Congress opens amid party splits and tariff talk
The 58th Congress begins with a slim Republican majority and a delay on rule changes as progressives seek liberalized procedures. President Coolidge urges restraint, backs tax cuts, farm relief, and a cautious path on the League of Nations, world court, and Russian policy. Mexico faces renewed war as Adolfo de la Huerta leads rebellions in several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Gillett
Coolidge
League of Natons
League
United States
World Court
Senate
League of Nations
Russia
Great Britain
Congress
Mellon
Mexico
Vera Cruz
San Luis Potosi
Chihuahua
Michoacan
Tamaulipas
Guerrero
Obregon
Adolfo de la Huerta
Co-operatista Party
de la Huerta
Calles
Coolidge Favored in South Dakota Nomination Balloting
Tens of Coolidge supporters cheered after South Dakota polls showed him leading Hiram Johnson by 23 039 votes out of 77 000. Capper named vice president choice while McAdoo led Democrats with 39 018 to 5 072 for Ford. Girard of New York chosen for second place. Farmer-Laborites back La Follette. In Britain Conservatives appear defeated as Liberals gain seats. Lady Astor and Susan Lawrence win on the women’s side amid a Liberal surge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
South Dakota
Hiram Johnson
Arthur Capper
Kansas
McAdoo
Henry Ford
James W. Girard
New York
Baldwin
Liberal Party
Lady Astor
Susan Lawrence
Arthur Henderson
France Begins Partial Pullback from Occupied Ruhr Region
France starts a staged withdrawal from Belgian occupied zones, moving troops “in-Visible” from cities to outer points and ceding control of twenty-one Ruhr railway lines to Germany while resuming payments in kind in line with talks with Italy and Belgium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ituhy
Belgium
France
Ruhr
Federal Prohibition Officers Lacked Civil Authority, Judge Rules
Federal Judge Woodrough ruled prohibition agents are not civil officers and lack authority to serve search warrants. Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt reports rising federal violations under the national prohibition act with 49 021 criminal and 4 109 civil cases started last year, 42 370 criminal disposed, 23 052 criminal and 4 064 civil pending. Rum smuggling described as the greatest criminal problem on the high seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrough
Omahwe
Prohibition
Mabel Willebrandt
Daugherty
Russian scientist claims rock salt strengthens metals a revolutionary discovery
A Moscow dispatch reports Professor Joffe has developed a method to make rock salt stronger than steel by high heat treatment. The process allegedly alters atomic structure to halt decay, increasing durability and ductility up to 300 times, with potential to transform metal applications worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Moscow
Joffe
Prosecution Looms in Veterans Bureau Irregularities
Attorney General Dougherty announced criminal prosecutions will follow an investigation by his department and a special senate committee into alleged irregularities at the veterans bureau under former director Colonel Forbes. General Hines, now bureau director, calls the American Legion to help place rehabilitated ex servicemen as about 10,000 of 71,000 trainees are due to complete courses in three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daugn.erty
Special
Senate Committee
Veterans’ Bureau
Forbes
Frank T. Hines
Bureau
American Legion
Hines
Banking Merger in Winnett and Miles City Land Office Surge
Reports show Miles City land office led US in November activity with 25 new entry applications mostly for homesteads. A merging of First State Bank of Winnett and First National Bank of Winnett will form a larger state chartered bank. Ted Ellis body search in Bynum Reservoir halted until spring due to heavy ice. Government war explosive distribution to western Sanders county farms. orders ~45,000 pounds. Missoula hosts birthday reception for Mrs. W. H. H. Dickinson, Missoula’s first teacher. Elk herd in Highwood mountains grows to 50+. Miss Elizabeth Hollenbeck to head nurses school in Constantinople. West Point cadetship awarded to Frank R. Mearllian. Fire destroys J. T. Armitage garage in Wisdom, losses ~$50,000.
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Miles City
United States
Ted Ellis
Great Fallsman
Bynum Reservoir
Teton County
Ellis
Sanders County
Barksdale
Wisconsin
First Methodist
Missoula
W. H. H. Dickinson
Dickinson
Emma Slack
Montana
Maryland
Army Post Strikes Colors To March Of Progress
Fort Keogh near Miles City established in the 1870s by General Nelson A. Miles has waved its colors day and night. The War Department will surrender the 60 000 acres to the Department of Agriculture for an agricultural experiment station. The cantonment, used as a cavalry remount station, was abandoned last July and land surveyed for interior then later proposed for the experiment farm with support from local forest service officials.
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Fort Keough
Miles City
Nelson A. Miles
March of Progress
Army Post
War Department
Department of Agriculture
Montana
Northwest
Interior Department
Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Experiment Farm
Secretary of Agriculture
Forest Service
Montana Oil Notes: Monthly Dividend Paid and Drilling Progress
56 Pet. paid its regular monthly dividend of 1 percent on December 1 for stock with record November 26. Last half October and first half November output reached 12 446 barrels, mostly stored awaiting higher prices. Wells at McGinnis and Kevin Sunburst fields show varying depths and production with several completions and a pipeline moving 157 091 barrels in October to Winnett and refiners including Avro Lewistown and Standard Oil. Gross profits near 20 000 dollars after expenses.
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Pet
Devil’s Basin
Sherard- Rhoades
McGinnis
Tewistown
Campbell-Kevin-Stewart Carlson
Stapleton Oil Company
Ellis
Mutual
Cat Creek
Winnett
Avro
Lewistown
Lewistown Oil & Refining Co
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Weona
Yale Oil Corporation
State Capital News and District Listings for Montana
The state provides a reference list assigning counties to judicial districts and marks counties in the two congressional districts. It covers Beaverhead to Yellowstone in the First to Nineteenth districts plus a detailed Butte district mining report with net proceeds for the last fiscal year and issues raised by the state board of equalization. It notes actions to stop illegal butter sales and reports inter county utility taxes totaling $257,500,823.
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Gyeldom
Montana
Secretary of
C. T. Stewart
Beaverhead
Broadwater
Deer Lodge
Flathead
Gallatin
Granite
Jefferson
Lake
Lewis and Clark
Lincoln
Madison
Mineral
Missoula
Powell
Ravalli
Sanders
Silver Bow
Big Horn
Blaine
Carter
Carbon
Cascade
Chouteau
Custer
Daniels
Dawson
Fallon
Fergus
Garfield
Glacier
Golden Valley
Hill
Judith Basin
Liberty
McCone
Meagher
Musselshell
Park
Phillips
Pondera
Powder River
Prairie
Richland
Roosevelt
Rosebud
Sheridan
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Teton
Toole
Treasure
Valley
Wheatland
Wibaux
Yellowstone
Butte District
State Board of Equalization
Anaconda Company
Butte Hill
Emma
Butte Superior
Elm Orly
Davis-Daly
Colorado
Hibernia
State Board
George H. Webster
Montana Department of Agriculture
Webster
Great Falls
Scott Leavitt
United States Bureau of Chemistry
Notable Montana figures pass away in distant places
Sullivan D J former probation officer in Silver Bow and longtime Butte resident dies at 54 in Los Angeles. Dan P Birran owner of Anaconda's first blacksmith shop dies at Baker Oregon aged 65. Peter Ferguson longtime cowman killed in an accident at Belen New Mexico. Z B D LaFleur 74 longtime state capital resident dies at son R C G LaFleur home in Martinez California.
Danner Seeks New Trial With Five Affidavits Filed
Five affidavits in support of a motion for a new trial for Seth O Danner have been filed in district court at Bozeman by his attorney Justin M Smith. Danner is a convicted murderer of Mrs Florence Sprouse and awaits the death penalty in the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth O. Danner
Florence Sprouse
Bozeman
Justin M. Smith
Danner
RANCHER'S WHEAT SACK HELD MOON SHINE JUGS
Moonshine hidden in a wheat sack found in a Ford driven by Henry Hutchinson in Bozeman During a stop by Under sheriff Orville Jones and Deputy A M Howell. The jugs were confiscated Hutchinson jailed to face charges of possessing and transporting liquor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Hutchinson
Bozeman
Orville Jones
A. M. Howell
Hutchinson
Buffalo Kill Presents Challenge on Government Range
A small crew of cowpunchers struggles to corral buffalo near St. Ignatius as the herd may be shot on the range and butchered there. The plan risks stampede from the blood smell and further danger to nearby cattle and range operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Ignatius
U S Puts Lien on Oil Property Firm in Montana
Internal Revenue collector A Rasmussen filed a tax lien with Toole County officials against Kevin Sunburst Co. for $9,900 in income taxes. With 5 percent penalty the amount exceeds $10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Oil Property Co
A. Rasmussen
Internal Revenue
District of Montana
John A. Moran
Toole County
Kevin Sunburst Company
Firemen Battle Cartridges as Garage Fire Breaks Out
Firemen extinguished a blaze in the garage of James Doner in Butte after cartridges stored inside were set alight. A hail of bullets burst from the cartridges, piercing walls but causing no injuries as the fire began from crossed wires per Fire Chief Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Doner
Butte
Martin
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Washington
U—Wieul
Bloocr
Germany
Berlin
West Virginia
Senn
Tories
England
War Finance Corporation
Cooper
Finis J. Garrett
Tennessee
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Poincare
Great
Britain
America
Marx
News of Montana
First State Bank of
Highwood Mountains
A. Webholt
Jefferson National Forest
Elizabeth Hollenbeck
Constantinople
Turkey
Bosphorus
Hollenbeck
Asia Minor
Greece
Frank R. Mearllan
Frank Mearlian
Grandview
United States Military Accademy
West Point
Thomas J. Walsh
J. T. Armitage
Wisdom
Army
State Capital News
Butte District Mines
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