Montana 80s tale of massacre and a loan request in a melodrama
In a rural Montana setting a woman seeks a state loan to free her from two suitors while her husband vows shooting if needed. The piece blends melodrama with a travelogue recounting 1882 83 hunting trips by J Jamerson and a companion, detailing goats moose sheep elk and an encounter with a haunted cabin of 16 skeletons killed by Indians.
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Montana
Sidney Miller
State Land Office
Land Office
Hubby
Miller
State Board of Land Commissioners
George Grayson
White Sulphur Springs
Jamerson Brothers
Butte
Powell Mountain
Race Track Lake
Rocky Mountain
England
America
Billy
Missouri
Crow Creek
Belt Mountains
Grayson Creek
Shields River
Crazy Mountains
Shields River Valley
Yellowstone River Valley
Musselshell Valley
Smith River
Musselshell
Snowy Mountains
Montana Oil Boom Brightens as Elk Basin Takes Over Frantz
Judge Fred W. Freeman of Denver directs Elk Basin Consolidated Petroleum, which gains control of the Frantz company with vast holdings in Mosby Winnett fields. The No.2 Frantz gusher yields 1,500 to 1,800 barrels daily, attracting millions in outside capital and potential new drilling across Cat Creek anticline.
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Judge Fred W. Freeman
Denver
Elk
Montana Fields
Montana
America
Judge Freeman
Anaconda Company
Billings
Montana Petroleum
Freeman
Decker-Collins
Decker-Collins Company
Elkies Consolidated Petroleum Company
Coulee
Winnett
Cowley
Wyoming
Elk Basin Company
Elk Basin Consolidated
Cat Creek
Alder Gulch
Butte
Thomas Arthur
Elk Basin
Old Missouri River Pilot Beedle Dead Friend of Twain
Funeral held for Captain H. E. Beedle veteran steamboat pilot on the Mississippi and Yukon rivers a friend of Mark Twain when he was a cub pilot. His brother E. W. Beedle confirms the death and notes Beedle once piloted a steamboat on the Missouri River in Montana.
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George Grayson
Montana
Grayson
Territory
Belt Mountains
Meagher County
Grayson Creek
Thedore Roosevelt
Society of Montana Pioneers
Great Falls
OLD
Mark Twain
H. E. Beedle
Mississippi
Yukon Rivers
Iowa
E. W. Beedle
Billings
Tacoma
Oil Well Failure Makes Him Rich on Dry Farm
Henry Hulbert of Brush Creek struck an artesian water flow while his oil well yielded no oil. The 8000 barrel daily flow from 810 feet underground could irrigate 320 acres and generate up to 1356 horsepower. He plans electric lights, a cream separator, woodsaw, electric range, and other uses, turning the dry farm into a show place.
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Henry Hulbert
Brush Creek
Hulbert
Ater
Judge Grimes Pleads Guilty For Parking Fine
Helena police court hears Judge H. J. Grimes admit fault for parking within 20 feet of a tire plug and facing a $10 fine. Clerk of Court John Forrest presides as Grimes opts to pay the fine rather than contest the charge, citing a noted line about a poor doctor not taking his own medicine.
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H. J. Grimes
Helena
John Forrest
Judge Grimes
Judge Forrest
Hoboes of Today Are Mere Kids, Says Official
Lewis and Clark county deputy attorney George W. Padbury Jr. says modern hoboes are young and discontented roamers who commit petty theft. He notes county jail policy keeps crime low and that car thefts are nearly zero, two eastern youths previously sent to the state penitentiary.
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West
George W. Padbury
Lewis and Clark County
Montana
Padbury
Helena
East West
State Penitentiary
Governor appoints Kalispell lawyer as Eleventh District Judge
Governor Stewart has appointed B. F. Maiden of Kalispell to the district court in Flathead County, succeeding T. A. Thompson who resigned to take effect August 31.
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Eleventh District
V. Stewart
B. F. Maiden of
Kalispell
Eleventh Judicial District
Flathead County
T. A. Thompson
Stewart
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White Sulphur
New York
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Yellowstone
Clark’s Fork
Pat O’hara
O’hara
Shohshone Mountains
James Jamerson
Pat O'Hara Creek
Stinking Water River
John Jamerson
Stanley
Emmen Pasha
Africa
Stanley Pool
Congo River
Judith Basin
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