Recall of Famous Frontier Bad Men and the Fighting Shepherdess
A Wyoming court last week sentenced Bert Lampitt to life for murder, tying the Lampitt case to Caroline Lockhart’s Fighting Shepherdess and a larger tapestry of real and fictional Western outlaws. The piece recalls Cody country legends like Poker Nell and Broncho Nell, and notes old-time figures such as Dako Joe and Slim, with reflections from Tom O Donohue about frontier gunplay and life on the range.
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Bert Lampitt
Lampitt
Poker Nell
Cody
Nell
Calamity Jane
Dakota Dan
Billings-Thermopolis
Billings Journal
Mormon Joe
Slim
Dako Joe
Trapper Smith
Harry Bruce
Kirby
Bruce
Smith
Arizona
Jezebel
Sand Coulee
Meeteetse
Rim-Rock Ranch
Tom O'Donough
Tom O'Donohugh
Billings
Tom
Goosberry Creek
Charles Vivian and the Elks: Founder of a Great Fraternity
English actor Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian founded the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks after leading the troupe that formed the first Montana theater in Virginia City. The Elks grew to more than 810,000 members in 1,400 lodges by 1922, with lodges from Anchorage to Manila, Honolulu to Balboa Heights, and a goal of one million members by July 1922. Vivian rests in Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, after a life of travel and drama.
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Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian
Montana
Virginia City
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Order
Lodge of Elks
Vivian
Grand Lodge
The
Elks
New York
United States of America
Anchorage
Alaska
Elk Lodge
Brownsville
Texas
Key West
Florida
United States
Canal Zone
Balboa Heights
Manila
Philippines
Honolulu
Hilo
Hawaii
Guam
San Juan
Porto Rico
the Elks of America
Atlantic City
America
Mount Hope Cemetery
Boston
Massachusetts
Order of Elks
Jolly Cork
Leadville
Colorado
Denver
Boston Lodge No. 10
B. P. O. Ellis
Broadway
Ann Street
Barnum’s Museum
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Ohio
B. P. O. Elks
Elkhom
William W. Mountain
Toledo
Chicago
Lincoln Park
Lake Michigan
National Elks
Elkdom
Pace named director of Washington industrial program
John W. Pace formerly secretary of the Montana state fair has been appointed director of business control for Washington by Governor Louis F. Hart. Pace will start April 1 and has named C. A. Campbell as assistant. He will oversee industrial management in penal and reformatories as the program advances.
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John W. Pace
State of
Washington
Louis F. Hart
Olympia
Wash
Pace
C. A. Campbell
Tacoma
Helena
Seattle
Charles Reisenrath
Campbell
Hart
Hill County Farmers Go In For Good Tillage
Hill County farmers and Havre business leaders discussed summer tillage at a Rotary Club meeting. Local businessmen plan to pledge land area and monitor progress, with Runkel from the Montana Development Association outlining required involvement to drive a constructive program for area agriculture.
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Hill County
Havre
Rotary Club
Runkel
Montana Development Association
Timber Sales Receipts Totals Reported by State Forester
State Forester McLaughlin announced timber sales receipts for the period from July 1 to February 15 amounting to 75215.74 dollars. The common school fund receives 30636.95 dollars followed by the Capitol building fund 22027.34 dollars and other funds: Agricultural college 8857.14, State normal 6369.22, School of mines 3348.62, State reform school 632.30. He said areas producing income are being managed to yield another crop, with a 30 to 80 year period to mature, and management costs for scaling and supervision total 4829 dollars.
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State Forester's Office
McLaughlin
Capitol Building Fund
Agricultural College Fund
State Normal School Fund
School of Mines Fund
State Reform School Fund
New York food and wine linked to longevity says Dr Smith
Dr Stephen Smith founder of the New York State and National board of health and a noted physician celebrates his ninety ninth birthday. He credits New York proper food including wine as essential to long life.
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New York
Stephen Smith
New York State
National Board of Health
New York-Tex Rickard Faces Four Indictments
Sports promoter New York-Tex Rickard is charged in four indictments with misconduct involving four schoolgirls aged 11 to 15. The cases allege improper actions spanning multiple incidents.
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New York
Tex Rickard
Northwest Potato Exchange Enters Milk River Valley
Three potato meetings in Malta Saco and Dodson drew 246 Milk River Valley farmers to back a permanent potato crop and a regional market. Northwest Potato Exchange plans to market by carload, taking 10 percent commission, with field staff, sacks tagged to growers, and year round prep to contract 1 000 acres. Netted Gems averaged 1.25 per hundred. Cobblers 1.09.
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Malta
Saco
Dodson
Milk River Valley
Farm Bureau
Milk River
F. H. Harrington
The
State College
Blaine Ferguson
H. M. ‘Lewis
Northwest Potato Exchange
Kalispell
Lewis
Flathead
California Fig Syrup as a Gentle Pediatric Remedy
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to constipated or feverish children. It promises gentle bowel cleansing with a teaspoonful today to prevent tomorrow’s illness, notes symptoms like sour stomach and bad breath, and warns to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with proper labeling.
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California
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Order OF Elkcom
Oldtimers
Jolly Corks
Joe’ Norcross
Lodge
Big Horn Basin
Caroline
Geisman
Buffaloes
Order of Buffaloes
England
Cork
W. L. Browron
New-York
Yjynnine
Abspinix
Bayer
Business Control OF
Montana State Fair
Coast State
Northwest
VOSE
Eberausch & Bach
Jo &. Fischer, Kimball
Apollo
Victrolas
Victor
Batth
Anaconda
Bozeman
Missoula
Great Falls
Lewistown
Orton Ree
Rawhide Rawlins Stories
Charles M. Russell
Montana Newspaper Association
Charles M. Eomine
Peu
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