Dynamiter Who Terrorized Montana Rail Line
A 1903 Montanaextortion plot against the Northern Pacific Railroad led to a series of dynamiting attacks across the state. A ransom demanded $25 000, with threats of broader destruction if unmet. Explosions damaged the Livingston Yellowstone bridge and other railroad assets, heightening public fear until Isaac Gravelle, an ex convict, was captured. Authorities offered rewards totaling 10 500 dollars and mobilized bloodhounds and armed guards as investigations continued.
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Northern Pacific Railroad
St. Paul
Minn
Board of Directors
N. P. . R. Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Spokane
Wash
Dynamiter
Livingston
Livingsto
Yellowstone
Yellowstone River
Bozeman
Livingston Bridge
Butte
Northern Pacific
William Schmidt
John Brown
Helena
Logan
Claspil
Birdseye
Holter Hardware Company
Montana
Elliston
Livingstone
Hannaford
Jos. K. Toole
State of Montana
State of
Park County
Kane Boyle
Aniel Boyle
Montana Division of the Road
John Dunn
Carbon County
Jim Keown
Frank Latta
Isaac Gravelle
End of the Montana dynamiter Gravelle in fatal escape
The Nor thern Pacific dynamiter Isaac Gravelle faced burglary charges in Helena after a Deer Lodge transfer. During a trial escape he fired on deputies, killing deputy Korizek and wounding none. Gravelle fled, led a long chase through Helena, and ultimately shot himself in the head in a Toole area yard, dying instantly as onlookers watched.
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Deer Lodge
Helena
Gravelle
Henry C. Smith
Jones
Korizek
Ope Cornac
Breckenridge Street
Ridge
Rodney Street
Monroe
Joe Spurzem
Joe
Spurzem
Jim Keown
Frank Latta
Bea Clements
Keown
Governor Toole
Ewing Street
Fifth Avenue
Toole
Miter
Latta
Montana Dynamiter
Ike Gravelle
Antelope Refuge Plan Studied in Musselshell County
The Montana fish and game commission examines establishing an antelope preserve in Musselshell county. The request from the Tri county Sportsmen’s association follows Gov. Ford’s SB 53 approving Pittman Robertson act funds. Backers expect about $90 000 yearly for wildlife refuges.
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Montana Fish and Game Commission
Musselshell County
Sam C. Ford
Montana
Tricounty Sportsmen’s Association
Musselshell
Golden Valley
Petroleum
Stockman Touts Sheep Herding by Air in New York
J Stanley Smith, a White Sulphur Springs stockman and sportsman, claimed he used a plane to herd sheep in an airborne flock guiding stunt. He recalled racing Jimmy Reynolds in 1921 and a 1922 Montana return after training as an airman at an army camp in Long Beach. He spurred a New York front page feature with the noise bomb sheep herding pitch.
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J. Stanley Smith
Montana
Jimmy Reynolds
Boulder Springs
Long Beach
Calif
New York
Gothamites
Rocky Mountain Club
Smith
Rattlesnake Den Slain by 1922 Miles City Party
In Glendive area a large rattlesnake den near the Hollecker farm yielded by a count of about 1,000 rattlers killed in one day by C. E. Garen and Harold Warren DeSalenaive and helpers. Dynamite destroyed part of the den. many bull snakes and blue racers also died. An earlier estimate suggests hundreds remain alive in rock crevices.
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Miles City American
Glendive
C. E. Garen
Harold Warren DE Salenaive
Hollecker Farm
Garen
Warren
Pioneer Woman Taken by Death in Dillon
Mary Catherine Gelhaus 170 died at home after a year of ill health. Born April 29, 1871 near Virginia City, she was the daughter of Montana pioneers and lived on a Melrose ranch before marrying in 1898. Survived by husband four children and several relatives in Kalispell Dillon Denver Garfield and Helena. She was active in St Rose Catholic church and St Rose guild.
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Mary Catherine Gelhaus
Dillon
Francis Gelhaus
Kalispell
Sylvester M. Rogan
Harold L. Ness
Denver
Colo
Katherine Miller
Alver Ahlquist
Garfield
Utah
Ed H. Naughton
Helena
Virginia City
Ed A. Cottrell
Salt Lake City
Co operatives Studied in Montana by MSU Researchers
Dr. Harold F. Hollands of Montana State College supervises a statewide study to determine the predominant types of cooperative organizations now operating in Montana.
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Montana
Harold F. Hollands
Department of Agricultural Economics
Montana State College
Murray urges larger insect control appropriation
Senator James Murray of Montana pressed a senate subcommittee to raise the deficiency appropriation for insect control from 2 million to 3 million dollars, with an additional 500 thousand earmarked for grasshoppers. He cited war time agricultural needs and a December conference that deemed 3 million the minimum to meet the situation, warning against complacency to prevent a repeat infestation.
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James FE. Murray
Montana
Senate
House
Murray
Minneapolis
Europe
State liquor stores adopt new noon to eight schedule
Montana liquor stores will open at noon and close at 8 p m under a new schedule ordered by state liquor officials. Administr ator Ray L Wahl sent bulletins to vendors about the change. Wahl attended the National Beverage Control association meeting in Mobile Alabama with board members Fred Ward and A E McFatridge who joined administrators and officials from 17 Major monopoly states. Japan designates all Shinto priests as government officials equal to military and civic officers.
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Montana
Ray L. Wahl
Liquffor
Wahl
National Beverage Control Association
Mobile
Ala
Fred Ward
White Sulphur Springs
A. E. McFatridge
Billings
State
Squor Control
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By Wilchey
Daniel Boyle
Mr. Monroe
Cascade
Antelope
Stockman
Mary Gelhaus
Dobetown
Murray States
Montanan
Japan
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