Great Pioneer of State Dies in New York
Montana mining magnate William Andrews Clark, who arrived in Bannack in 1863 with $5 and a prairie schooner, rose to become a millionaire and U.S. senator. Born 1839 in Connellsville, he helped draft Montana’s constitution, built wealth across mines, mills, and banks, and was a central figure in the mining wars shaping the West.
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William—Andrews-Clark
New York City
Montana
Heinze
Daly and Clark
Bannack
Ida
United States
Connellsville
Missouri
Colorado
Idaho
Clark
Society of Montana Pioneers
Great West
United States Senate
Senator Clark
Clark, Heinze and Daly
Mining Law of America
Heinze and
Daly
Mr. Clark
Mexico
France
United Verde
Jerome
Ariz
New York
Paris
Butte
Mont
Horse Prairie
Salt Lake
Missoula
Walla Walla
Washington
Young Clark
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Plains
South Park
Central City
America
Thomas Kearns
Utah
Nez Perce
Democrats
Senate
Beauvais
Joan of Arc
Senate kills three cent gas tax with road fund clause
Montana senate rejects house three cent gasoline tax, cuts to two cents, redirects 40 percent to general fund and 60 percent to counties. Old automobile license tax unchanged. Several banking and tax bills vetoed or overridden. Other measures pass or die on liquor, education, and municipal issues as sessions adjourn.
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Senate
Helena
House
Fort Assinniboine
State Board of Examiners
Montana
William A. Clark the Montana figure in mining and philanthropy
The text profiles William A. Clark a Montana magnate born in 1839 who built Butte’s early silver industry, founded rail lines, and shaped civic gifts. It details his mining ventures, political career including a U S Senate race, and major philanthropic projects in Butte Los Angeles New York and elsewhere, noting his marriages and survivors.
Old Montana Prospector Fails to Locate Rich Strike by Fenced Lands
C C Willis of Plains recalls an elderly prospector who sought a long lost claim west of Missoula. The man could not re locate the site due to cut timber fences and altered hills, though he planned another try. Plains once a hub for prospectors and pack trains now features fenced grazing turned fertile farms with little modern prospecting.
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Plains
Missoula
C. C. Willis
Wills
Willis
Horse Plains
Thompson Falls
Coeur
d'Alene
Murray
Banditry After Cradle Starting Young in Montana
Oscar Miner a 12 year old was cited into juvenile court at Helena for stick ing up a 6 year old and taking a dollar. County Attorney George W. Padbury Jr asks that the boy be adjudged a delinquent and a dependent child.
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Oscar Miner
Helena
George W. Padbury, Jr
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Northwest
A, Clark
Assembly
Silver Bow County
Chouteau County
Gascade County
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Erickson
Jere B. Lestie
State Department of Vital Statistics
House Committee On Dairying
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Conference Committee
School For Deaf and Blind
Boulder
Granite County
Sene
Sunburst Refining Company
Great Falls, Mont
S. C. Huseth
Great Falls
Main
Quartz
Canaries
Model Rx Pharmacy
Central Avenue
Lolo National Forest
Blackfoot Land
Slawer
Colusa
Mountain Chief
Gambetta
Columbia University
Tacoma, Wash
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Jay St
Dr. Pierce
President Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N. Y
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Clari
Nevada
California
Columbia Gardens
Paul Clark
Mary Andrews Clark
Kate L. Stauffer
Anna E. la Chapelle
Butte, Mont
Charles W. Clark
United Verde Company
Clarkdale, Ariz
FORD
Frank J. Carmody
the Thousand
F. A. Ironside
N. Main St. Butte
Moritana
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