Mennonites Leave Canada for Mississippi Military Exemption
About 8,000 Mennonites from Manitoba and Saskatchewan plan to relocate to Mississippi this year, seeking exemption from military service and freedom to worship and educate as they choose. They cite education laws and wartime tensions, with property valued over 10 million dollars to be sold.
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Canada
Mississippi
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Washington
Russia
Mississippi Valley
Prairie
Alberta
Alabama
Canadian Supreme Court
Pioneer a Witness of the Hanging of Bill Hunter
W. P. Emery recounts the 1863 pursuit and execution of Bill Hunter, last of Plum mer's men, by Montana Vigilantes in Virginia City. Hunter evaded capture, was tracked to a Gallatin cabin, then taken under guard and executed after a staged confrontation. A slip of paper on his clothing claimed justice satisfied.
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Bill Hunter
Plummer
Montana
W. P. Emery
Historicalociety
Bill” Hunter
Virginia City
Emery
Gallatin
Hunter
Barney Hughes
Hughes
Spring Gulch
Alder Gulch
Bill
Old Timers Reminded of the First Black Hills Gold Rush
Montana Lou recalls 1874 gold discovery by William T. McKay in the French creek valley near Custer City during Custer’s expedition. The piece details the expedition, participants, routes, Bear Kill, and the early mining boom later culminating in the Homestake mine in Lead.
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Black Hills
William T. McKay
French Creek
Custer City
W. C. McClintock
Custer County Bank of
Miles City
Custer
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn
Phil Sheridan
Fort
Abraham Lincoln
Bismarck
Cave Hills
Little Missouri River
Sun Dance Hills
Inyan Kara
Cold Spring Creek
Floral Valley
Castle Creek
Spring Creek
Ross
Castle Rapid
Box Elder Creeks
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Bear Butte
H. N. Ross
Custer County
Seventh Cavalry
United States
N. H. Winchell
Davidson
J. Bird Grinnell
F. D. Grant
U. S. Grant
McKay
Castle
Little Rapid
Box Elder Creek
William H. Wlingworth
St. Paul
Box Elder
Elk Creeks
Little Missouri
Little Missouri, and Thence By General Stanley
Stonewall
Deadwood
Rapid City
United States Land Office
Girl victim of morphine ring draws police attention
A young woman, missing a week, is found in a Butte rooming house posing as Chong Wing Long's wife. Police arrest her and three men on vagrancy and drug trafficking suspicions. The girl began drug use less than five months ago, became addicted, and bought morphine and cocaine daily. Chong Wing Long fined $200 for vagrancy.
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Murphy
O’donnell
Butte
Chinatown
Chong Wing
Chong Wing Long
Lee Lynn
Wing Lee
Louie Quon
Margaret McMullen
Chong
Wing Long
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear Skin Daily
Advert says Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum keep skin clear. Soap cleanses purifies. Ointment soothes and heals. Talcum powders and perfumes. Sold at 25c everywhere.
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Cuticura
Desperate Hardship Binds I W W Leader Family in Butte
Mrs. A Embree wife of an I W W leader told Silver Bow officials she and her two children lack food and basic needs. The county found the family in actual want and provided temporary aid. A S Embree, arrested in Wallace Idaho, faces criminal syndicalism charges with radical literature found on him. He testified at the Manning inquest supporting worker slowdowns to force employer concessions.
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Embree
Thomas Manning
Silver Bow County
A. S. Embree
Wallace
Idaho
Manning
Priest pinned seven hours under auto saved near Sandusky
Rev. Father De Mers, returning from Zortman to the mission, was trapped seven hours under a stalled car on a hill near Sandusky after it rolled over an embankment. Mrs Kolchak and her daughter, aided by Kolchak's son, finally lifted the car and freed him. He suffered only bruises with no broken bones.
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Father de Mers
Zortman
Sandusky
Father DeMers
Old-Time Cattleman Keating Dies at 43 Years in Warm Springs
Loyd Keating one of the original 13 sent to Warm Springs at the institution’s opening forty three years ago has died. He hailed from Chateau and was a renowned cattleman. Even as a patient his keen judgment of cattle remained strong and he frequently trained staff in selecting good steers while buying herds across the state.
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Loyd Keating
Warm Springs
Chateau
Keating
Insane Asylum
Boy Dragged to Death on Ranch Near Beay Springs
Willie Brinkman, 12, son of Mr and Mrs Chris Brinkman, was dragged to death by a saddle horse on their Beay Springs ranch. No witness. found mutilated with one shoe missing. He likely fell and his foot trapped in the stirrup while bringing in horses. The Brinkmans lost two other sons last year to ptomaine poisoning.
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Willie
Chris Brinkman
Beay Springs
Forest Ranger Returns in Tragic Snowbound Journey
T R Hodson forest ranger at Powell county station Idaho endured months snowbound with his wife who died of pneumonia. Seven men ferried the body 24 miles to Lolo Hot Springs then to Missoula as Hodson, grief struck, traveled west from Galena Illinois five years ago to start anew.
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Missoula
T. R. Hodson
Powell Country
Idaho
Montana
Hodson
Little Cabin
Lolo Hot Springs
Galena
Ill
Lolo
Professors Resigns at State College Bozeman
Announcement at the State College in Bozeman reports the resignation of Prof. A. E. Duddy from the English department.
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Bozeman
the State College In
A. E. Duddy
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