Early Territorial Courts in Eastern Montana Recall Trials
Judge Goddard recalls Montana’s early territorial courts in the 1880s. Travel from Miles City to trial sites stretched over 200 miles by stage and rail was sparse. Lawyers, judges, and jurors faced primitive lodgings, crowded dockets, and rugged frontier justice shaped by California law.
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Territorial
Montana
Goddard
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Custer County
Yellowstone Valley
Miles City
Northern Pacific
Supreme Court
California
Blackstone
E. Warren Toole
Wilbur F. Sanders
F. Goddard
Billings
Judge Goddard
Louis Fenske
Benjamin F. Wade
Senate
Andrew Johnson
John Tinkler
Territory
Theodore Muffily
Tinkler
St. Louis
Yellowstone County
George A. MacArthur
James D. Russell
Blue Grass
MacArthur
Russell
Garlock
Johnson
J. W. Strevell
Strevell
James Reed
James Carpenter
Musselshell
Reed
Carpenter
Pomp Dennis
Colonel Sanders
Warren Toole
Sam H. Wilde
Texas
Coulson
Wilde
Coburn
Souow
Joseph Reed
Junction City
Yellowstone
Deer Lodge
Pacific Northwest Finance Corporation Forms in Great Falls
Organized in Montana under state law the Pacific Northwest Finance Corporation sets headquarters in Great Falls. It finances the Pacific Northwest Life Insurance Company and will conduct a Morris Plan style money loan business with $100 000 authorized capital stock. Reservations for shares are accepted with cash or installments and no salesmen will call.
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Montana
Secretary of State
Great Falls
Pacific Northwest Finance Corporation
Pacific Northwest Life Insurance Company
The
Finance Corporation
Morris Plan
United States
Pacific Finance Corporation
Pacific Northwest Finance Corp Stock Inquiry Notice
A brief notice from Pacific Northwest Finance Corp requesting further particulars about stock. It asks for the applicant to provide their name Post Office address occupation and residence details for further correspondence.
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Pacific Northwest Finance Corp
Great Falls
Mont
Race of the Nachez and Robert E Lee Aboard the Mississippi
Felix F. Ogier recalls the 1870 Mississippi steamboat race between the Nachez and the Robert E Lee. The Lee won after dramatic maneuvering by Captain Cannon. 30,000 watched in St. Louis and crowds lined every river town as telegraphs spread updates. The tale covers fuel tactics, barges, and public bets, with Ogier as a cabin boy on the Lee.
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Mississippi
Gehenna
Father of Waters
John W. Cannon
Thomas P. Leathers
Europe
Lee
Cannon
St. Louis
New Orleans
Nachezs
Cairo
Memphis
United States
Mr. Ogier
Niger
Nachez
Leathers
Pine Street
Perry Tharp
Leather
Tharp
Frank Pargoud
Robert E., Lee
Old Man River
Montana phones show increase in 1927 totals
Montana total telephones in use rose to 59 238 in 1927 from 55 115 in 1922. Bell system held 43 992 in 1922, independents 11 181 in 1927, up 0.5 percent, with Associated Telephone Utilities entering the field via Interstate Utilities, 468 stations in Libby and Troy, Montana, and operations also in Idaho and Washington.
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Montana
Federal Census Bureau
Bell System
Associated Telephone Utilities Company
Interstate Utilities Company
Idaho
Washington
Libby
Troy
Mont
Butte Blind Boy Donates Blood To Aid Injured Man
Frank Erickson, a 37 year old Butte newsboy, went to hospital after a friend brought him in. He offered blood for J. C. Thompson, who lost a leg in a car crash three months ago and has undergone 21 transfusions with three female donors among them.
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Frank Erickson
Butte
Bling
Thompson
Erickson
J. C. Thompson
Circle Diamond Ranch History and Long Trail Sale Tale
The Bloom Cattle company sold the Circle Diamond Canadian range after the 1906-07 disaster that took 9008 head of cattle. The firm, once headquartered at Horse Camp Coulee near Malta, grew from 1892 cattle drives and spanned Montana and the Canadian line with operations in Colorado South Dakota and New Mexico.
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Bloom Cattle Company
John Survant
Phillips County
Malta
Great Northern
Oris Junction
Wyoming
Home Ranch
Assinniboine Creek
Milk River
Beaver Creek
Gordon
Ironsides
Ferris
Colorado
South Dakota
Madison County Pioneer Voter Keeps Perfect Record
James H. Vanderbeck of Virginia City boasts voting in every Madison County election for fifty years while pursuing a bee culture business at his Waterloo ranch. At 73, he remains active in local affairs and preserves relics from Montana’s early days, including the first faro box and table.
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James H. Vanderbeck
Virginia City
Madison County
Waterloo
Vanderbeck
Omaha
Neb
Co Tiine
Utah
Wells Fargo
Cache Valley
Camas Prairie
Ida
Price's Canyon
John Yarrader
Mort Starkweather
John Smith
Mattie Doe
D. J. Thomas
Butte
Montana
Jerry Lewis
Jim
C. W. Bank
Hare
Los Angeles
Dillon
Virgins City
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Sanders
Bishop
Parmly Billings
Frederick Billings
Robert G. Ingersoll
Martin Maginnis
Congress
Maginnis
Joseph K. Toole
John Wassem
Fat Jack
Wassem
Lawisiane
Lewistown
Pop” Willston
Lavina
Dudley Dubois
Alaska
Rex Beach
Fatack
W. H. Banfill
Post Office
Rocker
Cabin Boy
Vicksburg
Clarence Lichte
Abe
Edwards
George Edwards
Livingston
Toronto Star
Circle Diamond Ranch
Madison Man
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