified abandonment.
A nurse ships Sarah Key back to Montana after neglect in California. The piece condemns California's selfishness as a "greatest state" while a feeble minded girl from Montana dies, receiving late care and no family notice.
J M Sawyer announces re organization of his Montana store chain into Sawyer Stores Inc with Billings as headquarters. The Montana corporation has 1 million dollars in preferred stock and 3.5 million common, with 7 percent cumulative preferred and 100 par value. Early store expansion planned. locations to be announced later.
Helena April 24 Attorney General J A Foot asks Cascade County to prosecute John Dever a negro and Laura Fugue a white woman who claimed they wed last Monday in Spokane Wash If they resume relations in Cascade County Montana law prohibits whites and negroes marrying or living together. Dever a hotel swamper and Laura Fugue were traced by Special Officer Jake Fisher and questioned separately.
Governor Miriam Ferguson issued a strong statement defending her liberal pardon and parole approach since taking office on January 21. She cited 353 pardons issued and argued critics misread mercy as political gain while asserting she would continue granting furloughs to dying inmates to allow them to die at home among loved ones.
Livingston Enterprise reports Senator A W Miles and his wife A W Miles returned from a winter trip to southern California seeking climate benefits for his health. Mrs Miles expects Mrs Daniel Miles to join soon. The Mileses note Mr Miles shows marked improvement and plans to reopen the Yellowstone street home after a rest period.
In Jersey City New Jersey on April 28 police learned of a feud between barge captains leading to a report that a young woman, daughter of one captain, was kept aboard her husband s coal barge for five years. She reportedly bore three children while confined and had no land contact. The tale emerged after a fight between William Warn and Arthur W Banks. Banks’s son-in-law was arrested for disorderly conduct as the case unfolded.
Attorney General Foot says the Montana law licensing itinerant vendors violates the federal constitution. He sent his opinion to county treasurers collecting the license fee, noting the power to regulate such sales is beyond state authority and citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on taxation of nonresidents.
Representative Nelson of Wisconsin former La Follette Wheeler committee chair said with Congress opening he would start a fight to curb the department of justice. He accused DOJ agents of probing private affairs of public figures, especially members of Congress.
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