Sam Wallin of Butte a Noted Gambler Dies in Warm Springs Asylum
The Montana gambling era figure known as Swede Bam Wallin died in Warm Springs asylum after a lionized career in Butte's gambling rooms. He reportedly lost and won fortunes, once handling millions and boasting a $100,000 nightly stake, before debt and poverty followed him to the grave.
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Faro
Kings of
Butte
Bam" Wallin
Montana
Wallin
Warm Springs
Emil Hansen
Sam
Tom Hinds
Canada
Hinds
King Edward Hotel
Toronto
Tom
Hines
Sheepshead Bay
Ingleside
Atlantic
Pacific
Hmit
Utah
Sam Martin
Broadway
Sweden
Helena
Warm’ Springs
Flight of Chief Joseph and Nez Perces in 1877
The narrative traces the Nez Perces under Chief Joseph from their Lower Nez Perces homeland in Idaho through the 1877 war, pursuit by General Howard, battles at Clearwater and Big Hole, a long route across the Bitterroot, Yellowstone, and Missouri rivers, and final surrender near the Bear Paw mountains. It notes Miles and Howard cooperation and ends with a note on Missouri locomotive engineers' bank deposits.
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Nez. Perces
Snake River
Salmon River
Imnaha Valley
Lewiston
Idaho
Wallula
Walla Walla
Lower
Nez Perces
Lower Nez Perces
Joseph
Oregon
Whitman
White Bird
Looking Glass
Dreamers
Howard
Georgia
Montana
Sully
Perry
U. S
Clearwater
Lolo ‘Trail
United States
Dolorosa
Lodge Pole
Warm Springs
Rawn
Fort Missoula
Gibbon
Fort Shaw
Bitter Root Valley
Big Hole River
Yellowstone National Park
Sherman
Radersburg
Cowans
Helena
Professor Dietrich
Cowan
al Oldham
Sturgis
Park
Yellowstone
Musselshell
Dakota
Miles
Bear Paw
Indian
Washington Line
Lolo Trail
Yellowstone Park
Missouri Rivers
Canada
New Oil Lamp Offers Free Trial to Early Adopters
An inventor in Chicago offers a new oil lamp that reportedly burns 94 percent air and outperforms gas or electricity. The offer promises a free lamp to the first user in each locality who helps introduce it. Correspondence to Jonson at 609 W Lake St Chicago NL. Agents wanted.
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RE. P. Jonson
W. Lake &J
Chicago
Pendleton Woman Acquitted in First Degree Murder
Miss Nora Ellis was acquitted by a jury of first degree murder in the slaying of Gordon Mettie. She admitted the killing on the witness stand arguing temporary aberration from alleged wrongs by Mettie, who had been her suitor. A rifle bullet ended the dispute.
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Pendleton
Nora Ellis
Gordon Mettie
Eilis
Mettie
Charles N Pray Named Federal Judge for Eastern Montana
President Coolidge selected Charles N Pray a leading Montana lawyer and former congressman at large for a new federal judgeship. Pray plans a Washington conference before assuming duties likely in the eastern district with headquarters at Great Falls. Born 1869 at Potsdam New York he is noted as a popular jurist with revolutionary-era ancestry on both sides.
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Charles N. Pray
Montana
President Coolidge
Pray
Washington
Great Falls
Pray’s Rise From Reporter to Montana Senator
Charles N Pray began as a Chicago newspaper reporter befriending Eugene Field and Tracy Drake. He earned a law degree in 1891, practiced in Chicago, moved to Fort Benton in 1896, served four terms as Chouteau County attorney, married Edith Wackerlin in 1901, and pursued politics leading toward the U S senate nomination in 1916 amid the Bull Moose year.
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Pray
Chicago
Eugene Field
Tracy Drake
Chicago College of Law
Fort Benton
Colonel Donnelly
Chouteau County
Callaway
Supreme Bench
United States
Cattle Shipment From Station Reaches 5000 Head in 1923
The station reports that nearly 5,000 head of cattle were shipped from its yards during 1923. The figure reflects strong market demand and efficient livestock handling practices at the facility.
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Cascade
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joseph Erces
Martha
Edgerton Plassmann
Governor Edgerton
Canby
Missouri—Locomotive Engineers of
Missoula
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Bank
J. L. Hendrick
Cleveland
The
Brotherhood
C. C. Howard
F. A. Ironside
Pointess
N. Main Street
Butte ‘Cuca
S. C. Huseth
Walla
TANA
New
Judicial Place
Lew L. Callaway
Charles. N. Pray
Power Motor Car Company
Studebaker Motor Cars
REX Tops
Enclosures
Mohawk
TIRES
Wyoming
Montana Oil Edition
Great Falls, Montana
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