Film Shows Montana School of Mines Training in Mining
A Pathe News film by Will Hudson documents Montana School of Mines students James Martin Wallace Tanner Robert Nesbitt Godfrey Walker and Nightengale in both theoretical and practical training. Scenes at Leonard mine show gear shifts drills mucking blasting timbering and car loading while studio segments display drafting testing and mineralogy work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana School of Mines
Butte
Will Hudson
Pathe News
James Martin
Wallace Tanner
Robert Nesbitt
Godfrey Walker
Harry Nightengale
School of Mines
Leonard
Walter T. Scott
When The First Territorial Council Acted on Indian Liquor Sales
An 1890 Missoula hangings account shows how liquor sales to Indians sparked violence and led to four executions. The article notes earlier killings by Indians, government inaction, and a 1864 council bill failing to curb whiskey sales to natives. It highlights frontier attitudes and lingering alcohol-related crime in the Territory's early lawmaking.
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First Territorial Council
Missoula County
Arlee
Missoula
Pierre Paul
Jocko River
Paul
Lala Lee
Antley
Pasquale
Post Falls
Idaho
Flathead Country
Dunn
Pasqual
Ronan
Will Cave
Sons and Daughters of
Montana Pioneers
Hiudson's Bay Company
Judson’s Bay Company
No Man's Land
Great Northwest
Montana
Council
Committee On Indian Affairs
Thompson
United States
Judiciary Committee
Messrs. Thompson
Merriman
Montana Educational News Reel Feature Planned
Picture sets of the Mines buildings and campus will be combined into a news reel story by Mr. Hudson for a Pathe weekly educational feature. He may pair this Montana feature with others for further educational programming.
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Cimens
Mines
Hudson
Pathe
Montana
20000 Birth Records Card Indexed in Butte
Butte installs a card index for over 20000 birth records from 1895 onward. Statisticians corrected thousands of name spellings and linked each card to birth date sex parents and birthplaces with attending physician or midwife. The project aims to provide one of the nation’s most up-to-date birth registries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jones
William Smith
Michael Sullivan
Butte
Mrs. Phillips
Loretta Lee
William
Willard
Mary
Marie
James Richard Beatty Turns 100 in Sidney Birthday
Sidney resident James Richard Beatty celebrated his 100th birthday at home. He recalled growing up two miles from the Abraham Lincoln home in Illinois and remembered attending and witnessing debates between Lincoln and Douglas that helped shape the president’s national character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Richard Beatty
Sidney
Beatty
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Abe
Lincoln
White House
Hidden gold mine comes to life in Bitter Root
Thomas Johnson Woodside and Arthur Rowe of Victor recount a secret Bitter Root gold strike. They claim Fred Burr Creek four miles north of Woodside on the west bank hosts the find on the old Reser property. A shaft yielded gold said to run 14 to the ton after two years securing title.
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Thomas Johnson
Woodside
Arthur Rowe
Victor
Fred Burr
Johnson
Johnson and Rowe
Reser
Surf Board Riding At Tee Bar Recreation Ranch
The Tee Bar Recreation ranch near Flathead Lake offers surf board riding and water sports plus horse trips, pack trains, hiking, broncho riding, horse racing, steer riding and Indian dances. It also features polo golf tennis and rifle practice near the national bison range.
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Montana
Tee Bar
Flathead Lake
Rancher Sylvester Fraunhofer Found Dead in Canyon
The body of 60 year old rancher Sylvester Fraunhofer was found in a motor truck near his Cascade county ranch in Millegan canyon. The sheriff and county attorney viewed the body and the coroner ruled a natural death after an examination that found no signs of violence.
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Sylvester Fraunhofer
Millegan Canyon
Cascade County
Trucker Found Slumped Beside Vehicle by Fence
The body was discovered by E. B. Warren a government trapper leaning forward in the seat of the truck which had run into the fence at the side of the road The truck was out of gear and did not strike the fence with great force.
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E. B. Warren
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PATHA
Buttr
Leonard Mine
Hasting
Wrigley
Aks
Riley
Repaune
By Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Calumet
City Health Office
M. N
Huseth
Baby
FiSk
S.S
Fisk Massasoit Cord
Abrams Tire Sales Coo
Falls Ae
Mont
Great Falls
Great Falls, Mont
APEX
Butte Malt Syrup CO
South Idaho St
Butte, Mont
Solo National Forest
Blackfoot
Missoula, Mont
Pratt
State Nursery & Seed CO
Helena
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