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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
1
News briefs report dying trees near Dillon and a forthcoming Montana land district in Havre. Sen Dixon pushes for district control, Fort Missoula army barracks funding, and a Great Falls air pistol ban by city council. Yellowstone opens for season as Great Falls bandits and bounty claims loom.
County commissioners reversed a April order that restricted new retail liquor licenses in Conrad and additions. The action followed a challenge by the American Brewing Co. which argued the board lacked authority to set the license cap or require census population data before issuing licenses.
Directors file Articles of Incorporation for a railroad with 16 million dollars capital. The line would run from Lapwai up the middle fork of the Clearwater River through Lolo Pass to Missoula Granite and Deer Lodge counties to Butte. Speculation ties the move to Harriman interests seeking a Pacific outlet competing with northern transcontinental routes.
Raymond residents visit and host relatives including Mrs James Churchwell and Mrs Milter. W C Boucher of Conrad seen in Raymond Thursday. Mr Aman receives word his daughter Catherine is dying in Spokane and leaves immediately. Frank Collins shows a brown bear hide from a trap with a sequence of shooting and killing actions.
George Bennett drew a 32 year term in state prison after a prior four year sentence for horse theft. A charge of assault with intent to kill remains. State Humane Officer Kennedy targets a Kalispell youth gang at Robbers Roost cave. leadersent to Miles City reform school. Antoine Finley pleads guilty to introducing liquor on Blackfeet reservation, four months jail and a $100 fine. Fire at Washoe Copper plant near Storrs destroys coal washer. loss over $100,000, 500 tons coal burned, 200 men idle.
Montana sees unusually heavy June rainfall over three days, soaking fields and range. Except for hail, stock remains unharmed as moisture improves prospects for bumper hay and grain yields amid saturated ground and upcoming showers.
Fairfield resident Tim Cook of Raymond spent several days in the basin at the week’s end. Win Bateman visited Chateau with his brother Sam and family. Gustav Gilbertson of Climax Minnesota surveyed desert land at Greenfields beach last week. Frank Morris hauled lumber from the railroad this week to build a barn. A O Gea of Bynum was a business visitor early in the week. Miss A Zimmerman visited Chateau Saturday. Mrs W W Cole spent several days at the county seat last week. Mrs Frank Harris has been ill but improving. H Jefferson was a Chateau visitor Wednesday. Thomas Johnson and Miss Tulefson of Minnesota quietly married via Great Falls last week. A bench gathering wished the groom well and a noisy start in married life.
The county commissioners met in the courthouse with all members present. They conducted their usual quarterly routine business, focusing on road matters. A full official account of the proceedings will appear in next week's Acantha.
Elizabeth G B Christian returned from Chicago on the 1st to sell three cars of hay fed beef at good prices. Local ranchers report a strong call crop. I H Givens and C R Townsend with Denzel McDonald brought cattle to graze on the upper Sun river. W I Davgs of Chateau visited Elizabeth. Wm Fischer of Saypo passed through for ranger work at Hannon Gulch. Gus Beach from Alkali Basin was in Elizabeth after horses for Georges W Weed.
Additional local shipment from Hirshberg & Co. includes a solid carload of Cole's Wet Blast ranges and heaters for immediate distribution to dealers and customers.
Mr. MacClaren from Choteau Montana spent the past week in Manhattan as the guest of Miss Mabel Brown. Also advertised are two roofing products from Jos Hirshberg Co with one ply rubber at 2.50 per roll and two ply rubber at 3.25 per roll.
Joe Bwart purchases a fifteen barge power five passenger Reo from Stephens Auto Co to operate an auto line between Choteau and Collins.
Waterman ink of all bottle sizes sells for the same price as the cheaper grades at Jos. Hirshberg & Co. The note highlights uniform pricing across bottle sizes.
The P. H. Crossen herd of about 700 horses has been sold to a St. Louis buyer with delivery set for July 1. Crossen has retained about fifty head for himself.
Mrs Wm Hodgskiss and her children Ursula Ruby and Grant returned yesterday from Great Falls where they spent several days visiting.
Kyle Jones and Ed Hodgskiss, students at the Agricultural College in Bozeman, arrived home yesterday after a visit to Butte and the mines. They will remain in Bozeman through the summer.
Seo M Coffey Jr comes home from Columbia Missouri where he graduated June 6 from the state university and will likely spend the summer in Choteau.
Cutbank plans a two day celebration featuring sports and amusements. Samuel L. Potter of Shelby will deliver the address during the event.
Northbound Montana and Great Northern leaves Great Falls between 3 and 4 pm. Reaches Collins about 5 pm. Southbound train reaches Collins between 7 and 8 am. A special conveyance must be taken to catch it. The stage to Chateau arrives between 9 and 10 pm. Regular stage to Collins leaves at noon.
Receipts at the United States assay office in Helena for May were 133 222 58 dollars from Montana. County amounts include Broadwater 930 27 Chouteau 40 216 32 Fergus 4 712 26 Granite 1 71 Jefferson 933 14 Lewis and Clark 5 388 12 Madison 31 271 43 Silver Bow 456 23. The drop in receipts is blamed on deep mountain snows and weather that delayed operators returning to work.
June births noted include Jefferson Davis born June 3 1808 and David D Porter born June 8 1813. Henry Ward Beecher born June 24 1813 appears in the list with other notable figures.
The Lynam bridge sustains renewed heavy damage from high water. Last year the south approach washed away and the span was lengthened. this season the north end also shows trouble.
Seventh and eighth grade examinations are conducted here and at Dupuyer today. One applicant, Miss Hester Jamison of Chateau, is attempting only certain work due to illness that prevented earlier progress. At Dupuyer several applicants attend both grades.
Glen Suther comes home from the Agricultural college after three years as a student. He plans to skip a year to work in his specialty electrical engineering and then resume and complete his course.
C. E. Trescott former Acantha publisher now controls Boulder Publishing Co stock publisher of Boulder Age Sentinel. The Age Sentinel may merge with the Boulder Monitor, the county seat's sole newspaper, boosting Monitor's prospects.
Jas Gibson and Jacob Odenwald, two veterans, met on a street last Friday and recalled landing in Montana forty three years earlier. They described Gibson joining the army at the war’s start, marching to Laramie four years later, then reuniting at Last Chance gulch now Helena, the state capital.
A disreputable incident from Conrad ends with a couple jailed after a public altercation and third party interference. The woman paid her fine after serving days and remains in a location she prefers, though not as moral as jail, while the man remains in custody.
Floods in Western Montana Utah Wyoming and Colorado cause widespread damage while a landslide along Mullcreek near Smith's Ferry Idaho blocks the creek, shifting its course and forcing water into property with no reported loss of life. A June 3 memorial ceremony dedicated Jefferson Davis birthplace at Fairview Kentucky is noted, and a New York to Seattle car race offers a $2000 trophy.
At the April meeting of the board of county commissioners a census for Conrad and Bowen was ordered. Conrad was appointed to conduct the census and gather names of all residents. Returns to the county clerk showed 512 residents in Conrad.
A nostalgic comparison notes a man a century ago who could not use steam trains telegraphs telephones electricity or electric cars He had no idea of modern inventions such as stenography typewriters phonographs or motion pictures He missed trains bridges skyscrapers and sailing ships yet the piece suggests his happiness despite being profoundly behind the times.
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