Montana Auditor Reports Higher State Assets and Surplus
State Auditor John J. Holmes announced Montana's Nov 1 year surplus at 31 254 130 30 up 3 286 343 from 1936. Total assets stood at 43 845 219 03 with liabilities 12 591 088 83 leaving the surplus after deductions.
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Montana
John J. Holmes
Holmes
Capitol Building
Educational
Mines
University
Agriculture College
Tuberculosis
Insane
Industrial School
Eastern Montana Normal
Northern Montana College
State Normal School
State University
Hungry Horse Dam Assured as Study Seeded by Army Engineers
Kalispell editor Harry J. Kelly reports Army Engineers have set aside 200000 for a full survey of the Hungry Horse dam project on the Flathead River. Survey to start next spring and finish by 1938, with construction hoped to begin in 1939. The project could boost power along Clark's Fork and below Bonneville, reducing northwest shortages.
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Harry J. Kelly
Kalispell
Flathead
Kelly
Missoula
Army
Clark's Fork
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Columbia
Bonneville
Flathead Lake
South Fork
Flathead River
Early-Day Gambler Made Fortune in Mining Then Spent Life as Wood Sawyer
Richard Scheckells known as Dick, a long time western gambler who became a wood sawer in Butte, Montana, after a career spanning California mining to Montana claims. Born April 27 1830 in Winchester Virginia, he drifted from Missouri to California in 1853, amassed wealth and losses through gambling, and finally settled in Butte where he kept cases at a fare table for seven and a half years before taking up wood sawing and making one eastern trip to Missouri. He claimed no regrets for his wandering life.
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Butte
West
Richard Scheckells
Scheckells
Winchester
Virginia
Missouri
Indiana
California
Jim Wilson
Wilson
Volcano
Calif
Ione City
Page & Bacon Co
Sanchaplania
French Carrol
Glister
Guster
Lanchaplania
Marysville
Prospectors
Columbia
Silver Mountain
Montana
Virginia City
Silver Bow Creek
Helena
Last Chance Gulch
King and Lowery
East
Munson Greeted by Neck-tie Act in Helena 1865
Lyman E. Munson arrived in Helena in March 1865 as Montana territorial supreme court justice and witnessed a lynching. He replaced vigilante violence with open lawful procedure, earning public praise, a gold watch, and later served as a treaty commissioner to Gros Ventres Piegan and Blackfeet. He died in 1908 in New Haven at age 86.
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Lyman E. Munson
Helena
Supreme Court
New Haven
Conn
Supreme Court of
Montana Territory
Munson
Ritory
Montana
Citizens’ Committee
Supreme Bench
Gros Ventres
Piegan
Judge Munson
Massachusetts
Lenox Academy
Yale College
Montana Territorial Supreme Court
Lincoln
Dutton
Connecticut
New England
Edward I. Munson
Dan Tobey the Montana stage driver and survivor
Dan Tobey, a six horse line driver from Conrad, Montana, endured a 45 below zero blizzard that cost his saddle horse and part of his pack animal, left him lost for two days, and led to lifelong disability. Later he rode as express messenger and saved his brother Jim during a gold bullion stage holdup, killing one bandit and wounding another before both outlaws were captured.
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Tobey
Conrad
Dan
Great Falls
Lewistown
Conrad Headquarters Ranch
Wild Horse Lake Country
Fort Benton
California
Montana
Jim
Jim Tobey
How to find a shorted cell in an auto battery
An old manual suggests removing filler caps and turning on the starting switch while watching each cell for bubbling or popping, which signals a shorted cell. The method highlights a quick diagnostic visible indicator prior to more thorough testing.
Death of Troy utility manager from 12 foot fall
M. E. Thomas, 58, longtime manager of the Kootenai Light and Power Co. at Troy, died after a September fall that left him with a broken back. He had worked nearly 20 years with the company. He is survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter.
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M. E. Thomas
Thomas
Kootenai Light and Power Company
Troy
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Hungry Horse
Clark's Fork Valley
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Lands Department
Missoula, Mont
Ter
Atchin Island
New Hebrides
Palace Hotel
San Francisco
Dan Tobey
Storm
Doan
Reeisteantee
Enzal Researcie Prod
Dept
R-2
Bluemound Road
Milwaukee
Montana Life Insurance Company
Ontana Helena
Charles M. Russell
Montana Newspaper Association
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