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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1930
Page
7
The 1882 Dillon circus entry drew crowds from distant areas, with Robinson's show described as one of the era's popular acts. Posters plastered across Southwestern Montana and Idaho advertised the event, highlighting bold spectacle and risk for entertainment.
The Missoula sheriff reports a second pork theft at Pattee Canyon slaughterhouse with hogs killed and loaded onto a truck. Dillon celebrates a massive circus arrival with trains, parades, crowding streets, and weeks of post show fever spreading across southwestern Montana.
Fourteen elk hunters from St. Ignatius entered the Flathead region November 9 with six cars and four pack horses. They trudged fifty miles on a drifted trail at about one mile per hour to reach Elk Park station then Coram, burning 134 gallons of gasoline across the 30 mile stretch. Ranger Neal Smith took the photograph.
In the twenty second Montana legislature there will be 15 new senators and 45 new representatives. The secretary of state roster shows 15 Democrats and 41 Republicans in the senate and 43 Democrats and 59 Republicans in the house. Seven senate veterans were defeated and eight retired. New senate members include Lars Angevik Sheridan George A Burr Petroleum John V Corwin Stillwater EB E Fenton Rosebud E F Galt Judith Basin W S Himsl Fallon W C Husband Wheatland James A Jorgenson Jefferson Dr J Kulbach Chouteau John R Page Granite John A Putnam Big Horn Grant Reed Broadwater M D Rowland Lincoln Sam W Teagarden Fergus and Sid A Willis Cascade. Angevik Reed Jergenson and Willis were last session’s lower house members Page is a former senator.
About 400 county officials are expected in Missoula during the first two weeks in January for the annual meeting of county commissioners clerks and recorders and county engineers. Road machinery companies will have display equipment at the event.
Conductor Galloway of the Northern Pacific railway was killed at Dickinson when a string of 17 box cars and a locomotive crashed into the caboose where he worked sorting waybills. The caboose was wrecked as the collision occurred at the Dickinson station.
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