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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
3
A Montana land loan request uses the old homestead as security to free a woman from two persistent suitors while her husband vows to shoot. The tale unfolds with state land office officials guiding the loan, revealing a melodramatic plot set against ranch life and mortgage pressures.
Judge Fred W. Freeman of Denver leads Elk Basin Consolidated Petroleum in taking over the Frantz company with vast Montana holdings in Mosby and Winnett fields. The No. 2 Frantz gusher proves massive, prompting debates on abandonment risk and plans for adjoining wells to secure output.
Funeral held for Captain H. E. Beedle veteran steamboat pilot on the Mississippi and Yukon rivers. Beedle was described as a friend of Mark Twain when the author was a cub pilot. He once piloted a steamboat on the Missouri River in Montana.
Henry Hulbert of Brush Creek hoped for oil from his well but instead found a powerful artesian flow 810 feet underground. The 10 inch casing yields 8000 barrels daily water to irrigate 320 acres and generate 135 horsepower for on site electric lights and machinery. He plans to sell the casing and use the water flow as the farm’s main power source.
Helena police court justice H. J. Grimes was fined $10 for parking within 20 feet of a fire plug. Clerk John Forrest tried the case as Grimes admitted guilt and paid the penalty, quipping that a poor doctor won’t take his own medicine.
Lewis and Clark county deputy attorney George W. Padbury Jr says today’s hoboes are mainly young men roaming the west after military service. He notes the county’s jail policy keeps crime low, with automobile theft nearly absent except for two eastern youths sent to the penitentiary.
Governor appoints B F Maiden of Kalispell to the Eleventh judicial district court to succeed T A Thompson who resigns effective August 31. The district includes Matthead county and the new judge will serve the term in this state.
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