Battle of Peace Officers Against Bootleggers and Moonshiners
Sheriff Norton’s seven months in Great Falls lead raids on moonshiners and bootleggers. The crackdown yields 35 stills, thousands of liquor gallons, and 135 arrestees with 45 convictions, amid chases, raids on diverse locations, and a reinforced all around police force.
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John Barleycorn
Tom Norton
Great Falls
Norton
H. R. Hickemeyer
Canada
Blickmeyer
Great Falla
Adolph Daley
Cascade
Charles King
Belt
Nick Frank
Stockett
James O’flynn
John Earll
Frank Dorich
Arthur Anderson
Mike Holland
Boyd Snyder
Harry Hix
Ernest Sutherlin
Charles Stevens
Cascade County
State Fair Opens Labor Day With Big Plans in Helena
Montana state officials prepare for an expanded six day fair from Labor Day. Dixie Lahood faces Pete Sarmento in a headline boxing match as racing returns with judge J J Rose overseeing. Fireworks vaudeville and a large ram sale highlight a two day extension and heavy local support fuels the event.
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Dixie Lahood
Pete Sarmento
Montana
State Fair Board
Helena
Butte
Jefferson County
Manilla
Sarmento
New York
Lahood
Rapid
State Fair Office
Lewis Penwell
Fair Board
State Fair
Northwest
United States
Montana State Fair
West
McGee
Los Angeles
Butte Mines
Treloar
Portland
Ore
Montana Wool Growers Association
Movie Film Shoots Scenes in Montana Horse Featured Rex
A California motion picture company stopped in Billings for hours while transporting 13 horses for filming across Montana and Wyoming. Rex the dark brown horse is the star, with four California natives directing the horse cars en route from Lodge Grass to Cody near Yellowstone. The horses will stay a month near the park before returning south.
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California
Montana
Wyoming
Billings
Lodge Grass
Cody
Yellowstone National Park
Rex
Eye Witness Reaffirms Golden Spike Was Real at Gold Creek
Sam Newnes of Rosebud county asserts he witnessed the golden spike ceremony near Forsyth in 1882. He describes a gold sized spike driven into a pre bored hole and later taken by railroad officials, countering claims of a steel spike.
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Northern Pacific
Gold Creek
Sam Newnes
Howard
Rosebud County
The
St. Paul
Newnes
Billings
David Ray
Mr. Newnes
Forsyth
Oswald Garrison Villard
Henry Villard
Villard
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Central Press
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Saxes
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Bayer
Missoula
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