West cattle range feuds mark early industry conflicts
A fragmentary account describes sheepmen and cattlemen clashing as flocks spread from Alaska toward Mexico. Emge and Allemand, sheep producers in Nowood country, faced cross-border range disputes with rival stockmen, sparking feuds over territory and grazing rights as their herders clashed.
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Will
Alaska
Mexico
West
Emge
Allemand
Nowood
Taney
Allemandee
Cate Dlemen
Murder and arson amid Wyoming cattle war of 1900
A cattlemen and sheepmen feud in Basin Wyoming explodes with a raid that kills a herder, burns wagons, and cuts telephone lines. The sheriff probes murders as trials unfold with bribery, state militias, and later commutations and escapes shaping a turbulent aftermath.
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Basin
Brink
Engineer Harold Blake Dies in Poland While Atopment
Harold N. Blake, chief engineer for Anaconda Copper in Poland, died after years of service at the Great Falls plant. He had served in the Montana legislature and went to Poland about 16 years ago. An investigation followed. he reportedly faced fear and punishment connected to a prior incident involving a Black person. The affair is tied to a long feud that ended years later.
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Allemand
Herb
Brink
Sabin
Alexander
Ee Young
Alexander Sert
Y, Wyo
Wyoming
Harold N. Blake
Anaconda Copper Company
Poland
Feu Darenae
Kattewithch
Mr. Blake
Montana
Anaconda Company
Great Falls
Conoco
Montana Patrol Implements New Traffic Infractions
State patrol announces a new set of traffic penalties including licenses, signaling, headlight, speed, and vehicle condition violations. Key items include driving without proper license, failing to warn when passing, driving with impaired control or under influence, excessive speed on curves, unmaintained vehicles, and inadequate lighting or signaling.
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Montana
Muffier
Montana highway crews near peak employments in April
The state highway commission reports 678 workers employed by maintenance and construction contractors in the last two weeks of April. All are Montana residents except 42, of whom 38 held supervisory roles. the rest were nonresident staff.
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State Highway Commission
Montana
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Sacetta B. Walke
State University At
Missoula
Emmy
Alston
Rison
Garrison
Montana State University
Deecar Ayres
Lolo
John Kleck
Lombard
Ill
Walter Coombs
Jack Roseboroug
Livingston
Henry
Grant
Columbus
Albert Salansky
Sand Coulee
Ken
Follman
Woodburn Brown
Hamilton
Ken Coughlin
Butte
Elmer Gits
Wolf Point
Norman Storts
Forsyth
John Wallin
Rosebud
State Highway Patrol
Tapp
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