Sioux Chief Gall vows to fight on January second 1881
Fifty five years ago Major Ilges leads troops from Fort Keogh to Camp Poplar River in a harsh winter march through sub zero cold. The Sioux under Chief Gall refuse surrender and vow to wipe out the soldiers on January 2 1881 as Miles commands five infantry companies and Indian scouts. Fort Keogh hosts hundreds of prisoners of war and efforts to settle Cheyenne families on Rosebud land face department resistance.
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Montana
Lou” Grill OH Gall
Poplar River
Fort Keogh
Fifth Infantry
Nd Cavalry
Uring
Miles
Yellowstone
Tongue and Rosebud
Little Sheep Mountain Range
Sitting Bull
Camp Poplar River
Ages
Ilges
Northwest
Tongue River
War Department
Missouri River
Rosebud River Valley
Vas
Missouri
Fort Yates
Standing Rock Agency
Chief Gall
Major Ilges
Liges
Oe Gall
Gall
Fort Buford
Crow
Crow King
Joseph Culbertson
Mr. Henderson
Iges
Henderson
Seventh Cavalry
Yanktonnois
J. W. Miller
Pine Ridge Agency
Clifford
Seventh Infantry
Sherman
Actress Olga Steck Former Butte Girl Dies In San Francisco Fall
Olga Steck 38 year old actress who plunged twelve stories to her death from a San Francisco hotel window began her stage career in Butte. She first appeared in 1904 as a child entertainer at the Imperial theater and later starred in a stock show as Little Olga before joining Pacific coast troupes and Broadway productions.
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Olga Steck
San Francisco
Butte
Old Empress Theater
Olga
Pacific Coast
Mes York
Ruby Gulch Mining Co declares 35 percent dividend near Zortman
Ruby Gulch Mining Co at Zortman Phillips county announces a 35 percent adjustment dividend totaling about 35000 dollars. Three stockholders Traverman Dorais and Whitcomb purchased the property December 4 1934. High grade ore was found after purchase and a 70008 mill was erected. The mine produced about 150000 in gold ore this year.
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Ruby Gulch Mining Co
Zortman
Phillips County
Carl 3 Traverman
Traverman
Ernest Dorais
Butte
Charles Whitcomb
Trauerman
Old-Timer Describes Reed's Fort Tale and a Shootout
Mose LaTrey recalls 1870s Montana near Lewistown. A French freight driver tracks missing horses to Major Reed's trading post at Reed's Fort. A confrontation ends with a pistol shot into a log wall and the horse thieves fleeing. Reed is gone when the man returns.
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Mose LaTrey
Montana
Lewistown
Major Reed
Reed
Mose
Assinniboine
Missouri River
Cow Island
Raynesford Lad Is Best Hunter in Rodent Contest
John Visocan of Raynesford tops Judith Basin Future Farmers rodent contest with 788 groundhogs 788 gophers 171 magpies and crows 2 weasels 104 sparrows 8 rabbits and 4 hawks. Henry Sereday Windham second with 404 groundhogs 78 crows and magpies 59 rabbits 421 gophers 11 sparrows 7 hawks. Scott Perrine Windham Stanford high school third with 300 groundhogs 234 gophers 8 crows and magpies 59 rabbits hawks and 1 coyote. Total statewide counts listed for gophers groundhogs weasels pies and crows sparrows repute hawks and cog es.
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Judith Basin
C Ter
Stanford
John Visocan
Raynesford
E. Henry Sereday
Windham
Scott Perrine
Stanford High School
Perrine
Square Circle Sportsmen’s Club
Field and Stream Magazine
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Postum
Buddy
General Foods
C. F.corp. Pete “Warniators of
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Mich
M.N. A
Juddaer
Los Angeles
PSV
iMa
Union Pacific
Bulder Dam
Los Angeles and Returmaoa Vis Union Pecks 24465 Same Fare To San Franncisco
Las Vegas
Henry Coulam
Geal Agt
Biatto Bidg
Moat
Pheae
Zoertman
Raynesford Lad
Coren
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