Refinery Plan In Great Falls Seeks Quick Completion
American Refinery Company of Great Falls plans rapid equipment completion with chief engineer optimistic about prospects. A $15 000 order for tank equipment was closed with Raw Boiler Works of Kansas City via George Lee Rufe. Tanks include eight 1900 barrel run down tanks and one 5000 barrel tank with future options for larger tanks. Crude storage tank to be placed on upper refinery lot. small tanks on spur track for product storage.
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American Refinery Company
Great Falls
Kansas City
George Lee Rufe
Rufe
Montana Commercial Clubs Plan State Exhibit Tour
W G Ferguson secretary of the Helena Commercial club spoke at a Montana secretaries meeting about a collective exhibit of Montana made non competitive products. A committee chaired by Wills with Roberts and Harrader will coordinate the industrial exposition itineraries and manufacturer support. The nucleus will start in Butte and travel to other towns as local exhibits join.
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Montana
W. G. Ferguson
Helena
Harrader
Butte
Vigilantes hang Rigney in 1883 to restore Miles City order
The 1883 Miles City hanging followed Rigney a saloon bartender who forced entry into a home and assaulted two sisters. Charley Brown, a livery stable man, struck Rigney with a wagon wheel spoke, and Rigney died after being jailed unconscious. Judge Lynch later presided over the case.
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Rigney
Miles City
Northern Pacific Railroad
Montana
Texas
Colorado
New Mexico
Powder
Tongue
Red
Charley Brown
T C Power Adds Modern Feed Plant at Helena Elevator
T C Power company completed an up to date feed plant in Helena with a double runner attrition mill a two pair roller mill a mixing and blending machine a scalper eight new bins two additional elevator legs a 25 horsepower motor and other equipment to produce Black P feeds aimed at lowering stock and poultry feed costs amid high eastern freight rates. A separate Miles City episode describes a Vigilantes influenced mob killing of Rigney after an attempted crime and a theater blaze wiping several Main Street buildings.
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T. C. Power Company
Helena
Diamond Huller Manufacturing Company
Winona
Minn
Strong-Scott Manufacturing Company
Great Falls
Minneapolis
Ames
A. T. Ferrell Company
Saginaw
Micbh
Richardson
Miles City
Rigney
Conley
Main Street
John Rigney
Chinnick’s Theater
Sixth
Park Street
Savage’s Drug Store
Symond’s Gun Store
Bishop's Restaurant
Great Falls 40th Birthday: Historic Milestones Highlighted
In 1923 Great Falls marks forty years since its 1883 founding by Paris Gibson with James J. Hill links. The era's images show Murphy, Maclay & Co first store on Central avenue, its 1887 replacement later housing the Great Falls National Bank, the town's first cab driven by Charles Garris, and Robert S. Ford's early log cabin site.
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Great Falls
Paris Gibson
James J. Hill
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway
Murphy, Maclay & Co
Central Avenue
Park Drive
Second Street
Great Falls National Bank
Ford
Montana
Charles Garris
Tache
W. P. Wren
Robert S. Ford
Lee M. Ford
Shirley
John G Brown Attaineth Eminence in Montana Law
John G Brown, Welena attorney, gives up his fight against caloric excess. Arriving in Montana in 1904 with Yale credentials, he grew from slender to substantial as his practice flourished. He now partners in law with former Governor S. W. Stewart.
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John G. Brown
Welena
Montana
Yale
Caesar
Brown
8S. W. Stewart
Old Cowpuncher Plans Parachute Jump at Glendive Celebration
Bill Wicks, 51, famed Powder River cowpuncher, will jump from a Curtis plane at 4000 feet during Glendive's June 26 celebration. He will carry a sharp knife to cut loose the parachute if needed, and claims his past rodeo thrills have prepared him for the risk.
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Bill” Wicks
Powder River County
Glendive
Curtis
Terra Firma
Hicks
Broadus
Casper
Gillette
Sheridan
Wiliston
Williston
Miles City
Powder River
Pheasant Weds Wild Charge Trumps Williams in Chase
H HE Williams of Big Timber G M Kirwan and Doc Young were driving when a jack rabbit spooked a pheasant. Williams shot at it but the bird darted from the grass and mounted a running fight. Williams dodged and sat on an irrigation ditch bank as the pheasant charged again, landing on his back before Doc Young captured it.
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H. HE. Williams
Big Timber
G. M. Kirwan
Doc"” Young
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American Refinery
Montanons
Austin Warr
Bank of
Fergus County
Austin Rees Warr
Mr. Warr
Lewistown
University of Wisconsin
Judith Club
Trailer Jack
John Chinnick
Cosmopolitan Theater
Cosmopolitan
Judge Lynch
Son
D. J. O'Malley
Helena Concam
Keogh
Matthew
Vigilantes
Miles
Chinnick
Bayer
Bill Hicks
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