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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
4
Fragmentary text suggests a rural feud with rattlesnakes and a plan to toss baskets of snakes into a town after a transfer of prisoners. Mentions Idaho Montana and Sweet Grass county with references to Wobblies and a carload of vagrants.
Three Montana Methodist ministers Rev. George Mecklenberg Rev. Van Valkenberg and Rev. Charles G Cole will join an official church committee for the July Fourth Dempsey Gibbons bout at Shelby. Attorney General Harry M Daugherty may attend as a DOJ representative.
Chief Justice Callaway writes for the Montana Supreme Court clarifying the state printing law. The decision defines published as printed and published in a newspaper with its home in the county, resolving doubts about contract eligibility and preventing outsiders from exploiting cross town offices.
The piece catalogs growing records from sports to quirky feats like a 72 hour dish washing marathon in Indiana and a dog kennel sleeping episode involving Lucy Aldrich sister in law of John D Rockefeller. It notes dance marathons and sensational press coverage fueling public fascination with extraordinary acts.
Helena reports anger in Butte and Billings as Idaho citizens escort about fifty Wobblies across the state line into Montana and banish them from Bonners Ferry. Local leaders call the act unneighborly and question why Idaho did not send the agitators into Washington.
The Memphis Reveille reports Grand theater manager offers a free matinee admission to each child who brings a tin can. Prizes go to top can collectors with numbers 249, 179, and 94, generating a large can collection. The town ends with many cans and few twenty dollar gold pieces. The Helena Independent notes a Butte manslaughter verdict linking a dead detective to his own actions.
A May 26, 1910 recaps Reed Point teacher Miss Moors visiting Big Timber. Local moves include John Fryer store part ownership and new management at H. M. Allen & Co wards. Eric Steensland retires to farm. Gordon Langston murdered by William Stuart near Melville on May 28 in a Deffy ranch barn. Stuart a fugitive.
Jersey City police battle a gunman as they arrest Frank Sage linked to a $10,000 payroll theft. Sergeant John Black and Patrolman Clarence Wear were killed. Lieutenant Harry Otis and Patrolman James Iton wounded as officers entered Sage’s house amid a volley of revolver fire and bomb blasts. May Miller, named by police, is alleged to be involved.
Washington May 31 Partial reorganization of the mixed claims commission to adjudicate war claims totaling 1 470 000 008 dollars leaves the post of American commissioner vacant. Judge Parker and Dr Wilhelm Kiesselbach have begun hearings on the claims and the appointment of a new American commissioner will require action to settle disputes between the American and German members.
William Jennings Bryan was defeated as evolutionists won a key vote when the Presbyterian Church assembly adopted substitute resolution directing synods to withhold approval from schools teaching materialistic evolution or discrediting Christian faith. Baer and Bryan clashed as lay leaders debated substitution with Baer favored. final adoption carried with one dissenting vote.
Frank Akey, 65, of Brockport, who was saved from drowning in a creek by Herbert Chapman, was later struck and fatally injured by the same motorist on Lake Road south of Clarkson Corners. Chapman and his wife had just visited Brockport when the tragedy occurred.
Two log jams on the Jocko River within the Flathead Reservation were dynamited to reach a body possibly trapped in the debris. Workers labored late into the night aiming to recover the missing child Viel-Meeniedas saest, amid debris and powder signals from the blasts.
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