News of the Past Seven Days Condensed Highlights
A Montana roundup reports a library theft at Billings, a fatal lightning strike near Boulder, a $500 game law fine for Ralph Pulitzer in Lewiston, plans for a Missoula Elks lodge and opera house, and severe Flathead timber fires. Also noted are Montana mine revenues down, a Boston Heights grocer and boy shocked by a struck horse, a city woman in danger, tax valuation losses, and personnel changes in state game wardens. Additional items cover a Fergus county death, a child assault case, Anaconda fatalities from mercury candy, a state band tournament in Helena, and a horse-thief arrest in Dawson county tied to a Missouri river rustling spike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wharton
Columbia Gardens
Butte
Gardens
Wharton Eaya
Helena
Boston
Montana
Dawson County
W. D. Smith
Miles City
H. Hall
Havre
Missouri River
John Hidero
Glendive
Andrew Larsen
Daweon County
Ed Lemm
Chouteau County
Hidoro
Drought Eases in Yellowstone Area but Hits Northern Montana
A weekly crop bulletin reports above normal temperatures with scattered mountain showers and widespread drought in northern Montana east of the divides. Water scarcity and dryland hay losses loom as corn and cattle welfare depend on limited rainfall. Haying proceeds well in some valleys while winter wheat harvest begins and alfalfa regrowth appears in Yellowstone County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Young
Helena Weather Bureau
Yellowstone
Musselsell
Missoula
Yellowstone County
Beaverhead
Dillon
Cate
Dewey
Synopsis of State Game Law Changes
State Game Warden W F Scott mails a circular with a concise summary of current laws for reference. Open sage hens and turkey season starts August 1. grouse prairie chickens pheasant fool hen start September 1. Mountain sheep now protected with no season. all large game and waterfowl hunting begin September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Scott
Mr. Scott
Building Rock for Sale in Frying Pan Basin
White building rock offered by Gen. R. Metlen for John Rorke in Dillon. Rock supplied in any quantity at 10 cents per perch. Apply at Dillon office on page 48-3.
English peer's heir found in Missouri to claim estate
Bonnie Lamar of Dillon Montana has found her twelve-year-old son Francis Lamar in Missouri after an eight year separation. New York attorneys for a British peer’s estate verified his identity and expect guardianship arrangements to be made in England. The mother plans to keep him in the United States for schooling before possible travel to England for the estate settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
England
Lamar
Missouri
Salt Lake
Tribone
Bonnie Lamar
Mont
Denver
Mia
Colorado
Weaver
Colo
Colorado. Humane Society
Cripple Creek
New York
Francis Lamar
Bonnie
Colorado Institution
Womad
Joplin
E. A. Wagener
United States
World's Short Line Tickets to St Louis Chicago and Rates
Every Tuesday from May to October the Short Line offers round trip tickets to St Louis and Chicago with $47.50 and $52.50 fares and $53.75 via Chicago or via Salt Lake and Denver. Final limit three months through December 31st. Tickets permit stopovers in both directions. Depart Dillon 7 17 p m arrive St Louis third day 7 a m. Reserve at Short Line City Ticket Office Dillon Montana. S S Carruthers Agent tf
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Short Line
St. Louis
Chicago
Salt Lake
Denver
Dillon
Short Line City Ticket Office
Montana
S. S. Carruthers
Sheriff Sale Notice of Hecla Consolidated Mining Co Properties
The Hecla Consolidated Mining Company and defendant are to be sold at sheriffs sale on August 4 1904 at 2 pm at the front door of the courthouse Dillon Montana. The sale lists numerous lodes and mill sites in Beaverhead County including Ariadne Cleopatra Avon Franklin Trapper Atlantus Helene Kaufman Oneida Condo Pride of the West Mofet Minnie Gaffney and several Miller Sites with detailed lot numbers and mineral certificates. M D Gist Sheriff Beaverhead County Montana. By Geo W Dart Under Sheriff. Dated July 9 1904 First publication July 13 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hecla Consolidated Mining Company
Court House
Dillon
Beaverhead
Montana
Franklin Lode
Trapper Lode
Atlantus, Alta
Hecla
True Fissure Lode
Cleve Lode
Mark Antony Lode
Keokuk Lode
Helene Kaufman Lode
Oneida Lode
Beaverhead County
Condo Lode
West Lode
Mofet and Maynard Lode
Minnie Gaffney Lode
Gryant Mining District
S. R
Said County
Atate
Everest
Glendale
Said
M. D. Gist
Notice to Creditors of Dillon Fair Association
Notice to creditors of the Dillon Fair and Racing Association to file with the secretary before August 1904 an itemized statement of any claims. Address F. H. Cooney Secretary Butte Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon Fair & Racing Association
F. H. Cooney
Butte
Mont
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News OF the
Farmly Memorial Library
Billings
William Phipps
Thomas Smith
Boulder
Lightning
Ralph Pulitzer
Lewiston
Cheadle
Flathead County
Kalispell
Eugene Folsom
Boston Heights
Great Falls
Otto Blake
Wavre
Gertrude Black
Aumimoned
State Board of Equalization
Charles L. Smith
Mr. Smith
Jack Satterwhite
Swimming Woman Creek
Fergus County
Snowy Mountains
Lige Oglesby
Katie Kimber
Oglesby
Marie Fitzpatrick
Anaconda
Geraldine Long
May Dee
Mabel Sweney
Mabel
Marie
Rose Fousek
Albert J. Zousek
Great Falla
Drouths
Building Rock
Mig Grand
Oregon
Wilwaukee's
Banner Brew
VAL. Blatz Brewing CO
Milwaukee
S. S. Patterson
Alexander McDowell
Geo. W. Dart
Edwin Norris
Attorney at-Law
Examiner Office
Dillon, Montana
T. B.landers
Chas. Cunnard
Kof R. Sachem
Examiner
Liqur
T S. Patterson
Apollinaris
Bethesda
Arn
Idanha
el Plantador
Flor de Erb
Rialto
la Coralina Cigars
Madeira
Gutedel
Burgundy
Muscatel
Catawba
Rhine
Malaga
Val Blatz
First National Bank
B. F. White
J. H. Gilbert
Bric Grange
WORL
Salt Lake City
Colorado Springs
G. W. Fitzgerald
Broadway
Union -Pacific and
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Ticket Office
Salt Lake City, Utah
Olmsted & Logan
Grocers
Gregg
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