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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1918
Page
17
The late Senator Thomas H. Carter recounted a 1880s Marysville stagecoach robbery plan he helped foil. A partner recruited a gorilla‑like ringleader, but Carter’s setup used unarmed guards and a lead-filled safe, leading to arrests and a life sentence for the mastermind.
A Paris report to the New York Times claims growing belief that Germany faces imminent exhaustion. Wastage from the Aisne Marne and Somme fronts forced interior depots to draft 1920 class youths into production work. German reserves have been poured into the Somme defense, with retreat looming and costly delays already evident.
The grain corporation dispatches federal threshing inspectors to Montana and Idaho to monitor threshing operations and prevent wheat waste.
Jay H. Damascus, a veteran from Villa’s army now in Montana, joins Great Northern as an operator after arriving from Mexico where he worked as wireless operator for Villa. He refused to join any army but said if he did it would be to fight the Hung. Damascus says Villa is friendly to the Allies and anti German, with Villa in Mexico City as truce talks with Carranza proceed amid fall elections.
The Flathead forest district forester says a Flathead lake pulp mill is feasible after the war with Minneapolis interests backing the plan. Timber near Big Fork supports manufacturing pulp and paper, but disposal of toxic refuse remains unresolved and cannot be dumped into the lake under current laws.
Montana firms are ordered to furnish 5980 men for war industries raising the previous quota of 3060 as set by federal instruction to Chas. D. Greenfield secretary of the state council of defense from the federal employment service. Many workers will stay in state but many will be sent elsewhere. No workers from farms mines or railroads. Government pays.
Carl Von dem Busche, a Montana favorite, passed the 1915 Montana state bar and rose from regular army first lieutenant at Fort Missoula to lieutenant colonel at Camp Sev ier. He commanded a machine gun regiment at Camp Hancock and served as senior instructor at officers’ schools, earning rapid, well regarded promotion and universal popularity among enlisted men in Montana.
Captain J. J. Snell formerly of Company H Kalispell is to receive the French Croix de Guerre for bravery after rescuing women and children from a burning ammunition train amid shelling. He was wounded and is hospitalized. a French officer pinned the award on his blouse and pledged to report the deed up the chain of command.
Governor Sam V. Stewart and state officials back Americanization efforts by the bureau of education within the interior department. State statistics show about 90,000 alien born residents and 14,000 unable to speak read or write English, signaling Montana's strong participation in the national drive.
An Iowa inquiry seeks a beardless fall wheat. Buffum No. 17 is proposed as the likely choice. Developed by Professor Buffum, it is a beardless, drought resistant winter wheat derived from Turkey red. Tested for over a decade, it suits high altitude non irrigated lands. Seed houses price about $5 per hundred pounds and can feed three acres on dry land.
The Albaerta wheat crop is estimated at 10,000,000 bushels, about one third of normal. farmers face shortages as drought conditions reduce yields across the region.
Julius Wuerthner of Great Falls chosen as bandmaster for Camp Hancock in Georgia after a Army and Navy Journal ad caught the attention of the commanding officer. Wuerthner, a lawyer and former Montana attorney, has held multiple musical roles including Algeria Shrine director and Helena Consistory organist, and has led bands since his Michigan cadet days. The Camp Hancock unit draws on musicians who have appeared in grand opera and famous concert bands, reflecting Montana influence at the military training center.
Butte’s unionized firemen joined organized labor by forming Local No. 96 of the International Association of Firefighters. The unit affiliates with the AFL and pledges loyalty to the government and wartime efforts. Officers were elected and sworn in by M. M. Donoghue, president of the Montana Federation of Labor.
The draft bill inserts an occupational tax schedule: most business owners and professionals pay $10 annually, while heads of wholesalers with $200000 or more annual business pay $25. Farmers mechanics ministers and teachers are exempt from the $10 tax and smaller businesses under $2000 are exempt.
Great Falls public schools suspend the rule against employing married women. The teachers and salaries committee recommended the change to allow wives of absent soldiers to be hired during the war. Married women have already filled some positions in recent years.
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