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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
4
Latered in the postonce at Bigtimber Montana second class Matter. This paper is mailed regularly to all subscribers until it is ordered recontinued and all arrears are paid in full. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year Advertising rates made known on application. Only Newspaper Published in Sweet Grass County.
District court convenes in Sweet Grass County on the second Monday in March the second Monday in June the fourth Monday in September and the second Monday in December for the year 1906.
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Cons Lippy McLeod of Montana announces candidacy for county commissioner on the Republican ticket. He pledges to run county affairs as economically as he would his own, and asks residents to support his bid.
County Attorney J E Barbour and Sheriff O A Fallang report three more cattle rustlers convicted in district court. Over the past eighteen months eleven arrests show a strong crackdown and no acquittals. Cooperation from H T Flemming of Reed aided the case, urging civic duty to drive rustling from the county.
The Big Timber election produced an almost unanimous yes on the water works bond issue. Taxpayers, including heavy contributors, signaled demand for civic improvements and a booming town, noting sidewalks, lawns, trees, and street work as evidence of growth.
The article argues for improvements to position Big Timber in Montana’s front rank of progressive towns. It envisions waterworks as a catalyst for a transformative future, predicting a more attractive appearance in two years and urging cooperative effort by citizens to prove the town is not stagnating.
The article urges residents to support public good by encouraging improvement and avoiding harsh criticism. It warns that knocker type strangers discourage progress and harm the community. It says speak well of Big Timber and its neighbors and shun traitors who badmouth their town.
John F Asbury cashier attests the bank statement for the bank in Sweet Grass County Montana dated June 2 1906. The report lists assets including loans and discounts overdrafts secured and unsecured United States bonds premiums on U S bonds and various cash items. Liabilities show capital stock surplus profits dividends paid and deposits including demand and time deposits with a total balance.
In Panama City Liberal fighters clashed with police guarding ballot boxes at Santa Ana park. One Liberal killed and nine policemen wounded, ten others hurt. officials fear further trouble unless U S Marines land. Governor Magoon and Captain Shanton helped keep order. Constitutional party won in Panama City and three provinces.
Three men were found dead in Washington County with no arrests yet. Michael Prebika, a coal miner, was found in a tunnel on the Wabash road with a crushed skull and broken legs after being shot and left on the tracks. a war rant points to Frank Ristar. Joseph Simareen was discovered under a railroad car in Burgettstown with head and chest wounds, pockets rifled. An unidentified man lay in the road near B and O tracks at Gilkeson with a temple bruise as the only clue to death.
A park battle in Lorain between several hundred Hungarians from Lorain and Cleveland escalated from unknown cause into a near hour long clash. Beer bottles clubs knives and billies were used with many injured. Three Cleveland men were severely hurt and not expected to recover after being taken to a Cleveland hospital.
Five persons drowned when two squalls collided and sailors battled high waves in Raritan Bay off Red Bank New Jersey Saturday afternoon. One boat overturned and sank during the sudden storm.
The two masted schooner Emma Handrix from Perth Amboy bound for Red Bank with coal was overwhelmed off Port Monmouth. Captain Morris Brown and his twelve year old son William perished, along with Captain Brown’s helper Champion Scott of Fair Haven. The schooner Buena Vista also sank near the area. captain Theodore Wil son and his helper drowned.
Spokane Washington June 25 One of the Howard street bridges over the Spokane river near the main falls collapsed shortly after a street car crossed. John P Beem a Honey Creek Wisconsin commercial traveler was carried down in the wreck but his clothing caught suspending him on the brink of the upper falls. He was removed unharmed. No injuries reported.
One yellow fever case is confirmed at the Mississippi river quarantine station ninety seven miles below New Orleans. The patient, a Cubano sailor, marks the first Louisiana case this year per the state board of health. Also in notices, a heavy plush buggy robe with a dog's head design is lost between Big Timber and Wormser.
The statement names Thomas Donnellan James W Norton Walter Sweetman and Hubert O Kellogg all from Big Elk Montana as witnesses to prove the abrigation and reclamation actions.
The State Auditor of Montana certifies that Citizens' State Bank of Big Timber Sweet Grass County is compliant with Section 570 of the Civil Code and authorized to commence and transact banking under the name Citizens' State Bank of Bigtimber. Dated May 25 1906 with official seal.
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