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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1924
Page
4
In a Silver Bow club reminiscence Senator Lee Mantle recalls meeting Wilbur F. Sanders during a blizzard at Pleasant Valley Idaho area. Mantle recounts how Sanders sheltered a stage crew and how Power and family later endured a 40 foot snowbank while Sanders aided their rescue.
Sam Wallin known as Swede Sam, a famed Montana gambler, died at Warm Springs. He disappeared earlier, was reported insane, and his death ends a career noted for chilled nerve and uncompromising word. He once carried $60,000 cash to New York, bet wildly, and never flinched at risking his entire bank roll on a game.
After a partisan victory in Helena, Col. Sanders slipped into the crowd incognito and faced the audience when loudly asked for a speech. He recalled the nomination and quipped that he was told he would be beaten by a yellow dog, provoking roars as he departed.
The Drumsummon mine at Marysville, a historic gold property with a production near 16 million dollars, will be reopened by the St. Louis Mining & Milling company of Montana after more than ten years idle. Bozeman bankers back a plan aiding agricultural exports under the McNary Haugen bill now before congress.
Theodore Britigan aged 39 a bridge carpenter was killed when he fell more than 100 feet from the Great Northern railway trestle into a rocky gully near Mesdorville.
J W Park in charge of collections reports more than 65 percent of farmers seed loans made by the government in 1921 and 1922 in North Dakota South Dakota Montana Idaho and Washington up to the first of the year.
Cheyenne Wyoming reports the death of Joseph M Carey 79 a former Wyoming governor and key figure in the state's development for 55 years He was the only Wyoming citizen to serve as governor and father of a governor His son Robert D Carey followed as governor four years after his retirement in 1915.
The article recounts Ringling family history with Alice the elephant and her bond with 13 year old Rick in a Montana setting. It describes Alice's strength and temper, the circus move from Connecticut toward a South American destination, and a dramatic love story framed by Richard R. Kilroy's narrative voice.
President Alfred Atkinson outlines Montana's constructive agricultural program based on expert experience. Key areas include low costs, home-made implements, diverse crops such as wheat, sugar beets, beans, peas, flax, apples, corn, and seed potatoes, plus dairy, sheep, horses, hogs, stock farming, and the need for suitable farm units and population growth.
A circus boy Rick Ringling and elephant Alice get detained by a Hoboken constable for alleged violations. In a chaotic tug of signals and improvised lingo, Alice defies the law as Ringling pleads $100. The courtroom shakes when the elephant upends the roof, sunlight flooding the scene.
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