Great Northern Train Robbers Captured
Spokane police believe they have captured C E McDonald and an accomplice tied to the Great Northern Oriental Limited robbery at Rondo early September 12. The two men carried $14 395 in small bills stamped with September 7 and Commercial National Bank Chicago. Prompts from Bonners Ferry residents J Howe and T O Reilly led to the arrest. The suspects spent lavishly in Bonners Ferry, including a $1 000 champagne spree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. McDonald and
Smith
Great Northern
Spokane
Great Northern Oriental Limited
Rondo
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
McDonald
Bonners’ Ferry
Great Falls Visitors Tour Greenfields and Irrigation Projects
A party of well known Great Falls residents including Ransom Cooper Walter S Clark C W Goodale R W Lowrey A H Wheeler Herbert Strain C M Webster Theodore Gibson A E Rogers B P McNair W Webster Lee Monk and E Atkinson toured Greenfields lands Fort Shaw Willow Creek dam Augusta Byom Farmington and Burton beach They praised the Sun River beach and Bynum projects predicting Teton county would become a leading agricultural area The return trip was uneventful and Herbert Strain commented on local land potential
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Ransom Cooper
Walter S. Clark
C. W. Goodale
R. W. Lowrey
A. H. Wheeler
Herbert Strain
C. M. Webster
Theodore Gibson
A. E. Rogers
B. Robbins
Sun River
B. P. McNair
W. Webster
Lee Monk
8. E. Atkinson
Teton County
Io California
Cattle Shipment Held Up By Federal Quarantine
Helena Oct 26 P r o t e c t i v e s e l e c t i o n s a n d f e d e r a l i ns p e c t o r s c a u s e d a n o n e w s a c t i o n a s a c a t t l e train from Fort Belknap was detained at St Paul for scabies. Owners must dip at their expense. even clean cattle incur price penalties under quarantine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana
St. Paul
Fort Belknap
Commission
Quaratine
Spectors
Pure Food Law Enforced for All Labels in October 1893
Washington declares full enforcement of the Pure Food Law retail and wholesale grocers face strict compliance. Old labels printed before 1906 may not be used after 1907 without correction by stickers or erasures. The board rejects extending the prior privilege to 1908 and requires complete obliteration of any misstatements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Board of Food and Drug Inspection
Grocers
Montana High School Debating League Announces 1907 Details
The Montana High School Debating League lists 28 accredited high schools in four districts eastern western northern and southern with Teton County High in the northern district The debate question is Resolved that boards of arbitration with compulsory power should settle labor disputes The issue includes speeches and photos from the Hamilton and Kalispell teams and notes a former Kalispell student Albert Crone now at Oberlin University Ohio
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana High School
J. S. Snoddy
Department of English
Montana State University
Teton County High School
Hamilton
Kalispell
Albert Crone
I’con
Wlathead
Oberlin University
Ohio
Montana Briefs From Helena Oct 24 Gist of state notices
American Smelting will not accept ore shipments from noncontract shippers for 30 days due to overstock from contract loads. Butte telegraphers call off a 10 week strike, Augustus Heinze plans renewed action against Amalgamated Copper. Great Northern claim agent settles ranch losses from recent prairie fires at about seven dollars per ton for burned hay. Trains may run Great Falls to Billings by Feb 1 with passenger service by early April. Helena telegraph operators also vote to end their strike with broader national implications for future walkouts. Beaverhead County reports a record lamb sale with 3000 Cotswold March lambs at 1.38 per head and 95 pounds average weight. Western Union Postal and AP operators may strike again if the telegraphers' prospects brighten nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
American Smelting & Refining Company
Butte
Wall Street
Augustus Heinze
Montana
Amalgamated Copper Company
Culbertson
Great Northern
Great Falls
Billings
Beaverhead County
E. O. Selway
Dillon
Western Union
Postal
Associated Press
Atrike
German Balloons Triumph In World at Large Contest
From St Louis on October 22 the German balloon Pommern won the international aecronautic contest. Pommern landed at Asbury Park New Jersey after 880 miles of flight. American balloons were defeated by both German and French teams.
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St. Louis
Asbury Park
N. J
Japan
Otto C. Schneider
Chicago School Board
Schneider
Chicago
Roosevelt
Moving Alumni Reach Wide Across the Nation
A Teton County High School class directory shows graduates spread across the United States and abroad. Entries list Choteau and Dupuyer as hometowns with careers ranging from teachers and salesmen to students at Montana and Agricultural colleges, plus a post for a Manila postal worker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teton County
Oneida Satre
Choteau
Coleman Armstrong
Dupuyer
George M. Coffey
Columbia
Missouri University
Alma Daley
Edith Luther
Edna Beaupre
Choteau Jas
Yale
Missoula
Montana University
Ernest Moore
Bozeman
Student Agricultural College
Frank Crone
Manila
Philippine Islands
Postal Service
Edwin Wilcox
Cultura Society Honors Julius Caesar Program
Cultura society met Friday evening October 25 to observe a year opening program for Julius Caesar. Highlights included a violin solo and the essay The Life of Julius Caesar by Elma Peterson, with Shakespeare quotations and a debate on Caesar versus Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cultura Society
Julius Gaesar
Lanniger Moratius
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Eeeeesse
Elma Peterson
Rupert Ward Dehate
George Washington
Elsie, Ryan
Maud Hawley
Eddie Hodgskiss
Grate Kennedy
Julius Caesar scene and debate at School Esviy
A 2010 school program features a Julius Caesar scena with Dramatis Personae Mark Antony Brutus Cassius and others. A debate on Caesar as ally or enemy is decided in the affirmative by Agnes Satre Earl Heighton and Kyle Jones. The session adjourns to November 15 with public access noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaudeamus
School Esviy
Aida
Ae Ceneceoees
Aenes Satre Vocal
Prof
Jones
Mark Antony
Jobo Durrell
Brutus
Neely Armstrong
Cassius
Rupert Ward
Roy Corgan
Earl Heighton
Ory Armstrong
Armstrong
Long
George Washington
Agnes Satre
Kyle Jones
Elsie Ryan
Sec’y
Plans of Surveyed Townships to be Filed
Notice from the Department of the Interior United States Land Office in Great Falls Montana that townships near 20 21 north and ranges 1 3 west fractional have been surveyed and approved. Plats of survey will be filed at 9 oclock a m on Thursday in December 1907 and lands in the townships may be entered thereafter. J M Burlingame Register C A Wilson Receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
Great Walls
Montana
Ozlock A. Im
Cut Bank Booms as Rail Improvements Continue
The Cut Bank area shows growth with the Great Northern Railroad building a new hotel, four side tracks, and a larger roundhouse. About 150 workers are on site. Town survey planned soon, and allotments for the Blackfeet reserve underway in 1908. Local merchants report booming business and solid farm supplies for a hard winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Northern Railway Company
Cut Bank
Alex. Richard
Rebeccadon
Mabel King
Kalispell
Teachers’ Institute
John P. Johnson
Mee-Gowan
Chicago
Pete Ithurbide
West
Flathead County
Cut Benk
A.B. Rasmussen
Efavre
Teachers Examination Notice for Choteau Montana
The next regular examination for applicants of teachers certificates will be held at the court house in Choteau Montana on Friday November 29 1907 and continue the following day if necessary Nellie R Brown County Superintendent of Schools Choteau Mont October 31 1907
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Choteau
Montana
Mont
Nellie R. Brown
L Schoole
Local Notes and Commentary Mix of Names and Astrological Oddities
In Conrad this week C H Drakesport assists at the railroad office while Mrs M S Darling and others visit relatives. A long pageant of names and a humorous astrology column mix local notices with verse and political quips about Bryan Taft and cranberry politics. The month’s star signs and silly predictions close with Christmas and St. Nicholas notes.
Jourdonnais and Franklin Couple Wed in Simple Home Ceremony
Ernest Jourdonnais and Ida Lacklin were married Wednesday evening at seven oclock at the bride’s father Rev George Logan performed the ceremony Only immediate relatives attended a tasteful wedding dinner followed at the Jourdonnais home in Chateau The couple has a wide circle of friends with the bride daughter of W H Franklin and the groom head of the job printing department at the cantra office who came here from Great Falls
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Jourdonnais
Ida Lacklin
George Logan
Jourdonnais
Chateau
W. H. Franklin
Burton Bench
Cantra
Great Falls
Jonurdonnais
Surf Rough Road Halts Buggy Ride Injures Young Woman
In Dupuyer the weather and events stay steady. A buggy overturn on Sheep Creek road injures a local girl with a bruised arm and a damaged vehicle. Earlier, Mr. J. W. Quail narrowly avoided a similar crash, and George Carter damaged a wagon tongue while breaking horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dupuyer
Sheep Creek
J. W. Quail
George Carter
November foretellings from Ganderbone's humorous sketch
A 1907 humor piece by C. I. RIETIT catalogs November lore and legends. It riffs on weather, pies, and schoolboys while tracing the month’s name from novem and its calendar reshuffling. The narrative blends rustic anecdotes with antiquated Monday calendar trivia.
Progressive Dominocards craze grips winter gift market
The sale of pew household game Dominocards breaks records this season. It is touted as an attractive Christmas present for adults or children to test skill and amusement. Sent postpaid for 50 cents. Sample and particulars free. More agents wanted. Write Dominocards Co. 1807 Chouteau St. Louis, Missouri.
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Dominocards
Chouteau
St, St. Louis
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Montana High School Debating League
News of the
Pacific Coast
Arch Rock Reservation
Oregon
Plattary Rocks
Quillayute Needles
Cohalis Rocks
Department of Agriculture
Meyer
Express
Frend Zimmerman, Choteau
Kathrinette Truchot
Bertha Davidson
Glen Luther
Archie Leech
Alma Zimmerman
Dubuyer
Peggy ‘Taylor
Seattle
Ada Wilcox
Maud Ostrom
Freeman Daley
Louise Truchot
Anna Beaupre
Patton McMurtrie
Ass't
Frank Jefferson
Saypo
Guy Wilcox
Florence Leech
Oak Park
Emmett Ryan
Anna Kropp
Ast
Gertruds Prescott
Bouider
J.M. Burlingame
Register
C. A. Wilson
Blackfeet Reservation
Blackfeet Reserve
Land Commissioners
Julian Burd
Conrad
Chas. Wilcox
C.H. Drakesport
Dennis Kelly
North Dakota
Carlos Warfield
Gofle
Dr. Power
J. R. Bowen
G. N
Sagittarius the Archer
Scorpio
Mr. Bryan
Sagittarius
Standard Oil
Mercury
Santa Claus
Franklin
Ganderbone
C. I. Rietit
Burr
Nimrod
Ife
Novem
Senate
Cicero
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