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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1919
Page
11
Linton acts as relief hub for the bay shore as corpses flood in across Westport White Point Odem Portland and Corpus Christi. Troops patrol streets as recovery begins with hundreds left homeless and a toll feared to rise.
A county clerk list from the week ending Sept 13 1919 records deeds and U S patents. Deeds show transfers including Nelson to Goodell Greene to Will Smith and others with prices noted and parcels described. Patents list recipients Costello Baskett Stoffler Lee Stevens Gebhart Lietz with section town and range details.
In Pueblo Colorado on September 13 a mob seized two Mexicans from jail and hanged them at the Fourth Street bridge near the city limits. The victims Jose Gonzales and Santos Ortez had been arrested for the murder of Patrolman Jeff Evans and were transferred to the county jail to avoid unrest.
St Anthony and Dakota Elevator Co sues Albright Dahl in a transcription of judgment filed Sept 11. The Board of Commissioners of Te ton county Montana sues J W Keithley in eminent domain, filed Sept 13.
Administrator Byron Corson of the Harry Stanley estate invites creditors and others with claims to present them with vouchers within four months after the first publication. Claims must be exhibited to attorney Tr. H. Pridham in Choteau Montana, with August 23 1919 as the date of the notice. First publication August 29 1919.
Talbot Cornett sues Pearl Cornett in the Nineteenth District Court of Montana Teton County seeking dissolution of marriage and related relief. Judgment by default possible after twenty days if no answer filed. Court date August 28, 1919.
J E Jenkins and Mrs H L Holdren of Des Moines Iowa travel to Montana to learn details about their grandfather Franklin Friend slain in 1865 near Ophir on the Missouri River south of the Marias. They pursue records of mining interests and identify where he died amid frontier changes.
Seventeen enemy alien prisoners escaped from Fort Douglas war prison in Salt Lake City via an eight foot tunnel extending beyond the wire and dug six feet underground. Colonel Bryam said most were deemed undesirable and not dangerous. Ogden police said several suspects were rounded up but none linked to the escape.
Dawson Sept. 14 Several thousand tons of silver ore will be shipped outside next spring from Youkon and Alaska according to Vol ney Richmond superintendent of the Northern Commercial company Half this amount would come from Nixon fork near Iditarod and half from Kantishna near Fairbanks The Stewart river country is expected to ship possibly one or two thousand tons A number of other points are developing bright promises in silver yield and much exploration work is to be done this winter The Guggenheims have taken an option on the main group of claims staked on the fork of Duncan creek
Mrs Agnes C Laut told a Washington sub committee of tales from Mexico City describing naked children sleeping on pavements under newspaper coverings and facing lives of banditry or worse She urged removing the word intervention from discussion and said the horror exceeded Belgium or Armenia in her view
German immigrants arriving in Buenos Aires allege they were lured from Germany by false promises of land grants in Argentina. They were urged to join the German Society for Agricultural Colonization of Argentina, paying 50 marks at Hamburg, with ads claiming favorable Argentinian bank loans for machinery and livestock.
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