Broadus Highlights and Powder River Roundup Wild West Spirit
Broadus emerges as a rugged hub in Powder River county with a festive roundup scene on Powder River, duck hunting by Red Rock Lake drawing hunters from far and wide, and a growing town economy led by the Powder River County Examiner. The piece contrasts wild frontier life with a developing community featuring multiple banks, shops, hotels, and professions, plus a looming county seat election between Broadus and Olive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Rock Lake
Beaverhead
Centennial Valley
Goose Lake
Powder River
Broadus
Powder River County
Shorty
Montana
Miles City
Hugo Camplin
O. Fredericks
Powderville
Olive
Deadwood
Boot Hill
Kipling
Butte Miners Union Faces New Trial Over Riot Damages
The Butte Miners' Union battles for $93,581 in damages from the 1914 riots that destroyed its hall. The Montana Supreme Court ruled the case was filed on an erroneous theory, remanding for a new Powell county trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Butte Miners’ Union
Butte
Powell County
District Court
Helena
Cooper
Peter Breen
S. J. Leahy
Leahy
Patrick Lee
Breen & Leahy
Silver Bow
Breen
The
Old Western Federation of Miners
Butte Miners’ Union No. 1
Miners’ Union
Charles S. Shoemaker
Eugene Sullivan
Michael Groce
James
Buffalo Hunt Recreated Near Kalispell For Custer Film
The Marshall Nieland Film Company staged a Montana style buffalo hunt near Kalispell for the movie Custers Last Stand. Seventy nine buffalo remained in Smith valley while Blackfeet hunters in breechcloths conducted the hunt with bow arrows and a high power rifle ending the scene on a rugged hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Kalispell
Marshall-Nieland Film Company
Conrad Buffalo
Smith Valley
Great Buffalo Range
Woman Survives Brain Bullet After Rejected Suitor's Death
Mrs Martha Levitt of Wolf Point survives a gunshot to the head fired by Fred Stock a rejected suitor. The bullet three inches penetrated her brain but was removed and she has shown steady improvement over the past week as Stock died by his own hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Stock
Martha Levitt
Wolf Point
Stock
Race Between U S Marshal and Deputy Sheriff for Large Stake
The 1901 contest over the Diamond R Mining at Neihart spanned a 13 mile snowbound course from Monarch to Neihart. U S Marshal M H Wall and Cascade County Deputy David Ledbetter raced to seize $45,000 in Diamond R property, each securing attachments and claiming victory as courts weighed the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neihart
Cascade Silver Mines and Mills
William Creeden
Butte
M. H. Wall
Helena
United States
District of Montana
David Ledbetter
Cascade County
Monarch
Wall
Ledbetter
Marshal Wall
Great Falls
Charles D. McLure
Diamond R Mining Company
Great Falls National Bank
Diamond R
Court of
James Collard
William Tripp
Tripp
Nethart
Barker Branch
Yule
Diamond R Company
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Powder River Country
Canada
Hunter's Paradise
J. F. Lewis
Buckaroo
Billy Sunday
Billy
Waters
Wyoming
Flanders
West
Preacher Waters
Montana-Wyoming
Pastor Waters
Cowland
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek,Mich
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