Dismissal in Conwell Case Over Insufficient Evidence
The State of Montana failed to prove its case against W A Conwell, a Relief Commission official, and Judge Berg dismissed the forgery charge after defense and county attorney motions. The trial featured testimony on relief funds and authority of the Montana Relief Commission with defense arguing lack of valid delegation and ownership of funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Brown
Montana
W. A. Conwell
B. E. Berg
E. O. Overland
William B. Jones
Helena
Berg
Jones
Fred Gibson
Overland
Relief Commission of Montana
State of Manana
Conwell
E. O
Howard Hauser Buried in Mountain View
The body of Howard Buck Hauser was brought to Big Timber for interment in Mountain View cemetery after funeral services at the Elk's home in Livingston. Two brothers arrived from Indiana for burial, and a son from Cleveland attended. Hauser, born in Wichita, worked in Rosebud and Park counties before a bowling tourney incident in Bozeman led to his death. Surviving are his widow and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard (Buck) Hauser
J. C. Aller
Big Timber
Mountain View Cemetery
Elk’s
Livingston
Indiana
Cecil
Cleveland
Ohio
Livingston Enterprise
Buck
Park County
Wichita
Kansas
Rosebud
Forsyth
Chas Krey
Bozeman
Fred Mjelde
Montanans Buy Record Liquor Before Thanksgiving
Helena Mont December 7 Montanans purchased 38000 dollars worth of liquor the day before Thanksgiving Martin Hoffman chief accountant for the state liquor control board announced sales for November are expected to total about 375000 dollars a record monthly figure
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont
Martin Hoffman
State Liquor Control Board
Bourne Damage Case Being Tried Today
The first civil case of the term, James W. Bourne Jr. vs Erick O. Busch, seeks 20000 dollars for the death of Bourne's mother in a December 18 1931 auto collision. Jury members listed include Amund Ommundson and Arthur Tangen among others. County Surveyor Busse and Police Chief Busha testified on accident details. Bourne Sr. has been on the stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Bourne, Jr
Erick O. Busch
Bourne
Amund Ommundson
Arthur Tangen
Oskar Drivdahl
E. A. Davis
John Boe
Thomas Dooley
Riley Doore
Sam Hetland
Louis Plaggemeyer
Lavern Patterson
J. A. Brekke
H. H. Marlow
Busse
Busha
J. W. Bourne, Sr
Noted Physician Dr Theo Bald Smith Dies at 75
New York Dec 10 Dr Theo bald Smith 75 president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research died today. An eminent pathologist he opened new channels in medical thought and helped conquer typhoid seven cholera malaria and yellow fever. He showed insect hosts spread diseases to humans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Theobald Smith
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Cattle processing to resume at three Montana plants
Dr. W. L. Butler announces immediate resumption of cattle slaughter in Montana. About 25 000 of 125 000 cattle to be bought by the federal program will be directed to Butte Great Falls and Bozeman plants under a rotation plan. Up to 3 000 workers to be recalled in time for Christmas as relief aid funds support fresh beef for Montana families and other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Washington
Montana
Butler
Butte
Hansen Packing
Montana Opens First Distillery in Carbon County
Montana gains its first postprohibition distillery in Red Lodge by Yellowstone Distilleries Inc. with a 1250 gallon daily whisky output. Ben Knudson says bourbon and rye will be made, packed, and sold to the Montana liquor control board. 25 workers to start, rising to 75 with marketing. Internal revenue agents may arrive soon from Seattle. Charles S Barnett of Kentucky supervises, with a bottling line and 14 000 gallon vats added.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Carbon County
Red Lodge
Yellowstone Distilleries, Inc
Ben J. Knudson
Tony
Billings
Montana Liquor Control Board
Seattle
Knudson
Mississippi River
Charles S. Barnett
Frankfort
Sweet Grass County Among Lowest Millage in State
Helena reports the 1934 average millage for state counties at 60.57 mills, with 28 counties above and 28 below. Roosevelt led at 90.543 mills. Deer Lodge posted the lowest at 48.263, while Meagher Park Sweet Grass and Prairie near the bottom. Lewis and Clark rose to 52.003 mills, up about four mills from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
John J. Greene
Board of Equalization
Big Horn
Blaine
Carbon
Carter
Daniels
Dawson
Fergus
Flathead
Glacier
Golden Valley
Granite
Lake
Madison
McCone
Missoula
Musselshell
Petroleum
Phillips
Pondera
Ravalli
Richland
Froosevelt
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Teton
Toole
Valley
Beaverhead
Broadwater
Cascade
Chouteau
Custer
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Gallatin
Garfield
Hill
Jefferson
Judith Basin
Lewis and Clark
Liberty
Lincoln
Meagher
Mineral
Park
Powder River
Powell
Prairie
Rosebud
Sanders
iSweet Grass
Treasure
Wheatland
Wibaux
Yellowstone
Roosevelt County
Meagher Park
Lewis and Clark County
Funeral Services Held for W N Nye Saturday
Funeral services were held in this city Saturday for W N Nye a Gibson rancher who died in his car en route to Big Timber for a Shrine banquet. Private family services were conducted by Rev A A Holbeck at Patterson's chapel, then public rites at the Masonic temple. Masons led the committal at Mountain View, with Eastern Star quartet and pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. N. Nye
Gibson
Big Timber
A. A. Holbeck
Patterson’s Chapel
Masonic Temple
Mountain View
Eastern Star
L. W Baskett
B. F. Henry
C. W. Voges
Frank Lamb
C. W. Haas
Henry Schrader
P. E. Lekman
Charles W. Voges
W. J. Knapp
Alva L. Lamb
R. A. Traver
Minnesota to try community colony in Itasca county
A relief program sends 49 adults and 55 children to Itasca county to establish a cooperative living experiment on 640 acres. Led by Ethan Allen, the venture aims to model home steading for 5,000 Minnesota relief families with $9,000 for land, housing, and supplies, plus livestock and farm equipment. Each man receives wages from a central store, with the balance shared among 20 families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Itasca
Cooperative
Ethan Allen
Vermont
Green Mountain Boys
Fort Ticonderoga
Morris Gets Twenty Years for Shooting
White Sulphur Springs December 9 Twenty years in the state penitentiary is the sentence given Charles Morris trapper and former sheepherder for the fatal shooting last October of W H Terrel at Terrel s cabin sixteen miles south of Martinsdale Morris pleaded guilty on arraignment before District Judge William L Ford The men argued over some work Morris had done on the Terrel cabin officers said Terrel before he died after an operation to remove a bullet from his left breast said Morris shot at him from a cluster of willows at a distance of fifty or sixty feet
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Sulphur Springs
State Penitentiary
Charles Morris
W. H. Terrel
Terrel
Martinsdale
Morris
William L. Ford
Terrell
Hope Abandoned for Recovery of Fliers
The search for Australian plane Star of Australia and pilots Charles T. P. Ulm and two companions ends with officials admitting defeat. No word has come since they landed lost and out of gasoline last Tuesday. No trace of the bi motor plane is found as rough weather raises doubt the wing raft approach would work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Star of Australia
Pacific
Charles T. P. Ulm
Frank C Walker Seen As Possible Head Of Aid Plan
Washington December 8 Frank C Walker of New York a former Butte Montana attorney was mentioned as a possible director of a proposed 4 billion program to develop land and water resources to fight unemployment. A group of Roosevelt experts floated the idea with plans for 11 developments similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority but not centered on power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frank C. Walker
New York
Butte, Mont
Roosevelt
Walker
Congress
Executive Council
Presient
Portland Druggists Charged Over Poison Denatured Alcohol Deaths
Two Portland druggists Solomon Miller and Irving Schwartz were charged with involuntary manslaughter after four more deaths raised the toll to 22 from denatured alcohol poisoning. Bail set at $10,000 each at municipal court arraignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Solomon Miller
Irving Schwartz
Miller
Schwartz
Cuban Ambassador Dies in Washington
Cuban ambassador to the United States Marquez Sterling, aged 62, died at the embassy in Washington at 3 30 p m Sunday after a 24 hour asthma attack. Sterling had long suffered from chronic asthma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marquez Sterling
United States
Sterling
Montana Gracing Council Forms Under Taylor Act
Montana ranchers and stockmen gathered in Billings for the first state-wide hearing on the Taylor grazing act. Representatives from 10 state and federal agencies formed a grazing council to oversee permits and district boundaries across Montana public lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
State Grazing Council
Montana
J. C. Taylor
Bozeman
Montana Extension Service
F. R. Carpenter
Hayden
Colo
J. A. Ramsey
Department of Interior
Glen Smith
Missoula
United States Forest Service
W. G. Gilbert
Dillon
Montana Woolgrowers’ Association
Julian Terrett
Brandenberg
Montana Stockgrowers’association
E. A. Starch
Fred_ Williams
Montana Sportsmen’s Association
Council
Indian Forest Service
Montana Board of Land Commissioners
Montana Association of County Commissioners
State Federal Relief Commission
Montana Wool
Stock Growers Union
H. E. Morse
Beaverhead
John Echart
Valley
Walter Phillips
Phillips
John N. Tolman
Carbon
George D. Selway
Silver Bow
John McKaren
Garfield
A. H. Fuchs
Petroleum
L. H. Douglass
Jefferson
H. A. Kuhr
Blaine
E. A. Phillips
Helena
E. E. Snelling
Musselshell
Frank Wax
Montana Commission
Commission
Two Cent Check Tax Expiring Dec 31 Faces Extension
Washington dispatch notes the 2 cent tax on bank checks ends December 31 and is the first in a line of nuisance taxes likely to be extended by Congress. Gasoline tax is the most productive, with other levies on telephone telegraph cable radio oil transport by pipeline electricity lubricants toilet goods furs jewelry and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means
State Receives Forest Fees Share From U S Government
Montana treasurer James J. Brett received a 42 226 67 check from the United States government as the state share of forestry fees for the year ending June 30 1934. Montana's 25 percent share follows a 40 771 86 collection in the prior fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont
James J. Brett
United States
Montana
Samuel Solberg laid to rest beside wife in Big Timber
Last rites for Samuel Solberg, who died at his home in Big Timber last Tuesday night, were held Friday at 2:30 in the Lutheran church. Rev. A A Holbeck officiated with a quartet providing music. Interment followed beside his wife, who died in June. Solberg, born May 24 1846 in Norway, lived in Ishpeming Michigan Glendale and Big Timber. He served on election boards for 40 years before retiring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Solberg
Big Timber
A. A. Holbeck
Signa Bailey
Sophie Strand
Clyde Frederickson
Carl D. Paulson
Frank Chase
Henry Schrader
Thorvald Gunderson
George O. Rostad
Mont
Glendale
Dillon
Norway
Louise Lundgren
Sweet Grass
Solberg
Wife of Baby Face Nelson Goes to Federal Prison
Helen Gillis widow of gang leader George Nelson known as Baby Face Nelson was ordered to prison today. She received concurrent sentences of one year and a day and six months at Milan Michigan for probation violations connected to the public enemy case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby Face
Madison
Wis
Helen Gillis
Brand
George
Death of Oscar Moler in Alaska Ice Slip Described
Marie Moler of Reed Point gave Cordova Daily Times details of her husband Oscar Moler aged 57 who drowned on Lake Eyak near the Liebe cabin in Cordova Alaska. The body was found near a hole in the ice after skaters spotted a hat. Moler spent summers with the Alaska road commission and winters in Cordova with his son Perry. The incident occurred between 2 30 and 4 pm as he fell through thinning ice on a late freezing section of the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie I. Moler
Reed Point
Oscar Moler
Alaska
Lake Eyak
Liebe
Moler
Perry
Alaska Road Commission
Cor
Life of Perry Moler Traced From Knox County to Montana
Perry Oscar Moler born January 26 1882 in Knox Illinois son of Perry and Sarah Moler was one of seven children. He moved to eastern Montana in 1908 worked near Glendive returned to Illinois briefly and came back to Montana in 1910 homesteading near Busteed. He married in 1915 and settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Oscar Moler
Knox County
Ill
Perry
Sarah Gee Moler
Montana
Glendive
Illinois
Busteed
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Laura Connolly
Anealia Rostad
Estella Walsh Nagle
T. C. Spaulding
Montana Relief Commission
Raymond Robbins
Belt
Relief Commission of
Relief Commission
Defendant
Barr
Emma B. Rees
F. R. Hickman
M. W. Barr
Court House
Howard Hauser
Sweet Grass County
Frank Walker
Cordova
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