Rites Held for Union Soldier Uncle Jimmy Craig
Funeral services were held at Hedgesville for James A. Craig known as Uncle Jimmy the last Union soldier in Wheatland County. He died at his ranch two miles northeast of Bercail aged old age. Burial was at Hedgesville cemetery beside his sister. He enlisted in the 161st New York and saw action at Mobile Bay and Antietam. This obituary is followed by a Montana pioneer history note by editor Standish.
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Hedgesville
James A. Craig
Jimmy” Craig
Wheatland County
Bercail
Sam Patterson
Craig
161St
New York Volunteers
Mobile Bay
Ala
Antietem
West
Montana
Butte
Careless Creek
Billings
Lewistown
Snowles
Jimmy
James I. Langston
Harlowton
Judge Woody On Western Montana History And Oregon Boundary
Historian Judge F H Woody portrayed western Montana in the 1870s, detailing frontier conflicts and development. The article tracks Oregon's territorial boundary disputes with Britain, 1846 treaty lines, and the creation of Washington Territory including Clarke and Missoula counties with Worden trading post as a focal point.
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Udge
F. H. Woody
Western
Montana
Montana Territory
Rocky Mountains
Bitter Root Mountains
Missoula
Deer Lodge
Great Northwest
Oregon Country
United States
Great Territory
Oregon
Great Britain
Discovery
Louisiana
Limits
Spain
Congress
Washington Territory
Washington
Clarke
Clarke County
Columbia River
Fort Vancouver
Woody
Spokane County
Spokane
Worden & Co
Hell’s Gate Ronde
Highway Work Shifts Near Malta as Bowdoin Lake Deck Nears
Road crews move from Bowdoin lake gravel pits to the ranch of Mrs. Fred Wilson three miles northwest of Malta to continue highway link work from the Milk River bridge east. The Milk River bridge deck work is nearly finished, leaving only the stretch from Bowdoin lake to Hinsdale grade ungraded in Phillips county, Deer Lodge. The article recountsMissoula county history, early explorers, Flathead and Pend d Oreille tribes, and the Jesuit missions that established St. Marys in Bitter Root valley with Father DeSmet and Ravalli, noting mission sales and Blackfeet conflicts.
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Bowdoin Lake
Fred Wilson
Malta
Milk River Bridge
Milk River
Hinsdale
Phillips County
Deer Lodge
Rocky Mountains
Missoula County
Wash Yn
Idaho Territory
Idaho
Wordenville
Congress
Montana Territory
Bannack
Missoula
Hell’s Gate
Montana
Lewis and Clark
Bitter Root
Biff Hole Mountain
Ross’ Hole
Lewis and Clarke
Flatheads
St. Louis
DeSmet
Fort Hall
Point
Mengarine
W. Classens
Joseph Specht
Deer Lodge Valley
Hell's Gate Canyon
St. Mary’s Mission
Fort Owen
Nez Perces
Pend d’Oreilles
Coeur d’Alene
Fathers Point
Hoecken
St. Mary’s
Europe
Bitter Root Valley
Father Ravalli
Woody
St. Mary's Mission
New Rail Rates On Oil Figure In Montana Dispute
The Montana railroad commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission approve new oil transport rates, cutting gasoline shipments by 7.5 to 24.5 cents per hundredweight from 1929 levels. Crude oil rates from field to refinery remain unchanged while low grade oils shift to 80 percent of gasoline rates. Also noted are Britain’s military research budget and Poland’s planned modernization spend.
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Montana Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Commission
Montana
Commission
Proves
Woodward Leaves State for Minneapolis After Hobson Fame
Herbert Woodward, northwest manager of the Security Owners association, moves his office from Lewistown to Minneapolis. A Hobson native and longtime local booster, he helped drive Judith Basin county formation and led notable community projects while Hobson flourished.
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Ontana
Herbert Woodward
Northwest
Security Owners Association
Lewistown
Minneapolis
Woodward
Hobson
Judith Basin
Stanford
Hobson Boys
Court House
Montana
Judith County
Moccasin
Supreme Court
Judith River
Masonic-Oddfellow
West
Wood
First National Bank of
Hobson Bank
Farm Board
Woodward's
New ‘York
Securiteaves
Saint Ignatius Mission Founded by Hoecken in 1851
The West Flathead area is home to St. Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Reservation, established by Father Hoecken in 1851, marking an early Catholic presence in the region.
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St. Ignatius Mission
Flathead Reservation
Father Hoecken
Easterners On Tour Of State Missoula Welcomes Farm Visitors
About 800 visitors from eastern states rode special Northern Pacific trains to Missoula for a staged view of Western Montana agriculture. Five tours carried 150 to 200 people each, with Chamber of Commerce guided auto trips to nearby farms and irrigation projects. One half day excursion covered the Lower Flathead valley and the Indian Irrigation Service 100000 acre project, plus a buffalo exhibit at the National Bison Reserve. The groups then continued toward Yellowstone and the Pacific coast.
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Missoula
Montana
Northern Pacific Railway
East
L. A. Campbell
Chamber of Commerce
Flathead Valley
Indian Irrigation Service
National Bison Reserve
Yellowstone Parks
Pacific Coast
Specimen of new dinosaur bones found on Crow Reservation
Barnum Brown of the American Museum reports a perfect undescribed dinosaur specimen unearthed on the Crow Indian reservation 50 miles south of Billings. He notes its complete preservation and a smaller skeleton type, dated later than Wyoming and New Mexico finds, with an estimate of about 5,000,000 years between periods.
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Crow Indian Reservation
Billings
Barnum Brown
American Museum of Natural History
Brown
Wyoming
New Mexico
Attorney General Rules on School District Warrants
The Attorney General holds that warrants issued in excess of anticipated revenues cannot be paid from funds collected. The ruling states the law has no provision allowing payments when school funds fall below total expenditures and that cot payment must await legislative supply.
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Foot
Also Mentioned on This Page
Father DeSmet
Treasure State
Standish
John K. Standish
Judge Woody
Moise
Lewis
Canada
Hudson’s Bay Company
Ignace Iroquois
Franscois Saxa
Bute Root Valley
Ignace
Dermet Ignace
Gallatin City
Montana Commission
Poland
Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
John Owen
Father Josef
N. P
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