Montana Happenings Show Coal Freight and Fatal Incidents
Montana items note lignite coal freight rate talks in Poplar, a $200,000 state tax estimate, and a fatal accident when a man stepped in front of a loaded ore train. Also reported are a tourist car plunge into the Yellowstone river, a forest service fiscal agent pleading guilty, and questions over smelter fumes harming state livestock.
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Colorado
Francis Thomas
Missoula
J. A. Urbanowicz
Department No. 1
The
Forest Service
United States
Wallace P. Smith
Urbanowicz
Henry Baker Named Montana Capitol Postmaster
Henry Baker, a well known Black resident of Helena, will become postmaster at the state capital on July 1 after the federal postal department approved the state board of examiners recommendation. The position pays $1800 yearly, succeeding A B Lyons who has led the capitol post office since December 1913.
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Helena
Henry Baker
State House
Washington
State Board of Examiners
Baker
A. BE. Lyons
Capitol
Prison Board Meets. Parole Recommendations Tabled
Helena June 22 The first meeting of the year of the state board of prison commissioners was held this afternoon. The board includes Governor Dixon Secretary of State Charles T Stewart and Attorney General Wellington D Rankin. Warden M W Potter proposed parole for 19 inmates who have served the minimum portions of their sentences.
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Helena
State Board of Prison Commissioners
Dixon
Charles T. Stewart
Wellington D. Rankin
M. W. Potter
State Penitentiary
Nine Teachers Granted Life Pensions by State Board
The state board chaired by Attorney General Rankin and joined by the state superintendent, Miss May Trumper, and State Treasurer J W Walker granted life pensions to nine teachers with 25 years of service. The fund, sustained by teachers contributing $1 monthly, now supports 64 pensioners at $50 per month.
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Rankin
May Trumper
J. W. Walker
Teachers Pension Fund
Montana Rail Commission Signals Campaign Against Wool Rate Cut
Helena reports the Montana state railroad commission will oppose a Pacific coast wool freight rate reduction that does not apply to interior points. The commission learned of the proposal by telegram and promptly urged the Rate Association of Montana Idaho Utah Nevada and Arizona to protest to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Helena
Montana
Hentte
Poplar
Lee Dennis
Sam Ross
State Railroad Commission
Washington
Interstate: Commerce Commission
Chicago
John 8. Benton
National Association of State Railway Commissioners
South Dakota
Nevada
Arizona
North Dakota
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Benton
Transcontinental Railways
Pacific Coast
Montana Commission
Intermediate Rate Association
Idaho
Utah
Interstate Commerce Commission
Taxpayers urged to declare property values soon
County Assessor B. W. Emerick announces that the assessment books will close shortly and all taxpayers must complete their property value declarations promptly.
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B. W. Emerick
Disabled men camp to be held at Big Island Lake Minnetonka
A two week summer camp for disabled men from Minnesota and the Dakotas will run at Big Island Lake Minnetonka Minnesota. Horace Lowrydonating the island. funding from Federal Board for Vocational Education and Minneapolis war chest fund.
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Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Montana
Big Island
Lake Minnetonka
Federal Board
Horace Lowry
Minneapolis Street Railway Company
Biinancial
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Minneapolis War Chest Fund
K. P
Bjornstad
Fort Snelling
Minn
Western Passenger Association of Chicago
Minneapolis
M. T. Northey
Keith
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Montana State
Treasure State
House Judiciary
Livingston
Ed. Zoller
Portland
Ore
Almira Zacher
Heil
N. D
Yellowstone River
Anaconda
Tuberculosis Canitarium
R. D. Miller
Miller
Prince Albert
Prince Albert Tobacco
P. A
R. A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem, N.C
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