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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
7
Carrie backs Bois Roussel after a tip from a hooded bookmaker. The Derby day chase ends in shock as Bois Roussel loses to Scottish Union, unraveling Carrie’s confidence and revealing her father’s warning about the costs of gambling.
W B Leavitt of Miles City elected president of the Helena Wildlife federation at its fifth annual conference. Sam Lane of Deer Lodge named vice president with M T Messelt as secretary treasurer. Wendt of Great Falls chosen delegate to the National Wildlife Conference in Washington March 17 with Paul Cannon of Butte as alternate. Resolutions urge survey of state game refuges and creation of a third state game farm at Fort Benton and a fish hatchery near Dillon. Fort Peck area urged as a game preserve.
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Mrs Elizabeth Burns 78 a longtime Butte resident died in a local hospital after a short illness She was native to central Keweenaw county Michigan Her relatives include son in law Robert E Dwyer treasurer and vice president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co daughter Mrs Dwyer of Newnare City and son John Burns of a northern city
In 1832 at Pierre's Hole in what is now northwestern Wyoming, William L. Sublette and about 60 men with Nathaniel Wyeth and others gathered for a rendezvous with the Rocky Mountain and American Fur companies. Rival pursuits led to a chase across the Jefferson and Madison rivers ending with Vanderburgh killed near Alder Creek and his bones recovered later, as Flatheads and Pend d Oreilles offered cautious aid.
A historical note reports buffalo herds returning to southern Montana after periods of scarcity. The piece references traditional prophecies by local medicine men and notes the renewed availability of buffalo meat and hides for Indigenous communities and regional traders.
Robert Yellowtail, superintendent of the Crow reservation, reports the buffalo herd has surpassed 600 head. The herd roams the Crow lands, fulfilling an old medicine prophecy and supplying meat hides and sinew for ceremonial arts.
Five Montana men recently recruited for Army service were flown from Spokane to Sacramento in an Army transport plane. Identified by Butte recruiter Nick F. Hertges, the group includes Emerson Rule Miles City Duane Collison Great Falls Thomas Howard Ismay Leon Olin Big Timber and Harold Sunderland Spokane.
The 1864 territorial census predated the 1870 federal count, listing Madison 11,493 Jefferson 1,805 Beaverhead 1,514 Missoula 450 Deer Lodge 360 and Chouteau 200, with Silver Bow Cascade and Yellowstone yet to be created. Judge Tufts gathered minimal counts while Gov. Edgerton divided districts for the Oct 24, 1864 election.
Machinery used in 1937 38 at Gold Butte in the Sweet Grass hills was hauled to the Emigrant area by C G Parker Missoula. The draglines shovels and washing plant marked the end of Placer operations begun in 1910.
An agricultural expert notes the United States hosts about 20 million hogs. The remark contrasts livestock figures with a humorous idea that not all hogs can become automobiles.
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