Gall's Custer Battle Tale Told Ten Years After
Chief Gall recalled the Little Big Horn fight on the eve of the tenth anniversary. He described positions and movements, estimated Indian numbers, and noted the massacre of Custer and his men while asserting the Sioux as the victors.
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Gall
Custer
Montana
Lou” Grill
Little Big Horn
E. 8
Godfrey
Reno
New Jersey
J. M. T. Partello
Fifth Infantry
Nelson A. Miles
Fort Keogh
Tongue River
David F. Barry
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Missouri River
Bismarck
Superior
Wisconsin
Partello
California
DeRudio
Moylan
General Custer
Keogh
Porter Gecee
Yates
Reily
Tom Custer
Harrington
Smith
Sturgis
Calhoun
Crittenden
Cook
G. E. Lord
Chief Gall
Major Reno
Reno Hill
Crow King
Crazy Horse
Barry
Ing Custer
Sitting Bull
Mr. Barry
Rain-in-the-Face
F. W. Benteen
Porter
General Godfrey
General Benteen
Mark Kellogg
Kellogg
Fort Lincoln
Eleventh Infantry
Miles City
Miles
Low Dog
Poplar River
The
Tribune
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Missouri
Grant Marsh
Bismarck Tribune
Big Horn River
Philadelphia
New York
San Francisco
Beau Sabruer
Army of the Potomac
Benteen
McDougall
Montana Forms State Geographic Board for Place Names
Gov Erickson created the Montana state geographic board and named David Hilger Chief Wayne Hilger as state historic librarian, Chief Justice L L Callaway, Paul C Phillips, Charles R Leonard, and Martha Edger ton Plassmann to study and fix geographic names. The board aims to collect data and help the U S geographic board standardize names for lakes rivers mountains plains and other natural features. A key example is Sacajawea Creek once misnamed Crooked Creek, to be corrected.
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David Hilger
State Historical Librarian
L. L. Callaway
Paul C. Phillips
State University
Chas. BR. Leonard
Martha E. Plassmann
Erickson
Montana State Geographic Board
Supreme Court
History Department
The
Charles R. Leonard
Butte
Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Great Falls
Frank Bond
United States Geographic Board
Washington
Montana State Board
National Board
Hilger
Musselshell River
Sacajawea
Lewis and Clark
Crooked Creek
Curious Courtroom Quip About Speeding Fines
A humorous exchange links a speed fine to a ten dollar bill, with a jab at the judge. The remark underscores a playful court scene and a pun about speeding away.
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Hummel
Hamure
First Woman Born at Old Fort Campbell Recalls 1845 Birth
Mrs. Robert S. Tingley of Big Sandy recalls being born at Old Fort Campbell in 1845 before Fort Benton. She says her father built the fort and lived there with his family on the Missouri river bank between Butte and Rondin streets. Her father married a Piegan woman and their family stayed at the fort for many years.
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Fort Benton
Missouri River
Fort Campbell
Robert S. Tingley
Big Sandy
Old Fort Campbell
Butte and
Rondin Streets
Tingley
Campbell
Mrs. Tingley
Montana
Tingley Boys
Robert
Clifford
Cheyenne
Louise Campbell
H. S. Mudd
Mose
Dave
Oliver
John Robert
Kalispell
Mile Springs
Floweree
Helena
Canada
Deep Creek
Great Falls
Shonkin
Big Sandy Country
Northern Pacific Museum preserves pioneer rail relics in St Paul
The Veterans' Association of the Northern Pacific Railway crowdsources relics and records for a museum in the headquarters building at St. Paul. The collection includes the first switch key from 1871, the gold spike, a tie fragment, and 100 plus historic photos with biographies of 500 members.
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Northern Pacific Railway Company
St. Paul
Veterans’ Association
The
Northern Pacific Railway
Northern Pacific
Carlton, Minn
Duluth
Fred Sweetman
Bridger
Mont
Thomas R. Sloan
Sloan
Pacific Coast
Fargo
N. D
M. H. McGowan
Gold Creek
Montana
Charles Donnelly
Glendive-Circle- Brockway
Association
McGowan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Henry Villard
Missoula
Students combine work with study at State University Missoula
Sixty two percent of students work to fund schooling at the State university in Missoula. Thirty percent of men work fully, 47 percent partially, 23 percent not at work. Women show 56 percent fully dependent on outside help, 35 percent partially, 9 percent independent. Jobs range from janitors to airplane salesman. sun surface is far larger than Earth.
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State University At
Missoula
Forest Fire Toll Shows 44 Man Made Blazes in Helena District
Helena forest supervisor Leon C. Hurtt reports 44 man caused fires on the Helena national forest and more than 600 in district 1 during the season. About 240,000 acres burned with a fire suppression cost near 1.6 million dollars.
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Leon C. Hurtt
Helena Forest
Forestry Service
District 1
Montana
Idaho
Forest Service
Congressional Appropriations Committee
Forests of the West
Kelley
Missoula
West
Helena National Forest
Car Sales Pitch Sells Quiet Wonder to Buyer
A salesman praises a car as exceptionally smooth and silent with efficient gas use. The prospective buyer questions the value of a vehicle if its advantages remain unseen, in a dialogue from the Passing Show.
A Buddhist's Heaven Nirvana Seen As Eternal Peace
A Buddhist concept Nirvana is described as an everlasting peaceful dream beyond worldly suffering, marking a final release from cycle of rebirth and desire.
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