Pioneer Tales Highlight Montana Grizzlies of 1860s
Reminiscences from a pioneer convention recall journeys across the plains. Notables include R W Clarke from Fort Laramie to Montana in 1866, William Johns of Helena who hauled freight from Virginia City, and F Tuttle of Boulder praising Missoula as pioneer hosts.
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R. W. Clarke
Billings
Fort Laramie
Wyo
Montana
Mr. Clarke
Virginia City
Clarke
Colorado
William Johns
Helena
F. Tuttle
Boulder
Missoula
Mr. Tuttle
Tuttle
Plains
Iowa
Salt Lake
Alder Gulch
Ben Falk
Mr. Falk
Walla Walla
Washington
British Columbia
Henry Fulton
Jefferson City
Mr. Fulton
Illinois
Fulton
Cat Creek oil pipelines report 1921 22 production totals
The 1921 Cat Creek field production exceeds 2.2 million barrels per state public service commission filings. The Elk Basin Consolidated Petroleum and Mutual Oil Company pipelines show monthly deliveries and transmissions to Winnett, with June 1922 peak through Mutual at 157,616 barrels. Refineries in Billings Winnett Lewistown Cowley and Miles City receive varying shares of the transmitted oil.
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Cat Creek
State Public Service Commission
Elk Basin Consolidated Petroleum Company
Mutual Oil Company
Elk Basin Consolidated
Mutual Company
Public Service Commission
Winnett
Montana
Indépendany
Carri
Mutual Ol
Independent Y Company
Independent’ Company
Midwest Refinery Company
Greybull
Lowell
Wyo
Cowley
Mutual
Wyoming
Pipeline Company
Montana Refining Company
Billings
Weowna Refining Company
Lewistown Oil and Refining Company
Lewistown
Avro Oil and Refining Company
Miles City Refining Company
Butte Engineer Killed in Car Crash Near Clancy
George Wilson mining engineer of Butte was instantly killed when an automobile driven by Hugh McLean of Clancy overturned on a high embankment near Clancy. McLean had minor injuries. Wilson suffered a broken neck. The wreck occurred as they traveled from Clancy toward Wickes where Wilson was connected with Mount Washington mine.
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George. Wilson
Butte
Hugh McLean
Clancy
Wilson
Mike Sullivan
Alhambra Hot Springs
John G. Thompson
McLean
Wickes
Mount’ Washington
Wan
Trial evidence theft alleged in Colorado case
Bloomington reports three attempts to steal evidence in the Albert Low murder case. Low is jailed in Greeley, Colorado, over the slaying of his sister in law Edna F. Skinner.
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Bloomington, Oil
Albert Low
Greeley
Colo
Edna F. Skinner
Armed Bank Robbery Shocks Foremost on Canadian Border
Six motor bandits robbed the Foremost Union Bank on the Canadian border taking 82 000 overall including 12 000 cash and 70 000 securities. Clerks Nick McPhee and R Jennings tied and gagged were later freed as authorities scour the north country with posses and bloodhounds likely.
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Nick McPhee
R. Jennings
Union Bank
Sweetgrass ‘Hilla
Montana
McPhee
Jennings
Guthrie
Roe
Alberta
Bow Island
Bavin
Lethbridge
Pink Snow on Grasshopper Glacier Baffles Visitor
Frank Alspaugh of Livingston return from a glacier visit claims pink snow on Grasshopper glacier outside Cooke City. He says footsteps turn pink after contact, attributing the color to a snow fly insect living in the snow.
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Grasshopper Glacier
Walter Shaw
Cooke City
Frank Alspaugh
Livingston
Mr. Alepaugh
Italian Swimmer Fails by Two Miles in Dover Channel Attempt
Dover reports Italian swimmer Enrique Tiraboc chio attempted to cross the English Channel but did not complete the swim, falling short by about two miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
England
Enrique Tirabocchio
Wrecks and violence color Montana dispatches in three towns
In Missoula shots hit a bunk house housing Northern Pacific strikebreakers with about a score fired from 700 feet causing one railroad guard to suffer a hand wound. Butte's mail notice hints at a dynamite packed shirt used in a plot to blow up the Northern Pacific roundhouse. Everett resident Ringling-Harold Olson, 21, lost his right arm after attempting to board an eastbound freight in Three Forks. Great Falls reports a deal closing involving Arby Beardalee Gordon Campbell Kevin Sunburst syndicates and a California firm for 640 acres of L. HB. Louis permit with a $250000 payment pending Interior Department approval.
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Platinum
Ringling
Harold Olson
Everett
Wash
Les
Milwaukee ‘Hospital
Three Forks
Garde
a _ Butte
Northern Pacific
Missoula
Northern Pacifica
Great Falls
Arby Beardalee
Gordon Campbell
Kevin
Lincoln Well Casing Set as Campbell Seeks Gas Sands
Gordon Campbell announces his Lincoln well has set casing and is ready to drill into gas sands. He predicts a strong producer, aims to tap eighteen hundred feet, and urges investors to join Gordon Campbell Kevin Syndicate No 2 as rigs rise in Northern Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Campbell
Lincoln
Lincoln Hole
Braiden
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate No
Montana
Kevin
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Venton Hoover
Drummond
Comstock Lode
Nevada
Mr. Hoover
Emigrant Road
Wales
Diamond City
W. R. Pratt
Mr. Pratt
Corinne
Utah
Wells Fargo Company
West
George Beatty
Winston
Beatty
Bannack
Joe Wilson
California
U. S. Dragons
Idaho
A. P. Curtin
Curtin
Missouri River
St. Joseph
Fort Benton
Father DeSmet
Fergus Field
Canada
Canadian Bankers’ Association
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Jennings, Jr
the Electric Shop
Central Avenue, Great Falls
Telcom
Cap Rock
Campbell Lincoln
Kevin Pay Land
Kind
Rocky Ridge
Kevin Syndicate NO. 2
Kevin Syndicate
Sole Trustes
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
Toole County
MR. Campbell
Venture
Gordon Campbe Bell
Fiat
Syndicate
City and
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