Ted Blue’s Stock Growers Trip Brings Old Friends Back
E C Abbott known as Teddy Blue of the Three Deuces ranch in Fergus county, recalls Montana stockman history at the Butte Stock Growers convention. He travels from Lewistown via White Sulphur Springs and Three Forks to Butte and Helena, meeting old timers from 1884 and sharing memories of drives, floods, and the Texas trail era. He urges fellow cowmen to visit Lewistown’s Three Deuce ranch for next year’s session.
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Montana
Texas Trail
E. C. Abbott
Teddy Blue
Three Deuces Ranch
Fergus County
Blue
Jack Collins
Bill Burnett
Butte
Helena
Dillon
Fort Benton
Miles City
Abbott
Ted Blue
Montana Range
Texas
Green Mountain Stock Company
Granville Stuart
Fort McGinnis
Mary Stuart
Stuart
Miss Stuart
Fergus
Ben Moulten
Grass Range
Lewistown
Harlowton
Jim Charters
White Sulphur Springs
Deep Creek
Missouri
Toston
Three Forks
Deer Lodge
Musselshell
SKY Small
Harry
Joe Toomey
Charley Marrs
George Ayres
George
Billings
Lon Carl
Billy Rayn
Austin Middleton
Platte River
Earl Stuart
Leo Kems
Ted Larribe
Burke
Spear
Billy Spear
Billy
Whit Longley
Whit
Benticky
Old
Forsyth
Billy Rae
Dan Kelly
Harry Gallwey
Tom Larson
Teton County
Temple
John Collin
Billy Burnett
Charlie Bair
Lon Clark
Dave Hilger
Capitol
Eddy Cafe
Dick Cruse
Frank Lavigne
Wolf Creek
Cascade
Falls
Jack Harris
Banly Buck
Dan Conway
Henry Keaton
Sid Willis
Ben
Fireless Cooking Among Northwest Indians Long Ago
The article notes fireless cookery among northwest Indians lasting centuries before European goods. It describes fire pits, hot stones, stone coverings for fish, and cooking meat with rocks. Utensils were simple wood and horn, with meals often shared directly from the pot.
Richland County Fair bids for community ponding and exhibits
The fair commissioners call bids to construct a four by two hundred fifty foot ponding area to house community lays flor iculture fine arts and school exhibits. The SET Pyg is 608 Sods 9 man.
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Sidney
Board of Fair Commissioners
Richland County
Record of Custers Last Fight Deaths of Sipes and White Man Runs Him
The death of James M. Sipes of Huntsville Indiana and White Man Runs Him of the Crow nation marks the end of living links to Custers Last Fight. Sipes, a barber aboard the Far West, helped tell Curleys tale and aided in burying the dead on the Little Big Horn expedition. White Man Runs Him, one of six Crow scouts, rode with Custer up the Rosebud and lies near Curley and Goes Ahead in the national cemetery on the Little Big Horn battlefield.
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Custer
James M. Sipes
Uster
James M. Bipes
Billings
Lodge Grass
Rosebud
Little Big Horn
Sipes
Far West
Curley
Reuben Riley
James Boles
Harry Moccasin
James Madison Sipes
Huntsville
Ind
John
Clementine Sipes
Omaha
General Custer
Northwest
Yankton
S. C
Missouri
Barber
Grant Marsh
Aptain Marsh
Miles City
Gibbons
Seventh Cavalry
General Gibbons
A. H. Terry
Yellowstone
Big Horn
Captain Marsh
Ig Horn
Sitting Bull
White M
Ha Moccasin
Halfvenlowface
White Swan
Marsh
Ming
Casin
Martin
White Man
Custer Battlefield
Reno
Bilgs
American Legion
White
Wolf Mountains
Big Horn Country
John White Man
National
Little Bie Horn
United States Army
Goes Ahead
Hairy Mac
LaFarge
Powder River
Plenty Cops
Bell Rock
New York
James Sipes
Benteen
Bismarck
A. M. Riley
Butte
Widow Donates 1877 Marysville Mill Photo to Montana Library
Frances Mayger widow of mill builder sends a 50 year old image of the silver mill on Silver creek at Marysville. The five stamp amalgamator processed ore from the Drum Summon mine before sale to a British syndicate. later owned by Montana Company Ltd. The mill site is gone but the photograph resides in the Montana historical library collection.
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Montana Historical Library
Marysville
William Mayger
Drum Summon
Frances Mayger
Berkeley
Cal
Montana
Missouri River
Fort Benton
Silver Creek
Tommy Cruse
Mr. Cruse
Montana Company, Ltd
Mayger
St. Louis Mining and Milling Company
Turkeys Show Big Gains In Montana Agriculture
Turkeys have become an important side line on Montana grain farms with rising annual production. Demand for information about them is growing and there are efforts to have the government establish an experiment station at Miles City.
Truth and Freedom of the Press Motive
A statement asserts that truth published with honest motives and not for profit represents freedom of the press, highlighting journalistic integrity and the public interest as core aims.
Montana Boasts Untapped Resources Face East
A. E. Barkemeyer, a grain and seed man, returning from a eastern tour says 50 manufacturers mostly overlook Montana. Only two appreciated the states agricultural riches and harvest methods. He urges businessmen to advertise Montana more, noting growing Atlantic coast interest in Montana potatoes and listing cities visited including St. Paul Chicago Pittsburgh Rochester New York Boston Washington Baltimore Cincinnati Louisville and St. Louis.
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Montana
Chicago
A. E. Barkemeyer
Nesaurens
Barkemeyer
California
Russia
East
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Atlantic
St. Paul
Pittsburgh
Rochester
N. Y
Boston
New York
Washington
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Louisville
St. Louis
Montana High Schools Set New Graduation Record
Montana high schools awarded 3,601 diplomas to students across 175 accredited institutions as Dr. H. H. Swain reports. He notes the class size rose from 1,198 in 1916 while state population remained nearly steady, highlighting steady growth over 13 years.
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Swain
Montana
H. H. Swain
University of Montana
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Harry Rutter
Spring Creek
Dan Kennedy
Bradley
Gibbon
Terry
Dakota
Pioneer
Treasure State
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