Dixon Lands Senate Seat in Montana A Republican Win
Congressman Joseph M. Dixon won the Montana United States Senate seat with 49 votes to 22 for Lee Mantle as a Republican caucus settled the race. The joint session heard Gov. Joseph Toole present the biennial message while a resolution mourned Frank Longstaff's illness and a three person committee was proposed to study a lunch counter at the capitol.
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Joseph M. Dixon
United States
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Butte
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Missoula
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Frank Longstaff
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Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Atute
Governor Toole Delivers Message To Joint Session Of Legislature
The assembly listened intently as Gov. Toole spoke for about thirty five minutes and was met with applause. The house and senate combined greeted the governor, heard the message, and motions praised his suggestions before dissolving the joint session.
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Godfrey
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Maciain
Senate
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Marshall
O'Connor
Allen
Deer Lodge
Walker
Silver Bow
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White
Haviland
Swindlehurst
House
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O’connor
J W Howard At Deaths Door
J W Howard is gravely ill with a severe relapse after a bout of grippe and is hospitalized in Sheridan Wyoming. Mrs Howard travels with their daughter Pauline to join him as friends in the county anxiously await further news amid continued illness.
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Recommendations of the Governor for Montana Reform
Gov Toole in biennial message to the legislature notes Montana's strong condition and urges rail expansion to boost agriculture livestock and minerals He calls for a full law revision including meat and milk inspection repeal of the current primary law and a general new one He favors investing public funds in county and city trusts and increasing the state treasurer bond to 750000 He supports shorter rail worker hours boiler inspections and a railroad and warehouse commission law modeled after the national law with commissioners drawn from three parties He seeks regulation of telegraph telephone and interurban electric companies and highlights mining progress urging mine ventilation sanitary lanes and action against wildcat mining He cites 30 million investment in the sheep industry and approves a commission association to manage output He notes a court decision invalidating 400000 educational bonds and hopes for swift Supreme Court action to protect innocent buyers He urges Congress to amend the constitution for direct US Senate elections He calls for careful forest reserve creation and state supervision of private banks He proposes prohibiting free rail transportation and praises state fairs farmer institutes and horticulture board He seeks repeal of occupation license tax and attention to gambling laws and child labor bans He notes ten year stock-destroying bounty expenditures totaling over 1.26 million dollars.
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Board of Horticulture
Thomas Judge Dies in Butte after mining career
Thomas Judge a longtime Grayshopper resident and Beaverhead county mining figure died last Wednesday night in Butte at the Fitchen lodging house. Coroner to hold inquest. he leaves a widow and stepson. Judge helped organize the Park Copper Mining company and had recent Elkhorn district interests. Funeral planned after relatives reach Butte.
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Butte
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Bearhead County
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R. M. Cobban
Alfred K. Driggs
Edward B. Howells
Hutte
Michael Judge
Fitchen Brothers
Connecticut
New Haven
Dillon
Bannack
Bond Transfer Signals Revival of Argenta Mines
A major mining deal in the Argenta district was completed in Dillon this week as the bond on three Argenta Dillon claims was assumed by the Butte Argenta company for six thousand dollars. The Argenta Dillon firm, led by R. Jacobs C. M. Eddy and Jas. McKay, holds a half interest in the A Pilon claim now slated for bond take up. The Butte Argenta company plans resumed operations and extensive development in the coming spring and summer.
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Dillon Council Pushes Depot Recovery and Milk Ordinance
City council plans an immediate investigation into depot conditions and a milk adulteration ordinance. Mayor White submits a letter urging Oregon Short Line to upgrade Dillon depot facilities as traffic, including 150 State Normal College students, strains current waiting rooms.
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