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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
7
Madison County stock farm once billed as home to the second largest herd of standard bred trotting horses. Owned by Hillhouse Raymond, the property showcased imported stallions and brood mares from Kentucky.
In Madison County, William Hillhouse Raymond and his brother built Belmont Park at Sweetwater Canyon after moving to Montana in 1865. They ran freighting and a Virginia City grocery, bred trotting horses including Commodore Belmont, and established a large horse and hay operation until Raymond's death in 1905.
Frank Harris recounts Wild Bill Hickok as a six foot, good looking frontier figure born in Old Missouri. The piece covers his abolitionist father, school taunts, first shooting in a Pleasant Hill vendetta over a $50 debt and a watch, and Hickok’s rise as a famed gunhand and scout amid saloon feuds and vigilante heat.
A $75,000 blaze destroyed the H. E. Clack company wholesale oil distributing plant and grain elevator in Havre. Four 15,000 gallon tanks exploded spraying burning liquid, with two tanks of gasoline, one of kerosene, and one of distillate burning. One youth was hospitalized with burns.
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