Wyoming Oil Magnate Leads 2000 Barrel Well Strike
Tom Arthur, once a Billings politician, now heads a Montana syndicate that owns Lusk Wyoming oil holdings. The Ohio Company’s 38,400 foot wildcat came in unexpectedly, flooding the area and prompting rapid rigging as 30 plus rigs rush to develop the field.
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Discovery Well
Wyoming
Thomas Arthur
Billings
Montana
Lusk
Mr. Arthur
B. R. Albin
Hart-Albin Company
John
Express
Arthur Syndicate
Texas
Midwest
Ohio
F. John Sur
Arthur
Early Day Montana Legislature Recall of Granville Stuart
Seth Bullock recalls the 1871 1872 Montana territorial session in Virginia City with Granville Stuart and Sol Star. He describes the four men sharing a cramped bed in a small poker room, their bond, and the formation of Montana's foundations amid partisan tensions. The 37 member body included two Republicans Bullock and Fisher. Potts was governor and Callaway secretary of state.
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Seth Bullock
Territorial Legislature
Montana
Bullock
Mr. Bullock
Granville Stuart
South Dakota
Virginia City
Senate
Legislative Council
Deer Lodge
Missoula
Lewis and Clark and Jefferson
Charles McCabe
Bear
Sol Star
Alder Gulch
Captain Mills
New Northwest
Capital
Tea Springs
Granville
Stuart
Northwest
B. F. Potts
Sherman
United States
House
Mitchell
Harry R. Comly
Helena
Robert Fisher
Jefferson County
Virginia
Sanders
Lewis and Clark
Madison
Beaverhead
Gallatin
Meagher
Jefferson
Chouteau
New England
A. C. Mitchell
A. T. Shoup
John Owen
C. J. Kinney
George W. Stapleton
Warren
James H. Howe
Robert Lawrence
Meagher and
Stephen J. Beck
Sepothy Collins
Rafe Arick
Awyer
James Cadigan
Benjamin F. Potts
Ohio
James E. Callaway
Notable Montana War Leaders in a Group Portrait
A group photo highlights key Montana figures in the war effort led by Governor Samuel V. Stewart. Adjutant General Phil Greenan directed the Montana draft, while Colonel J. J. McGuinness and Major Edgerton advanced military service and training. Civilian leaders include President Sweetland and President McDonald, with Captain Hal Stewart and Mayor Dryberg among the officers and civic officials.
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Montana
Samuel V. Stewart
Stewart
Phil Greenan
General Crowder
United States
J. J. McGuinness
163Rd Infantry
National Army
McGuinness
France
Edgerton
Officers’ Training School
Sedgerton
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Army
Fergus
Musselshell
Sweetland
Montana Wesleyan College
McDonald
Mount St. Charles College
Hal Stewart
Governor Stewart
Mayor Dryberg
Helena
Warren Reflects on Civil War Era and Montana Frontiers
General Charles E. Warren recalls how mobs attacked Union soldiers in 1865 66 and contrasts it with soldiers welcomed home in 1919. He notes deserters fled to Bannack Virginia City and Helena and says Montana cleaned out the bad men. Warren served in the union army with two honors.
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Charles 8. Warren
Montana
Bannack
Virginia City
Helena
South
Warren
Bully
Plains
Wilmot and Sidebotham Must Serve Sentences
The San Francisco court of appeals orders Wilmot and Sidebotham to surrender to the U S marshal at Helena within 10 days. Convicted January 30, 1917, for using the mails to defraud with worthless stock. Each sentenced to 13 months at Fort Leavenworth plus costs totaling $4,112.
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Wilmot and
Sidebotham
J. G. G. Wilmot
R. R. Sidebotham
San Francisco
Fort Leavenworth
Rabbit Farm as Food Conserver
Centerville man Joseph Warren launches a rabbit farm to aid war food effort. Beginning with four pairs, his American Rabbitry grows to over 200 rabbits in a large fenced barn with fifty pens. Rabbits mature in 3 4 months and weigh 4 6 pounds ready for market.
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Centerville
America
Joseph Warren
Consolidated Railway Ticket Offices
Joe
Warren
Germany
Mr. Warren
Centerville Farm
New Zealand
Irrigation Revival Aims to Turn Soldiers Into Farmers
Montana envisions an irrigation renaissance to reclaim arid acres for returned soldiers. Private projects led by the Blackfoot Land Co with Roy Alley plan reclaiming 5000 acres near Missoula and Pipe Stone Beach, funded by land sales and long terms. Legislation may authorize irrigation districts to finance these projects.
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Montana
Rivera
Blackfoot Land Company
Anaconda
Roy S. Alley
Butte
Alley
Pipestone Beach
Jefferson Valley
Missoula
Horse meat proposed to feed starved Europeans
Richard Ingersoll vice president of the Commercial State Bank of Miles City Montana suggests slaughtering small Montana and western range horses and shipping meat to Europe. He notes Berlin slaughtered 400000 horses annually before the war and argues ranges would be freed for cattle while profiting from thousands of light horses.
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Montana
Western States
Europe
Richard Ingersoll
Commercial State Bank of
Miles City
Ingersoll
Berlin
Montana Millers to Resume Finest Grade White Flour
Montana Millers' association members in Helena discussed changes after the removal of substitute restrictions. Under food administration rules they had produced only one flour grade using 4.4 bushels of wheat per barrel, exhausting all flour from the wheat. They anticipate resuming white flour of the finest grade.
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Montana Millers’ Association
Helena
Food Administration
Montana
America
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Tom Arthur
of Ilinois
Grant
Commonwealth of Montana
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Falla, Montana
1St Nations Bank
Gen. Warren
Rabbit Farm
Butth
Johnnie
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