Russell and His Montana Circle of Friends
The article profiles Charles M. Russell, Montana artist, noting his enduring circles of friends from cattle ranching days to later fame. It emphasizes that long-time Montana friendships outrank city connections, and highlights Russell’s horses, especially Neenah, his 17-year saddle horse still active and valued in his vast network of allies.
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Charles M. Russell
Montana
Russell
America
London
New York
Tie
West
Charlie Russell
Red Bird
Gray Eagle
Monte
Neenah
Charlie Tiussell
Two Lewiston Soldiers Win Promotions
Two Lewistown based soldiers, sons of Judge Kirk Cheadle of Fergus County, receive rapid promotions. Barlow Cheadle, West Point graduate in the regular army, is made a major, while Ned Cheadle, trained at an officers’ camp, becomes a first lieutenant. Both are Lewistown High School alumni with a family history of military service and earlier ties to the Philippine campaign.
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Kirk Cheadle
Fergus County
Barlow Cheadle
West Point
Ned Cheadle
Lewistown High School
Cheadle
Lewistown Company
First Montana
Spain
Lewistown
Strange Old Montana Laws They Once Enforced
A survey notes the 1860s to 1870s Montana statutes now seen as odd or lapsed. It recalls early homestead exemptions 1867, mining claim ore deposits, and attempts to fund railroads by county subscriptions amid territorial governance, plus a 1866 gambling ban and an error in legislative apportionment.
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Montana
Congress
United States
Legislative Assembly
Batmack
Territory of
House of Representatives
Assembly
House
Sidgerton
Territory
Potts
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Utah Northern
Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin
Meagher
Lewis and Clark County
Tian
Kranktin
Ida
Gig Hole
Custer
George A. Custer
United States Cavalry
Little Bighorn River
Little Big Horn River
Cloudburst strand doctor in flood drenched gulches
Dr. W. J. Butler state veterinarian spent a night in driving rain and rising flood waters after a cloudburst near Dillon Virginia City and Sher dan. He and a cattleman slept in a small tent beside his auto, then struggled to cross the flooded gulches when rain and hail fields returned.
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W. J. Butler
Virginia City
Sheridan
Plan to train 36000 second lieutenants annually at Camp Devens
The officers training school at Camp Devens will churn out 36,000 second lieutenants per year and be open to civilians of draft age. Applicants must have a high school education or equivalent, and prior military training will not be required.
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Camp Devens
Finlen Plans Inland Beach Resort at Pipestone Springs
Butte entrepreneur Jim Finlen leads a syndicate to transform Pipestone Springs in Montana into a major inland resort. The project includes a grand hotel a hospital baths artificial beach fed by hot springs and golf trout ponds and a mountain road and rail access. Finlen partners Roy Alley John Corvette and Ray Rhule back the venture expected to begin after the war with completion aimed for next season.
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Canute
Albion
Joshua
Israel
Mahomet
Jim Finlen
Butte
Montana
Finlen
Continental Divide
Pipestone Springs
Pipestone
Ponce de Leon
Jimmie Finlen
Rocky Mountains
Milwaukee
Northern Pacific
Roy S. Alley
John Corvette
Ray Rhule
Warning of German ruin over world domination plans
Wilk Ruin Germany Maximilian Harden warns that Germany will be ruined if it fails to recover from the malady of world domination. He cites the German Economic League program to dominate Baltic and Black Sea ports and key straits from the Morman coast to Gallipoli and into French Lorraine and Flanders.
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Maximilian Harden
Zukunft
German Economic League
Germany
Baltic and
Black Seas
Bosphorus
Dardanelles
Morman Coast
Gallipoli
Caucasus
French
Lorraine
Flanders
Socialist Deputy Stroebel Slams War Policy in Landtag
In a Prussian Landtag address, independent socialist deputy Stroebel condemned the German government's pursuit of peace by force. He warned the German people to oust their rulers and “send their politicians of war and rapine to the devil” or face a powerful American military response.
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Stroebel
Landtag
America
Carbon County Draft Board Cleared of Misconduct
The Carbon county draft board members were found not guilty of misconduct by the county council of defense after a probe prompted by the state council. Officials described the charges as startling but the investigation found no substantiation.
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Carbon County Draft Board
County Council of Defense
State Council
County Council
Washington American Troops Aid British in Russia Intervention
American and British forces coordinate in Russia as Washington troops participate in the intervention, supporting allied operations and pursuing regional aims amid the multinational action.
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Washington
Russia
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Philippine Islands
George Dewey
Insular
Major Barlow Cheadle
DR. Butler
Madison County
Dillon
Orr
Poindexter
France
Kerensky
Paris
Custer Pigit
James Finlen
Wilk Ruin
Gsrman
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Falls
Montan
1St National Bank Excilé
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