Local Notes On Visitors And Events In Livingston
J W Norton travels from California to visit Senator McDonnell. Kenneth Todd injures arm in Juveniles game. Earl Lanphear marks thirteenth birthday with a school friends party. Mrs Crest her husband Mrs Martin Crest moves from ranch to city home and shows improvement. Heavy showers bring ample water and a storm affects Big Timber creeks. Oscar H Dasch from Albion Wash seeks final proof on a Reed Point homestead. Pioneer Matron Mrs Henry Frank dies at 62 in Livingston after 40 years in town.
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Mrs. Crest
Martin Crest
Boulder
Laura Crest
Oscar H. Dasch
Orla H. Dasch
Albion
Wash
Reed Point
Dasch
Washington
Montana
Livingston
Henry Frank
Park County
Ihert
Five Williams family members killed in railroad crash near Franklin
At Carlisle near Franklin Ohio a passenger train struck a truck carrying Bert Williams family to a new home in German town. Mrs Margaret Williams 53 and daughters Sarah 13 Lela 20 and grandchildren Mary Louise 3 and a four month old baby died. Driver Jess Gross injured likely fatally. Solen Kindred also hurt. Bert Williams arrived to find his wife and infant dead.
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Franklin
Bert Williams
Carlisle
Williams
Germantown
Margaret Williams
Sarah Williams
Lela Williams
Mary Louise
Gross
Supreme Court Sets Reproduction Cost Test for Rates
Washington May 21 The Supreme Court rules that public service rates must consider reproduction costs at current prices to avoid confiscation. Justice McReynolds delivers the majority opinion in Southwestern Bell case with Justice Brandeis dissent joined by Holmes. The court says current costs, including labor and materials, are essential to a fair return and that state regulation does not transfer ownership or management rights.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice McReynolds
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Missouri
Brandeis
Holmes
Sample Tax Receipts issued to Treasurers
Livingston Enterprise reports county treasurers received sample tax receipt blanks from Helena as part of a new semi annual payment system approved by the legislature. The new form doubles as a receipt and a stub for first payments, with a second stub for the second installment. County officers will review and advise, then the state will implement improvements. Increased duties require a special force and a double survey of books as counties take on full tax collection responsibilities.
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Livingston
Holmes
Helena
Escaped convict found dead by Yellowstone near Forsyth
George Griffith an escaped convict who leaped from a train while being returned to the penitentiary was found dead on the Yellowstone river banks six miles east of Forsyth his skull fractured as another passenger train escape tale ends. Notice June sales announce baby chicks at 15 cents with dates and quantities listed by Clark Allen.
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Billings
George Griffith
Forsyth
Yellowstone River
Liberty
Wholesale Murders On Mexican Border
San Antonio reports Captain W. M. Hanson immigration inspector says six Italians slain after bartering for passage across the Rio Grande were betrayed by their guides. He cites a broader pattern of wholesale murders by bandit smugglers who lure, rob, and kill unsuspecting Europeans while guiding them through a lawless border corridor.
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San Antonio
Texas
Rio Grande
W. M. Hanson
Hanson
German Rioters In Clash With Police In Ruhr District
Five people were killed and 60 to 80 wounded as striking workers clashed with police in Dortmund and surrounding towns. Thousands attended mass meetings urging a wider strike while 60,000 miners quit in the Dortmund district. Strikers demand a 50 percent wage rise amid soaring living costs.
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Dortmund
Germany
Bochum
Ruhr
Rhineland
Steele
Kay
Industrial Workers Get Stiff Sentences
In Sacramento California on May 19 William Flanagan and Albert Strangland of the Industrial Workers of the World were sentenced to 1 to 14 years in San Quentin for criminal syndicalism. Their lawyer T F Alles drew 24 hours in jail for contempt of court.
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Sacramento
Cal
William Flanagan
Albert Strangland
Industrial Workers of the World
San Quentin
T. F. Alles
Steamship Lines End Rate War in Intercoastal Trade
Fifteen steamship lines in the intercoastal trade reached a restoration of the rate conference ending the rate war that began in June last year. An advance of 10 to 20 percent above existing levels is expected. East-bound rates will be set in San Francisco and take effect July 1. All companies approved the new contract.
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New York
San Francisco
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California
J. W. Norton
Norton & Lyons
Senator McDonnell
Kenneth Todd
Earl Lanphear
Mrs
Truman Lanphear
Crum
Melville
Markes
Guo
Clark Allen
The
Pioneer
Ginghams
Percale
Poplin
Air Maid
Besae
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