How the Vigilantes Established Law in Montana
A Washington Post view recalls Col. Wilber Fisk Sanders who led Montana vigilantes against the Plummer gang in the 1860s. The text details Sanders and the open air trials that hanged 22 gang members, including Henry Plummer, and explains the vigilantes as provisional rulers who governed by mask and rope to restore order in Virginia City Bannack and surrounding settlements.
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Wilber Fisk Sanders
United States
Montana
Washington Post
Colonel Sanders
Idaho
Sanders
Ohio
Bannack City
Virginia City
Nevada City
California
Henry Plummer
Plummer
Dime Fiavela
Indiana
Wells Fargo
Sam T. Haueer
Territory
John
Steve Maraland
Sheriff's Band
J. M. Bozeman
Salt Lake City
Oliver
Salt Lake
Bannack
Col. Sanders
George Ives
Ives
Nicholas Tobalt
Btinawater
Henry Plumumb
Vicinty
X. Biedler
Courts of Justice
Notice to Shippers Charges on Freight Declared
Notice to Shippers. Effective December 1, 1904 storage will be charged on all in bound freight unloaded on platform or in warehouse and on all out bound freight delivered to or into warehouse without a bill of lading. Freight unloaded on platform or into warehouse without proper documentation may incur storage charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartlett
Property transfers and mining locations in Dillon area deeds
The notice lists multiple real estate transfers including warranty deeds from Henry Cushing to Harriet I Moore and James S T Farley to J W Deputy with varied parcels in Dillon, Lima, and adjoining districts. It also details quit claim, patent, and quartz and water locations across multiple lodes and districts with several named claimants and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Cushing
Harriet I. Moore
Rife
Dillon
James S T. Farley
J. W. Deputy
Pacific Street
Clara KE
Hailey
B. F. White
Lima
Consideraton
Washington Black
Herbert H. Soper
Meadow Creek
John C. Thompson
Little Sheep Creek
Lita
O. E. Coiner
Planters Lode
Utopia
John Costello
J. M. Sechler
Crown Point Lode
Watson Fork
French Creek
Samuel Hood
Belle Lode
Bannack
Sleeping cars offer cooler bed spreads on Southwest Limited
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway introduces white bed spreads replacing woolen blankets on its Southwest Limited trains between Chicago and Kansas City. Blankets will be kept in reserve for cooler nights, aiming to increase passenger comfort for sleeping car travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Ita
Chicago
Kansas City
Montana alias summons in Justice Court action
A civil action in Beaverhead County Montana before Justice Josephus Rich seeks $109.90 with 12 percent interest from December 1905. Plaintiff A F Work alleges the debt on an account stated and the defendant R B Henley must answer February 28 1906 at ten. This notice warns that failure to appear will yield judgment.
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State of
Montana
Beaverhead
Dillon Township
Josephus Rich
A. F. Work
R. B. Henley
County of
Justice of the Peace
A. D
Said Township
C. W. Robison
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Slade
Mr. Slade
Smith
The
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Alias
Peene
Hughes & McCaleb
Dillon, Montana
First National Bank
Beaverhead County
J. H. Gilbert
the Examiner
Geo. R. Metlen’s
Dillon Examiner
E. T. Brock
Prop
F. W. Vogler
Redrock
Salmon City
Gibbonsville
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