Body of Walter Shaw recovered from Yellowstone river
Walter Shaw prominent Park county summer camp owner drowned June 19 at Soldiers Ford Gardiner river. His body found at 6:30 a.m. on an island above Emigrant bridge by Ted Anderson and a boy employee Bill Atkinson after a two week search. Identification confirmed by clothing and a ring. Funeral set for 2 p.m. at his Shaw residence with burial in Mountain View cemetery. Survived by widow three daughters sisters a brother and his mother.
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Livingston
Walter Shaw
Park County
Gardiner River
Emigrant Bridge
Ted Anderson
Emigrant
Bill Atkinson
Anderson
Walter Selby
Yellowstone
Gardiner
Shaw
Soldiers Ford
Yellowstone Park
Louise
Cooke City
Mr. Shaw
Floyd Farr
Montana
Grasshopper Glacier
Great Northwest
South Second Street
Walter ‘Cg. Shaw
Frances
Margaret
Jessie
Rose
Reetha
Chester
Amos Shaw
Will of Jane Norton Morgan on Record
The will of Jane Norton Morgan wife of J P Morgan filed for probate in Mineola New York leaves most property to four children and a portion to Morgan. It bequeaths 150000 to each child Henry Sturgiss Morgan Julius Spencer Morgan Frances Tracy Pennoyer and Jane Norton Nichols with Morgans receiving English property and life use of USA household effects. Executed by Mr Morgan and two sons as executors.
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New York
Jane Norton Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Mineola
N. Y
Henry Sturgiss Morgan
Julius Spencer Morgan
Frances Tracy Pennoyer
Jane Norton Nichols
Bridger Banker Samuel Rankin Dies in Los Angeles
Samuel W. Rankin 64, vice president and treasurer of Bridger Mercantile, and former Minneapolis hardware salesman, died at his daughter’s home in Los Angeles after heart trouble. He had lived in California since February and will be buried in Minneapolis. Survived by widow and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Quirk and Mrs. Carolyn Hall, both in Los Angeles.
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Bridger
Samuel W. Rankin
Bridger Mercantile Company
Hall
Los Angeles
Cal
Rankin
American National Bank of
Janey, Semple, Hill & Co
Minneapolis
Mary Quirk
Carolyn Hall
Marines Held After Court Martial at White Court
Summary court martial proceedings for two marine guards at White Court, Corporal Andrey Chantes of Cleveland and Private Clarence Kes of Centerville Texas, ended with findings awaiting Captain Adolphus Andrews approval. The men faced charges of neglect and leaving posts, were relieved after dawn inspection, and face up to three months pay loss and 30 days confinement.
Frank Gottlob Pioneer of Sweet Grass Dies at 69
Frank Gottlob, longtime Sweet Grass pioneer and Austrian-born rancher, dies after an afternoon operation for bowel obstruction. He leaves a widow and six children Josie Hanson Frank Gottlob Peter Gottlob Mamie Buell Ann Hoyem Susie Anderson. Funeral at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Sweet Grass with pallbearers from the community.
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Frank Gottlob
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Father Leahy
Columbus
Josie Hanson
Frank
Peter Gottlob
the Sweet Grass
Mamie Buell
Ashland
Calif
Ann Hoyem
Dell, Mont
Susie Anderson
Chicago
Shenandoah Dirigible Crashes Killing Twelve at Belle Valley
An early edition reports the Shenandoah uniting as it crashed over Ava Ohio resulting in twelve officers and enlisted men dead including Commander Zachery Lansdowne and Commander Hancock Forty two crew were aboard with fifteen injured as the dirigible broke in two after a windstorm and drifted southward with the two sections landing ten miles apart.
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Livingston Daily Enterprise
Belle Valley
Ohio
Zachery Lansdowne
Hancock
Shenandoah
Pride
United States Air Service
Ava
Cadillac Car Ownership Dispute Sparks Arrest Action
Deputy United States Marshal Platt served a warrant in Butte on Leo J. Cremer and Bertha Cremer after a Cadillac phaeton bearing altered numbers tied to a Minneapolis theft. The Cremers posted $500 bond for a September 10 hearing before U S commissioner J E Rees. The complaint dates to August 24 1925 and lists October 5 1923 as the concealment of the stolen vehicle. The case could be heard in Butte or Eastern Montana districts before Judges Bourquin or Pray.
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United States
Platt
Butte
City
Leo J. Cremer
Bertha Cremer
Harlowton
J. E. Rees
U. S
A. L. Phillips
L. R. Grimes
L. M. van Etten
Co. E. Argabright
Big Timber
Lac Phaeton
Stockmen Press for Local Control of National Forest Grazing
A Helena Independent report details stockmen urging the Senate Public Lands Committee to grant greater local control of national forests. They propose an area grazing rights system, transferability, a board of appeal, and grazing charges capped at cost plus ten percent. The hearings proceed in Missoula with state livestock leaders presenting resolutions noting nine admin reforms and two public-domain measures.
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Helena
Board of Appeal
Public Lands Committee
United States Senate
Robert N. Stanfield
Oregon
Ralph H. Cameron
Arizona
Tasker L. Oddie
Nevada
John
General Land Office
George K. Bowden
T. W. Tomlinson
National Livestock Association
Missoula
Spokane
Yakima
Wash
J. E. Morse
Dillon
Montana Livestock Commission
C. H. Williams
Deer Lodge
Montana Wool Growers’ Association
State Livestock Association
State Wool Growers’ Association
Rachford
Boards of Appeal
National Forest
Montana Power Company Tops 1924 Tax Payers List
Helena Sept. 1 The Montana Power Company and its subsidiaries based in Butte headed the 1924 tax list with a total tax bill of 326 268 54. Individual payment records show W A Clark Jr of Butte paying 514 464 30 the largest single amount in the district. The list includes Yellowstone Park Hotel Co Lewistown Oil and Refining Co and several Montana firms with payments ranging from about 8300 to 516 000. Individual names include Andrew J Davis W A Clark Sr and others in Montana towns such as Helena Butte Missoula and Bozeman.
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Helena
Montana
Montana Power Company
Butte
Montana District of Internal Revenue Bureau
C. A. Rasmussen
W A. Clark, Jr
W. A. Clarke
Clark’s
Yellowstone Park Hotel Company
Lewistown Oil and Refining Company
Lewistown
the Polleys Lumber Company
Simons Drygoods Company
Montana Life Insurance Company
Andrew J. Davis
First National Bank
William D. Thornton
Thornton
A. C. Carson
William Wallace, Jr
New York City
W. A. Clark
Butte Capitalist
F S. Jones
Woodward
Golden Rule
John W. Schnitzeler
Froid
Margaret M. Hays
Livingston
Missing Bodies Found in Glacier Park Couple Found Dead Near Lincoln Pass
In Glacier National Park Montana the bodies of Mr and Mrs J B Wheeler of Whitefish were recovered by Park Ranger J B Fleimning near Lincoln Pass. They had been missing since August 12 and died about two weeks earlier during a snowstorm that deposited 12 inches of snow. Coroner Campbell Kalispell confirmed the deaths.
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Great Falls
Mont
J. B. Wheeler
Whitefish
Glacier National Park
J. B. Fleimning
Lincoln Pass
Campbell
Kalispell
Woman of Ku Klux Klan Charged With Misuse of Funds
In Arkansas a suit filed in Bulaski chancery court accuses Mrs. Robbie Gill Comer imperial commander and her husband James A. Comer of waste and fraudulent misappropriation of funds from the Ku Klux Klan. A temporary restraining order blocks interference with the imperial kloklan and national executive board pending final hearing.
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Little Rock
Ark
Robbie Gill Comer
Imperial
Women
Ku Klux Klan
James A. Comer
Grand Dragon
The
Realm of Arkansas Knights of the
Bulaski
Flora Alexander
Dallas
Gomer
National Order
Richard M. Mann
Washington, D. C
Lula A. Markwell
Woman Angler of the Boulder Narrowly Escapes Death
A Montana Transfer men party at Hunters Hot Springs near the Boulder River saw a woman fall into swift water while fishing. W. E. Baker from the party plunged in and rescued her just before she was swept into a deep hole beneath a fallen tree, narrowly saving her life.
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Livingston Enterprise
Montana
Hunters Hot Springs
Boulder
Billings
W. E. Baker
Boulder River
Baker
Montana Transfer and Storage Men’s Association
Injary
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Yellowstone River
Frank Dingle
Bridger Banker
San Francisco
Congregational Church
Australia
Rev. Dingle
Dingle
America
Grand Hotel
J. J. Lacklen
Coolgardie
Lacklen
Lebanon
Holy Land
John W. Davis
Ed Bartels
Andrew Forsythe
Henry Schrader
Iver Hoyem
Austria
Northern Pacific
Sweet Grass
Sweet Grass County
Cadillac
George M. Bourquin
Charles N. Pray
Senate
Morse
Montana Power Co
Glacier Park
K. K. K. Head
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