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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
2
The notice warns that registration is required to vote and that residents outside city limits must provide section, township, and range of their home to the clerk. The information is stated as absolutely necessary for registration.
The oil trust is said to be dissolved with the holding company shareholding redistributed to subsidiary stockholders. Old directors remain but cross holdings are reduced to avoid duplication. Increased competition is anticipated, yet no immediate price relief is promised. The piece notes violence against the Ellynn Ironworks and calls for justice for twenty one murdered victims, urging patience before outcomes of punishment are known.
Readers expected a long, technical murder trial for J B McNamara over the Los Angeles Times bombing. Prosecutors exposed a jury bribery plot, arresting three men. Both J B McNamara and his brother John J pleaded guilty to their roles in the dynamite attack.
The article argues Congress will be a political session focused on tariff issues. Democrats aim to pass a radical revision in the House while the Senate defeats it, using tariff disputes to gain public support and an issue to rally voters. It forecasts separate tariff bills in each chamber and continued political maneuvering.
Critics say local papers misrepresented Taft reception and Montana weather during the president’s visit. The correspondents’ claims are condemned as slander and misreporting, with life memberships in a dubious club cited as background.
Montana, though not in the citrus belt, showcases a climate that allows farmers to plow in December, a notable advantage worth boasting about.
The article argues Baker's assertion of a money trust and a Kuhn Loeb plan funded by a million dollars demands scrutiny. It contrasts Baker’s details with broader fears of a finance-dominant plot and reflects on moral judgments about white versus Native American men.
The piece argues public demand will push the government to act on forcing Russia to recognize American citizenship for naturalized Jews. It warns that severing the treaty without diplomacy risks Russia punishing Americans overseas, and stresses preserving American prestige and honor despite costs.
Two suspects remained at large after fatal shootings. One was a white man in Montana free on his promise to appear for trial, the other a Navajo Indian in New Mexico. The Montana suspect avoided capture by relying on tribal ties and a simple promise, with the court and Indian agent willing to accept his word.
Dun's Review notes gradual, conservative improvement in business confidence and transactions. Higher rail, car, and equipment purchases by railroads boost iron and steel and supply trades, while railroad traffic earnings in the first half of November show only a small uptick.
The piece argues against attacking organized labor by last week's Los Angeles events. It emphasizes that unions have achieved good and that occasional bad members do not justify condemning unions as a whole, drawing a parallel to churches containing wrongdoers.
Wharton Barker told the Senate committee that the colonel deliberately aided the Wall Street crowd in 1907, enabling the panic, a charge he contrasted with the steel trust absorption of Tennessee Coal and Iron. Barker claimed the move broke the country yet saved the gamblers.
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh voices confidence that Western Hemisphere nations will ally with the United States to make Europe seem diminished in time. He warns that until other Atlantic nations shed suspicion and fear, the promised union’s triumph remains distant.
After Wharton Barker’s senate testimony members of the National Livestock Association, who invited Banker Forgan of Chicago to speak next week, are likely slow to endorse his support for the Aldrich plan to straighten the nation’s money tangle.
A recent Tehran bombing attempt aimed at W. Morgan Shuster, the American treasurer general of Persia, sought to force a vacancy by killing him. The incident reveals Russian use of agents to destabilize Persian finances.
If things continue as they have, the colonel may not withstand mounting attacks from various sides as his well known vigor is worn down by recent pressures.
The text notes that continued pressure from Russia and England may push Persia to reconsider its original intention, even at the risk of humiliating national pride.
Eastern Montana residents are reminded that plowing continues in the region. The notice emphasizes ongoing agricultural work as the season advances.
The Toronto editor of a leading journal says Canada is displeased with rejecting reciprocity two months ago and may propose to the United States to revisit the issue in a year or two. He says sober thinking has returned and that voters were swayed by crowd emotion. The annexation bugbear was not specified.
A Chicago gathering cites that the reciprocity vote in Canada was narrow in the popular tally, with 25 000 vote margin and 16 000 000 US population gain in the last decade dwarfing Canada’s 7 million. The piece argues Canadians misread US intentions and value friendship with the United States.
A terse note on loan dealings with Skillman and Bail ey notes prompt money delivery. The fragment mentions prompt payment during negotiations, but lacks full context or dates.
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