Reprisals Loom After Ives Hanged in Montana Tale
Judge William Y. Pemberton recalls the tense aftermath of George Ives execution. Brigands roamed free, seeking blood for the first vigilante act, while Col. Wilbur F. Sanders faced marked enemies and a feared reprisals wave.
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Law and Order
Wilbur F. Sanders
George Ives
William Y. Pemberton
Montana Bar
State Historical Society
Montana
Ives
Plummer
Sanders
Judge Pemberton
Nevada City
Pemberton
Northwest Refining Co oil refinery planned at Cut Bank
Plans by Santa Rita company and Louis B. O’Neill for a Cut Bank refinery advance to definite action with construction to start about Sept 15. The facility will process Montana crude, 2500 barrels daily, cost about a half million dollars, and employ many workers. Seventy five percent of stock will be Montanans, stressing Montana labor and local banking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rita Company
Louis B
Tip” O'Neill and Associates
Cut Bank
Northwest Refining Co
O'Neil
Montana
Monana
Wyoming
State Sends Teams to Rifle Matches
The War Department reestablishes annual rifle matches at Camp Perry Ohio from August 24 to September 22. Montana sends two teams with officers Major L E Bretzke Glasgow as captain and Captain Archie Poor Livingston as coach. shooting members include Capt Archie Poor and others from Lewistown Bozeman Livingston Glasgow Helena Missoula and Billings along with civilian coaches Harlow Pease Butte Ray Bruce Missoula and others. The report lists multiple locales and personnel in state contingent for the event.
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War Department
Camp Perry
Montana
National Guard
L. E. Bretzke
Glasgow
Archie Poor
Livingston
EK. F. Bullock
Lewistown
David DeLap
Bozeman
Frank Simonfy
W. C. Vanganess
Fred White Jr
Corp
J. C. Price
Whitehall
David White
Lloyd Noble
Helena
William Benson
Max Garland
Billings
Richard Sanderson
Norris Lipsker
Harlow Pease
Butte
Ray Bruce
Missoula
Thomas Krall
Milltown
Earl Stolebarger
John R. Buhmiller
Eureka
Maurice Humber
John O'Laughlin
Haldur Hermasen
Fallon County Irrigation Reservoir Provides Ice and Swim Space
Fallon County farmer Keith Sime notes a local reservoir on Adolph Rieger farm offers drought relief and multiple uses. The flood and flowing well dam, built after 1934 survey, fills from artesian water in six to 12 days and irrigates 3 acres Ladak alfalfa, 3 acres crest ed wheatgrass, and 12 acres garden this year. It also supplies winter ice for five families and summer swimming, with plans to raise the dam three feet after heavy rains threatened its integrity. Excess water runs to the garden below the dam.
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Fallon County
Drouth
Keith Sime
Fallon
Carter Counties
Sime
Adolph Rieger
Rieger
Montana Ranks Fourth in West for Cash Receipts Increase
Montana farmers saw cash receipts rise 25 percent in the first half of 1936, reaching 23.973 million by July 1. The bureau of agricultural economics notes Montana placed fourth among 11 western states, behind Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico in percentage gains over 1935.
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Montana
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Treasure State
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
One-Man WPA Builder Returns Schoolhouse to Community
Montana's lone WPA laborer Jack completed a log schoolhouse for the Flesher community near Lincoln in Lewis and Clark county after a temporary program suspension. The project passed inspection and was handed to the Flesher school board. The piece recalls Judge Pemberton’s praise and tales of early territorial politics and camaraderie between Pemberton and Sanders.
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Jack
WPA
Washington
Montana Works Progress Ademiiestration
Lincoln
Lewis and Clark County
Flesher School Board
Pemberton
Montana
Jack Rabbit
Pem
Sanders
Plummer
Pervetaary
Oh Wires
New Well Perks Up With a Dose of Acid
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Co used acid for the first time in Kevin Sunburst field to save a new hole from abandonment. Five hundred gallons of acid were pumped and oil gushed from the casing, then the well produced about 200 barrels in 12 hours and continued to flow at a steady rate.
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Kevin Sunburst
Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co
Antarctic scenery praised as world’s finest by observer
A statement extols Antarctic vistas as the world’s finest, noting rare beauty visible to the human eye and emphasizing remote southern landscapes. Acknowledges limited exposure and highlights untouched icy grandeur.
Degrees Awarded as Summer Term Ends at State University
State University conferred sixteen bachelor degrees, thirteen teaching certificates, and six master’s degrees at summer session close. Notable graduates include William F. Browning and Mary C. Vaughan in history, and Ruth McGee in business administration, with master’s recipients in chemistry education English and history among others.
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William F. Browning
Belt
Wallace H. Scott
Wibaux
Mary C. Vaughan
Billings
David Wesley
Lewistown
Phyllis Rea Riggins
Marianne Erickson
Harlowton
Toi Long Logan
Missoula
Edna G. Peterson
Great Falls
Montana to require tracking of kills and catches in 1937
Montana game wardens announce a new system for 1937 requiring sportsmen to itemize every game killed and fish caught. Blanky reporting forms will be attached to hunting and fishing licenses to improve annual wildlife census data.
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Montana
Keneath MacDonald
Blanky
Game and Fish Commission
New Seismograph Station Opens in Montana Mines
The Montana School of Mines seismograph laboratory becomes a seismological station in cooperation with the United States coast and geodetic survey. A Wood Anderson meter measures quake distance duration and force and will soon be joined by a strong motion seismograph at four Montana sites for enhanced recording of earthquakes.
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United States
Montana School of Mines
Wood-Anderson
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Helena
Bozeman
Missoula
Eastern Star Elects Officers At Three Day Butte Convention
The Montana grand chapter of the Order of Eastern Star wrapped a three day conven tion in Butte electing Mrs Ruth Ping of Hardin as grand worthy matron and Edwin Grafton of Billings as grand worthy patron The next annual session will be in Helena The notice ends with a sobriety advisory not to drive after drinking
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Montana
Order of Eastern Star
Butte
Ruth Ping
Hardin
Edwin Grafton
Billings
Helena
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F. L. Dissly
Miles City
East Fertile Prairie
Logan
Harlem
George Petrie
Phillips County
Goa
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Bert McDonald
Siberia
Polson
Thomas Mooney
Lfe
California State
San Francisco
Monsone
Empire Aerial Training Corporation
John Hessler
Jack Needham
A. B. Schmidt
Hessler
Needham
Wilson McDonald
Norman Ross
Pershing Stadium
Paris
France
The
Press of Montana
Rockies
Nimrods
Clark’s Fork Valley
Anaconda Copper Mining CO
Lands Department
Missoula, Mont
Montana Life
Montana Life Insurance Company
R. B. Richardson
Ansovewone
Frank Hawks
Capt. Hawks
Ray
Janet
Congo
Jerrys
Jerry
AIR Hawks Club
Hawks
Capt
Frank
South America
AIR Hawks
Airview
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