Legislature draft bills face tough odds on county division
Bills for county division including Cascade and nearby areas fared poorly with none likely to pass. The anti pool room and slot machine amendments stall amid limited support. Norton’s anti Japanese bill dies in committee. Ravalli residents oppose Doutan irrigation fears water rights losses to big corporations. Governor signed Teton county into the eighth judicial district and Cowgill’s bill passed both houses.
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Norton
Silver Bow
Doutan
Ravalli County
Helena
Hamilton
Assembly
House
Senate
Teton County
Eighth Judicial District
Cowgill
Downing
Offtyeat Walls
World at Large and National Political Tensions
A bulging list of diverse items notes a Wyoming Colorado blizzard and a Chicago retrial of a $29 million Standard Oil lease. It covers a Nashville murder case, Cheyenne farming congress, Confederate veterans reunion in Memphis, and debates on homesteads and postal savings. The American fleet returns, crop losses mount, Hawaii exhibits at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific, Omaha riots, Wyoming liquor law, Wright’s death, and a Roosevelt merger report.
It Is the Limit for Hatfield It Is the Limit for Hatfield
The district court Saturday morning sentenced Ros Latteld to ten years in the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge for manslaughter in the killing of Ray Gregory, a Great Northern brakeman, last October. Judge Brickeun urged reform and warned against violence on trains, noting potential sentence reductions for good behavior.
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Poo Ros Latteld
Ray Gregory
Norchero
Hatfield
Brickeun
Deer Lodge
McKenzie
Forestry Instruction Initiated at University of Montana
A cooperative agreement between President Duniway of the University of Montana and the U S Forest Service launches a forestry instruction program at Missoula. Lectures cover forest management, logging, timber cruising and scaling, with field trips to nearby forests mills and camps. Practical work includes timber estimation in woods and nur sery work for reforestation.
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University of Montauna
Missoula
United States Forest Service
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Forest Service
United States
Montana
Morning Service Discontinued at Electric Plant
The electric light plant will discontinue morning service after the end of the current week due to coal scarcity. Difficulties obtaining coal from railroads and mines require rationing to maintain light during the day.
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Electrieight
Cemetery trustees work to settle Choteau plots and title
The Choteau Cemetery board appointed by the county commissioners has nearly completed plans to straighten affairs. They face title questions for five acres deeded to the cemetery company, survey discrepancies between McIntyre and Goodspeed maps, unrecorded county lots, and unknown lot ownerships. Trustees plan to notify nominal lot holders, issue descriptive receipts, and use unpaid funds for improvements.
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Altost
Choteau Cemetery
Chateau Cemetery Co
S. T
Goodspeed
Work of the Court Completed
The district court term closed with a guilty verdict in the Tughes gambling case. a burglary trial against Wooster proceeded, with Wilcox as prosecutor. Uri Field, a youth convicted of manslaughter, testified and was later acquitted. Graham pleaded guilty and received one year. Montana vs Oliver Jenkins ended in dismissal for lack of evidence. The Armstrong Livestock Co case, involving importation of two rams with seab, resulted in a $100 fine.
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C. H L. Wilcox
Wales
Wilcox
Ufatfield
Sulgrove
Graham
Webster
Gailty
Montana
Oliver Jenkins
Pettigrew & Swain
Conrad
T.O. Carson
Wu. Hoduskies
Mary Wall
Wim. Chalmers
FM. Wall
G. AB. Blackman
Geo. Richards
Armstrong Livestock Co
Edmonton Welcomes Great Falls Delegation In Talks On Rail Line
Werbert Webster and C M Webster with Ss 13 Robbins from Great Falls toured Edmonton Lethbridge Macleod and Calgary seeking Canadian Pacific expansion south from the international boundary toward Great Falls. The group met Alberta premier in Edmonton and received a warm reception including a banquet in Lethbridge where Webster spoke on Abraham Lincoln. Maps and data impressed officials as the delegation advocates a railroad.
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Robbins
Great Falls
Tethbridgre
Edmonton
Teton County
Lethbridge
Macleod
Calgary
Webster
Abraham Lincoln
Alberta
Train Robbers in Cascade County Court Trial
The Great Falls yard train hold up last May leads to trial in Cascade county court. Hatch is found guilty with punishment pending the court, minimum five years. The jury decides he was sixteen at the time. Randall is found guilty. Reams will be tried next.
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Cascade
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Nest
Public mass meeting urged in Chateau county town
A notice calls all citizens of Chateau and nearby areas to a mass meeting at the county courthouse on Friday March 5 at 8 p m. The program will discuss the railroad question and other matters affecting public welfare. Every recipient should attend and bring others if possible. The organizers stress urgency and local impact.
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Chateau
County Court House
Man Fatally Shot at Cutbank
In Cutbank Sunday night Murray Richards a 17 year old deputy sheriff’s son shot and killed Al Daley an escapee from jail after Daley broke through a jail window and fled. Daley aged about 30 worked as a carpenter and had been drinking. he died Wednesday in Great Falls Hospital.
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Sherif
al Daley
Jai
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Eighrteen
Ca Tan
Youne Richards
Greatalls
Cty
Ed. Ganong
Chateau
Great Falls
Ganong
Burial of Hans Dahl at Choteau cemetery
The remains of Hans Dahl a respected Saypo resident were buried at Choteau cemetery on Saturday afternoon Rev N A Prescott officiating. Neighbors traveled about twenty five miles to attend and John W Ward and John Lane assisted. Dahl died suddenly of heart failure February 17 at age 63 after moving from Everett Washington to a free man ranch near Saypo two years ago. He left a widow a son on the ranch and a daughter in Portland Oregon.
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N. A. Prescott
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John Lane
Dahl
United States
Norway
Freeman Ranch
Suypo
Everett
Wash
Portland
Oregon
Stage schedule revised to match train times at Collins
A temporary change shifts Collins stage arrivals to Chateau at noon and departures at 3 PM. Shelby train from Great Falls leaves 8:30 PM arriving Collins about 11 PM as well as Shelby to Great Falls arriving 9:25 PM. Trains to Butte rerouted via Shelby. restoration hoped after tunnell fire near Teton between Benton and Great Falls.
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Chateau
Shelby
Great Falls
Teton
Benton
Butte
Taft Cabinet Selection Nearly Complete with Five Lawyers Appointed
President elect Taft narrows his cabinet picks with Pilander Knox to be secretary of state and Myron Hermek and Pragkhon VeVearh under consideration. Current posts include J M Dickinson war secretary and George Von L Meyer navy secretary, Charles Nagle commerce and labor, Ballinger interior, Hitchcocks postmaster general, James Wilson agriculture. The slate features five lawyers and aims for legal training to curb corporations. Knox previously served as attorney general under Roosevelt. Wilson will remain. Diettnson to be war secretary, a Democrat and former Confederate veteran who did not back Bryan.
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Roosevelt
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Kallinger
Intenor
General Land Office
Diet Tnson
Uryan
Citizens' State Bank of Chateau Opens in Choteau
The Acantha clarifies a past error about a new bank in Choteau. It will be Citizens' State Bank of Chateau, not a National bank, with the room enlarged this week to receive new furniture and fittings.
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Acantha
Choteau
Citizens’ State Bank of
Chateau
Montana News Roundup From County to University Events
The report covers Moore Montana's incorporation movement and Sunday mail service, a court sentence of 18 months for Freembling in the T C Power case, Billings Northern railway expansion rumors, a petrified Indian exhibit in Havre, and a lamb sale in Billings. It also notes farmer lawsuits over tax refunds to lumber firms, Montana farm animal counts, Missoula charter day at the state university with E C Day as speaker, and the new library dedication plus a Red Apple banquet.
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T. C. Power Co
Ereus County
the State University At
Missoula
E.C. Day
Helena
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