Youth Carnegie Medal Recipient Billy Hughes Dies at Home
A 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs R B Hughes of Clinton died recently from scarlet fever. He earned the Carnegie Medal in 1934 for heroism in rescuing a companion from drowning in the Missoula river in 1933. The teen dragged Elmer Kallis from the water after a struggle with Ezra Rohrbach who sank and drowned.
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Billy Hughes
R. B. Hughes
Clinton
Missoula
Billy
Elmer Kallis
Ezra Rohrbach
Injured Girl Visits Her Home Over Holidays
Doris Naran cich, 17, was injured four months ago in a car crash near Twin Bridges. She recovered enough to visit her parents during the holidays after being treated at a Butte hospital. State Game Warden Kenneth MacDonald ordered hunting closures in Carbon and Stillwater counties following a weekend elk hunt that killed 60, bringing the herd to range limits.
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Doris Narancich
Twin Bridges
Doris
Butte
Bee
Kenneth MacDonald
Carbon
Stillwater
Burglars Strike Fort Benton Businesses
Four Fort Benton establishments were burglarized by two or three bandits who fled in a stolen car after taking merchandise valued at 400 dollars from Pioneer Mercantile Co. The robbers used plates from another car in the garage No 2 1277 and left untouched Missouri River Lumber Co. and Ford Motor Co. The motive appeared to be money.
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Fort Benton
Pioneer Mercantile Co
Home Motor Co
Nels Swanson
Missouri River Lumber Co
Ford Motor Co
Damages Awarded in Death Case and Local Accidents
A jury in Havre awarded $16,000 to James L. Taulbee of Polson against the Great Northern Railway Co. for Russell Taulbee’s death in a 1934 Wiota junction crash. The report lists multiple fatal and injurious crashes across Montana with names, ages, and locations including Great Falls, Saco, Malta, Bowdoin Lake, Conrad, Ennis, Bozeman, Shelby, and Forsyth, plus statements on hospital conditions and ongoing investigations.
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Crass
Havre
James L. Taulbee
Polson
Great Northern Railway Co
Russell
Wiota Junction
United States
James Baldwin
Butte Walkerville Intercity Baseball Challenge 1880
A long account of the 1880 Butte Walkerville baseball challenge rooted in rivalry and frontier pride. The piece details taunts bets and preparations for a first territorial intercity game played for a bat a ball and 12 bottles of beer with negotiations over a championship at a race track on a sunlit May Sunday.
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Walkerville
Butte
Mississippi River
Alice
Walker Bros
Marcus Daly
Poe
Hill Gang
Butte Committee
Butte Defends Territorial Title in 1880 Baseball Victory
Butte outscored rivals 23 to 4 in a capped match where bases were 62 feet and 75 feet to home, balls supplied by each team, and spectators aided in finding fouled balls. The Silver City nine clinched the 1880 state championship, with Glendale and Walkerville briefly challenging before Butte’s 24 to 3 win. This era saw Montana clubs joining major regional leagues and producing players reaching the big leagues.
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Butte
Askerville
Glendale
Glenale
Walkerville
Silver City
Territory
Helena
Virginia City
Montana
Union Association
Midland Empire League
Mines League
Hunters Fail to Bag Animals in Season Returns
State Game Warden Kenneth MacDonald reports 1,317 hunters did not bag any animal this season while back law enforcement in the state is active. A total of 1,122 of game animals were killed, including 404 elk comprising 264 bulls and 140 cows.
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Kenneth MacDonald
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Ogden
E. J. Fjeldsted
Sec’y
Ogden, Utah
Clark’s Fork Valley
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula, Mont
Johnnie
Johnnie Walker
New York
WN. Y
SOLE
William Charles Campbell
Great Falls
Clifford Conlin
Saco
Lyle Larson
Malta
Norman Anderson
Masefield Sask
Larson
Bowdoin Lake
Cole
Conlin
Fred Carlson
Butte’ Hospital
Divide Wisdom
Dewey
Arthur Semingsen
Sid Semingsen
Conrad
Will
Ed Bell
Toole
Bell
Gail Nelson
Ennis
Bozeman
J. H. Pankey Jr
Nelson
Thomas D. Schall
Minnesota
Washington, D. C
Gertrude Neyenhouse
Shelby
al Laprairie
William Ray
Spokane
A. T. Lindgren
Jane Logue
Billings
Forsyth
Ashland
Max Mallette
E. Mallette
Glen Cox Jr
Glen Cox
Walier
Sunshine Trail
Thomas Swenson
Hingham
Jerry Griffin
Thelma Swenson
Gildford
Griffin
Walter Gugler
Shawmut
Edward Gomke
Tommie Trotchie
Madison Square Garden
Madrid
Spah
Montana Ring Tales
George O'Malley
Joe L. Markham
Mississippi
RAW Fur Corporation
Merry Xmas
Frontier
Dept. M
Frontier Raw Fur Corp
West
New York City
Wilken
Harry Jr
William
Tom
Lew
Harry E. Wilken
Wilkens
Hothrry Alilhin
ALL State
JOS. S. Finch & CO. Inc
Schenley, PA
Schenley Products Co., Inc
Gapevight
Finch
Ial
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