Chief Split-Ears Showcases 3 215 Gopher Tails as Proof of Prowess
Montana officials eye Chief Oscar Split-Ears of the Blackfeet for a claimed 1 600 gophers killed since spring. He arrives with 3 215 tails, saying he buried the earlier ones, and plans to exhibit the tails at the state fair. Lamb shortages push prices higher at Chicago and South St. Paul while beef cattle fetch solid, though lesser, gains.
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Montana
Gopher
Oscar Split-Ears
Browning
F. C. Campbell
Split-Hars
Chicago
South St. Paul
Weather Bureau Plans More Montana Rain Gauges
The Weather Bureau through its Helena office seeks additional standard rain gauges in Montana to expand cooperative observations. Existing data cover 112 plus points, with aims to map average seasonal and annual precipitation across geographic sections. County agents and extension directors support expanding observers while avoiding overdistribution of instruments.
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Montana
United States Weather Bureau
Helena
Weather Bureau
W. T. Lathrop
High Line
Lathrop
F. S. Cooley
State College
First Montana Fair of 1870 Showed Prize Scope and Band
The first Montana Agricultural association exhibition offered $25 for the best yoke of oxen and prizes for homemade candles soap and beer. Held Sept 26 1870 in Helena it was organized by private citizens from Helena Butte and surrounding towns with Major J Forbis as president and Cornelius Hedges as vice president. The poster promised a brass band every day and noted a speech by Governor Potts at the new fair grounds two miles from Helena.
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Montana
State Fair
Helena
Montana Agricultural, Mineral and Mechanical Association
Butte
Deer Lodge
J. ¥. Forbis
Cornelius Hedges
D. C. Corbin
N. W. Carpenter
Hugh Kirkendall
A. M. Holter
D. A
G. Flowerree
Don Kohrs
John Kinna
C. W. Mather
B. F. Potts
Montana State Fair to award over four thousand ribbons
Commissioner C C Davis announced Montana's state fair in Helena will issue more than 4000 premium ribbons this year across five agricultural show classes including grain corn potatoes grasses and forage crops plus ribbons for fruits flowers honey culinary domestic and fine arts dairy products and a new junior fair for boys and girls and poultry exhibits continuing the tradition from prior fairs.
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Montana
Helena
Commissioner of Agriculture
C. C. Davis
Davis
Montana News In Brief From Numerous Cities
The bulletin lists updates from Missoula Billings Helena Anaconda Harlem Butte Darby Lewistown Shelby Forsyth Great Falls Wolf Point and Wolf Point bank reopening. Items include faculty additions election candidates coal production harvest labor movement royal arch leadership forest fire data a fatal shooting a golf title a prison sentence a fatal car crash cherry crop and a centenarian police officer.
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Missoula
State University
Billings
Yellowstone County
Helena
Montana
Tana Mines
Judith Gap
Nick Pappas
Pasquale Virte
North Dakota
Dakota
Ailf Whitworth
Deer Lodge
Forest Service
Idaho
Washington
Joe Novak
Spokane Country Club
Paradise Valley
Butte
George Loeb
Northern Pacific Railway
North Coast Limited
Northern Pacific
Durant
Darby
Stevensville
Lewistown
Lew Clark
Fred Whiteside
Forsyth
G. L. Decker
George A. Horkan
Harry Strenton
Great Falls
Lucille de Bow
Andrew de Bow
Dutton
Constantinople Peace Conference Effort Under Way
A new push in Constantinople seeks to bring Turks and Greeks to a peace conference. Diplomatic contacts and negotiations are reported underway to reduce hostilities and foster dialogue between the two groups.
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Constantinople
Gordon Campbell Kevin Syndicate No 2 Eyes Big Montana Find
A Montana oil pitch extols Gordon Campbell Kevin Syndicate No 2 drilling it near Rocky Ridge with Lincoln and California Homestake wells. The promoter claims rapid production, large acre base, promises high profits, and urges immediate unit purchases at par with a $10 value note. Units projected to rise as Lincoln well nears completion.
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Lincoln
Syndicate No. 2
Kevin
Gordon Campbell
Rocky Ridge
Montana
California
Kevin Syndicate No. 2
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
Maine
Washington
Florida
Gordon Campbell-Kevin
America
Coe
Kevin Lynch
Bintang Tanteow
Seth Yon
Hog
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Wolf Point
First National Bank
P. O. Box
Fort Worth, Texas
Rocky Ridge Dome
Campbell Lincoln
Kevin Pay Sand
Kevin Syndicate
Toole County
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate NO
MR. Campbell
Venture
Cutty and State
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